Rajnikanth the Phenomenon

Once again here is unique personality by name Shivaji Rao Gaekwad famously known as Rajnikanth - The Badshah of Movie World.

How else can one explain the reason behind enormity of the success of his latest movie Sivaji - The Boss as well as his previous film Chandramukhi's successful 804 day run (everyone understands how it ran - not all days would have been full house)?

This man who started a simpleton who was not educated enough and roamed around in and around Bangalore and finally managed to become a Bus Conductor in BTS (the bangalore metro transportation system). During all this there was a fire burning inside this individual who had some unique blessed and cultivated tricks and style of his own with which he used to entertain his friends and co-workers.

We all know how he managed to join the Film Institute in Madras now Chennai with his friends' support and encouragement and how he was spotted by the legendary tamil movie director K Balachander from the now famous Adyar Film Institute.

It is indeed credit to that single individual how he has successfully cultivated a humungous fan following cutting across the wide spectrum of the society, from a highly educated professional to a simple housewife, to flower vendor, to daily wage laborer, to auto drivers, to transportation employees etc. It was there for the whole world (literally across the world) to see when his latest movie opened.

Though the movie was panned across the board for lack of any cohesive logic and only style and gloss, one thing was accepted by every single reviewer universally that this movie is worth watchable only for a single individual called RAJNIKANTH and his now famous style. It was also acknowledged that age has caught up with him and his reflexes, speed and famous baritone has subsided quite a lot but still no other person worth his salt could have carried off this movie on their shoulders and made it a such a huge unbelievable world wide hit.

Yet this person remains completely down to earth, humble and simple. With every success he has found a new way to find a philosophical answer to his success. Despite any lack of education he has cultivated an ability to study the scriptures and philosphy which has transformed him as an individual which is there for the whole world to see. People can really see what I mean (significant change) if they check out his career and what all he had gone through from being termed as a jinxed freak, to a finger wonder, to a crazy mad soul, to a womanizer, to a drug addict and boozer etc.

Success does change people completely but sometimes it takes them to the path of self destruction when the same success goes to their head. On the other hand if a person manages to be untouched by the money, power, fame that the success bring with it and remains completely down to earth, it does wonders. In Rajnikanth's case he still remains the same Shivaji for his BTS driver and conductor colleagues. He still enjoys every small thing he used to every year for a certain period of time with all of them, like having food at their favorite joints in bangalore, watching movies though Rajni goes around incognito with them, sleeping on the floor etc.

He is a recipe to follow to become successful, powerful and still remain simple and humble.

Cheers to the Superstar
Venkat