S Shankar’s futuristic film Robot seems to create news every passing day. Bollywood’s well-known fashion designer Manish Malhotra has been signed to design the costumes for Rajnikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-the lead actors in the film.

Sources reveal that the designer is already off to New York shopping and studying what newness he can lend to the costumes of the sci-fi film. Shankar was bowled over with the costumes Manish had created for Rajnikanth in Sivaji: The Bo