Manickam is an auto driver living with his family in Chennai, trying to make ends meet. Rises from rag to riches, royally destroys and eventually pardons the faithless friend - Annamalai was vintage Rajinikanth and became his highest-grossing film until the arrival of Baashha.īaashha evolved from a rejected scene in Mukul S Anand's 1991 film Hum, which also starred Rajinikanth. In the second part, Annamalai revenges himself on his Khudgarz (which inspired the movie) friend. He fights (in principle) his step-brother, a collector who sees the vigilantes as nuisance, but doesn't harm him.Ī friendship soured by misunderstanding and pride - that's the first part of Annamalai, in which Rajinikanth plays a poor milkman. He rallies with another champion of the poor - played by Mammootty - to deliver justice where the law fails them. He grows up to become a local Robin Hood, who works tirelessly for the poor and fights the battles of those in need. In the Mani Ratnam-directed film, Rajinikanth plays Surya, abandoned at birth by an unwed mother who feared social stigma. He brought with him his southern superstar style, unmatched by the presence of Sunny Deol, then Bollywood's top star. Just as Amitabh Bachchan demolished Bollywood with Don, Rajinikanth won over critics and audience alike.įrom the promos of Kabali, we know that Rajinikanth promises swag level rating even higher than Neruppu Da (if that's possible).Īs the honest Jaggu juggling between the truths of Anju and Manju (Sridevi), Rajinikanth added to the comic relief of the blockbuster film. By the end of the Seventies, he had taken a sabbatical of sorts and returned in super-duper style in and as Billa, a remake of Bollywood film Don (1978). In Kabali, Rajinikanth returns to a role he first played three decades go - the mafia don. Revenge, served cold, is Selvi's when she exacts poetic justice by marrying Prasath's father. Prasath lets Balaji drown on a picnic that goes wrong and then employs Selvi as his maid.
Moondru Mudichu co-starred Kamal Haasan and Sridevi and if that's left you reeling, here's the story in short - Prasath (Rajinikanth) and Balaji (Kamal Haasan) are roommates who are both in love with Sridevi's character, Selvi (although in Prasath's case, it's more like lust). Just how good at being bad Rajinikanth was is exemplified in this film, one of his earliest. There is only one superstar."Īs his 159th film, Kabali, release on Friday, we take a look at our favourite 10 Rajinikanth performance in a career spanning four decades. But, as a Bengaluru fan told NDTV, "There is one sunlight. There onwards, Rajinikanth won over critics and audience with his acting, now-legendary style and mannerisms that spawned many imitators. After playing the antagonist to acclaim, Rajinikanth was first given a positive role by SP Muthuraman in 1977 film Bhuvana Oru Kelvi Kuri. Which is not to say he was not a success - indeed, his outings as villain were hits. He was often a womaniser and regularly a tormentor. He was not then, as he is now, the messiah of the impoverished or crusader for the downtrodden.
When he began, Rajinikanth was cast in negative roles and portrayed characters mostly quite despicable. It took the 65-year-old actor - which is a very inadequate description of him - several films spaced over decades to climb to the current Everest of fame he enjoys now. Rajini mania is, very apparently, at fever pitch. After their emphatic rejection of the superstar's last two films - Lingaa and Kochadaiyaan - the legions of Rajini admirers appear to have welcomed Kabali with open arms even before it hit screens - shows were running house full, tickets were sold out a week in advance and more than a few start-ups in Chennai and Bengaluru have given employees the day off.
It is a homecoming of the grandest sort because film stills released earlier promised a Rajinikanth of old, the Thalaiva so beloved by his fans. Rajinikanth returned in a blaze of glory in the much-awaited Kabali, directed by Pa Ranjith. In Kabali, he plays a Don, a role he took up after a gap of three decades.His Robinhood-like persona came much later and never left.Rajini mostly starred as the antagonist in the beginning of his career.
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