Today is Makkal Selvan Vijay Sethupathi’s birthday. Let’s look at 10 facts about him.
- He once auditioned for the role of a student in Kamal Haasan’s Nammavar.
- He worked in the middle East as an accountant before becoming an actor.
- It was director Bala Mahendra who encouraged him to pursue acting in the initial stages of his career.
- His first movie role was in the movie M.Kumaran S/o Mahalakshmi in the year 2004. He was one of the boxing spectators in the film.
- His first lead role was for the film Thenmerku Paruvakatru in the year 2010.
- He had his first success as a hero with Karthik Subburaj’s Pizza in 2012. The director – actor duo have been friends from their Naalaya Iyakunar days and have done many short films together.
- He had dubbed for Iron Man in the Tamil version of Avengers : Endgame. He first dubbed for actor Kailash for the 2011 film Marudhavelu.
- His first film as a producer was the 2015 film Orange Mittai.
- He has hosted the show Namma Ooru Hero on Sun Tv.
- He was also part of Penn Tv serial on Sun Tv and played the role of Bharani.
