Shivaji Rao Gaekwad is an Indian actor who works primarily in Tamil cinema. He has won many awards, including four Tamil Nadu State Film Best Actor Awards and a Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. He is the only Indian actor to be featured in the Central Board of Secondary Education syllabus, in a lesson titled From Bus Conductor to Superstar.
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Shivaji Rao Gaekwad is an Indian actor who works primarily in Tamil cinema. He has won many awards, including four Tamil Nadu State Film Best Actor Awards and a Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. Rajinikanth is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most popular actors in the history of Indian cinema. His popularity has been attributed to his uniquely styled dialogues and idiosyncrasies in films, as well as his political statements and philanthropy. On 31 December 2017, he announced entry into politics and confirmed his intention to contest in the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections in all 234 constituencies. He is the only Indian actor to be featured in the Central Board of Secondary Education syllabus, in a lesson titled From Bus Conductor to Superstar. He played dual roles, as a scientist and an andro-humanoid robot, in the science fiction film Enthiran and its sequel 2. 0, both being India’s most expensive production at the time of their release, and among the highest-grossing Indian films of all time. He was born as Shivaji Rao Gakewad on 12 December 1950 in a Marathi family in Bangalore, Mysore State. He was named after the Maratha Empire king Shivaji, and was brought up speaking Marathi at home and Kannada outside. His ancestors hailed from Mavadi Kadepathar, Pune, Maharashtra. After his father’s retirement from work in 1956, the family moved to the suburb of Hanumantha Nagar in Bangalore and built a house there.
He lost his mother at the age of nine. As a child, he was mischievous with a great interest in cricket, football and basketball. His brother enrolled him at the Ramakrishna Math, a Hindu monastery set up by the RamAKrishna Mission. He also began acting in plays at the math and was once given an opportunity to enact the role of Ekalavya’s friend from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. After completing his school education, he performed several jobs, including a bus conductor, before getting a job in the Bangalore Transport Service. He studied at the Acharya Pathasala Public School and studied there till completion of his pre-university course. He spent a lot of time in acting plays, including several roles in the play Rann of Bendre. In addition to acting, he has also worked as a producer and screenwriter. In 2015, a film about his fandom, For the Love of a Man, premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, in which he played a man who is obsessed with a woman. In the same year, he also starred in the film For The Love Of A Man, about the relationship between a man and a woman, which was screened at the Venice Film Festival. He appeared in the Indian version of The Godfather: Part II, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Amyra Dastur.
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