Kamal Haasan joins cast of 'Project K' starring Prabhas and Deepika Padukone

Veteran actor Kamal Haasan has boarded Nag Ashwin's multilingual sci-fi movie 'Project K', the makers said on Sunday.

Headlined by Prabhas and Deepika Padukone, the upcoming big-budget film is produced by C. Aswani Dutt, founder of Vyjayanthi Movies.

Production house Vyjayanthi Movies shared Haasan's casting announcement on its official Twitter page.

Later in the day, Haasan said he is happy to reunite with Dutt after five decades when he used to be a dance assistant and the latter was an assistant director.

Dutt is backing the project in the 50th year of his production house. He said his dream of working with Haasan has finally come true with "Project K".

'Project K' is scheduled to be released in cinemas on January 12, 2024, in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.