Twitter abuzz with Rajinikanth's `Kochadaiiyaan`

Zee Media Bureau/ Aparna Mudi New Delhi: The southern superstar Rajnikanth’s much awaited ‘Kochadaiiyaan` released nationwide on Friday. It is obvious that there was a lot of anticipation. Social media networks went abuzz with talks about the movie. Sources revealed that the tweets referring to 'Kochadaiyaan' had 40% of them talking about the film and the star in it. It was not only in the southern states that were discussing the movie but the trend was seen even in the northern parts of India, US, UK and UAE. Many stars posted wishes for the director, Soundarya R. Ashwin, for the release of India`s first motion capture 3D computer animated period film.

My best wishes to my daughter @soundaryaarajni and the entire #Kochadaiiyaan team. I am sure you all will enjoy the movie in the theatres.

— Rajinikanth (@superstarrajini) May 23, 2014

Rajinikanth also wished the crew and cast on the day of the release:

My best wishes to the cast and technical crew, producers, distributors and exhibitors of #Kochadaiiyaan— Rajinikanth (@superstarrajini) May 23, 2014

Sarathkumar Ramanathan is an Indian film actor, journalist, politician, the current president of the South Indian Film Artistes' Association and former body builder. Sarathkumar has acted in more than 130 Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. He Said:

Wishing the entire team of Kochadaiyan, may this new effort reach the masses to open a new movie making avenue, all the best to Super Star— Sarath Kumar (@realsarathkumar) May 23, 2014

Good luck @soundaryaarajni .... More power to you!!!— Mahesh Bhupathi (@Maheshbhupathi) May 23, 2014

@soundaryaarajni 2 a brave girl that stepped out 2 do something completely different n amazing. Best wishes for #Kochadaiiyaan and God Bless— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) May 22, 2014