Rajni Kanth

Kathanayakadu for I-day?

Tamil superstar Rajnikanth’s much anticipated bilingual Kathanaykudu is postponed. According to sources, the film will not release on July 31 as scheduled earlier. Due to the delay in visual effects, the film is likely to be released on Independence Day — August 15. The producers, apparently, are hoping to release it before August 8. The film is produced by C Ashwini Dutt in Telugu and is directed by P Vasu. This may call for other Telugu filmmakers to post-pone their releases. An official announcement is awaited.

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‘Mind it! Mere fans hai Japani’





RAJNIKANTH is going to Japan in, and probably with, his new film Kuselan, in which the actor has a rocking new image. Rushes from the film that has Japanese subtitles show the flamboyant star looking younger and more dynamic than he did in Sivaji — The Boss.


Rajni has never been to Japan but the superstar is an iconic figure there. Japan has a sizeable South Indian population that worships Rajnikanth; but he has several Japanese fans too. Local stores have DVDs of all his movies. Ten years ago, his film Muthu ran for 23 weeks at a Tokyo theatre and was seen by over 1,27,000 Japanese. Rajni, at the invitation of the Tokyo International Film Festival, might take Kuselan to Japan. In it, he changes 20 costumes in two songs and romances nine Japanese models in one song.



The actor told Mastii-Kustii from his home in Chennai, “I don’t know whether I can make it to Tokyo. But I’m excited that the Japanese are waiting for Kuselan with as much passion as they had for my films a decade ago.”