If you have your Salman Khan, we have our Rajnikanth, the south Indian might say to the north Indian. One is the Sultan of the Bollywood Badshahi, the other is the Thalaivar from Tamil Nadu. The staggeringly mega release of Kabali has shown that if anyone has the right to be called the face of Indian cinema, it’s not Salman but Rajni who is the “boss”. Next to Rajnikanth, even Amitabh Bachchan looks like a plate of mini idlis.
Why are north Indians so notoriously scornful about “Madrasis” anyway? Hindi-speakers are known to create an amma of a controversy about their ignorance of all things southern. However if they mess with Rajnikanth they’ll be Read More
