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One Sun, One Moon and Only One Superstar : Rajinikanth turns 67 today

“Oru Suriyan. Oru Chandran. Oru Superstar.”- Chiyan Vikram

The one and only Superstar Rajinikanth turn 67 today. The actor himself will stay away from the celebrations, spending the day out of town at a secret location. But this happens to be the third year Rajinikanth has chosen to stay away from the fan frenzy.

Sources close to Rajinikanth said he opted for a low-key birthday following Cyclone Ochki, in which nearly 500 Tamil fishermen are still missing and 40 people had died.

His entry into the glitzy, glamorous world of cinema wasn’t the brisk strut that is now immortal. The real Superstar Rajinikanth, the action king, Style Mannan, the never-ending synonym for this humble star in Tamil.

Being a bus conductor in his early life draws poor and middle-class people to love him and inspire about. Rajinikanth started out with negative roles several of them show him as a womanizer and now the evergreen actor without any replacement.

Rajini was quite the ‘bad boy’ of the 70s with some stellar performances in Avargal, Moondru Mudichu, Aval Oru Thodar Kadhai and Aval Appadithan. The years ‘77, ‘78 and ’79 were especially extremely busy as he is said to have starred in more than 30 films.

After a brief break, the Superstar made a stellar return with Billa, probably one of the biggest hits from the Amitabh Bachchan films that Rajini remade. That brings us to a surprising pattern in the Superstar’s career. Rajinikanth has been someone who has always understood the importance of bringing stories from other languages to Tamil.

He brings a lot of movies from other languages and imprints his label on the characters also. Billa, Mr. Bharath, Muthu, Thee, Panakaran, Annamalai, Mannan, Chandramukhi are some of the memorable titles. The success was phenomenal. So much so that the success of Muthu was mentioned by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his address to the Japanese delegation. In an ‘99 article, American magazine Newsweek had said, “Rajinikanth, the male lead in “Muthu” and “Yajaman,” has supplanted Leonardo DiCaprio as Japan’s trendiest heartthrob.”

Rajinikanth was also a victim of stardom, probably the biggest victim as well. As stars do, he was trapped in the expectations of the audience. His films had to satisfy his fans. With his movie Padayappa, he mesmerized by his screen presence.

2.0 and Kaala, are his upcoming projects. We won’t just see Thalaivar on screen again, we will see him as the artiste we loved.

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