Vishal Krishna (popularly known as Vishal) is an Indian
tamil film actor was born on 29th August 1977 to G.K.Reddy and Janaki
Devi, his father is a veteran Tamil & Telugu film producer in Andhra
Pradesh & then after shifted to chennai. Vishal did his schooling
at Don Bosco Higer Secondary School and secured a degree in Visual
communication from Layola College, Chennai.
His elder 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. Vikram married Sriya reddy who acted with Vishal in Thimiru. He
also has a younger sister Aishwarya.
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 4th film, Sivappathigaram was an below
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 an
average grosser at box office.
Later, he did a Tamil-Telugu
bilingual, titled 'Sathyam' in Tamil, was an disaster in his
filmograpgy. Then his Thoranai movie released and it did an average run
at box office.
All of Vishal's films were simultaneously dubbed
into telugu except for his child artist film and Sivappathigaram but
others were such as: Chellame was dubbed as into telugu with the same
title, Dishyum was dubbed as Dishyum Dishyum, Sandhaikozhi was dubbed as
Pandem Kodi, Thimuru was dubbed as Pogaru, Thamiraparani was dubbed as
Bharani, Malaikottai was dubbed as Bhayya, Satyam was simultaneously
made into telugu(was not dubbed) where Vishal made his debut into
Tollywood and his latest venture Thoranai will be simultaneously made
into telugu as Pista directed by newcomer Iyappan.
He had only
one release in 2010, i.e Theeratha Vilayutu Pillai which was distributed
by Sun Pictures. Due to their hard promotions movie did a above average
businees at box office. Then, Vishal realised that his fans and other
movie buffs expecting something different from him. So he bags the offer
of director Bala's 'Avan Ivan' without any consideration though its an
two hero subject along side with Arya. Movie is under post production
now and will release in April 2011.
Before the release of 'Avan
Ivan', Vishal signs the new project with Prabhu deva which will be
produced by his brother. Movie is untitled yet, sameera & Vivek are
other casting in the untitled film. There is also an news that director
Boopathi Pandiyan might do a film with Vishal which is titled as
Pattathu Yanai.
Madha Gaja Raja (MGR) ( Tamil )
Release Date : 13 May 2015Nataraju Thane Raju (NTR) ( Telugu )
Release Date : 26 Jun 2015Paarasiga Raja ( Tamil )
Release Date : 16 Jul 2015Paayum Puli ( Tamil )
Release Date : Sep 2015