Vikram
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Indian actor and playback singer
OverviewAI-generated
Vikram is a male person from India who began his work period in 1990. He has two children. The subject is associated with the music genres Progressive metal, Power metal, and Power Thrash Metal, with tags also referencing Brazil and the USA.
In literary contexts, the name Vikram Chandra appears as an author with a birth date of 1961. This author has 20 works, including *The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Eleventh Annual Collection*, *The Srinagar conspiracy*, *The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997*, *Geek Sublime*, and *Der Pate von Bombay*.
The name Vikram is referenced by 524 other encyclopedia articles. A separate entity named vikram has 3,593 listeners and a playcount of 25,043. Another record lists a birth date of 1966-04-17 and five works.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961
- Works
- 20
Top works
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Eleventh Annual Collection
- The Srinagar conspiracy
- The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997
- Geek Sublime
- Der Pate von Bombay
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,593
- Total plays
- 25,043
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/vikram">Read more on Last.fm</a>
via Last.fm · vikram
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs
· 2015 · cited 6,182x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,666x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,327x
- Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys
· 2007 · cited 3,209x
- Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing
· 2016 · cited 3,128x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Kennedy John Victor , ( 1966-04-17 ) 17 April 1966 (age 60) , Madras , Tamil Nadu , India
- Other names
- Chiyaan Vikram, Kenny
- Alma mater
- Loyola College , Chennai , Pachaiyappa's College
- Occupations
- Actor Playback singer
- Years active
- 1988–present
- Works
- Full list
- Spouse
- Shailaja Balakrishnan ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1992 )
- Children
- 2; including Dhruv
- Parent s
- Vinod Raj (father), Rajeshwari (mother)
- Awards
- Full list
- Honours
- Kalaimamani (2004)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Kennedy John Victor (born 17 April 1966), known professionally as Vikram, is an Indian actor and playback singer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. One of the highest paid actors, he is also among the most decorated actors in Indian cinema, with laurels including nine Filmfare Awards South, a National Film Award, four Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and the Kalaimamani Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu. Based on the earnings of Indian celebrities, Vikram was included in the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list for 2016 and 2018.
Vikram debuted with the romance En Kadhal Kanmani (1990) followed by his major breakthrough with his portrayal of a rogue-turned-lover in Bala's tragedy Sethu (1999) and next appeared in hit films like Dhill (2001), Gemini (2002), Dhool (2003), Saamy (2003), Anniyan (2005), Raavanan (2010), Deiva Thirumagal (2011) and Iru Mugan (2016). He also earned widespread critical acclaim for diverse roles of disadvantaged people in Kasi (2001), Samurai (2002) and Pithamagan (2003); the lattermost won him the National Film Award for Best Actor. Vikram's highest-grossing releases came with the romantic thriller I (2015) and the epic historical dramas Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vikram” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.