![]() Kailasam Balachander (KB), who would go on to become India’s most prolific filmmaker and direct more than 100 movies, had bet big on Rajinikanth. After all, it was his script that was playing out. ![]() One man wasn’t a bit surprised by all this brouhaha. They spoke ceaselessly of his cameo rather than of the marquee names in that movie. Suddenly, they found a certain magnetism in his eyes, an effortless manner in his gait, a sparkle in his voice. Neither could they find any remarkable feature in him but for his melancholic face and exotically accented Tamil.Īs the weeks rolled by, and the movie struck pay-dirt in the box office, the cinema-obsessed Tamil public lost its heart to Shivajirao Gaekwad a.k.a. Ramachandran - couldn’t quite place the new actor. ![]() They: The Tamil movie fans of the time - used to the colossal magnificence of Sivaji Ganesan and the charismatic dynamism of M.G. Unhandsome, tentative, he appeared late and only fleetingly in a movie dominated by stars such as Kamal Hassan and Sri Vidya. He: A lanky, dark-skinned actor playing a character twice his real age, the abusive (and later, cancer-stricken) husband of the female protagonist, in the 1975 Tamil film Aboorva Raagangal (Rare Melodies). ![]() When he appeared on screen for the first time, they weren’t immediately mesmerised. Balachander launched the careers of many stars but never relied upon them to ply his trade
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