Superstar Rajinikanth has been ranked 28th in India Today’s Top 50 Powerlist 2010. Only five people from Tamilnadu among this list and Rajinikanth is the only actor from tamilnadu among this list. The five people from Tamil Nadu are

Kalanidhi Maran-Ranked 16

Rajinikanth-Ranked 28

A.R.Rahman-Ranked 34

Pratap C Redi(APOLLO)-Ranked 40

Jakki Vasudev-Ranked 43

Ameer and Sharukh are acting in national level. Moreover many of the people around India know Hindi and most of them watch this actor's movie. Rajini Kanth is acting only in tamil films. Eventhough he is in 28th place, Dhoni is at 25th only 3 rank ahead of Rajini Kanth and A.R.Rahman at 34 th place.

Few info about Rajini:

1.He is acting in India's most expensive film Endhiran.

2.FEFSI members condemned him for his open support to Ajith.But it doesn't affect him.

3.He is the second highest paid actor after Jackie Chan.

4.He has 38000 registered fans club consisting of 19 lakhs members and are waiting for his political entrance.he has fans even in japan and Korea.

5.He is the highest paid actor in southindia.26 crores for a film.

6.He is named as kind hearted actor by film distributors for giving back their money in Kuselan film loss and he is acting in shankars 150c budget film.

7. In tamil cinema world celebrations and protests wont fulfill without him.