Kochadaiiyaan 1 Kochadaiiyaan Kochadaiiyaan Promotional poster of Kochadaiiyaan Directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin Produced by Sunil Lulla Written by K. S. Ravikumar Starring € Rajinikanth € R. Sarathkumar € Aadhi € Deepika Padukone € Shobana € Rukmini Vijayakumar € Jackie Shroff€ Nassar Music by A. R. Rahman Cinematography Rajiv Menon Editing by Anthony Studio € Eros International € Media One Global Entertainment Distributed by Sun Pictures Release dates € 10 April 2014 Running time 126 minutes Country India Language Tamil Budget 125 crore (US$19 million) Kochadaiiyaan (Translation: The king with a long, curly mane) is an upcoming Tamil period film directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin and written by K. S. Ravikumar. The film will feature Rajinikanth in three roles alongside R. Sarathkumar, Aadhi, Deepika Padukone, Shobana, Rukmini Vijayakumar, Jackie Shroff and Nassar. The film, which is expected to be shot with motion capture in 3D, will have cinematography handled by Rajiv Menon whilst background score and soundtrack will be composed by A. R. Rahman. The film will be simultaneously released in Telugu (as Vikrama Simha).and dubbed in Malayalam and English. and will also be released in Hindi and Japanese. As of 2012, Italian and Spanish versions of the film have also been announced. Shooting for the film was finished by the end of February 2013, and post-production works are currently going on at London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and mostly China. Originally spelled as Kochadaiyaan, the film was renamed (with an extra "i") for numerological reasons. [1] The film is expected to be released on 10 April 2014.