He joined Anna Hazare's movement supporting Jan Lokpal Bill against corruption. Vinod Raj was the only actor to donate to TV9 Kannada's Flood Relief Fund. Vinod Raj is the son of Kannada actress Leelavathi.He was introduced to the Kannada film industry through Dance Raja Dance by Dwarkish. After working in other fields, Vinod Raj continued working in the Kannada film industry. And again he had to gain weight to play a model and a bodybuilder.His dance moves in Dance Raja Dance, a Kannada dance movie, gained popularity on YouTube and were used in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. To play a hunchback role in the 2015 film, which was made on a budget of Rs 90 crore, he lost a whopping 35kg and weighed about just 50 kg. The jury preferred to give the award to his performance in the film as an eccentric graveyard caretaker over Hrithik’s performance in Koi Mil Gaya.įor his second film with Shankar’s I, Vikram had to go through some extreme body transformations to appear in three different avatars in the film. And then came Bala’s Pithamagan, which proved his calibre as an actor again.
Vikram was basking in the back-to-back commercial success of films like Dhill, Kasi, Gemini, Dhool and Saamy. When Vikram pipped Hrithik Roshan at National Awards: The actor also won the first state award for his performance. The film established both Vikram and Bala as the talents to look out for in the film industry. He had no qualms in shaving his head and be chained at a madhouse. With this film, he told the world that he was ready to do whatever it takes to deliver a convincing performance. Sethu, which marked the debut of director Bala in 1999, gave Vikram the much-needed breakthrough in his career. Dhanya’s mom Poornima is a producer and father Ramkumar is an actor turned producer who has labored in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. Read | Dhruva Natchathiram teaser: Is this Vikram film Tamil cinema’s answer to James Bond? Watch video Notably, her maternal grandfather is the evergreen Kannada actor in late Raj Kumar. At a time when Vikram was years away from making a mark in the industry, his first cousin Prashanth, Thyagarajan’s son, was already a big star. Vikram’s mother Rajeshwari was a sub-collector and her brother, Thyagarajan was a popular actor in Tamil. He only played supporting roles in his career. Vikram’s father John Victor alias Vinod Raj was also an actor.
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