Shivaraj Kumar's Shiva beats Darshan's record

Shivaraj Kumar's Shiva is creating strong positive waves across Karnataka. The movie, billed as the biggest movie in Shivanna's career, has broken the record of Darshan's Chingari in terms of number of screens. The buzz is that the movie is releasing in 225 screens in the state.

The latest paper ad on a leading Kannada daily shows that Shiva is releasing in 225 screens. It means, the upcoming movie will have a much-bigger release than Chingari, which holds the record for hitting the maximum theatres in the current year. The Darshan starrer film had released in over 175 screens.

However, the interesting point of the story is that the massive release of the film has surprised Tamil superstar Vijay and he has wished Shivaraj Kumar good luck for the success of the movie.

Meanwhile, Santhosh theatre in Majestic is getting ready for the big release of Shiva, as Shivaraj Kumar's huge cut-out has been placed before the theatre on Sunday (August 19). The celebration began with the fans performing abhisheka (cleansing with milk) to the cut-out.

Shiva, which has cleared the censor test with 'U/A', features Ragini Dwivedi in the female lead role. The movie is directed by Om Prakash Rao.