There are people in the South Indian film circuit who say that if money has to be spent for a film, no other director is as good as Shankar. Such is the popularity of Shankar that producers have spent around Rs. 60 crore for Sivaji’ and about Rs. 190 crore for ‘Robo’.
Both of these films being Rajnikanth’s films, the returns take care of themselves. However we hear that Shankar is going to spend some huge money again. This time there won’t be Rajnikanth. Presently Shanker is planning the remake of ‘3 – Idiots’ in both Tamil and Telugu. It is expectedt that the producers are expecting the film budget would touch around 90-92 crore.
The rights of the Hindi Original for Telugu and Tamil seemed to have cost a bomb to producers of the film Gemini Films. However, with stars like Mahesh Babu in Telugu and Vijay in Tamil, it is expected that Shankar knows what he is up to.
The shooting for the 3-Idiots remake expected to start in December.
