The audio launch event of Superstar Rajinikanth’s upcoming action drama, Jailer, took place in Chennai tonight. As usual, Rajini’s speech was the major highlight of the event. In his speech , Thalaivar reiterated his trust in his directors and also credited his previous directors such as Muthuraman, Mahendran, Suresh Krishnan, Vasu, KS Ravikumar, Shankar, Ranjith, Karthik Subbaraj and now Nelson for constantly shaping up his career.
Rajini went on to reveal how several distributors called him and advised him to replace Nelson after his previous movie with Vijay, Beast, opened to negative reviews. “We had shot a promo and announced the film. Beast released after the promo launch and it received negative reviews. I received a lot of calls from distributors to replace director Nelson. We then had a meeting with the Sun Pictures team. They had informed me that Beast, even though received poor reviews, didn’t cause any losses for its distributors,” Rajini revealed.
The 72-year-old stalwart actor further said that Nelson had narrated the basic idea of Jailer during Beast’s production. “I had told him I liked the idea and he told me he will come back to me after developing the idea into a full-fledged script. He again met me 10 days after wrapping up Beast’s shoot and narrated the full story. It was fantastic. I took a lot of time to lock my next project after Annaatthe as all the story ideas certain directors narrated to me didn’t turn out well when they developed them into full-fledged stories,” Rajini said. Jailer has features Tamannaah Bhatia as its leading lady. The film is scheduled to open in cinemas on August 10.