Ilayathalapathy Vijay is celebrating his 43rd birthday today. On his birthday, the actor’s old movies are going to be screened in Melbourne. Vijay initially appeared as a child actor in number of his father’s films. He made his debut as a lead actor in Naalaya Theerpu (1992) which was directed by his father. He received his breakthrough in Poove Unakkaga released in 1996. Later he went on to act in commercially successful films such as Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999), Kushi (2000), Friends (2001), Thirumalai (2003), Ghilli (2004), Pokkiri (2007), Nanban (2012), Thuppakki (2012), Kaththi (2014) and Theri (2016). He has acted in 60 movies and won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, seven Vijay Awards and two Edison Awards. Vijay is currently working on his next movie titled ‘Mersal’ co-starring Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Kajal Agarwal.