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*Rajni, Shankar and Rehman team up for a Rs 100-cr film
*8 Jan 2008, 0233 hrs IST,TNN
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Superstar Rajinikanth to work with director Shankar and A R Rehman in the
next mega-budget film (TOI Photo)
CHENNAI: Robotic Rajnikanth? That's what ace-director Shankar is planning to
make of the superstar. Even as fervid fans continue to queue up to
watch Shivaji
- The Boss , which was released in June 2007, Shankar has signed up with
Rajnikanth and music director A R Rehman for the next mega-budget film, Robot
.
Ayngaran International and Eros multimedia, which would jointly produce the
film, promise to make it even more attractive calling it a "hi-tech film"
that would be made using "state-of-art technology". Sources in the film
industry said the director is still in the process of finalizing the other
cast and technicians.
"We are trying for someone like Deepika Padukone or Priyanka Chopra to
co-star with Rajni. Nothing is official as yet. The film is expected to have
a lot of graphics and new techniques. Most of the film would be shot
abroad," said a source.
So will the film too cross the Rs 80 crore budget? "Going by the present
plan it looks like it. It could touch at least Rs 100 crore," he said. The
filmmakers will borrow techniques from renowned film-makers abroad and
introduce them to the Indian film industry. The shooting will commence soon.
Eros International, which had won the distribution rights for films
including Munna Bhai MBBS , Om Shanti Om and Partner will join hands with
Aygran, the pioneers in Tamil film distribution
