Following the biggest box-office hit Sivaji, Shankar’s next movie has recently been announced – Endhiran (a.ka. Robo). Once again, Shankar joins hands with the India’s veteran actor Rajinikanth to develop the 120 crore film in Kollywood. For the first time, Bollywood top actress Aishwarya Rai co-stars with Rajinikanth in the movie.

Shankar announced Endhiran project in 2001 with Kamal to star against Preity Zinta. It was given up then. Later, there were going lots of news that Ajith Kumar would act in the movie. The news went on air then. A year ago, Shankar announced the project with Sharuk Khan, but it didn’t last longer. News claimed that both had some differences and canceled the project.

In early 2008, Rajinikanth confirmed his mass hero role in Endhiran, and the team with Shankar, Aishwarya Rai, and A.R.Rahman.The project is estimated to goahead for next two years.

More news:

• It was very popular news that Rajinikanth became the highest paid actor in India when he acted in Sivaji. Now, Aishwarya Rai to become India’s highest paid actress with her 6 crore package for Endhiran.
• The whole Sivaji team with Shankar, Rajinikanth, A.R Rahman, Vairamuthu, K.V Anand will continue working in Endhiran. The team misses the famous writer Sujatha who passed away recently. Balakumaran will replace Sujatha’s work in the movie.
• A tamil daily claimed that there would be more than 10 assistant-directors working for Endhiran, including director Bharathiraja’s son and actor Manoj.
• Endhiran is expected to be the most expensive Indian movie made so far.
• The Movie shooting began in Sept 2008 in Peru. Despite tight restrictions, few movie stills were out and they were published in lot of websites.
• The movie is expected to be released by April 2010.

Movie stills (Extracted from some other sources). Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images.

Endhiran

Endhiran

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