Superstar Rajinikanth’s highly anticipated Kaala is gearing up for a massive release on June 7th worldwide. While trade circles are expecting a thunderous opening for the film all over South, distributors from Karnataka have voluntarily decided to stall the film’s release following Rajinikanth’s comments on Cauvery water issue.

Recently, Rajinikanth made some comments on Cauvery issue and asked the new Chief Minister of Karnataka Kumaraswamy to abide by the mandate of Supreme Court and release the water for Tamil Nadu.

These comments have invited huge criticism from pro-Kannada activists who have been demanding the ban of Rajinikanth’s films in Karnataka. In wake of these protests, the distributors and exhibitors of Karnataka film association have met to discuss about the issue and took a decision to stop the film’s release.

This is a huge set back for Kaala producers as Rajinikanth commands a huge fan base in Karnataka and his films find huge patronage from Kannada film lovers.

Directed by Ranjith Pa, the film has Rajinikanth playing a slumlord of Mumbai who fights for the rights of downtrodden.

Twitter on Monday launched a special emoji of superstar Rajinikanth for his film “Kaala”, which will release on June 7.

The users can get the specially designed emoji by tweeting #Kaala, a statement to IANS said.

The emoji appears next to the hashtag in the tweet and is inspired by Rajinikanth’s character from the film. The emoji will be active till June 10.

A marketing collaboration between Wunderbar Films Private Limited and Twitter, the emoji aims to delight Rajinikanth’s fans on Twitter by adding colour to the conversations and helping them connect to his character instantly.

S Vinod, Executive Producer and Chief Operating Officer of Wunderbar Films Private Limited, said: “Rajinikanth is India’s biggest megastar and we are very excited about the launch of the emoji. We’re thankful to Twitter for this vibrant emoji that we’re sure his fans will absolutely love.”

Keya Madhvani-Singh, Head of Entertainment Partnerships, Twitter India, added: “Garnering over two million tweets even before the launch of the movie, ‘Kaala’ has already become one of the most talked about films on Twitter.

“We are thrilled to delight fans in anticipation of the movie release with a special emoji inspired by Rajinikanth.”

Superstar Rajinikanth’s next outing Kaala is hitting the screens on June 7th after a small delay. PA Ranjith is the director and Rajinikanth plays a Mumbai based gangster in this action thriller. The movie completed all the formalities recently and the promotions of Kaala will kick-start next week. The movie’s runtime has been locked and it would last for 2 hours and 44 minutes. This is lengthy compared to the current trend but the makers are extremely confident on the output.

Lyca Productions is releasing Kaala across Telugu states after the makers failed to crack an impressive deal for the Telugu version. Eswari Rao, Samuthirakani, Nana Patekar and Huma Qureshi are playing other pivotal roles in Kaala which is releasing in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages. Dhanush’s Wunderbar Films produced Kaala and Santosh Narayanan composed the music and the background score.

He calls working on superstar Rajinikanth’s “Kaala” as one of his biggest projects, and was amazed at the magnitude of the Tamil film. Pete Draper, who is looking after the VFX of the movie, hopes the audience will not be able to tell the difference between the real world and computer generated imagery (CGI).

Makuta co-founder and CEO Draper has worked in big blockbusters “Eega”, “Ghajini”, “Magadheera”, “Endhiran” and “Baahubali”.

“The experience of working on the film has been very good. The set work which we have to do… It is one of the biggest that we have worked on,” Draper told IANS.

The trilingual movie also features Nana Patekar, Huma Qureshi, actor-director Samudrakani and Eswari Rao among others. The film is slated for release in June.

“They have built a 1 or 1.5 km set… We went out there for work. I hope you won’t be able to tell CGI in it,” he said, adding that some of the best CGI is the one that people don’t spot.

Draper spoke to IANS on behalf of AXN India for their show “Zoo”, which is replete with CGI.

Creating a world with the use of technology is not easy. Draper says it is tough to create imperfections in the perfect digital world.

“The problem with CGI is that it is perfect and the real world is not perfect. If you look around yourself, every single thing that you notice has some imperfection… Every single thing have small imperfections. We are not used to seeing perfection.

“As soon we see something which is literally perfect, we think that something is not right because you are not used to seeing that. We have to make things to convince the audience. So, creating a structure or an animation or creating a realistic thing is just the first stage.

“It is adding those inaccuracies, imperfection which is challenging.”

Superstar Rajinikanth’s long delayed gangster drama Kaala has been confirmed to hit the screens on June 7th after getting postponed a couple of times.

Directed by Ranjith Pa, the film stars Nana Patekar and Huma Qureshi in prominent roles.

The latest update reveals that the audio of Kaala, composed by Santosh Narayanan, will be out on May 9th. The makers have decided to release the audio in all languages on the same day.

Rajinikanth is playing a slumlord who fights for the downtrodden in Mumbai. The first teaser of the film, which was unveiled in March, clocked millions of views and created a massive buzz on the film.

Kaala has done a terrific pre release business and it is carrying huge expectations among trade circles. Dhanush’s Wunderbar films has produced this big budget film.

Superstar Rajinikanth is left puzzled about the release of his upcoming films Kaala and 2.0. With the ongoing strike in Tamil Nadu, the release date of Kaala is yet to be decided and the makers are busy wrapping up all the formalities. Kaala completed all the censor formalities and the film has been awarded U/A certificate. Kaala has been suggested 14 cuts and the makers agreed for the possible cuts.

Lyca Productions acquired the theatrical rights of Kaala and the film has been announced for April 27th release. With the ongoing strike of theatres, all the films that have been planned for March release have been delayed. Rajinikanth too has been holding talks but a clarity on the release date is expected only after the strike gets called off. PA Ranjith is the director of this gangster drama and Dhanush’s Wunderbar Films produced Kaala. The Telugu theatrical rights of Kaala are yet to be sold.

Superstar Rajinikanth announced that his next release would be Kaala and the film has been announced for April 27th release across the globe. With the ongoing strike in Tamil Nadu, the release dates of the summer biggies have been left puzzled as the films announced for release in March are yet to hit the screens. Despite of several sets of discussions, the issue between the theatre owners and the digital providers are yet to be resolved.

With lot of speculations on about the release date of Kaala, Lyca Productions who is distributing Kaala once again clarified that they would respect the Tamil Film Producers Council’s decision. “We are in sync with the Producers Council and in complete support of the demands. We will comply with the same till the system is rectified” posted Lyca on their official twitter handle.

PA Ranjith is the director of Kaala and Dhanush’s Wunderbar Films produced the film.

Rajinikanth Kaala satellite rights sold for Rs 75 cr

Superstar Rajinikanth’s Kaala, one of the tentpole films this season, has started toppling several records even before it has hit the screens.

According to the latest reports in Tamil media circles, the satellite rights of the Ranjith Pa directional have been bagged by Star TV for a staggering 75 Crores. The deal includes the rights of Telugu, Tamil and Hindi language rights. This is a record price considering that no other South Indian film barring 2Point0 and Baahubali managed to create such a hysteria without boasting top cast and technical crew and star director.

Also, despite the fact that Rajini’s previous film with Ranjith Pa Kabali failed to match the high expectations didn’t impact the business and buzz on Kaala.

The film is slated to hit the screens on April 27 worldwide.