Director Shankar's most anticipated film, 'Manoharudu' (Telugu version of 'Ai'), featuring Vikram and Amy Jackson, will be released as Diwali gift this year. This film has been made with a huge budget of around 180 Cr and high technical values.

The audio of this movie will be released on September 15th grandly and Hollywood super star Arnold Schwarzenegger will grace the event as the chief guest.

Aascar Ravichandran, the producer of the movie, says, " 'Ai' is a prestigious film in our banner and we are releasing the film in over 20 thousand theatres all over the world. It will be released as 'Manoharudu' in Telugu. We are going to release the audio on a grand level and Arnold will attend as the chief guest for this event. My brother, I and this film's executive producer Ramesh Babu met Arnold and has screened the film specially for him. He loved the film and said that it is a visual wonder. He praised Indian James Cameron Shankar for directing such an extraordinary film. He immediately accepted our invitation to grace the audio launch. We are very happy that such a big star is going to attend our audio launch event".

A.R.Rahman is the music director of this film.