currently santhanam is riding on a high wave he has moved away from the sidekick roles and with multiple projects as a solo hero he is shining bright but the credit of introducing santhanam to cinema goes to simbu and they had acted in manmadhan and vallavan together its reported that if everything goes well the duo will be doing another movie this time simbu is planning to write and direct a film with santhanam playing a parallel lead but sources from both simbu and santhanams side have said that the above speculation is not true simbu who is back in form after his chekka chivantha vaanam with mani ratnam is currently busy with maandu directed by venkat prabhu and he also has an untitled project with gautham karthik in his kitty