Vijay Sethupathi today received the Kalaimamani Award from the Tamil Nadu government and it was handed over to him at the secretariat by Mafoi Pandiarajan the Minister for Tamil Official Language, Tamil Culture and Archeology.  Vijay Antony, Yuvan Shankar Raja and several other celebrities received already received the awards from Chief Minister Edappadi Pazhaniswamy on August 13th and VJS was not available in town at that time.

Vijay Sethupathi, known fondly as the Makkal Selvan by his fans and followers started his career as an extra and slowly but steadily has reached mass hero status in Tamil cinema with a reputation of being a daring actor.   His latest film 'Sanga Thamizhan' costarring Raashi Khanna and Nivetha Pethuraj was slated for release today but did not screen as financial problems of the producers was not sorted out as of the time of this writing.