The Tamil superstar took everyone by surprise and spent a few minutes with overjoyed BMTC staff at the bus stand near Bengaluru's Jayanagar.
Rajinikanth during his visit to BMTC. (X)
Superstar Rajinikanth on Tuesday, 29 August, took a walk down memory lane as he visited the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus stand where he once worked as a conductor.
The 72-year-old took everyone by surprise and spent a few minutes with overjoyed BMTC drivers, bus conductors, and other staff at the stand near Jayanagar in South Bengaluru.
Shivaji Rao Gaikwad, aka Superstar Rajinikanth, once worked as a bus conductor in the city, before the legendary Tamil director, the late K Balachander, spotted him, christened him Rajinikanth and gave the actor his first break in the hit film Apoorva Ragangal in 1975. The film also starred Kamal Haasan.
The moment Rajinikanth, who is said to have turned nostalgic, made an appearance, the Traffic Transit Management Centre (TTMC) staff of the BMTC greeted and milled around him. He chatted with them for a while and also posed for selfies.
The actor travelled further back in time and visited his school in Gavipuram in Guttahalli. He also visited the Vidyarthi Bhavan, a famous eatery in the city.
He then visited the Raghavendra Swami Math in Bengaluru.
Superstar Rajinikanth was accompanied by his close friend Raj Bahadur. He chose to visit these three places as it made him nostalgic amid celebrating his success with the recent hit-movie Jailer.
Rajinikanth donned the titular role in the movie Sri Raghavendra (1985), a biography of the 16th-17th century saint-poet of Madhva Sampradaya of Dvaita Vedanta philosophy.
Rajinikanth is said to have spent his childhood in Bengaluru and lived in the city till the age of 22, before shifting to Chennai to pursue his film career.
Prior to that, he worked as a conductor in the erstwhile Bangalore Transport Services (BTS), which is now known as BMTC.
Rajinikanth returned to the silver screen after almost two years with the Nelson Dilipkumar directorial Jailer, released earlier this month, setting the box office on fire, grossing in the range of ₹600 crore in worldwide collections — and counting.
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