Film Career
T. Rajendar started off in the Kollywood industry making successful films which included him as an actor, playback singer, dancer and scriptwriter. He gained popularity through his one-of-a-kind weird style of acting. T. Rajendar is well known for writing good heart touching lyrics and composing music in his movies and also using rhythmic Tamil dialogues throughout his movies. In addition, he has a reputation of not touching the heroines or indulging in romantic scenes like most actors-directors. T. Rajendar generally plays a lot of roles when making his own films. He normally serves as, but not limited to director, actor, dancer, songwriter, screenwriter, costume designer, cinematographer, choreographer,art director,production manager.playback singer. During the 1980's all his movies were blockbusters running for years and the songs were also well appreciated. He is known for introducing new faces in all his movies and most of the Heroines who debuted in his movies made it big in South Cinema like Amala, Nalini, Jyothi, Jeevitha (Wife of telugu star Rajasekhar), Mumtaj.
After some years, T. Rajendar's films started to decline in popularity because his films became too predictable, tending to follow the same storyline and oratory style of repetitous dialogues with little if any meaning. For example his films always contain a sentimental scene involving the hero's younger sister in distress, coupled with the same rhyming rhetoric and gestures. Despite this, he strongly contends that he has a dedicated fan base around the world.
T. Rajendar recently started his own web TV channel called 'Kural TV' (Voice TV). Originally he wanted to start a 24 hour TV channel but could not due to problems arising while securing a license. The channel, apart from broadcasting his movies and speeches, tends to echo sentiments towards the plight of Tamils (especially women) in Sri Lanka.
T Rajendar had started talking with common people through Skype and discussing about latest politics in the recent years. A bad thing about T Rajendar is that, he used to brag about himself and made some African and Oriya songs which he did trying to convince the people that he can survive anywhere but it turned out to be comical and annoying with people making fun of him throughout the internet. Internet comedian MysticTamil.com, has released numerous memes and articles mocking T Rajendar.
T. Rajendar also distributes films under his home banner 'Kural TV Creations'. His latest film distribution, as of mid-2011 is his son Silambarasan's film Vaanam which will be distributed in the Chennai and Madurai region.
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