Vishal (actor)

Vishal Krishna Reddy
Vishal Krishna Reddy
	File:Vishal Reddy.jpg
Born	29 August, 1977; Chennai, India
Occupation	Actor
Website	http://www.actorvishal.com/

Vishal Krishna Reddy (popularly known as Vishal), son of noted producer G.K Reddy, is an Indian movie actor who has appeared in Tamil films. He was born in August 29, 1977.

Career

Vishal's strong passion for direction got him an apprenticeship with Ram Gopal Varma, just after he completed Visual Communication at Loyola College, Chennai. But for his parent’s desire to have him closer to home, he cancelled his flight ticket to Mumbai and headed to the decks of actor-director Arjun’s production house.

Vishal’s tenure as assistant to Arjun for the films Vedham & Ezhumalai exposed him not only to the nuances of direction but also aspects for excellence in the performing branch. A chance encounter with G.J. team had his providence rewritten on a different path. Their offer to cast him as the protagonist in their venture Chellamae was accepted by Vishal after a careful consideration. With his zeal and sincerity, he did not land directly on the sets, rather took up a three-month acting lessons from a Koothupatrai troupe. The rest is history as Vishal became the leading young action hero of Tamil Cinema. He became known as the hat-trick king with 3 back-to-back hits with Chellamae, Sandakozhi and Thimiru which all became dubbed in telugu. This was a feat indeed as few actors actually score a first-time hat-trick in Cinema history. The only other actor among the current breed of young Tamil heores to have scored a hat-trick was Dhanush whose career fell apart for long after that. But Vishal, given his tall physique and dark, handsome looks is expected to do much better. However, his fourth film Sivappathigaram, became the first flop for Vishal.[1]

His father G.K. Reddy was one of the veteran producers of Tamil films, having made quite a few films with top actors like Sivaji Ganesan in 'Poo Parikka Varugirom', though he quit production after that due to failure in the business. His brother, Vikram Krishna Reddy, who was formerly an actor under the name 'Ajay' and acted with Sivaji in Poo Parikka Varugirom, took off from where his father left and produced two films, Sandakozhi and Thimiru, starring Vishal.

Due to his consecutive hits his salary has skyrocketed to Rs. 15 million per film.^{[citation needed]} His 4th film, Sivappathigaram was an average grosser while his upcoming Thamiraparani with popular director Hari is expected to be a hit when it releases during Pongal 2007.

Trivia

His favourite film to date is Ram Gopal Verma's debut, Shiva (film), which was dubbed in Tamil as Udhayam. The film has amazed him with its direction and since his childhood, he has been practically worshipping Ram Gopal Verma.

He has said at a press meet that his directorial debut in the future is planned to feature himself as a superhero 'along the lines of Spiderman or Superman'. But he has added that he still has a long way to go before that as he plans to establish himself as a distingushed actor first.

He is actually a Telugu. He speaks his mother-tongue Telugu at home and all his home productions, Sandakozhi and Thimiru have been dubbed in Telugu and he has become quite popular in Andhra Pradesh due to his successful dubbed films. His upcoming Sathyam is said to be a Tamil-Telugu bilingual.

Controversies

He has been romantically linked to actress Reema Sen in mid-2006 but both have denied the affair.

Many producers feel his salary demand is too high for someone who has only done a few films, though they were all hits

He has said in an interview that he directed most of Thimiru, incurring the wrath of its director Tharun Gopi.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Film	Co-Stars	Director	Role	Other Notes
2007	Sathyam		Rajasekhar		Announced
2007	Thamiraparani	Banu	Hari	Barani	In Production
2006	Sivappathigaram	Mamta Mohandas	Karu Pazhaniappan	Sathyamoorthy
2006	Thimiru	Reema Sen, Shriya Reddy	Tarun Gopi	Ganesh	Dubbed to Telugu as Pogaru
2006	Dishyum	Jeeva, Sandhya	Sasi	Cameo	Dubbed to Telugu as Dishyum Dishyum
2006	Sandakozhi	Meera Jasmine	Lingusamy	Balu	Dubbed to Telugu as Pandem Kodi
2004	Chellamae	Reema Sen, Bharath	Gandhi Krishna	Ragunandan	Dubbed to Telugu as Prema Chadarangam

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