50 Years of Rajinikanth: Played a negative role in his debut film, know interesting stories related to Rajinikanth

50 Years of Rajinikanth: Superstar Rajinikanth is making headlines for the film 'Coolie', which was released in theaters on Thursday, August 14. What a coincidence that today, on August 15, the actor has completed 50 years in the industry. Let's know interesting things about him.

This is a double-happy occasion for superstar Rajinikanth. His film 'Coolie' was released yesterday, Thursday, August 14, and it has crossed the Rs 50 crore mark on the opening day itself. On the other hand, today, on August 15, 'Thalaiva' has completed 50 years in the world of cinema. On this golden occasion of the actor's career, let's know things related to his life and career.

South superstar Rajinikanth was born on 12 December 1950 in a Marathi family. His father was a police head constable. Before entering the film industry, Rajini's name was shivaji Rao Gaikwad. Rajini lost his mother when he was just four years old. The financial condition of the house was bad. In the early days, Rajinikanth worked as a porter and conductor. He also worked as an office boy. However, even while doing all this work, he used to dream of becoming a big man. He used to dream of becoming an actor.

Rajinikanth has seen poverty, has struggled, but he also saw a period when he was disappointed. In an event, the actor revealed that he always had a desire to become rich, due to which he was not afraid of anything. But, despite such a strong determination, there came a moment in his life when he became very disappointed. In an interview, Rajinikanth had said, 'Due to poverty, I sometimes worked as an office boy and sometimes carried people's luggage as a porter. Later, I started working as a carpenter. I know very well what poverty is. While facing poverty, there was a time in my life when I was so scared that I even thought of killing myself.

Rajinikanth was so passionate about acting that when he was a bus conductor, he used to issue tickets uniquely. Due to this unique style, he became very popular among drivers and conductors. Rajinikanth's friend raj Bahadur helped him a lot in becoming an actor. It was raj Bahadur who inspired Rajinikanth to take admission in the madras Film Institute. Although admission to the acting course was not easy for him, Rajinikanth's other friends also helped him. While learning acting, the actor learned the tamil language. During this time, he met director k balachander, who gave the actor a break.

Famous tamil director k balachander changed shivaji Rao Gaikwad's name to Rajinikanth. When Rajinikanth started his journey in the industry, shivaji Ganesan was very popular in the tamil industry at that time. To avoid confusion between the names of both, k balachander named Shivajirao Gaikwad as 'Rajinikanth'. Let us tell you that Rajinikanth's debut film, 'Apoorva Raagangal', was directed by the late K Balachander. Rajinikanth considered him his guru.

Rajinikanth's debut film 'Apoorva Raagangal' was released on 15 August 1975. At that time, Rajinikanth was 25 years old. He appeared in a small negative role in his debut film. He did similar roles for some time. After this, he started getting offers for lead roles, and he climbed the ladder of success to such an extent that today, fans give him the status of God. The world knows what Rajinikanth's stature is in the film world.

About eight years after starting his career in South cinema, Rajinikanth turned to Bollywood. His first hindi film was 'Andha Kanoon'. Released in 1983, Rajinikanth worked with actors like Hema Malini, amitabh bachchan, Pran, Amrish Puri, and danny denzongpa in this film. The film was a huge hit at the box office. It did business four times more than its budget.

Amitabh Bachchan's films have played a big role in Rajinikanth's fame. Rajinikanth has worked in remakes of more than a dozen of amitabh Bachchan's hit films, and due to this, the relationship between the two has remained very close. Rajinikanth has also admitted on many occasions that the remakes of Big B's films in which he became the hero gave him stardom.

When Rajinikanth's career started moving, he started getting a lot of film offers. This can be guessed from the fact that he completed 100 films in 10 years of his career. The actor's 100th film was 'Shri Raghavendra', in which he played the role of Hindu saint raghavendra Swami.