Rajini to start Coolie as Vettaiyan is incomplete

Though Lokesh and Rajini confirmed that their film was very well on the way, our trackers tell us that 20 days of shooting days featuring Rajinikanth for Vettaaiyan is pending. So will Rajini start work on Lokesh film Coolie before completing Vettaiyan ?. The film is slotted for October and pitted against Suriya’s Kanguva. Now the delay is with Director T J Gananvel says trackers. Most of the scenes that need to shoot are either an improvement to already shot or an extension. This is in the name of perfection and Thalaivar had in no less words said that the perfection can be achieved but not disrupting his commitments. Now Gananvel has to fix a schedule that will be the final and after that Rajinikanth will just not be available. Yet another story that is circulated is that Lyca does not have the money and is waiting for Indian 2 proceeds and is funding Ajith film as like Rajinikanth, AK has said that if Vidayamyurchi is not completed within a set date, it will hang in midair as he will go off full steam for Adhik film. Now our trackers say that from Azerbhaijan the locale has shifted to South America for Vidamuyurchi. So was Coolie First Look test post a gimmick to cover up Vettaiyan mess ? Will Vettaiyan be in cold storage till Coolie is completed ? Looks like Rajini will start shoot for Coolie and like Ajith come back when Lyca and Gananvel are ready. It was with amusement that I read or saw Kamal Haasan talk about him and Rajini joining hands now and that too without looking at money or status. It was the same Kamal who in an interview to me for Screen said that he told Rajini who was then an anti-hero and a villain to not accept any films that came as a combo package. Kamal argument was that he was already an established hero and Rajini more of a baddie and an upcoming hero. If Rajini played the same character with Kamal as he did in Ninathalaya inikum, he would always be a second fiddle and never grow solo. This happened at the sets of K Balchander who was mentor and Godfather to both. So in one way KB cannot cash in on the combo in future and that Kamal paved the way for it. The real reason was that if Kamal and Rajini came as a combo, the pay packet of both would not grow beyond a point. There was a limit to the box office sales that a film can do. Based on this only can a hero or heroes salary be fixed. Secondly, Kamal had expanded his market beyond Tamil Nadu and that got him extra income.