Happy to say that the whole Endhiran shoot is wrapped on 7th July with the shooting of the song sung by AR Rahman, choreographed by Remo at Sun Studios. It was a very very happy moment for everyone. I think this is the first film where I am doing the pumpkin breaking pooja (poosanika udaikiradhu) with the lead stars Rajnikanth & Aishwarya Rai.

Everyone had this feeling similar to a cricket last over…. like a 2 year college wrapping day where you feel very happy & also with a heavy heart … I am amused when I see the same feelings in everyone….

Our producer Mr. Kalanithi Maran gave a big party on July 9th for the crew. In the presence of our honorable Central minister Mr. Dayanidhi Maran, I attended the party along with Rajni sir, DOP Rathnavelu, Resul Pookutty, Editor Antony & my crew. We shared all the interesting stories related to the making of the film with Mr. Maran. It was a memorable day for all of us….

A good news… Yesterday morning Rahman gave the tamil songs final mix master to us… it is amazing…rocking, sounding as big & grand as the budget of the movie. The first song clearly indicates that our AR Rahman is an Oscar winner. I hope once again our combination lives up to your expectation levels. And we are planning to release the audio in this month end.

Yours

Shankar

As you know I am tied up with lot of final post-production work I couldn’t be in touch with you for a long time. Moreover even a small information and every still of endhiran I posted in the blog created lot of interest and expectations among the audience.

To avoid excessive hype and expectation, I slowed down posting.

Well… except one song the whole film shooting is completed. The full edited film has been given to A.R.Rahman for background score and Resul Pookutty for the sound effects.

Just waiting to shoot the last song and waiting for computer graphics work of the climax and some important scenes to be completed.

Catch you later.

Yours
Shankar

We successfully finished the schedule and I started editing those scenes.

Two nice things happened in this schedule.

One is A.R.Rahman finished composing the last song and the song recording process is going on.

The other one is Ash released the audio of “Rettai Chuzhi” and Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu received it.

Trailer and Few glimpses are there for you.

See you soon.

Yours
Shankar

Rettai Chuzhi Trailer

Intro

Dir. Sasi

Dir. Mahendran

Dir. Shankar

Dir. Balachandar

Dir. Bharathiraja

Aishwarya Rai

Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu

I am going for the Last Schedule shoot today, with which all the talkie portions will be completed. So totally tied up with organizing and preparing for it.

Everyone’s question is when is the audio launch and film release. Regarding the audio launch the last song is in composing and has to be recorded. After that the mastering has to be done then we will fix the audio launch.

Though all the work is nearing completion, there are few factors which will decide the release date.

-          The final song is yet to be recorded and shot.

-          The partly 3d portion, post production time duration has to be finalized.

-          Most of the CG works are completed, another 200 complicated CG shots are yet to be completed.

-          Final editing and back ground score is there to be done.

-          Sound mixing is to be done… Yes. by the way there is a good news, another Oscar Winner Mr.Resul Pookutty is doing the audiography, who is very charged and have started the work in full swing.

-          D.I. and other languages (Hindi and Telugu) dubbing is there to finish.

Some have asked whether the movie is coming this year. Yes, definitely the film is releasing this year only. Within few months.

Bye for now, will keep in touch.

Yours
Shankar

Thanks for the great response for Stanwinston Post. There were lot of good wishes and queries about Rajini Sir. There is so much to tell, there were much queries about ARR, Ash and others too. I’ll share one by one in further posts.

Many of Vijay and Ajith fans wanted to know when I am going to do a film with them. Already I had ideas of doing “Mudhalvan” with Vijay (next to Rajini Sir). Unfortunately it didn’t happen. After “Nayak” I had a thought of doing a film with Ajith. With out even meeting it dissolved and didn’t happen. I don’t know which language and what kind of script I am going to do next. If the script suits Vijay or Ajith, I’ll definitely do a film with them.

Regarding my production S Pictures “Rettai Chuzhi” and “Anandhapurathu Veedu” both the films are completed and final Post-Production works are going on.

In “Rettai Chuzhi” two icons of tamil cinema director “K.Balachandar” and director “Bharathi Raja” for the first time acting lead roles together. “Rettai Chuzhi” is the story of two famous old men in the village who are currently child ego state. When they try to outburst their 40 years enemity thinking that of a big scene, it ends up like a child’s play. Aari trained in “Koothupattarai” gets intorduced as hero and the heroine is the “Kattradhu Tamizh” fame Anjali. 22 trained child actors are playing important role in this film. Chezhian is doing the cinematography and music by Karthik Raja.

Thamira has directed the film who is basically a story writer for magazines. With his experience also as KB’s dialogue writer, he has arcthitected this “Rettai Chuzhi” film as interesting one. So you can easily guess that “Rettai Chuzhi” will make a new experience for the family audience.

m leaving to mumbai for 2 days shoot with Rajini sir, Ash and Danny Dengzongpa…

See you soon

Yours
Shankar

Ubhayakusalobhari!!! (UBKS)
(Its a Sanskrit word used by Ambi in ANNIYAN. Meaning: – I am fine… Everything ok here… Hope you and your family doing well… etc… etc…)

Most of you have asked about Stanwinston Studios role in Endhiran.

Yes. Endhiran is the first Indian movie to use Stanwinston Studio’s Animatronics technology. We all are proud and happy to be associated with No.1  Hollywood studio who did a great job in movies like Jurassic Park, Predator, Terminator, Ironman and the recent Avatar.

Myself, Rajini sir and our Technical crew have been at Los Angeles for couple of weeks at Stanwinston Studios for scanning, make-up test and preproduction works in July 2008. We all are excited that we are working at the place where Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger have worked.

After 1½ half years of preparatory work a group of  top technicians came to Sun Studio’s Chennai sets and worked around for 4 months. 22 scenes of Endhiran Movie have been shot using Animatronics and Special Make-ups. Most of Important scenes was shot lively with Rajini sir using Animatronics without CGI.

At the end of the day Stanwinston people told that they are very happy that Endhiran movie utilized maximum animatronics techniques in so many scenes in all possible ways, which is very rare in Hollywood too… Cool….

Wish you all a very very Happy Pongal…!!!

And my pongal is on the sets with Rajini Sir, Ash and Endhiran crew.
Today we are having shooting.

C U again ASAP.

Yours
Shankar

Thank u very much for the tremendous response n new year wishes.

Thanx to press n net media for d support.

Right now m continuously shooting an action sequence. I didn’t get any gap to b n touch with u. Hope u bear with me. I’ll b  online whenever possible.

Thanx.