In India, two of the most well-known Tamil actors are Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan. But not many in the North, West and East of India would know that there are other stars who not only command a insanely big fan-following, but are literally worshipped by their fans.
Two such stars, who belong to the younger generation (compared to the likes of Rajnikanth and Kamal Hassan) are Vijay, fondly called ‘thalapathi’ by his fans, and Ajith, who his fans like to call ‘thala’.
We organised a poll on our official Twitter page. The four options, not including Rajni and Kamal, were Suriya, Ajith, Vijay and Vikram.
Like most polls involving two of the most loved stars in Bollywood – Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan – the voting was dominated by Ajith and Vijay.
Ajith was leading in the beginning by nearly 55% votes, but when our tweet began to get more retweets, Vijay got plenty of votes and eventually it got pretty close between the two.
But the real battle for the top actor in Tamil cinema came in the last 6 hours of polling. Nearly 5,000 out of 10,000 votes were registered in the last 6 hours, most of them going to ‘Thalapathi’ and ‘Thala’. With less than 15 minutes remaining, it was Vijay leading with 1%. But by the time the poll ended, the percentage of votes were the same, with Twitter declaring Vijay as the winner.
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The Vijay vs Ajith battle was won by the smallest of margins, indicating that both stars command a huge following and there is very little to choose between the two when it comes to fan-following.
Check out our tweet:
Khans, Hrithik, Akshay are the Top stars in Bollywood. Who rules the Tamil industry? Not including Rajnikant, KamalH
— Indicine.com (@indicine) April 30, 2016
The reach of our tweet was unbelievably huge too. It received more than 100,000 impressions, 22,100 plus engagements, 1605 retweets and 423 replies (a lot of these replies included movie recommendations of films starring Vijay and Ajith)
According to a well-known Tamil film trade analyst who didn’t want to be named, the Top 10 Actors in the Tamil Film Industry are as follows (includes the highest paid actors as of 2016):
- Rajnikanth (25-30 crore per film)
- Kamal Hassan (25 crore per film)
- Vijay (20-22 crore per film)
- Ajith (20-22 crore per film)
- Suriya (12-13 crore per film)
- Vikram (12 crore per film)
- Karthi (8 crore per film)
- Dhanush (7 crore per film)
- Silambarasan a.k.a Simbu (7 crore per film)
- Arya (5 crore per film)
For the Bollywood audience and our readers from the South, who are your favourite Tamil stars? Vote!
All the 4 actors are good in their own way. If Rajini sir is Thalaiva then Kamal is most verstaile. If Vijay is Thalaiva then Ajith is most intense. Surya and Vikram have carved their own places that rounds off the The great league !!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY Fav’s in Tamil r … “SURIYA” ….
then it’s Rajni Sir ,Ajith n i also like Vikram …
Can you done for punjabi actors also please?
My choice is only vikram he is a brilliant actor in Tamil industry he is like aamir khan because his movie are different he always try something new in his movie example
Tamil there naam
Tamil policegiri
I movie
And In APARICHIT he done a outstanding performance in the movie his physique is also better than the others
Vikrammmmmmmm
These south movies is the laughing stock in overseas and is destroying bollywood since they don’t know the difference!!
Tamilnadu and kerala fav hero VIJAY
like dhanush anna
Don’t compare the 2nd level hero’s to the big “Jambavan’s”
1. Rajinikanth *
2. Kamalhasan
2nd level heroes
1. Ajith
2. Vijay
3. Surya
4. Vikram *
But this list the dedicated person of film industry —Vikram– only.
then
5. Danush
6. Arya
7. –
8. –
9. –
10. Sivakarthikeyan
11. Vijay sethupathy *
12. Madhavan
Tamil cinema got a new big actor — Vijay sethupathy — like a vikram
1st level Heroes : chief minister mathiri
2nd level MLA mathiri : MLA -chief minister aaga aasa padalaam.
but, wait pannanum.
Rajini and Kamal eduthathume – top level ku varala.. Kastapttu thaan indha levelku vandurukaanga.
mudhal la minimum 100 films avathu nadinga then parkalaam….
whenever till after 10 years Rajini and kamal only no. 1 position.
I have one doubt in tamil industry :
who is the next super star? is this the most popular question in tamilnadu.
so, the Result is absolutely the no. 1 hero is “RAJINI” that is true i am right.
guy ***** super star ***** is not a posting it is a logo of RAJINI….
FANS listen if your actors acting will upgraded means their name of degree like ” Ilaya thalapathy”, “Ultimate star” also definitely will upgrade automatically. don’t fight that post. Otherwise they are the second level top heroes. That was never change till now.
VijaY Mass I MY citY ThalapathY Rock even MY babY Also vj fan
VijaY Rock I and MY friends watch theri film 83 times Rock and Next super star goes to THALAPATHY
Mgr Rajini THALAPATHY
Hey, don’t compare superstar with other actor because he is god of indian cinema and he is one and only world wide Tamil actor superstar is a normal award before awarded thalaivar but now how many actors fighting for this……. This is superstar….. I proud to be his fan..
this is very old for lingaa thalaivar was paid 60crores and for kabali thalaivar was paid 70 crores
kamal has been paid 30 crores for viswaroopam
vijay has been paid 25crores for theri and ajith has beem paid 25 crores for vedhalam
enga thalaivar super star tha epovumae mass avar tha epovuame frst
Kanna thalapathy Yoda flop padatha mattum thana pathurukka???
Thalapathy ku innoru pakkam irukku atha patharatha ajith ah oru aala kuda mathikka matta….
Man of mass THALAPATHY
Man of thamass Aj
Super. Star
Vijay Anna than da mass
Box office god #VIJAY it’s a fact. Am i right :)
Surya is my fav tamil actor
vijay is fentastic acting & sentement & camety & action & singking & smile cute , very hampile person, silent person , only one super star ilaya thalapathy vijay …
but dhanush like u ……………
No1 Star super star ***RAJINIKANTH***…..Thalaivarthan top…..
Vijay anna next super star
Ajith sir always mass….I hope Ajith sir win the survey
My dear thala
Thala fan’s daaaaaa
Ajith is a good actor and more over very nice human begin..I love thala “THE LIVING HUMAN GOD”
Suriyaaaa…….nadippin nayakan
1st SURIYA and 2nd DHANUSH are my favorite