Of late, there has been a really good trend that is being followed in the Telugu industry where both big and small films are getting a good release window, in turn not affecting one another’s collections. However, the situation in Tamil cinema is not all that chalked out and once in a while we do see a big film gobbling up a smaller film.
We had reported that Rajinikanth, Shankar and Akshay Kumar's 2.0, will be releasing in April 2018 and this announcement came in all of a sudden, a couple of days ago. Following this decision by the 2.0 makers, a concerned DVV Entertainments have Tweeted stating that this 2.0 release would affect their Mahesh 24 film’s release and has caused a confusion among Telugu film producers.
DVV Entertainments posted, “Tollywood has always respected and embraced other language cinema. But a bigger project like Robo 2.0 changing their release dates has caused confusion among producers. All the Telugu movie producers who are releasing in the months of Apr and May are in discussions to avoid any competition among ourselves. However, this sudden announcement by ROBO 2 team to release in the month of April has left all the Telugu releases to further confusion. At this juncture, we request the trade bodies to take a conscious call and arrive at an amicable solution. #Mahesh24 #2Point0 “.
*Twitter post is not spell checked
We had earlier reported today that Akshay Kumar's next Hindi film Padman is releasing for the Republic Day weekend. Now there is an unconfirmed buzz that 2.0's release may get postponed again to Tamil New Year weekend tentatively on April 13, 2018 due to the heavy CG work involved in the film. This infact is a very good release window for a big budget film like 2.0.
The buzz is Lyca Productions is expected to make an official announcement soon. 2.0 directed by Shankar has Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson in the lead roles.