Lokesh Kanagaraj has grown to be a sought-after director of south India. The director made his debut with the hyperlink film Maanagram which attracted the attention of the Tamil film industry. The director continued to deliver hits projects Kaithi starring Karthi as the lead and without any female leads. He then did Master starring 'Thalapathy' Vijay and Vijay Sethupathi in important roles. The known fan-boy of Kamal Hassan, then went on to do a film for his Master titled Vikram. It was one of the blockbuster hits of last year, and was a sequel to the 1986 film of the same name. The film was also a multi-starrer with Fahad Faasil and Vijay Sethupathi in lead roles.
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The director Lokesh Kanagaraj also created his cinematic universe with Vikram as the storyline was linked with Kaithi with some characters from the movie appearing in the film and Vikram was set around 6-12 months after the events of Kaithi. This created huge excitement among fans as they termed the cinematic universe of the director of LCU (Lokesh Cinematic Universe). The director also said he was excited and will expand the universe as there are many possibilities and stories to be told. The massive update is a Wikipedia page has been launched for the cinematic universe master-minded to Lokesh Kanagaraj. The page features basic details of who it was created by, original work, owners, years, films, audios, box office and budget of the films. This information has been running viral on social media with fans excited about it.
Leo is the upcoming film of Lokesh Kanagaraj as he has reunited with 'Thalapathy' Vijay for the project. The film has a massive star cast that including Trisha, Sanjay Dutt, Myskkin, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Priya Anand, and so on. It is speculated that the film could be set in the LCU.
