1. Frances Antony Cyril Raja was born on 24 July 1975 and known professionally as Vijay Antony, is an Indian music composer, playback singer, actor, film editor, lyricist, audio engineer, and filmmaker working predominantly in Tamil cinema.
18 Facts About Vijay Antony
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Vijay Antony made his debut as music composer in 2005 with Sukran.
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Vijay Antony made his acting debut in 2012 Naan and is known for his roles in action thriller films such as Salim and Pichaikkaran.
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Vijay Antony is not a trained musician, but started his career as a sound engineer later became a music composer.
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Vijay Antony's music composing venture in movies arrived when Oscar Ravichandran approached Antony to compose music for his film Dishyum, but his music composer debut in movies happened through Sukran, as it was released first.
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Vijay Antony started his composing career with the 2005 film Sukran.
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Vijay Antony was nominated for his score in the film Naan Avan Illai.
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Vijay Antony became the first Indian music director to win a Cannes Golden Lion award, for "Nakka Mukka" in the Best of Music category.
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Vijay Antony composed the music to a few Tamil soundtracks in 2009, including A Aa E Ee, TN 07 AL 4777, Mariyadhai, Ninaithale Inikkum, and Vettaikaaran.
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Vijay Antony had composed music for many Tamil films of the early 2010s, including Aval Peyar Thamizharasi, Uthama Puthiran, Vedi, and Velayudham.
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Vijay Antony made his Telugu composing debut with Mahatma and his Kannada composing debut with Buddhivantha.
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Vijay Antony has composed music for most of his own acting films, including Naan, Salim, Pichaikkaran, Saithan, Yaman, Annadurai, Kaali, Thimiru Pudichavan and Pichaikkaran 2.
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Vijay Antony's acting debut was in the crime thriller Naan where he played the lead role.
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Vijay Antony's next was Saithan, an action thriller directed by debutant Pradeep Krishnamoorthy.
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Vijay Antony appeared in the 2017 political action thriller Yaman directed by Jeeva Shankar, whom he collaborated with for the second time after Naan.
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Vijay Antony's next film Annadurai in the same year was an action drama which received mixed reviews.
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Vijay Antony made his directorial debut with Pichaikkaran 2 in 2023.
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Vijay Antony plays the lead role of a romantic hero in Romeo.