Remake King Jayam Raja is one of the successful directors in Tamil cinema. Now, he is back in action with the remake of Telugu film Kick.

Kick is one of Tollywood’s recent films which have Ravi Teja and Ileana in the lead. Shaam also played a character. Though the film with director Surinder Reddy and producer Venkat was only an average hit, Raja is convinced that the film will break records in Tamil. The movie has lot of good comedy which suits M. Raja’s style of film making.

Kick is about a guy who cannot live without getting a kick out of overcoming challenges. Earlier Raja had plans to cast Vijay as the hero in the remake of Kick.

Milky beauty Tamannaah is paired as Heroine. Tamannah has been part of two biggest hits in Kollywood Dhanush's Padikkadhavan and Suriya starrer Ayan. She has completed shooting for Lingusamy's action flick Payya starring Karthi. She is busy with Kandein Kadhalai, the remake of the Bollywood hit, Jab we met.

Ravi's Peranmai hasn’t materialized and his project with director Ameer, Kannabiraan is yet to begin.
Raja was the director of Ravi’s debut film Jayam, which was a bumper hit. The duo combined to make three other super hits Something Something Unakkum Enakkum, M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi and Santosh Subrahmanyam.

Raja will repeat Shaam in the same role he did in Kick. Formarly Madhavan was also considered. Shaam performs the role of a cop who’s on the hunt of a wild thief.

Vadivelu is starring in this film. The film will have music by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

The Tamil version is titled as Thillalangadi and shooting will start by end of August. The film is produced by Editor Mohan who has secured the remake rights.