Chennai: Comedian Santhanam is walking in the footsteps of famous actor Woody Allen and want to act in lead roles of Kollywood and not as a comedian.

Santhanam is a lead comedian and this is a known fact. But these days he prefers to do lead roles and avoid comedian characters. He even walked out of ‘Thala 56’ and ‘Puli’ recently. His last movie ‘Inimey Ippadi Thaan’ did average and last release as comedian ‘VSOP’ also failed.

Santhanam has now realized that audience taste is changing and he needs to adapt quickly. Usually he has a team of 7 members to penn his comedy dialogues. Now he has asked them to change the writing style as his last movies failed at Box-Office.

Santhanam’s next release ‘Vaaliba Raja’ will release on 24th and Santhanam will essay role of a psychiatric doctor. Sai Gokulramnath is the director of the project. When director showed lots of get ups, Santhanam chose Hollywood Actor cum Director Woody Allen get up.

He has made the comedy also on Woody Allen style. This is an experiment and Santhanam hopes this kind of comedy will work out. The result will be known only after the release of the movie.