Mumbai, Sep 8 (IANS): Actor Abhay Deol's upcoming Tamil movie Hero is scheduled to release on December 20.

Directed by PS Mithran, Hero also stars southern film industry actor Sivakarthikeyan Doss.

On working with Sivakarthikeyan, Abhay took to Instagram and wrote: "Every Villain needs a Hero! Such a privilege to be working with the talented Sivakarthikeyan... I'm having a lot of fun making this, even though Tamil is one tough language to speak!

Hero will be out on the 20th of December."

In the film, Abhay will be seen playing a baddie.