Shankar meets Rajinikanth as Sivaji clocks 15 years today

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Nivedita P Nair

Ace director Shankar, who blew some people’s minds with greatness in his movies like Gentleman, Kadhalan, Indian, Jeans and Anniyan, proceeded to get public notice more than ever with Sivaji (real time on Amazon Prime Video), which saw his first coordinated effort with Rajinikanth. The film which released in 2007 proceeded to turn into an immense blockbuster and crushed a few records of the star’s past movies overwhelmingly.

On the event of the fifteenth anniversary of the big budget film, Shankar met Thalaiva at the Rajinikanth’s home and posted an image including the two from his Twitter page.

He tweeted, “Elated to have met our Sivaji the Boss @rajinikanth sir himself on this very memorable day marking #15yearsofSivaji Your Energy, Affection and Positive Aura made my day (sic).” The film which has Vivekh, Sriya Saran, Suman, Vadivukkarasi and Manivannan playing lead roles was released in a record number of theaters in numerous regions including Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

Sivaji was the first Tamil film which highlighted in the UK top 10 diagrams in its first week of release. The film was released in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Middle East, Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. It was the first Kollywood movie to be colour graded in 4K resolution.

Shankar and Rajinikanth later joined for Enthiran and 2.0 in 2010 and 2018 separately. The previous, as well, proceeded to turn into a huge blockbuster while the later, regardless of getting blended surveys, netted great figures with its Tamil, Telugu and Hindi renditions.

Rajinikanth’s next exposing Thalaivar 169 is with Nelson Dilipkumar while Shankar’s next project RC 15 has Ram Charan playing the lead. Both the movies are supposed to deliver in theaters in 2023.