Vijay
Vijay (born June 22, 1974), credited at birth as Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, is an Indian actor, playback singer, and politician who became one of the most prominent stars in Tamil cinema. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he established himself as one of the industry’s most bankable actors, known for his strong box office pull, mass appeal, dance performances, and versatility across action, comedy, romance, and drama.
He rose to prominence with a string of commercially successful films including Poove Unakkaga (1996), Ghilli (2004), Pokkiri (2007), Thuppakki (2012), Mersal (2017), Sarkar (2018), Master (2021), Leo (2023). His films often blend commercial entertainment with social and political themes, further strengthening his popularity among audiences. Popularly known by the honorific “Thalapathy” (“Commander”), Vijay built a massive fan following in India and internationally.
In 2024, Vijay launched his political party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), marking his transition from cinema to public life. Following his announced retirement from acting after his final film Jana Nayagan (2026), he contested the 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, leading TVK in its first electoral outing. In a historic debut, TVK emerged as a major political force, and Vijay was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on May 10, 2026, becoming one of the few Indian film stars to successfully transition into top-level politics.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.8765 |
| Birthday | 1974-06-22 |
| Place of Birth | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Also Known As | இளையதளபதி விஜய், ஜோசப் விஜய், Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, தளபதி விஜய், ویجی, ویجِی, Thalapathy Vijay, C. Joseph Vijay, Joseph Vijay, Ilayathalapathy Vijay, |
2009
Villu
3.844/32
A son decides to avenge his father, an army officer, who was falsely framed and killed by three corrupt officers. Fatefully, he also ends up falling i...
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Villu
2011
Velayudham
5.2/50
An ordinary milkman is forced to become the fictional character Velayudham who takes on the scum of the earth.
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Velayudham
2007
Azhagiya Tamil Magan
5.359/32
Guru has the ability to predict future events. With his unique ability, he identifies several future events, including the attempted murder of his lov...
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Azhagiya Tamil Magan
1992
Naalaiya Theerpu
0/0
Mahalakshmi endures abuse from her husband, Arun Mehta, who is unfaithful to her with multiple women. Despite this, Mahalakshmi independently raises h...
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Naalaiya Theerpu
2004
Madurey
5/17
A vegetable vendor takes care of an elderly woman and her two young daughters, but he has a dark past that wants to catch up with him.
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Madurey
1993
Sendhoorapandi
5/1
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Sendhoorapandi
2009
Vettaikaaran
4.649/37
Police-Ravi is a student aspiring to become a police officer,becomes hunted when he helps his friend out of trouble.The hunted becomes the Hunter to s...
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Vettaikaaran
2006
Aathi
4.974/19
Against the wishes of his foster parents, Aathi goes to college in Chennai. He is actually looking to avenge the murder of his biological parents. He...
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Aathi
2005
Thirupaachi
5.932/22
Sivagiri, a blacksmith from a village, visits Chennai to meet his sister and her husband. When he sees the city is not a safe residence for commoners,...
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Thirupaachi
2004
Ghilli
7.061/74
Muthu Pandi, a village strongman, decides to marry Dhanalakshmi, and begins his quest by eliminating everyone who opposes their union - starting with...
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Ghilli
2005
Sukran
1/2
College students Ravi and Sandhya are love birds. When Sandhya's mother and a village panchayat chief come to know of their affair, she puts spokes in...
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Sukran
2003
Puthiya Geethai
5.333/9
Sarathy is a brilliant and carefree young man who is unaware that an astrologer has predicted his death at the age of 27. Eventually, he comes to logg...
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Puthiya Geethai
2005
Sachein
6.53/33
A happy-go-lucky college student falls in love with a beautiful young woman at first sight, but decides to use a unique approach to get close to her,...
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Sachein
1997
Nerrukku Ner
6.346/13
Raghu and Shanti are divorced couple which sparks problems between both respective younger brothers.
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Nerrukku Ner
2010
Sura
2.588/34
When a corrupt politician tries to seize the land of his villagers, a brave and powerful fisherman sets out to fight against him.
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Sura
2005
Sivakasi
5.5/30
Muthappa is forced to leave his house at a young age for a crime that his older brother, Udayappa, committed. When he returns home, he learns about hi...
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Sivakasi
2000
Kannukkul Nilavu
6.6/5
Gautham meets Dr Rajasekhar, a psychologist, to learn about his memories pertaining to a girl named Gayathri. Rajasekhar learns that he is looking for...
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Kannukkul Nilavu
2001
Shahjahan
7.2/10
Shahjahan is about a man (Vijay) who helps out two lovers. He later realizes that he has been helping his friend Krishna to fall in love with the girl...
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Shahjahan
2004
Udhaya
5.417/6
Udhayakumar and Vasanthi are collegemates and they fall in love. But soon he comes to know that she is engaged to be married. After he moves to Chenna...
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Udhaya
2003
Vaseegara
5.9/15
Bhupathi's father sends him to live under the guidance of his best friend, Viswanath, and find a job. He gets close to the family and falls in love wi...
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Vaseegara
1999
Minsara Kanna
6.5/5
Indira hates men and only employs women in her company and personal staff. Kasi enters her life as a driver and soon, one by one, his entire family st...
