Vijay (actor)

This article is about the Tamil film actor. For other uses see Vijay (disambiguation)

Vijay
File:Joseph Vijay.jpg
Born	Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar
Other names	Ilaya Thalapathy, Dr. Vijay, King of Kollywood
Spouse	Sangeetha Vijay
Website	http://www.vijaynet.com

Vijay (Tamil: விஜய்), (born Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar on June 22, 1974) is a Tamil film actor and playback singer. He began his acting career doing minor, uncredited roles as a child artist, produced by his father S. A. Chandrasekhar. Vijay's stereotypical style of acting and entertainment is often compared to that of Rajinikanth and M. G. Ramachandran.

Personal Background

Vijay Chandrasekhar was born on June 22, 1974 to film producer and director S. A. Chandrasekhar and Shoba Chandrasekhar, a playback singer. He had a sister named Vidhya Chandrasekhar who died at the age of two. Vijay studied Visual Communications at Loyola College, but dropped out to pursue an acting career. He was interestingly classmates with Surya Sivakumar, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Karthik Raja, and Vishnuvardhan.

He married Sangeetha after a lot of struggle and controversies on August 25, 1999. They have two children: Jason Sanjay, born on August 26, 2000 in London, and Divya Saasha, born on September 9, 2005 in Chennai.

Career

Acting Style

He began his acting career doing minor, uncredited roles as a child artist in Kollywood. Today he is known for his pacy dance sequences and his acting style. He is referred to as Ilaya Thalapathy, which is also always used along with his name in credits.

Vijay's films often open with mass anticipation in India and, more recently, in several other countries as well. Vijay's films are noted to have a minimum guaruntee of collection at box offices due to their nature.

Films

Vijay debuted as a lead role actor in the 1992 film Naalaya Theerpu, produced by his father, then he co-stared with Vijayakanth in the film Sendhoorapandi.This is the only superhit movie made by Father-Son combination. This film helped Vijay to become popular in the interior areas of Tamil Nadu. Films like Rasigan, Vishnu, and Deva followed, which all helped to Vijay to stay in the industry. Vijay is also one of the few lead actors of his generation to co-star with veteran actor Sivaji Ganesan. This opportunity came in the film Once More, directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar in 1997.

The year 1996 saw a blockbuster hit in the Vikraman-directed film Poove Unakkaga which helped Vijay to establish as a bankable star in Tamil films. He found more success with films that followed, which had an unorthodox climax like Love Today and Kadhalukku Mariyadhai. Kadhalukku Mariyadhai made Vijay receive that year's Tamil Nadu state Best Actor Award. Then after some flops Thulladha Manamum Thullum came as a blockbuster in 1999. Then Vijay saw a huge fall in his career with lot of flops in 1999.Then he came back with successes of Khushi, Priyamaanavale and Friends in 2000.His string of failure films during 2001 and 2002 was ended by Thirumalai in 2003 which had Vijay in a new facial appearance. Ghilli, which was released in 2004, is considered to be one of the best Vijay's biggest hit till today. Another hit had followed, which was Madhurey with rajkshitha in lead. It was in this year which Vijay began to portray his current mass-hero, stereotypical acting style. The following year he had stumbling time with movies such as Thirupaachi, Sachein, and Sivakasi.

Vijay's only flop film since the release of Thirumalai was Aathi, which released in 2006. Aathi had created some controversy during that year and many film distributors decided on thinking twice before handling any new Vijay films. This resulted in Vijay taking a break from acting for nearly a year, until the launch of Pokkiri, directed by Prabhu Deva, which released in 2007.This Pokkiri turned out to be a blockbuster movie of the year. Later that year, Vijay appeared in Azhagiya Thamizh Magan, and for the first time in dual roles.

Vijay's latest film, Kuruvi, The film opened to Indian audiences after several delays, on 3 May 2008 to mixed reviews. Directed by Dharani, Kuruvi also had Trisha Krishnan and Ashish Vidhyarthi in the cast and the film's music score was composed by Vidyasagar, the same team that worked with Vijay in Ghilli four years ago.

Vijay is currently acting in Villu, again under Prabhu Deva's direction. The film is expected to be released in 2009.

Playback singing

Vijay also sang several ghaana songs in his own films. He has also lent his voice for songs for other actors, which were films produced by S. A. Chandrasekhar. Vijay's songs are often of ghaana-style folk beat type. The last song Vijay sang was Vaadi Vaadi from Sachien in 2005.

