Did you know Vijay used his real-name as screen name in 11 movies

Actor Vijay started his film career as a child artiste and his debut movie was Vetri directed by his father

SA Chandrasekhar

in 1984. In the movie, he played a character named Vijay. His dad has mentioned that Vijay is a name he likes very much and in many of his movies, he titled his

heroes Vijay

, including his son. Vijay, who has appeared in many of his dad's films too, has used his name as the character name and he has played roles named Vijay in 11 of his movies. In his debut as a hero, in Naalaiya Theerpu, he played a student leader named Vijay. Subsequently, he played Vijay in Sendhoorapandi starring Vijayakanth in the lead. In Rasigan, too, his screen name was Vijay. In fact, in the movies that released in 1992, 19993, and 1994, Vijay used his real name as the screen name. The last time we saw him using the screen name Vijay was in the 2000 movie Priyamaanavale, in which he acted along with Simran and late SP Balasubrahmanyam.