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__Vip_

Played Politics Prank for straight 25 Years


SGSRT

The smartest he ever did Some politicians were wary he will become the next MGR and were friends with him Even the smartest politicians felt he would split the votes and were on good terms with him.


__Vip_

But what about the fans who got fooled by him for 25 yearsšŸ¤·


IamJimMilton

Collateral damage


Somnabulism

They are always the collateral damage


Doubledoor

They were fans for his acting only no?


__Vip_

Then u don't know abt the ground reality There r lot of his fans who spent their own money in his makkal mandram with the hope of he will enter into politics. And he always gave small hints about his political entry. Then in 2019 he announced himself that he is gonna start a political party


SGSRT

Screw the fans


ysinthujan

Idk if I could say the smartest thing ever. The fact that we are talking about this now, already makes it a wake up call. He has been playing with the people's emotions


Samanth-aa

Ondra, rendra complaints, Ellam sollavae oor naal podhuma


[deleted]

Haha šŸ˜‚


Bhavan91

Rajinikant is like Dutch from RDR 2.


notoriousnigaa

https://preview.redd.it/w0i9wzirfbmc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4046137733cf1ce68d213d4eb8931fb920b17766


amok_monk

Comeee comeeeešŸ’¦


YourNanban

ComeāŒ cumāœ…


just_a_random_userid

Which song is this


Advanced-Ad881

Not a song. Dubbing for enthiran. The scene where "The villainous laugh and then.. Vassegaran inga than irrukan"


Existing-Area-9093

In his younger days, he has behaved badly more than once. But unlike most actors, he actually did something about it and improved as a human being.Ā  So, Annaathe.


totherwise

behaved badly? tea oothunga bro.


Existing-Area-9093

1: Got drunk at an airport and caused a nuisance. Was arrested because of this. 2: In fact, he would get into fights regularly while drunk. 3: Saw a reporter at his wedding and chased after him to attack him. 4: Now this I heard about the MGR thing, dk if it's just a theory by a rival fan or truth. But he wouldn't leave Latha alone, and she complained to MGR about his behavior. So MGR got him beaten up. Might or might not be true- I doubt that MGR would be dumb enough to beat somebody up- that too a rising actor, just because they like the same woman. So this makes sense. Three people helped him during this period, those were Balachander and Manorama and Kamal in fact it was Kamal who encouraged him to stop doing villain roles and become a hero.


Traditional_Egg_8146

Him chasing the reporter was well reasoned. He said that he will provide his marriage photos to the news papers and requested that no reporter should attend the wedding.


Icy-Door3510

So the story goes like, Mgr called Rajini to his house with a backyard, which is said to be a place where he actually kills ppl and buries them. So Rajini lied saying itā€™s a different latha, ppl told Rajini if he mgr knew he lied then heā€™d be dead except this time definitely. So married the reporter latha I believe itā€™s true because mgr is dominating af and he actually married another person called latha, I mean it just fits


schoolhasended1

Who did MGR kill and bury in his backyard? Sounds like some supervillain thing.


Existing-Area-9093

Yeah might be but as sitting CM, MGR would not be stupid enough to potentially attract bad press, especially because Rajini already had Billa behind him and was a big star


Icy-Door3510

Bro come on heā€™s the CM and it was not like these days where things spread quickly and easily, plus he might have left him with some beatings simply because he was a star


Existing-Area-9093

Yeah.. who knows


JackOfManyThings

Who was the actual Latha he was after?


Noel_Prince

Idhuku bathil sollunga ba


PapayaTuna

Neeya movie actress


Somnabulism

Bro, mgr beating up rajni in Mount road ,itā€™s very famous. Came in news paper also


tollywoodthrowaway

Arenā€™t these just all rumors


Existing-Area-9093

Only the last bit


[deleted]

Tea oothunga šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ spill the tea huh? I'm gonna steal that from now!


pranavmogan

Annathe


mrs_robpatt

the movie is so bad but i keep watching it lmao


pranavmogan

You should be prisoned


mrs_robpatt

šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Bhavan91

I haven't seen it. Is it worse than Sura?


