It seems Rajinikanth is now facing a tough time with pranksters online. Ahead of the first trailer of his most awaited film, Kaala could be unveiled, mischief makers leaked some footage from the teaser online.
Now S. Shankar’s directorial film 2.0 too, appears to have met a similar fate. A rough cut of the film, starring Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar, has found its way online and predictably gone viral.
Evidently, Soundarya Rajinikanth got angry with the leak and tweeted, “Leaking content online before the official release should not be TOLERATED or ENCOURAGED! This is a heartless act ignoring hard work, efforts and sentiments of the makers for few seconds of excitement!!! #BeAshamed #StopPiracy #StopMisusingDigitalMedium.”
Leaking content online before the official release should not be TOLERATED or ENCOURAGED ! This is a heartless act ignoring hard work, efforts and sentiments of the makers for few seconds of excitement !!! #BeAshamed #StopPiracy #StopMisusingDigitalMedium
— soundarya rajnikanth (@soundaryaarajni) March 4, 2018
The hazy, nearly one-and-a-half minute video shows items, possibly cell phones, flying off the hands and tables of people. Some time through the video, a man wakes up in his bed, as a digital image of a face of a person, possibly Akshay Kumar, appears out of nowhere in front of him.
Made at an estimated budget of Rs 400 crore, Shankar’s ambitious directorial is a sequel to the successful 2010 film, Enthiran (Robot in Hindi). The film reportedly features Rajinikanth in a double role — as Dr Vaseegaran and a robot (though we still don’t know what it is called). In Enthiran, the robot was called Chitti. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan played the love interest in the first part while Amy Jackson will appear opposite Rajinikanth in this film. As per media reports, she plays a humanoid. What’s interesting is that Bollywood action man Akshay Kumar is making his Tamil debut with the film. He plays the antagonist, Dr Richard.
2.0 has been postponed thrice now from its initial schedule of December last year. Later, it was set to release in January 2018, but the makers further pushed it to April 2018. Now, the latest is that it not releasing in April too. Independence Day or Diwali weekend seems to be the likely time for its release.