It was an occasion to celebrate for Tamil superstar Rajnikanth’s die-hard fans who flocked cinema halls here since early hours as the advance booking for the AVM Production’s mega budget movie Sivaji opened on Sunday. Tickets for the first fortnight were sold out in several theatres in just a couple of hours.
Serpentine queues of youngsters, including girls, were seen outside 17 theatres in the city, including Abirami, Satyam and Udhayam complexes, where the film was set to be released on June 15. The queues led to traffic snarls at various places.
Some chose to spend the night in front of the theatres in order to book their tickets early. The ‘Rajni-Sankar — A R Rahman’ combination of the film has created huge expectations among movie buffs, particularly among the superstar’s fans.
Doe-eyed Shriya is the leading lady of the movie, which took 19 months for completion. Sources said the movie might turn out to be the most expensive film ever made in the country.
Enthusiastic fans performed milk abhishekam (pouring milk) on Rajni cut outs and broke coconuts to ward off evil forces. Rajni’s previous film Chandramukhi is still running continuously for 800 days.