Fans of the wildly popular Indian film star Rajinikanth queued overnight for a 4am screening of his new movie Friday in the southern city of Chennai, where many companies abandoned hope of staff coming to work and closed for the day.
Big crowds thronged the country's cinema halls where Indian blockbuster film Kabali was released on Thursday.
A film featuring an Indian superstar is giving cinema operators in Qatar a lot to cheer about even before its release. Going by initial reports, Rajinikanth-starrer Kabali is witnessing a huge demand and seats are filling up fast.