Amazon Prime Video India has officially announced that it has acquired the exclusive streaming rights for the digital premiere of 2.0, the Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar starrer and mega budget blockbuster, from Lyca Productions. The movie is the sequel to the 2010 film Endhiran (Robot).
Prime members will have access to watch the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi versions of the much-awaited film on Amazon Prime Video. The movie is set to release in theaters on 25th January 2018.
While the official announcement from the company has come in just now, an industry watcher had revealed the development last month on Twitter.
Commenting on the association with Lyca Productions, Vijay Subramaniam, Director, Content, Amazon Prime Video, said, “With this momentous deal, Amazon Prime Video further enhances its robust Bollywood and regional content library. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Amazon Prime Video is happy to join hands with Lyca Productions for the exclusive streaming rights for this mega blockbuster film. Both, Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar are phenomenal actors with an unbelievable fan following that will soon get the chance to stream the sequel of Rajnikanth’s memorable movie on their favorite streaming device.”
“Making movies is my passion” says the Chairman of the Lyca Group, Mr. Subaskaran Allirajah “We are here to produce great movies. I hope these investments will take Tamil and Indian cinema to world-class standards.”
A spectacular audio launch of the Superstar Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar-starrer was earlier held at Dubai’s Burj Park on 27th October, The event saw the film’s music composer, Academy Award Winner A.R Rahman, perform live at the event, apart from a host of other exciting performances and stage shows.
2.0 is one one of the most expensive projects in Indian cinema right now, and is being helmed by celebrated director, S. Shankar.
Rajinikanth, one of India’s biggest superstars, will reprise his role of Dr Vaseegaran and the robot Chitti. 2.0 is also the debut of Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar into Tamil cinema, who will be seen as the primary antagonist in the movie.