Vikram filmography

Vikram is an Indian actor, playback singer and former dubbing artiste known for his work in Tamil cinema. Besides Tamil, he has also worked in Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi language films. He has featured in over 55 motion pictures, three television programs, and several music videos and commercials.^[1][2]

Vikram filmography

Vikram in 2019
Film	60
Television series	2
Television show	12
Music videos	4
Advertising	6

An aspiring actor since childhood, Vikram modelled for television commercials and appeared in a short film, hoping to get noticed by casting directors.^[2][3] He made his television debut with the Doordarshan series Galatta Kudumbam (1988), following which his first feature film role came with the experimental film En Kadhal Kanmani (1990).^[4] His early career in Tamil cinema saw consecutive box-office failures, after which he attempted a transition to Telugu and Malayalam cinema.^[5] Vikram mostly played the lead roles in Telugu films, many of which were financial failures.^[2][6] In Malayalam films, he usually appeared in ensemble films, playing "second fiddle" to established actors like Mammootty and Suresh Gopi, which failed to help his career.^[5][7] Meanwhile, the few sporadic appearances he made in Tamil cinema also proved unsuccessful.^[4]

Vikram landed his breakthrough role of a college student who suffers a brain injury in filmmaker Bala's directorial debut, the tragedy film Sethu (1999).^[5] It was a sleeper hit and earned Vikram a Special Jury award at the Filmfare and Tamil Nadu State Film Award ceremonies.^[8][9][10] In 2001, he played an aspiring policeman in the action film Dhill, the directorial debut of Dharani.^[11] In 2002, Vikram was awarded his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor for portraying a blind village singer in the Vinayan-directed tragedy Kasi (2001), a remake of the director's Malayalam film Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum (1999).^[5][12][13] Vikram went on to play the quintessential Tamil action hero in a series of commercial successful masala films beginning with Gemini (2002) which grossed ₹210 million at the box office. Gemini film was the highest grossing Tamil film of the year 2002.^[14] The next year, with consecutive commercial success in Dhool (2003) and Saamy (2003), he attained stardom.^[15][16][17] He then played an undertaker with autism in Bala's tragedy drama Pithamagan (2003) co-starring Suriya. His portrayal attracted positive reviews and garnered him his third Filmfare award, and Best Actor trophies at the Tamil Nadu State Film Award and National Film Award ceremonies.^{[5][18][19][20]}

Vikram underwent a professional setback between 2004 and 2008 when a series of films—Arul (2004), Majaa (2005) and Bheemaa (2008)—received mixed reviews and were commercial failures.^{[16][21][22][23]} Vikram's sole box-office success during this period was S. Shankar's psychological thriller Anniyan (2005), in which he played a utopian lawyer suffering from multiple personality disorder. The film was the second highest grossing Tamil film of the year 2005 by collecting ₹57 crore from the box office.^[24] The film was commercial success in all the South Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Kerala (where the film was the highest grossing Tamil film in Kerala at that time which ran over 150 days in theatres),^[25] Andhra Pradesh (where the dubbed version Aparichitudu was the highest-grossing film of 2005)^[26][27] and Karnataka.^[28] The film also earned him critical acclaim and his fourth Filmfare award.^[5][29][30] Meanwhile, Vikram ventured into film production by joining a production company, Reel Life Entertainment, as one of its directors.^[31] In Susi Ganesan's Kanthaswamy (2009), he played a CBI officer who moonlights as a superhero.^[32][33] In 2010, Vikram was introduced in Bollywood by Mani Ratnam through his Hindi-Tamil bilingual Raavan and Raavanan, a contemporary retelling of the Ramayana, in which Vikram played the antagonist and protagonist in the respective versions.^[34] Vikram earned mixed reviews for his characterisation in the former;^[35][36][37] but his performance in the latter earned him rave reviews and his fifth Filmfare award.^[38][39][40] In 2011, Vikram played a man with developmental disability fighting over his daughter's custody in A. L. Vijay's courtroom drama Deiva Thirumagal, an adaptation of the American film I Am Sam (2001). Vikram's performance was praised and won him the Critics Award for Best Actor at Filmfare.^[41][42][43] However, his next role of an aspiring screen villain in Rajapattai (2011) was poorly received.^[5][44][45]

