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Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel who is currently shooting for M Night Shyamalan's The Last Air Bender could just sign on his first Hindi film shortly.
The makers of Tamil film Nadodigal are confident of securing Patel's services for their blockbuster flick for the  Hindi version.
Three versions
In a press meet on Sunday in Chennai, director Samuthirakkani said that talks with Dev are underway. "We are hopeful of signing him up for the lead role in the yet-to-be named Hindi remake of Nadodigal.
The Telugu remake will go on the floors next month with Ravi Teja in the lead role and we will start shooting the Kannada remake in December with Puneet in the lead," said Samuthirakkani who will direct all the three versions.
Released last month, the film-starring director-actor Sasikumar, Abhinaya, Ananya, Vijay Vasanth, Bharani and Ganja Karuppu is running packed houses at 168 centres in Tamil Nadu.
The total cost of the film was Rs 7.40 crore. According to the distributors, the film is expected to gross more than Rs 30 crore once it completes 100 days," said Samuthirakkani. | 