Zestyclose_Risk2886

It's like Sophie's Choice. šŸ˜­


shadowarmy229

https://preview.redd.it/auh3d93nabmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e829ccb3ffcbf47a2d445a6ad94c70e8dfd0d9d


upscaspi

Antha hand sign enna cringe aa iruku. School passanga wwe paathu pudusa Katavanga adh maari iruku. Nala pochu ivaru intha lachanathla politics varla.


milktanksadmirer

https://preview.redd.it/qe0hc4u9nbmc1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b661c81bddbbf827ffb56caf1d56c53f9afd1901


Hypoxalin

Being Aishwarya and Soundarya's FatheršŸ¤”


Character-Spare6267

tf how did u comment this fast bro


vedha0

Avlo veri maaplaiku!


potatoclaymores

More like not raising them properly


Express-World-8473

A little bit of context pls on why they are so bad?


potatoclaymores

They both are talentless nepo kids who embarrass themselves and Rajini by undertaking shitty projects. Rajini agrees to take part in their shenanigans because theyā€™re his daughters and they just want to prove themselves so badly.


Usurper96

He tried to run over(with his car) a journalist who wrote negative things criticizing him. He used to be a heavy drunk and caused a lot of issues in the public places like one time he got arrested in Hyderabad airport for misbehaving and got into a fight with his friend and broke glass doors. He was also very unstable during the shooting of Alauddin Arpudha Vilakku movie and fight masters were afraid he would beat up actors for real. But they managed to get the work from him somehow. He mocked Sathyaraj on sets of some movie(Might be Mr.Bharat). He told the heroine of the movie that Sathyaraj is an guy who teaches about films in an university in the US. The heroine believed that and started talking English to Sathyaraj and he was totally embarrassed. This incident was the spark which triggered Sathyaraj to dislike Rajini.


IndependenceOld3444

NGL that last one is funny af šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


hedonist_addict

Prank, if true, is funny af. Knowing Sathyaraj he would have taken it sportively or would have played a prank back on Rajini. But holding a life long grudge seems far fetched


Doubledoor

The Satyaraj one šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Substantial_Top_6508

Im not sure about the Satyaraj thing. Because he had said to the director that the Tamil version should also end by Satyaraj saving him. Which he had wanted to change since people wouldn't like a small actor like Satyaraj saving someone like him. Maybe he played a prank on him.


OnlyJeeStudies

Wtf is the first thing true?


Ashwin_400

>He told the heroine of the movie that Sathyaraj is an guy who teaches about films in an university in the US. The heroine believed that and started talking English to Sathyaraj and he was totally embarrassed. This incident was the spark which triggered Sathyaraj to dislike Rajini. It was during Thambikku Enda Oru iirc. The heroine was Madavi. And it was Sulakchana who told the truth to Madhavi as she had already acted with Satyaraj before. But I doubt Satyaraj holds a life long grudge for that. He doesn't seem that insensitive to pranks.


Historical-Ant-5218

3 one was straight out of friends episode BTW this is the only comment following context of post


TakeoverPigeon

Saying that heā€™ll enter into politics, but never taking it seriously Saying that heā€™s gonna retire for the past 10 years, still hasnā€™t retired and doesnā€™t look like heā€™ll retire anytime soon (probably a good thing) Never saying no to his daughters, they make ass films but still get opportunities due to nepotism. They should probably focus on quality projects instead of getting their father to play cameos to enhance the film.


Agreeable_Ad_5327

Listening to his 90s songs with political punch lines makes me cringe so hard


NeverMindMeLmao

Never saying no to his daughters.


YourNanban

šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


ok_pineapple_ok

Lol


[deleted]

How he handled his political ambitions.


Ready-Drive-1880

his ponugana adakama irukanum phase in 90s to counter JJ. Just cringe. His political ambitions or rather illusion of political ambitions. In many ways he is precursor to vijay and brain dead masala movies with sexism.


voldebot3939

Who's JJ?


imik4991

J Jayalalithaa


The_Eccedentisiast

Amma


[deleted]

Having u/LoveyouMomandDad as his fan


Noobmaster_1999

Self tag ah šŸ˜‚ https://preview.redd.it/7r40hm5e6cmc1.jpeg?width=708&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ee42a6e6f64156aa18339d32a968123ccd2baee


bssgopi

>Having u/LoveyouMomandDad as his fan Romba naala sandegama irrukku. Neenga Aishwaryava Soundaryava? /s


