Whether it is success or failure, RGV is a phenomenon who never goes out of fashion. More so with his 'bhakts' on social media. Yes, many of his fans can be justifiably called 'bhakts', going by the way they are calling him 'God' (one poster doing the rounds on Facebook and Twitter comes with a capital 'G'!) for, well, turning Veerappan into Veerappan. Err.. it is actually for turning Sandeep Bharadwaj into Veerappan on screen.

Writer Sirasri, his celebrated bhakt both online and offline, was among the first to rave about RGV. RGV's directorial sense is deified into his terrific "sixth sense". "Can anyone believe RGV took decision to cast Sandeep Bharadwaj as Veerappan seeing the 1st pic? That's the 6th sense," he says.

Similar raving posters have been shared and re-tweeted thousands of time ever since the first teaser came out.

Meanwhile, RGV has given the credit of portraying Sandeep so realistically to his make-up artiste. "Terrific actor Sandeep Bharadwaj's transformation as Veerappan is due to genius of make up artiste Vikram Gaikwad."