Vijay backs Nelson despite Beast flop

 Thalapathy Vijay has assured director Nelson that he would do a film for him at the earliest. Beast collections have dipped badly and below 50 % of the first two days. Sun Pictures and Vijay who is a personal friend of  Tirupur Subramanian , head of exhibitors body, have asked him to ask movie halls to at least hold the film for one more week in main screens. From Monday onwards, big screens that were allotted to Beast are shifting to KGF 2.

Rajinikanth saw Beast at a private show and the next day he saw KGF 2. Rumours say that the producer of Rajinikanth's next film has said that trade has conveyed a negative rating to the Nelson- Rajini combo. As Annaatthe was only an average hit and Beast a just scraped through film from director Nelson , trade feels that this combo has two minus to start with.

Vijay is said to have taken the stance that he had clearly approved the film screenplay and the failure blame being put on Nelson was not right. He said that misjudging the success of KGF 2 in Tamil Nadu was also another reason and the fault lay with Sun Pictures. Going by previous track record of a lesser Star Karti film Kaaithi pitted against Bigil doing reasonably well, Sun should have postponed the film by a week and this would given Beast a breathing space and away from the direct firing line of KGF euphoria. 

Sun Pictures seemed to have been over confident  and result was that the production house and it's distributor Red Giant are now asking movie halls to retain the film in big screens. Vijay said to his inner circle that though Nelson came with a novel story line, it was he who chose a ` safe' film subject and ended up with mud on his face.

Sources say that Sun Pictures might back Vijay- Nelson project . Nelson after Rajinikanth film and Vijay after the Vamsi- Dil Raju film is expected to reunite. Though Vijay is not known to repeat directors who failed , in this case he feels that Nelson is not the culprit. Sources point out that En Tamizh Magan in which he played a dual role was his brain child and directed by Bharthan but  it flopped. He gave another date for Bharathan and it was Baairava.