The music of Tamil superstar Rajnikanth’s next, Kuselan was released at a grand function at Le Meridian in Chennai on Monday evening.

Producer K Balachandran was all praises for the superstar and also gave an unusual speech on their relationship and even compared it with Ramakrishna Paramahamsa-Vivekananda bonding.

Also, in an amazing gesture, the hero, producer and director pooled part of their fees and donated a windfall of Rs.4.5 million to the 100-odd technicians of Kuselan.

“In my endeavor to help the unsung heroes of the film industry - the technicians, I have networked with producer Vijay Kumar and director P. Vasu to donate Rs.1.5 million from their overflow and fees, respectively, and added a similar amount from my emoluments,” superstar Rajnikanth announced Monday night.

According to the movie’s publicists, Kuselan is an effort on Rajnikanth’s part to help his mentor and director K. Balachander.

“When producers said I had to do it sans a big advance on a shoestring budget, I agreed because I liked its story,” Rajnikanth said.

P Vasu in his speech said, “the film is about friends and bonding. Srinivasan, who wrote the original story in Malayalam, must have kept Rajinikanth in his mind when he wrote the story of the film.”

In his speech Rajinikanth thanked everybody those who worked for the film. He said everybody who saw the rushes of the film was in awe of it. “The subject is good and everybody is talking positively about it making me tense. Think always positively,” said the Superstar in his humorous way.

The Tamil and Telugu versions of the film are expected to release later this month with over 450 prints in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, said a spokesman of its distributors Pyramid Saimira.