The movie was not that bad. It was pretty entertaining and for the first time in a Rajini picture it was nice to see a female role given equal importance as Rajini himself. I can watch the song of Rajinikant and Ramyakrishna endless times and not get bored at all, unfortunately the only good song in the movie.

:D ...now I have seriously reconsider Yaadein

Rajnikant always remained a wannabe in Hindi films, a B-film star...he never did actually carry any movie on his own....but personally for me his best role was in CHAALBAAZ. Pankuj Parasher came up with some original casting when he had Rajnikant play a taxi driver...he fitted the role like a glove and really had some totally hilarious moments with Sridevi and Sunny Deol...

Other than that I think he is mainly gimmicky in Hindi movies (as he was wont to be in earlier Tamil films). One of the earliest Tamil film I remember of his was when he played Srividya's(or was it some other Sri) dying lover in APOORVA RAGANGAL....the role was played by Suresh Oberoi in the Hindi remake EK NAI PAHELI.....that was an understated performance and have never seen him do that again....funnily enough he has always said that his childhood hero was Shatrughan Sinha and after whom he had modelled all the 'style antics' of his.....Shotgun Sinha never underplayed his roles till Amjad Khan cast him in CHOR POLICE....that he did really well....wish he had done more of such roles...in any case coming back to Rajnikant, do hope he sobers up in his middle-age and experiments with the quieter sort....and maybe he did somewhere before, at least I am unaware and would appreciate someone pointing me to some of his 'subtler' roles...