Kochadaiyaan enters Sankranthi Race

Superstar Rajinikanth’s most-anticipated film, ‘Kochadaiyaan’(Vikrama Simha) will hit the screens worldwide on 10th January, 2014. His film 'Kochadaiyan' in Tamil and 'Vikrama Simha' in Telugu have completed the post production works and are waiting for the first copy to come out.  As pongal is the best and biggest festival season for south Indian films, the makers are planning to cash in Rajini’s craze on this occasion.

In tamil, Vijay’s "Jilla", Kamal Hasaan’s "Vishwaroopam" and Ajith’s "Veeram" are also slated for Pongal season. Whereas in Telugu, Mahesh Babu’s "1-Nenokkadine" and Nitin’s "Heart Attack" are in the active race. The music album is likely to be released on Rajinikanth's 63rd birthday- December 12th or on some other day in the same month according to the availability of the Music Director of the film A.R.Rehman.

"Kochadaiiyaan" is touted to be the first movie to be shot with motion capture in 3D, along the lines of Hollywood films "Tin Tin" and "Avatar". Motion capture is a process by which actions of human actors are recorded and then used to animate digital character models. Rajinikanth’s daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth is the director of the film.

The film has Deepika Padukone, Jackie Shroff, R.Sarath Kumar, Shobhana, Rukmini Vijay Kumar, Nassar, Aadi Pinisetty etc in the casting and the story is given by ace director K.S.Ravi Kumar. Rajiv Menon is handling the cinematography and the film has been jointly produced by Eros International and Media One Global Entertainment.