In 2012, Vikram appeared in A. L. Vijay's revenge-thriller Thaandavam, playing a blind RAW agent who uses human echolocation to track down his betrayer.^[46] In Bejoy Nambiar's three-story-arc Hindi-language anthology film David (2013), he played one of the three eponymous lead characters, an alcoholic fisherman in love with his friend's fiancée.^[47][48][49] Shankar's romantic-thriller I (2015) featured Vikram as a supermodel-turned-hunchback who exacts revenge on his conspirators. The film grossed over ₹ 2.4 billion at the box office and Vikram's performance was critically acclaimed.^[50][51][52] Then he acted in 10 Endrathukulla (2015), Iru Mugan (2016), Sketch (2018), Saamy Square (2018), Kadaram Kondan (2019) and Mahaan (2022).

Film

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

As an actor

• All films are Tamil unless otherwise noted.

Vikram film acting credits

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes	Ref.
1990	En Kadhal Kanmani	Vinod		[20][53]
1991	Thanthu Vitten Ennai	Raju		[2]
1992	Kaaval Geetham	Ashok		[20]
	Meera	Jeeva		[2][54]
1993	Dhruvam	Bhadran	Malayalam film	[55]
	Akka Pettanam Chelleli Kapuram	Radha Krishna	Telugu film	[56]
	Chirunavvula Varamistava	Vicky	Telugu film	[2]
	Mafia	Harishankar	Malayalam film	[7]
1994	Bangaru Kutumbam	Suryam	Telugu film	[2]
	Sainyam	Jiji	Malayalam film	[57]
	Pudhiya Mannargal	Sathyamoorthy		[58]
1995	Street	Sajeev	Malayalam film	[59][60]
	Aadaalla Majaka	Vikram	Telugu film	[5][61]
1996	Mayooranritham	Rajeev	Malayalam film	[59][62]
	Ooha	Mohan	Telugu film	[63][64]
	Akka! Bagunnava?	Pedababu	Telugu film	[5]
	Indraprastham	Peter	Malayalam film	[65][66]
	Rajaputhran	Manu	Malayalam film	[7]
	Merupu	Guru	Telugu film	[6]
1997	Itha Oru Snehagatha	Roy	Malayalam film	[67][68]
	Ullaasam	Dev		[69][70]
1998	Kangalin Vaarthaigal	Chandru		[59][71]
1999	House Full	Hameed		[11]
	Sethu	Sethu (Chiyaan)	Filmfare Special Jury Award	[8][72][9][10]
	Red Indians	Rahul	Malayalam film	[59]
2000	Indriyam	Udhaya	Malayalam film	[11][73]
	9 Nelalu	Surendra	Telugu film	[6][74]
2001	Vinnukum Mannukum	Selvam		[75]
	Dhill	Kanagavel		[76]
	Kasi	Kasi	Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[77][12]
2002	Gemini	Gemini		[78]
	Samurai	Thyagu		[79]
	King	Raja		[80]
2003	Dhool	Aarumugam		[81]
	Kadhal Sadugudu	Suresh		[82]
	Saamy	Aarusaamy	Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Actor	[83]
	Pithamagan	Chithan	National Film Award for Best Actor Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[84][85][18][19]
2004	Arul	Arulkumaran		[86]
2005	Youth	Babu	Telugu film; delayed release	[2][87]
	Anniyan	Ramanujam "Ambi" Iyenagar (Remo/Anniyan)[a]	Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[89][30]
	Majaa	Arivumathi	Also assistant director	[90][91]
2008	Bheemaa	Sekar		[92]
2009	Kanthaswamy	Kanthaswamy		[93]
2010	Raavan	Dev Pratap Sharma	Hindi film	[94]
	Raavanan	Veeraiya	Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[38][40]
2011	Deiva Thirumagal	Krishna	Won—Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor – Tamil Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[95][96][97]
	Rajapattai	"Annal" Murugan		[45]
2012	Thaandavam	Shivakumar (Kenny Thomas)[b]	Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[98][99]
2013	David	David (Sakku Santa)[b]	Hindi film[c]	[101]
	David	David (Kirku Santa)[b]	Partially reshot version in Tamil[c]	[102]
2015	I	Lingesan (Lee)[b]	50th film & Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[103]
	10 Endrathukulla	James Bond		[104]
2016	Iru Mugan	Akhilan Vinod and Dr. Love[d]	Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[105]
2018	Sketch	Jeeva (Sketch)[b]		[106]
	Saamy Square	Aarusaamy and Ramasaamy[d]		[107]
2019	Kadaram Kondan	KK		[108]
	Adithya Varma	Visitor in Dehradun	Uncredited	[109]
2022	Mahaan	Gandhi Mahaan		[110]
	Cobra	Madhiazhagan (Madhi) and Kathirvelan (Kathir/Cobra)[d]		[111][112]
	Ponniyin Selvan: I	Aditha Karikalan	Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[113]
2023	Ponniyin Selvan: II		Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[114]
2024	Thangalaan	Thangalaan Muni, Kaadaiyan, Arasan (Aaran), Adhi Muni, Naga Muni[e]		[115]
2025	Veera Dheera Sooran	Kaali		[116]
TBA	Dhruva Natchathiram †	John / Dhruv	Awaiting release	[117]
TBA	Chiyaan 63 †	TBA	Announced	[118]

