Director Shankar always brings with him many surprises in his movies. He introduced choreographer Raju Sundaram as comedian in his Jeans. He surprised everyone
casting popular Tollywood actor Suman as baddie in his ‘Sivaji’.

Now going a step further, he has zeroed in on Telugu hero J D Chakravarthy as the villain for his magnum opus ‘Robot’. The movie to be produced by Ayngaran
International features Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai in the lead roles.

J D Chakravarthy has acted in the ward-winning masterpiece Kannathil Muthamittal. He appeared as a Tamil fighter in Sri Lanka called Dhileepan, who is the father of the little girl Amutha. He will be seen again in Tamil, this time along with superstar Rajinikanth in the forthcomming Robot.

The name of Chakravarthy has been suggested by none other than Rajinikanth himself. Chakravarthy had acted in several Telugu movies and had worked with Ramgopal Verma.