India, June 27 -- Vishnu Vishal-starrer Lal Salaam, which featured Rajinikanth in an extended cameo, turned out to be a box office failure. After the film's disappointing theatrical run, its planned OTT release on Netflix also ran into trouble, eventually leading to it being quietly released on Sun NXT. Now, Vishnu has opened up about the film's failure and revealed that he even apologised to Netflix over it.

Speaking to Rednool, he said, "Lal Salaam didn't work in theatres or on OTT. I apologised to Netflix. They asked, 'Why are you worrying?' I said, 'I should take ownership. I'll come back.' They told me, 'It's not your film. They tried to do business with Superstar Rajinikanth, and Rajinikanth is in the film for one hour.' I said, 'I...