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Kennedy John Victor was born on April 17, 1966, , better known by his stage name Vikram or Chiyaan Vikram, is an Indian actor and singer who appears mainly in Tamil-language films. He has won seven Filmfare Awards, a National Film Award and the Tamil Nadu State Film Award, among other awards. He also received an honorary doctorate from the Milan People’s University in May 2011.

Vikram was born as Kennedy of a Christian father and a Hindu mother in Madras, Tamil Nadu. His father, John Victor (aka Vinod Raj) was from Paramakudi and had fled from his home to start a film career. However, his father was not successful and only played minor roles in television series and Tamil films, prompting Vikram to take part in theater classes and acquire professional training. in classical dance and actor cinema. Rajeshwari, Vikram’s mother, was a sub-collector and his brother, Thyagarajan, is an established filmmaker-actor in the Tamil film industry. with his son, actor Prashanth, being Vikram’s first cousin.

He made his debut in the 1990 film Kadhal Kanmani, followed by a series of low budget Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films in the 1990s, many of which went unnoticed. However, the success of the film about Bala Sethu’s tragedy (1999), in which Vikram appeared as a thug who fell in love, began Vikram’s successful career as an actor.

Vikram promoted various social causes and was appointed Youth Envoy for the United Nations Human Settlements Program in 2011. He was a Sanjeevani Trust brand ambassador and a school for outstanding children, Vidya Sudha, where he stayed during the filming of Deiva. Thirumagal also has a long-standing relationship with Kasi Eye Care and runs its own social welfare association through the Vikram Foundation. [6] In 2016, he produced and directed the Flood Relief Anthem video, Spirit of Chennai, as a tribute to the city’s volunteers following the 2015 floods in southern India.

Vikram met Shailaja Balakrishnan in the late 1980s and married Guruvayoor in 1992 at a mass marriage with dozens of couples. The two men also held a low-key wedding ceremony at Loyola College Church in Chennai. She is from Thalassery, Kerala and now works as a psychology teacher at a major school in Chennai. Shailaja also worked with Deiva Thirumagal’s team providing professional advice on how to treat people with special needs and helping to develop Vikram’s character. The couple has a daughter Akshita and a son Dhruv. His daughter married Manu Ranjith, Karunanidhi’s great grandson, on October 30, 2017. He lives near Besant Nagar Beach in Chennai, and said he would stay in Chennai, regardless of the offers of other regional films. Dhruv made his Tamil cinema debut with Varmaa, the remake of the telugu film Arjun Reddy.