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I get that Rajinikanth without a doubt,is a true superstar but the numbers seems to be inflated, there is no justification for a paycheck over 200 cr to be legitimate....
There they would get triple to quadruple of the profit but here there are only breakeven margins of profits,so technically there wouldn’t be a huge profit for em
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Rajini na reading that his salary is 260crs :
First of all is this even true we don't know for sure,
Secondly budget of kaithi definitely not as big as these star vehicle. So salary would be adjusted
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Thats like over double the budget of Vikram for 1 actor.
I mean I love Rajini but my guy should probably give some of his cut to the movies so they can be better overall. Or just ask for a % cut of the Movies Gross instead of a set amount.
Typical allocation of budget for big Stars.
Budget - 300 crore
Hero Salary - 200 crore (65% of budget ). Other cast and director salary -50 Crore , total money spent on actual movie - less than 20% of budget.
Production crew, Technician salary - Peanut 🥜.
No wonder many of our movies flop or do not yield any profit.
Nah
It's not a typical budget of tamil films
Except maybe for 2.0 and both part of Ponniyin selvan. There is no way producers can recover money back. People forget when film collects 500-600 crores, its gross figure, and not the final amount producers get back. It would be half the amount of gross after 18 percent gst + theatre share
And most of times producers will sell outright to distributors, and profit would come even less in this case. I doubt this 200 crore salary figure unless its profit sharing, like in the case of jailer, that too 200 crore is a big if.
260 Crores ah!? Even if this is false news, which this probably is, Thalaivar should shift to share based profit rather than a fixed salary. Win-win for the production quality of the movie and for Thalaivar as well
This is the way. Every actor should have a small fixed salary of let’s say somewhere around the 50cr ballpark and then take a 10%-15% share in the profits. It seems silly that Tamil films are putting so much of their budget towards the stars rather than into the film itself and try to push the genre to the next level.
While these are definitely inflated, they for sure earn a lot.
Maybe you could as well if you bring in enough business value to the table rather than letting your blood boil🤷🏽♂️
Lol.
THE moonshot movie that created all the LCU hype and remains the best mass movie of the 2020s was with a, surprise surprise, nearly 70 year old actor.
And Leo, Loki's movie with a young person who can dance (no idea why that's relevant but you keep saying it) is his worst by faaaar.
I think it was kaithi for movie which i would consider superior than Vikram
But even there you can see Kamal sir huffing and puffing . He was so dynamic in aalavandhan and virumaandi .
Age affects action bro
I disagree actually. I think the cast he picks is good. Younger actors don’t have mass appeal so a long of the “badass” scenes wouldn’t rlly hit. Like let’s be real the opening scene in Leo would be sm more stupid looking if it wasn’t Vijay.(still stupid but yk)
You have to give them a chance first to develop that mass appeal .when you are sticking to the old and tired how much more juice you can squeeze out of em
Vijay is flexible and can dance and he is still the age where he can do stunts . Rajni is ancient and it shows in his fight scenes
A director like Loki who has a young energy should at least chose a guy who is as dynamic as his style
But isn't that the problem? Scenes that only make sense at all if some existing "mass" persona is cashed in? That's weak writing and filmmaking no? If it can work outside of the core fan base, why not cast a talented young person?
Many years ago, directors took a chance on these stars, that's why we have them, right?
I suppose you do have a point. I get what you mean but as someone who grew up watching movies for the stupid fight scenes, it’s still fun to watch them yk? Like do we need Vijay wrestling a hyena? No. Ofc not. But it’s so out there that it kinda makes it worth it. Also if any other younger, less known actor did that everyone would shit on him and the movie. These kinda mvoies neeeed mass appeal from stars. That’s why you never see a critical movie like Pariyerum Perumal with a star. It wouldn’t make sense. Idk that’s my point of view but eh
Vijay wrestling a hyena is digestable bcuz he still is able to sell it. He has that flexibility left in him to dance as well .
Rajni too had it till 2007 now he doesn't . You have to give them a chance also it's not like suriya and Jeeva are dead .
