Favorite Scenes/Songs from THALAIVAR Rajini films #3

[kid-glove]

I wonder whether Animal welfare board would let him rip Lakshmi in Annamalai like a mad man, like in Illiterate Man.

[Avadi to America]

for me Padikkathavan is like Annamalai of 80's..
it has everything for Rajini..
action+comedy+senti+acting

Rightly said Honest.

[app_engine]

indha rajasekara modha oru full cover pannanum...
was very impressed with teo...

He shot into fame with malayur mambattiyAn (big hit those days, Prasanth's daddy hero).

Otherwise he did a lot of masAlA hits - kAkki chattai / padikkAthavan / thambikku endha ooru etc. TEO is more than a malAlA, some comedy portions were ROTFL variety...

[Plum]

Rajasekar did TEO. SPM did neRRIkaNN. GNR did Meendum Kokila. 80s - Kamal, Rajini when used even to 50% of their potential ended up with decent-to-great movies. Directors - apple juice fellers. Project managers. Dont try to give too much credit to them.(Note to feeyar: self-flagellation, I must have been born British)

Rajasekar also did Vikram and Maaveran. More up his alley I suppose. Doesnt TEO stick out in his resume? That too, the second half isnt much to write home about.

[HonestRaj]

who is Rajashekar?
is there any pic of him?
is he the Rajashekar of "robert-rajashekar" duo?
is he the one of the lead actor in NizhalgaL?

[kid-glove]

Certainly you can see Rajasekar having a better control over his films than KSR. Especially KSR-Rajini films, where series of accidental moments which channels RAjinism well cached on for the audience, but is so dumb on revisits.

You can't say he's all Apple Juice. Even Vikram, Kakki Sattai 'was' compelling to watch. But I respect Flu trashing them, he has gold standards.

[ecureuhapis]

On the contrary, very very watchable because of Rajini. Every scene he is in, sparks fly. Always thought NT was a tad too old to be his brother, but then I think about Kamal's family.

K_G, that's definitely NT-ish.

he was on fire in padikkathavan..

this scene.. ROTFL esque.

[SoftSword]

app, teo more than masala'va... that is another category'nga... certainly not anywhere close to masala.

[Nerd]

who is Rajashekar?
is there any pic of him?
is he the Rajashekar of "robert-rajashekar" duo?
is he the one of the lead actor in NizhalgaL?

This is a different Rajasekar. Rajini's friend. He died soon after Dharmadurai released. Leftmost in this apple juice pic -

[Nerd]

Came across this poster made by the LIC unit for Dharmadurai 175 days. Interesting tidbit about Thalapathi at the bottom of this poster.