Has the new poster of Vijay’s Bigil touched a raw nerve?

But Indhuja Ravichandran, Reba Monica John and Amritha Aiyer seem to be the only familiar faces in this poster. Audiences took to Twitter to compare it alongside other films in the sports genre like Chak De India, lamenting that filmmakers were still following the practice of sidelining unfamiliar faces and letting the glamorous ones steal the limelight. However, sources from the industry say that we will know the logic of the poster only when we watch the film, and that netizens had jumped the gun.

The song titled Singappenney will be an inspirational track and is speculated to be sung by Vijay himself. Composed by the Mozart of Madras AR Rahman, Bigil marks his third consecutive collaboration with the actor after Mersal and Sarkar. Vijay will be playing dual roles in Bigil — that of a football coach and a gangster based out of north Chennai. This was revealed when the title and first look poster of the film were released on the actor’s birthday last month. Directed by Atlee, the film will hit the screens on Deepavali.