Vijay “58” finally gets a name

Maareesan, Garuda and Porvaal are the three rumored names for vijay 58.   Chimbudevan released a statement saying that none of these are the real name of the film. On the other hand, Chimbudevan's earlier movie's had lengthy titles as, 'Oru Kanniyum Moondru Kalavaanigalum', 'Arain Enn 305il Kadavul', and '23 aam Pulikesi' He also said that the name for Vijay 58 isn't decided upon yet. The actual name will be out in January 2015, and the fans have no choice but to wait until then to find out what this fantasy and historical film of vijay will be named but, sources close to the unit say that the team has eventually finalized on ‘Garuda’ and an official announcement is expected to happen in the first week of the next month.in this movie vijay is doing a mythological subject for the first time

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Kaththi hits Kerala box office

Kerala is one of the strong markets for Tamil films. Films of big stars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Ajith, Vijay and Suriya take good openings at Kerala box office and continue to perform well .Vijay’s Kaththi which was released on October 22nd worldwide has taken record openings in kerala. Kaththi which was released in over 200 screens in Kerala had fantastic collections at the box office. This film has earned Rs 1.75 Crores in the first week. Vijay's last release "Jilla" was a box office hit. Promotional activities helped the film get positive pre-release buzz in the state. The distributor of kerala Shibu of Thameems Pictures said that they released Kaththi in 200 screens and has made an enormous profit.

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Vijays first successful dual role

"Kaththi" had Vijay playing two roles one as an activist and the other one as a small-time thief. Vijay rocked in both the roles His performance was considered as one of the best in his film career.  The film received a fantastic response and fared well at the box office. It has emerged as the biggest hit in Vijay's career

Directed by Murugadoss; "Kaththi" is an action thriller flick with Samantha, Sathish and Bollywood actor Neil Nithin Mukesh in supporting roles. Vijay did not do too many double action roles. He played two roles in Alagiya Thamizh Magan and Villu but both of these movies didn't make it that big in the box office. Vijay’s Kaththi has easily earned more than a 100 crores all over the World and it is an actual first dual role success for Vijay.  Kathiresan and Jeevanantham of Kaththi has managed to gain the positive reviews.  

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Vijays role similar to Kamal Hasan’s legendary act

Vijay 58  is an upcoming Tamil fantasy film written and directed by Chimbudeven.The film features Vijay in dual role along with actors Sridevi, Shruti Haasan, Hansika Motwani and Sudeep. Vijay will be seen as a brave commander and is paired opposite Hansika whereas in the other character Vijay plays a dwarf and is paired with Shruti Haasan.

The news has also rumors about Shruthi Haasan being paired up with Sudeep of Naan Ee fame who will have an important role .It is to be noted that Kamal Haasan has already portrayed the role of a dwarf in his film Apoorva Sagodharargal in 1989 and Vijay will only be the second actor in Kollywood to sport the look of a short guy after the legendary Kamal Haasan. This upcoming film is a fantasy thriller and high end graphics will be used in the film to generate life animals and some imaginary creatures. The movie is being is been expected to release on 2015.

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Sudeep is the villan for vijay

Kannada actor Sudeep stepped into Kollywood with S Rajamouli's super hit movie 'Naan-e'. Now he is busy doing lot of projects, in Kollywood. In Tamil, he  is a part of Vijay's 58th film, which is being directed  by Chimbudevan. And he will soon start shooting for director K S Ravikumar's next venture. In a recent interview the naan e villan , Sudeep had opened up about his role in ‘Vijay 58’ and shares his working experience with his co- actress  Sridevi. His role is that of the antagonist. It is a fantasy film and Sridevi plays the queen of a kingdom. He plays a role of the commander of the kingdom. There are also rumors saying that Vijay and Sudeep will be playing siblings in the film. He says his role is very much parallel and equal to that of Vijay's role. He also says that he is proud to play such character for vijay.  While replying to how is to work with Sridevi, the ‘Naane E’ actor says that, he always notices her expressions during the shoots. He exclaims that she is really wonderful and he is lucky to work with such an icon. 
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Shruti Hasan and Hansika in vijay "58"

