Rajinikanth's popularity is too well-known to bear any repetition here.
But now the undisputed superstar is going to take a new avatar too.
The man, who is going to be immortalized as an animation character by his daughter Soundarya, may soon be featured in a game console.
Gaming and animation movies are now being seen as the next big thing as far as children's entertainment goes.
Soundarya Rajinikanth, who is the managing director of Ocher Studios that specializes in such new-fangled forms of entertainment, is planning to sell online gaming and gaming consoles. She feels that the best way forward is to start with games based on popular films.
Ocher is getting ready a gaming studio to make console, internet and mobile-games.
Ocher Studios is co-producing the full-length animated film of Rajinikanth and will soon start off with a gaming theme on him.
The studio is also into graphic designing for movies. The first of its famous projects was Chandramukhi.
So Rajinikanth has another first to his credit now.
He will be first star to be featured in a game.
That's delighting news to fans of the superstar worldwide.