Sivaji The boss - Rajnikant gets 200million

Saiyan

Originally Posted by Sandeep

^U dun wanna watch it?

hehe no re, i stopped watching indian movies 2 years back

, i didn't see his last movie as well, man his last movie baba was horrible that i switched off the TV in 15mins. Though mite watch the songs, offcourse for shriya only

Dogbert

If shriya is there, even i can watch any movie... though i dun understand even 1% of any south indian language!

SunnyBoi

reminds me I had to spend 2.5hours of bullshit of "arasu" just to see 5 minutes of shriya at the end

Dogbert

he he.. V Boyz will remain boyz!

shrey

@ ryan for the final time re... don't harp on his looks. Its unanimously agreed upon that he looks bad

Point is he looks bad, thats the very reason people listen to what he says in his movies, he is like one of the masses

In the end rajini is a good guy, very spiritual, his movies have a good message always and most of the time its the rags to riches story which everyone loves

this is going to be no different i assume , my only fear is too much candy floss because of shankar

rajini won't fit into that ....

Safin

Some technical details about the movie

Ranjikant's much hyped 'Sivaji: The Boss', which opens Friday, is the first Indian film to incorporate the latest 4K resolution technology that is used only on big-budget Hollywood films.

In India, 2K resolution for digital intermediate (DI) is the set standard. Around 400 of the 2,900 prints of 'Sivaji' have been made in digital format by Prasad EFX, one of the largest digital post-production studios in India. The studio has colour graded and post-produced the film.

Till recently, digital grading in India was done on a small monitor or by a low-end projector and screen.

Major Hollywood studios, however, allow cinematographers to see images being graded in high resolution on the big screen. Detailed attention is thus paid to selectively colour grade smaller areas in a frame or shot.

Scanning the entire feature film in 4K resolution requires huge storage space and powerful graphics capability. A single frame scanned in 2K occupies about 12 mb space while a 4K image would occupy 4 times more (48 mb).

For these reasons, scanning in 4K for an entire DI feature film has never been done in India till now.

Considering the superior imagery that has been cinematographed by K.V. Anand for 'Sivaji', the processor for the film, Prasad group, felt that 4K would do justice to the film by enhancing its digital image quality and flexibility in colour grading.

AVM, the producers of 'Sivaji', have also gone ahead with the process considering the advantage it would have despite an increase in the cost of production.

'By routing the entire film through the 4K pipeline for the DI process, we can be certain that none of the details available in the celluloid film are lost,' Madhu of Prasad EFX said.

'Another advantage is that when we can scale up the images during the post and graphics processes, the image will not go soft or lead to any artefacts. As a 4K image has larger resolution, we can also have unlimited freedom in manipulating the colours during grading,' he added.

Our meticulously colour calibrated environment ensures that what the cinematographers see in our facility is what is actually seen by people in the theatres.'

The entire 4K DI process was done in Prasad EFX's Chennai facility, using high-end scanners, film recorders and colour grading suites.

Prasad simultaneously worked on around 85 percent of the VFX, or graphics, in 'Sivaji', also in 4K resolutions.

In the recent past, Prasad EFX has worked on the DI and colour grading of mega budget Bollywood movies like 'Krrish' and 'Rang De Basanti'.

The group has also upgraded their DI facility in Mumbai by including a digital theatrical projection system and a high-end Barco Projector D-Cine Premiere DP100 to their existing facilities.

The 26 ft x 40 ft theatre is located in the Prasad EFX facility at Andheri West, Mumbai, and is equipped with 5.1 surround sound.

Prasad EFX won several prestigious awards -- Filmfare, Screen, Zee Technical, Broadcast India, and at the recently held International Indian Film Academy at Yorkshire -- for 'Krrish'.

The company has been a pioneer in bringing in new technologies and sophisticated equipment to India.

Prasad EFX is an arm of the 50-year-old Prasad Group, which has facilities and offices across India, Singapore, Dubai and Hollywood and is one of Asia's largest post-production groups.

Agnel

more info about a animation film on Rajini... by his daughter

Private Ryan

The group has also upgraded their DI facility in Mumbai by including a digital theatrical projection system and a high-end Barco Projector D-Cine Premiere DP100 to their existing facilities.

The 26 ft x 40 ft theatre is located in the Prasad EFX facility at Andheri West, Mumbai, and is equipped with 5.1 surround sound.

I have recently sent my showreel to them...so far the response has been positive..lets se..

ME currently in MEL post production...(MAya entertainment ltd. )..

tht means, if i luckily get thru, i may have to one day work in the post production team of a Rajni movie..

Something i hate n despise so much now..

Dogbert

New Delhi: Any price is a good price for a ticket to Rajinikanth's new movie Sivaji the Boss at theatres across Tamil Nadu and even in Bangalore this week. There was madness on Friday as the movie hit the theatres. And as the mad rush began to the theatres, the ticket prices soured to unheard-of levels.

In Chennai, for instance, tickets for all shows for the first 10 days were sold out in just two hours in over in all the 15 screens where the film has been released. Now, there are no tickets available until June-end. Those ready to pay a premium on the ticket are buying them for as high as Rs 1,900 or more per ticket.

While the maniacal response in Tamil Nadu is understandable considering the hype and emotions attached to Rajini's comeback film, what came as a big surprise was the way the film caught the fancy of silicon valley in Bangalore.

In Bangalore, the Telugu version of the movie was released in 13 screens, including three multiplexes. And guess what: it's the techies who went for the bulk of ticket bookings for the first few shows of the movie. And nobody seems to be minding the premium they were paying for the tickets.

An IBNlive reader from Bangalore sent us a receipt, which shows an IT firm booked one entire theatre for Friday's second show at Innovative Multiplex, Bangalore, paying as high as Rs 903 per ticket. The total amount paid for 75 gold class tickets is shown to be Rs 67,751. The firm also booked 240 silver class tickets. In fact, the theatre saw a beeline of corporate guys and single-friends networks on the first day of the movie.

In Chennai's popular six-screen multiplex Mayajal too, all the 27 shows of Sivaji everyday for the first week-end were booked in bulk by employee-groups of Cognizant, Virtusa and ICICI among others.

As tickets for the movie have become exhausted, a virtual auction for Shivaji tickets has begun even on the Net. "A ticket for Shivaji movie is available in Chennai. Interested quote your buying price within 2 days," says an auction ad on a prominent website.

"A ticket for Shivaji movie is available in Bangalore, interested quote buying price within a week," goes another.

Similar rush was reported even in Australia and New Zealand, to Malaysia and Singapore, and then on to Europe and further west to the US and Canada

In Malaysia and Singapore, long queues were witnessed as eager fans rushed early in the morning to book tickets. In Australia and New Zealand, tickets for Sivaji have been priced double of the normal charge for a Tamil movie. In the US, too, where a fair number of techies are gearing up to celebrate their superstar’s new release with special premiers in Detroit and Imax shows in Indianapolis, the ticket prices for Sivaji reportedly zoomed to $25.

"We purchased some tickets for Tamil movie Shivaji for the premier show. But, unfortunately two of our friends will not be able to make it. So if anybody is looking for tickets, please contact me at XYZWYZ. Will give you the tickets for the same price I purchased ($25 each)," says a message on the on a community portal.

Source.

Isnt that a li'l too much, ehh?