Shivaji Rao Gaikwad (Rajinikanth) turned 57 on Wednesday (December 12). His fans, across the state, celebrated their darling star's birth anniversary with great pleasure and enthusiasm.

There is hardly a bigger name that brings up this type of madness across the Tamil diaspora. And when it's the time of his birthday of this Tamil megastar, his diehard lovers don't want any other reason to go mad.

However, if you believed that this craze was just limited to fans like these, you couldn't be falser.

Several of his fans are celebrities in Tamil movie industry who have shared screen space with Rajni. Some of them include Shriya, Khusboo, Vikram and the list goes on and on.

If 2007 for Rajni was all about the amazing success of Sivaji, then 2008 will see the release of the animated film Sultan with Rajnikanth in the lead.

Well, we wish that his fifty eighth birth anniversary will usher him more name and fame than he already has garnered.