Rajinikanth
(aka) Superstar RajinikanthActor/Singer
Born : 12 Dec 1950
Birth Place : Bangalore
Rajinikanth is one of the most influential and bankable movie stars in Indian cinema. Rajinikanth's mass popularity and appeal is largely drawn from his mannerisms and stylized delivery of dialogue. He received India's third highest honour, the Padma Bhushan, for his...
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Rajinikanth is one of the most influential and bankable movie stars in Indian cinema. Rajinikanth's mass popularity and appeal is largely drawn from his mannerisms and stylized delivery of dialogue. He received India's third highest honour, the Padma Bhushan, for his contribution to Indian cinema. Other than acting, Rajinikanth worked as a screenwriter, film producer and also a playback singer.
Rajinikanth was born as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad in a Marathi family in Karnataka, India. His ancestors are from the village of NachiKuppam in Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu. He was the fourth child of his parents, Jijabai and Ramojirao Gaekwad, a police constable.
He lost his mother at the age of eight. He did his schooling at the Acharya Paathshala in Basavanagudi, Bangalore, and then at the Vivekananda Balaka Sangha.
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Rajinikanth was born as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad in a Marathi family in Karnataka, India. His ancestors are from the village of NachiKuppam in Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu. He was the fourth child of his parents, Jijabai and Ramojirao Gaekwad, a police constable.
He lost his mother at the age of eight. He did his schooling at the Acharya Paathshala in Basavanagudi, Bangalore, and then at the Vivekananda Balaka Sangha.
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1When Rajini was working as a conductor his salary was around Rs.750
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2Rajinikanth was born to Jijabai and Ramoji Rao Gaikwad, a Maharashtrian couple living in Bangalore, and was named Shivaji Rao Gaikwad.
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3He started off his acting career with mythological Kannada plays. His most prominent role was that of Duryodhana.
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4His friend Raj Bahadur, with whom he is still close, encouraged him to pursue his dreams and become an actor. Bahadur asked him to enrol in the Madras Film Institute.
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5Rajinikanth was noticed in a Kannada play at the Film Institute by director K Balachander. 'Learn Tamil,' the director told Rajini before leaving.
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6After playing several negative roles and characters with grey shades, his first positive role was in S P Muthuraman's Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri.
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7Rajinikanth's first big commercial success was Billa, a remake of the 1978 Amitabh Bachchan-starrer, Don.
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8Moondru Moogam had Rajini playing a triple role for the first time. It earned him a Best Actor award from the Tamil Nadu government.
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9T Rama Rao's Andha Kanoon was Rajinikanth's first Bollywood film.
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10In 1988, Rajinikanth made an appearance in the English action adventure Bloodstone.
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11Rajinikanth's film Raaja Chinna Roja was the first Tamil film that included animation in the movie.
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12Thalapathi was also the superstar's only film that was released by the Censor Board with a U/A certificate.
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13The first movie that Rajinikanth wrote the screenplay for was Valli. He did a guest role in the film as well.
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14Baasha, which released in 1995, established the actor as a superstar and broke several box-office records.
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15Besides starring in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu films, Rajinikanth also starred in a Bengali film, Bhagya Debata.
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16Enthiran is the only Tamil film that made it into IMDb's Top 50 films from around the world list in 2010.
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17Rajinikanth usually goes to the Himalayas after the release of his films. Also to Bangalore however, is his favourite spot to hang out with his old buddies.
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18Enthiran has been included as a case study in an IIM-A postgraduate elective course, Contemporary Film Industry: A Business Perspective.
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19Meena is the only actress who has acted with him as a child artist and then as his heroine.
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20The superstar's blockbuster movie Enthiran was originally supposed to be done by Kamal Haasan.
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21A few of Rajini's fans started a political party called Desiya Dravadar Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam in 2008 to pressure him to enter politics.
But he refused, saying that nobody can force him to enter politics or stop him from doing so.
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