‘Superstar’ Rajinikanth’s Surprise Birthday Gift To ‘Maanagaram’ Director

Maanagaram, which released last Friday went on to win both accolades and commercial success despite the fact that cast and crew members are predominantly newcomers or less popular faces. Directed by newbie Lokesh Kanagaraj the film was bankrolled by a team of young producers under the Potential Studios banner which also includes the heads of Dream Warrior Pictures, S.R.Prabhu and S.R.Prakash Babu.

It’s now known that ‘Superstar’ Rajinikanth has called up S.R. Prabhu and congratulated the team for the film. S.R. Prabhu took to Twitter recalling the instance when Rajini had called them earlier for their previous production venture Joker. The tweet read, “Then #joker Now #Maanagaram Thalaivar 🕴🏼spoke me •”

What makes it even more interesting is the fact that the news has reached the ears of the director on his birthday and there couldn’t be a better gift than the motivating words of Rajini. Lokesh tweeted, “ஒரு phone call “கண்ணா ஹா ஹா” அவர்தான் அவரேதான் தலைவர் @superstarrajini மாநகரம் பார்த்துவிட்டு…இன்னிக்கு தூங்கனமாதிரிதான்…@prabhu_sr🙏🙏🙏🙏”

If this wasn’t enough, the director is in for more gifts as Potential Studios has announced that they’ll be producing Lokesh’s next directorial as well. S.R. Prabhu also tweeted, ”Happy birthday @dir_lokesh ! Glad to announce that #LokeshKanagaraj will direct his next film for us!”

Things can’t get any better for a budding film-maker.