Awards

• Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor in 1997 for Kadhalukku Mariyadhai
• Roja Duke's Best Actor Award for Kadhalukku Mariyadhai
• M.G.R. Award in 2000
• Dinakaran Best Actor Award for Ghilli in 2005
• Film Today Best Actor Award for Ghilli in 2005
• Honorary doctorate in 2007
• Sunfeast Music Awards for Best Hero for Pokkiri in 2007
• Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best Actor for Thirupaachi

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role	Notes
1992	Naalaya Theerpu	Vijay
1993	Sendhoorapandi	Vijay
1994	Deva	Deva
	Rasigan	Vijay
1995	Rajavin Parvaiyile	Vijay
	Vishnu	Vishnu
	Chandralekha	Rahim
1996	Coimbatore Maaple	Vijay
	Poove Unakkaga	Raja
	Vasantha Vaasal	Vijay
	Maanbumigu Maanavan	Shiva
	Selva	Selva
1997	Kaalamellam Kaathiruppen	Kannan
	Love Today	Ganesh
	Once More	Vijay
	Nerrukku Ner	Vijay
	Kadhalukku Mariyadhai	Jeevanandam	Winner: Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor
1998	Ninaithen Vandhai	Gokulakrishnan
	Priyamudan	Vasanth
	Nilaave Vaa	Seluvai
1999	Thulladha Manamum Thullum	Kutty
	Endrendrum Kadhal	Vijay
	Nenjinile	Karunakaran
	Minsara Kanna	Kannan
2000	Kannukkul Nilavu	Gautham
	Khushi	Shiva
	Priyamaanavale	Vijay
2001	Friends	Aravinth
	Badri	Badri
	Shahjahan	Ashok
2002	Thamizhan	Surya
	Youth	Shiva
	Bhagavathi	Bhagavathi
	Vaseegara	Boopathy
2003	Puthiya Geethai	Sarathy
	Thirumalai	Thirumalai
2004	Udhaya	Udhayakumaran
	Ghilli	Saravanavelu
	Madhurey	Madhurey
2005	Thirupaachi	Sivagiri	Winner: Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best Actor
	Sachien	Sachien
	Sukran	Sukran	Cameo appearance
	Sivakasi	Sivakaasi (Muthappa)
2006	Aathi	Aathi
2007	Pokkiri	Thamizh (Sathyamoorthy)	Nominated: Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award
	Azhagiya Thamizh Magan	Guru/Prasad
2008	Kuruvi	Vetrivel
	Pandhayam	Vijay	Cameo appearance
2009	Villu		Filming
	Vettaikaran		Announced

Discography

Year	Song	Film	Other notes
2005	Vaadi Vaadi	Sachein
2002	Coca Cola	Bagavathi
2002	Ullathai Killadhae	Thamizhan	Sung with co-star, Priyanka Chopra
2001	Ennoda Laila	Badri
2000	Mississippi Nadhi Kulunga	Priyamanavale
1999	Thanganirathuku	Nenjinile
1998	Roddula Oru	Periyanna	Vijay did playback singing for this song for Surya Sivakumar
1998	Juddadi Laila	Periyanna	Vijay did playback singing for this song for Surya Sivakumar
1998	Thammadikkira Styla Pathu	Periyanna	Vijay did playback singing for this song for Surya Sivakumar
1998	Kalathukku Oru Gana	Velai	Vijay did playback singing for this song for Vignesh
1998	Chandira Mandalathai	Nilaave Vaa
1998	Nilave... Nilave	Nilaave Vaa
1998	Mowriya Mowriya	Priyamudan
1997	Oh Baby Baby	Kadhalukku Mariyadhai
1997	Akhila Akhila	Nerrukku Ner
1997	Oormilaa Oormilaa	Once more	Vijay sung this song together with his mother Shoba
1996	Chicken Karae	Selva
1996	Anjaam Number Bussil Yeri	Kaalamellam Kaathiruppen
1996	Thiruppathy Ponaa Mottai	Maanbumigu Maanavan
1995	Bomboi Party Shilpa Shetty	Coimbatore Maaple
1994	Thottabettaa Rottu Melae	Vishnu	Vijay sung this song together with his mother Shoba
1994	Adadaa Alamelu Aavin Pasumpaalu	Deva
1994	Koththagiri Kuppammaa	Deva
1994	Bomboi City Sukkha Rotti	Rasigan

External links

Vijay at IMDb

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