Attitude Plus
I'm the millennium superstar of Tamil cinema," he declares. Thing is, Ajith, not known for false modesty, isn't making a false claim. All his six films released in 1999-among them Vaali, Ananda Poongatre and Amarkalam-have been huge box-office hits. This Salman Khan of Tamil filmdom (have body, will flaunt), a former mobike racer, has put behind a string of early flops to talk the talk and walk the walk of Rajnikanth, attitude intact. Last year, he supported striking cinema workers against producers. He acted in Raasi. It bombed. So he made another, Vaali, with the same producer without taking a rupee. It's a hit. The accident-prone (nine surgeries to the spine) loner ("I drive long distances, cry out my sufferings to my car") is obsessed with his "aim to be number one". There you have it.