Actor rajinikanth profile|biography

Brith Name: Shivaji Gaekwad

Date of birth: 12th December 1949

Profession: Actor

Mother Tongue: Marathi

Birth Place: Bangalore

Hight: 5’6″

Education: Early education in Acharya Patasala and
later in  Raamakrishna Mission, Bangalore
(PUC discontinued) and Studied in the Film Institute

Father: Ramoji Rao

Mother: Rambhai

Sister: Shrimathi Aswathamma

Brothers: Sathya Narayana Rao & Nageshwara Rao

Wife: Latha

Daughters: Aishwarya and Sowandarya

Grandson: Yatra

Earlier Worked as: Carpenter, Bus Conductor

Marriage Date: 26.02.1981

Spiritual Guru: Satchithananda Swamiji

Guru: K. Balachander

Ardent Devotee of: Shri Raghavendra

Favourite Books: Books written by Shri Ramana
Maharishi

Favourite City: Chennai

Favourite Colour: Black

Favourite: Drinks Juice & Curd

Favourite: Foods Chicken & Mutton items

Favourite Dress: White Kurtha

Favourite Place: Himalaya

Favourite Place: in House Pooja Room

Favourite work: Self-driving

Favourite Language: English

Favourite Writer: Jayagandhan

Favourite Poet: Kannadasan

Favourite Musician: Illayaraja

Favourite Film: Veera Kesari (Kannada)

Favourite Politician: Singapore President Lee Quan-u

Favourite Hollywood Actor: Sylvester Stallone

Favourite Indian Actor: Kamalhaasan

Favourite Actress: Rekha (Hindi)

Favourite Role: Romantic Roles

Rajinikanth was born on December 12 1949 in Karnataka,
India. He was the fourth child to his
parents, Jija bai and Ramoji Rao Gaekwad. His original
name was Sivaji Rao Gaekwad. He lost
his mother at the age of five.
He had his schooling at the Acharya Patasala in
Bangalore and then at the Vivekananda Balak
Sangh, a unit of the Ramakrishna Mission. His mother
tongue is Marathi, though he has not
done many films in it.

There is a famous saying about Rajinikanth in southern
part of India, recited as “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,
Rajini is a Super Star. Before starting his career in the
film industry, he had to take up all sorts of odd jobs.
He served as a bus conductor for Karnataka state
transport corporation in Bangalore. It was during this
time that he nurtured his acting interests by performing
in various stage plays.A friend helped him to join the
Madras Film institute where Rajinikanth completed basic
acting course in 1974 at the age of 25.

He started his acting career in Kannada in the movie
Kathaa Sangama, directed by Puttanna Kanagal, in 1976.
In Tamil, he started with playing supporting roles,
beginning as a cancer patient in Apoorva Raagangal
(1975), directed by K. Balachander, who assigned him his
stage name Rajnikanth. After several villainous roles, his
first positive role was Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri (1979), in
which Rajnikanth played a failed lover in the first half
and a do-gooder in the second.
After several films in the Eighties, he played a Hindu
saint in his 100th movie, Sri Raghavendra. Many others
followed, among them dramas, comedies (notably Thillu
Mullu, a remake of Amol Palekar’s Golmaal) and, at the
end of the eighties, action-oriented family entertainers
like Velaikkaran and Manidhan.Annamalai, which released
in 1992, was the first Rajini film to gross almost Rs. 100
million at the box office.
Unlike the eighties, several movies during his nineties
were successful, like Muthuor Basha. At 53, his Baba
released amid fanfare. Although the film grossed enough
to cover its budget, it was viewed as a miserable showing
and fell short of market expectations accumulating heavy
losses for the distributors. Rajnikanth himself returned
the losses back to the distributors who had immense
faith in him. The whole affair cost him dear in terms of
repute of making a comeback.
Chandramukhi, a remake of the Malayalam movie
Manichitrathazhu. Chandramukhi was claimed as
one of the most successful Tamil films ever as it
ran in theatres (particularly in one theatre in
Mount Road, Chennai) for over 600 days since
release and still running. His next film, Sivaji: The
Boss, directed by S. Shankar will be released in
2007.Apart from Tamil, Rajnikanth has acted in
over 160 movies, including Telugu, Kannada,
Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali. He has also acted in
a Hollywood movie Bloodstone in 1988.
Rajnikanth was awarded the Padma Bhushan award
in the year 2000 and was rated as one of the most
influential persons in South Asia by Asiaweek. Rajnikanth
has won the Filmfare Best Actor Award, South on 2
occasions.
He is the highest paid actor in India and the second
highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie ChanRajinikanth
was requested by his fans for many years to stand in the
State election of Tamil Nadu, but has consistently
resisted entering politics directly. But he did some
indirect attempts in politics by announcing support to a
Political Party in Tamil Nadu.