Talk:Rajinikanth

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Contents 1 Enthusiasm 2 Clarity 3 Adding External link 4 Expand section on acting career 5 Politics 6 Pruned this article too

[edit] Enthusiasm

I've been toning down some of the wording in order to keep the POV as neutral as possible. The article is highly enthusiastic about the subject and would benefit from some softening of the tone a bit. For example:

" Rajinikanth', fondly known as "Super Star Rajini", is the most popular Tamil movie star ever.'"

I believe the characterizations most and ever require a high bar of justification, including multiple external sources. My goal in making these edits is to keep the article's intent while avoiding having it sound like it was written by the president of his fan club. Tobycat 02:20, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

I've tried to make this as neutral as possible and tried my best not to hurt the sentiments of previous contributor(s). Hope this helps. - srini 19:25, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"In reality, Rajinikanth has been a simple, honest, well mannered and down-to-earth human being. When his movie Baba (2002) was not received well and financially unsuccessful (even though it ran for over 100 days, it was not upto the box office standards Rajinikanth's movies has set for themselves), Rajni took the unusual step of paying for the losses to the film's distributors."

I think we should refrain from making statements about the (perceived) personality of celebrities. Also, I would like to see a cite for the claim that Rajnikanth returned money to distributors. --Kingsleyj 03:31, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clarity

I completely agree with Tobycat about softening the tone of this article. I also think that somebody ought to clean the whole thing up.

"At the age of 56, his latest release was Chandramukhi (April 2005). It was a remake of the Malayalam blockbuster movie Manichitrathazhu starring superstar Mohanlal (also remade in Kannada as "Aaptamithra"). Chandramukhi has broken all the box office records of all movies ever made in Kollywood. It was made after his previous movie Baba (2002) was a disastrous flop! His next film Sivaji is being directed by S. Shankar."

The paragraph above should be re-written, I believe. Also, I would like to know if we are allowed to add things such as "His next film Sivaji is being directed by S. Shankar."

--Bebert 14:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding External link

Adding a external link to a picture of Naga theatre in bangalore playing Chandramukhi. djinn Thu Jun 30 12:45:48 IST 2005

Adding a external link to the e-Fans association of Rajnikanth http://Rajinifans.com

[edit] Expand section on acting career

This article desperately needs lots and lots of input about major events in Rajini's career. We could split the career section, for sake of convenience, into Seventies, Eighties, Nineties and Noughts like in Ajith article. Senior editors are needed to expand the scope of this section. At present, only punch dialogues are being added day-in and day-out! Anwar saadat 01:41, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Politics

The politics section appears to be very POv, consisting of an original analysis of this person's political activities.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 05:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pruned this article too

I pruned the Ajith article, and another editor told me that the fan editor at Ajith claimed THIS article as his inspiration. So I came here to clean up this one too. I tried to remove all the fancruft. Fans, this is going to be better for him, honest. Readers will tune out anything that reads like a movie column, but they are going to pay attention to a sober, serious encyclopedia article. Zora 15:50, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Don't blank lines, paragraphs, sections and links without discussion. Its indecent and tantamounts to vandalism. Remember, you have alread been cautioned to cause disruptive edit-revert wars in articles that are not your concern. What knowledge of Kollywood do you possess to randomly select and decide what is POV and NPOV here? Anwar saadat 17:35, 6 May 2006 (UTC)