American actor John Shea in Tamil film

American Emmy award winning actor John Shea, who acted in Hollywood Movies like A Broken Sole, The Insurgents and Heartbreak Hospital, has been roped in to play the role of a villain in a Tamil film Achamundu Achamundu. The movie is directed by NRI director Arun Vaidyanathan. Actor Prasanna and actress Sneha are in the lead roles. The music of the movie is scored by Karthik Raja

The movie, which will be shot in the US, deals with a global Tamil-centric issue. The movie will be a bilingual, made in Tamil and English. According to the director Vaidyanathan, The movie will be released globally in 2009.