Category Archives: Andhra

1. Anoop going blah blah….: Sivaji – FIRST REVIEW ON NET!!
   • Scene with Shreya and train which is kinda unbelievable
   • The final slides on the screen as names roll by is something every Indian would dream for.
2. Rajini-in-Sivaji.com » Sivaji First reactions– from a fan
   • Interval block resembles similar to Tagore (Chiranjeevi’s movie)
   • Iis all abt an NRI who teaches a lesson for all who don’t pay tax
   • Is all about a Medical College Revenge
3. Random Thoughts / Perspective Reflections: $!V@J!:

Chennai and TN: 50 -55 crores
AP: 18 crores
Karnataka: 7 crores
Kerala: 3.5 crores
Foreign (US, UK, Japan, Malaysia): 15 crores
Satellite rights: 4-5 crores
Audio rights: 1.5-2 crores
The first day tickets sold in Madras amounted to 1.7 crores.

4. Sivaji (The Boss) – Live Reviews « கில்லி – Gilli
5. Sivaji : A Quick Review from Singapore.. « அலசல் – Probable imagination and Thoughtful futuristic suggestions 🙂
   • Rani Mukherjee IS the surprise heroine in the film. She is big Rajini’s pair.
6. Lightning Strikes Everyday: Movie Review: Sivaji : 99% Style 1% Substance
   • Sivaji is a movie where shankar’s and Rajini’s negative aspects add instead of subtracting each other.
   • Jeans is a good example of a Shankar movie which had several main ingredients that were dead on arrival
   • Firstly, NRIs who are senior software architects will not be worth 200 crores.
   • I wish Rajini had accepted the Mudhalvan script. It had a story.
7. Chakra’s Graffiti » Blog Archive » ‘Sivaji – The Boss’ – 100% Biased review
   • Did you hear the same story line in Padayappa? Yes, you did.
   • Does the free education stuff reminds you of ‘Gentleman’? Yes, you are right indeed.
   • The black money stuff – you would be right in thinking that you heard the same in ‘Mudhalvan’ and ‘Indian’ in a different flavour.
   • Yet, Sivaji is different.
8. Muthu’s Rambling Blog: Sivaji – Rajini all the way
   • The coin gimmick has been done via graphics but the gum-popping scene at least looks real.
   • If Chandramugi, which had no steam in it, could run for 800 days, I guess then Sivaji has a long way to go.
9. Indian techies success stories in Silicon Valley
   • Sabeer Bhatia’s sale of Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million is a well-chronicled story
   • Virginia-based IIT graduate Hemant Kanakia sold his Torrent Technologies to Swedish giant Ericsson, also for $400 million.
10. சிவாஜி படம் பார்த்தேன் : பகிர்கிறேன் « அலசல்
    • இந்த கதையை வைத்துக் கொண்டு என்னத்த சாதித்து விட முடியும் என்று நீங்கள் நினைத்தால் அது தவறு. ஷங்கர் புகுந்து விளையாடியிருக்கிறார்.
    • ஜினியின் ‘முதுமை ஊஞ்சலாடுகிறது’; ‘பாட்ஷா’ ரஜினியின் வேகம் இந்த படத்தில் பல இடங்களில் மிஸ்ஸிங
11. Fun Bin: Shivaji – Story and Review
    (Telugu Version for Andhra Pradesh)
    • There are no heroic feats in the film actually.
    • Rajnikant has played like NTR, ANR and Chiranjeevi in a song.
12. Noddys B-School Story!: SIVAJI – Review!
    • There was this guy in the theater who wore a Sivaji Style Wig and entertained everyone even before the movie started.
    • There was another guy who spent around 50$ on pop corn and distributed that to everyone so we could hurl it in the air when Rajini fills the screen space.
13. Sivaji : The Boss – Movie review at தண்டோரா – இது கண்டதை சொல்லும்
    • ரஜினியின் மேக்கப்மேனுக்கா, ஷ்ரேயாவின் மேக்கப்மேனுக்கா என சாலமான் பாப்பையா
    • ஏவிஎம் ராஜேஸ்வரியில் ஆயிரம் நாளை கடப்பது நிச்சயம்.
    • சாருநிவேதிதாக்களையும் பாமரன்களையும் திருப்திபடுத்தியிருக்கிறார். தீராநதிக்களும், காலச்சுவடுக்களும் கிழித்து தொங்கவிடுவதற்கு
14. superstarksa.com | Blog Archive | Sivaji – Coooooool!
    • Athiradi is clearly inspired by Roberto Rodriguez’s Mariachi trilogy, complete with the machine gun in the guitar and the rockets in the guitar case
    • you should be really foolish to expect any logic from most Indian movies.
15. ‘Sivaji’ – first Indian film to incorporate 4K resolution
    • 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
    • A single frame scanned in 2K occupies about 12 mb space while a 4K image would occupy 4 times more (48 mb).
16. A male’s tales: The S-Day
    • The frenzy that was there for “VV” does not even compare to this.
    • வானத்துல இருக்குது பல ஸ்டார்;
      நிலத்துல இருப்பது ஒரே ஸ்டார்!
      அது நம்ம சூப்பர் ஸ்டார்!
17. Sivaji-The Boss: Experience of a Fan : PassionForCinema
    • A very mild looking oriental man peeped through the projection glass into the theater, shocked. The look on his face said it all.
18. சும்மா டைம் பாஸ் மச்சி…..: சிவாஜி (ஒரிஜினல்) திரைவிமர்சனம்!
19. Sivaji – BOSSa Overa Sodhapitanda Shankar « Pardon My Tamil
    • Shankar’s letdown was worser than what the Indian team pulled off in the world cup.
20. IdlyVadai – இட்லிவடை: சிவாஜி – குற்றப்பத்திரிக்கை
    • ஒன்றாக கோர்த்தால் ரஜினி பட இம்பாக்டும் இல்லை சங்கர் பட இம்பாக்டும் இல்லை.
    • Cool!, நான் தியேட்டர் ஏசியை சொன்னேன்.
21. நிழல்கள்: சிவாஜி – A quick review

Heroworshipping Rajinikanth: “Completed over 18 months, Sivaji’s Super 35 format makes the cinemascope broader and provides a panoramic vision to the viewer.

Other technologies like 4K processing and scanning with a resolution as high as 4096×3072 pixels (twice that of most Bollywood films), better colour grading and printing, and scene-based correction have been used to enhance the cinematic quality and the screen presence of the superstar.

But the technology and razzmatazz has come at a cost — AVM isn’t ready to share how much it has spent, but estimates vary between Rs 60 and Rs 80 crore — that analysts would normally find difficult to justify.

Yet, the film is not just likely to recover its spends, it could end up making a gargantuan Rs 150 crore in the first three weeks alone.

Of Sivaji’s 760 prints,

• 300 have been released in Telugu,
• 303 in Tamil,
• 145 have been reserved for foreign shores, and
• 12 for north India.

For Sivaji, his 100th Tamil film (he has acted in a total of 170 films), he is estimated to have been paid about Rs 15 crore + commissions, taking the total emoluments to around Rs 18-22 crore, something that would be the envy of Bachchan and the reigning Khans.”