Vijay never knew: How a secret meeting cost him Madhavan’s 2002 blockbuster Run | Tamil News
4 min readHyderabadJul 6, 2026 05:49 PM IST Run made Madhavan an action hero, gave Lingusamy the biggest hit of his career and refused to leave either man’s legacy. It was also never supposed to be their film. Ahead of its re-release on July 10, the director has revealed that the 2002 blockbuster was written for Vijay, sent to AVM through his father S A Chandrasekhar, and turned down in a meeting the actor was never told about. During a recent interview, Lingusamy recalled that after the success of his debut Aanandham, the story of Run reached AVM through Chandrasekhar. “At that time, producers would only go to AVM. S A Chandrasekhar sent the story there and a meeting was called,” he said in an interview with Galatta Plus. “Saravanan sir heard the story and liked it very much. He said this is love with action. But they were making Thamizhan then, and he felt that after a film like Thamizhan, this one would look small. So they decided not to do it. And Vijay …