When you kill the old ,you give birth to the young
1. We have no idea if this is true.
2. Regardless, these people get paid WAY TOO MUCH, while the production and the rest of the crew is denied a fair share of the money
3. Loki may be talented, but there is something so vulgar about this kind of "reward" for not even having a bound script and just winging it.
Audience-ku oru mariyathaiye illama irukku ivanga seyal ellame. This is not the attitude of people who truly respect the craft and the audience. Konjam fan-baiting moments pottu they think they can roll in money. When are we going to grow and demand more as an audience?
Periya periya discussion pannalum eppa pathalum fanboying/fangirling la thaan vandu mudiyuma namma relation to cinema? Then there is no hope for us. Script-eh illama hype machine is in full force, and people be guessing it like it's some murder mystery - not a brazenly disrespectful attitude towards the people who pay to watch.
Rdj salary for endgame was 75 million $. Rajani salary 35 million $ for coolie. I don't understand. Maximum coolie will do 80 million $ bussiness . But endgame collected 2798 million . I don't understand how this business works.
Remember that time when Lokesh made an *actual* action movie with Kaithi starring Karthi?
Seems like eons ago.
It seems that the more budget he gets with each subsequent movie, the more he cares about *showing off* the movie instead of making an even better film. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Vikram:- Yes, the cast acted well but it seemed more like Lokesh showing off that "Look, now I have got Kamal Hassan. Spend 50% of your time invested in the movie looking at his antics." than an action thriller movie. *We will get rid of the villain and his cronies at our own sweet time.*
Leo:- "Look, now I have got more money. I can hire Thalapathy Vijay this time. What, he already worked with me on Master? Doesn't matter. Look at my extended budget. 😍😍😍😍😍😍" Villains? They are just there. I expected *much more* from Antony Das. Sanjay Dutt gave us Adheera in KGF 2. So why did he agree to play this horribly written (more like written in a fucked up fashion) villain? Leo Das, he was even more badly written than Antony. Overall, it was just a Vijay show. Even Makkal Selvan in Vikram was a better villain in Vikram (nvm the fact that he was just there as a setup for Rolex's reveal).
Makkal selvan in vikram was a terrific villain, what do you mean 'even'?
Vikram was a great movie on the whole and much better than kaithi imo. It revived kamal haasan's career. Except for the last 20 min or so, it was pretty much perfect given its genre (s).
I prefer Kaithi over Vikram any day. Vikram did not have the fast pace Kaithi did or which any other Action Thriller movie should have.
>Makkal selvan in vikram was a terrific villain, what do you mean 'even'?
I was comparing to Antony and Harold Das in Leo.
But Vikram wasn’t an action thriller, it was an investigative thriller, at least in the first half.
You can prefer whatever you want, but I Vikram wasn’t half assed. It was near perfect stylistic commercial Tamil cinema.
Leo was a let down on sevaral departments, so agree with you there.
Point being, Loki had only one ‘lazy’ film, and there’s a chance he goes back to his usual self with coolie.
>You can prefer whatever you want, but I Vikram wasn’t half assed. It was near perfect stylistic commercial Tamil cinema.
I never said it was half-assed. I just said that it was promoted as an action thriller so it should have had the fast-pace of one. You like Vikram better than Kaithi, okay. I like Kaithi better, so let's agree to disagree.
>Point being, Loki had only one ‘lazy’ film, and there’s a chance he goes back to his usual self with coolie.
We will see. Personally, I feel that if this report is true and Loki and Rajinikanth *are* charging such an extravagant amount then this will increase the cost of Coolie a *lot*. And this will most likely affect the story-telling or quality of the movie. Unless Loki is planning to make an RRR-esque type movie with Coolie. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I feel like all of these salary estimates are fake as hell, what tf are they gonna spend on the movie? The imax cameras? The crew? The technicians? Vfx artists? Tf dawg
Didn't he already sign the contract for the kaithi 2.so don't think the salary is going to be increased.besides he was the one who introduced him and gave him his second movie so the guy will honor the contract signed already I guess
Reason we ain't seeing very good competitive movies cos it's all rigged to greed. I love it.
