Mother: Mallika Sukumaran (actress)
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Date al jazeera china of Birth: 29th August 1977
Favourite Singers: Hariharan and Harini
Mother Tongue: Tamil
About Life: “Life is like a box of Chocolates, you never know what you get.”
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Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar is an Indian film actor. Vijay began his career doing minor roles as a child artist in the Tamil cinema industry, while also attending a theatre al jazeera china for stage plays, to follow his dream to act. After five years of minor and unnoticed roles in Tamil language films, he gained Indian cinema’s attention in 1996 by playing the role of Raja in Poove Unakkaga.
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Wife: Niveditha Arjun
Date of birth: 12th December 1949
Spiritual Guru: Satchithananda Swamiji
Favourite Film: Veera Kesari (Kannada)
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