Rajinikanth Biography Trivia Awards

	Name:	Rajinikanth
	Birth Name:	Sivaji Rao Gaekwad
	Date of Birth:	Dec 12, 1949 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India
	Height:	5’9″
	Father:	Ramoji Rao
	Mother:	Ramabai
	Siblings :	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
	Favourite actor:	Kamalhaasan
	Favourite Director:	Mahendran
	Favourite Place:	Himalayas
	Favourite Musician:	Ilayaraja
	Favouorite Film:	Veera Kesari(Kannada)
	Favourite Politician:	Lee Kuan Yew
	Tamil First movie:	Apoorva Raagangal (1975)
	Hindi:	Andhaa Kanoon
	Telugu:	Anthuleni Katah
	English:	Blood stone
	Kannada:	Katha Sangama
	Malayalam:	Alavudheenum Arputha Vilakkum
	Bengali:	Bhagya Devta
	Address:	#18, Raghava Veera Avenue,
		Poes Garden, Chennai-86

Trivia

# Before starting his career in the film industry, he worked as a bus conductor for the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport 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.

# He was the son of a police constable.

# The Tamil actor married Latha, an English literature graduate on February 26, 1981, at Thirupathi.

# After Shivaji, he became the highest paid actor(26 crore) in Asia after Jackie Chan.

# His mannerisms and his style of dialogue delivery in films contribute to his mass popularity and made him the media personality and cultural icon.

# Rajani Kanth's first daughter Aishwarya got married to actor Danush and his second daughter Soundarya got married to an industialist Ashwin Ramkumar.

Aishwarya with Danush

Soundarya with Ashwin

# 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.

# In 1996, he was important in the defeat of the ruling AIADMK party in the Tamilnadu assembly elections. popular Tamil language network, proclaimed him King-maker when he supported the DMK-TMC combine and helped them come to power”

# Superstar Rajinikanth has said it is up to the God to decide whether he would enter politics or not.

# In 2002, Rajinikanth undertook a daylong fast to protest the Government of Karnataka's decision to not release Kaveri River water into Tamil Nadu and announced that he would contribute 10 million toward a plan to interlink the Indian rivers.

# Is there anything left to be said about a man who, at 61, still manages to star in one of the most successful films of the year, not just in the south, but across India? Superstar Rajni once again proved that he is the actor with the Midas touch with the sci-fi flick Endhiran, where he played an ambitious scientist, a naive robot and an evil android bent on destroying the world. He did it with such aplomb that he's been the talk of the town for months.

Personal Quotes:

“If I had not become an acrtor I’d hav become a smuggler or an underworld don, because I wanted to make money, But That phase is over, I’ve made enough money”.

“Candle, mirror, music!... I’d sit before a mirror with a glass of whisky, put off the lights, light a candle and listen to music. That was de-stressing for me, after 9 ‘o’ clock I don’t meet people”.

“I cannot be an ordinary man, move around like people do, go out eat in a restaurant or take a walk. I miss my private life. But Sivaji Rao, the simple man, is always awake inside me”.

“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”.

“I have no idea about penning an autobiography now. In that case it has to an honest one and I feel in that process I may end up hurting some people.Mahatma Gandhi had the guts to write such an autobiography. I will do so when I get the guts”.

“After every film I go to the Himalayas, I go to the interiors, to the Himalayan villages. Being there itself is like meditation. The Ganges, the divine mountain, the beauty, the innocent people. I’ve been there many times. I’ve been going there for 15 years, I started going to the Himalayas in 1995”.

“Sometimes when I do action scenes I do feel the age or when I dance. Age is age. But technicians, directors, they know and they manage. When doing a romantic scene now, you feel awkward. Even if you say it’s just acting, you do feel a little embarrassed.”

Awards

# Ambika Awards

Winner: Best Actor for Annamalai (1992)

# Arima Sangam Awards

Winner: Best Actor forVayathinile (1977)

Winner: Best Actor for Mullum Malarum (1978)

# Cinema Express Awards

Winner: Best Actor for Nallavanuku Nallavan(1984)

Winner: Best Actor for Sri Raghavendra(1985)

Winner: Best Achiever for Bloodstone(1988)

Winner: Best Actor for 1991 Thalapathy(1991)

Winner: Best Actor for Annamalai(1992)

Winner: Best Story Writer for1993 Valli(1993)

Winner: Best Actor for Badsha, Muthu(1995)

# Civilian honors

Padma Bhushana by the Government of India in the year 2000

# Devar Awards

Winner: Best Actor for Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai(1979)

# Filmalaya Awards

Winner: Best Actor for Sri Raghavendra(1985)

# Filmfans Association Award

Winner: Best Actor for Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai(1979)

Winner: Best Actor for Enkeyo Ketta Kural(1982)

Winner: Best Actor for Nallavanuku Nallavan(1984)

Winner: Best Actor for Sri Raghavendra(1985)

Winner: Best Actor for Thalapathy(1991)

Winner: Best Actor for Annamalai(1992)

Winner: Best Story Writer for Valli(1993)

Winner: Best Actor for Badsha, Muthu(1995)

# Filmfare Awards South

Winner: Best actor for Nallavanuku Nallavan(1984)

Nominated: Best Actor for Muthu(1995)

Nominated: Best Actor for Sivaji(2007)

Nominated: Best Actor for Enthiran(2010)

# Kalasagar Awards

Winner: Best Actor for Muthu(1995)

# NDTV Awards

Winner: Indian Entertainer of the Year for 2007(2008)

Winner: Entertainer of the Decade Award by NDTV (2011)

Winner: Most Stylish actor Award by NDTV(2011)

# Raj Kapoor Award

Winner: By Government of Maharashtra in the year 2007

# South Screen Awards

Winner: Best Actor for1995 Peddarayudu(1995)

#Sunflash Awards

Winner: Best Actor for Velaikaran(1987)

# Tamil Nadu Murpokku Ezhuthalar Sangam Award

Winner: Best Film for Valli(1993)

# Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

Winner: Special Award for Mullum Malarum(1978)

Winner: Special Award for Moondru Mugam(1982)

Winner: Kalaimamani(1984)

Winner: MGR Award(1989)

Winner: Best Actor for Muthu(1995)

Winner: Best Actor for Padayappa(1999)

Winner: Best Actor for Chandramukhi(2005)

Winner: Best Actor for Sivaji(2007)

Winner: MGR-Sivaji Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu(2011)

# Thirai Kathir

Winner: Best Supporting Actor for Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri(1977)

# Vijay Awards

Winner: Favourite Hero for 2007 Sivaji(2007)

Winner: Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema

Winner: Best Villain for Enthiran(2011)

Winner: Favourite Hero for Enthiran(2011)