About Rajini - The Super Star of Tamil Cinema

The Super Star of Tamil Cinema was born on 12th Dec 1949.
His parents are Shri. Nanoji Rao Gaekward and Shrimathi. Ramboi.
He has two brothers and one sister namely Shri. Satyanarayan Rao,
Shri Nageshwara Rao and Shrimathi Aswathamma. The Cine popular
Rajnikanth was christened by their parents as Shivaji Rao Gaekward
and was called as Shivaji before he entered the media.
They belong to Maharashtra and were living in Bangalore when Rajni
was born. Their ancestors are believed to be from a village called
Nachiar Kuppam in Dharmapuri Dist. of Tamilnadu.
Rajnikanth studied in Ramakrishna Mission School in Bangalore. He
had been a bright student in childhood but he is reportedly could
not finish his schooling due to family circumstances. As grown up
Rajinkanth joined a Bus Transport in Bangalore and worked as a
Conductor. He was popular on the buses in those days itself for his
swift action and style manners, especially among youngsters. He used
to act in dramas with his childhood friends and developed a flair for
acting as a profession.
As his interest for the art increased, he came to Chennai for a
training in the Film Institute. After his successful completion of the
course, he got introduced to the leading Director of those days,
Shri.K.BALACHANDER, who advised him to develop his skills further,
after watching a model play in the Institute. That induced an eternal
boost in Rajni and lead him to get a chance for appearing in the Silver
Screen for the first time, through a Tamil movie APOORVA RAGANGAL.
Shri.K.BALACHANDER, the Director of the movie introduced him in
with the name RAJNIKANTH which is revolving around now as a magic
spell among the Indian Cinema Industry and doing wonders.
Shri.K.BALACHANDER is supposed to be his father in the Industry.
That was his debut in the Cinema industry and was his step stone for
a series of successful movies later. Initially he has performed
Villain or Anti-hero roles in about 20 movies including
16 vayadhinilae, Moonru Mudichu etc. Then he was given Hero roles
starting from Bhairavi. Soon he attained the SUPER STAR status and
acted more than 150 films in 7 languages including one in English
namely BLOOD STONE.
His swift action and style manners contributed a lot for his popularity.
He used different styles from film to film to attract the audience, like
spinning the sun glasses before wearing on his face, flipping the
cigarette directly to his lips, combing his hair with his figers and a
lot of such gimmicks. Alongwith this he used to deliver a unique dialoge
in almost every movie. This has become an important part in his recent
movies. "HOW IS IT ?" is one such dialoges which has an Rajni identity
for the past 25 years.
In these 25 years he has performed more than 150 movies, out of which
18 celebrated Silver Jubilee (25 weeks), 3 hit 150 days and about 32
were shown for a century of days.Now-a-days he is giving a movie once
in a year or two only. He is considered as the lucky star of Indian Cinema
Industry for collections.The recent hits of Rajnikanth are BASHAA, MUTHU,
ARUNACHALAM and the latest release PADAIYAPPA which celebrated Silver Jubilee
very recently.
He has made a record in the Indian Film Industry as well as the Tourism
Industry by attracting a mob of fans in Japan. A group of tourists from
Japan visited Chennai recently to meet Rajnikanth to show their liking
for them after viewing the Japanese release of his latest hits, Muthu
and Baasha. This has earned a considerable amount of Foreign Exchange for
the nation through movie rights and tourism income. Thus it is proved that
SUPER STAR RAJNIKANTH and his service to the Indian Cinema Industry are
eternal assets for the Indian Nation.

This site was created in the Silver Jubilee year of his services in the Indian Cinema Industry.
We all wish him for more success in all his performances and to continue his services for the Indian Cinema Industry for years to come.