{"id":218163,"date":"2026-01-03T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218163\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:57:07","slug":"don-director-cibi-chakravarthi-to-helm-rajinikanths-thalaivar-173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218163\/","title":{"rendered":"Don director Cibi Chakravarthi to helm Rajinikanth&#8217;s Thalaivar 173"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anirudh is continuing his successful collaboration with Rajinikanth after previously scoring music for Petta\u00a0(2019),\u00a0Darbar\u00a0(2020),\u00a0Jailer\u00a0(2023), Vettaiyan\u00a0(2024) and Coolie (2025). Besides Thalaivar 173, he also is also the composer for Nelson Dilipkumar&#8217;s <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemaexpress.com\/tamil\/news\/2025\/Dec\/25\/did-mithun-chakraborty-confirm-shah-rukh-khans-cameo-in-rajinikanths-jailer-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jailer 2<\/a> which is slated for release on June 12 this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the makers, filming for Thalaivar 173 is set to begin in the next few days, with further details regarding the cast, technical crew, and production schedule to be announced soon. It is also unclear if Kamal and Rajinikanth will share screen space in the upcoming film. They last appeared together in\u00a0Thillu Mullu\u00a0(1981) in Tamil and\u00a0Geraftaar\u00a0(1985) in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming film will be backed by Kamal Haasan along with R Mahendran under their RKFI banner. It is worth noting that the Pongal 2027 release aligns with the makers&#8217; original plan, dating back to when Sundar C was still associated with the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anirudh is continuing his successful collaboration with Rajinikanth after previously scoring music for Petta\u00a0(2019),\u00a0Darbar\u00a0(2020),\u00a0Jailer\u00a0(2023), Vettaiyan\u00a0(2024) and Coolie (2025).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[120675,146,85,46,5523,397,5524,75772],"class_list":{"0":"post-218163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-cibi-chakravarthi","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-kamal-haasan","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-rajinikanth","15":"tag-thalaivar-173"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}