Venkat Prabhu's debut directorial, Chennai: 600028 celebrates its thirteenth year release anniversary today (April 27) and the social media is abuzz about it. The film which talked about cricket, friendship, and love, turned out to be a big hit at the box office and it took the trade experts by surprise. The film featured a bunch of youngsters as the leads and it gave the breakthrough for actors like Mirchi Shiva, Jai, Nithin Sathya, Aravind Akash, Vijayalakshmi, and others. The Tamil audience have a special affection towards the ‘Sharks’ team and it would forever stay the same.

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On this special day, we have now got to know a new information that not many of us are aware of. How many of you know that actor Vishnu Vishal tried getting an opportunity to play one of the leads in this film? Yes, the Ratsasan actor took to his Twitter space to recollect the nostalgic incident and it has come as an interesting piece of information.

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Vishnu Vishal tweeted, “Sar unbelievable...its been almost 14 years when i met you first for an opportunity in #chennai28… Time flies. Wil always be a special film for tamil audiences…” Replying to Vishnu’s tweet, Venkat Prabhu said that Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu was a much better debut film for him and wished him the best. He tweeted, “Yes bro!! Time flies!! But so happy that U had a even better debut with vennila kabadi kuzhu!! Keeping rocking!!!”. Check out the embedded tweets below:

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