Joseph Vijay, popularly called Vijay, is a Tamil actor. He is known as "Ilaya Thalapathy Vijay" among his fans. Ilaya Thalapathy means "Young Turk" or "Young General" (future king). He is one of the established actors in the Tamil film industry and has a large fan following after Ajith.
Introduction
Vijay started off in 1992 under his father's direction in the flop film Naalaya Theerpu. As his father was a director, his entry into the industry wasnt tough at all, but sustaining himself and becoming a star was a challenge for him. He was in various flop and average ran movies before establishing himself as a star, with Poove Unakkaga. In Once More, he had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to act with Thespian Shivaji Ganesan, which Vijay considers himself lucky for. Unfortunately, the film did poorly at the box office. In Naerukku Naer, he acted under Vasanth's direction along with Surya, Simran, Kausalya, and others. Despite such a high profile production house, this film too did poorly. By now, Vijay was stuck with the low-budget star image.
Becoming a star
Poove Unakkaga with Vikraman was a surprise hit and established Vijay as a bankable star, often considered second only to Ajith. Producers took notice of this man who was fast becoming a star to reckon with. Poove Unakkaga was a story about the feud between two religions - Hindu and Christians who were good friends first but became enemies due to the love between their children, and did well. Vijay had Sangeetha and Anju Arvind for company.
Thullatha Manamum Thullum was another movie where he paired with Simran, and caused the pairing of Vijay-Simran to became a regular event. This movie also had Dhamu, Balaji, Vaiyapuri, and other well-known actors. Then came movies like Ninaithen Vandhai, where he acted with Rambha and Deiyavani, and were flops. Again he had a downslide when his movies like Nenjinile and Minsara Kanna bit the dust.
But just then, SJ Suryah came up with another turning point for Vijay with the hit Kushi, which changed the career graph of Vijay. This movie played continually for over 100 days in some theatres. Vijay was paired up in this movie with Jyothika, who also became a star with Kushi, and their pairing was one of the highlights of this highly successful movie. The songs of this movie were a hit, and the song "Katipudida" with Vijay and sex bomb Mumtaj was considered to "hog the limelight for all the wrong reasons", with the song being too vulgar for the screen. The song had lot of cuts and was made passive later, but Mumtaz was made to be a star with this song from Kushi. This film was marketed as a soft porn A-film in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala.
Priyamanavale had Vijay again pairing with Simran. This movie had a then vulgar peculiar subject of an agreement marriage where the hero gets into wedlock, on the agreement of being with his wife for one year, and then having the option of divorcing her if he didn't find the marriage to be interesting. Simran and Vijay had another successful pairing in this movie and were regarded as having terrific chemistry between them. The comedy between Vijay and Vivek was at its comic best in this movie.
Badhri had Vijay playing a carefree youth who later becomes a kick boxer, due to his brother's failure at kick boxing. Vijay had taken a lot of risks in the stunts of the film, such as where he has a car run over his fingers, the stunt master break marble over his stomach, and other dangerous activities. He was paired with Bhoomika and Monal (sister of Simran who committed suicide a few years back after an affair with Vijay's cousin brother Vikranth). However, the movie was a flop. In Friends, he had acted with current popular hero Surya. However, this was followed by several consecutive flops like Shajahan, Thamizhan, Youth, Bagavathy, Vaseegara and Pudhiya Geethai, that brought heavy loss to the producers. Thamizhan alone is said to have driven noted producer G. Venkateswaran into suicide with debts amounting to Rs7 crores.
Then came his next turning point - THIRUMALAI. Thirumalai breathed a fresh lease of life into Vijay's career. Produced by Kavithalaya productions, who had just produced the Vikram blockbuster Saamy, Thirumalai was a average movie which again established Vijay as an also-ran star. Thirumalai was directed by Ramana, a newcomer director and Vijay was once again paired with his successful 'Kushi' heroine Jyothika. The songs from this film are said to have made the audience stand up and dance. This was follwed by the biggest flop of his career - Udaya, which did not run even for two weeks.
Then came another average film, GHILLI! Directed by Dharani, who has given blockbusters like Dhill and Dhool, Ghilli was a masala tale of a kabaddi player who rescues a sexy girl from the trap of a Don in Madurai, who is hell bent on marrying her. Trisha was paired with Vijay for the first time. After this film, he started a new affair with Trisha, but she was not interested in him. As retribution, he caught her bathing naked on video and published it on the Internet. She filed a criminal case against him, which is awaiting judgement next year.
