From the title card, to the songs that Rajini loves to listen on his old radio – it is pure nostalgia packaged as a film. This feat is achieved not just by the superstar, but by the entire cast and crew.
“Vayasanalum, un style um azhagum, unna vitta pogala (Even though you have grown older, your style and beauty has not left you),” said Neelambari in Rajinikanth’s Padayappa and in Peetta’s entry scene, with his signature deep laugh, it does feel we are back in time. Petta is a film made by a Rajinikanth fan, for Rajinikanth fans. Karthik called his film a celebration of everything Rajinikanth, and that is exactly how it plays from its first frame to the last – specially the climactic frame. There is that signature sunglass flick too – it is officially 90s again and we are here to partake in this fan feast. The doubters need to buy tickets for Petta where director Karthik Subbaraj ‘Rajinifies’ you with cigarette flicks and deep throaty laughs. Stopping and reversing time, it seems, is a breeze for the star. If we go by the million Rajinikanth jokes powering online sites, Thalaivar can do anything. Recently seen in a few women-centric films such as Mohini and Nayagia, Trisha said she will continue picking projects she finds interesting.Cast: Rajinikanth, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vijay Sethupathi, Bobby Simha He made working with him very comfortable right from the first day.” If he had any kind of aura, it’d have been very intimating to work because he’s an amazing performer. “Neither does he have the star aura nor the actor’s aura. On sharing screen space with Vijay Sethupathi, she said, “He’s the least intimidating star I’ve worked with in my career.” Even if we’d get a dialogue wrong, he’d still go ahead with the shot and correct the dialogue in the dubbing.
“Prem is the kind of director who doesn’t like to go for too many takes because he feels we’d lose the spontaneity. You’d find our performances very genuine because we didn’t really act,” she said, adding that all the credit goes to the director. We don’t say it to each other but it still gets conveyed. We don’t play characters who express their love in words. It’s a love story and we haven’t worked before, so it makes it a fresh combination.”ĩ6, a unique love story, revolves around two batch-mates from the 1996 batch, Ram and Janu, who meet 20 years later at the school reunion. The other factor that really drew me to this film was the opportunity to work with Vijay. Talking more about the project, Trisha said, “I was quite intrigued by the script when I heard it the first time. We knew we were making a good film but we didn’t expect this kind of pre-release hype.” I’ve been reading posts on social media where people are already celebrating the film and that’s making me nervous. I’m also quite nervous because of the highly positive pre-release buzz. “This is one project I’m really excited about. In Prem Kumar-directed 96, she teams up with Vijay Sethupathi for the first time.Īlso read | Rajinikanth’s Petta to clash with Ajith’s Viswasam? Trisha is equally excited about her forthcoming Tamil release 96, slated for release on October 4.