Actor Vijay’s next movie “Vijay 58” features Hansika Motwani, Shruti Haasan, Sridevi and Sudheep in the lead roles. The movie directed by Chimbudevan is a semi fantasy drama expected to release for the 2015 summer. Vijay is playing a duplex role in this movie. Vijay is playing the role of a dwarf in this movie and the dwarf character is paired opposite to Shruti Hassan. Hansika plays princess and Sridevi will play the role of her mother. Shruti Haasan is also one of the female leads in this film. .A believable source confirms that Hansika will be romancing the warrior Vijay in the flashback portions. Vijay 58’ is getting bigger day by day. Cameraman Natarajan Subramanian will be handling the camera for the first time for a Vijay starrer. 

The film is getting produced by, P.T. Selva Kumar and is reportedly getting made in 100 crores.. The movie is hiring Lee Whitaker, the Hollywood stuntman in addition to Sang Lin from China and Pradit Seeleum from Thailand for stunt. Exciting groups of comedians are also on the impressive list.

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Anegan was first offered to vijay

Director KV Anand The cinematographer turned director  KV has declared that he scripted ‘Anegan’ for Vijay, but, as vijay had been already been signed up with jilla and kaththi so he suggested to cast Dhanush but he loved the script and really wanted to do it. KV Anand also agreed with the suggestion. He says that after Kamal Haasan, nobody has convincingly portrayed romance on screen apart from Dhanush. ‘Anegan’ features Dhanush and Amyra Dastur in lead roles and the veteran Karthik is making a comeback to kollywood town. Dhanush and vijay had recently seen sharing a friendly relationship. 

KV anand said After Maattrraan; he was approached by many producers to do a film with Vijay. But as he has a habit of not approaching an actor without a clear idea of the story in mind and the script, it took four months to finish the script. Karthik plays a 50-year-old in the film, but is a fun loving guy. The film is set in an IT company and he plays the manager of a team there.

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Samantha finds vijay with dual personality

Samantha recently visited Andhra Pradesh to raise funds for Hudhud cyclone victims. There in an interview she talks about actor vijays social activities and his care for the audience. She also described vijay to have split personality, while having and interaction with actor Mahesh babu. She shared her working experience with vijay in kaththi and also said that he is a different person off screen, because He is too silent on the sets and doesn't talk much. He surprises everyone on the sets. She feels he has a split personality as he would sit even for an hour without talking to anyone till the shot is ready, and then suddenly transforms into a completely different person in front of the camera.

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celebrity's challenge to vijay

After coffee with DD season 1 the second season is now famous with the comeback of anchor divyadarshini.in this season actress Nadhiya, the yesteryear dream girl participated recently and in the talk show anchor DD wanted her to throw a challenge to a celebrity. After thinking for a while, Nadhiya picked Vijay, and challenged vijay to speak continuously for ten minutes. 

This is a very interesting challenge for vijay, because, we all know that Vijay is entirely different from on-screen avatar as he is a very shy and reserved person in the real life. A similar request has been made by A.R. Murugadoss as well in an interview. Actress Samantha recently exclaimed that vijay has a dual personality as she observed him on screen to be active and participating but off screen she found him very reserved and quiet. Vijays fans are very much excited by this challenge and they are looking forward to vijay, to accept the challenge and prove it.

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Ace lyricist for vijay

Vijay’s forthcoming film Vijay 58 shooting is progressing at a speed. Second schedule is going on now in Adithya Ram Studios at Panaiyur in ECR. Few scenes with sword fights between Vijay, Hansika and Sridevi are being seen. Vijay will be seen as a brave commander and is paired opposite Hansika whereas in the other character Vijay plays a dwarf and is paired with Shruti Haasan. Ace lyricist Vairamuthu is the lyric writer for vijays Upcoming Venture Vijay 58, as for the first time he is working with Music director Devi Sree Prasad. This is the first time that Vairamuthu and Devi Sri Prasad are teaming up together. As per reliable sources, vairamuthu is happy about this combination

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kaththi meets for victory

The first success meet for 'Kaththi' was held in Coimbatore at Hindustan College and the event had all the cast and crew taking part for their victory. The second successful meet was held on Dec 14 Sunday.1:30PM to 4PM at tirunelveli Nellai near bell matriculation school. In the recent times, Vijay seems to have shed his born identity of being a reserve while speaking at a public gathering.

