In 1990, he teamed up for the second time with Kalaivanan Kannadasan for the film Mr. He won a Cinema Express Award for Best Villain for his role, which brought him more film offers. Sarathkumar acted as a villain in Pulan Visaranai and the film turned out to be a blockbuster. Sarathkumar was spotted by Raju, the personal make-up man of actor Vijayakanth, who recommended him to the Pulan Visaranai 's team. The film was directed by Kalaivanan Kannadasan and he co-starred with Karthik and Ambika. In 1988, while running his travel agency in Chennai, Sarathkumar got an opportunity to act as well as produce in the Tamil film Kan Simittum Neram. Sarathkumar was originally cast to play the lead role in Chinna Poove Mella Pesu (1987) directed by Robert–Rajasekar but the producers insisted on having one familiar face and he was replaced by actor Prabhu. Sarathkumar made his acting debut in 1986, in the Telugu film Samajamlo Sthree at the behest of a producer friend. Sarathkumar with Shaik Mydeen 1986–1991: Debut roles He is fluent in all South Indian languages and is quite proficient in Russian. He shifted his energies towards running his own business, a travel agency in Chennai and meeting Kalaivanan Kannadasan who elevated him to become a producer. After successfully establishing the circulation, he moved on to Chennai. He then moved to Bangalore to work for the newly started Tamil newspaper Dinakaran, he started as a cycle boy distributing newspapers to shops and later graduated to become a reporter for the same newspaper. He later became a bodybuilder and earned the 'Mr.

After completing his pre-university levels at Loyola College, he was subsequently graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from The New College. He was one of the cadets who marched in the Republic Day Parade of 1970. He also joined the NCC, becoming an Air Wing Cadet. Being an avid sports enthusiast, he played football, cricket and hockey, representing his school and college teams. Patrick's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School. He then moved on to the Central School in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and finished at St. Sarathkumar started his schooling at the Raja Muthiah High School, after his family relocated from Delhi to Chennai. His mother Pushpaleela died on 26 October 2013. Sarathkumar is the youngest child in his family, he had two siblings an elder brother, the late Sudarshan Ramanathan and an elder sister Mallika Kandaswamy.

His father Ramanathan worked at the All India Radio before joining the Press Information Bureau of India, while his mother Pushpaleela was a housewife. Sarathkumar was born on 14 July 1954 to Ramanathan and Pushpaleela, a Tamil family in New Delhi.

In South India, people worship him and consider him their God.

Rajini is known for his punctuality and reaches before time on his shooting venues.Since 1995, he has been going to the Himalayas after the completion of his every film.In order to impress them, he practised tossing his cigarette and later on, that’s how his famous style of tossing cigarette came into existence. During his school days, Rajinikanth wanted to join a gang but being his seniors the gang members did not accept him.Rajinikanth has quit on his smoking habit but he drinks alcohol.Rajini’s favourite social activist is Anna Hazare.Lee Kuan Yew (Former Prime Minister of Singapore) is Rajini’s favourite politician.He is an avid reader and his favourite books are Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki and Amma Vanthal by T. Janakiraman.Rajinikanth admires the work of musician, Ilayaraja.Kannada film, Veera Kesari, is his favourite film.Thalaiva’s favourite actors are Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Sylvester Stallone, whereas, his favourite actresses are Rekha, Hema Malini.Pro-Tamils protested against Rajinikanth when in 2017, Lyca Productions announced that a housing scheme would be unveiled by Rajinikanth under his charity wing, ‘ Gnanam Foundation‘ for displaced Tamils in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

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