India, Nov. 19 -- Fifty years. That's how long it's been since a young man named Shivaji Rao Gaekwad - better known as Rajinikanth - walked into the frame and changed Indian cinema forever. And in 2025, Hindustan Times, along with OTTplay, has decided to do something that's never happened before. For the first time in Hindustan Times' 100-year legacy, the newspaper dedicated its entire front page to a single individual - a tribute reserved for someone whose influence transcends cinema and becomes cultural mythology.

This morning, readers of the paper woke up not to the familiar masthead of Hindustan Times, but to 'Rajinikanth Times' - a spectacular front-page tribute to the superstar's golden jubilee in cinema.

Rajinikanth's story has a...