The fact that a huge amount of accolades and awards came his way shows that he and Bala succeeded in overcoming the credibility factor with both audiences and critics.Įven as he wowed audiences with Pithamagan, Vikram had two huge commercial successes the same year with Dhool and Saamy. However, if one can successfully believe in the credibility of his character, then no doubt he has his moments (see him when he looks out of the train window or reacts to Suriya crying in a film) in the film’s author-backed role. Hence, to me Vikram’s central performance is not quite there. One has to accept this characterization if one is to go along with the film. Considering he seems normal enough as a boy who talks normally as well, one finds it extremely hard to believe that he grows up as an animal devoid of language and any human trait whatsoever. But though this is a highly praised performance, it depends on how one looks at the way Vikram’s character is sketched out.
He would go a step further by sweeping all the acting awards – the Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actor, the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor and the coveted National Award for Best Actor for Pithamagan (2003), re-uniting him with Bala. Vikram made a major impact in the role and went on to win the Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actor for the film. A re-make of the Malayalam film Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum, Kasi sees Vikram play a good-hearted, blind village singer who is exploited by his brother, an alcoholic and his brother-in-law. The song O Podu from the film became a chartbuster.Įven as he gained commercial success, Vikram proved the actor in him was alive and kicking with his great performance in Kasi (2002). He tasted further box office success with Gemini (2002), where he palyed a rowdy who wants to go straight but ultimately has to fight it out with the villain. The action film, pairing him with Laila, saw him play a police officer take on corruption in the police force. With Dhill (2001), Vikram balanced his reputation as a fine actor with huge commercial success as well. His act as Chiyaan also saw the Tamil film industry place great hope in him as the man to inherit Kamal Haasan’s mantle of the next great actor-star in Tamil cinema. Vikram’s performance took the Tamil industry by storm and at the relatively late age of 33 he was finally a star. The film ends in tragedy when the girl kills herself and Chiyaan returns to the mental asylum from where he had escaped just for her. In the film, Vikram played Chiyaan, a college rowdy who falls for a simple Brahmin girl. Sethu was a breakthrough film for both director Bala and Vikram. Once he decided to enter films, he struggled for almost 10 years doing roles in Tamil, Malayalam and and Telugu films and even worked as a dubbing artist before he finally hit the big time with Sethu. He then followed up his college degree by starting his MBA but failed to finish the course. ‘Chiyaan’ Vikram is regarded of the finest actors in mainstream Tamil cinema today as his performances in films like Sethu (1999), Kasi (2002), Saamy (2003), Anniyan (2005) and I (2015) testify.īorn Vikram Kennedy in Paramakudi in Ramanthapuram District in Tamil Nadu on April 17, 1966, he did his schooling from Montfort School, Yercaud before doing his BA in English Literature from Loyola College, Chennai.
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