Early Life
Vijayakanth was born as Chandrasekar on 25 August 1952 in Tirumangalam, Madurai to K. N. Alagarswami and Andal in a Thottia Naicker(Kamma Naidu) family. Alagarswami was Madurai's Councillor for two terms. Vijayakanth married Premalatha on 31 January 1990 and has two sons, Vijay Prabhakar and Shanmuga Pandian. Upon entering the film industry to pursue an acting career, director Khaja (who directed his first film) changed his name to "Amritaraj" and then "Vijayakanth", dropping the "raj" out of his name and suffixing "kanth". He has also been nicknamed "Captain" and "Puratchi Kalaignar". In the 2011 Tamilnadu elections, his party DMDK won 29 seats out of 41 contested seats and he became the leader of the opposition.
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