Meet Rajinikanth Look-Elike who walks and talks like a superstar

An act of Somasundaram brings a point when he stops becoming a 52 -year -old father of two. Wearing figure-hugging bellbottams and a crisp white shirt, he marches out of his rented house in RM Colony in Dindigul. To attack a currency for the camera, he glime as a glym to cook his hair carelessly. The similarity is supernatural; So much so that to stop to stare at the passers -by. Can this really happen to him?

Somasundaram is now Rajinikanth, and the change is complete. Not just a look; It is such that the personality of the actor – the swag he is known for his calm confidence and star aura – as well as in Mon. The moment before sitting in his living room in a lungi, he was just Somu; An actor from a small town. All this was taken a little makeup, a wig, and a dress change to make it an excuse to his real self.

T Ragupati | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Somu, known as ‘Rajni’, is one of the most popular platforms of Rajinikanth, Somu professionally. Tamil Nadu is known for more than 200 such actor – many of them from small cities. While not all of them get makeup and acting site, they manage to stay out of the superstar mimicry.

Somu says, “His name is written on it in each morsel of rice eaten by me.” He said, “They have given me an identity; I live in my life in the house where I live in that two-wheelers-I have come from him,” he says. Somu, the son of a Karnataka music teacher, first went on stage as a group dancer during a small cultural program associated with a temple festival in Dindigul in 1986. Since then, he started performing regularly on stage, dancing to Rajni songs and even imitated his tricks.

“It was after a photo shoot in the dress from the film Arunachalam I think I was able to pull it well, ”calls Somu. He has also done the Rajni Act in hundreds of stages of Tamil Nadu for years in other parts of the country. The 80s is the 80s Rajni between his best makeover; a look that Somu Nail. Kabali Look, and have completed recently Coolie Denims, white shoes, and red dupattas were thrown on her shoulder with the song ‘Chicky’.

Somu and Ragupathy have performed in hundreds of stages in other parts of the country along with Tamil Nadu. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Somu has repeatedly watched Rajni’s films to get her body language right. He says, “When I started, there was no youtube, and I will watch his films in the theater many times,” he says. He knows Rajni’s hair from every film behind his hand, and has also kept a close watch on his beard and mustache styles. “It was later Rajadhi Raja That his hairstyle changed, “he notes.

Somu spent a few years as a junior artist in Chennai, acted in about 15 films. He is traveling through the year, changing his on-stage style from one Rajni look to another. He has inspired many forum actors, among them T Ragupathy from PN Kallupatti in Odnachtram block in Dindigul district.

A 38 -year -old carries an old plastic box that consists of face powder and brushes, where he goes to perform stage performance. The box is one of their most valuable positions, slightly on the edges. Ragupathy, unlike Somu, uses simple makeup; He does not wear a wig, instead, styled his hair like a precious lock of Rajni. His dress – black shirt and a fanny pack on black pants have been carefully selected to go with the actor’s costumes since the 90s and the 2000s.

Ragupathi has also performed at the feet across the country, and is a Rajni fan. “I had the opportunity to see Thalarvar in front of my Pose Garden Niwas in Chennai in 2010,” he says. Ragupathy was one of the many fans who waited in hope and enthusiasm for a glimpse of the superstar. However, Somu is yet to meet him. “I am waiting for the day,” they say.

There is a question that he often faces: ‘Do you not have your own identity?’ Somu says, “I am just an actor. The real Somu is always inside me.” His phone then rings and he steps aside to answer, laughing on something on the call. For a minute, it looks like Rajinikanth.