super star

Most of his movies during the nineties were also successful, like mannan,padiaappa,veeera,basha,annamalai. Rajinikanth wrote his first screenplay for the film vali, and said to the media that it would be his last film (in writing screenplay) His film muthu was the first Tamil film to be dubbed into japanese as Muthu: The Dancing Maharajah and became very popular in japan . When he was 53, his baba released amidst much fanfare. Although the film grossed enough to cover its budget, it was viewed as a miserable showing and fell short of market expectations and high bids accumulating heavy losses for the distributorsRajinikanth himself repaid the losses incurred by the distributors who had immense faith in him. His latest film, sivaji, directed by sankar released on june 2007 has become the first Tamil movie to make the UK and South Africa Top 10 ChartsRajnikanth will now be lending his voice to the lead character (based on himself) in an animation film for Adlabs titled sultan the warrior to be directed by his daughter. The movie is scheduled for a 2008 release.