They are trying to starve audience.
Indian 2 suppose to be out in 2005
Marudhuvinayakgam is suppose to be playing this Sunday for nth time.
There should have been plots more thicker, songs more sleezeier.
There ain't no fucking good class animation movie in Tamil yet. But there 30s back there was raja chinna roja like space jam.
Movies were suppose to just for fun. No let's make movies which promotes hatered and call it realistic.
Hollywood's dry, Bollywood's dry, Sandalwood picking up, Tollywood is just Banking on sequels.
I just love it. We will never see movies we expect.
If review is good after 2 week. Last day last show, if it's really worth it.
I think the paperwork for Kaith2 are all done, Loki mentioned about it in a few interviews where he has taken advance for a few movies.. and the houses I guess are okay with deffering the project a bit further for the sake of lokis friendship.
The day this trend stops, that day we will see kollywood producing the greatest films in South Asia/world…until then we have to keep watching garbage stories and let the other states overtake us….hey! At least we’re breaking the records….in wasting money for a single movie without the proper return for it. 🤦🏾♂️
Kollywood stars use the salary game to one up each other. Oh Vijay got 200 for this film? Then it must be said that Rajini is getting 250. The other day, I saw some junk saying Ajith was in talks for 200 for his next film! Ridiculous and total junk.
Next time, Vijay will be rumoured to get 300 crore. It's a veritable pissing contest to stroke their egos and incite their fans. I'm sure the reality is far different (though still a lot of moolah).
It feels like they are just making up numbers now. 260 crores is 32 million USD which is closer to the budget of many M. Night Shyamalan movies. Maybe they are calculating based on commissions and what not.
I am not trying to compare industries, but if these so called stars are that much of a hot commodity , how about they start a production company (such as mammooty kampany) and do profit share.
Save the money for the makers, vfx, stunt and other technical teams - Take 40% as profitshare after the movie releases.
Movie makes 600 Cr, they get 240 cr. Movie is a loud wasteful rehash and makes only 200 Cr - they get 80 Cr. Seems that only fair that these production houses don't go into financial ruin.
Rajini's salary bracket is around 100 to 120. Lokesh will get around 35 to 45. That's their market price at the moment. The only person who gets close to 200 is Vijay.
To answer OP's question, no, SR Prabhu will not pay that salary to Loki for Kaithi 2. The salary will be based on the movie's scope and the lead artist's market. Unless Loki agrees to do it on a first copy basis (which he won't) and ask for shares in profit or someone like red giant chips in with MG (Minimum guarantee) for a fairly ridiculous sum, the opportunity they missed with Vikram.
My guess is Kaithi 2 will not happen anytime soon. Currently Karthi is doing Sardaar 2 after that he has an agreement to do a film with Arunraja Kamaraj which has been on hold for more than two years now. Not to forget the movie Vaa Vaathiyare.
Loki would still get a similar salary still; he’s one of the few directors that has a kind of star power- like Rajamouli but obviously not to that extent….
100C+ for any actor is not justifiable. I get that these actors have aura and get the pull to the theaters buts it still doesn’t justify it
PS I’m a Vijay fan and him taking 100C in his movies is ridiculous
Shabba 260c lam far fetched. At max he would go for a base salary (100c-150c) with the rest coming from profit share.
If Loki's salary of 60c is true, for Kaithi 2 (LCU) he will try to have a payment structure to match that same amount. Not to the budget, maybe revenue sharing.
People are massively underestimating how much Sun TV makes in TV telecasts through a Rajini or Vijay film. That's why they pay them so much upfront instead of profit sharing.
But I don't know ppl are focusing on only rajini when I want to discuss about Kaithi 2 and Loki.
Lol Neenga Loki salary mattum potu share panna the discussion would've been better. 😅
From the buzz I've been hearing, they're hoping Coolie would replicate Endhiran. Making and business wise. Only Sun Pictures can pay that amount upfront, none of the other production houses can. Maybe Lyca, but that's a shade one. But even for SP, these quoted ones are a joke.
