The Brand Rajni
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The Brand Rajini
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SUPERSTAR
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Tamil Cine Industry during 70’sDominated by Sivaji Ganeshan & MGRGap left by them is filled by Kamal and Rajini
NEED WANT DEMAND
Entertainment
Value for Money&
A Good Entertainer
Role ModelStyle
Trend Setter
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How it all began?
12 December 1950
difficult childhood
Worked as a coolie Worked as a bus conductor
Villainous Duryodhana role
Joined Madras Film Institute
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The Entry
• Gained popularity for exceptional portrayal of villainous role
• First Tamil movie “Apoorva Raagangal” starring Kamala Hassan too.
• First Bollywood movie “Andha Kanoon”.
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A Complete Package
• Filled the gap left by MGR, who had a Cult Icon status
• Portrayal as a downtrodden character who could challenge the big and mighty to achieve big things
• The way in which he delivered one line punch dialogues
• The unique style that he brought in.
Cult Icon Status
Character Portrayal
Punch Dialogues
Unique style
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Target Group
• Initially his target audience were youth, who saw him as a style icon.
• Once he captured the youth segment he widened his reach to family audience and children with comic capers and one liners.
• His portrayal of different working groups expanded the market.
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Competitors
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Rajini & the SuperstardomA string of Blockbusters
Annamalai1992
Baasha1995
Padaiyappa1999
Arunachalam1997
Muthu1995
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Social Life• Philanthropist, has donated a lot
towards charity.• Daylong fast to protest
the Government of Karnataka's decision to not release Kaveri River water Into Tamil Nadu.
• Met with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and many experts to canvass support for the Integration of rivers.
• Known to be simple and down to earth.
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The Overseas Market
• India’s Prime Minister, mentions about Rajini in his address to the joint session of Japan's Parliament.
• Muthu's success in Japan led American news magazine Newsweek to comment in a 1999 article that Rajinikanth had "supplanted Leonardo DiCaprio as Japan's trendiest heartthrob".
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The bigger you are, the harder you fall
• “Baba” – Commercial Flop– Negative Publicity– Paid back distributors
• Kuselan – Drifting off track from his usual storyline– Plays a “Superstar” which was tailor made to
showcase brand.
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Adapting to the “CHANGE”
• On his comeback Sivaji, started adapting to new technologies.
• Sivaji – Paid 26 crores – Second highest paid actor in Asia.
• Enthiran – Embraced recent special effects and was a world wide hit