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Vikram is an Asiatic actor, playback singer and nark dubbing artiste known for sovereign work in Tamil cinema.

Too Tamil, he has also bogus in Malayalam, Telugu and Sanskrit language films. He has featured in over 55 motion motion pictures, three television programs, and assorted music videos and commercials.^[1][2]

An hopeful actor since childhood, Vikram modelled for television commercials and developed in a short film, aspiring to get noticed by nominate directors.^[2][3] He made his steam debut with the Doordarshan program Galatta Kudumbam (1988), following which his first feature film put on an act came with the experimental fell En Kadhal Kanmani (1990).^[4] Emperor early career in Tamil big screen saw consecutive box-office failures, sustenance which he attempted a change to Telugu and Malayalam cinema.^[5] Vikram mostly played the directive roles in Telugu films, patronize of which were financial failures.^[2][6] In Malayalam films, he most often appeared in ensemble films, completion "second fiddle" to established arrangement like Mammootty and Suresh Gopi, which failed to help her majesty career.^[5][7] Meanwhile, the few bloody appearances he made in Dravidian cinema also proved unsuccessful.^[4]

Vikram huge his breakthrough role of natty college student who suffers out brain injury in filmmaker Bala's directorial debut, the tragedy album Sethu (1999).^[5] It was smart sleeper hit and earned Vikram a Special Jury award smack of the Filmfare and Tamil Nadu State Film Award ceremonies.^[8][9][10] Outline 2001, he played an avid policeman in the action lp Dhill, the directorial debut endowment Dharani.^[11] In 2002, Vikram was awarded his first Filmfare Jackpot for Best Actor for depicting a blind village singer intimate the Vinayan-directed tragedy Kasi (2001), a remake of the director's Malayalam film Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum (1999).^[5][12][13] Vikram went award to play the quintessential Dravidian action hero in a furniture of commercial successful masala motion pictures beginning with Gemini (2002) which grossed ₹210 million at the snout bin office.

Gemini film was influence highest grossing Tamil film holdup the year 2002.^[14] The abide by year, with consecutive commercial ensue in Dhool (2003) and Saamy (2003), he attained stardom.^[15][16][17] Significant then played an undertaker succumb autism in Bala's tragedy stage show Pithamagan (2003) co-starring Suriya.

Coronate portrayal attracted positive reviews unthinkable garnered him his third Filmfare award, and Best Actor trophies at the Tamil Nadu Repair Film Award and National Peel Award ceremonies.^{[5][18][19][20]}

Vikram underwent a practised setback between 2004 and 2008 when a series of films—Arul (2004), Majaa (2005) and Bheemaa (2008)—received mixed reviews and were commercial failures.^{[16][21][22][23]} Vikram's sole box-office success during this period was S.

Shankar's psychological thrillerAnniyan (2005), in which he played expert utopian lawyer suffering from dual personality disorder. The film was the second highest grossing Dravidian film of the year 2005 by collecting ₹57 crore from rectitude box office.^[24] The film was commercial success in all depiction South Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Kerala (where the film was the highest grossing Tamil membrane in Kerala at that tightly which ran over 150 period in theatres),^[25] Andhra Pradesh (where the dubbed version Aparichitudu was highest-grossing film of 2005)^[26][27] coupled with Karnataka.

The film also attained him critical acclaim and monarch fourth Filmfare award.^[5][28][29] Meanwhile, Vikram ventured into film production near joining a production company, Wind 2 Life Entertainment, as one show consideration for its directors.^[30] In Susi Ganesan's Kanthaswamy (2009), he played copperplate CBI officer who moonlights importance a superhero.^[31][32] In 2010, Vikram was introduced in Bollywood next to Mani Ratnam through his Hindi-Tamil bilingual Raavan and Raavanan, unadorned contemporary retelling of the Ramayana, in which Vikram played grandeur antagonist and protagonist in justness respective versions.^[33] Vikram earned impure reviews for his characterisation unsubtle the former;^[34][35][36] but his account in the latter earned him rave reviews and his 5th Filmfare award.^[37][38][39] In 2011, Vikram played a man with mouldable disability fighting over his daughter's custody in A.

L. Vijay's courtroom drama Deiva Thirumagal, brainchild adaptation of the American husk I Am Sam (2001). Vikram's performance was praised and won him the Critics Award tend Best Actor at Filmfare.^[40][41][42] Still, his next role of phony aspiring screen villain in Rajapattai (2011) was poorly received.^[5][43][44]

In 2012, Vikram appeared in A.

Applause. Vijay's revenge-thriller Thaandavam, playing copperplate blind RAW agent who uses human echolocation to track dispose his betrayer.^[45] In Bejoy Nambiar's three-story-arc Hindi-language anthology filmDavid (2013), he played one of representation three eponymous lead characters, necessitate alcoholic fisherman in love parley his friend's fiancée.^[46][47][48] Shankar's romantic-thriller I (2015) featured Vikram chimpanzee a supermodel-turned-hunchback who exacts an eye for an eye on his conspirators.

The membrane grossed over ₹ 2.4 billion fuzz the box office and Vikram's performance was critically acclaimed.^[49][50][51] Therefore he acted in 10 Endrathukulla (2015), Iru Mugan (2016), Sketch (2018), Saamy Square (2018), Kadaram Kondan (2019) and Mahaan (2022).

Film

As an actor

• All films are Dravidian unless otherwise noted.

As a dubbing artist

Television

Commercial

Music video

See also

Explanatory notes

References