The Greatest of All Time (2024)

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The Greatest of All Time is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by AGS Entertainment. The film stars Vijay in dual roles, alongside Prashanth, Prabhu Deva, Mohan, Jayaram, Ajmal Ameer, Vaibhav, Yogi Babu, Premgi Amaren, Sneha, Laila, Meenakshi Chaudhary and Abyukta Manikandan. It is the twenty-fifth production of the studio and the penultimate film of Vijay before his political entry as well as his last film to be released before he assumed office as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Production

In late November 2021, Vijay, who had collaborated with director Atlee for three successful films, was reported to collaborate again with the latter for his 68th film as the lead actor. Marking their collaboration after Theri (2016), Mersal (2017), and Bigil (2019), the production process was set to begin after the director completed his commitments for his debut Hindi film, Jawan (2023).

The following May, however, Atlee was confirmed not to direct the project, as he had signed another Hindi film, which became Baby John (2024). Vijay had reportedly listened to multiple scripts, which included from directors Venkat Prabhu and Gopichand Malineni. On 21 May, Vijay, through his social media pages, announced that his 68th film would be helmed by Prabhu, tentatively titled Thalapathy 68.

Prabhu had met Vijay ten months prior to the announcement and narrated a one-liner, which the latter requested to develop. After completing the development in early-May 2023, Prabhu met Vijay again later that month and narrated the script. Vijay then approved of the script and finalised him. Prabhu co-wrote the film's script dialogues with Viji, with additional screenplay written by K. Chandru and Ezhilarasu Gunasekaran.

The same month, Siddhartha Nuni was announced as cinematographer, in his third Tamil film after Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu (2022) and Captain Miller (2024), marking his first film with Vijay and Prabhu. Yuvan Shankar Raja was confirmed to score the music, in his third consecutive film with the director after they had done a total of ten films.

Vijay plays dual roles as an elderly and younger character. De-aging technology was utilised to portray the younger version. Initially, Prabhu's choices for the roles included Rajinikanth as the older character and Dhanush as the younger one. Meenakshi Chaudhary and Sneha was cast as female leads, with Chaudhary paired opposite the younger Vijay, while Sneha reunited with Vijay after working with him in Vaseegara (2003).

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