Vijay, Abhimanyu had ‘narrow escape from death’ during shoot atop moving train over 2,500-ft valley | Tamil News
4 min readKochiMay 24, 2026 07:18 PM IST Abhimanyu Singh is known not just in Bollywood circles but also among the South Indian cinema audience, having appeared in a handful of regional movies. He recently shared his experience working with actor-turned-politician C Joseph Vijay, who currently serves as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, recalling the time they both shot a stunt sequence atop a moving train without proper security measures in place. Revealing that his first Tamil film was with Vijay, Abhimanyu described him as a “simple and grounded” human being. For those who may not know, Abhimanyu played the villain opposite Vijay in Velayudham (2011) and Thalaivaa (2013). “We landed in Coimbatore (during the filming of Velayudham), travelled by car for six hours, and reached a place. We were all waiting at a small hotel. One and a half hours away from that spot, there was a small railway station where they had kept ready a train that they had hired,” he shared during a conversation with Hindi Rush. Also Read | Sonam …









