Rajinikanth Wants To Play Transgender

Tamil superstar Rajinikanth has a prolific career that spans decades and includes some of the most significant movies and performances, but in a recent interview, he has expressed an interest in playing the role of a transgender on the big screen.

The senior actor, who was in Mumbai to launch the trailer of his upcoming film Darbar, was asked about a genre that he would like to explore. To this, he replied, "Actually I've explored all (laughs). It has been 45 years, 160 films... So everything has been covered," the actor told the media. "I want to play a transgender," he further added.

The beginning of the year witnessed many popular actors embrace the LGBTQI characters on the big screen. Sonam Kapoor sent fans into a tizzy as she played a lesbian in the movie, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga. Most recently, actor Vijay Sethupathi portrayed a transgender in the widely acclaimed hit Tamil thriller, Super Deluxe. Bollywood actor, Akshay Kumar also announced that he would be essaying a transgender in Laxmmi Bomb.

One reporter asked him if he was approached with any script about transgender, Rajinikanth replied, no such role has been offered to him yet. His upcoming film, directed by AR Murugadoss, features the star as a cop for the first time in 25 years.

Talking about the film he said, "Actually, I don’t like doing a cop role because it has too much responsibility attached to it. I enjoy playing easy-going roles. But AR Murugadoss came up with a very different story. It is not a regular cop character. It is very different. His visualization and imagination are very different."