How Rajnikanth unites India, Japan
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Posted Thursday , December 14, 2006 at 18:22
Updated Thursday , December 14, 2006 at 21:40
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SUSHI, RAJNI FIND MENTION: Manmohan Singh spoke about the cultural aspects of Indo-Japan ties.


A NEW LIGHT: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie look on as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lights a traditional lamp to launch the India-Japan Friendship Year 2007 at a Tokyo hotel. (Photos: AP)


NAMASTE INDIA: Manmohan Singh and his wife Kaur greet parliamentarians after Singh's address to the lower house of Diet in Tokyo.


FLAG FLIES HIGH: Manmohan Singh and Shinzo Abe respond to flag-waving children wellwishers during a welcoming ceremony.

Tokyo: He has a fanatical following in India, is revered by many as nothing short of God himself and all his movies run into packed houses. But that’s not fame enough for Tamil superstar Rajnikanth.
The actor, who celebrated his 57th birthday on December 12, is also a sensation in faraway Japan as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh found out himself.
Rajni’s blockbuster Odoru Maharaj (The Dancing Maharaja) found a special mention in the context of strengthening of Indo-Japan ties as Manmohan Singh addressed Japanese law on Thursday.
Manmohan Singh – who is on a four-day visit to the country - referred to the 1995 movie in his address to the joint session of Diet (Japan's Parliament) and said he was delighted to hear about its popularity among the young Japanese.
He, however, added that Japan's own 'Odori Asimo' (the dancing robot) was also impressing children in India, a remark that received much applause from the Japanese Parliamentarians.
The role of food in promoting the relations between the two countries also found a mention in PM’s speech. "I believe the number of Indian restaurants in Japan has increased phenomenally. I assure you that sushi and tempura are becoming popular in India," he said.
Manmohan Singh also spoke about the common civilisational heritage the two countries shared and Buddhism being the "oldest bond".
In modern times, he said Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin had built new bridges of understanding between the two great Asian nations.
"The idea of new partnership between Japan and India has found its moment today. I come here to give concrete shape to the idea so that the future generations of our countries will be able to thank us for the part we are trying to play in making the 21 st century an Asian century," he said.

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NDTV explores ‘The Rajni Factor’

Walk on any street in Tamil Nadu, and nine out of ten, the walls will be plastered with a poster of Rajnikanth. Either it will be on a shop board, or it will be painted on the wall, or it will be a poster from one of his films.

The Rajnikanth fever in the state is something that we live with, we work with and simply accept. But for anyone who does not experience it first hand, it remains an unsolvable mystery. How can this man, who is dark, can’t dance, who looks more like a villain than a hero, be a Superstar? That is simply the magic and charisma of Rajnikanth, and that is what NDTV tried to understand in a 30-minute programme, Witness, yesterday. Simply titled The Rajni Factor, a short, crisp show, with quotes from various bigwigs in the industry, tried to delve deep into the enigma called Rajni, who is, with his film Sivaji, one of the highest paid actors in India!
Khans far awayYes, you read right. At 16 crores for his current film, Rajnikanth has even beaten the Khans and the Big B, who are said to earn between 7 and 10 crores. For Chandramukhi itself, the Superstar earned 10 crores, and looks like he is the only one who can break his own record. Ramkumar said during the show, “We make such huge profits with his film, that we don’t see anything wrong in paying him the amount, it is only fair.” A sentiment echoed by AVM Saravanan, who is currently producing Sivaji.

“We don’t mind paying him considering the profits we make. In fact, for Sivaji, I have paid him an advance of Rs 1001, and he was bighearted enough to say that I could pay him the rest after the movie is complete and after I have taken care of my business formalities.”

The phenomenon of the SuperstarAs NDTV tried to understand the phenomenon of the Superstar, one of the verdicts that emerged was his peers in cinema don’t even think it possible to compete with him. He is the undisputed Superstar, and competition exists only for second place. Vijay, who is at number two and who strongly emulates Rajnikanth, earns 4 crores, a huge gap between the first place and the second. Vikram is next earning 3 crores, while Ajith earns two crores.

Rajini’s flop = others’ hitThe margin between a Superstar film and any other actor’s film is so huge that even box office numbers are measured differently. While Baba, Rajni’s film made 20 crores at the box office, it was considered a flop by Rajni standards, as anything less than 35 crores is a flop for a Rajni film. While, Vijay’s Gilli, that made the same 20 crores was considered a super hit. In fact, Anniyan, Vikram’s film that made 50 crores, is the only film to have touched the Chandramukhi 50 crore mark.

