Vijay Sethupathi made acting a child’s play
A boy of 11th class, a big fan of films. Favorite actor Kamal Haasan. One day he comes to know that Kamal Haasan has come to his city for the shooting of the film. The boy wanted to see Kamal Haasan from the front. He had to go to see the shooting. Then from somewhere it came to light that the picture guys needed some local boys. He will be shown as a college student in the film. That boy, with his height and the line of his moustache, did not look like a college student at all. Still he gave his name. As was obvious, the boy did not get the role. The filmmakers said that he was too small for the character.
That day the boy stood in the crowd and saw his favorite actor. But who has seen tomorrow, when someone’s fate will be blown away by tying a rocket to it. Exactly 28 years after this incident, the same boy plays the main villain in ‘Vikram’ opposite Kamal Haasan. The name of that boy is Vijay Sethupathi and the name of the film for which he had gone to see the shooting was ‘Thanammavar’. The boy who once worked as an accountant, after all, is Kali Gaikwad of ‘Jawaan’, Albert of ‘Merry Christmas’, ‘Super Deluxe’ How did Shilpa and ‘Pizza’ become Michael?
Vijay Sethupathi in ‘Vikram’
From working in a telephone booth to working in a clothing showroom
Vijay did B.Com after school. During this period he also did many different jobs. Sometimes showed clothes to customers in the showroom. Worked in a telephone booth. Also worked in the accountant’s office handling paperwork. Vijay had to do all these jobs to repay the loan of Rs 10 lakh. At one place Vijay has told that his father bought a car. I drove it with them for 7 to 8 months, but due to not being able to pay the installments, the company took away the car.
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Wife was pregnant, decided to leave job and enter films
However, despite doing so many jobs simultaneously, things were not working out. No concrete help was available to the family. So he decided to go to Dubai. Vijay started working there as an accountant. Everything was going well. got married. Wife was pregnant and life was boring. Life was cooking them and they were enjoying it. At that time he decided to leave the job. Gave myself a time of five years that if nothing happened in this time, I would return to working life again.
Learned acting after becoming an accountant
However, the loan had not been disbursed till that time. This was also one of the reasons for Vijay coming into films. One was passion, second was he felt that there was a lot of money in films, his debt would be repaid. Someone told Vijay that his face is photogenic, he should try in films. He came back to India. The process of becoming an actor had started. First of all he reached the theater group Koodu-P-Pattari. Here he had to do an acting workshop, but before Vijay arrived, these people had closed their courses. After enquiry, it was found that the position of an accountant is vacant there. Vijay immediately applied for the job and he got the job. This job was his first acting workshop. Here he would watch the upcoming actors closely. According to Vijay, he learned the initial skills of acting here.
Victory in ‘Pizza’
A unique ‘pizza’ changed life
Vijay Sethupathi always focused on content. He always wanted to be a part of new and different kind of cinema. It was important for him to have a good story and character, even if it was a small role. In sequence, he did ‘Pudupettai’, ‘Naan Mahan Alla’ and many such films. But he got recognition from Karthik Subbaraj’s film ‘Pizza’. Subbarao later made films like ‘Jigarthanda’. ‘Pizza’ was a different kind of horror film. No one had much expectations from this. But good things make their own place. Same thing happened with ‘Pizza’ also. The film, made at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore, earned Rs 6 crore. Critics also praised it. After this, Vijay’s film career started running like a bullet train.
How did you get the title of ‘Makkal Selvan’?
A song from Vijay Sethupathi’s film ‘Dharmadurai’ was being shot. Vijay reached first and started waiting for the rest. Meanwhile a smell reached his nose. A little distance away from his car, some laborers were making tamarind rice. He ordered some rice from the driver and started eating. Meanwhile the film’s director Seenu Ramasamy arrived. He also ate that rice. He liked it so much that he asked for more rice from the workers. Because of this incident, Seenu gave the title of ‘Makkal Selvan’ to Vijay. ‘Makkal Selvan’ means treasure of the people.
This is what Vijay said: After many years, I got a chance to take revenge from Shahrukh.
“It took me years to take revenge from Shahrukh”
Lady superstar Nayanthara played the lead role opposite Shahrukh in ‘Jawaan’. Shahrukh also attended her wedding on 09 June 2022. Vijay Sethupathi also attended the same function. He suddenly approached Shahrukh and said, “Sir, I want to become your villain.” Shahrukh and Atlee were working on ‘Jawaan’ in those days. He was also looking for a villain. Vijay’s name was also already in his mind. Here Vijay himself approached, what could have been better for him than this. Vijay Sethupathi played the role of Kali Gaikwad in ‘Jawaan’. Vijay had told a very interesting thing in an event,
“I was in love with a girl when I was in school. But he did not know at that time. Every Jaanu has a Ram (Vijay had given reference to his film 96 here). But that girl loved Shahrukh Khan very much. It took me so many years to take revenge for this.”
Well, this star of the South is now shining all over India. He also entered Hindi cinema through ‘Farzi’. ‘Jawaan’, recently worked in Sriram Raghavan’s film ‘Merry Christmas’. Katrina Kaif is in the lead role with him in this. Rest Vijay Sethupathi is playing the lead role in his life. Hopefully, he will continue to change the style of cinema in the future also.
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