Kaala And Rajinikanth
While I was waiting to watch Kaala in the theatre, surprisingly it dawned on me that, this was the first movie of Rajinikanth, that I was about to watch in a theatre. It wasn’t intentional, most of his movies came out long before I even got entry to this world and the rest were old enough to come on TV by the time I grew up enough to understand movies. I always had this crazy love for the language and traditions of TamilNadu, the reason to which I haven’t yet been able to figure out. So, while I grew up, more than the Malayalam movies I have watched Tamil movies; but Rajinikanth was never a huge chunk of the movies that I grew up with, it was mostly new faces who started off their career in Tamil Cinema like Ajith, Vijay, Arjun, etc., but I knew Rajinikanth was not just an actor but a sensation in TamilNadu. It was ARRahman who intensified my love for Tamil, the amazing songs he composed in Tamil made it impossible, not to know the meaning of them. And it was ARRahman who intro...