Vijayakanth was born as Vijayaraj Azhagar Swami on 25 August 1952 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.His origin is from the Telugu speaking Kamma Community of Andhra Pradesh.His ancestors migrated to Tamil Nadu during the Vijaynagar period.His parents are K. N. Alagarswami and Aandal Azhagarswami. He married Premalatha on 31 January 1990 and had two sons named Vijay Prabhakar and Shanmuga Pandian. Upon entering the film industry to pursue an acting career, he changed his name to "Vijayakanth", dropping the "raj" out of his name and suffixing "kanth," by director Khaja . He is nicknamed 'karuppu MGR' and "Captain" which was taken from one of his popular films Captain Prabhakharan'. |