Vijay then had a series of flops, like Madurey and Sachin. In Madurey, he played a vegetable vendor and a collector, and was paired with a timid actress Sonia Agarwal and sex bomb Rakshita in. His latest movie is Sachin, whose cast includes Boys fame Harini (Genelia de Souza) and dark skinned sex bomb Bipasha Basu, but it again did poorly.
Vijay is now acting in Sivakasi, directed by his Thirupachi director Perarasu. Sivakasi is produced by AM Rathnam and stars Asin with Vijay for the first time. Sex bomb Nayanthara makes a cameo appearence in a song. Sivakasi is a make or break film for him. It has been given A-certificate which should please front benchers.
Vijay's forthcoming films are Aadi, produced by himself and directed by Ramana, and Puli, produced by Appachan and directed by SJ Suryah. He is also rumored to be doing a film with Selvaraghavan and a movie titled Veerasahasam with Saran next year.
INFORMATION OF VIJAY
NAME: JOSEPH VIJAY
DATE OF BIRTH: 22ND JULY 1974
PLACE OF ORIGIN: CHENNAI, INDIA
FATHER: S.A. CHANDRASEKARAN (DIRECTOR)
MOTHER: SHOBA (SINGER, WIRTTER, PRODUCER)
SISTER: VIDHYA (DEAD)
EDUCATION: LOYOLA COLLEGE CHENNAI(BSC. VISUAL COMMUNICATION INCOMPLETE)
WIFE: SANGEETHA
WEDDING DAY: 25TH AUGUST 1999
SON: JASON SANJAY
DAUGHTER: DIVYADARSHINI (JUST BORN)
FIRST FILM: VETRI (AS CHILD ARTIST)
FIRST DEBUT FILM AS HERO: NALAYA THEERPU
FILMOGRAPHY:
Nalaya Theerpu, Dec 4th, 1992
Senthoorapandi, Dec, 1993
Rasigan, 1994 Deva , Feb, 1994
Rajavin Parvailae, 1995 Vishnu, 1995 Chandralekha, 1995
Coimbatore Mapple, Jan 14th, 1996 Poove Unakkagha, Feb 15th, 1996 Vasantha Vasal, 1996 Manbumigu Manavan, 1996 Selvaa , Dec, 1996
Kalamelam Kathiruppen,Jan 14th,1997 Love Today, May 1997 Once More, Jun 4th, 1997 Neeruku Ner, Sep 5th, 1997 Kadalukku Mariyadhai, Dec 19th, 1997
Ninaithen Vandai, Apr 10th, 1998 Priyamudan, Jun 12th, 1998 Nilaave Vaa, Augt 14th, 1998
Thulladhamanamum Thullum, Jan 29th, 1999 Endrendrum Kaadhal, Mar 05th, 1999 Nenjinile, Jun 25th, 1999 Minsara Kanna, Sep 09th, 1999
Kanukkul Nilavu, Jan 14th, 2000 Kushi, May 19, 2000 Priyamanavale, Nov 26th, 2000
Friends, Jan 14th, 2001 Badri, Apr 16th, 2001 Shahjahan, Nov 14th, 2001
Tamizhan, Apr 14th, 2002 Youth, July 19th, 2002 Bhagavathi, Nov 04th, 2002
Vaseegara, Jan 15th, 2003 Pudhiya Geethai, 2003 Thirumalai, Oct 24th, 2003
Udhaya, Mar 28th, 2004 Ghillli, Aprl 17th, 2004 Madurey, Aug 27th, 2004
Thirupachi, Jan 14th, 2005 Sachien, April 14th, 2005
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FORTHCOMING FILM: SIVAKASI (TO BE RELEASED ON NOVEMBER)
FAV COLOR: BLACK AND BLUE
FAV OUTFIT: BANIYAN AND JATTI
FAV ACTOR: JOHN TROVOLTA
FAV FOODS: NON-VEGETARIAN
FAV SPORTS: TENNIS
FAV TOURIST SPOT: LONDON AND LOS ANGELES
ADDRESS: 47, DHANALAKSHMI AVENUE, KBNGR. ADYAR P.O. 60020 CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA
NOW DRIVING: NISSAN XXX-TRAIL SUV
TIME PASS: PLAYING WITH HIS SON SANJAY
FUTURE PLANS: PRODUCE FILMS AND DIRECT OWN FILMS
FRIENDS: SAJAI, SRINATH, SANJEEV, MANOJ & RAMKUMAR
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.ilayathalapathivijay.com
OFFICIAL ONLINE FAN CLUB: http://movies.group.yahoo.com/group/actorvijay_fans
SKILLS AND TALENTS: ACTING, CRYING, WANKING, SINGING, DANCING, ACTION STUNTS, COMEDY SENSE AND ETC...