Rajinikanth fans throng theatres as Kochadaiiyaan releases today

Young and old turned up in good numbers in many theatres to watch Rajinikanth feature in a new avatar. The film released in nearly 2,000 theatres across the world in many languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English, Punjabi and Bhojpuri.
The multi-million flick, the first Indian film to be shot on motion-capture technology, stars Deepika Padukone, Jackie Shroff, R Sarath Kumar and many others.

Rajinikanth’s daughter Soundarya has wielded the megaphone with double Oscar-winner A R Rahman scoring the music.

The movie released to a good opening, industry sources said. Earlier, advanced reservations had elicited good response.

By acting in the film shot on motion-capture technology, Rajinikant has come a long way from his humble debut in veteran filmmaker, Dadasaheb Phalke recipient K Balachander’s ‘Aboorva Ragangal’ (1975), making him probably the only Indian actor to star in all formats of movie-making–black and white, colour and motion capture.