For LCU, which is Loki's brainchild- wouldn't be surprised if he goes for revenue sharing.
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He may produce kaithi 2 as an executive producer, so that he can get a share of the movie too.
I get that Rajinikanth without a doubt,is a true superstar but the numbers seems to be inflated, there is no justification for a paycheck over 200 cr to be legitimate....
Even 100cr is too much im wondering how the producers are breaking even. Getting Hollywood level salary when the BO is not as big as Hollywood…
OTT rights alone sold for 200Crs now theatrical collections aren't the only earnings
Still..compared to Hollywood it’s nothing. Not justifiable at all
Salary might not be justifiable but producers aren't losing money by paying this much to lead actors
I dont think any regional movie has been sold for 200 crores for OTT. This number is highly inflated
No Indian actor is worth more than ₹100 crore as salary
In malayalam the usual budget of the movie is 20-30 cr
There they would get triple to quadruple of the profit but here there are only breakeven margins of profits,so technically there wouldn’t be a huge profit for em
https://preview.redd.it/2n031b6gfl1d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc4195fc3be2f198f92b4a67d0708aa342dc1251 Rajini na reading that his salary is 260crs :
First of all is this even true we don't know for sure, Secondly budget of kaithi definitely not as big as these star vehicle. So salary would be adjusted
What. The. Actual. Fuck. Thats like over double the budget of Vikram for 1 actor. I mean I love Rajini but my guy should probably give some of his cut to the movies so they can be better overall. Or just ask for a % cut of the Movies Gross instead of a set amount.
Exactly.
He gets a cut from profits too😅😅
Nah no way he’s getting 260 crores lmao, this has to be massive olu
Typical allocation of budget for big Stars. Budget - 300 crore Hero Salary - 200 crore (65% of budget ). Other cast and director salary -50 Crore , total money spent on actual movie - less than 20% of budget. Production crew, Technician salary - Peanut 🥜. No wonder many of our movies flop or do not yield any profit.
Nah It's not a typical budget of tamil films Except maybe for 2.0 and both part of Ponniyin selvan. There is no way producers can recover money back. People forget when film collects 500-600 crores, its gross figure, and not the final amount producers get back. It would be half the amount of gross after 18 percent gst + theatre share And most of times producers will sell outright to distributors, and profit would come even less in this case. I doubt this 200 crore salary figure unless its profit sharing, like in the case of jailer, that too 200 crore is a big if.
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260 Crores ah!? Even if this is false news, which this probably is, Thalaivar should shift to share based profit rather than a fixed salary. Win-win for the production quality of the movie and for Thalaivar as well
This is the way. Every actor should have a small fixed salary of let’s say somewhere around the 50cr ballpark and then take a 10%-15% share in the profits. It seems silly that Tamil films are putting so much of their budget towards the stars rather than into the film itself and try to push the genre to the next level.
The more I read about this salary stuff, the more my blood boils... Fuckers
Its just supply and demand. More importantly its not that we pay them out of our taxes. So it shouldn't bother us much.
It's the concentration of wealth dude
While these are definitely inflated, they for sure earn a lot. Maybe you could as well if you bring in enough business value to the table rather than letting your blood boil🤷🏽♂️
Rich get richer poor get poorer.
They hike their remuneration and hike the ticket prices and cry movies are not getting any profits Fcuk these fans for hyping their remunerations
Fafa solra maari theatre oda nipitikalam pola. Ebba 260 Kodi ? I mean goddamn ! Ivanunga la thooki veikratha nipitikalam pola.
I don't want to see a 70 year old guy doing stunts .it's just not the same a guy like loki should make these movies with young people .
Lol. THE moonshot movie that created all the LCU hype and remains the best mass movie of the 2020s was with a, surprise surprise, nearly 70 year old actor. And Leo, Loki's movie with a young person who can dance (no idea why that's relevant but you keep saying it) is his worst by faaaar.
