Deccan Chronicle

THE RAJINI MYSTIQUE

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whose films superstar as a ow known Rajinikant­h Japanese, the Kolywood, even wow beginning in right had a humble roles. But villainous initially donning the imaginatio­n he captured beginning -like throwing from the with his antics it youth and catching of the in the air to be the cigarette on - that came lips and so between his 'Rajini style'. known as a career, popularly forward cannot carry a society in 'Style' alone out that who pointed comer new said sceptics, skin the craze for fair survive. with a cannot Tamil diction the then with a funny with initially pairing till one But he did, Hassan hero Kamal up and coming to act together. decided not hero even day the duo swashbuckl­ing the as one, perhaps He was not

He emerged him after that. that turned Kalai (1980) angry an after Muratu he was hero. Soon donning into an action remakes, in Hindi young man Bachchan, Amitabh over played by gaga the roles movie-goer to go the impelling style and persona. both his action, an image, cultivated built Yet, he never though he or off screen, popularity. on screen of his club in view a strong fan dialogues.' 'punch it came the once, Then I say went like 'if is path Some of them or 'my a 100 times' scope is like saying on, giving path' and so a separate and whistle. red-lettered fans to exult became his films of Release of the calendar at least in days, had swelled numbers star fans, whose though the imaginatio­n, They beyond them. in touch with entertaine­d was rarely and he only him to just adored bothering without them any ideology. propagate publicity was seen as he in Off screen politics. But abhorring shy and as about a prevalent he spoke

1996 when the state, culture' in 'bomb then Chief wrath of the earning the he found Jayalalith­aa,

J of politics Minister, the thick the himself in taken he has not

Since then invitation­s. several plunge despite

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