Rajinikanth at ‘Coolie’ audio launch

Superstar Rajinikanth’s speeches have a fan base on their own, and those who were awaiting to listen to the superstar at the audio and trailer launch of his upcoming film Coolie were in for a treat.

The veteran cracked jokes, carried his heart on his sleeve and spoke about how the project came to be at the grand event that took place at the Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai.

In a hilarious bit, the actor recalled the time he called Lokesh Kanagaraj, shortly after the director’s acclaimed sophomore Kaithi, and enquired if he had any stories for him.

“I wanted to meet him before other actors begin to line up. He said ‘yes’ and added that he was a Kamal Haasan fan. ‘Did I ask you? Did I ask you whose fan you are?” quipped Rajini, before joking that this was Lokesh’s way of informing that he does “intelligent cinema, which doesn’t have an punch dialogues.”

Rajinikanth left the crowd in splits when he teased Lokesh for giving hour-long interviews during the film’s promotions. “Nagarjuna and Aamir Khan gave some nice interviews, but I saw a two-hour interview of Lokesh. It kept going on and on. I sat and watched it, but it kept going. I paced around for a bit, and it was still going on. I napped for a bit, and guess what? It was still going on,” said the superstar. He then praised Lokesh as ‘the true hero of Coolie.’

Coolie, set to release on August 14, features Rajinikanth as Deva, who, from the trailer, seems to be a coolie labourer.