stories of vikram and sylvester stallone...

1. BY
H.SHRIRAM

2. STORY OF SYLVESTER STALLONE
 Lets See what happened in the life of sylvestre stallone.

13. GUESS WHO?

14. THE STRUGGLE AND RISE OF
VIKRAM

15.  Many of us might not have known about what
happened in the personal life of actor vikram.
 But there is an interesting story of self confidence and
passion that we are going to see.
 Vikram (born as Vikram Kennedy on 17 April 1966)
is an Indian film actor who predominantly appears
in Tamil language films and has won six Filmfare
Awards as well as one National Film Award and Tamil
Nadu State Film Award.

16.  Vikram Vinod Raj was born to a Christian father Vinod
Raj and Hindu mother Rajeshwari in Madras, Tamil
Nadu on 17 April 1966.[3] His father, Vinod Raj was a
native of Paramakudi and ran away from home to start
a career in films.
 His father however did not fare successfully, and only
managed to act in supporting roles in Tamil films and
television serials and this inspired Vikram to take part
in theatre lessons and become professionally trained
in classical and cinema dance forms to ensure he
became a leading acto

17.  Vikram always wanted to be an actor right from his
child hood.
 Despite expressing his interest to join films after
school, his father forced him to go through college
with Vikram subsequently graduating in English from
Loyola College, Chennai and working half way through
an MBA programme .

18.  Vikram was knocked down by a truck during a major
motorbike accident while in college and suffered a
serious leg injury.
 He remained hospital-ridden bed for three years
during college and subsequently went through twenty
three surgeries to stop his leg being amputated.
 Doctors advised him to quit dreaming of acting as it
would be a miracle if he manages to walk properly
after that accident.

19.  But,vikram didn’t let his ambition die. after he recovered
completely following 3 years bed rest.he began modelling
in small ads and completed his MBA as well.
 He was part of various not so well known movies which
bombed at the box office.
 In 1993, he almost signed on to appear in Mani
Ratnam's Bombay and featured in the initial photo shoot
alongside Manisha Koirala. However Mani Ratnam wanted
Vikram to remove his beard for the role, and Vikram could
not do so due to continuity problems with another film he
had signed and hence was dropped from the project.

20.  He didn’t get any film oppurtunity so he led his life by
dubbing for other actors in tamil films and doing small
roles.
 During his struggling phase, Vikram dubbed for other
heroes in films including voices for Prabhu Deva, Ajith
Kumar and Abbas for Kaadhalan, Minsara
Kanavu, Amaravathi, Kandukondain Kandukondain
 It was at this point sethu happened for him.

21. HOW LIFE CHANGED

22.  In 1998, debutant director Bala offered him the role of
the rogue, Sethu (Chiyaan), in the film Sethu.
 To prepare for the character, Vikram shaved his head,
lost twenty-one kilograms and grew his nails long for
the role.
 During this phase, he did not accept other acting
offers in order to maintain the continuity of his looks.
 Sethu took two full years to completion. Vikram
described the period of production as "the worst phase
of his career" as he was financially strapped and "his
fire was in danger of dying down"

23.  The film initially struggled to find a distributor.
 The film was released in December 1999 and initially
began running at a single noon show at a suburban
theater but gradually gained an audience through
word-of-mouth publicity.
 Gradually the movie became a mega hit finally and it
gave vikram the much needed break.
 From there on his life just went upwards and we know
what happened.

27. VIKRAM’S QUOTE
 “For me, I guess, success has been the result of a
combination of hard work, perseverance and a little
talent. I won’t add luck to it in a major way because
had I been lucky, success would have happened much
earlier. But the hard fact is that despite the setbacks
and upsets, I never was distracted.”

28. CONCLUSION