De De Pyaar De actor Rakul Preet Singh has landed a role in Shankar's Kamal Haasan-starrer Indian 2. The Tamil action film is sequel to his 1996 film. Singh is said to have given a verbal nod and is slated to sign on the dotted line soon. She features as the love interest of Siddharth, who plays the grandson of the vigilante Senapathi and son of Chandru, both characters were played by Haasan in the first part.

The film, which was announced last year, had a spell of shooting early this year. There was buzz about the project facing issues due to alleged differences between the makers and Haasan due to which shooting was stopped.