Rajinikanth praises 'Annaatthe' director Siva, says he delivered a hit as promised

Stating that his just lately launched 'Annaatthe' was a movie that he couldn't neglect in his life, megastar Rajinikanth on Monday showered praises on the movie's director Siva, saying he had delivered a hit simply as he promised he would. The actor put out two voice messages on Hoote, an app launched by his daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth, wherein he spoke at size about how the choice to make 'Annaatthe' was taken.Stating that he was mighty impressed with Siva's earlier movie 'Viswasam', which launched on the identical day that his 'Petta' launched, Rajini says he expressed a need to satisfy and congratulate director Siva to 'Viswasam' producer Thyagarajan."Siva came home to meet me and I really liked him. He was like a child as there was truth in every word that he said," the celebrity remembers.When the subject of doing a movie collectively got here up, Rajini says he identified that doing a movie was not necessary however delivering a hit was. To this, Rajini says Siva advised him, "Giving you a hit is easy sir."Admitting that Siva's reply took him abruptly fully, Rajini says, "Nobody has said that to me so far. People usually tell me, 'We can make it a hit sir or we can try sir.' There has never been a director who has told me that giving me a hit is easy."Rajinikanth then says he requested Siva how he was so assured about delivering a hit.To this, Rajini says Siva identified two components. "One, you must be in a film with a good story and two, you must play a village character as it has been a long time since you have done such a role.""If we have both these, it will be enough," Rajini remembers Siva as telling him."I really liked the way he said it. I told him to come back with a good story. In 20 days time, he called me and said he had a story and would want to give me a narration. I asked him to come over and he said it would take two and a half hours. I agreed," the actor says.The celebrity admitted that he was moved when Siva started narrating the story."I had tears in my eyes without my knowledge by the time Siva was narrating the climax," he mentioned and added, "I shook Siva's hands and said, 'Super. You must make a film exactly the way you have narrated.' To this, Siva replied, 'I will make it better than this. You will see that hordes of people will come to watch the film sir. I will make a film like that.'""Just like what he said he would do, he has done. This film is a big success. There were a lot of problems while making the film but Siva faced all of them with a smile," Rajini identified earlier than signing off.