{"id":616463,"date":"2026-08-02T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/616463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:08:14","slug":"if-i-do-a-cameo-in-rajinikanths-film-people-wont-even-notice-me-vijay-sethupathi-tamil-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/616463\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If I do a cameo in Rajinikanth\u2019s film, people won\u2019t even notice me\u2019: Vijay Sethupathi\u00a0 | Tamil News"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 min readHyderabadUpdated: Aug 2, 2026 12:02 PM IST<\/p>\n

Actor Vijay Sethupathi has confirmed that he is now following a strict no-cameo policy and intends to stick to it, with one exception: Rajinikanth\u2019s Jailer 2. And even that, he said, came with a logic that had nothing to do with the film itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve stopped doing cameos,\u201d Sethupathi said in an interview with Gobinath, adding, \u201cI did only one recently in Jailer 2. That was just so I could see Rajini sir.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The reasoning behind the rule, he explained, is commercial rather than creative. Vijay Sethupathi said that when he appears in a cameo in another actor\u2019s film, it ends up affecting the business of his own releases. \u201cIf I do a cameo in his film, people won\u2019t even notice me. But if I do it in other films, it affects them,\u201d Sethupathi said.<\/p>\n

Also Read: Rajinikanth\u2019s Jailer 2 locks release date: Sun Pictures drops explosive new teaser, watch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

He also said the decision to appear in Jailer 2 was driven by his personal admiration for Rajinikanth and the opportunity to learn from someone who has sustained stardom for nearly five decades. He explained, \u201cI did a cameo in Jailer 2 because I love Rajinikanth. With him, I get to learn a lot. The superstars survived in this industry for so many decades. There is so much to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the blanket rule, Vijay Sethupathi left a small window open. \u201cUltimately, the script decides it. If I feel it\u2019s the right fit, I\u2019ll do it,\u201d he said, suggesting that the no-cameo policy is not absolute but calibrated by instinct.<\/p>\n

Sethupathi has also spoken about his approach to villain roles, a category closely related to the cameo question. He said most antagonist parts offered to him are written as conventional villains designed to elevate the hero rather than serve the story. \u201cThe filmmakers are bringing me regular, typical villain roles, which I don\u2019t want to do. Now I\u2019m doing villain for the script only, which excites me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jailer 2, directed by Nelson Dilipkumar and produced by Kalanithi Maran under Sun Pictures, releases on October 15, 2026. The film stars Rajinikanth reprising his role as Muthuvel Pandian, alongside S.J. Suryah, Ramya Krishnan, Vidya Balan, Mithun Chakraborty and Yogi Babu, with cameos from Mohanlal, Shiva Rajkumar and Vijay Sethupathi. The first Jailer, released in August 2023, grossed over Rs 600 crore worldwide and became the highest-grossing Tamil film of that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 min readHyderabadUpdated: Aug 2, 2026 12:02 PM IST Actor Vijay Sethupathi has confirmed that he is now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,170243,260130,327,164088,527,260129,45038,259938,259939],"class_list":["post-616463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jailer","tag-jailer-2-actor","tag-movies","tag-nelson-dilipkumar","tag-rajinikanth","tag-sethupathi","tag-vijay-sethupathi","tag-vijay-sethupathi-cameo","tag-vijay-sethupathi-jailer-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}