Superstar Rajinikanth's full speech from Kaala Telugu press meet:

''My first Telugu released in 1978, I did around 20 Telugu films after that, then I took a break and stopped acting in Telugu films. Then came a big question if I need to continue my career in Tamil or Telugu. Since my guru K Balachandar garu introduced me in Tamil, I continued my career in Tamil industry. 

I then did a role in Pedarayudu which gave me another break in Telugu. After that, all my films like Padayappa, Baba, Sivaji and Enthiran were dubbed in Telugu and released here.

Everyone has their own individuality, there will be only one Chiranjeevi, one Nagarjuna likewise only one Rajinikanth, no one is bigger no one.

We shouldn't talk about the story of a film during its audio launch, we shouldn't talk about how good it  has come out too which would be like self-praising our own film. But I really liked this film, I saw it twice. Pa Ranjith has a style of making a social message film in a commercial way. He has created 4 to 5 very nice characters in Kaala. The entire unit worked as friends and gave their 100 percent. I would rate this as Santhosh Narayanan's best work to date. 

While signing the film, I was thinking how will Dhanush handle a big project like Kaala, but he handled it so well.''