Sachin Tendulkar: Cricket’s own Rajnikanth

Both are tutelary deities when they start doing what they do, one on screen and another on the field. The two may be like cheese and chalk; cannot be compared… but there’s a lot more common with these 2 superstars than what we generally see or think.

One goes about doing the impossible on screen while the other does it regularly on the field. The hopes of an entire nation are wrested upon one to save it from corruption, terrorists or (maybe sometime soon) aliens while the other answers all prayers, more often than not, to save India from embarrassment. Both defy logic, one with his movies and the other one almost every time he holds a willow. One has defied age, competition and the rules of an industry to stay on top for more than 3 decades, while the other has gotten only better with age to put his name on any record that is worth putting your name on.

Sachin Tendulkar can make ‘making the impossible happen’ look like just another day in the office with probably the same ease that Rajinikanth pulls of what the world thinks can’t ever be done. The little man from Bombay probably has a world record or world records when it comes to batting, and churns out unforgettable performances by the dozens, unforgettable performances just like Rajinikanth has dished out over years with his movies.

More than 32 thousand runs, close to a 100 hundreds, more than 150 50’s and one wicket away from reaching 200 international wickets in a glorious career spread over 20 years is no mean feat, but for this diminutive right hander that is not enough. A career of such longevity would’ve been impossible without inviolable determination, a passion to excel and the hunger to give it everything you’ve got every time, all the time.

For Rajinikanth its just a small matter of 150 movies, and one movie vaulting the expectations of the next to dizzying heights and the Tamil Superstar not disappointing. Again.. A career of such longevity would’ve been impossible without inviolable determination, a passion to excel and the hunger to give it everything you’ve got every time, all the time.

For Rajinikanth and Sachin, impossible is just the next challenge to take up. Impossible is where no one ever has been and where these two will soon be!