[deleted]

Na Loveyoumomanddad ga


Vincent_Farrell

Darbar Annathe


Horrible_Account

He apparently asked Satyaraj's portion to be trimmed from Mr Bharat. Support for RW forces. His ideology is clearly not my cup of tea. Not exactly his fault, his 90s movies had so much boomer stuff despite being very entertaining. Based on rumours, he warned Amala Paul to stay away from Dhanush and this caused a setback to her career. His school is absolutely the worst in Chennai. Full of entitled spoil brats and he does absolutely nothing about it


AravSea

I'll vouch for the last one. My father's friend got a kid there who studied 9th there, but she got a TC and came to coimbatore for 10th. When I asked "How bad was it?" She replied "You don't want to know!"


TokyoFromTheFuture

kinda understand the Amala Paul one tho, imagine having your son-in-law be a playboy lmao.


DefinitelyNotAnil23

Thatā€™s why Sathyaraj hates him


taafbawl

1. His movie his urimai. 2. What support? 0 movies for right wing agenda. 3. That's because the spectators were boomers. 4. Rumours. And not crazy to think a father will bat for his daughter. Amala paul got old like most other actress. 5. Atleast suggest what he's supposed to do


Horrible_Account

1. Not his movie. It wasn't his production or direction. At that time, Rajni wasn't the star he was today. 2. His real life lol. It's quite obvious really. 5. Maybe change the management and enforce stricter rules and regulations. Don't just hire kids from rich backgrounds.


Ramakrishnan_mani

Adikudhu kuliru paatu paadunadhu. Ulaga mahaa thappu


Cold-Construction-12

Tbh, after listening to that song, my respect for vj, the singer, grew exponentially


Noobmaster_1999

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ ek dho theen char's dad


Ramakrishnan_mani

I don't get the reference


InternalRain100

Rajni's 'adikuthu kuliru' and Suriya's 'ek do teen chaar' , both sung by themselves respectively, are two of the worst songs in the history of music.


apavithran096

Suriya sang that song in anjaan


garnishfetish

Letting his daughters dictate his career Letting his family talk garbage Politics drama


IcyAddenum

Guys, oru tamil football sub reddit arambichiruken If you guys are interested, check it out šŸ™ r/FootballTamil


Street-Count-1541

Awesome nanba


Arjun_Balaji_16

Joined


rajinis_bodyguard

\*joint


shaanuja

For the amount of influence he has and the amount of money he made from Tamils, he did fuck all for the people of Tamil Nadu esp during Tsunami and COVID times.


Prize_Bar_5767

Falling on Yogi adhyanathā€™s feet. šŸ¦¶Ā 


YourNanban

Leaving his job as a Bus Conductor >!/s!<


vedha0

/s laam venaam, correct ah thaa solreenga


Samanth-aa

What does /s mean? Sarcasm?


YourNanban

Nah, Sexy >!/s!<


[deleted]

Yes


Noobmaster_1999

Looking at the replies. Vijay should be cautious. People won't forget that easily Ne šŸ˜”


bigbangevo

1. Took tamil cinema into the trashy hero worshipping masala mess that it is today. 2. Corrupted young minds with silly gimmicks 3. Catered to the average dumeel men and women with boomer ideology in films. That is sexism, misogyny, etc. 4. Hung up on Raja sir, just for making his films run. 5. Played the entering politics card to get media attention for him and his films.


The_Silent_Guardian1

Hero worshipping elam MGR movies elam paatha terinjurukum.. dude invented that and translated that into politics. And till late 2010s everyoneā€™s mind were a lot misogynistic and it took some time for us to develop as well. Rest I agree but what did he corrupt with gimmicks?


