Suriya, who made his debut in the 1997 Mani Ratnam production Nerukku Ner, revealed that he agreed ``blindly'' to star in the film without even listening to the story or his character. The actor revealed in an interview about Mani Ratnam's choice that ``when the master calls for the student you just say ``yes''.'' Suriya stated that _his_ character was based on a real person from Andhra Pradesh George Reddy and to prepare, he read a lot of books and collected a lot of information before the shoot. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Mani Ratnam <sep>, B: George Reddy