Ai likely to get pushed

Shankar had successfully wrapped up the shooting of Ai last week. The team is busy doing the post production work and giving the finishing touches. Ai's post production team members believe that there is at least 60 more days of effort remaining to get the movie done and to meet Shankar's expectations of perfection. In all likelihood, Ai is expected to miss the Diwali date. 

The unit members are surprised about the announcements and media coverage claiming that Ai will release for Diwali. Aascar has capitalized on the hype following the Ai trailer by announcing the release date as Diwali. This has helped Aascar briskly do some business in Telugu, Malayalam and certain key regions in Tamil Nadu. The additional cash from selling the rights has definitely come in handy to finishing the pending "Ladio" song, paying remunerations, and finishing the post production work. 

The next big date that is available is Pongal 2015 since Rajnikanth's Lingaa has blocked 12/12. For now, Vijay and AR Murugadoss' Kaththi is still on track for Diwali along with Vishal's Poojai.