Director/producer AR Murugadoss, after notching up a good show in Tamil with the Vijay starrer Kaththi has moved on to his Hindi project titled Akira where Sonakshi Sinha plays the lead. The film, said to be a remake of Shanthakumar’s Mounaguru, also has Sonakshi’s dad politician/actor Shatrughan Sinha in the cast list.

The film also features Anurag Kashyap, the maverick Bollywood director and Raai Laxmi in a guest role. Akira went on floors recently and completed the first schedule. R D Rajasekhar is in charge of cinematography and he had updated about the completion of the first schedule in his social networking page.

Raai Laxmi who is upbeat about the film tweeted,

“Happy 2 announce my debut in Bollywood as a guest appearance fr @ARMurugadoss sirs movie #Akira a great start. It's lovely to work with a great humble director like @ARMurugadoss sir. Having superb fun on the sets with the entire team kudos! AKIRA. N it was great experience 2share my screen space wit @anuragkashyap72 a versatile actor director n multi talented ”