Rajinikanth turns 72: Kamal Haasan, Dhanush, Dulquer Salmaan lead wishes for their ‘Thalaivaa’

Actor Rajinikanth, who is gearing up for the release of his upcoming Tamil film Jailer, turned 72 on Monday. Social media is filled with birthday wishes for the veteran from his fans and friends. Celebrities across the country, including Kamal Haasan, Dhanush and Dulquer Salmaan among others also shared their heartfelt birthday wishes. Also read: Rajinikanth watches AR Rahman’s virtual reality film Le Musk

Kamal Haasan wished Rajinikanth in Tamil on Twitter. The translation of his tweet read: “Happy birthday to my dear friend Superstar @rajinikanth Wish you on this auspicious day to continue your journey of success.”

Actor Dulquer Salmaan posted a fan-made poster of Rajinikanth featuring his look from Baba. He captioned it, “Happy Birthday Superstar #Rajinikanth Sir ! You are the best & keep inspiring us forever.” Dhanush added another tweet, “Happy Birthday Thalaivaa.”

Celebrities such as Anirudh Ravichander, KS Ravikumar, Raghava Lawrence, Nelson Dilipkumar and several others too extended their best wishes to Rajinikanth on his special day.

Meanwhile, Rajinikanth awaits the release of his upcoming film, Jailer. The film’s team of Jailer on Monday revealed that Rajinikanth will play a character called Muthuvel Pandian. A special video will be released on the occasion of his birthday on Monday at 6 PM.

The filmming of Jailer is currently progressing at brisk pace. Rajinikanth plays a jailer in the film which will be entirely shot inside a real-life prison.

Rajinikanth was last seen in Tamil film Annaatthe. The film, which was produced by Sun Pictures, also starred Keerthy Suresh, Nayanthara, Khushbhu Sundar, Meena and Jagapathi Babu in key roles.

Annaatthe was directed by Siva, who had collaborated with Rajinikanth for the first time. Rajinikanth wished to work with the filmmaker after seeing Siva’s film Viswasam.

“When Siva met me, he said it was easy to make a hit film with me. It left me stunned because nobody had said that to me before. He said that I should star in a story-based film and that it should be set in a village,” Rajinikanth said in a voice note.

Annaatthe turned out to be a dud at the box-office. It’s production banner Sun Pictures, is bankrolling Jailer as well.

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