Vishal Reddy

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Vishal Krishna Reddy

Born	29 August 1977 (1977-08-29) (age 30) Chennai, India
Occupation	Actor
Website Vishal at Paadal.com (Unofficial)

Vishal Reddy (born 29 August 1977, popularly known as Vishal), son of noted producer G.K Reddy, is an Indian movie actor who has appeared in Tamil films.He comes from an Aristocratic Reddy family.

1 Career
2 Trivia
3 Filmography
- 3.1 Actor
4 Sources
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Career

Vishal's strong passion for direction got him an apprenticeship with Ram Gopal Varma, just after he completed Visual Communication at Loyola College, Chennai. But for his parent’s desire to have him closer to home, he canceled his flight ticket to Mumbai and headed to the decks of actor-director Arjun’s production house.

Vishal’s tenure as assistant to Arjun for the films Vedham & Ezhumalai exposed him not only to the nuances of direction but also aspects for excellence in the performing branch. A chance encounter with G.J. team had his providence rewritten on a different path. Their offer to cast him as the protagonist in their venture Chellamae was accepted by Vishal after a careful consideration. With his zeal and sincerity, he did not land directly on the sets, rather took up a three-month acting lessons from a Koothupatrai troupe.

He had 3 back-to-back hits with Chellamae, Sandakozhi and Thimiru which all became dubbed in telugu. This was a feat indeed as few actors actually score a first-time Hat-Trick in Cinema history.

His father G.K. Reddy was one of the veteran producers of Tamil films, having made quite a few films with top actors like Sivaji Ganesan in 'Poo Parikka Varugirom', though he quit production after that due to failure in the business. His brother, Vikram Krishna Reddy, who was formerly an actor under the name 'Ajay' and acted with Sivaji in Poo Parikka Varugirom, took off from where his father left and produced two films, Sandakozhi and Thimiru, starring Vishal.

His 4th film, Sivappathigaram was an average grosser while his 5th film Thamiraparani with popular director Hari achieved enough box-office success, after it opened in Pongal 2007, to be dubbed in Telugu as Barani.His next film Malaikottai was also a hit.

His next film will be a Tamil-Telugu bilingual, titled 'Sathyam' in Tamil, which had a soft launch in Chennai on July 2007, and 'Salute' in Telugu, which had a big launch on August 15, Indian Independence Day in Hyderabad[1].

[edit] Trivia

Vishal is a very good friend of Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of M. K. Stalin.

Vishal became a teetotaler to preserve his good looks as an actor.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Actor

Year	Film	Co-Stars	Director	Role	Notes
2004	Chellamae	Reema Sen, Bharath, Vivek	Gandhi Krishna	Ragunandan	Dubbed to Telugu as Prema Chadarangam
2005	Sandakozhi	Meera Jasmine, Rajkiran	N. Linguswamy	Balu	Dubbed to Telugu as Pandem Kodi
2006	Dishyum	Jeeva, Sandhya	Sasi	Himself	Cameo appearance Dubbed to Telugu as Dishyum Dishyum
2006	Thimiru	Reema Sen, Shriya Reddy	Tarun Gopi	Ganesh	Dubbed to Telugu as Pogaru
2006	Sivappathigaram	Mamta Mohandas, Raghuvaran	Karu Pazhaniappan	Sathyamoorthy
2007	Thamiraparani	Bhanu	Hari	Barani	Dubbed to Telugu as Barani
2007	Malaikottai	Priyamani	Bhoopathy Pandian	Anbu	Dubbed to Telugu as Bhayya
2008	Sathyam	Nayanthara	Rajasekhar	Satyam	To Be Released in Summer, 2008 To Be Made Simultaneously in Telugu as Salute