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'Velaikaaran' celebration of 29 years
Updated on : 07 March 2016

1. Super Star and Ulaganayagan had a bad time during 1986 and 'Velaikaaran' released in 1987 midst huge expectations. The movie got released on March 7, 1987.



2. The movie released during the 1987 World Cup hype and that is also the period when Piracy came into industry.



3. 'Velaikaaran' cemented Rajini's Super Star throne and it also proved the success ratio of Rajini was more than 80%



4. There has been not much of a difference between Rajini and Kamal. However after release of 'Velaikaaran' this gap got bigger



5. The movie ran for 50 days in all screens in Chennai. Most theaters started with 3 shows and later increased the number of shows. 



6. Rajini has an unbeatable record of 5 consecutive 100 days movies in Madurai and 'Velaikaaran' was the first movie among those five.



7. Soon after this success, he got another two blockbusters 'Oorkaavalan' and 'Manithan'.



8. And this movie also sparked rumours that Rajini was in a relation with Amala. However he refuted that during 100 days function and said she was just a good friend. 



9. The popular dialogue "I can talk English, I can walk English..." earlier said by Amitabh Bachchan in Namak Halaal was also used in this film.



10. In this movie Rajinikanth remodified his popular hair style, till 1996 he maintained the same hairstyle.

 

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