Just a villainConsidering that Rajnikanth is so media shy, NDTV tried to understand the man behind the Superstar by speaking to his peers and family. Dhanush, his son-in-law said, “He is extremely spiritual and religious. A very disciplined man, and it is that aspect I would like to emulate from him. K Balachnader, the director who introduced both Rajnikanth and Kamal Hassan, said, “There was something about this boy, when I first saw him, that made me realize he has the potential.

His nose, his eyes, his features were very good, even though he was dark. And he told me “I want to be a star, that too as a villain!”

Vikram about Rajini Vs KamalNDTV interspersed the show with sound bytes from their earlier show, Walk the Talk with Vikram, who said, “In the beginning, it was Rajnikanth who was experimenting and doing different roles. He was playing the role of a villain, a psycho, etc, and experimenting with his films, whereas Kamal Hassan was playing the romantic hero in all films. Once Rajnikanth became a Superstar, he started giving a particular kind of films and Kamal Hassan began giving different films.”

As actor Prabhu rightly said, “If you see the film Chandramukhi, Jothika has given a brilliant performance, I was there in the film, P Vasu did the direction, and Rajnikanth’s role was such that he wasn’t even there in all the scenes in the film. And yet, it is undoubtedly a Rajni film and you need an actor of his caliber to be able to pull that off.”Truer words couldn’t have been said! While we leave you with the images (in your mind that is!) of the various Rajni “styles” that is a part of every Tamil cinemagoers vocabulary and mannerisms, here are a few more sound bytes from the show

Sound bytes from the show:
Kushboo:

He is a wonderful father and his daughters are completely dependent on him and respect his approval for all their decisions.As his co-star, I remember while shooting for Annamalai, he told me that the song we were going to shoot had my name in the song. I thought he was joking, because it is okay for me to sing Rajni, Rajni, but not for him to sing Kushboo, Kushboo. I thought audiences would never accept it, but well, the song turned out to be a super hit.

Prabhu:

While shooting for the song Konja Neram, in Turkey, it was freezing there. The superstar came wearing baggy pants and a thin shirt, much like a hero and I told him that it is very cold and he might need a sweater. He just shrugged and said no. Later, again I reminded him and he shrugged again. Two hours later, he turned to me and said, “Man! It’s freezing! Pass me the sweater!” That’s Rajnikanth for you, honest and humble, with a great sense of humour.

Sreedhar Pillai of The Hindu:

The director who direct Rajini’s film should always deliver what his fans like, rather than experimenting with him. For Sivaji, we hope that the Shankar and Rajni combo clicks.SP Muthuraman (the man who has directed the maximum Rajni films): I really appreciate his wife Lata’s commitment towards the family. Most creative artistes are temperamental, and it was Lata who lent that much needed support, and created a normal family life for Rajnikant and his daughters

K Balachander:

There might be many Superstars in the country, but Rajnikanth is truly one of a kind.

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“Sivaji: The Boss”

(translated from spanish. so adjust with this english)

The last shout of Bollywood
Two stars of the Indian cinema,
Rajinikanth and Shrya Saran, roll before the Guggenheim a sequence of dance of the overproduction “Sivaji: The Boss”
BILBAO

COLORFUL. The actor protagonist, Rajinikanth, leads in the dance to the actress and the group arrived from London, in the choreographic sequence that was rolled in Bilbao. /PHOTOS: IGNACIO PEREZ

