Rajanikanth Petrified?

Rajanikanth seems to be so fearful of death after the demise of close friend and Kannada films’ superstar Vishnuvardhan that he recently conducted the Maha Mrit­yunjaya homa to ward off Death.
The Tamil films’ superstar visited several shrines in and around Mysore this month to counter evil forces. The recent death of Vishnuvardhan seems to have alerted Rajani­kanth into appeasing the Gods. Rajani had starred as the lead in Chandramukhi, the Tamil remake of Vishnuvardhan’s Kannada film, Aptha Mitra.

There has been talk that the spirit of Nagavalli (a split-personality character in the film) claimed the lives of Vishnu­vardhan and his co-star, Soun­darya, who was killed in an air crash a month before the film’s release in 2004. Rumours have it that Rajanikanth has even declined an offer from noted director P. Vasu to act in the Tamil remake of the sequel of Aptha Mitra – Aptha Rak­shaka.

The shooting of the recently-released Aptha Rak­shaka got over just a month before Vishnuvardhan’s death in Decem­ber last year. Aptha Rakshaka was Vishnuvar­dhan’s 200th film as hero. He had said that its shooting had been marked by accidents and hallucinations.

Issue dated Feb 21 – 27, 2010

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