Speaking to a national channel, Shankar has explained how '2.0' got postponed repeatedly. The magnum opus was supposed to hit the marquee last Diwali. In fact, when Shankar and Lyca Productions had started out in 2015, they wanted to release the Rajinikanth-Akshay Kumar starrer as early as possible.

"One major VFX company to whom we had given the task of completing the film's VFX promised to deliver the end product two months before 2017 Diwali. Accordingly, we announced the release date. Then they said it will take some more time. And we postponed the date to January 2018," the star director says.

"When we were holding a grand audio event in Dubai (last year), this company told us the product won't be ready even for January. We were shocked but were helpless. This is when we got to know that the company simply had no capacity to work on our film," Shankar reveals, adding that the film has got 2100 VFX shot that was worked in places like London, Montreal, Ukraine and Bulgaria.

Lyca productions now went to a bigger company. They approached Double Negative company, which has done the Marvel films. "Last year they won the Academy Award for Blade Runner 2049. While moving the film to the new company, we had some practical problems. It was like uprooting a tree from one place and planting it at a new place," Shankar explains.