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Actor Rajnikanth speaks during a media conference about the film "Kochadaiyaan", directed by his daughter Soundarya (R), London. (REUTERS)
It is somehow befitting that the ancient Mayan calculations about the world ending as we know it falls on the same day as India’s reel-life ‘man of steel’ celebrates his birthday.
Indeed, superstar Rajinikanth turns 62 today and if you happen to be a fan, then any doomsday scenario would probably be just an aftershock of the Tamilian legend blowing out his birthday candles on 12/12/12.
India’s answer to Chuck Norris, Rajinikanth’s fans and followers are already ready to party hard for the superstar’s birthday with some already prepared with tributes in honour of their super hero.
Earlier this week, fans Raghava Lawrence and Vijay Anthony came out with a special song to mark the occasion, with the ‘Idhu Rajni Song’ being launched as a special birthday gift that even saw wife Latha grace the occasion.
Meanwhile, Rajinikanth’s Shankar directed blockbuster, ‘Sivaji – The Boss’ (2007) is now re-releasing in 3D on 12/12/12, as a mark of tribute.
With at least 150 movies to his credit and India’s highest civilian order of the Padma Bhushan on his mantle, the superstar has managed to stop a speeding bullet with his bare hands, out-run a bullet train, somersaulted seven times through the air to land on his feet, climbed walls with his bare hands, stopped a dagger with his bare teeth and lit a cigarette by shooting it in the air.
If others attempted such stunts, they would have been laughed out of the cinematic spotlight, but in the case of Rajinikanth, another temple is erected in his honour.
The Emirates 24|7 team takes this opportunity to pick three of the best scenes from the superstar’s heydays, wishing Rajinikanth a very happy birthday.
The Shankar-directed ‘Robot’ saw the Superstar dressed in his metallic best, depicting an android turned bad and goes on a killing spree.
The film may have defied logic, but fans lapped up hundreds of Rajinis that morphed into an Anaconda, a bullet train and even a torpedo on the lose.
Before you go, what? Seeing is believing.
Superstar rewrites Newton’s laws of gravity
A man flies through the air, crashing through a car’s windshield and smashes through the window in the back. All we see first is a lone shoe, could it be a Nike we wonder? Possible an Adidas, which may have inspired its famous tagline: Impossible is Nothing”.
But clearly, impossible is not a word that exists in the dictionary of the man whose foot is encased in that trainer. Did we mention he is Superstar Rajinikanth?
A chewing gum flies plops faithfully into his mouth, a mini cyclone is conjured by the mere twirling of his toe and goons fly through the air performing somersaults that would make a trapeze artiste proud.
Which movie is this? Who cares. This is Rajinikanth at his best!
The film is Sivaji – The Boss, the premise is a climax, the weapons of choice are Samurai swords and battleaxes. Oh boy! This is going to get ugly very fast.
With billions of rupees raining down from the sky, an angered Rajinikanth leaps, flies, dances and spins in a circle while airborne as he takes out baddie after baddie with his action adventure on a rooftop.
Did we mention its raining billions? Indeed, in his bald eagle avatar and a trenchcoat to boot, Rajini Sir takes on a lungi-clad head honcho while hanging upside down from a metal beam, wielding battleaxes and leaving dead bodies in his wake.
Seeing is believing we tell you.
A man goes flying through the air and takes out a streetlamp. The municipality commission would not be pleased, but the damsel in distress most certainly is in “Basha”.
Superstar Rajinikanth is angry and he means serious business as bodies fly and blood is spilled while the damsel squeals in glee or is it despair; we still haven’t quite figured it out. But this is the superstar at his raw best.
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