This
biography traces the amazing
life of India’s
superstar Rajnikanth that defies all logic and calculations. Rajnikanth started
smoking at nine. He began drinking local stuff when 12 and succumbed to
forbidden pleasures when just out of teens. On the positive side are his known
and unknown philanthropic acts, religious pursuits, preferring the company of
saints and pious persons and above all, simple living, high thinking and,
paradoxically, few morals. He is a millionaire superstar who wears no makeup or
wig in real life and sleeps on floor, avoids air-conditioners and luxury cars
but has talent in abundance. He has 63,000 registered fan clubs all over the
world. A dark, 5ft 9 inches
actor whose
films are considered flops if they do
business of less than 20 crore rupees. He is even now happy with school pals
and friends from his bus-conductor days. He is Asia’s
second highest paid actor, next to Jackie Chan. The authorised biography tells
the childhood hardships and how he rose meteorically from a miniscule role in a
Film directed by K.Balachander. He has
never strayed away from people. He knows his audience, the labourers, the
middle income group and the humble rich who come to the theatres to forget
their miseries and have a good, healthy time. That is why he is careful of what
he portrays on the film screen. His films provide clean entertainment and lots
of subtle moral, too. Rajnikanth has developed his own ‘ishtyle’, be it
flicking a cigarette or whirling a scarf before putting it around his neck,
much loved and aped by his fans. The biography has about a hundred black and
white and colour photographs and a whole chapter on Rajnikanthism, which gives
out his punch lines that have made him and his films endearing for all times.
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