Meanwhile the grapevine has it that he has refused to play the character role of Ravana in a corporate companies Rs 120 crore mega epic film Ramayan to be produced in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, with the launch fixed on January 11, 2008. He was offered his market rate, but the actor's cryptic reply was- "I'm still playing the hero's role, and I have no interest in moving over to character roles."
It means clearly the 57-year old superstar will continue with his unique formula mass masala movies in Tamil. He wants to be the first super hero in Indian cinema who will never switch over to character roles and probably play the "Hero" till he fades away!
A source close to Rajnikanth pointed out: " At the end of the day it is how good you look on big screen. Age cannot wither away the Rajni magic; he still has terrific screen magnetism to attract the youth audiences some of them who were not born when he became a superstar in early 80's."
Action hero's worldwide survive more at the top than romantic actors. Arnold Schwarzenegger ruled Hollywood till the age of 60 and retired after he became governor of California. And now most popular action hero ever Sylvester Stallone at 63 is creating waves as his high-octane action adventure movie Rambo-4 is releasing big worldwide on January 25! If Stallone at 63 is still hot at the box-office, well Rajni is a Payyan at 57 and will continue to be the lord of Tamil cinema.
The latest buzz doing the rounds is that Rajnikanth will not have a release in 2008, but will start a new film towards the end of the year. His phenomenal success has been linked to his decision to do only one film in two years, which makes the audiences crave for him. Reliance Adlabs has confirmed that Sultan is likely to release only for Pongal 2009, as there is so much graphic and animation work in the film.
At the same time Sultan is an animation film using the stars face and his voice. So what about a full length mass Rajnikanth film? He has approved two scripts in principal one by veteran director K.S Ravi Kumar and the other by A.R Murgadoss. The superstar himself will take the final call soon on who among the two will get the green signal.
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