Actor Vijay Biography

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.