Sanchari Vijay

Sanchari Vijay

Born	Vijay Kumar B. c. 1983 (age 32–33) Panchanahalli, Kadur, Chikmagalur, Karnataka, India^[1]
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actor, writer
Years active	2007–present

Sanchari Vijay (born c. 1983)^[2] is an Indian theatre and film actor who primarily works in Kannada cinema, in addition to having worked in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi cinema.^[3] He started out as a theatre artist from "Sanchari", a culture centre and unique theatre, which is also popular as an elegant drama troupe.

At the 62nd National Film Awards, he was awarded the Best Actor for his performance in the Kannada language film Naanu Avanalla...Avalu, in which he played the role of a transgender.^[4]^[5]^[6] With the award win, Vijay became the third actor after M. V. Vasudeva Rao and Charuhasan to win the National Award for Best Actor for performing in a Kannada film.^[7] At the same award ceremony, Harivu (2014), another film that saw him playing the lead role, won the award for Best Feature Film in Kannada.

Filmography

Key
	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2011	Rangappa Hogbitna
2013	Dasavala	Mentally and physically challenged boy
2014	Harivu	Farmer
2014	Oggarane	Rama
2015	Naanu Avanalla...Avalu	Madesha / Vidya	National Film Award for Best Actor Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor
2016	Killing Veerappan

References

↑ "Meet the first Kannada actor to win a National Award". rediff.com. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
↑ "Kannada Hero Vijay Beats Stalwarts to Win National Award". The New Indian Express. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
↑ Kumar G. S. (25 March 2015). "Portraying transgender’s life made me learn a lot: ‘Sanchari’ Vijay". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
↑ "Vijay bags National Award for Best Actor". timesofindia. 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
↑ "Sanchari Vijay Actor–Profile and Biography". cinetrooth. 21 June 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
↑ "Vijay elated on winning best actor award". deccanherald. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
↑ http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/meet-the-first-kannada-actor-to-win-a-national-award-south/20150325.htm

External links

Sanchari Vijay at the Internet Movie Database

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National Film Award for Best Actor

1967–1980	Uttam Kumar (1967) Ashok Kumar (1968) Utpal Dutt (1969) Sanjeev Kumar (1970) M. G. Ramachandran (1971) Sanjeev Kumar (1972) P. J. Antony (1973) Sadhu Meher (1974) M. V. Vasudeva Rao (1975) Mithun Chakraborty (1976) Bharath Gopi (1977) Arun Mukherjee (1978) Naseeruddin Shah (1979) Balan K. Nair (1980)

1981–2000	Om Puri (1981) Kamal Haasan (1982) Om Puri (1983) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Shashi Kapoor (1985) Charuhasan (1986) Kamal Haasan (1987) Premji (1988) Mammootty (1989) Amitabh Bachchan (1990) Mohanlal (1991) Mithun Chakraborty (1992) Mammootty (1993) Nana Patekar (1994) Rajit Kapur (1995) Kamal Haasan (1996) Balachandra Menon and Suresh Gopi (1997) Ajay Devgan and Mammootty (1998) Mohanlal (1999) Anil Kapoor (2000)

2001–present	Murali (2001) Ajay Devgan (2002) Vikram (2003) Saif Ali Khan (2004) Amitabh Bachchan (2005) Soumitra Chatterjee (2006) Prakash Raj (2007) Upendra Limaye (2008) Amitabh Bachchan (2009) Dhanush and Salim Kumar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Irrfan Khan and Vikram Gokhale (2012) Rajkummar Rao and Suraj Venjaramoodu (2013) Vijay (2014)

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