Actor Vikram was the first choice of Anurag Kashyap to play the lead role in his film Kennedy. However, the filmmaker couldn't get in touch with Vikram because he had an old, inactive phone number of the actor.
Kamal Haasan and Vikram Prabhu were among scores of people from the Tamil film industry who congratulated actor Suriya for having been invited by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.