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Thinking about it, I realise that he had a knack for making you cry for him, with him every single time. He never had to scream or cry out loud. He could silently look at a goods train with
Raja Sir’s BGM doing the rest, and tell his stepdaughter, “Na karuppa irundhena, enga amma enna thooki potutanga” (Thalapathy), or “Rendu kai, rendu kaal ilanaalum pozhachukavan sir indha
Kaali. Ketta paya sir avan” with worry written all over his face (Mullum Malarum) and it would break us. He may just look at his ungrateful brother and sister with a painful smirk (Aaril
Irundhu Arubadhu Varai), or look out a car’s window imagining his long-lost wife, Pradeep Kumar crooning ‘Vaanam Paarthen’ in the background (Kabali), and we would cry. We would cry for the
orphaned son, the pained brother, the hurt husband. The list does not end there, his performances in Engeyo Ketta Kural, Anbulla Rajinikanth, Bhairavi and Johnny, to name a few, stand
testament to the exceptional actor that he is. My mom still says that I did not believe that Rajini could die when I watched Dharmathin Thalaivan and cried so much till the second Rajini
came in and that I was jubilant that Rajini proved everyone wrong.