Rajinikanth's 'Kaala' was first Indian film to release in Saudi Arabia? Know more trivia

Kaala is Rajinikanth's Tamil action and drama flick directed by Pa. Ranjith and produced by Dhanush, under his production house Wunderbar Films.  film was dubbed into Telugu and Malayalam langus and released under same title. However, it was released in Hindi as Kaala Karikalan. 

Kaala is about life of Nellai / Tirunelveli based Tamils who live in large numbers in Mumbai. Apart from Rajnikanth, Kaala also features Nana Patekar, Eswari Rao, Huma Qureshi, and Samuthirakani in pivotal roles. Take a look at interesting trivia and lesser-kwn facts about action-drama flick, Kaala. 

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Trivia about Kaala

• Nana Patekar did his own dubbing in hindi and tamil.
• action drama film is fourth collaboration of director Pa Ranjith and Santhosh Narayanan after Attakathi, Madras and Kabali. 
• According to director of film, movie name, Kaala, is referred to Lord Yama, God of death. 
•  film marks first movie of Nana Patekar and Rajinikanth in Tamil.  
• According to IMDB reports, Kaala is Rajinikanth's second Tamil film ever to receive a U/A certificate from Indian censor board, first being Thalapathi (1991). 
• After Kabali released in 2016, this was second collaboration of director Pa. Ranjit with superstar Rajnikanth. 
• Anil Thadani's AA films secured Kaala rights for rth India.

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• On social media popularity, Kaala has a custom emoji created on Twitter that appears in Tamil, Telugu or Hindi as per hashtag. 
• Post its huge release, it became  first-ever Tamil film to open in 300+ locations in USA. 
• Rajinikanth starrer Kaala has opened in nearly 322 locations approximately in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi.
• Kaala is first Indian film ever that was released in Saudi Arabia, following country lifting its ban on public atres in December 2017.
• film was shot in Sion area of Mumbai at midnight to avoid crowd garing at film shoots. But people still stayed awake till midnight and watched Rajnikanth shooting from ir windows. 
• jeep that was used in first look poster of this movie became a sensation when Anand Mahindra, chairman and managing director of Mahindra Group, was interested in it. He tweeted that he would love to acquire that jeep for his company's auto museum. 

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