 He said that One cannot claim the success of a movie on his own and cinema is as close to the game of Football, where a player requires the help of his team mates to score a single goal, and in that process he will be facing a tough time from his opponents. The amount of success we get in our lives is directly proportional to the effort put in. And, while doing so, we should be ready to cross all the barricades thrown at us. The fans of Vijay were enlightened with his speech.

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Kaththi's 50th Day

After facing a lot of crisis over the release, the film was released on 22 October with huge expectations from the audience. It released above 1000 screens worldwide. This Tamil action thriller film is the collaboration of Director Murugadas and Illayathalapathy Vijay.

Today is the 50th day of kaththi movie in theatres. It is one of the most success stories in Tamil cinema. It has been well accepted by the audiences from Day 1. The film has gained more than 100 crore worldwide to emerge as the biggest grosser this year among all Tamil films. This is the second box office hit movie of Vijay, after the movie called “Thuppakki”. But it reached this box office hit within 12 days. For the other current generation stars, Kaththi's business would be a benchmark to hunt.

After Azhagiya Tamil Magan and Villu,  Vijay did dual roles (as Kathiresan and Jeevanantham) in this movie, for the 3rd time in his career.  While the latter two didn't make it well to Vijay and were spoiled by negative reviews. But this time, Kaththi has changed the thought of those reviews and marked as a first genuine dual role of vijay in his two decade successful long career.

Kaththi 50th day celebration will be in thiruneveli. Vijay and AR Murugadas will attend the function. In 'Vijay 58' also vijay featuring the mass hero in dual roles, so hope he would be looking to extend his 'double role success story'.

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vijay's endorsements

Vijay was the first tamil actor to endorse Coca-Cola In Tamilnadu. Vijay is one of the few actors having a big fan following even outside Tamilnadu. In the year 2002 he was signed up by Coke for Few Years, in which he featured Coke ads and endorsed the brand through his films too. Those ads, choreographed By Raju Sundaram had a good reach. Apart from these he also promoted sunfeast brand of biscuits through his movies.

 Jos Alukkas is one of the largest organized players in jewellery retailing in South India. Kochi  a unit of Mudra India, in the year 2010 had released a new campaign for Jos Alukkas, titled ‘Ponnil Teertha Bandham’ (Relationships as Good as Gold. The agency had roped in south actor Vijay as the brand ambassador for jos alukkas in Tamil nadu and kerala. The Jos Alukkas advertisement featuring Vijay and his mother Shoba is an extremely famous one in Tamil Nadu. his films do good business in kerala too, where he has more number of fans. So this advertisement was a success one.

In the year 2011 Tata Docomo announced actor Vijay as their new brand ambassador for a period of 1 year. He would endorse the products and services of Tata docomo in Tamil Nadu. It was said that Vijay's charm and mass appeal made them choose the actor, to celebrate the occasion with its customers; Tata Docomo had also announced a double talk time plan on CDMA and full talk time plan on GSM. Vijay was also signed up as the star ambassador for the Indian Premier League cricket team Chennai Super Kings, along with actress Nayanthara   It was said that Vijay’s interest in the game   increased after his eight year-old son started watching cricket

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Murugadoss created guessing game

AR Murugadoss's latest directorial project Kaththi has become the box office hit movie in south. It is one of the fastest Tamil movies that reached 100crores within 12 days. Now, Director Murugadoss has decided to remake of this film in Hindi. All eyes are now on its Hindi remake. Quite a few Bollywood actors are interested to act in the Hindi version of Kaththi.

Action star Akshay Kumar has shown interest in the Hindi film. Even before, he had worked with Murugadoss in Holiday (remake of Thuppaki), he wants to work with the talented director once again.

