Arnold with Shankar and Rajinikanth during the music launch of Vikram starrer ‘I’. (File Photo)
Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger will make his Indian film debut with the sequel of Shankar’s Rajinikanth starrer Enthiran (Robot in Hindi, Robo in Telugu). He will be flying down for the film’s first schedule in January to play a rogue robot, said a Mumbai Mirror report.
Enthiran, was touted as India’s most expensive film, until SS Rajamouli’s two-part fantasy drama, Baahubali, broke the record. The director is now set to raise the stakes with Enthiran 2 with Rajini reprising his role in the sci-fi drama.
Arnold has attended the audio launch of Shankar’s Vikram starrer ‘I’.
According to the report, the Hollywood actor and former California governor will be in India for 25 days and his final dates are being locked around Rajini’s schedule.
The makers had been chasing actors like Aamir Khan and Deepika Padukone for other central roles in the film, since two months. I’s leading lady Amy Jackson is one of the three heroines.
Enthiran was the story of a scientist and his robot Chitti who turns against him. Shankar reveals that the sequel is very different, “Enthiran 2 is a superhero film, a sci-fi adventure, a triangular love story with bits inspired from the Ramayana.”