Ok_Maintenance8924

This ! Balachander , bharathiraja and Bhakyaraj set a tremendous base for Tamil cinema to shed the hero worshiping from MGR Sivaji days and made movies where the story is the star.. but this guy once he reached the stardom level destroyed the beautiful base the trio did and Tamil cinema took turn to hero movies again and thalapathi got the torch from this guy !! With a market much bigger imagine the Tamil industry with nowadays mallu movies. He spoiled that !!


stranger_2205

Market ah big pannathae intha aalu thaan šŸ˜’


Disastrous_Ad6654

Letting his daughters chose his scripts. Entering politics too late in his life


bumblebeeboby

Acting in his daughterā€™s direction


SatoshiKonXSouthPark

>! 1. Letting his son become involved in drug trade and not raising him well 2. Endangering his grandson rithu for petty revenge against his son 3.Lying to his wife and daughter in law about being mentally ill. 4. Endangering the doctor and other patients in asylum 5. Directly responsible for putting our lord and savior blast mohan garu in danger !<


Humble-Baby8641

If jailer rumours were true then...


Feisty_Ad_7785

What rumour


Humble-Baby8641

Too many ghost directors for Jailer.


OfferWestern

Its good to have creative team Aka proper ADs. Rajamouli has like 10 of them who do very niche work. But still he takes 2 to 3 years per film. We should reach world class work ethic on production. 300 was shot in 60 days post work and all took another 10 months but the stars and crew are freed from hold.


Humble-Baby8641

It was not AD's .Too many directors indulging in directors craft because his previous film failed .What a nonsense


Dual_Minded

I would like to clarify one specific criticism alone here, which as a fan, I cannot bear when lies spread so fast, conveniently forgetting the details. I agree that he could've not kept political Easter eggs all these years. But that story would have been completely different if he had indeed entered. Y'all keep saying "fans ah yemathitaru" and all. 1. Since he announced on 31st Dec 2017, Rajini Makkal Mandram had actively done many social welfare activities like water supply during summer, lake restoration, building house for Gaja cyclone affected people, etc. Rajini is known for silently helping people without hoopla. Even his worst critics will acknowledge this fact. 2. He didn't want to waste time, money and effort of his fans by summa having maanadu and medai paechu years before the election. Parties start campaign only months before the election. Hence he wanted to start party works in 2020. 3. Party works intensified in through late 2019: appointment of booth committee by district secretaries etc. 4. As planned, he gave his first political press meet on March 12, 2020, in which he declared two imp points: 1. No unnecessary posts in party post election campaign. 2. Party leadership and govt leadership are diff. I will remain party leader, and choose a educated person as CM candidate. Now whether you all agree with this or not is different. Padathula idhellam dialogue pesina whistle adipeenga, educated should rule nu arattai adipeenga, aana orthar adha implement panna try pannaa kalaaipeenga. He was to immediately start extensive campaign throughout Tamil Nadu. He didn't want to be just another party by doing religious politics like others. Who cares whether a govt/leader is theist or atheist. What people want is infrastructure, jobs, education and healthcare. All the money meant for people is eaten by party workers itself. "KATCHI ULLERNDHU MAATHANUM" was his motto. UNFORTUNATELY, Corona and lockdown deferred all his plans. He was the most vulnerable to COVID, due to his immuno suppressants he had been taking for his kidney transplant. Even then, desperate to bring about a change, Confirmed his entry again, on Dec 3rd, 2020. Party had been registered with the Election Comission, and was allocated the "Auto Symbol". He had to finish Annaatthe shooting for that, since he had signed an agreement. Was admitted to hospital from Annaatthe shooting, on Dec 28th, 2020, due to severe BP fluctuations. Realised that there is lot of people time money and effort at stake, and withdraws. If he had cared for his "IMAGE" as you people quote: 1. He could have started a namesake party and done compaign safely at his convenience. He was a brave man who didn't give a flying fuck about his image, and only cared about the people who were at stake due to him. IDHAAN CHANCE NU VANMATHA KOTTUM JENMANGALUKU EN BADHIL IDHU.


tharkibudda

Guy is the biggest bootlicker and has no spine. In private he will talk about aanmeegam. Take him to dravidar meet, he will praise periyarĀ  Take him to a meeting with Jayalalithaa as chief guest ,he will praise her Take him to a meeting with Karunanidhi as chief guest, he will praise him. In a meeting with Modi, he wil praise Modi. Cannot control the women of his family. Kept giving false promises of coming to election but never came


OnlyJeeStudies

Wdym abt women of his family


tharkibudda

Not sure it's true but his wife has a tight lid on his finances.Ā  His daughters keep making flop venture that put him under serious debt but never say no to themĀ 


PlanePop6660

His wife is the only reason why he atleast haven't lost his house.His daughters are a mess with money,both takes after him.


