Does Vikram smoke?: Yes
Does Vikram drink alcohol?: Yes
His father left his home to become an actor, but only got supporting roles instead of leading roles.
His father’s struggle inspired him to get into acting line and hence he joined theatre plays in his college days, and even won the Best Actor award from IIT Madras.
Because of a severe accident in his college days, his acting career was haulted for around 3 years, also during this period he met his wife Shailaja .
He was first offered the role of Arvind Swamy in Mani Ratnam’s film Bombay, but he refused because he had to shave his beard , which he cannot do as he was doing some other film which has its requirement.
After 10 years of struggle, he gained fame with 1999s film Sethu.
He gave everything he had for his role in Sethu, like he shaved his head, lost 21 kgs and grew long nails.