Kuselan release on August 1

Superstar Rajinikanth’s upcoming movie Kuselan, which was delayed due to post production work, will be released on August 1. Pyramid Saimira, worldwide distributors of the film, confirmed that the movie, being directed by P. Vasu, would grace theatres on August 1st.

This bilingual movie, a remake of the Malayalam movie Kadha Parayumpol, will be released simultaneously in Tamil and Telugu as Kuselan and Kathanayukudu respectively. Pyramid Saimira is going for a 1000 plus screens release of the film worldwide. The movie is produced by prominent director K. Balachandar for the Tamil version and Ashwini Dutt for its Telugu version.

The movie will feature Rajinikanth in 20 costumes, including an Egyptian Pharaoh. Pyramid Saimira is expecting the film to take the best-ever opening of 2008, as the release will be gigantic. Director P. Vasu has said that the film will be marketed like any other Rajinikanth film, and the superstar appears from the third reel onwards.

Meanwhile, recently released audio CDs and cassettes of Kuselan have opened to record sales, with reports that more than 2 lakh CDs have been sold within just 2 days all over the world. Apart from CDs, 50000 cassettes were reportedly sold in rural areas, breaking Shivaji's audio sales record.