Friendship day celebrations took place in Madras Cafe, Sunnyvale, California on August 2nd and 3rd. Gowri Shankar as a part of the Rajini fans community and Mahesh Srinivasan, who is marketing the film in the bay area organized the event. Free friendship bands were distributed to people as a gesture of acknowledging the friendship day and also "Kuselan". Rajini's movies always contain a message to the society and likely, Kuselan speaks about the greatness of frienship. The movie was released on 31st July and since the friendship day happened to be that weekend, Rajini fans celebrated the irony by organizing the event along with the sponsors Madras Cafe. The movie has attracted more family audience and is enjoying a good run throughout US.
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Malaysia & Singapore raves over Kuselan
Though Super Star Rajini's Kuselan is getting mixed reports in the actor's homeland, it has got rave response in other states like Kerala and countries like Malaysia – Singapore.
According to the reports, Malaysian audiences see superstar Rajnikanth's latest film Kuselan since it is a blend of a good story and fine acting.
K.N. Vijayan, a noted film critic of the South-East Asian nation told in his report in New Strait Times, "Such is the power of a good story that it can be appreciated all over India in diverse languages. "
Urging Malaysians to 'watch this one with the family', Vijayan said: "The last few minutes of the film draw a tear or two. That's when Rajnikanth proves how good an actor he is. Also, whoever wrote the speech that Rajnikanth makes in the film, needs a special award."
Update from Singapore Member on 25 August 2008.
This week they removed Kuselan from 9.15 PM Show in Yishun 9 and added an extra show for Sathyam on Friday and Saturday. From Sunday they re inserted Kuselan back removing Sathyam. What does this indicate?, Kuselan a flop movie (As per media and some theatre distributors in TN) is replacing a latest movie.This shows Kuselan is doing far better than the new release. One may argue that both are not doing that well, in that case the theatre owner could have just left it with Sathyam or replaced with any other of his old movies?
Kuselan Celebration photos at Toronto, Canada
Just wanted to share the Toronto, Canada Rajini fans celebration with behindwoods team. We made it to the first show on Thursday night and also the Friday night show during which we had the party with kuselan cakes, flags and car full of posters in Albion Cinemas. All hardcore Rajini fans rocked the houseful shows.