"It's a daughter's gift to her father" - that's how Soundarya,
daughter of Tamil superstar Rajnikant, describes her full-length animation
film "Sultan: The Warrior" to be released Nov this year.
Addressing mediapersons after a special screening of the second trailer
of the much-awaited film, Soundarya sounded thrilled over producing
the first-ever animation film made around an Indian actor.
She also confessed that her Appa (father) was initially very hesitant
to play the role. She was happy, however, that he agreed after "all
his apprehension were allayed".
Except Rajnikant, all the characters would be animated. The superstar
would have his "jodi" (female opposite). Further details about
the movie, however, are strictly under wraps.
The film, being made at a cost of $10 million by Adlabs, along with
Soundarya's own Ocher Studio, will be released in 12 languages, including
Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English.
Soundarya said that the film is a "collective effort of 80 of
us from the Ocher Studio".
The second trailer showed Rajnikant fighting the villains in his familiar
style.
A.R. Rahman scores the music for the film, which will have four songs.
One of these will be in English, and the search is on for a Western
singer.