Vijay

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Full Name Joseph Vijay
Affectionately called Ilayathalapthy,Vasool chakravarthy
Profession Actor ,singer and producer
Date of birth 22-June1974
Mother tongue Tamil
Height 5’7”
Father S.A.Chandrasekharan is a writer-producer-director
Mother Shobha Chandrasekharan is a singer, story writer and director
Uncle S.N.Surendar (playback singer and dubbing voice for actor mohan for over 85 films)
Wife Sangeetha
Son Sanjay
Friends Sajai, Srinath, Sanjeev, Manoj and Ramkumar
Education  Bachelors Degree of Visual Communications at Loyola College (discontinued)
 Debut  directed by S A Chandrashekar(father)
As an Actor
  • strengths-stunts, dance and singing
  • weakness- emotional scenes
As a Person  Introvert, famous for one-line answers.
Favourites
  •  TOURIST SPOTS – London and Los Angeles
  •  FOOD -Non-vegetarian
  •  CLOTHES – Jeans and T-shirt
  •  COLOUR – Black
  •  LOCATION – his room
Best films  ‘ Poove Unakkaga’, ‘Love Today’, ‘Nerukku Naer’, ‘Kaadalukku   Mariyathai’ and ‘Thulladhamanamum Thullum’
Awards and
Honors
  • Kalaimamani award(1998)
  • Tamil nadu state Best Hero award (1997) for Kaadhalukku Mariyadhai”
Social Activities
  • Educating 32 children every year
  • Conducted many free weddings
  • Issued notebooks to children
  • Donated  upto 3 lakhs to put streetlights for a famous shiva temple in Kaveripattinam
Influential person in his life    Father
Moments
  • Happy- marriage
  • Sad- sister’s death
Facts
  • Had been in coco-cola commercial
  • Had a sister by name Vidya who died when she was very young
  • Has built a kalyana mandapam called J.S.Kalyana mandapam
  • ‘Kadhalukku Mariyathai’ a film with shalini made people recognise him
Salary Around one crore
Address vijay@ilayathalapathyvijay.com
Films yet to be released   Kavithalaya’s  “Thirumalai”, One  film under AVM production and   another under Pyramid production
Future goals Directing films

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