Everyone was eagerly awaiting the arrival of ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’ since its news started surfacing, especially after learning about legendary action star Jet Li’s participation in it. Recently, film distributors of ‘The Mummy 3’ decided to defer its release in Tamil Nadu as its worldwide release coincided with the release of ‘Kuselan’ – August 1, 2008. Now, ‘The Mummy 3’ will release on August 8, 2008 in Tamil Nadu alone while it releases on its official worldwide release date elsewhere in India.

Rajni is an unstoppable phenomenon to which anyone gets attracted, even if he or she does not want to. Rajni’s films are massive crowd-pullers. When a Rajni movie releases in India, it draws all filmgoers, leaving other theatres empty. The effect is drastic on other films releasing at the same time. This is the reason filmmakers and distributors avoid releasing their films around the release date of a Rajni movie.

Earlier, Shahrukh Khan called up Rajinikanth and requested him to postpone the release of ‘Kuselan’s dubbed version in Hindi after Diwali. The reason? Shahrukh is starring in ‘Billo Barber’ – Priyadarshan’s Hindi remake of ‘Katha Parayumbol’ – which releases on Diwali and he does not want this film to pit against Rajni’s Kuselan.

So, it is not just Bollywood that fear Rajni’s power; Hollywood too gets its share of nightmares when it comes to competing with this Emperor of the filmdom!