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Rajni….

Did you know this legendary hero was a despicable bully when he was 10, and used to beat up other children if they didn’t let him win the game of marbles?

Did you know his friends used to always complain that he walked very fast and needs to slow down and wait up?

Did you know he used to roam around wearing cycle chains a la garlands?

Did you know he was a tea boy, a rowdy, a coolie, before he became “the bus conductor who got noticed for his flair to be a star”?

Rajni! Pera Kettaley Chumma Athirudhulla? (Isn’t the sound of his name simply earth shattering?)

All this detail and more about this simbly south super star’s private life will be made available to his ardent masses when the hero’s biography is released during this weekend.

The book “The name is Rajnikanth” in English (Tamil version of the book is titled “Rajni Pera Kettale”), authored by one Gayatri Sreekanth, is a biographical sketch of the South Indian super star. Ornated by 130 pictures, the book has 384 pages and costs about Rs.500 INR.

The book will be released in a grand event on 1st March 2008 at Chennai, with famous names like Amitabh Bachan, Swami Dayananda Saraswathy, Kamal Haasan and other Tamil movie personalities participating in this event.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has written a forward to the book and Kamal Haasan, in his message in the book, says that “a book of this sort (about Rajni) in English is long overdue”.

Among other things

Rajni enters politics? Report:

Rajni was very curious to know what was happening on the Ram Sethu issue. More than the media, he wanted to know what was happening at political rallies. So he disguised himself and went to a public meeting and sat with the crowds, listened to the meeting and then came back,” Dr Sreekanth, author of the biography, titled The Name is Rajnikanth , claims.

Author’s Interview:

Tea boy, coolie, conductor, screen legend and at the height of his fame, almost a sanyasi. Rajinikanth, demi-god of the masses, as deconstructed in a new biography.

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26 Responses to “Rajni….”

  1. Tushar310 on February 29th, 2008 4:59 am

    Somehow i strongly feel that this is a disguised Advertisement to promote sales of that book.

  2. DPac on February 29th, 2008 5:14 am

    What is Tushar310?
    the buzz post or the articles mentioned in it??

    Either ways its just a post…

  3. RK on February 29th, 2008 7:40 am

    are Dpac,
    I though by title you are reintroducing old DD TV serial Rajini.
    Its about biography of Rajini Dada.
    The name is Rajini Kant sounds like The name is Bond,
    only this could have been the title.
    The name is Rajinikant.
    Man is amazing and his biography should be amazing.
    Is not his original name Shivaji Gaikwad?

  4. Jaiganesh on February 29th, 2008 8:04 am

    Shivaji Rao Gaekwad.
    Who still roams the streets of Bangalore disguised (or in his actual get up) in a TVS champ.
    If you are travelling on route 2 or 12B near basavangudi, check out carefully passengers, you might find a Rajini there.
    Though he was shivaji, when he came to Chennai, his mentor , the great K.Balachander christened him Rajinikanth after a character in his play/movie Major Chandrakanth as there was already the legendary everest Sivaji Ganesan in the film industry.

  5. cdrakenc on February 29th, 2008 1:47 pm

    Nooooo…rajinikant was born to a king and queen in kapilavastu and he could walk when he was born , and lotus flowers bloomed wnerever he stepped…..

    no wait ..that’s the budhha….

  6. Pavan Jha on February 29th, 2008 1:59 pm

    About 13 years back, one fine morning have witnessed one festival in Chennai.. Was walking down to my office at Pentafour at Kodambakkam and found people are gathering on every crossings, have stages on every crossings, dancing, singing, songs playing on loud speakers.. In the evening, on my way back to the lodge found the same mood and passion in the air everywhere.. Thought it is some local festival…

    later came to know It was the birthday of Shivaji the Boss.. never seen such a grand birthday celebrations earlier.. or after…

  7. Pavan Jha on February 29th, 2008 2:20 pm

    It was the time when Baasha (Remake of Hum in Tamil) was released (or just to be released) and all the auto.rickshaw walas had his picture framed in the rickshaw with scented agarbattis

    This man is a King and I have seen his kingdom!!!…

  8. cdrakenc on February 29th, 2008 2:34 pm

    All i know for a fact is that he was born in a manger and three white men came from far away and offerred him myrrh and frank incence…

    no wait… that’s jesus christ…

  9. DPac on February 29th, 2008 2:35 pm

    @Rk,
    in that case i should have just titled it ‘Thalaivar” or something…

    and its always ‘Rajni’ or ‘Rajnikant’..
    not Raj’i'ni

  10. cdrakenc on February 29th, 2008 5:46 pm

    “and its always

  11. DPac on February 29th, 2008 8:30 pm

    @cdrakenc
    dunno which idiot wrote the wiki thing..
    but yes it is Rajni…

    just browse down the wiki link to see instances
    plus do a rajni search on imdb…

  12. cdrakenc on February 29th, 2008 8:40 pm

    The Hindu,

    Which could be the reliable paper of record(they operate out of chennai, and will be corrcted immediately if they misspell God’s name) consistently spells his name as Rajinikanth.

    but vernacular proper nouns can go either way…

  13. cdrakenc on February 29th, 2008 8:42 pm

    http://www.sultanthefilm.com/#home

    This is Sultan the Warrior ’s website(this is Rajinikanth’s home production directed by his daugher.

    Check out how it spells his name.

  14. DPac on February 29th, 2008 8:57 pm

    well the sultan website i guess seals the issue.
    It would be safe to assume thaliavar’s daughter spells it as Rajinikant.

    cdrakenc, i dont know whether u r a south indian. If you are, the only ‘correct’ way you will spell it is as ‘Rajni’.
    and for each ‘Rajinikant’ you can come up with i can come up with a ‘Rajni’.

    You have to agree at this instance though the book is named “The Name is Rajnikanth”

    not the ‘h’ in the end too

  15. cdrakenc on February 29th, 2008 9:19 pm

    ask Soundarya rajinikanth.

  16. Medium on March 1st, 2008 12:43 am

    D pac … lets just keep it as Thalaivar !! ;) no confusion !!!

  17. DPac on March 1st, 2008 1:04 am

    Thalaivar it always will be :-)

  18. cdrakenc on March 1st, 2008 5:00 am

    only pretend rajini fans with steady middleclass english speaking day jobs call rajinikanth thalaivar.

    most real devotees just say rajini. He doesn’t mind. He’s humble like that…..like sri raghavendra…or ramana…

  19. V.P.Jaiganesh on March 1st, 2008 12:20 pm

    For Thamizh cine fans he is simply “THE SUPERSTAR” who made superhuman so natural.

  20. cdrakenc on March 1st, 2008 2:56 pm

    (when people say superstar , it needs to be backed with the disembodied james bond tum ta dum- ta dum -tadum music.)

  21. Shrek on March 3rd, 2008 1:03 am

    Did you know that Rajni gets very angry if his peppermint is not hot and spicy??

    Do you know that at dawn, the Sun bows down and prays before Rajni God

  22. DPac on March 3rd, 2008 2:31 am

    @cdrakenc (18),
    :) u got me there…
    its amazing how people can gauge others over the internet… eheheh

  23. cdrakenc on March 3rd, 2008 4:21 am

    dpac

    bet you can’t judge that I run a pirate ship and have a peg leg& & parrot…merely from speaking to me on the net.

  24. DPac on March 3rd, 2008 4:27 am

    arre i wouldnt even try cdra:)

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    They say bill nighy(whom Johnny depp modelled his pirate (of the carribean) was modelled after me.

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