Wednesday Sep 19 2007, Chennai

Rajini: What next?

After creating history of sorts in Sivaji, what is Rajini’s next plan? This is the million-dollar question that lingers in the minds of millions of fans all over the world.The superstar Rajinikanth has many plans to be executed.He is contemplating many ideas.Top in the agenda is Sivaji in Hindi.Following the unprecedented success of Sivaji (without subtitles) in Hindi belt, the movie is going to be dubbed in Hindi and will be released during this Deepavali.

The Hindi version will have a few scenes altered to suit Hindi audience.The first night song (Athiradi) had Rajini and Shriya donning various roles that reflected many heroes and heroines.Rajini depicted the styles of MGR, Sivaji, and Kamal in the song.He acted like NTR, Nageswara Rao, and Chiranjeevi in the Telugu version.In Hindi version, he will depict the styles of the Bollywood heroes like Dharmendra, Amithabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan.

Rajini has given four days call sheet for the shoot and the set is ready in AVM studio.But the set is waiting for Shriya, who is quite busy with her projects in Tamil and Telugu.Before this song is shot there are many rumours making round regarding Rajini’s next film.First there was a talk that he would do a film for K.Balachandar’s Kavithalaya.

Then the rumours said that Rajini's next film would be produced by AVM and directed by K.S.Ravikumar.It was also said that young director Murugadass would make a film starring Rajini.Now the latest gossip regarding Rajini is that he is acting in a film directed by Mani Rathnam, produced by Kamal Haasan.

The sources site the recent meetings between the two stalwarts.It is also said that Asin will be the pair to Rajini in the film in which Kamal would do a cameo.As of now, it will be a song for Hindi Sivaji.Then it might be the film in the combination of Rajini, Kamal and Mani.The announcement might be made by next week, according to the sources close to the superstar.

If it is made, the movie will be the biggest thing of 2008.