Friday, October 1, 2010

The Robot called Rajnikant.

It always amazes me to see the adulation of the masses and the sheer ecstacy that this man generates with each of his movies. The people and more so the Tamilians, the world over, worship him to the hilt.

Histrionically speaking, it's my opinion that he's not a patch on say, the thespian Dilip Kumar but he whips up a frenzy with his unique mannerisms and plays up to the gallery. His colleagues and juniors worship him and speak about him in superlatives. So, what makes him tick?

He has indeed come a long way to his present God like image in Tamilnadu. A Maharashtrian by birth, to a bus conductor in his teens on the crowded private buses of Bangalore and finally to superstardom in the Tamil tinselworld, his rise has been meteoric. It's said that he's humble despite his status and ever willing to help the underdog. The story has it that quite a few years back when his movie 'Baba' crashed at the box office, he made it a point to return the lost money and his remuneration to the producer and the distributors - something unheard of and only what a Rajni can do!

His latest movie 'Robot' or 'Yenthiran' in Tamil with Aishwarya Rai has opened in a record number of cinemas and tickets have been sold out for the first week. Well, that's the Rajni charisma at work.

On a personal level, what strikes me most is that he's perhaps the only actor who's shown a boldness to show his true visage in real life! Most actors are vain and hate to show their age and therefore, resort to gimmicks and artificial props.

May Rajnikant continue to make movies of his genre and here's wishing box office success for 'Yenthiran' nay 'Robot'!!

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