Rajini autobiography
Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography
Book by Naman Ramachandran
Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography is a biography of the Indian actor Rajinikanth, written by Naman Ramachandran. It is the second biography of the actor, monitoring The Name is Rajinikanth () by Gayathri Sreekanth.[2]
Background
Naman Ramachandran writes for Sight & Sound and Variety and has previously authored Lights, Camera, Masala: Making Movies in Mumbai.
Ramachandran wanted to meet Rajinikanth when he began his work on the guide but was not allowed to meet him because of health. Later, Rajinikanth sent him a note. The author said that he had "tried to humanise Rajinikanth".[3] Ramachandran met various people involved in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada films, Rajinikanth's brother, Rajinikanth's daughters Soundarya and Aishwarya, and his friends and acquaintances.
Naman also searched Wikipedia and start that a fact about the actor's early life was false. His mother had died when he was nine years antique and not five as the online encyclopedia claimed.[3] Ramachandran watched each of his films twice and was spending so much time on his research perform that his wife said that she had "lost [him] to Rajinikanth" for those two years.[3] Ramachandran met Rajinikanth while the book's subject was filming for Kochadaiiyaan () in London.
Prepared after two years of analyze, the book was released on 12 December [3] A second edition was released in paperback form in January [4] Ramachandran has stated that he would aim to make a third edition of the book if Penguin India agrees.[5]
Summary
The book includes details about Rajinikanth's early experience, struggle, films, personal life, and stardom.
Shivaji Rao Gaikwad [ a ] [ 4 ] born 12 Decemberknown professionally as Rajinikanth[ b ] is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He is widely regarded to be one of the most successful and popular actors in the history of Indian cinema. The Government of India honoured him with Padma Bhushan inPadma Vibhushan inIndia's third and second highest civilian honoursand the highest award in the field of cinema Dadasaheb Phalke Award in the 67th National Film Awards ceremony for his contributions to Indian cinema. Following his debut in K.At the beginning of his career, Rajinikanth mostly played supporting and negative roles. Half of the fees he charges for every film are spent on charity. Several anecdotes are included.[6] Plot details and analysis of several of his films are also included.
Rajinikanth acted in the Telugu film Chilakamma Cheppindi alongside Sripriya. He wished to act with the Kannada performer Rajkumar but could not carry out so.
Shivaji Rao Gaikwadborn on December 12,is a famous Indian actor known by his professional name Rajinikanth. He mainly works in Tamil movies. Throughout his career of more than five decades, he has acted in films, including ones in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, and Malayalam. He is widely established as one of the most successful and beloved actors in the history of Indian cinema.His 50th film was Tiger. He had said that he would write an autobiography only if he became courageous enough like Mahatma Gandhi whose biography The Story of My Experiments with Truth revealed many unknown facts about him.[3]
Rajinikanth worked as an office boy, a coolie, a carpenter, in Mysore Machinery, and at one time earned money by loading rice sacks.
He obtained a bus conductor license by appearing for an exam. He later became a friend of the bus driver. When he was working as a conductor in Bangalore he became very popular among passengers due to his style of issuing tickets and returning the change.
It is the second biography of the actor, accompanying The Name is Rajinikanth by Gayathri Sreekanth. Ramachandran wanted to meet Rajinikanth when he began his work on the manual but was not allowed to meet him because of health. Later, Rajinikanth sent him a note. The author said that he had "tried to humanise Rajinikanth".They wanted to tour only by the bus which had Rajinikanth. It was during this time he acted in stage plays, watched a lot of films, and imitated Sivaji Ganesan, Rajkumar, and M. G. Ramachandran. He said that Ganesan was the reason he has been in cinema.
He linked the Madras Film Institute to learn acting skills.
All All. Sign In. Shivaji Rao Gaekwad. Superstar Thalaivar.Director K. Balachander named him after A V M Rajan's character in the film Major Chandrakanth ().[7]
Reception
Sadanand Menon, writing for India Today, criticised the book.
He compared Tamil film actors' biographers to the ones "who light a candle to look at the sun". He said that the composer was "totally mixed up about whether he [was] writing a 'biography' or a 'filmography'."[2]Anurag Kashyap, Suresh Krissna, Rajiv Menon, Sreenivasan and Rajinikanth himself praised the book.[6] Writing for Daily News and Analysis, Kaushani Banerjee applauded the author and said that he had "[entered] into the soul of the persona of the star".
Banerjee credited Ramachandran for "[doing] complete justice in explaining the Rajinikanth phenomenon."[6] Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama called it "just an above average read" and praised Gayathri Sreekanth's book The Name Is Rajinikanth by calling it a paisa vasool (worth its money).[8]