Rajni Update

It looks like news about Rajni and Shankar joining hands together for Robot is true after all. According to a lucky Rajni fan who attended the function, Shankar spoke about it at Sivaji's Silver Jubilee celebration function on Friday. Shankar mentioned that he had promised to deliver a bigger hit than Chandramukhi with Sivaji and he had kept that promise. Now he has promised to make Robot an even bigger hit than Sivaji. Write Sujatha, who revealed that he is part of the Robot team, also mentioned that they were looking for a suitable Tamil word to keep as the title.

Btw, I always thought that Rajni had never been associated with Robot before this surprising turn of events. Turns out Rajni and Shankar have discussed this film before. Rajni himself is supposed to have mentioned his conversation with Shankar about Robot at the Boys launch event in 2002.

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A new, longer trailer for Sultan is also out(thanks Prabhu, Maverick and anon for pointer) as a Pongal treat for his fans. The animation looks pretty cool. Though there seems to be some stiffness in the animated Rajni's movements and the animation is not as smooth as in Hollywood's computer-animated films, it is way better than the animation in other Indian movies I have seen. More importantly, they've gotten thalaivar's look(like when he glances stylishly at the soldiers surrounding him) and his walk(in slo-mo at the end) down pat. Rahman's background score is pretty cool too.