Little Superstar

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Little Superstar is an Internet phenomenon, consisting of a video of Thavakalai, an Indian actor, dancing to MC Miker G & DJ Sven's remix of the Madonna song Holiday, in a clip from a 1990 Tamil movie Adhisaya Piravi, featuring actor Rajnikanth. Various mashups have also appeared on the Internet using tracks from Cypress Hill, Michael Jackson and others.

The clip is from India and is a product of the Chennai (Madras) movie industry, otherwise known as Kollywood. The little person in the clip is actually an adult actor, and has appeared in several movies. The video has been featured on YouTube, in Tom's bulletins on Myspace, on the E! TV show The Soup, the MSNBC shows Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Tucker Carlson, G4TV's Attack of the Show! and elsewhere, as well as having been parodied on Saturday Night Live. There are also other video clips of Thavakalai fighting.

In recent years, actor Thavakalai has chorographed a dance scene in a Doritos Tandoori Sizzler! commercial shown in Canada. [1]

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[edit] Translation of the Dialogue in the Dance Clip

The language spoken in the clip is Tamil. The rough English equivalent would be:

Mother: Hey, hey. What's with the party early in the morning. Everyone go away, shoo, shoo. (Speaking to Rajinikanth, who's lying on the cot) Why not take some rest, dear.

Rajinikanth: OK Mom (lights up a beedi as she walks away).

Thavakalai: Dude, give me a beedi.

Rajinikanth: Hey! Kids shouldn't smoke.

Thavakalai: Buddy, I'm ten years older than you. Give it to me I say.

Rajinikanth: And if I don't?

Thavakalai: I'll skin you alive.

Rajinikanth: Here you go.

[edit] Translation of the Dialogue in the Slapping Clip

Thavakalai: Brother, you shouldn't be bothering for these silly things. I'll take care of this myself (with my hands).

Rajinikanth: Ok.

(Thavakalai clambers up a person's tie and starts slapping him)

Thavakalai: (pauses and looks at Rajinikant) Dude, how (am I doing)?

Rajinikanth: Great!

Rajinikanth: That's enough. He's going to die !

(Thavakalai gets off and returns back to cot)

Rajinikanth: Well, is this enough or do you want a piece of me too?

[edit] Misconceptions

  • The clips were incorrectly reported as being from Bollywood in some places on the web and TV media, such as YouTube, Yahoo and the "Oddball Plays of the Month" segment of Keith Olbermann show on MSNBC. The movie is from the Chennai (Madras) movie industry, otherwise known as Kollywood.
  • Thavakalai is also incorrectly described as a child actor in some places. He suffers from dwarfism.
  • Thavakalai was never known as the "little superstar" in the Tamil film industry. Ironically on the other hand, the protagonist (actor lying on the cot) named (Rajinikanth)in those clips is known as a "Superstar" in India.

[edit] Spoofs and Other Pop Culture References

  • A parody version of "Little Superstar" starring porn star Ron Jeremy first started turning up on video sharing websites in March 2007.
  • An early draft of the hit Rihanna song Umbrella referenced "Little Superstar", but was eventually taken out.

[edit] References

  1. ^ YouTube - tandoori sizzler dancer

[edit] External links