2.0 joins Rs 100 crore club even before release

It’s official: 2.0 joins Rs 100 crore club even before release

Shankar’s 2.0 which has Superstar Rajinikanth in the lead is being made at a whopoping cost of Rs 350 crore.

The film which has been scheduled to release on Deepavali this year has already joined the Rs 100 crore club.

The satellite rights of the films for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi have been sold to Zee Television for Rs 110 crore.

Production house of the film, Lyca Productions’ creative head, Raju Mahalingam confirmed the news.

“The Rs. 110 crore deal is only for the film’s satellite rights. We are in talks with Amazon Prime and Netflix for the film’s digital rights,” he said.

While the satellite rights are usually sold outright, the rights for 2.0 has been sold only for 15 years.

The theater rights are yet to be sold, Raju said.