Billa

…was elevated to superstardom after Billa (1980), in which he played a ruthless mafia don. The film was yet another remake (of Bachchan’s 1978 film Don) and Rajinikanth’s first blockbuster release. Murattu Kaalai (1980; “Raging Bull”), in which his character, a dutiful milkman, saves a woman from the abusive man…