Manidharul Punithar, Maha-Avatar RAJINIKANTH News and Update

[groucho070]

. They probably would have succumbed to massive exhaustion, if you know what I mean, The Big Sleep, the way they tend to work hard. Especially NT.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

As Plum mentioned, personally it was not a great time for him. He was not well, working too hard, I think he had a blackout at one point. Plus some other personal problem that I heard about, but not sure if they are true. So, 78 - 81 bad time personally, awesome time career-wise.

Apparently He had some problems with MGR over a lady issue and I also heard he was apparently hospitalised during this 79-81 period. All these personal problems triggered his spirituality path, hence the involvement with Swami Raghavendra !

The above was told to me by one elder, I am not sure how much truth was in it.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Hamid - my daughter is already a Vijay fan. Ofcourse, being still a kid, one can excuse her

nArayana nArayana

Marai mugame enna solla vareer nu enaku puriyuthu

[tamizharasan]

The problem Rajini had with MGR was not the reason for his personal problems. As a matter for fact many upcoming actors had problems with established actors during that time. Just because Rajini had attained super stardom later on, this case was overly exaggerated.

[Dilbert]

As I typed that, I realised that I said "Essence of Rajini" more than once. Obviously, behind that superstar facade lies an awesome actor, whom you could define in multi-dimensional terms, and had his own indescribable "it" thing, something that you could identify as Rajini-ness. Among the wannabe superstars in his footsteps, who has that "it" thing? ANother thing is though I defined the phases of his craeere based on my life and my movmement in and out of his camps, it seems to me my peak fandom of him is up to his free-spirit phase. The phase that moved me away is the phase he got co-opted into the system as the conservative, family-types, lovely, lovable man image. After marriage. So there is something beyond just the quality of the movies he acted in - what we lost because of his superstardom in terms of Rajini's acting skills cannot be measured at all. From the rebellious free-spirit capable of a range of emotions through bhairavi, mullum malarum to polladhavan, he became the lovable cuddly brother, lover, thalaivar. Obviously, he lost some of the zing associate with the free-spiritedness in the process. A lamentable loss to tamil filmdom. I also remember one among Kannadasan/MGR/AVMSaravanan advicing him that "ennappA polladhavan, billa padikkadhavannu padathukku pEru negativEA; nalla positiveA pEru vayyi". Hence the titles became Manidhan, oor kavalan etc. While not explicitly, I think this also saignified his move from his earlier persona to the conventional persona of mid 80s onwards. Wonder if that's got something to do with my migration...indha artistlaam edhukku kalyaanam panni kuzhandhai ellaam pethukkanum. Indha NT, Rajini ivangulekellaam nalla family life illaama irundhirundhaa namakku nalladha irundhirukkumo?

this is One and only post plum you captured my mind ! To my part I was never in to movies. until I could see some hair in respective places to prove my presence to fellow human beings. I did a decent recap of movies and the only indian actor, who suited my way of thinking was rajini! his attitude was indeed contagious ! His movies gave different flavour to regulars Sambar , pongal.
Hat off to damil audiences in 1970s / 80s for accepting these bold flavor of cinema. unlike current luv luv cow cow generation.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

The problem Rajini had with MGR was not the reason for his personal problems. As a matter for fact many upcoming actors had problems with established actors during that time. Just because Rajini had attained super stardom later on, this case was overly exaggerated.

Again (based on "un realiable sources") , I heard the issue was about yester years actress "latha" (not Super Star's wife) but actress Latha! I also heard that MGR made sure that no one from the Cine industry rose above him! This could have triggered the problem with Rajni and MGR as MGR was ageing, the trend was changing and Rajni was becoming Popular that time!

[Dilbert]

Again (based on "un realiable sources") , I heard the issue was about yester years actress "latha" (not Super Star's wife) but actress Latha! I also heard that MGR made sure that no one from the Cine industry rose above him! This could have triggered the problem with Rajni and MGR as MGR was ageing, the trend was changing and Rajni was becoming Popular that time!

there is another theory .. that he was forced to marry a "girl" by name latha. To avoid the media scrutiny of the whole matter. YG was god sent for thaliavar itseems . KB was also very unhappy about this whole epsiode.

remember all the directors who engaged rajini the actor showed middle finger to the regular norm which prevaled. so lots of these small hiccups were magnified / dubbed as "Dark era for Rajni" -> HISTORY is not always HIS-STORY.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

there is another theory .. that he was forced to marry a "girl" by name latha. To avoid the media scrutiny of the whole matter. YG was god sent for thaliavar itseems . KB was also very unhappy about this whole epsiode.

remember all the directors who engaged rajini the actor showed middle finger to the regular norm which prevaled. so lots of these small hiccups were magnified / dubbed as "Dark era for Rajni" -> HISTORY is not always HIS-STORY.

Dilbs

I only said, what I heard. Like I said, There is a high possibilty of that being wrong

[Dilbert]

Dilbs

I only said, what I heard. Like I said, There is a high possibilty of that being wrong

[groucho070]

All these personal problems triggered his spirituality path, hence the involvement with Swami Raghavendra !

EnnamA link pannurAngga. He was already involved with the Ashram since he was a kid. Always been a religious/spiritual guy.