http://www.nowrunning.com/news/news.asp?it=8992
Film buffs have been hearing a lot about "Sivaji" these days as superstar Rajinikanth plays the lead role in it. Besides Rajinikanth, AVM, director Shankar and music director A.R. Rahman have teamed up for this venture, raising great expectations among the audiences. The media hype of "Sivaji" began even before the formal launch of the venture as the earlier Rajini-Jothika starrer "Chandramukhi" evoked such great response which surpassed all expectations. Reports have been appearing regularly about "Sivaji" touching on all aspects of the film but the story proper. Whatever appeared in media in bits and pieces failed to convey what "Sivaji" is all about. An English newspaper today (Dec.29) carried a gist of the story under the headline "Worst kept secret". What the daily calls a "quick recap" reads: Rajini returns from a stint abroad with a mission to build a college which provides education at government college fee rates and no donations. He gets the support from the state ministry and he starts work on building the college. This irks the lobby controlling higher education. The ministry is voted out and a new ministry comes in. It is backed by anti-lobby. Rajini is harassed and his project put on hold. He tries to take a legal recourse but finally he decides to adopt his own methods to checkmate them. A website had earlier carried the story according to which Rajini plays double roles One role is that of a rich father, a well respected man in the community and the other is that of a joyful son of the rich Rajini. Big Rajini owned a college. He became very popular by doing a lot of good things to the people. A group of people were always against Big Rajini and were creating problems for his college and for him. This group eventually killed him. After Big Rajini's death, son Rajini takes over all the responsibility of his father and continues to run the college the same way as his father did. Son Rajini is also humble and kind-hearted .But a few who are closely working with him, join hands with his father's, enemy, cheat the son and seize all his father's wealth, leaving him on the streets with just one rupee. Junior Rajini tosses the one rupee coin and proclaims that he would get back all the wealth and fame of his father with this one rupee. In the climax the superstar becomes a millionaire and gets back all his father's wealth and fame. Then he takes revenge on all the people who were involved in the killing of his father. He then gives away all the money he has earned to his people and leaves the place tossing the one rupee coin. It looks like that one has to wait and see the movie to know the authentic story.
