Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography
Cover of the first edition
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| Author | Naman Ramachandran |
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| Country | India |
| Genre | Biography |
| Publisher | New Delhi, Vikings, 2012 |
| Pages | 290 pp. |
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| OCLC | 825198202 |
Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography is a 2012 biography of the Indian actor Rajinikanth, written by Naman Ramachandran. It is the second biography of the actor, following The Name is Rajinikanth (2008) by Gayathri Sreekanth.
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 begun his work on the book, but was not allowed to meet him for reasons of health. Later, Rajinikanth sent a note to him. The author said that he had "tried to humanise Rajinikanth". Ramachandran met various people involved in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Telugu films, Rajinikanth's brother, Rajinikanth's daughters Soundarya and Aishwarya and his friends and acquaintances. He also searched and found that a fact about the actor's early life was wrong. His mother had died when he was nine years old and not five as the online encyclopedia claimed. Ramachandran watched each of his films twice and was spending so much time for his research work that his wife said that she had "lost [him] to Rajinikanth" for those two years. Ramachandran met Rajinikanth while the book's subject was filming for Kochadaiiyaan in London. Prepared after two years of work researching, the book was released on 12 December 2012. A second edition was released in paperback form in January 2014. Ramachandran has stated that a third edition of the book is also possible if Penguin India agrees.
The book includes details about Rajinikanth's early life, struggle, films, personal life and stardom. At the beginning of his career, Rajinikanth mostly played supporting and negative roles. Half of the fees he charges for every film is spent in charity. Several anecdotes are included. Plot details and analysis of several of his films are also included. Rajinikanth acted in the 1977 Telugu film Chilakamma Cheppindi alongside Sripriya. He wished to act with the Kannada actor Rajkumar but could not do so. 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.
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