Actor Rajkinikanth was last seen in Kaala directed by Pa Ranjith. The film had Nana Patekar as the antagonist, while Samuthirakani, Huma Quereshi, Manikandan, Eswari Rao and others played crucial roles. It was produced bu Wunderbar films  and released on June 7. 

Superstar has now proved that he is one even in real life as he has helped a kid overcome post surgery pain. The 13-year old kid, named Kushal S had a heart transplant in a privater hospital in Bengaluru. The interstate heart transplant took 4 hours and 1 minute, and was successful. The boy then binge watched Rajinikanth movies to over come pain. 

Rajini is now working on his next film, directed by Karthik Subbaraj, and it has an enseble cast of Simran, Trisha, Bobby Simhaa, Nawazuddin Siddique, Vijay Sethupathi and others. The film has cinematography by Tirru and music bu Anirudh Ravichander. this project is bankrolled by Sun Pictures.