Top Rajini Movies!
Superstar Rajinikanth began his career in 1975 with a relatively small role as an abusive husband with director K Balachander's 'Apoorva Raagangal' starring Kamal Haasan in the lead.
Rajinikanth gradually rose to become a star actor after initially playing the role of an antagonist in his early films.
The growth of the star has been phenomenal .Here is a list of few of Rajinikanth's top movies over the years.
Baasha (1995)
Baasha is an action thriller film starring Rajinikanth, Nagma, and Raghuvaran in which he played the role of a protagonist, who takes revenge for his friend's murder.
Not only did the film enjoy a highly positive box office response but also catapulted Rajini into the stratosphere of Super Stardom .
The punch dialogues and the mannerisms of Rajini were extremely well received!
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16 Vayathinile (1977)
Rajnikanth played a village rogue called Parattai in the film and the audiences were left spellbound with his teasing line, 'Idhu eppadi irukku?' (How is it?).
The film starred Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Sridevi in the lead once again and went on to win four state awards.
To Learn More,Visit: 16 Vayathinile (1977)
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Thillu Mullu (1981)
Rajini plays the carefree graduate named Ayyampettai Arivudainambi Kaliyaperumal Chandran and he pulls of clean jokes effortlessly making this movie a classic laugh-a-thon .
Rajinikanth had to shave his moustache for the film, making it the first film which featured him without a moustache .
To Learn More,Visit: Thillu Mullu (1981)
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Thalapathi (1991)
The movie had Rajinikanth, Mammootty, Shobana in the lead roles, which was directed by Mani Ratnam .
The theme is loosely based on the friendship between Karna and Duryodhana of the Hindu epic Mahabharatha .
This Mani Ratnam movie speaks for itself with spectacular performances by Rajini and is a timeless Tamil classic .
This movie was also important in the sense that it clearly understood that Rajini's fans can never accept him dying.
To Learn More,Visit: Thalapathi (1991)
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Muthu (1995)
The film was a blockbuster and completed a 175-day run at the box office.
It was later released in Japanese as Muthu Odoru Maharaja which means Muthu - The Dancing Maharaja.
The film grossed a record US$ 1.6 million in Japan in 1998 and was responsible for creating a large Japanese fan-base for the actor.
Muthu's success in Japan led American News magazine Newsweek to comment in a 1999 article that Rajinikanth had "supplanted Leonardo DiCaprio as Japan's trendiest heartthrob .
To Learn More,Visit: Muthu (1995)
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