Actor Rajanikanth Superstar Biography Profile Movie list

Biography / Biodata

Name	Rajanikanth
Nick Name	Sivaji Rao Gaekwad
Alternative names	Rajinikanth, Rajnikanth
Date of Birth	Dec 12, 1949
Birth Place	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Rajanikanth Height	5’9″
Eye colour	Light brown
Father	Ramoji Rao
Mother	Ramabai
Brothers	Sathya Narayana Rao & Nageshwara Rao
Schoool Days	Acharya Pathshala, Bangalore
Spouse	Latha Rajanikanth [26.02.1981]
Daughters	Aishwarya & Soundarya
Favourite city	Chennai
Favourite Dress	White Kurtha
Favourite drinks	Juice & Curd
Favourite food	Chicken & Mutton items
Favourite actor	Kamalhaasan
Tamil First movie	Apoorva Raagangal (1975)
Address_____________	#18, Raghava Veera Avenue, Poes Garden, Chennai-86

Hot facts in Biography

# Before starting his career in the film industry, he worked as a bus conductor for the Bangalore MetropolitanTransport Corporation in Bangalore.
# He joined the Madras Film institute in 1973 with the help of his friend Raj Bahadur and completed a basic course in acting.
# His friend Raj Bahadur [ bus driver] encouraged him to pursue his dream. The actor had to resign from his job from KSRTC, and Bahadur helped help him in many ways.
# According to astrology Rajni will enter politics after march 2010 .
# He was named Shivaji Rao Gaekwad. It was Balachander who assigned him his stage name Rajanikanth.
# He lost his mother at the age of five.
# Although his native tongue is Marathi, he has not acted in any Marathi movies yet.
# The tamil actor married Latha,an English literature graduate on February 26, 1981, at Thirupathi.
# His wife Latha is currently the principal of a school named – The Ashram.
# His daughter Aishwarya is married to actor Dhanush on November 18, 2004.
# He has acted in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, English and Bengali movies.
# Rajanikanth was named as one of the influential persons in South Asia by Asiaweek.
# In 1996 elections Rajani supported DMK-TMC alliance. Rajanikanth said “Even God cannot save Tamilnadu if AIADMK returns to power”.
# In 2002 Rajanikanth undertook a day-long fast to protest Karnataka’s decision to not to release Cauvery water to Tamilnadu.
# The actor contributed 10 Million rupees towards interlinking of Indian rivers scheme.
# The tamil superstar is planning to construct a new hospital and a new school on a piece of land near Chennai to help the needy.
# He presented a cheque for Rs 21 Lakhs for Tsunami relief fund, directly to the CM at the Secretariat.
# Rajanikanth fans conduct poojas before the launching of his films to ensure his success.
# Directors don’t dare to ‘kill off’ his character in the movie for fear that the theatre will be burnt down by his fans.
# He wrote screenplay for the film Valli.
# The actor returned the money to the distributors when his movie “Baba” fell short of market expectations.Thus he proved himself to be a living legend.

Tamil superstar Rajanikanth quotes

# “I live for myself ; I don’t care anybody but I respect everybody”
# “I was brought up by the Ramakrishna Mission and it’s from there that I have inherited this religious frame of mind, God decides and Arunachalam executes it.”
# “Yesterday I was a conductor, today I’m a star, tomorrow what I’ll be only He knows!”
# “The happiest men in this world are child, lunatic and a sage.”

Rajanikanth tamil best movie list

• Anthuleni Katha [ Jayaprada , Rajanikanth , Kamal Hassan ]
• Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai [ Rajanikanth ]
• Billa [ Rajanikanth , Balaji , Thengaai Srinivasan , Manorama , Sripriya and Major Sundarajan ]
• Pokkiri Raja [ Rajanikanth , Sridevi , Manorama , Muthuraman ]
• Thanikattu Raja [ Rajanikanth ]
• Naan Mahaan Alla [ Radha , Rajanikanth ]
• Moondru Mugam [ Rajanikanth , Murugan , Delhi Ganesh , Senthamarai ]
• Netrikan [ Rajanikanth ]
• Anbulla Rajinikanth [ Rajanikanth , Ambika , Meena , Jaishankar , Raadhika and Bhagyaraj ]
• Mannan [ Rajanikanth ]
• Annamalai [ Rajanikanth , Kushboo and Sarathbabu ]
• Uzhaippali [ Rajanikanth , Radha Ravi , S.S.Chandran , Ravi ]
• Veera [ Rajanikanth , Meena , Roja , Senthil ]
• Basha [ Rajanikanth , Nagma , Raghuvaran , Janagaraj ,Anandraj ]
• Muthu [ Rajinikanth , Meena , Raghuvaran , Sharath Babu , Radharavi , Senthil and Vadivelu ]
• Arunachalam [ Rajanikanth , Soundarya , Rambha , Raghuvaran , Jaishankar , Visu ]
• Padayappa [ Rajanikanth , Soundarya , Ramya Krishna , Sivaji Ganesan and Manivannan ]
• Chandramukhi [ Rajanikanth , Prabhu Ganesan , Jyothika , Saravanan , Nayanthara , Vineeth , Malavika , Vadivelu ]
• Sivaji [ Rajanikanth , Shriya Saran , Suman , Vivek , Raghuvaran , Manivannan , Nayanthara ]