Superstar in South, How Thalpathy Vijay stayed away from Hindi cinema: Decoding his journey amid the historic win in Tamil Nadu Elections

Actor-politician and maybe Tamil Nadu’s next chief minister Vijay, a mega star in south cinema, has surprisingly little or no presence in the Hindi film industry.

The Leo and Mersal star did a blink-and-miss appearance in the 2012 hit "Rowdy Rathore", where he popped in for a less-than-a-minute dance cameo with actor Akshay Kumar and choreographer-director Prabhu Deva. In fact, in the song “Chinta Ta Chita Chita”, the south superstar had to be introduced as such by Akshay - “oh superstar Vijay”.

That was almost it. Several of his Tamil blockbusters have been dubbed in Hindi and now also available on streaming platforms with subtitles. These include big-budget actioners such as "Master", "Mersal", "Leo" and "Bigil".

Some of his Tamil hits have also been remade in Hindi, most notably Varun Dhawan’s "Baby John", a remake of his 2016 action-thriller "Theri", and Akshay Kumar’s 2014 hit "Holiday", which was adapted from Vijay’s 2012 film "Thuppakki".

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The 51-year-old also took a leaf out of Hindi movies when he played Aamir Khan's much-loved character of a free-spirited, innovative engineering student from the blockbuster "3 Idiots" in its 2012 Tamil remake "Nanban".

He seemed clearly content with his success and demi-god status in Tamil cinema. This was quite unlike others such as Vijay Sethupathy, Allu Arjun, Vijay Devarakonda and, of course, veterans Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan who have either starred in Hindi movies or became pan-India stars.

Amid ongoing rumours linking her to Vijay, Trisha Krishnan’s post during the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections has gone viral and it has a connect to the man she is reportedly in a relationship with. And this is something fans were quick to notice and observe. To give you a hint, one fan commented this under the actress’ post- “Music tell everything.” More about that little later.

There’s one more video that has gone viral that shows the actress arriving at the actor and politician’s residence as his political party TVK surpassed the 100-seat threshold and approached the majority number of 117 in its first election. The other occasion was Krishnan’s 43rd birthday.

With added inputs from agencies