Do you that Rajnikanth was a spoilt brat when he was five-years-old, bullied people when he was 10 and tied cycle chains around his neck at 20. All these and many more aspects of the his life will be revealed in a new book that will hit the market in the first week of March. The book, The Name is Rajnikanth, is a biographical sketch of the southern megastar. Supported by nearly 100 pictures, it has 384 pages and costs Rs.495.
"He was very naughty and used to bully people. Rajni, along with his friends, used to play marbles and if anybody else other than him won the game, he used to beat him up," said author Gayatri Shreekanth. "He used to walk very fast and his friends complained that they could never match his pace. My book encompasses thousands of such interesting details, which his fans across the globe would love to read, since no comprehensive book on Rajnikanth's life has come so far," said Shreekanth, an ophthalmologist by profession.
Apart from English, the book would also be released in other languages by the end of the year - Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi and Japanese. "The first edition would see nearly 20,000 copies in English hitting the bookshelves across the country March 6," said publisher Ajay Mago of Om Books International. "By the year-end, about 20,000 copies of the book will be available in the Tamil language and at least 5,000 each in other languages. For the Japanese version, we would sell the rights to some publisher there," Mago added.
