I don’t generally blog about movies as i am very picky in watching movies. I used to watch many movies during the early days but have become very choosy for the 10 plus years or so..
Having said that, i should say this is one of the most awaited Indian movie that many people are looking forward for a long time.. The movie took about 2 years for production and some of the great people joined hands in this movie and releasing in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil languages in tandem. Looks like HBO is releasing with English sub titles in the west.
Firstly 2 Oscar award winners A.R.Rahman and Resul Kutty and then Superstar Rajnikanth arguably the second highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan opposite with Aishwarya Rai Miss World in 1994 directed by one of the box office hit director S.Shankar produced by SUN pictures with a whopping budget of around Indian Rupees 160 plus crores which is around USD 35 million and in comparison to movie like Avatar which is around USD 235 million is no way near but for an Indian movie this is one of the most expensive movies done in recent times. If one has to believe what the production house and other media is saying this is the highest budget movie ever made in India film industry.
Atleast 40 percent of the budget is on the special effects and animation and is done by Stan Winston studios the team that has worked in Avatar movie. The movie action sequences are done by Yuen Woo-ping who did for movies like Matrix and other Jacki Chan and Jet Li movies plus lots of other talented technical crew including Randy the movie cinematographer and it seems that without him the movie would have taken a longer time to complete.
I wish the team Good Luck..Here is the trailer which is set to release on 1st October 2010.
At the time of writing this i noticed in Singapore the movie is releasing tomorrow and is fully booked and in India all theatres are full for 1 week.