Starting from Shriya Saran (Rajini's Sivaji heroine) Several Bollywood heroines including Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, Ayesha Takia, Ileana D'Cruz, Tanushree Dutta and Sneha Ullal were linked to the role of first and second female leads of the film AEGAN.
Following the announcement of the project, tentiatively titled as Akbar, Shriya Saran was rumoured to be the heroine, following her successful role in Sivaji: The Boss. However due to differences, Shriya was ousted from the project due to her limited callsheets, as she had to fly to and from America where she was then shooting for her Hollywood film, The Other End of the Line.
Reports indicated that Parvati Melton had replaced Shriya, but later denied it signalling that she was not approached. Suhani Kalita was announced as the second heroine of the project, but was later removed due to unknown reasons. Newcomer model Piya appears as the ladylove to Navdeep.

Nov 18 is Nayantara's birthday. It was expected that she would spend it with her friends and co-actors but she has taken a different decision.After her messy breakup with Simbu, Nayantara disappeared from the Tamil film field, but once the media stopped writing about her, she quietly got back to acting in 'Yaaradi Nee Mohini,' 'Billa' and 'Sathyam.'Because she is supposed to have acted quite glamorously in 'Billa,' the questions directed at her nowadays pertain more to that aspect, so Nayan has also had a change of attitude. Having earlier stopped interactions with the media, she now has revived her interviews with them.When asked about how she proposed to celebrate her birthday, she says, "I have decided to spend my birthday with my mom and dad in Kochi."