Vijay Kumar was born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He got a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from GCE, Salem.A software engineer by profession, he quit his job to pursue his passion in cinema. He completed writing the screenplay for Uriyadi, after which he started a production house called Souvenir Productions to make the movie. He conducted acting workshops for debutantes for three months and then hired them. The movie released on May 27, 2016 to high critical acclaim and came to be featured in many Top 10 South Indian movies lists compiled by noteworthy publications.
Vijay Kumar
Movies
Aakrosh (2010)
Giving in to intense media pressure, the Home Minister in Delhi finally instructs the Central Bureau of Investigation to depute Special Officer Siddhant Chaturvedi to travel to Jhanjhar, Bihar, and work together with Pratap Kumar to try and locate three medical students from M.K. Gandhi Medical College. The three students,…
Aashayein
Aashayein is the story of Rahul (John Abraham), a gambler. He collapses down just after his long-time girlfriend Nafisa(Sonal Sehgal) accepts his marriage proposal. Later, on medical check-up, it is revealed that Rahul has got Lung Cancer, presumably by his smoking habits, and that he has got only 3 more…
Force
Critically wounded and lying unconscious in a Mumbai hospital, ACP Yashvardhan of the Narcotics Control Bureau reflects on his life and his love-affair with Maya. With the assistance of the Commissioner as well as his colleagues, Atul, Kamlesh and Mahesh Pandey, and an informer, Arvind Shetty, he was able to…
Asoka
Prince Ashoke (Shahrukh Khan), heir to the Magadha Kingdom, bowing to his mother’s (Shilpa Mehta) demand forsakes his princely status and goes to live in the wild for awhile. There he meets and falls in love with Kaurwaki (Kareena Kapoor). He identifies himself as Pawan, not wanting to disclose his…
Super 30
Anand Kumar, a Mathematics genius from a modest family in Bihar who is made to believe that only a King’s son can become a king is on a mission to prove that even the poor man can create some of the world’s most genius minds. He starts a training program…
Fun Facts
Quotes
Love is overrated.
[on why he gave up a successful career in the IT industry and entered cinema] Cinema is my only passion. It educates, it entertains, it thrills.
If a film is made for the people, believing in them and with love for them, people will celebrate it.