Rajinikanth's Robot 2.0 is a 'Make in India' movie
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NEW DELHI: India's big resources films
have a lot of "overseas" in them – foreign locales, foreign technological
personnel, foreign visual effects (VFX) technology.
Rajinikanth 'Robot 2.0', sequel to the
blockbuster 'Robot,' is a big-budget film with a differentiation — it is shot
entirely in India, all technical heads are Indians as is most of the VFX
technology used in the movie.
Slated to be the most high-priced
Indian film ever made and poised for an October release in seven languages
(including Japanese and Korean and Mandarin), the Tamil superstar's Rs 350 crore
film will be a truly Make in India themed movie, it is makers told ET.
Make in India is one of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's key policy initiatives that seek to encourage manufacturing in
India. BJP insiders who spoke off record said the PM had had a word with Rajinikanth’s
a few months back when work on Robot had just begun and had recommended that
the much-anticipated film can encourage the Make in India theme.
Raju Mahalingam, COO, Lyca
Productions, makers of 'Robot 2.0,' told ET the film has been entirely shot in
Delhi and Chennai. "As a group, we are UK-based. But we decided to shoot
everything in India this time. This movie will be India's 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon', the internationally acclaimed Chinese movie," he said.
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