INDIAN ACTION MOVIE STAR INSTALL

A decade later, he was being hailed as a вЂњsuperstar.вЂќ One day a movie director spotted him on stage, which led to his first role, playing an abusive husband, in 1975. He acted in school plays, but later worked as a railway porter, a carpenter and a ticket seller on public buses. Rajinikanth, the actorвЂ™s stage name, was born Shivaji Rao ВGaekwad in southern India, the son of a police constable. The starвЂ™s вЂњpanache, style and iconic one-liners fire up his fans and immediately become part of popular culture and lingo,вЂќ Ram added. Ram, chairman of the Hindu group of newspapers here. political life, there has been nothing to compare with the Rajinikanth phenomenon,вЂќ said N. вЂњEven in a land where films, and superstar actors, play larger-than-life roles in social, cultural and. But the real madness takes place in India. More than 20В million people viewed the pre-release trailer on YouTube in just two weeks. The movie, a gangster action drama, has been released on 10,000 screens around the world, including more than 400 in the United States and several in Britain, China, Malaysia and Japan.

INDIAN ACTION MOVIE STAR INSTALL

One county was giving away free tickets to people who pledged to install an indoor Вtoilet, taking advantage of the movieвЂ™s popularity to address the issue of widespread public defecation. Air Asia flew 180 fans to the city for the first-day showing in a plane Вcustom-painted with the starвЂ™s likeness. Others had booked entire cinemas for their staff.

In Chennai, some companies gave employees the day off Friday so they could go see вЂњ Kabali,вЂќ RajinikanthвЂ™s first film in two years. Yet he is so beloved - he boasts 3В million Twitter followers - that his movie release dates are anticipated in India like national holidays.ДЇans of Rajinikanth offer prayers in front of his poster outside a cinema in Chennai, India, on Friday to celebrate the release of вЂњKabali.вЂќ Hundreds of thousands thronged cinemas across the country for вЂњfirst day, first showвЂќ of the gangster action drama. At 65, he is balding and sports unkempt gray stubble. And Rajinikanth is the biggest star in that firmament, if sheer, over-the-top fan mania is the measure. IndiaвЂ™s movie industry is the biggest in the world, producing more than 1,600 new films a year in more than 20 local languages. вЂњAfter my parents, it is superstar Rajinikanth who is most important to me.вЂќ вЂњIf I donвЂ™t get to watch my favorite starвЂ™s new movie on the вЂfirst day, first show,вЂ™ there will be a big black hole in my life,вЂќ said Sundar Vaidyanathan, 27, wiping away tears. The fans, chased out by police, were heartbroken. Then came the bad news: All the tickets were sold out. Hundreds of fans shoved their way in as firecrackers burst and car stereos blared one of the movieвЂ™s hit songs, вЂњThis Is Fire, Dude!вЂќ CHENNAI, India - The cinema gates opened before dawn here, home of the Tamil movie star ВRajinikanth and ground zero of the nationwide frenzy surrounding the release Friday of his latest action epic.

Indian action movie star