SHOOTING STARTS TODAY - ITS OFFICIAL!!

It’s official at last. The shooting of Shankar’s Robot, which is being billed as India's most historic venture, is to begin today, on September 8. The Movie's title in Tamil is said to be Endhiran, whereas the title in Telugu and Hindi, will be Robot .

Industry sources say that director Shankar, superstar Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bacchan left for the US on Friday along with a 40-member crew to film two songs for the film.

The movie, which has generated a lot of interest, boasts of a fabulous creative team including director Shankar, music director A R Rahman and ace cameraman Rathnavelu.

While Mary E Vogt, the well known designer who has worked in Hollywood movies like Men in Black, Batman Returns and Inspector Gadget will be designing the scientific outfits for the sci-fi movie, the animatronics of the film will be handled by the Stan Winston Studio (USA), which was responsible for the impressive animation sequences in movies such as Predator, Jurassic Park, Pearl Harbor, Iron man and the Terminator. The visual effects and animatronics co-ordination will be done by Indian Artiste.

Stunt director Yuen Woo Ping, who made audiences gasp with his stunts in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Matrix and Kill Bill, has been put in charge of the action sequences of the movie.

Hollywood companies like ILM, Tippet, Café EFX; and Hong Kong companies like Centro and Menfond have been roped in to work on VFX. The movie is being produced by Ayngaran International Films Pvt Ltd., and Eros International.

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Rajni’s Robot Wallpapers on Net!!

It has just been a couple of days since official announcement on superstar’s next venture is out, his fans all over the worldhave already donned their creative thinking caps. As a result,the Internet is flooded with stunningly conceptualizedimaginary posters of Rajini’s next venture Robot,created by hisfans. Interestingly, the posters also have the list of cast andcrew they think would suit the movie better. Hmm…perhaps this is what you call lending a helping hand to the director.. These are what you’d call fan art.

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Its Official!!

After a barrage of unconfirmed media speculations over Robot, Ayngaran International and Eros Entertainment have finally confirmed that they will be producing director Shankar’s Robot which will have Indian cinema’s biggest star Rajnikanth in the lead role. The music for the film will be composed by whiz kid A.R.Rahman.
The dream team is teaming up again after the hugely successful Sivaji which rewrote the record books by becoming the biggest blockbuster in Tamil cinema. The film was also global superhit and became the first Tamil film to break into the UK Top 10.
As is often the case with any Rajnikanth film, reports that the superstar has been approached and signed up for Robot sent the media into a frenzy last week. However, due to lack of any official confirmation, such reports seemed too good to believe.
Robot is maverick director Shankar’s dream project and is said to be a science fiction film. Initially, Kamal Hassan was reported to be doing the film. However that did not come through. Recently, Shahrukh Khan had accepted to produce and star in the film. However, the project was dropped owing to creative differences between Shankar and Shahrukh Khan. Reports even say that Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan were approached for the lead role.
According to a press release, Robot will be the grand and entertaining film ever made in Indian cinema and will be produced in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and other languages. It will be a high-tech film with state of art technology. Sources say that the budget of the film is expected to cross 100 crores making it the costliest Indian film ever produced.
Director Shankar is currently finalising the cast and crew for this project and will announce the same shortly.

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