# Vijay (actor) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/vijay-actor Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/vijay-actor.md Podcast: [popular Wiki of the Day](https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172) Published: 2026-05-06T02:42:31+00:00 Episode link: https://wikioftheday.com/wotdep.php?pod=popular&epnum=3290 Audio file: https://wikioftheday.com/pwotd/pwotdpod20260506024231.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/episodes/vijay-actor Duration seconds: 244 ## Resource pWotD Episode 3290: Vijay (actor) Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today. With 519,672 views on Tuesday, 5 May 2026 our article of the day is Vijay (actor). Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay (born 22 June 1974) is an Indian actor and politician who has served as the Chief Minister-designate of Tamil Nadu since 2026. He is the founder and leader of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, which emerged as the single largest party in its debut election in the 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. In a career spanning over three decades in Tamil cinema, Vijay has appeared in 69 films as a lead actor and is among the highest-paid actors in India. He is widely regarded as one of the most commercially successful actors in the industry, with several of his films ranking among the highest-grossing Tamil films. He has received numerous accolades, as listed in his awards and nominations. Popularly referred to as "Thalapathy" (Tamil for "Commander"), he enjoys a significant fan following. Vijay made his debut as a child actor in the Tamil film Vetri (1984). After playing as a child actor in few of the films directed by his father, he played his first lead role in the film Naalaiya Theerpu (1992) at the age of 18. He continued doing lead roles for the next few years and notable films amongst them included Poove Unakkaga (1996), Love Today (1997), Kadhalukku Mariyadhai (1997), Thullatha Manamum Thullum (1999), Kushi (2000), Priyamaanavale (2000) and Friends (2001). He starred in the commercially successful action films Thirumalai (2003) and Ghilli (2004), transitioning away from romance films. With subsequent successes of Thirupaachi (2005) and Pokkiri (2007), he estab… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/episodes/vijay-actor/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/vijay-actor.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.