R. Madhavan

Quick Facts

Full Name	R. Madhavan
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Jun 1, 1970(1970-06-01)
Age	54
Birthplace	Jamshedpur
Country	India
Birth City	Jharkhand
Horoscope	Gemini

R. Madhavan Biography

R. Madhavan is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on June 1, 1970 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. Madhavan was the son of a Tamil Brahmin family. He was born in Jamshedpur (now in Jharkhand), India on June 1, 1970. His father, Ranganathan, was a Tata Steel management executive and his mother Saroja was a Bank of India manager. Devika, his younger sister, is a software engineer. His family was Tamil-speaking in Bihar.

He completed his degree and went on to teach communication skills at various workshops in India. His wife Sarita Birje met him at the Maharashtra workshop in 1991. She had been referred by her cousins to his class. Sarita was able use the skills she learned in Madhavan’s classes and passed an interview to become an airline hostess. The course ended with the couple starting to date. Madhavan was not yet a mainstream actor when they got married in 1999. Madhavan has cited Mani Ratnam’s advice as a reason for their marriage. Sarita worked as a costume designer for Madhavan in a number of his films, including Guru En Aalu (2009). She worked alongside Erum Ali, Madhavan’s wife, to create costumes for their husbands. Vedaant, their son, was born August 2005. This led to them moving to Chennai’s boat-club area from Kilpauk where Madhavan and his parents-in law lived. He moved to Kandivali in Mumbai in 2009 with his wife, and their son. He wanted to pursue a career in Hindi filmmaking over films in the South Indian industry.

In early 1996, Madhavan worked on a sandalwood talc advertisement directed by Santosh Sivan, who later recommended him to Mani Ratnam to take part in a screen test for a role in Iruvar (1997). Madhavan was auditioned for the leading role of Tamizhselvan amongst several other more established actors, but Mani Ratnam eventually left him out of the project citing that he thought his “eyes looked too young” for a senior role. Prior to his film audition, Madhavan was spotted by a television executive while out walking in Lokhandwala in Mumbai, and was recruited to feature in Hindi television serials, appearing as a crook in his first venture Yule Love Stories. He appeared in leading roles in Zee TV’s Banegi Apni Baat and Ghar Jamai, while he gained further popularity portraying the character of Shekhar in Saaya. He also went on to act as a ship’s captain in Sea Hawks, as a convict in Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum and worked as a television anchor in Tol Mol Ke Bol amongst other television appearances. His first appearance in a feature film role came through a small role in Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996), where he portrayed a singer in a bar.

In 1997, Madhavan appeared in a supporting role as an Indian police officer in Fred Olen Ray’s English film, Inferno, which was shot in India. His first chance in Indian cinema came in the form of Shanti Shanti Shanti (1998), a Kannada film, in which he appeared as a carefree youngster alongside actor Abbas. However, the film failed to make an impact and went unnoticed at the box office. During the period, Hindi film director Vinod Pandey launched Madhavan as a Bollywood hero, with a project titled Akeli, however the film was shelved before the production process had been completed.

Madhavan has been a host on Hindi channels’ television programs, as well as at film awards functions. Madhavan’s television career began in 1990 when he was first a host for Tol Mol Ke Bol. In October 2005, he was appointed host of Sony Entertainment Television’s Deal Ya No Deal. This is India’s version of American game show Deal Or No Deal. Madhavan resigned as the show’s lead anchor in January 2006. He was unhappy about the way the production house handled the shoot schedules. According to Madhavan, he made it clear when he accepted the show that he would continue his South Indian film assignments. However, as the show was being filmed at Mumbai, it was difficult for him to travel throughout India from Chennai to film all the ten days per month he had committed to. Madhavan said that he was only allowed to spend one day practicing technical skills because of his producers. This left him exhausted. Madhavan was replaced by Mandira Bedi in February of Series 2. Madhavan returned to game show hosting in June 2010 when he signed a contract with Imagine TV’s Big Money Show. He hosted a single season and then hosted an episode on Savdhaan Indian crime show in January 2016. He has also been a guest judge on the Indian television program Fame Gurukul. Madhavan stated in 2016 that he would not accept television obligations for money. However, he did not consider the payment when signing up to appear in films. Madhavan has hosted live events with Huma Qureshi, including the National Film Awards 2013. He hosted the 55th Filmfare Awards South, Chennai 2008, and the Vijay Awards 2013, respectively.

R. Madhavan Net Worth

R. Madhavan is one of the richest Actor from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, R. Madhavan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

R. Madhavan, an Indian actor, writer, and producer was born 1 June 1970. He primarily appears in Tamil and Hindi-language films. He has been awarded four Filmfare Awards, a Tamil Nadu State Film Award award, and recognition from other organizations. His ability to appeal to all parts of India has earned him the title of being one of India’s most popular actors. He has appeared in seven languages.

Madhavan was awarded a scholarship by Rajaram College in Kolhapur to be a cultural ambassador for India. He also spent a year in Stettler (Alberta), Canada as part of an international exchange program with Rotary International. After returning to Kolhapur, he completed his education and graduated with a BSc Electronics. Madhavan was active in extra-curricular military training during college. At 22, he was recognized as one of the top NCC cadets from Maharashtra. This allowed him to travel to England with seven other NCC cadets. He was able to receive training with the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. This was something he had considered at one point. He missed the six-month age limit and was therefore unable to apply for the programme. He lost the opportunity to teach in Kolhapur, and the satisfaction that he got from teaching motivated him to go on to pursue a post-graduation degree in public speaking at Kishinchand Chellaram College, Bombay (present day Mumbai). He won the Indian Championship for Public Speaking during this period and represented India at the Young Businessmen Conference, Tokyo, Japan, in 1992. He decided to make a portfolio during his time in Bombay and submit it to a modeling agency.

