Vijay aka Thalapathy Vijay entered into cinema as an assistant director to his father, SA Chandrasekhar. He is one of the famous directors who made several hit films in Telugu and Tamil during 1980's.Vijay transformed into an actor in mid-90's and then started deepening his following in masses along with Thala Ajith. Today, he enjoys a star power like none even though Thala fans beg to differ on that. He is now slowly, challenging even Rajni films in revenue as his Mersal crossed 150 crores gross in just Diwali weekend.
For Mersal, becoming such a huge success, controversies have also helped. The movie garnered great publicity with BJP trying to play it as anti-Modi film. As that did not yield much fruits, H.Raja, BJP leader said that it is Christian Vijay who is attacking Hinduism as he claimed that in one of the scenes, Vijay slams few people saying it is high time that India needs more hospitals than Temples. We can take this as a popular reference to Tamil Nadu culture where there are many temples per square area than hospitals. But H.Raja tweeted with Vijay's voter id, that reads his name as "Joseph" Vijay to prove his point.
SA Chandrasekhar, came out in defense of his son and said, "People should labelling others for their selfish means. Vijay is a genuine human being before being a Hindu, Muslim or Christian. My name means Shiva and he is son, so what he is now? I wish and hope, Vijay enters politics to question these politicians but it is his decision in the end. I won't force him to do it. Also, producers have accepted to remove those lines, now what do these politicians want from us?" Even social media as responded positively to Vijay and many of his fans changed their names on social media to Joseph as a solidarity to Vijay!
For Mersal, becoming such a huge success, controversies have also helped. The movie garnered great publicity with BJP trying to play it as anti-Modi film. As that did not yield much fruits, H.Raja, BJP leader said that it is Christian Vijay who is attacking Hinduism as he claimed that in one of the scenes, Vijay slams few people saying it is high time that India needs more hospitals than Temples. We can take this as a popular reference to Tamil Nadu culture where there are many temples per square area than hospitals. But H.Raja tweeted with Vijay's voter id, that reads his name as "Joseph" Vijay to prove his point.
SA Chandrasekhar, came out in defense of his son and said, "People should labelling others for their selfish means. Vijay is a genuine human being before being a Hindu, Muslim or Christian. My name means Shiva and he is son, so what he is now? I wish and hope, Vijay enters politics to question these politicians but it is his decision in the end. I won't force him to do it. Also, producers have accepted to remove those lines, now what do these politicians want from us?" Even social media as responded positively to Vijay and many of his fans changed their names on social media to Joseph as a solidarity to Vijay!