This National Award-winning Bollywood actress will make Tamil cinema debut in Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2, will play antagonist…

Vidya Balan joins Jailer 2

Jailer 2 is one of the most anticipated Indian movies of 2026. Superstar Rajinikanth will reprise his role as ‘Tiger’ Muthuvel Pandian alongside Yogi Babu, Ramya Krishnan and Kannada star Shiva Rajkumar and will also return in the sequel of the blockbuster in 2023. Nelson Dilipkumar, simply known as Nelson, directed the first episode and is also helming the much-awaited sequel.

New additions to the Jailer 2 cast include SJ Suryah, Suraj Venjaramoodu and Mithun Chakraborty. And now, latest reports have confirmed that Vidya Balan, who won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the film The Dirty Picture, will be making her full-fledged Tamil cinema debut with the Rajinikanth starrer after she was seen in a brief role in the 2019 legal action drama Nerkonda Paarvai, which is the official remake of Amitabh Bachchan’s 2016 Hindi film Pink.

A source close to the production team told Hindustan Times, “Vidya plays the role of Mithun Chakraborty’s eldest daughter. Mithun is the main antagonist in the film and will be seen opposite Rajinikanth sir. The film is currently being shot in Chennai and will go into post-production by January. After completing the Chennai schedule, the team will reportedly shift to Goa for the remaining two months of shooting from October-end.”

After the Coolie star wrapped up the film’s Kerala schedule last month, a few paparazzi caught him at the Chennai airport. Rajinikanth later said that Jailer 2 will release in June 2026. However, many media portals claimed that the superstar has stated the exact release date as June 12, 2026.

However, a source close to Rajinikanth’s team denied that the Petta actor had announced the release date of the sequel. People speaking to Zoom said, “All he said was June 2026. Just when Rajinikanth said June, the sound stopped. This made social media users believe that he said June 12.” The producers aim to release Jailer 2 in August 2026.

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