Director Bala's upcoming Tamil entertainer Tharai Thappattai featuring Sasikumar and Varalakshmi Sarathkumar has been progressing well. Latest we hear that Bala, the director who is known for not showing emotions openly has moved into tears.

Credit goes to Varu. The young actress who is shooting for an intrigue scene for the movie, where Varu has to be assaulted violently and subjected to a murderous attempt, she has apparently broken her collar bone and underwent a treatment, silently.

The other day when the director had to re-shoot the same, Varalakshmi has enacted it well and got applauded by the whole team. Later, when Bala came to know that Varu had broken her collar bone, the perfectionist director moved into tears and gifted his Gold Quartz chain of around Rs.1.5 Lakh worth to Supreme star Sarathkumar's daughter.

Bala and his Tharai Thapattai team is feeling proud of her and the filmmaker is said to have opined that Varu is sure to get National Award for this film. Tharai Thapattai is about one of the traditional art forms of Tamil Nadu. Interestingly, TT is Ilayaraja's landmark 1000th film.