Isha Koppikar, who was part of many popular Tamil films in the nineties, will be making a come back to Tamil cinema through director R Ravikumar's ambitious sci-fi-project, the shoot of which began in Chennai yesterday. The Tamil-Telugu bilingual, which stars Sivakarthikeyan in the lead, is touted to be a science-fiction fantasy involving aliens. The untitled film, which also stars Rakul Preet, Bhanupriya, and Karunakaran, is produced by 24 Am Studios. Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman is also part of this mega-budget venture.

The forty-one-year-old Isha has appeared in films in Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and Marathi, apart from Tamil. She shot to fame in Tamil through the 1999 film, En Swasa Kaatre, in which she co-starred with Arvind Swami. Her performances in the films Girlfriend (2004), D (2006), Darling (2007) and Shabri (2011) were critically acclaimed.

Sivakarthikeyan, on the other hand, is currently working on director Ponram’s Seema Raja. He has also signed director Rajesh’s next, produced by Studio Green.