Kochadaiyaan is the upcoming tamil movie directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin and written by K.S. RaviKumar in which the lead roles are Rajinikanth, Deepika Padukone, R.SarathKumar, Aadhi, Shobana, Rukmimi VijayaKumar, Jackie Shroff, Nassar. The movie is shot in motion capture in 3D, cinematography is handled by Rajiv Menon and background score and music is composed by A.R.Rahman. The movie is also released in telugu and dubbed in malayalam, english. Editing part of the movie is done by Anthony. Peter Hein was chosen as film's action choreographer. The movie is distributed by EROS International. The budget of the movie is meant to be 125 crores (US$ 19 Million).
The movie will have special screenings on Los Angeles, London and India. The film posters utilised performance capture technology, same as that used in the movies such as Avatar, The Adventures of Tintin, making Kochadaiyaan the first indian film to be involved in this technique.
About the movie Soundarya quoted as, "First we scanned Rajinikanth's face for his looks and made a 3D model to get the exact precision of his exact features even scar on his nose. And then we corrected the 3D model by tightening his skin to make him look as 25 years age. They used the technology in the film "Tron". The youthness of the look was compared that the looks that Rajinikanth had in the movie Muthu. The movie is expected to release on december 12th 2013.