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Minsara Kanna
2002
Thamizhan
5.808/13
Surya is a lawyer with right values, who tries to redress things the legal way. He falls in love with Priya. His brother-in-law Shakthivel, also an up...
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Thamizhan
2003
Thirumalai
5.9/15
Thirumalai, a mechanic, falls in love with Sweta, but her businessman father opposes the union and sends a gangster to break up the romance. Will thei...
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Thirumalai
2002
Bagavathi
5.5/18
Bagavathi, a tea vendor, has big dreams for his younger brother, Guna. However, when Guna's girlfriend's father kills him, Bagavathi must fight to pro...
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Bagavathi
2001
Badri
5.536/14
Badri (Vijay) is a troublemaker and a source of heartburn for his father (Kitty). So the father pins his hopes on his elder son, Vetri (Riyaz Khan), t...
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Badri
2002
Youth
6/13
On his wedding day, Shiva (Vijay) discovers that his cousin and bride, Aruna, has run away because she does not want to marry a cook. But he takes it...
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Youth
2000
Kushi
7/30
College friends Jenny and Shiva part ways due to a misunderstanding. Although they are in love and realize they cannot live without each other, their...
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Kushi
2000
Priyamaanavale
6.455/11
A modern man, Vijay, marries his father's sincere secretary who hails from a poor family. But their stringent prenuptial agreement grants him the powe...
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Priyamaanavale
1997
Kadhalukku Mariyaadai
6.467/15
Jeevanandhan meets Mini in a book shop and their eyes meet leading to sparks of love in their hearts. Mini has a loving mother and three brothers, Jam...
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Kadhalukku Mariyaadai
2012
Nanban
7.172/67
The plot of the film illustrates the embankment of two friends on a quest for a lost buddy, who was once an optimistic and successful student. On thei...
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Nanban
2024
The Greatest of All Time
4.733/45
A once decorated member of the Special Anti-Terrorism Squad (SATS) is called back into action by his former colleagues for an important mission, setti...
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The Greatest of All Time
2008
Kuruvi
4.477/43
A son sets out to look for the man responsible for his father's disappearance, which is connected to a stolen diamond. Eventually, he steals the villa...
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Kuruvi
2011
Kaavalan
5.636/44
Bhoominathan aka Bhoomi is introduced to us as a person who gets into many local fights. Worried about his future, his family sends him to Muthuramali...
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Kaavalan
2007
Pokkiri
6.806/67
Amidst gang warfare and police crackdowns, mob hitman Tamizh falls for Shruthi, a nice girl unaware of his true identity. But she may not be the only...
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Pokkiri
1994
Rasigan
9/1
Vijay and Anitha secretly love each other but are unable to confess their love for each other. Her father realises this and tries to separate the two....
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Rasigan
1997
Love Today
5/3
Ganesh is obsessively in love with Sandhya, but she is not interested in him. His relentless pursuit leads to a lot of problems. However, everything c...
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Love Today
1996
Maanbumigu Maanavan
4/1
Shiva, a happy-go-lucky young man, helps two of his best friends get married, much to the dismay of their parents. When the woman is raped by Madan, S...
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Maanbumigu Maanavan
1998
Ninaithen Vandhai
5.5/2
A musician dreams of a beautiful girl and sets out to find her. Soon after, he meets her at a wedding, but by that time his father has already fixed h...
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Ninaithen Vandhai
1995
Rajavin Parvaiyile
7/1
Gowri, a rich man's daughter in the village, falls for Raja, an ambitious college going guy with poor family background. When Raja continues to avoid...
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Rajavin Parvaiyile
1995
Chandralekha
4.25/2
Chandralekha starring by vijay and Vanitha vijayakumar. An orthodox brahmin girl falls in love with Muslim boy Rahim. Their families don't accept it....
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Chandralekha
1996
Vasantha Vaasal
0/0
Vasantha Vaasal starring by vijay and Swathi. Vijay comes to the city with an ambition to star in the movies. He is totally mad about cinema. He lives...
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Vasantha Vaasal
1999
Nenjinile
6/1
Nenjinile starring by vijay and isha koppikar. Karna (Vijay) is a member of a poor village family who goes to the big city to earn money.he is swindle...
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Nenjinile
1997
Kaalamellam Kaathiruppen
5.5/2
Kaalamellam Kaathiruppen starring by vijay and Dimple. Kannan (Vijay) is the only son of Jaisankar and Sri Vidya. Since he's rich, Kannan spends a lot...
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Kaalamellam Kaathiruppen
1999
Thulladha Manamum Thullum
7.2/14
A struggling singer feels guilty about a girl losing her eyesight; to meet the cost of her eye transplant surgery, he offers his kidney to a rich man.
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Thulladha Manamum Thullum
1995
Deva
6/2
Deva starring by vijay and swathi. Deva (Vijay) and Bharadhi (Swathi) are two lovers. He's the son of Manorama and brother of Mansur Ali Khan. She's d...
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Deva
1996
Selva
0/0
Selva befriends Kamini, daughter of a minister, who has just moved into his colony. When a terrorist group kidnaps her, Selva rescues her, but ends up...