But this time is not sure for him to get chance. The director shared this picture on Twitter where he is discussing about something with Salman Khan and Govinda. For creating some hyp, Murugadoss just posted the picture without any caption or info. The filmmakers guessing that it’s about teaming up with Khan and Govinda for the Hindi remake of Kaththi. Salman can step into Vijay's shoes and his Partner co-star can reprise the role of Neil Nitin Mukesh who played the anti hero role in original.

Still the motive behind posting the picture on the micro blogging site remains unknown, hope that the ‘discussions’ turn out to be fruitful. But in which actress Sonakshi Sinha is confirmed.
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ACTOR VIJAY'S 22 YEARS OF GLORIOUS JOURNEY: 

Ilayathalapathy Thanks Fans, Directors, Producers in Heartfelt Letter

Actor Vijay completed his 22 years of journey in Tamil film industry on December 4th, 2014. He is a person who doesn’t forget the past and wrote a thanks giving letter which says," I cherish every single day of these 22 years I have spent in cinema. It has given me everything in life. I would like to take this opportunity to convey my heartfelt thanks to people who have helped me in these past 22 years".

Son of director S.A. Chandrashekar and mother Shoba, 'Actor Vijay' entered the Tamil film industry through his debut film 'naalaiya theerpu' in the year 1992. He is well known as 'Ilayathalapathy' by his fans and heartthrob of many youngsters. He earned fame by his perseverance and passion for acting and entertaining the audience through his commercial films. Actor Vijay has no fear of failures since he started to understand his audience expectations. Actor Vijay married Sangeetha in 1999 and has a son Sanjay and daughter Divya.

'Kushi' a blockbuster movie of 2000 directed by SJ Surya was the turning point for Vijay. In the recent audio launch of SJ Surya's movie, Vijay gave a candid speech that left many stunned - "It was a do-or-die situation for me in Tamil cinema around 14 years ago, as all my flicks were flopping at the box office. That's when SJ Surya sir who approached me with the Kushi script - and it was a turning point in my film career" he also added that SJ Surya is mind-blowing in narrating his scripts to the actors.

Through his sequential hits such as "Poovae Unakkaga","Kaadhalukku Mariyadhai", "Love Today", "Priyamanavale", "Priyamudan", "Ghilli", "Thirupachi", "Pokkiri", "Nanban", "Thuppakki" and "Kaththi" he topped in "FORBES POWERFUL INDIAN CELEBRITY 100" at a very young age who has a huge fan base and popularity. He has acted 57 films and his upcoming movie "Vijay58" will hit the screen this summer, which is eagerly expected by his fans. From the source, Actor Vijay has won 27 awards and 33 nominations till date. He is honoured with Kalaimaamani and Honorary doctorate by Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute for his philanthropic activities for the society. He also proved his talent as a playback singer for many movies which was a big hit such as "Google Google", "Vaanganna Vanakkanganna", and "Selfie Pulla".

In his letter, he also mentioned his thanks to all the producers, directors, co-stars, technicians, members of the 24 craft union, friends from all forms of media, his parents and family members. The actor finally conveyed a special thanks to all his beloved fans who stayed by his side during both his success and failure and supported him forever in this 22 years.

       

- Preethipriya.C

Vijay's philanthropic activities

It is believed that audience likes actor Vijay because of his helping tendency. The yesteryear superstar MGR had that close bonding with the audience. Actor MGR and Ranjikanth is his inspiration. Similarly, after MGR its Vijay who has bonding with the people. Vijay has also received an honorary doctorate from MGR University for his philanthropic works.Vijay started a social welfare organization known as Vijay Makkal Iyakkam which was officially launched at Pudukottai on 26 July 2009.His Makkal Iyakkam is responsible for most of the philanthropic activities conducted by the star. After Cyclone Thane his Makkal Mandram administrators arranged for a function at Kammiyampettai, Cuddalore where the star distributed five kilos of rice to the affected people. Cuddalore was the worst affected area in floods and Vijay reached out to help. 

