Saturday Jan 03 2009, Chennai

Scoop: Why Shankar fired Ayngaran!

One of the producers of Ayngaran International, Arun Pandian, went to the extent of editing a song shot for the Rajnikanth-starrer without the permission of the ace director!

One of the key players in the film company, Arun Pandian, had "the temerity to ask Shankar for the completed portions of the Rajnikanth-Aishwarya Rai starrer and watch them". He even went to the extent of editing a song made by Shankar without his permission, it is rumoured.

Rumourmills in Kollywood say this was why Shankar found a new producer and not because Ayngaran International asked him to slash his budget. Now, the film is being produced by Sun Pictures, who has assured the director that as far as the budget of the film is concerned, sky is the limit.

But, Arun has not learnt his lessons from the ‘Endhiran’ episode, it seems. There are reports that he had interfered with the editing of Ajit’s ‘Aegan’ and now is repeating the same folly in Prabhudeva’s ‘Villu’.

- FS Desk