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The shooting of one of the most awaited Telugu films of the year 'Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy' is presently progressing at a brisk speed in Hyderabad.

The flick is being directed by Surender Reddy and will see megastar Chiranjeevi playing the titular role of the freedom fighter from Rayalaseema, Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy. It is touted to be the 151st film in Chiranjeevi's acting career.

Reports are that Vijay Sethupathi will play the trusted aide, Obayya, to Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, and his character is crucial to the movie.

According to a report by the Only Kollywood, the actor will play a Tamil-speaking character in the film. "In fact, I am playing a Tamil speaking character in Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy. Though not entirely in pure Tamil, the character hails from our place so it was not too hard to get the lines right," Vijay Sethupathi reportedly said.

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In Balaji Tharaneetharan's Seethakathi, he will be seen playing a septuagenarian character which required him to put on prosthetic make-up, a long and time-consuming process.

In Thiagarajan Kumararaja's Super Deluxe, he plays a transgender. Sethupathi will be seen playing a politician in Seenu Ramaswamy's Maamanidhan. He is also a part of Mani Ratnam's multi-starrer Chekka Chivantha Vaanam (CCV) in which he will be sharing the screen space for the first time with Simbu, Aravind Samy, Jyothika and Arun Vijay.

-Sowmya