Madhavan began his acting career with television guest appearances, including a role on the Zee TV prime-time soap opera Banegi Apni Baat in 1994. After appearing in commercials and in small roles, he later gained recognition in the Tamil film industry through Mani Ratnam’s successful romance film Alaipayuthey (2000). Madhavan soon developed an image as a romantic hero with notable roles in two of 2001’s highest grossing Tamil films, Gautham Menon’s directorial debut Minnale and Madras Talkies’ Dumm Dumm Dumm. He worked with Mani Ratnam again in the critically acclaimed 2002 film Kannathil Muthamittal playing the father of an adopted girl, whilst he achieved commercial success with his role in N. Linguswamy’s action film, Run (2002). Madhavan was cast alongside Kamal Haasan in the 2003 drama Anbe Sivam, which earned him two notable awards for Best Supporting Actor. In 2004, he gave a critically acclaimed performance as the antagonist in the multi-starrer Aayutha Ezhuthu and the film secured him his first Filmfare Award for the intense portrayal of a rogue.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

R. Madhavan height 5 ft 10 in R. weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is R. Madhavan Dating?

According to our records, R. Madhavan married to Sarita Birje. As of December 1, 2023, R. Madhavan’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2002, Madhavan played the role of a novelist in Mani Ratnam’s Kannathil Muthamittal alongside actresses Keerthana, Simran and Nandita Das. In the film, he was shown as the role of the father of an adopted child, who wishes to return to her native homeland amidst the Sri Lankan civil war. The film received widespread critical acclaim and went on to win six National Awards as well as over ten awards at various International Film Festivals. Madhavan gained acclaim for his portrayal with a critic citing “he lived the role of the character he portrays”, with the film seeing him move away from the romantic hero image for the first time into a more serious, performance- orientated role. The good performance of the film internationally also helped him develop an overseas market for his films. Madhavan’s next large success came with Run, a film recognised for its screenplay, with Madhavan appearing in an action film for the first time in his career. In regard to his performance, The Hindu’s critic noted “he manages to portray action with élan in Run and actually looks fit and comfortable in the role”, with the film helping him make a breakthrough as an action hero. Despite another unsuccessful Hindi venture with the musical, Dil Vil Pyar Vyar (2002), the success of his previous films helped him secure the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor for 2002, being jointly recognised for both films.

Facts & Trivia

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Madhavan played an imposter gangster in K. S. Ravikumar’s comedy Aethiree (2004) before being selected to feature in his fourth Mani Ratnam production, Aaytha Ezhuthu (2004), which featured him in an ensemble cast including Suriya, Siddharth, Meera Jasmine, Esha Deol and Trisha. Madhavan portrayed the character of Inba Sekhar, a hitman living in the slums of Chennai, whose path crosses with the characters portrayed by Suriya and Siddharth. His role also featured him in a struggling marriage, where his wife desperately tries to claw him away from his profession. Madhavan bulked up and sported a shaven look for the first time in his career to resemble the character of a ruffian and shot for the film through the sync sound technique. He received widespread praise for his depiction, with Baradwaj Rangan of The Hindu claiming that Madhavan outplayed Abhishek Bachchan’s interpretation of the character in the Hindi version of the bilingual, Yuva. Madhavan went on to win the Filmfare Award for the Best Tamil Supporting Actor, whilst another critic from The Hindu cited that he “sparkles as an anti-hero” and that the “character ought to find a very special place in his repertoire”. Similarly, a critic from Indiaglitz.com stated “Madhavan’s daring decision to play a negative character, who gets beaten up black and blue at the end, putting his ‘hero’ image in peril, has paid off, as he walks away with top honours”, while a reviewer from Sify.com labelled him as “terrific”. In late 2004, Madhavan worked on Rajiv Anchal’s English-Malayalam crossover film Nothing But Life (2005) and completed his work in a single schedule across Las Vegas and Albuquerque. Portraying an orphaned youth with suicidal tendencies being treated by a Malayali psychiatrist in the USA, the film and his portrayal opened to mixed reviews. He then appeared in another marriage drama film, Priyasakhi (2005) co-starring Sadha – with the pair playing an estranged husband and wife. The film received praise for the lead pair’s performances with Madhavan being praised as “top class”, while it also became the first Tamil film to be dubbed into Zulu.

Is R Madhavan an iitian?

Madhavan holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from IIT Madras and an MBA and PhD from IIM Calcutta.

Where is R Madhavan now?

Actor R Madhavan and wife Sarita are currently in Dubai to help swimmer son Vedaant prepare for Olympics. R Madhavan’s son Vedaant has already started his preparation for the Olympics. However, due to the lack of facilities in the country at the moment, the actor has moved to Dubai to help his son train.

What is the full name of R Madhavan?

Ranganathan Madhavan

How many languages R Madhavan knows?

Madhavan has worked in 7 language films: R. Madhavan knows 7 languages. He is one of the few Bollywood stars who have worked in 7 language films in his career.

Is Madhavan from BITS Pilani?

Ranganathan Madhavan was born on 1 June 1970 in Jamshedpur, Bihar (now in Jharkhand), India to a Tamil Brahmin family. His father Ranganathan Iyengar was a management executive in Tata Steel and his mother, Saroja was a manager in the Bank of India.