Rajni the animated superhero

Meet India's first 3-D superhero - superstar Rajnikanth! He is to star in an animated mythological film at a whopping budget of Rs 40 crores, and directing Rajnikanth in this new avataar is his own daughter.

Rajnikanth has always played larger-than-life images on the silver screen, but now South India's biggest superstar is attempting a bigger feat - an altogether new celluloid genre.

The film 'The Sultan' features Rajni as India's first 3-D animated superhero, and presenting him in a kingsize persona on reel is his daughter Soundarya who is calling the shots.

"My dad is ,king and I am very proud to say that. I personally think he deserves the best - and to be animated first is the best. All his films are for his fans, so he is putting in a lot of drama, a lot of humour and excitement in the story which is his own. It's a typical Rajnikanth commercial film," says Soundarya Rajnikanth, MD of Ocher Studio.

The slick production belies its Indian origins. The Sultan is a mythological movie to be made at a whopping Rs 40 crore budget and is expecetd to make Rajnikanth the first ever South Asian hero to be compeletely animated.

Soundarya says it is her tribute not only to her dad, but to the countless Indians technicians who are on par with their international counterparts in digital wizardry.

"This is my dedication to my father, and I am looking at giving it to him on his birthday this year. So there is a lot of effort that is going into it and definitely directing my father is not simple, but it's very exciting and apart from the excitement and the personal involement that my father and I have in this movie, I want to do this for the country as well; Indian technicians are so, so good and they have not have the recognition ot the chance to prove themselves as yet," says Soundarya.

This is just a small teaser for what will turn out to be a full-length feature film - one that will be not only be a much awaited one for Rajni fans, but all technosavvy Indians.

Courtesy: Timesnow.tv