Super star Rajinikanth is in news always for some reason or other in kollywood and even the very minute details of his films becomes great news there and that was his star power and popularity as you all know. We reported to you all earlier that Rajinikanth to do a Shankar film in which Vikram may play the villain opposite him. There had been reports which also said that there may be the chance of Enthiran 2 to happen as Shankar has plans to do it. At first it was to play the villain opposite Rajinikanth and later it changed to Kamal Haasan and now it is Vikram as per the news.
But the news which broke out yesterday is that Rajinikanth to do a gangster type role in his next film which will be conceived by director Ranjith who shot to fame with the success of Karthi starred film named Madras. It had been long years since Rajinikanth did a full -fledged gangster character and if we take a look back then it will be Baashaa in which he played a full-fledged role like this. Even though he had done some recent movies in which the characters he played has a flavor of these gangster characters it had not been an out and out gangster oriented ones.
And the report says that Rajinikanth will play his age in this film and that is because the actor want to do more natural type characters now which has a lot of scope for acting and he wants directors and script writers to bring him that kind of scripts more often from now. He was in search of such a screenplay and he was hearing a lot of scripts these days. After a lot of search he liked one and very impressed with the story and screenplay narrated by the director Ranjith and report reveals that he had shown green signal to the film maker to go ahead with the project.
Director Venakt prabhu was thrilled and tweeted congratulating Ranjith for this great chance as Venkat Prabhu is the mentor and guide of Ranjith for years.