Director Venkat Prabhu assembled the boys again in 2016 for the second innings of his 2007 sports-comedy film Chennai 28. The second innings retained the key actors Jai, Shiva, Premji, Aravind Akash, and Nithin Sathya from the original, among others.
Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the music for both the films and the second innings was produced by Black Ticket Company and Capital Film Works. Like the original, the sequel was well received by the audience at the box office.
The film released on December 9th, 2016 and the 'boys' came together to celebrate the three years of the second innings, yesterday. From the team, Vaibhav and Venkat Prabhu are awaiting the released of their 'Lockup' by Charles, while Jai is awaiting the release of his 'Capmaari' on December 13th, by director S.A Chandrasekhar.