Rajinikanth is not only predominately popular in the state of India, but now he is one among the highest paid actors in the industry. Apart from the fact that he is a superstar and really a well known actor, we present you some rare facts about Rajinikanth.
1. Now known as Rajinikanth was born as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad on 12 December 1950 in a Maratha family. His mother Ramabai, is a housewife, and Ramoji Rao Gaekwad, worked as a police constable, in Bangalore, Mysore State.
2. He was named Shivaji Rao Gaekwad after Chhatrapati Shivaji, a Maratha warrior King, and was brought up speaking Marathi and Kannada
language.
3. Upon completion of his school education, Rajinikanthh continued to perform various jobs in the cities of Bangalore and Madras, including working as a coolie and carpenter, and finally ended up working in the Bangalore Transport Service (BTS) as a bus conductor.
4. He began acting in plays while working in the Bangalore Transport Service as a bus conductor.
5. Though his family was not fully supportive of his decision to join a acting institute, his friend and one of his co-worker motivated him to join the acting institute and financially supported him during his struggle.
6. He was performing in a stage play and got noticed by Tamil film director K. Balachander. The director advised him to learn to speak Tamil, a recommendation that Rajinikanthh quickly followed.
7. After establishing himself as a lead actor in a number of commercially successful films, he began to be referred to as a “superstar” and has since continued to hold a position of a idol and a inspiration to be followed in the popular culture of Tamil Nadu.
8. After earning ₹26 crore which is equivalent to ₹43 crore or US$6.5 million in 2015 for his role in the movie Sivaji, he became the highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan at that time
9. In addition to acting, he has also worked as a producer and screenwriter. Apart from his film career, he is also a philanthropist, spiritualist, and serves as an influence in Dravidian politics.
10. The Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan in 2000 and at the 45th International Film Festival of India, 2014, he was conferred with the “Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year”.
11. Rajinikanthh began his cinematic career through the Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal in 1975 where Balachander gave him a relatively small role as an abusive husband of Srividya.
12. Rajinikanthh worked with Shankar for the science fiction film, Enthiran. The film was released worldwide in 2010 as the most expensive Indian film ever made, which became the second highest-grossing film in India of its time.Souces say, Rajinikanthh was paid a remuneration of ₹45 crore which is equivalent to ₹61 crore or US$9.2 million in 2015 for that single film.
13. Rajinikanthh is also the only Indian actor to be featured in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) syllabus, in a lesson titled From Bus Conductor to Superstar.
14. After opening his first official Twitter account in 2014, Rajinikanthh received over 210,000 followers within 24-hours. According to The Economic Times it was deemed by social media research firms as the fastest rate of followers for any Indian celebrity, as well as among the top-10 in the world.
15 Rajinikanthh has received numerous awards for many of his films mostly in Tamil language. He received his first Filmfare award for Best Tamil Actor in 1984 for Nallavanuku Nallavan.
16. In December 2013, he was honored by NDTV as one among the “25 Greatest Global Living Legends”. In 2014, he was presented with the “Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year” at the 45th International Film Festival of India held at Goa.
17. He was named by Forbes India as the most influential Indian of the year 2010 and in 2011, he was awarded the Entertainer of the Decade Award by NDTV for the year 2010 by the then Indian Minister for Home Affairs P. Chidambaram.
So, what is your opinion about this star?
