Back in the day, when Rajinikanth was at the peak of his stardom after entering the film industry, he used to have multiple releases in a year. In fact, it went to the extent of having over 7-8 releases in a year.
But after 1995, the Baasha actor took it one at a time. He did films with big intervals of at least a year. Then in 2014, we saw Kochadaiyaan and Lingaa come consecutively.