Ilaya thalapathy Vijay’s upcoming film which is directing by Chimbudevan is making news from the very moment it has announced. First it was in the news for the cast list in which yesteryear actress Sridevi has made her entry who had given lots of hits with Kamala hasan and other stars years ago. She came back to acting with English Vinglish in Bollywood and through this Vijay film she is now coming back to South Indian film as well.
Later the film made it into the news with the rumours about its title as there was rumours that it will be called Mareesan at first. Later rumours came along that it will be called Garuda and at last it was in the news for its official announcement of title as “Puli”. Later the flick has come in news for many reasons such as Vijay’s remunueration which exceeds 20 crore for this film and also about the budget of the flick which said to be around 120 crore.
It was also in the news for leaking of the look of Vijay from the sets even before the official release.Now it is in the news again as the reports are coming in that it is getting some great financial business much to the joy of vijay, chimbudevan and their fans even before the teaser release. The film had got 14 crore which is record overseas right for a tamil film and it was bought by Ayyankaran International.
In distribution rights in karnataka for the flick is 4.6 crores and it is bought by Cheluvambika pictures. In kerala the distribution will be taken care of by thameens films who are the financer of the film as well. As the latest report suggests on june 22 the teaser of the film will be out which happens to be the birthday of Vijay as well.
The flick had overtaken even Rajinikanth films in its pre-release business and Vijay had once again showed that he is the one who has the most star value in Kollywood. Sruthi haasan and hansika will be the ones who plays the female lead characters in this flick which also has Telugu actor Kiccha Sudeep as well in major role.