India is the country of the great numbers. In its 1,200 million people live who speak tens of languages, the films last three or four hours, and the great stars as Rajinikanth receives something more than two million euros by film. Rajinikanth appeared yesterday to nine in the morning in the back part of the Guggenheim museum, underneath the bridge of Saves It, to roll an awaited production of Bollywood, “Sivaji: The Boss”. Bilbao received with its classic sirimiri the most popular actor of the Indian cinema, dress with a pink jacket and blond wig. Of 56 years, multimillionaire and with more than 180 films in its salary - an average of 14 to the year, Rajinikanth feels to taste in the city in spite of the sudden changes of time: here it takes a walk without escort, a “luxury” that cannot be allowed in its country.The Indian actor is not single. They accompany the equipment to him, a group of thirty dancers arrived from London, the director of the film, Shankar, and the Shriya actress Saran, of 23 years, that travel with their mother. “I like how they change the colors of the museum. Sometimes it seems of silver, others of gold, sometimes only gray, and everything in contrast to the green one of the mountain”, says Saran, while it points with its well-taken care of nail titanium of the Guggenheim and the slope of Artxanda.With hero and heroinThe Indian equipment, that speaks tamil mixed with English a very particular one, will be two weeks in Spain. Until Friday it will film in Bilbao, by the neighborhoods of the Euskalduna; soon it will go to San Sebastián, from there to Valencia and finally to Madrid, city in which wanted to record in the Great one Via, although they have had “to conform” to the Seat of Castile.“Sivaji: The Boss”, like most of the films Indians, is carried out reason why they call a “hero” and a “heroin”. The hero, incarnated by Rajinikanth, has grown in a humble family, who with concerted effort has commanded to the boy to study architecture to the United States. He returns to his country, one becomes rich, one becomes jumbled in social projects and house with the heroin - Shriya Saran, servant in a traditional atmosphere. As trip of fiancès, the pair is going away to visit the “seven wonders of the world”. One of them is the Guggenheim; another one, the City of the Arts and Sciences of Valencia. The takings of the Guggenheim, centered in a choreography with the bottom museum, will less occupy something than six minutes of metraje. Sources of the production make the following calculation: India has more than 200 million inhabitants of middle-class with capacity to travel by the world, that when it is released the film in October will pay attention to Bilbao and will want to pass itself by the city. The advertising effect cannot have more impact. “Everybody sees these films in my country. Now they are becoming famous anywhere in the world, of very fast form, and we think that this more can be extended. For that reason we are in Spain”, affects Saran, whom the director describes, Shankar, as a “teacher of intrigues it”. Something épicoThe producer is a safe bet in the India ticket office, and very known by his peculiar way to combine arguments based on rich and poor histories of and sweetened passions, all it with a great musical unfolding.Shankar watches its monitor time and time again. Until the eleven in the morning it has only been able to do a taking of Rajinikanth making a pair of dance passages, and the result is very no shining similarity to him. The hero repeats time and time again what they will be seconds in the screen. One becomes cloudy, it rains and it is cold, it leaves the sun, it begins to be warm and all the equipment begins to move before the shouts of the direction assistant. Rajinikanth and Shriya Saran are put in front of the English dancers and follow with the choreography. In the monitor of Shankar the movements with the back profile of the Guggenheim are seen and a patched blue black cloud sky. The dancers take off or they put the jacket of the chándal according to changes the time. Among them she is Tony “Touch” Adigun, a young person of 25 five years who takes as professional and has acted in productions of Hollywood and Broadway. “Reason why we have seen, is a épica film. Hopefully one also sees not only in London, that surely that is seen, but in the United States”. One of its companions, Adrián Gas, comes from Ibiza, received the master's degree in Escénicasa Arts in London, acted in the Spanish series “a step advanced” and returned to the English capital to work in musical comedies and in television “I have made things of Bollywood, but nonfilms, but videoclips. He is very fashionable. They want to extend it to Europe, and for that reason street” and “hip-hop” put more dance “, and less Indian. They are trying it and, it watches, are here”. The film will be released in October in tamil and soon it will bend telegu, malialam and kanadà, until arriving at hindi in one first stage. Soon it will leave to the foreigner. The equipment does not forget that the cinema of Hong Kong and China has given the great jump to the West and they also want to multiply their multimillionaire hearing. The producers get upset by the photos that remove to stars and wish to keep the secret on the film. They issue orders, they request, but the tourists stop themselves, aim with the camera of the moving body and applaud the dancers. The stars request water, and their personal assistants are engaged in.

(original spanish version...........)


El último grito de Bollywood
Dos estrellas del cine indio, Rajinikanth y Shrya Saran, ruedan ante el Guggenheim una secuencia de baile de la superproducción 'Sivaji: The Boss'
BILBAO


