Rajinikanth Wiki, Biography, Age, Movies, Images, Politics

Rajinikanth born as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad is an Indian Film Actor who is popularly known by the name “Superstar“. Now he is one of the top most leading and highest paid actors in the Indian film industry particularly in Kollywood. He is a versatile personality and apart from acting he is also a Film Producer, Philanthropist, Spiritualist & Screenwriter who best known for his work in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, English and Bengali films. Rajinikanth started his career as a bus conductor in the Bangalore City Transport Service and his passion towards acting made him act in plays meanwhile.

Rajinikanth Biography

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Rajinikanth Awards, Nominations and Honours

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In 1973, he joined the Madras Film Institute to pursue a diploma in acting. The legendary director K. Balachander noted his acting skills and gave Rajinikanth a chance to act in his film ‘Apoorva Raagangal‘ which became his debut film. He has acquired Tamil Nadu State Film Awards six times. He was awarded by the Government of India with the prestigious awards Padma Bhushan in 2000 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2016. In 2007 Rajinikanth became the second highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan, for the movie “Shivaji” for which he was paid ₹26 crore. Check out below for Rajinikanth Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Photos, Movies, next film, Controversies, Daughters, Birthday, Twitter, net worth, and more.

Rajinikanth Early Life, Family, and Career

Rajinikanth was born on 12 December 1950 in Bangalore, Karnataka. His father is Ramoji Rao Gaekwad, who worked as a police constable and his mother name is Jijabai. Rajinikanth house is in poes garden, Chennai and at present, he resides in Chennai. Rajinikanth family details include, he has two elder brothers named Satyanarayana Rao and Nageshwara Rao and an elder sister Aswath Balubhai. He met his wife Latha during an interview when a group of girls approached him with Latha leading the group. He fell in love with Latha that moment and proposed her on the same day. Later Rajinikanth and Latha married on 26 February 1981 in Tirupati. Rajinikanth Wife Latha Rajinikanth is a singer and a Producer. Rajinikanth daughters are Aishwarya Dhanush who was born in 1982 and Soundarya who was born in 1984.

Rajinikanth Filmography

Rajinikanth after completing his first movie began to appear in several movies with negative roles. He first appeared in a positive role in S.P Muthuraman’s Telugu movie ‘Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri’ in the year 1977. After the success of the movie, the duo has successfully delivered 20 movies until the 90s. In 1978, he made a strong male lead character for the movie Bairavi for which he earned the title “Superstar“. After completing 50 films Superstar Rajinikanth decided to quit acting, but his film ‘Billa’ became his ever commercial hit which made him continue his acting career. Again he continued delivering super hit films continuously which made him act in a Bollywood film ‘Andha Kanoon’ alongside Amithab Bachan, which is again a huge success. This consecutive success drastically grew his fan base all over the country. Some of his well-spoken and acclaimed hits are Baasha, Muthu, Thalapathi, Annamalai, Chandramukhi, Padaiyappa, Thillu Mullu, Arunachalam, Shivaji, and Endhiran. In the film Endhiran the Robot, he was well noted for his acting. The second part of the movie Endhiran 2.0 is set to screen very soon in 2018, as the movie has very high expectations for being the most expensive film using the 3D animation technology which is the first ever in Indian Cinema. Also the movie Kaala is going to release soon as the teaser has released recently and has increased the expectations among his fans.

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Rajinikanth Philanthropy

The writer Naman Ramachandran has authored a book Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography, which speaks a lot about actor Rajinikanth and his life events. In 2011, Rajinikanth announced his support for the anti-corruption movement led by Gandhian Anna Hazare. He has a marriage hall, the Raghavendra Kalyana Mandapam, in Chennai which he lends free of cost for philanthropic activities led by his fans. Rajinikanth fans regularly organize blood donation and eye donation camps and distribute food during his birthday.

Rajinikanth Politics

Rajinikanth had been into politics for a very long time. At first, Rajinikanth lend his support to Congress party. So Congress joined decided to hands with All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) for the assembly election in Tamil Nadu in 1996. But Rajinikanth changed his mind and supported Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) – Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) alliance. And they had a huge victory. His support continued n the parliamentary election, held the same year. Later in 2004, Rajinikanth said he would personally vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but would not lend his support to any party during the upcoming Indian general election. Anyhow the party didn’t win any seats in Tamilnadu. His fans had a continuous speculation of Rajinikanth entering into politics. Rajinikanth himself announced his entry into politics on 31 Dec 2017 and confirmed that his newly formed party will contest in the forthcoming assembly elections in 2021 from all 234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu state. He also added that he and his party would resign when unable to fulfill its electoral promises within three years of coming into power.

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