VIJAY ILAYA DHALAPATHI
Joseph VIJAY Chandrasekhar was born on June 22, 1974, to film producer and director S. A. Chandrasekhar and Shoba Chandrasekhar, a classical and a playback singer. He had a sister named Vidhya Chandrasekhar who died at the age of two.[3] Vijay went on to do Visual Communications at Loyola College, Chennai.[4] He was interestingly classmates with present-day film artistes Surya Sivakumar, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Karthik Raja,
and Vishnuvardhan.
Vijay debuted as a lead role actor in the 1992 film Naalaya Theerpu, produced by his father. After a few other films, he co-starred 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 increase Vijay’s star value. 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 1994. In 1995, Vijay was in the lead role in the film Rajavin Parvaiyile which also starred Ajith Kumar, another currently reigning film actor in Tamil cinema.
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, Kadhalukku MariyadhaiPriyamudan. Kadhalukku Mariyadhai made Vijay receive that year’s Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor. and
Following Thulladha Manamum Thullum, the films Endrendrum Kadhal, Nenjinile, Minsara Kanna and Kannukkul Nilavu failed to meet his previous success. He decided not to commit in films that took a year to release, which changed his trend. His next venture was Kushi which was a blockbuster of 2000. The following films like Priyamanavale, Friends and Badri were once again successful for Vijay.
Later on, he starred in Shahjahan, Thamizhan, Youth, and BagavathiVaseegara, Pudhiya Geethai, and his delayed film Udhaya became low grossers and didn’t do well. This highly affected Vijay’s success rate and he was looked down upon by film critics and producers. which maintained Vijay’s success. However, the films that followed, which were
His string of failure films was broken by Thirumalai in 2004 which had Vijay in a new facial appearance. Ghilli, which was also released in 2004, is considered to be one of Vijay’s biggest hits today. Directed by Dharani and produced by A. M. Rathnam, it was a remake of the Telugu film Okkadu, and ran for more than 200 days(212 days) in theatres in Tamil Nadu. His last hit of the year 2004 had followed, which was Madhurey. It was in this year which Vijay began to portray his current mass-hero, stereotypical acting style, giving him a major turning point in his career. The following year had other major successes such as Thirupaachi, Sachein‘(took as a low grosser film for the way the Vijay’s film would run)’ 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. 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. Pokkiri had met the same success as Ghilli did, in which Vijay was given a different style to act as. This made Vijay receive an honourary doctorate title from the M. G. R. University. Later that year, Vijay appeared in Azhagiya Thamizh Magan, and for the first time, he appeared in dual roles. His roles in this film, as the antagonist and protagonist, made him to be considered for a Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. In 2008, he starred in Kuruvi, again under Dharani’s direction, however failing to create a box-office impact, despite its large opening in several countries like Malaysia(where Vijay has a large fan base), U.S.A.(where Vijay controls the heart of tamils here),Canada,Sri Lanka,Singapore etc. By 2008, Vijay was paid a salary exceeding $1 million.
The year 2009 started off with the spy and action mass film Villu, which was directed by Prabhu Deva who was keen on working with him again after the cult hit Pokkiri. The film, which had Vijay in dual roles for the second time in his career, released in January 2009, released with mixed to below average reviews.In this Film, though the acting was appreciated by the critics but had a bad climax making a great impact on the Fans. Vijay will be acting in his next film titled Vettaikkaaran, directed by Babu Sivan, an associate director of Dharani, and produced by AVM Productions, which was launched in February 2009.
