Rajini, Kamal's new strategy, will Chiru, follow? A couple of years back when Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan's films failed at the box office, people started writing them off and gave a call for them to retire. However while Kamal Haasan scored a resounding hit with Vikram teaming with Lokesh Kanagaraj, Rajinikanth scored a hit with Jailer teaming with Nelson Dilip Kumar.
Despite the repeated failures, they stuck to the original stories. Now the question is will Chiranjeevi take the lead from them? Sakthi Velan., a Tamil distributor and producer says "Both the films were record-shattering hits and the senior stars proved that they are still in the reckoning. They always had a mass following but they needed the right script. Once they found the right one, they struck a chord with the masses and fans alike to deliver money-spinners,"
Kamal Haasan's Vikram had Fahadh Faasil, Vijay Sethupathi while Rajini's Jailer had Mohan Lal, Jackie Shroff, Shiva Rajkumar in cameos. Sakthi Velan said "It is true that both Rajnikanth and Kamal Hassan allowed more screen space to other language actors in their respective films but in their own way. The Kamal film ‘Vikram’ gave equal enough space to Malayalam actor Fahadh Faasil and Tamil star Vijay Sethupathi whose performances were major attractions of the film and helped the story to move forward. Hence it carried a good report and also set the box office on fire,"
He continued "Even 'Jailer' boasted of superstars like Mohan Lal, Shivaraj Kumar and Jackie Shroff but their immense talent wasn’t properly utilized. Eventually, it turned out to be a one-man show of Rajinikanth till the end. Invariably, it carried a mixed report but it has all possibility to surpass Vikram box office collections in the days to come,"