Did you know? Superstar Rajinikanth appeared in a French film in 2006

This text written by Usman Feroze appeared in The Hindu on 26-01-2007

When Okay Balachander solid a younger bus conductor from Bangalore in an insignificant function in his 1975 movie Apoorva Raagangal, the Tamil filmmaker informed audiences to be careful for the “hearth within the actor’s eyes.” Now, greater than twenty years later, the eyes of Rajinikanth have turn into the deciding issue for French actor-director Alain Chabat to “cast” the superstar in his film.

Chabat’s top-grossing French comedy Prête-moi ta predominant (I Do) has Rajinikanth making an look within the type of a TV sequence displaying a stunt scene from his 1995 movie Muthu.

“Chabat determined in favour of Muthu, although he initially wished to indicate a kung-fu sequence from a Chinese language movie. He was attracted by Rajinikanth’s eyes,” says Etienee Dubaille of Chez Wam, the manufacturing firm of Chabat.

Within the movie, its heroine Emma, performed by actor Charlotte Gainsbourg, is proven watching Muthu. She is requested, “What are you watching?” to which she replies, “Muthu, a cult Indian film,” and provides when Rajinikanth’s face seems, “I like that scene!”

In a reside interview on the Web, Chabat informed a Tamilian dwelling in France that Muthu was a “excellent film … Tremendous, in a single phrase!”