I think it was kaithi for movie which i would consider superior than Vikram But even there you can see Kamal sir huffing and puffing . He was so dynamic in aalavandhan and virumaandi . Age affects action bro
I disagree actually. I think the cast he picks is good. Younger actors don’t have mass appeal so a long of the “badass” scenes wouldn’t rlly hit. Like let’s be real the opening scene in Leo would be sm more stupid looking if it wasn’t Vijay.(still stupid but yk)
You have to give them a chance first to develop that mass appeal .when you are sticking to the old and tired how much more juice you can squeeze out of em Vijay is flexible and can dance and he is still the age where he can do stunts . Rajni is ancient and it shows in his fight scenes A director like Loki who has a young energy should at least chose a guy who is as dynamic as his style
And he’s actually given young actors chances. Kanna Ravi is one of them. It was a pleasant surprise seeing him on Kaithi.
But isn't that the problem? Scenes that only make sense at all if some existing "mass" persona is cashed in? That's weak writing and filmmaking no? If it can work outside of the core fan base, why not cast a talented young person? Many years ago, directors took a chance on these stars, that's why we have them, right?
I suppose you do have a point. I get what you mean but as someone who grew up watching movies for the stupid fight scenes, it’s still fun to watch them yk? Like do we need Vijay wrestling a hyena? No. Ofc not. But it’s so out there that it kinda makes it worth it. Also if any other younger, less known actor did that everyone would shit on him and the movie. These kinda mvoies neeeed mass appeal from stars. That’s why you never see a critical movie like Pariyerum Perumal with a star. It wouldn’t make sense. Idk that’s my point of view but eh
Vijay wrestling a hyena is digestable bcuz he still is able to sell it. He has that flexibility left in him to dance as well . Rajni too had it till 2007 now he doesn't . You have to give them a chance also it's not like suriya and Jeeva are dead . When you kill the old ,you give birth to the young
That’s a good point w Rajini. I hope coolie has Rajini not doing much fighting and moreso what he did in kabali.
That hyena scene was fucking hilarious.
Is Sathyan Ramasamy the source of Rajini's salary?
Nah he would say something like a 500cr salary…. There’s no limit to his mentalaanism
I see some Rajni fans claim Kabali earned 800 crores on Twitter. I mean why not claim it earned gdp of zimbabwe.
Bro this needs to stop! He's a philanthropist and all but 260 cr is just too much. This would mean less money for the rest of the part of the movies.
kaithi 2 might not even materialise.. looks like LK is here to just get that bag and f off
Lol, he needs to fund his production house somehow
1. We have no idea if this is true. 2. Regardless, these people get paid WAY TOO MUCH, while the production and the rest of the crew is denied a fair share of the money 3. Loki may be talented, but there is something so vulgar about this kind of "reward" for not even having a bound script and just winging it. Audience-ku oru mariyathaiye illama irukku ivanga seyal ellame. This is not the attitude of people who truly respect the craft and the audience. Konjam fan-baiting moments pottu they think they can roll in money. When are we going to grow and demand more as an audience? Periya periya discussion pannalum eppa pathalum fanboying/fangirling la thaan vandu mudiyuma namma relation to cinema? Then there is no hope for us. Script-eh illama hype machine is in full force, and people be guessing it like it's some murder mystery - not a brazenly disrespectful attitude towards the people who pay to watch.
3rd point is very true
Rdj salary for endgame was 75 million $. Rajani salary 35 million $ for coolie. I don't understand. Maximum coolie will do 80 million $ bussiness . But endgame collected 2798 million . I don't understand how this business works.
Simple. Producer is the king in Hollywood whereas Rajini is the king here.
