When Sri Devi spat on Rajinikanth for Real !

5/10/2013

As SS Music earlier reported Bharathiraja's epic movie 16 Vayathinale is about to digitally re-released. The trailer launch of the classic was held where Superstar, Ulaganayagan and the ace Director Bharathiraja were all present. Superstar was quite nostalgic when he spoke at the event 

"During the shoot, no one would talk to me, as I was a relative newcomer. It was Kamal, to whom the production people went, to have a chat,When Rajkannu (Producer) met me about re-releasing 16 Vayathinile a few months back, he told me that we should give away the collections to Kamal, who was at that time having difficulties in releasing Vishwaroopam. It is difficult to find such persons in our film industry."

Ulaganayagan spoke on how the film had to overcome several odds in order to get released.

"The majority of comments that we got when making the film was that it would flop. In fact, when I was driving from the studio, a person riding a bike came up to me and said that the film will tank, When we shot the scene of Mayilu running in slow motion, we did not have the budget to afford a camera that could shoot slow motion scenes. So, Sridevi literally ran in slow motion."

The legendary Director Bharathiraja revealed that Rajini told Sridevi to spit on him for real in the scene in which Mayilu spits on the face of Parattai. "It was taking several takes to shoot the scene and finally, Rajini went to Sridevi and told her to go ahead and spit for real. Such was his dedication," he remarked.