Ilayathalapathi Vijay
Life History
Actor
Name: Dr.Vijay
Real Name: Joseph VIJAY
Title
Won: Ilayathalapathy
Profession: Actor and Singer
Date of Birth: 22 Jun 1974
Mother Tongue: Tamil
Height: 176CM
Father Name: S.A. Chandasekaran
His
Profession: Writer, Producer, Director)
Mother' Name: Shobhana ChandraSekar
Her
Profession: Singer, Writer And Director
Education:
Bsc. Visual Communications complete at
Loyola
Wife: Dr. Sangeetha (Ilankai Tamilar)
Marriage Date: Aug 25 1999
His Child: Jason Sanjay born in 2000 in London and a
daughter
Divya Saasha born in 2005 in Chennai.
Thick Friends: Sanjai, Srinath, Sanjeev, Manoj and Ram Kumar
His Best friend in cine industry: Vikram, Surya
Debut as child artist: “Vetri”
Vijay's Favorites:
Tourist
spots - London and Los Angels
Food - Non- Vegetrian (Chicken, Mutton Briyani Prepared by his Mother
and
Tandoori Items)
Clothes - Jeans and T-Shirt(Collections)
Colors - Blue and Black
Crazy
About – Cars (Owns a Black BMW)
Career:
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 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.
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.Kadhalukku Mariyadhai made Vijay receive that
year's Tamil Nadu state Best Actor Award. Thulladha Manamum Thullum came as a
blockbuster 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.
Gilli,
which was released in 2004, is considered to be one of Vijay's biggest hit in
Kollywood.Another
hit had followed, which was Madhurey, later that year.The following year he had stumbling time with
movies such as Thirupaachi was a major hit and Sachein was average grosser.Sivakasi was a super hit. Vijay appeared in Aadhi in
2006, followed by a short hiatus. He later accepted to work in Pokkiri which
was directed by Prabhu Deva and released in 2007. Later that year, Vijay
starred in the romantic drama film Azhagiya Thamizh Magan, and for the first
time, he appeared in dual roles, as both the antagonist and protagonist.
In
2008, he starred in the action film Kuruvi, again under Dharani's direction.
The year 2009 started off with the action masala film Villu, which was directed
by Prabhu Deva and had Vijay in dual roles for the second time in his career.
Vijay's next film, Vettaikaaran, was directed by Babu Sivan, produced by AVM
Productions and distributed by Sun Pictures. In 2010, Vijay's 50th film Sura,
another Sun Pictures distribution, released with mixed reviews and fails in
Boxoffice.
In the year 2002, Vijay was chosen as Coca Cola's brand ambassador in Tamil Nadu. In 2008, Vijay was signed up as the star ambassador for the Indian Premier League cricket team Chennai Super Kings. In 2010, Vijay was signed by Jos Alukkas as their brand ambassador for Tamil Nadu. 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 gaana-style folk beat type. The last song Vijay sang was Vaadi Vaadi from Sachien in 2005.
Vijay inaugurated 'Makkal Iyakkam' (People
Movement) on his birthday in 2009, its motive is to do social work. In the
start of 2011 the Tamil remake of the Malayalam film Bodyguard also co-starring
Asin directed by Siddque. It received a positive response from both viewers and
critics and was deemed to be a box office hit, in spite of the ruling DMK
stalling its release in many theatres which forced Vijay to shell out his
salary and spend an extra 4 crore (US$728,000) for the release of the film.
His
next release was Nanban, the Tamil remake of the Bollywood blockbuster 3
Idiots, where he essayed the role played by Aamir Khan in the original. Directed
by acclaimed director S. Shankar, it released during the Pongal weekend of 2012
and was a box office blockbuster. Made a friendly appearance in the 2012
Bollywood film Rowdy Rathore starring Akshay Kumar, directed by Prabhu Deva.
The action thriller film Thuppakki, directed by A. R. Murugadoss and produced
by S. Dhanu, released on Diwali 2012 to highly positive reviews and was a
commercial success across the globe.
After 7 years he has sung "Google
Google" for Harris Jayaraj for his film Thuppakki. The movie again box
office hit after Nanban. "Thuppakki was declared as a historic blockbuster. The film also became the fourth south indian film(third in Tamil
cinema) to enter the 100 crore (US$16 million) club after Sivaji, Magadheera
and Endhiran and is the biggest blockbuster in Vijay's career. Eros
International announced that Thuppakki made a domestic nett collection of 185
crore (US$29 million). His most recent flim Thalaivaa co-starring Amala Paul
and directed by A. L. Vijay released on August 9, 2013 worldwide. This movie
went into controversial finally this movie wins Boxoffice.
He recently flim is Jilla co-starring Kajal Aggarwal alongside Mohanlal, directed by
debutante Nesan who was an assistant director in Velayudham. This film is super hit.
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