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Acting 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. 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.
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 and Kadhalukku Mariyadhai. 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. Ghilli, which
was released in 2004, is considered to be one of the only
Vijay's biggest hit till today. Another hit had followed,
which was Madhurey, later that year. It was in this year
which Vijay began to portray his current mass-hero,
stereotypical acting style. The following year he had
stumbling time with movies such as Thirupaachi and Sivakasi
was a major hit and Sachein is a average grosser.
Vijay's first flop since the release of Thirumalai was Aathi,
which released in 2006. Aathi had created some controversy
during that year and many film distributors decided on
thinking twice before handling any new Vijay films. 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 and became a blockbuster. Later that
year, Vijay appeared in Azhagiya Thamizh Magan, for the
first time collaborating with A.R.Rahman and in dual roles,
which eventually failed at the box office despite very
popular music. He was nominated for a Filmfare Best Actor
Award for Pokkiri. Vijay's latest film, Kuruvi, managed to
release worldwide with much hype and became a box office
average grosser. Directed by Dharani, Kuruvi also had Trisha
Krishnan and Ashish Vidhyarthi in the cast and the film's
music score was composed by Vidyasagar, the same team that
worked with Vijay in Ghilli four years ago.
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