Interesting Unknown Facts About Rajinikanth 1. The much popular style of tossing the cigarette up in the air to catch it with his lip started as early before he reached his eighteen. Betting his senior friends that he is capable of joining their gang, Shivaji first performed the trick in the bushes at school. 2. Superstar met his wife Latha when a group of young college girls came to interview him and she was leading the team. He was immediately attracted and their marriage was made possible with help of YG Mahendran. 3. In his poyes garden house, he has reserved a special place as advised by vastu experts for poojas and meditation. Considered as restricted zone for others, Rajini meditates and prays in the room. 4. While studying in college, Rajini had no source of income except for the one he gets from his brother and friends. So, he spent many a nights without a morsel of food on the roadside areas. 5. Rajini is the only star who had visited the most sacred caves of Himalayas were Sadhus live. He had gone deep into the mountains around five times which is considered impossible by many even now. 6. Rajini is a brand name and in the prestigious AVM studios he has a room allocated for him to use while shooting. 7. The Raghavendra Mandapam in Chennai is built specially for bypassers and those who seek a shelter to stay initiated by Rajini. 8. Rajini is fond of his old memories and retains the things he used in the past like his car, clothes and other accessories. 9. Rajinikanth might have won numerous Awards including 9 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards but he is yet to win a National Award and the only Filmfare Award he has won as Best Actor so far came in 1984 for Nallavanakku Nallavan. 10. The only Bengali movie which Rajinikanth appeared in so far was Bhagya Debata, directed by noted choreographer S.Raghuram. 11. Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan have worked together on 18 films so far, 16 of them between 1975 and 1979. A very impressive combination indeed which was split up by them mutually after they realized that with both of them emerging popular it didn’t make commercial sense to work together. 12. While K.Balachander is usually referred to as Rajinikanth’s mentor,the filmmaker who has worked on the maximum films with Rajinikanth is actually S.P.Muthuraman who made 25 films with him. Starting from Bhuvana Oru Kelvikuri in 1977 all the way tillPandian in 1992. 13. Rajinikanth’s 50th film was a Telugu film, Tiger where he got to work along withN.T.Rama Rao for the 1st and only time. 14. Apart from acting Rajinikanth has rarely dabbled directly in other areas related to filmmaking. But on the few occasions that he has tried other activities,the results have not been encouraging. Be it singing in case ofMannan or screen writing and production in case of Valli and Baba. 15. Rajinikanths fans believe that the actor can do anything on the silver screen. In fact, any character that Rajinikanth plays onscreen has not died for many years now. The directors fear that killing his character will send fans on a rampage. Rajinikanth is the first Indian actor to have worked in films using different camera technologies like black-and-white, colour, 3D and motion capture. 16. Rajinikanths film Enthiran is the only Tamil film that made it into IMDbs Top 50 films from around the world list in 2010. The film has been included as a case study in an IIM-A postgraduate elective course, Contemporary Film Industry: A Business Perspective. The sci-fi Enthiran is also the highest grossing Indian film of all time. Credit to Jean Pooganes for sharing this. #SRV
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 05:04:04 +0000
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