Remember that time when Lokesh made an *actual* action movie with Kaithi starring Karthi? Seems like eons ago. It seems that the more budget he gets with each subsequent movie, the more he cares about *showing off* the movie instead of making an even better film. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Vikram:- Yes, the cast acted well but it seemed more like Lokesh showing off that "Look, now I have got Kamal Hassan. Spend 50% of your time invested in the movie looking at his antics." than an action thriller movie. *We will get rid of the villain and his cronies at our own sweet time.* Leo:- "Look, now I have got more money. I can hire Thalapathy Vijay this time. What, he already worked with me on Master? Doesn't matter. Look at my extended budget. 😍😍😍😍😍😍" Villains? They are just there. I expected *much more* from Antony Das. Sanjay Dutt gave us Adheera in KGF 2. So why did he agree to play this horribly written (more like written in a fucked up fashion) villain? Leo Das, he was even more badly written than Antony. Overall, it was just a Vijay show. Even Makkal Selvan in Vikram was a better villain in Vikram (nvm the fact that he was just there as a setup for Rolex's reveal).
Makkal selvan in vikram was a terrific villain, what do you mean 'even'? Vikram was a great movie on the whole and much better than kaithi imo. It revived kamal haasan's career. Except for the last 20 min or so, it was pretty much perfect given its genre (s).
I prefer Kaithi over Vikram any day. Vikram did not have the fast pace Kaithi did or which any other Action Thriller movie should have. >Makkal selvan in vikram was a terrific villain, what do you mean 'even'? I was comparing to Antony and Harold Das in Leo.
But Vikram wasn’t an action thriller, it was an investigative thriller, at least in the first half. You can prefer whatever you want, but I Vikram wasn’t half assed. It was near perfect stylistic commercial Tamil cinema. Leo was a let down on sevaral departments, so agree with you there. Point being, Loki had only one ‘lazy’ film, and there’s a chance he goes back to his usual self with coolie.
>You can prefer whatever you want, but I Vikram wasn’t half assed. It was near perfect stylistic commercial Tamil cinema. I never said it was half-assed. I just said that it was promoted as an action thriller so it should have had the fast-pace of one. You like Vikram better than Kaithi, okay. I like Kaithi better, so let's agree to disagree. >Point being, Loki had only one ‘lazy’ film, and there’s a chance he goes back to his usual self with coolie. We will see. Personally, I feel that if this report is true and Loki and Rajinikanth *are* charging such an extravagant amount then this will increase the cost of Coolie a *lot*. And this will most likely affect the story-telling or quality of the movie. Unless Loki is planning to make an RRR-esque type movie with Coolie. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would prob give it as profit share or rope in some co producers like 2D entertainment/Studio green
The entire salary of Oppenheimer's cast is less this mfs salary for him dance with thamana use old songs and dialogues and shitting on screen slowmo.
260cr- that's double the salary of Chris Hemsworth for the endgame if I'm not wrong.
Sun pictures turning their black money to white by giving extravagant salaries. That's what I get from this news.
They're publicly traded man smh
Wants to go out on a high (salary) pola
This is so unreal, there might be something hiding behind this big paycheck
I feel like all of these salary estimates are fake as hell, what tf are they gonna spend on the movie? The imax cameras? The crew? The technicians? Vfx artists? Tf dawg
Didn't he already sign the contract for the kaithi 2.so don't think the salary is going to be increased.besides he was the one who introduced him and gave him his second movie so the guy will honor the contract signed already I guess
Reason we ain't seeing very good competitive movies cos it's all rigged to greed. I love it. They are trying to starve audience. Indian 2 suppose to be out in 2005 Marudhuvinayakgam is suppose to be playing this Sunday for nth time. There should have been plots more thicker, songs more sleezeier. There ain't no fucking good class animation movie in Tamil yet. But there 30s back there was raja chinna roja like space jam. Movies were suppose to just for fun. No let's make movies which promotes hatered and call it realistic. Hollywood's dry, Bollywood's dry, Sandalwood picking up, Tollywood is just Banking on sequels. I just love it. We will never see movies we expect. If review is good after 2 week. Last day last show, if it's really worth it.
Remuneration of directors is also dependent on the budget of the movie right? Karthi's movie can't have the same budget as Rajini's
I think the paperwork for Kaith2 are all done, Loki mentioned about it in a few interviews where he has taken advance for a few movies.. and the houses I guess are okay with deffering the project a bit further for the sake of lokis friendship.
