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Not only for R Madhavan’s Rocketry, Shah Rukh Khan and Suriya have a historical past of not billing associates for cameos

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R Madhavan is beginning a brand new chapter in his profession by making his directorial debut with Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. Besides directing, writing, and producing, he has additionally performs the lead function of the movie. And he appeared to have had all the assistance from the Indian movie business to drag off his bold biopic movie on Nambi Narayanan, a former scientist and aerospace engineer of the Indian Space Research Organisation.

Madhavan not too long ago revealed how Shah Rukh Khan and Suriya performed key cameo roles with out billing him for the hours spent on the units of Rocketry. “Be it Suriya or (Shah Rukh) Khan sahab, none of them charged any fee for the film. They didn’t even charge anything for the caravans, costumes and assistants. Suriya flew out to shoot in Mumbai along with his crew on his own money. He didn’t even charge for the flights or for the dialogue writer who translated his lines in Tamil,” Madhavan had mentioned earlier.

It’s value noting that Shah Rukh and Suriya have a historical past of showing within the film of associates and not using a price. Tamil famous person Kamal Haasan revealed that Shah Rukh Khan performed an prolonged function within the interval film Hey Ram. SRK essayed an important character named Amjad Ali Khan that modifications the course of the hero’s journey within the film by reworking the latter’s hate into love. “SRK did that film just for a wristwatch,” Kamal had mentioned earlier.

SRK has made no secret about his admiration for Kamal. During an award present in Chennai, SRK had recalled, “I met Kamal sir at a friend’s wedding. I went back home and told my family and friends, ‘you know what I touched him (Kamal) and now I can pass away and die’.”

Recently, Suriya additionally joined the elite membership of SRK, by performing a cameo in Vikram purely out of his love for Kamal. Suriya made a last-minute look within the blockbuster film as Rolex and kind of turned a sensation. In return, Kamal gifted Suriya a Rolex wristwatch to Suriya for a sensational cameo in Vikram.

Meanwhile, Rocketry will concurrently launch in a number of languages on July 1.