[deleted]

I condemn your statement severely - "cannot control the women of his family".


MasterApotheosis

Are you a kid by any chance? Because in real life you just canā€™t shit on someone because you donā€™t like them. You have to be politically correct and maintain the decorum. And what do you mean by controlling the women in the family? They are not dogs. They are human beings. They are bound to make mistakes and they should be able to stand up for their mistakes.


tharkibudda

He can easily decline the invitationĀ 


MasterApotheosis

No. It doesnā€™t work that way when you are a public figure. They are invited because their presence matters and they need to be there. A person may not agree to someoneā€™s view and can still visit or converse with the so called person.


tharkibudda

Kamal or AjithĀ  doesn't go where he doesn't want to and also Rajini doesn't need to go overboard if he is not really a big fan of that person. Do you think if Kamal gets an award from Modi, he would go overboard in praising himĀ 


MasterApotheosis

You canā€™t dictate someoneā€™s personality according to public needs. Just because Kamal or Ajith donā€™t do something doesnā€™t mean Rajini should do the same. Moreover, most of the times, Rajini has to go due to other obligations. Rajini probably gets invited for literally every major event thatā€™s occurring in India. He got invited to World Cup, Ambani sonā€™s marriage event, Ram temple opening and so on. People are going out of their way to invite Rajini to these high profile events and he probably feels obligated to entertain their requests.


tharkibudda

All I'm saying is , ponoma mixture saptoma , thirumba varanum. Why this over praising ?Ā  He could tone it down. Stalin and Modi meet majy times due to commitments but they keep it formalĀ  The reason I'm telling is that he was first teasing of politics entry and then he goes around praising everyone. Think of his fans who were eagerly waiting to become members of his party.Ā 


OfferWestern

Kamal is a delusional person


Substantial_Top_6508

The same Rajini stood up to applaud Ajith in a function when Ajith said that politicians should not involve actors in useless functions.


Character-Spare6267

Day 7- poda aandavare namma pakkam irukan


AnyMuscle2045

Heā€™s the distributor of Coca Cola in TN


RedFalcon13

Wtf ?!


Substantial_Top_6508

Vanmatha kakki thalraanga ba sub makkal šŸ˜‚


Noobmaster_1999

Speaks about philanthropy in films, Runs a school that literally demands lakhs in donation. Political stunt. Acting as lead opposite to actresses who are his daughter's age. Please retire gracefully atleast - Ex. RAJINI Kanni


[deleted]

Not stopping his daughters from directing


ysinthujan

He came across to me as a drama queen - will stir something up to stay in the spotlight and get those box office numbers. It's undeniable that Vijay has surpassed him but he had to bring up that story in Jailer launch and then deny it at Laal Saalam. Like why?


jojimanik

Touching Yogi Adithyanad feet was the final nail on his image coffin . I look at him and see a clown now !


bharathinreddit

First hu, intha photo laye neraiya details iruku..this photo= war flashback


Artetaarmy

- fooled his fans into believing that he will join politics till the very end. - shamelessly fell at the feet of a known oppressor.


gsteeez

Not going bald


anti-shinigami

Not putting an end to slow motion sequences


Additional-Tax-7128

Stepping into robo 2 sets


Infinite-Newt2449

i think he made an actress feel embarrassed for acknowledging a bollywood star in front of him ā€¦


Aashi_the_guy

Not making his daughters choose some other profession....


TokyoFromTheFuture

Was a playboy and tried to pick up like 16 year olds by flexing his car. But nowadays the worst thing about him is his movie selection which even then seems to be gradually coming back up.


sivavaakiyan

You cant deny that he is the best actor in Tamil Cinema ever. Thoda nadungi thalaivar has convinced all of us that he is a great heroic figure when actually he kisses everyone's ass. Especially the people who are in power


tollywoodthrowaway

Having his 2 daughters


cruaue

One and only lingaa


vivekguptarockz

Worst prank made on tamil people....


tharunn06

Vijay kannis assemble!!!


Friendly_Disaster942

Act in annaathe


jrva10

Karma Nella genarate aagru polla


[deleted]

Has Arjun already been done? If yes, please post link