Asal is a forthcoming Tamil feature film to be directed by Saran. Ajith Kumar and Sameera Reddy have been signed up to portray the film's lead roles. After a brief postponement of the project after Gautham Menon, who was intially announced as the film's director, walked out of the project citing differences with the producers, the film is currently in its production stage and has been slated to be released in October 2009. The film is being produced by Prabhu and Ramkumar Ganesan.