Inspiration in Cinema: During his time as a bus conductor, Rajinikanth become a people’s favourite and everyone wanted to be in the bus of this young and charming conductor. The actor who grew up acting in theater plays then found inspiration in actors like Sivaji Ganesan, Rajkumar and M. G. Ramachandran. Where the actor revealed that it was Ganesan who drew him to cinema, and he got himself enrolled at Madras Film Institute.