India es el país de las grandes cifras. En él viven 1.200 millones de personas que hablan decenas de lenguas, las películas duran tres o cuatro horas, y las grandes estrellas como Rajinikanth cobran algo más de dos millones de euros por filme. Rajinikanth se presentó ayer a las nueve de la mañana en la parte trasera del museo Guggenheim, debajo del puente de La Salve, para rodar una esperada producción de Bollywood, 'Sivaji: The Boss'. Bilbao recibía con su clásico sirimiri al actor más popular del cine indio, vestido con una chaqueta rosa y peluca rubia. De 56 años, multimillonario y con más de 180 películas en su haber -una media de 14 al año-, Rajinikanth se siente a gusto en la ciudad pese a los repentinos cambios de tiempo: aquí pasea sin escolta, un 'lujo' que no puede permitirse en su país.El actor indio no está solo. Le acompañan el equipo técnico, un grupo de treinta bailarines llegados de Londres, el director de la película, Shankar, y la actriz Shriya Saran, de 23 años, que viaja con su madre. «Me gusta cómo cambian los colores del museo. A veces parece de plata, otras de oro, a veces solamente gris, y todo en contraste con el verde de la montaña», dice Saran, mientras apunta con su cuidada uña el titanio del Guggenheim y la ladera de Artxanda.Con heroe y heroínaEl equipo indio, que habla tamil mezclado con un inglés muy particular, estará dos semanas en España. Hasta el viernes filmará en Bilbao, por las cercanías del Euskalduna; luego irá a San Sebastián, de allí a Valencia y por fin a Madrid, ciudad en la que quería grabar en la Gran Vía, aunque se han tenido que 'conformar' con la Plaza de Castilla.'Sivaji: The Boss', como la mayor parte de las películas indias, está protagonizada por lo que ellos llaman un 'héroe' y una 'heroína'. El héroe, encarnado por Rajinikanth, ha crecido en una familia humilde, que con gran esfuerzo ha mandado al chico a estudiar arquitectura a Estados Unidos. Vuelve a su país, se hace rico, se involucra en proyectos sociales y se casa con la heroína -Shriya Saran-, criada en un ambiente tradicional. Como viaje de novios, la pareja se va a visitar las 'siete maravillas del mundo'. Una de ellas es el Guggenheim; otra, la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia. Las tomas del Guggenheim, centradas en una coreografía con el museo de fondo, ocuparán algo menos de seis minutos de metraje. Fuentes de la producción hacen el siguiente cálculo: India tiene más de 200 millones de habitantes de clase media con capacidad para viajar por el mundo, que cuando se estrene la película en octubre se fijarán en Bilbao y querrán pasarse por la ciudad. El efecto publicitario no puede tener más impacto. «Todo el mundo ve estas películas en mi país. Ahora se están haciendo famosas en todo el mundo, de forma muy rápida, y creemos que esto se pueden extender más. Por eso estamos en España», incide Saran, que califica al director, Shankar, como un «maestro de la intriga». Algo épicoEl realizador es una apuesta segura en la taquilla india, y muy conocido por su peculiar manera de combinar argumentos basados en historias de ricos y pobres y en pasiones azucaradas, todo ello con un gran despliegue musical.Shankar mira una y otra vez su monitor. Hasta las once de la mañana sólo ha podido hacer un toma de Rajinikanth realizando un par de pasos de baile, y el resultado no le ha parecido muy brillante. El héroe repite una y otra vez lo que serán unos segundos en la pantalla. Se nubla, llueve y hace frío, sale el sol, empieza a hacer calor y todo el equipo empieza a moverse ante los gritos del ayudante de dirección. Rajinikanth y Shriya Saran se ponen delante de los bailarines ingleses y siguen con la coreografía. En el monitor de Shankar se ven los movimientos con el perfil trasero del Guggenheim y un cielo azul parcheado de nubes negras. Los bailarines se quitan o se ponen la chaqueta del chándal según cambia el tiempo. Entre ellos está Tony 'Touch' Adigun, un joven de 25 años que lleva cinco como profesional y ha actuado en producciones de Hollywood y Broadway. «Por lo que hemos visto, se trata de una película épica. Ojalá se vea no sólo en Londres, que seguro que se ve, sino también en Estados Unidos». Uno de sus compañeros, Adrián Gas, procede de Ibiza, se licenció en Artes Escénicasa en Londres, actuó en la serie española 'Un paso adelante' y regresó a la capital inglesa para trabajar en musicales y en televisión «He hecho cosas de Bollywood, pero no películas, sino videoclips. Está muy de moda. Quieren extenderlo a Europa, y por eso meten más baile 'street' y 'hip-hop', y menos indio. Lo están intentando y, mira, aquí están». La película se estrenará en octubre en tamil y luego se doblará al telegu, malialam y kanadà, hasta llegar al hindi en una primera etapa. Luego saldrá al extranjero. El equipo no olvida que el cine de Hong Kong y de China ha dado el gran salto a Occidente y ellos también quieren multiplicar su multimillonaria audiencia. Los productores se enfadan por las fotos que sacan a las estrellas y desean mantener el secreto sobre la película. Dan órdenes, ruegan, pero los turistas se paran, apuntan con la cámara del móvil y aplauden a los bailarines. Las estrellas piden agua, y se la traen sus asistentes personales.

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