Inspiration

BY

H.SHRIRAM

STORY OF SYLVESTER STALLONE Lets See what happened in the life of sylvestre stallone.

GUESS WHO?

THE STRUGGLE AND RISE OF VIKRAM

Many of us might not have known about what happened in the personal life of actor vikram.

But there is an interesting story of self confidence and passion that we are going to see.

Vikram (born as Vikram Kennedy on 17 April 1966) is an Indian film actor who predominantly appears in Tamil language films and has won six FilmfareAwards as well as one National Film Award and Tamil Nadu State Film Award.

Vikram Vinod Raj was born to a Christian father VinodRaj and Hindu mother Rajeshwari in Madras, Tamil Nadu on 17 April 1966.[3] His father, Vinod Raj was a native of Paramakudi and ran away from home to start a career in films.

His father however did not fare successfully, and only managed to act in supporting roles in Tamil films and television serials and this inspired Vikram to take part in theatre lessons and become professionally trained in classical and cinema dance forms to ensure he became a leading acto

Vikram always wanted to be an actor right from his child hood.

Despite expressing his interest to join films after school, his father forced him to go through college with Vikram subsequently graduating in English from Loyola College, Chennai and working half way through an MBA programme .

Vikram was knocked down by a truck during a major motorbike accident while in college and suffered a serious leg injury.

He remained hospital-ridden bed for three years during college and subsequently went through twenty three surgeries to stop his leg being amputated.

Doctors advised him to quit dreaming of acting as it would be a miracle if he manages to walk properly after that accident.

But,vikram didn’t let his ambition die. after he recovered completely following 3 years bed rest.he began modellingin small ads and completed his MBA as well.

He was part of various not so well known movies which bombed at the box office.

In 1993, he almost signed on to appear in Mani Ratnam's Bombay and featured in the initial photo shoot alongside Manisha Koirala. However Mani Ratnam wanted Vikram to remove his beard for the role, and Vikram could not do so due to continuity problems with another film he had signed and hence was dropped from the project.

He didn’t get any film oppurtunity so he led his life by dubbing for other actors in tamil films and doing small roles.

During his struggling phase, Vikram dubbed for other heroes in films including voices for Prabhu Deva, AjithKumar and Abbas for Kaadhalan, MinsaraKanavu, Amaravathi, Kandukondain Kandukondain

It was at this point sethu happened for him.

HOW LIFE CHANGED

In 1998, debutant director Bala offered him the role of the rogue, Sethu (Chiyaan), in the film Sethu.

To prepare for the character, Vikram shaved his head, lost twenty-one kilograms and grew his nails long for the role.

During this phase, he did not accept other acting offers in order to maintain the continuity of his looks.

Sethu took two full years to completion. Vikramdescribed the period of production as "the worst phase of his career" as he was financially strapped and "his fire was in danger of dying down"

The film initially struggled to find a distributor.

The film was released in December 1999 and initially began running at a single noon show at a suburban theater but gradually gained an audience through word-of-mouth publicity.

Gradually the movie became a mega hit finally and it gave vikram the much needed break.

From there on his life just went upwards and we know what happened.

VIKRAM’S QUOTE “For me, I guess, success has been the result of a

combination of hard work, perseverance and a little talent. I won’t add luck to it in a major way because had I been lucky, success would have happened much earlier. But the hard fact is that despite the setbacks and upsets, I never was distracted.”

CONCLUSION