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Selva
1998
Priyamudan
7.2/5
Vasanth, the son of a wealthy businessman, falls in love with Priya when he visits Rajasthan. He impersonates a man named Vasanth Kumar, who had saved...
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Priyamudan
1996
Coimbatore Mappillai
5.3/3
A man comes to the city and lives with a friend. They are tenants of a girl with whom he often gets into fights. Soon they fall in love. But, another...
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Coimbatore Mappillai
1998
Nilaave Vaa
6/1
Nilaave Vaa starring by vijay and suvalakshmi. Siluvai (Vijay) is the son of Vinu Chakravarthy. They are Christians living in a fishing village. In an...
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Nilaave Vaa
1995
Vishnu
4/1
Vishnu leaves his overbearing father and, pretending to be an orphan, finds work with a man who also adopts him. Everything goes fine until his adopte...
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Vishnu
2001
Friends
6.8/35
A man values his best friend more than anything else in the world. One day he confesses a dark secret from their childhood to his wife, which is overh...
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Friends
2023
Leo
6.838/136
Parthiban, a cafe owner, lives with his family in Himachal Pradesh. Things take an absurd turn for him when he gets in the way of a drug cartel.
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Leo
2012
Thuppakki
7.277/119
Captain Jagadish, an intelligence officer in the Indian Army, returns to Mumbai for a vacation but soon finds himself in a deadly mission. After witne...
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Thuppakki
2013
Thalaivaa
5.5/55
A mafia don sends his son out of the country because he doesn't want even a shadow of his life falling on him. Destiny wills otherwise. The son makes...
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Thalaivaa
2014
Jilla
5.645/69
A cop decides to take on his godfather, who raised him from childhood, and make him realize the error of his ways.
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Jilla
1997
Once More
6.667/9
Vijay, a guy with a careless attitude, gets Selvam, a senior home inmate, to act as his dad for an important business deal. Gradually, both help each...
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Once More
1996
Poove Unakkaga
7.2/6
Raja learns that the girl he loves is in love with another man. When he comes to know about the long-standing dispute between both their families, he...
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Poove Unakkaga
1999
Endrendrum Kadhal
6.5/4
Endrendrum Kaadhal starring by vijay and rambha. Vijay is the managing director of a large shipping corporation. He lives in a joint family with his f...
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Endrendrum Kadhal
2014
Kaththi
7.119/109
Kathiresan aka Kaththi, a criminal, escapes from the Kolkata prison and comes to Chennai, where he comes across his doppelganger Jeevanandham, fightin...
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Kaththi
2026
Jana Nayagan
5.091/11
A clash of ideologies. One stands for the people, the other feeds on control. Their paths collided once before. Years later, a child’s silent fear ign...
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Jana Nayagan
2015
Puli
4.135/48
A virtuous soldier Magadheera aka Puli (Tiger) vows to save his people from the rule of a cruel queen and her treacherous Marshal. Does good triumph o...
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Puli
2008
Pandhayam
0/0
A college student, who is a die hard fan of actor Vijay, falls in love with a beautiful young woman. Trouble erupts when she turns out to be the young...
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Pandhayam
2016
Theri
6.766/111
When an honest cop, Vijay Kumar's family is ruthlessly slaughtered by a politician and his aides, he decides to change his identity and commits his li...
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Theri
2017
Bairavaa
5.483/58
A loan recovery agent takes on a corrupt head of an educational institution to save his girlfriend.
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Bairavaa
2012
Rowdy Rathore
5.97/118
A small-time thug comes across a young girl who claims him to be her father, following which he realizes he has a lookalike who's being hunted by goon...
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Rowdy Rathore
2017
Mersal
7.252/127
A few individuals in the medical profession are murdered or kidnapped, and the cop investigating the case suspects a doctor and arrests him. But is he...
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Mersal
1988
Ithu Engal Neethi
10/1
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Ithu Engal Neethi
2018
Sarkar
5.665/85
NRI corporate Sundar Ramasamy comes to India to vote, only to learn that his vote has already been cast. While he reclaims his right legally, it also...
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Sarkar
1985
Naan Sigappu Manithan
6.4/6
A young man turns into a vigilante to fight injustice after his loved ones are killed.
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Naan Sigappu Manithan
1984
Vetri
8/1
Vijay loves challenges and goes to any limit to win them. But one such challenge lands him in prison on a murder charge, as he was used as a pawn to k...
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Vetri
2019
Bigil
6.263/78
A do-gooder don wants his footballer son to uplift the life of his people by becoming a champion, but fate draws the youngster into a life of violence...
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Bigil
2021
Master
6.544/126
An alcoholic professor is sent to a juvenile school, where he clashes with a gangster, who uses the children of the school for criminal activities.
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Master
2022
Beast
5.229/85
A former RAW officer, who is among the hostages in a mall taken over by terrorists, has to foil their plans and prevent the government from releasing...
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Beast
2023
Varisu
5/64
Vijay, The prodigal son of business tycoon Rajendran agrees to take over the reins of the business, much to the chagrin of his brothers. But can Vijay...
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