About Madhavan
Madhavan was born on June 1, 1970, in a Tamil-speaking family.At the age of 18 his college entrusted him with the responsibility of representing India as a Cultural Ambassador to Canada.A year later he and three others from his college were sent to Britain as army cadets and received training in the royal army, navy, and Air Force.While conducting courses on public speaking, he met Saritha, an Air Hostess and both got 7 years later. Their first child, a son, Vedaant, was born in 2005.A vegetarian and animal lover he is a brand ambassador for PETA. He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Tamil.Before making his appearance on the tinsel screen, he was popular on the idiot box on Sony's Deal Ya No Deal (2005). Having done close to 1800 episodes of various soaps on varied National Networks, he subsequently also appeared as the main character in a mobile game.He made his debut with Inferno (1997) in 1998, and since then acted in nearly 48 movies in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada. He is popularly known as the 'chocolate hero'.::Balaji
R. Madhavan was born on 1st June 1970 in Jamshedpur, Bihar (now in Jharkhand), India, into a Tamil family. He had a Tamil-speaking upbringing in Bihar. During his college years, Madhavan became actively involved in extra-curricular military training and at 22, he was recognized as amongst the leading NCC cadets in Maharashtra, which allowed him to make a trip with seven others, as NCC cadets to England. As a result of this opportunity, he received training with the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, which he had, at a point, considered joining. However, he missed the age cut-off by six months and was subsequently unable to join the programme. After he lost out on the place, he began teaching courses on public speaking and personality development skills in Kolhapur and the satisfaction he gained through teaching, prompted him to pursue a post-graduation in public speaking at Kishinchand Chellaram College in Mumbai. During the period, he also won the Indian Championship for Public Speaking and subsequently represented India at the Young Businessmen Conference in Tokyo, Japan in 1992. During his stint in Mumbai, he opted to create a portfolio and submit it to a modelling 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 1996. 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). In the mid-2000s, Madhavan also actively pursued a career in Hindi films, by appearing in three highly successful productions, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Rang De Basanti (2006), Mani Ratnam's biopic Guru (2007) and Rajkumar Hirani's 3 Idiots (2009), which went on to become the highest grossing Indian film of all time, upon release at the time. He simultaneously worked on Tamil films, gaining critical acclaim for his portrayal of a vigilante in his home production Evano Oruvan (2007) and...