Ilayathalapathy Vijay's fans are waiting with baited breadth for the release of their thalaivar's 'Velayudham'. Reported to be the costliest ever Vijay starrer, the movie produced by Aascar Ravichandran has few never seen before high-octane stunt sequences choreographed by Hollywood stunt master Tom Delmar.

Tom has worked in some of the Hollywood action films like 'Aliens', 'Snatch' and '102 Dalmatians' among others. The highlight includes a hair rising on-top of the train action block. Apart from which, Vijay in an interview with IG recently expressed about another power-packed stunt, a fight shot inside the Chennai harbor.

Now the hot news is that Vijay has performed some of the highly risky stunts without a body double! The train fight was shot for 11 days in Vizag with Vijay taking on the baddie Abhimanyu Singh of 'Rakta Charitra' fame who is making his Tamil debut.

Tom who was literally astonished with the way Vijay works says, "His energy levels are very high. Some of the fight scenes designed was very tough and dangerous and I and director Raja insisted that we use a substitute. But Vijay was very adamant that he would do it by himself and used to rehearse for hours together. He is so dedicated that he wouldn't mind performing more takes till he gets perfection".

Click here to read Vijay's interview on 'Velayudham' as he speaks to IG on the film and its highlights...

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