Superstar Rajinikanth lit a candle on Sunday (April 5) to show solidarity with those leading the country’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak that recently forced the central government to impose a 21-day lockdown. Sharing a photo in which he is seen with his wife Latha, ‘Superstar’ urged the aam janta to stay home during these testing times.

Rajinikanth in a short film on COVID-19

Short film Family, which spreads awareness about Coronavirus outbreak, released on Sony TV on Monday and it has been trending ever since. The made-at-home short film features various actors from across India - Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Mohanlal, Mammootty, Chiranjeevi, Priyanka Chopra, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Shiva Rajkumar, Sonalee Kulkarni and Diljit Dosanjh - and it revolves around Amitabh Bachchan's misplaced pair of dark sunglasses and everyone's attempts to find it. Every actor shot their part of the film at their homes, respectively.

The black-and-white video opens with Bachchan playing himself sitting on a couch, lamenting about not finding his treasured pair of sunglasses. Diljit Dosanjh pops up on the screen promising to find it. He wakes up Ranbir Kapoor who is fast asleep on the bed, who then springs out of bed to ask Malayalam superstar Mammootty whether he has seen Bachchan’s glasses. Mammootty then breaks into Malayalam about how Bachchan needs to upgrade his style quotient when it comes to sunglasses. The next shot, shown seamlessly, shows Rajinikanth doing the trademark sunnies flip. Maharashtra’s Sonalee Kulkarni also makes a cameo.

The climax? Bachchan reveals that the scenes featuring each star was shot individually at their own homes, without stepping out during the coronavirus lockdown. The moral of this star-splattered video is simple: stay home, stay safe.

The video also ends with how the stars are helping industry workers tackle the economic downturn caused due to the outbreak.