Rajinikanth isn't the kind of name his fan would want to hear before we add the tag of Superstar behind it. It's just not Rajinikanth, it's Superstar Rajinikanth. For most of the actors, we wait for their appearances on the screen before we can scream our lungs out. In his case, the moniker is enough. His films are an event, they deserve at least one experience in Chennai, where entering a hall is akin to a temple.

But his hysteria began to catch hold of the Hindi film audiences with 1983's Andhaa Kaanoon. It was his launch in Hindi Cinema. The swag and the nonchalance were intact that made him a Superstar in South. Six years later, he acted with Sridevi and Sunny Deol in the comedy, ChaalBaaz. It was a Sridevi showreel, but this man held his own as an alcohol-lover taxi driver.