Last week, a young student at AIMST University asked me: “Datuk, did Rajinikanth go to university?”

Rajini studied in a Kannada-medium school and worked as a coolie, carpenter and bus conductor in Bangalore.

He joined a film institute at 25, an age when we tell our youth, “You are late.”

Last week, Jailer 2 was breaking box-office records again. At 74, he is still a superstar.