Vijay Sethupathi Profile, Height, Age, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Vijay Sethupathi Profile, Height, Age, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Vijaya Gurunatha also known Vijay Sethupathi, is an Indian actor, producer, songwriter and lyricist who works in Tamil films.

After being an accountant, Sethupathi began to consider an acting career. He began his film career as a long-distance actor, playing minor secondary roles for more than five years, before playing his first lead role in Seenu Ramasamy’s Thenmerku Paruvakaatru (2010). He then played the role of villain in Sundarapandian (2012) and had his lead roles in the films Pizza (2012) and Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom (2012). He has played in more than 25 films. Over the years, Vijay Sethupathi has turned into a successful “independent film star” and popular in Tamil cinema.

Vijay Sethupathi was born and raised in Rajapalayam until he moved to Chennai in class six. He lived in Ennore, in northern Chennai. He attended Kodambakkam MGR High School and Little Angels Mat HR School. According to Sethupathi, he was “an under-average student right out of school” and was not interested in sports or extracurricular activities.

Sethupathi made a series of odd jobs for pocket money: salesman in a retail store, cashier in a fast food restaurant and telephone booth operator. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Dhanraj Baid Jain College in Thoraipakam. A week after completing his studies, he joined the cement wholesale trade as a bookkeeper. He had to deal with three siblings and moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as an accountant, only because it brought him four times more than he earned in India. During these two years in Dubai, he fell in love with Jessie, a Kollam woman from Kerala, whom he met online and whom she married in 2003.

Dissatisfied with his work, he returned to India in 2003. After a brief period in the interior design industry with friends, he joined a marketing company dealing with ready-made kitchens when he saw poster of Koothupattarai. He recalled that director Balu Mahendra had noticed that he had a “very photogenic face” and motivated him to pursue an acting career.