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 Vikram is one of the reigning heroes of the Tamil film industry. He has the rare distinction of winning the Filmfare as well as the national award for his path breaking film Pithamagan in the year 2003.
Vikram Picture gallery
He belongs to a family with no film background. He went to the Montfort School in Yercaud. Since his schooldays, he showed great talent for music and theatrics. He participated in several plays and won appreciation for his talent. He attended college in Chennai, where the student drama societies gave him the staple to hone his acting skills
For more than a decade, he has been an actor in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. His debut as a protagonist was way back in 1989 in the Tamil film, Meera directed by P.C. Sriram. He gave a sensitive performance as a romantic hero. Although the film was reasonably successful, it did exactly rain offers for Vikram. He turned to playing the second hero in small budget films in Tamil in Malayalam.
During the year 2000, a young director called Bala was scouting for someone with a script. It was that of an intense man who becomes a lunatic when his romance goes awry. The film became a runaway hit and Vikram arrived on the Tamil scene. The rest is history. Post-Sethu, all his films have created much expectation in the minds of the audience and Vikram has always fulfilled it beyond doubt. Dil, Gemini, Dhool and Sami also showed his prowess in action-oriented roles and made him a super star in the Tamil film industry.
It is again director Bala who offered him the "Chittan" role in Pithamagan. Chittan is an uncivilised gravedigger who does not utter a single word in the entire film. Vikram coloured his hair, discoloured his teeth and did a lot of homework for the character. His out-of-the-world performance as the grave digger in Pithamagan brought him the National award last year. His recent release Anniyan, which came after a gap of two years is ringing in the cash registers Vikram's principle and practice is to do only one film at a time.
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