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Age is just a number! When it comes to dedication towards work, Rajnikanth who is sixty can even try to learn a new dance form. For Endhiran, the superstar did the funk style dance called ‘popping’ with Aishwarya Rai.

What is popping? It is a kind of street dance which is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer’s body. Sounds tough, doesn’t it! But Ash and Rajini were game for it.

Yes, apart from Rajini, choreographer Remo D’Souza taught the dance to Ash as well. Like Rajini, the actress too is trying out popping for the first time. But they were quick to grasp the steps and the end result amazed all.

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Aishwarya Rai is a big fan of Rajinikanth’s onscreen antics, especially of the way he flicks a cigarette in the air. So when she finally saw him do that, she couldn’t have enough.

During the shoot of Endhiran, the actress got a chance to see Rajini’s signature stunt. In one of the scenes with Ash when Rajni had to toss the cigarette, she deliberately kept fluffing so that there could be re-takes. That’s how she managed to see the stunt repeatedly.

From what we hear, no one was aware of Ash’s prank while the shoot was on. But later she revealed to Rajinikanth that she was playing a prank so that she could see what she loves – a cigarette flipped by the one and only Rajinikanth.

What was Rajini’s reaction after that? He started laughing!

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Though Aishwarya Rai is predominantly concentrating her career in Bollywood, she is continuing to act in Tamil films with her latest release being Raavanan. The actress is expecting the release of Endhiran, which has Rajinikanth in the lead.

The buzz in Kollywood is that Ash is not a member of the Nadigar Sangam till date. The Sangam has issued a deadline to all artistes acting in Tamil films to register themselves, but the actress did not heed to it, report sources.

Sources in Kollywood say that many stars that have registered recently fearing action from the Sangam feel that the Nadigar Sangam is going soft on Ash.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer ‘Endhiran’, and Kareena Kapoor starrer ‘We are family’, is soon going to be locking horns at the box office on the 3rd of September!
The two flicks, which are touted as being two of the greatest releases in the second half of this year will surely have a tough time in competing with each other, as both have a very powerful star cast with an equally powerful subject, and even more powerful directors backing them up!

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Salman Khan was keen on releasing Dabangg on Eid and, as the man wanted, the film is releasing on September 10. But it is not going to be solo release. The Aishwarya Rai-Rajnikant film Endhiran (‘The Robot’ in Hindi), which will release in three languages, is also set for release during that time.

This box office clash was also the reason why Karan Johar postponed the release of his production We Are Family to September 3. Siddharth Malhotra the director of We Are Family says, “Dabangg and Shankar’s Robot are releasing on Eid. So we have Bollywood’s Rajnikanth (Salman) and Rajnikanth on the same day. It just made no sense for us to release with them. We are coming a week earlier, aaram se.”

By Jilawatan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer ‘Endhiran’, and Kareena Kapoor starrer ‘We are family’, is soon going to be locking horns at the box office on the 3rd of September!
The two flicks, which are touted as being two of the greatest releases in the second half of this year will surely have a tough time in competing with each other, as both have a very powerful star cast with an equally powerful subject, and even more powerful directors backing them up!
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who has managed to raise the female stars benchmark with this film ‘Endhiran’, has reportedly been paid a whopping sum of Rs. 6 crores, the highest ever paid to a female star in B- Town.
This robotic sci- fi lick has been made with a grand budget touching a mind blowing Rs. 200 crores and also stars one of the most popular southern super stars Rajnikanth.The director Shankar, well known down south for his great film making strategies, has left no stone unturned in making this grandest of the grand flick, and a real humdrum is already doing the rounds, as the release of the film is awaited, almost impatiently!
On the other hand, the Siddharth Malhotra directed flick- ‘We Are Family’, made under the Dharma Productions banner, owned by Karan Johar, boasts of a very powerful star cast, like Arjun Rampal, Kajol and Kareena Kapoor.

By Jilawatan

It is tragic that most of the mega-budgeted Bollywood films turn out to be bummers but they make history because of those extra zeroes in their production cost. Now, here is Rajnikant-Aishwarya Rai-starrer south film Endhiran which has created history by becoming the most expensive film to be ever produced in India. Yes, the movie’s estimated budget is said to be between Rs 150-190 crore. Whoa! That’s astounding.

The director of the film S Shankar admits that the film has a whopping budget. “We realize that we have made the costliest Indian film but when it’s Rajnikant and Aishwarya, it is justified,” Shankar is quoted as saying. So what makes Endhiran (Tamil), The Robot (Hindi) and Robo (Telugu) special and so expensive? Mind it, this jaw-dropping figure is not because of the hefty acquisition amount.

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With a budget crossing the Rs 100 crore mark, Endhiran (Robot) the 10th film of director Shankar, is the costliest film ever made in India. It is also the most talked about film in the country.

Kalanithi Maran of Sun Pictures is the producer of the Tamil film which is being dubbed in Hindi and Telugu.

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For all the Aishwarya Rai fans here is a visual treat. The actress looks glamorous like never before in the most expensive Tamil film Endhiran where she is paired opposite superstar Rajnikant.

In the film, Aishwarya gets to don different looks. Various kinds of head gears and blingy dresses were part of her Endhiran wardrobe and the credit goes to fashion designer Manish Malhotra for creating such eye-catching outfits. For shooting of some of the songs, lavish sets were erected and innumerable costumes were used.

Made at a whopping cost of US $43 million, Endhiran will be released on September 24 with more than 2,000 prints, the biggest ever for an Indian film. The film will release in three languages – Hindi, Telugu and Tamil.

Check out the glamorous stills of Aishwarya from Endhiran:

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South superstar Rajinikanth can’t stop praising Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai after working with her on Tamil film Endhiran, touted to be one of India’s most expensive film projects.

According to a source present at the music launch of the film in Kuala Lumpur last week, Rajinikanth said: “There is no other beauty in our generation like Aishwarya Rai. She is a born artiste.”

Rajinikanth, who shares mutual admiration for Aishwarya’s father-in-law, megastar Amitabh Bachchan, added jokingly: “Amitabh is looking at me from there and warning me not to praise her too much,” the source informed.

Though Amitabh was not present at the music launch, Rajnikant made his presence felt with his words.

Among those who attended the event were music director A.R. Rahman, director S. Shankar and few other technicians, apart from Aishwarya and Rajnikant with his two daughters.