Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Visit to India

Arnold Schwarzenegger the Austrian born, American professional body builder, actor as well as the former Governor of California visited India for the launch of Tamil film I’s music on September 15th i.e. Monday. He landed on Chennai Airport with a tight security arrangement around.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in India

 About Arnold Schwarzenegger’s visit to India, Arnold said “Its fun coming to India” in an Interview he gave. “I have come to India before and its fun being here” said the 67 year old Hollywood actor.

‘I’ is an upcoming Tamil thriller romantic Indian action movie directed and written by director Shanmugam Shankar. Shankar is known to have directed high budget films in Tamil. His debut movie was Gentlemen (1993). The movie ‘I’ has Vikram (as Lingeswaran) and Amy Jackson (as Diya) in lead roles, with Upen Patel and Suresh Gopi in supporting roles. Vikram has spent about 2 years working for making of the movie. Music of the movie is composed by A. R. Rahman. The filming of the movie lasted for duration of about 2 years and 8 months whereas the shoots were majorly done in China.

In the movie, Vikram has played the character role of Lingeswaran, who considers Arnold Schwarzenegger as a role model with his sole aim and purpose in life to win the title of Mr. Tamil Nadu. Director Shanmugam Shankar has creatively crafted the hair style of Vikram to match with the look of younger Arnold Schwarzenegger by taking the front curl look.

Whereas, Amy Jackson has played the character role of a model. ‘We wanted someone with the look of an actual model’, says Shankar as a reason for casting Amy for the role.

The movie has a huge budget of about Rs. 1.85 billion, which makes it the costliest Indian movie till date. The movie is all set to release during this Diwali in 2014.

Arnold also met Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha on Monday afternoon before heading for the audio launch of I.

 Arnold Schwarzenegger with Jayalalita

After the meet, Arnold posed for photographs however did not comment on his meeting with Jayalalitha and instead headed right away for the music launch. A couple of hours after the meeting, he posted his photos with her on Instagram account saying it was indeed fantastic to meet her and have a conversation about state’s success and upcoming challenges and that is the advantage of being not only an actor but also a Governor. Arnold was the 38th Governor of California and served two terms from year 2003 until year 2011.

Arnold had also scheduled a meet with the Tamil top star Rajnikanth at the music audio launch. The audio launch was made on Monday evening at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium.

Arnold Schwarzenegger at Music Launch

A.R. Rahman performed live songs during the launch of the album and was supported by dancers with actual movie costumes. The entire show was planned for about two and a half hours.

Arnold was also accompanied by the British comedian and actor Stephen Fry, while in Chennai.

While talking about Shankar, the director of movie I, Arnold said Shankar comes up with superb special effects in his movies and that he would love to work with him someday soon, in an interview Arnold gave.

Arnold posted on instagram before he headed for attending the audio launch “How do you overcome the jet lag? Getting all pumped up before I go to the red carpet of I’s music audio launch in Chennai, India.”

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