Thalapathy Vijay just returned from Thailand after shooting for high octane action sequences for his new film 'Thalapathy 68' directed by Venkat Prabhu. It is common knowlege that Vijay's parents SAC and Shobha Chandrasekhar were also active in the film industry as directors and producers. His aunt Sheela is an actress while, cousins Vikranth and Sanjeev are also an actor and director respectively.

On his father's side Vijay's uncle Xavier Britto is a popular producer and his daughter Sneha Britto who directed 'Sattam Oru Iruttarai 2' is married to Akash Murali the younger son of late actor Murali.

Akash Murali like his elder brother Atharvaa Murali also nursed ambitions of becoming an actor and his father in law is currently producing his debut movie. The romantic action film is directed by veteran commercial director Vishnuvardhan with Aditi Shankar playing the female lead.

Now the news has come in that Akash Murali has signed his second film as hero which will be directed by N. Lingusamy. Industry insiders are expressing surprise that a debut hero has managed to bag films with two top commercial directors for both his first and second films.