Rajinikanth

Name:            Rajnikanth

Address:        1B, Raghavaveera Avenue,

                        Poes Garden, Chennai-600086

Contact No:  24991291,24990278

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In the Field:  Acted in more than 150 films across the languages Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi. Wrote and produced a few films.             

Noted Films: Apoorva Ragangal

Moondru Mudichu

                     Mullum Malarum

                     16 Vayathinile

                     6 Muthal 60 Varai

                     Murattukkalai

                     Annamalai

                     Muthu

Basha

                     Padayappa

Chandramukhi
Sivaji

Enthiran

                       

Awards:         Tamilnadu state awards for best actor-four times

                     Filmfare award

                     Padhmavibhushan, the civilian honour of Indian Government.

Special:         

·        Second highest paid actor in Asia (second to Jackie Chan) and popularly accepted as the Superstar in southern languages and respected throughout the nation.

·        Rajinikanth was born as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad,[5] to mother Jijabai and father Ramoji Rao Gaikwad, a police constable, on 12 December 1950 in the Indian city of Bangalore in Mysore State, present-day Karnataka.

·        He attended the Government Model Primary School at Gavipuram, Bangalore, where he had his primary education in Kannada language.

·        Join the Madras Film Institute

·      Debut as an actor in the National Film Award–winning Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal (1975), directed by K. Balachander.

·        His second film, a Kannada film, Katha Sangama, was directed by Puttanna Kanagal and released in 1976.

·        In the following years, he continued to perform a variety of negative roles.

·        The 1978 film Bhairavi was the first Tamil film to cast Rajinikanth as a main hero.

·        He also got the "superstar" title through the film.

·        In 1983, he starred in his first Bollywood film, Andha Kanoon.

·        Rajinikanth wrote his first screenplay for the film Valli (1993).

·        His film ‘Muthu’ became the first Tamil film to be dubbed into Japanese, as Mutu: Odoru Maharaja.