The game has begun. The shooting of Ajith's multi starrer, ‘Mankatha' has started today in Chennai. The slick gangster saga stars Nagarjuna, Trisha, Vaibhav and others along with Ajith.

The Venkat Prabhu film is going to be the 50th film of Ajith. The teaser of the film was out last month and it created a sensation.

'Mankatha' is a high value production by Dhayanidhi Alagiri of Cloud Nine Movies. It is also a real multi starrer after a very long time in Tamil. Yuvan Shankar Raja has already spent a lot of time in talking about the music to be in 'Mankatha'. This is the fourth film in the combination of Ajith and Yuvan.

The film will be a style and substance thriller which in planned for release on May 1, which incidentally is the birth day of Ajith.