Vijay has appeared along with actor Suriya, R. Madhavan and Jyothika in a short commercial video about child poverty, labour and lack of education, produced by Surya in an effort to help children who drop out of school at an early age. It is a social activity of Agaram foundation. On his every birthday, Vijay presents gold rings to the new born babies at Egmore Government General Hospital.

Every year Vijay has been seen providing funds for educating more than 30 children. He conducted many free weddings in his own kalyana mandapam called J.S.Kalyana mandapam,  in vadapalani.  He donated upto 3 lakhs to put up streetlights for a famous shiva temple in Kaveripattinam .Vijay offers support to many deserving students to pursue higher studies and recently, on November 7^th getting to know about  , Fathima, an engineering student who is struggling to continue her studies. Vijay called her family and promised them that he will take care of all her educational costs.

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Kaththi’s 100 crores marks

Vijay’s film kaththi reached 100 crores. This is the second box office hit movie of Vijay, after the movie called “Thuppakki”.  "Kaththi" has become the fourth Tamil movie to reach this hit after “Enthiran” and “Vishwaroopam”. But kaththi achieved this within 12days when compared to other movies.

After facing a lot of crisis over the release, the film was released on 22 October with huge expectations from the audience. It released above 1000 screens worldwide. This Tamil action thriller film is the collaboration of Director Murugadas and Illayathalapathy Vijay.

As per reports published in Kolly Insider: On the release day, the film earned 23.08 crore in which Tamil Nadu contribute a major part to it. The film made 12.5 crores in Tamil Nadu, 7+ crore overseas, 1.5 crore in Kerala, 1.58 crore in Karnataka and the rest from other parts of India.

By the end of the first weekend, "Kaththi" collected 36 crores from Tamil Nadu, around 4.5 crore from Karnataka and Kerala and 1.5 crores from other parts of the country. Totally, 42 crore. 24 crore from the international circuits. Within a week “Kaththi” has made 89.8 crore worldwide.

Total box office collection of the movie after 12 days in Tamil Nadu alone is 65.1 crore rupees and in foreign shores is 20.2 crores. In Kerala, Karnataka and North India, the movie has collected in 15.4 crore rupees.  The overall collections is 100.7 crore rupees. 
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Vijay "58" exclusive highlights

“Vijay 58” features actor Vijay Chandrasekhar, Hansika Motwani, Shruti Haasan, Sridevi and Sudheep in the lead roles. The movie directed by Chimbudevan is a semi fantasy drama expected to release for the 2015 summer. Cameraman Natarajan Subramanian will be handling  camera for the first time for a Vijay starrer. The film is getting produced by, P.T. Selva Kumar and Shibu Thameens and is reportedly getting made in 100 crores.

The untitled project started its first shoot for a song on November 10^th in a grand set located near ECR. Vijay will sport for a royal gladiator look whereas Sreedevi plays the role of a queen and Hansika’s mother in the song. The costumes and jewellery have been specially created for Hansika for her role as a princess. Over 300 dancers from Mumbai and Bangalore will be part of this song titled as “veerapandi kottayilae”. Music director Devi sree Prasad composes music for this yet to be titled number

Vijay is playing a duplex role in this movie. A believable source confirms that Hansika will be romancing warrior Vijay in the flashback portions, and the dwarf character is paired opposite to Shruti Haasan .Kiccha Sudheep the naan e actor for crucial role will be seen playing the son of yesteryear actress Sridevi and also the role of a commander. The movie marks a comeback of the yesteryear queen of South India, Sridevi

Vijay 58 adds to international flavours and impressive list of comedians’ .The team is planning to shoot a fight episode under, Lee Whitaker, the Hollywood stuntman in addition to Sang Lin from China and Pradit Seeleum from Thailand.  Sang Lin was part of the Asian’s second big budget movie ‘Red Cliff’ and the movie will be hiring the services of Dilip Subbarayan and Sunil Rodriguez of ‘Happy New Year’ fame. The latest and interesting news is that Sathyan, Thambi Ramiah, Robo Shankar, and Imman Annachi has been assigned to take care of comic elements. Vijay fans are eagerly waiting for this ultimate summer entertainer. 
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