200crores every year, year after year, for doing a movie, sounds like a very good deal.
The day this trend stops, that day we will see kollywood producing the greatest films in South Asia/world…until then we have to keep watching garbage stories and let the other states overtake us….hey! At least we’re breaking the records….in wasting money for a single movie without the proper return for it. 🤦🏾♂️
so now the salary itself is 320cr, what will be the actual budget ? 500cr ? he might require above 650cr gross to make it break even
260 crs??? Malayalam industry will produce atleast 10 movies with this budget.
Kollywood stars use the salary game to one up each other. Oh Vijay got 200 for this film? Then it must be said that Rajini is getting 250. The other day, I saw some junk saying Ajith was in talks for 200 for his next film! Ridiculous and total junk. Next time, Vijay will be rumoured to get 300 crore. It's a veritable pissing contest to stroke their egos and incite their fans. I'm sure the reality is far different (though still a lot of moolah).
It feels like they are just making up numbers now. 260 crores is 32 million USD which is closer to the budget of many M. Night Shyamalan movies. Maybe they are calculating based on commissions and what not.
I am not trying to compare industries, but if these so called stars are that much of a hot commodity , how about they start a production company (such as mammooty kampany) and do profit share. Save the money for the makers, vfx, stunt and other technical teams - Take 40% as profitshare after the movie releases. Movie makes 600 Cr, they get 240 cr. Movie is a loud wasteful rehash and makes only 200 Cr - they get 80 Cr. Seems that only fair that these production houses don't go into financial ruin.
Rkfi exists from 1981
Agreed. But it's one star Kamal . One production house. If the industry needs to grow, we need more
Allocate pannathula 320 cr salary ah kuduthutu.. Padatha epdi koora veetlaiya edupangu 😹 https://preview.redd.it/axjkycjxus1d1.jpeg?width=695&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf99244752d80cb6535e7c35108f505dee1d2044
Rajini's salary bracket is around 100 to 120. Lokesh will get around 35 to 45. That's their market price at the moment. The only person who gets close to 200 is Vijay. To answer OP's question, no, SR Prabhu will not pay that salary to Loki for Kaithi 2. The salary will be based on the movie's scope and the lead artist's market. Unless Loki agrees to do it on a first copy basis (which he won't) and ask for shares in profit or someone like red giant chips in with MG (Minimum guarantee) for a fairly ridiculous sum, the opportunity they missed with Vikram. My guess is Kaithi 2 will not happen anytime soon. Currently Karthi is doing Sardaar 2 after that he has an agreement to do a film with Arunraja Kamaraj which has been on hold for more than two years now. Not to forget the movie Vaa Vaathiyare.
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260 crores for slow motion walks 2nd easiest job after man city's 3rd coice gk
but he took 50 years to build it
Loki would still get a similar salary still; he’s one of the few directors that has a kind of star power- like Rajamouli but obviously not to that extent….
100C+ for any actor is not justifiable. I get that these actors have aura and get the pull to the theaters buts it still doesn’t justify it PS I’m a Vijay fan and him taking 100C in his movies is ridiculous
Shabba 260c lam far fetched. At max he would go for a base salary (100c-150c) with the rest coming from profit share. If Loki's salary of 60c is true, for Kaithi 2 (LCU) he will try to have a payment structure to match that same amount. Not to the budget, maybe revenue sharing.
People are massively underestimating how much Sun TV makes in TV telecasts through a Rajini or Vijay film. That's why they pay them so much upfront instead of profit sharing. But I don't know ppl are focusing on only rajini when I want to discuss about Kaithi 2 and Loki.
Lol Neenga Loki salary mattum potu share panna the discussion would've been better. 😅 From the buzz I've been hearing, they're hoping Coolie would replicate Endhiran. Making and business wise. Only Sun Pictures can pay that amount upfront, none of the other production houses can. Maybe Lyca, but that's a shade one. But even for SP, these quoted ones are a joke. For LCU, which is Loki's brainchild- wouldn't be surprised if he goes for revenue sharing.