Vijay’s Master will be released in cinemas on 13 January in three languages

The theatrical release of superstar Vijay’s upcoming Tamil action drama Master was confirmed today with a new poster. The mega budget film will be released in three languages on 13 January in time for the Pongal festival.

According to the poster, the film will be released in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. The film has been titled Vijay The Master for the dubbed Hindi version.

Master will become the first major pan-India release of 2021. The film features Vijay in the role of a college professor with a violent past. It also stars Vijay Sethupathi as the antagonist.

Master, which also stars Malavika Mohanan, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj and Andrea Jeremiah, has been produced by Xavier Britto and marks the maiden collaboration of Vijay and director Lokesh Kanagaraj.

The makers have clarified several times over the past few months that the film will not skip its theatrical release and go directly on to any OTT platform.

A couple of months ago, reports had emerged that Amazon Prime Video had offered the producers of Master a Rs125 crore deal for an exclusive release. However, this report was laid to rest by executive producer Lalit. And speaking to reporters in Coimbatore in October, Lokesh said Master will be released in theatres first. That was the third time someone associated with the Master team had clarified about the film’s release.

In July, producer Xavier Britto had said he had no plan to release Master on any OTT platform and would wait out the pandemic-induced lockdown then in force to bring it to cinemas.

Meanwhile, Vijay will begin work on his yet-untitled project, which is tentatively titled Thalapathy 65, in January. The film will be directed by Nelson Dilip Kumar.