As a dubbing artist

Vikram film dubbing credits

Year	Title	Voiced for	Notes	Ref.
1993	Amaravathi	Ajith Kumar		[119]
	Jaathi Malli	Vineeth
	Ennamo Nadakkuthu	Venkatesh	Lent his voice for Tamil dubbed version	[120]
	Pudhiya Mugam	Vineeth		[2]
	Ennavale Adi Ennavale	Jayaram	Lent his voice for Tamil dubbed version
1994	Paasamalargal	Ajith Kumar		[121]
	Kadhalan	Prabhu Deva		[122]
	The Lion King	Jeremy Irons	Voice for character Scar in Tamil dubbed version
1995	Kuruthipunal	John Edathattil		[123]
	Raasaiyya	Prabhu Deva
1996	Kadhal Desam	Abbas		[124]
	Karuppu Roja	Amar Siddique
1997	Minsara Kanavu	Prabhu Deva (For 3 Scenes)
	VIP	Abbas, Prabhu Deva
	Poochudava	Abbas
1998	Aasai Thambi
	Jolly
	Ini Ellam Sugame
	Satya	J. D. Chakravarthy	Lent his voice for Tamil dubbed version	[4]
	Gandhi	Ben Kingsley	Lent his voice for Tamil dubbed version	[4][125]
1999	Kannodu Kanbathellam	Suchindra Bali
	Devi	Shiju	Lent his voice for Tamil dubbed version
2000	Kandukondain Kandukondain	Abbas		[126]
2024	ARM	Cosmic creator (Narrator)	Lent his voice for Tamil dubbed version	[127]

Television

Vikram television credits

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Ref.
1988	Galatta Kudumbam	Vinod	Un­known	Six-episode TV series	[4]
1995	Chinna Chinna Aasai – Aarambam	Dubbing voice for Rajiv Krishna	Heera Rajagopal	TV series	[128]
	Chinna Chinna Aasai – Elakiya	Shankar	Himself	TV series	[129]
1999	Siragugal	Chandrasekhar	Manobala	TV film	[4][130][131]

Commercial

Vikram commercial credits

Year	Organization	Director(s)	Role	Ref.
2005	Coca-Cola	Rajiv Menon	Various	[132][133]
2010	Brooke Bond	Karthik Kotamraju	Himself	[134][135]
	Manappuram General Finance and Leasing	Priyadarshan V. A. Shrikumar	Himself	[136][137][138]
2011	Josco Jewellers	Rathish Ambat	Himself	[139][140]

Music video

Vikram music video credits

Year	Title	Composer	Director	Role	Notes	Ref.
2010	"Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara"	Louis Banks	Kailash Surendranath	Himself	Non-album single	[141][142]
2012	"One – The Unity Song"	George Peter	Sumesh Lal	Himself	Non-album single	[143]
	"Vanakkam Vaazhavaikum Chennai"	Girishh G	Pandiraj	Himself	Promotional video for the film Marina	[144][145]
2016	"Spirit of Chennai"	C. Girinandh	Vikram	Himself	Non-album single	[146]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Vikram

Explanatory notes

1. Vikram played a single character with dissociative identity disorder, taking on two further personalities.^[88]
2. Vikram played a single character with two names.
3. The film was partially reshot in Tamil with Jiiva; however, all of his scenes were dubbed from Hindi except for part of the climax scene.^[4][100]
4. Vikram played two characters.
5. Vikram played five characters.