R Madhavan’s 53rd birthday. Apart from Bollywood, he has left a different mark in South Industry with his acting. Madhavan, who has been a part of about 52 films, is honored with the Filmfare and IIFA Awards.
Born in Jamshedpur, Madhavan wanted to join the army but this dream remained incomplete due to his young age. Later he started his career as a teacher and then came to films. Madhavan’s love story is also quite interesting. He fell in love with his student, then married her.
Ranganathan Madhavan whom we know as R. Madhavan, he was born on 1 June 1970 in Jamshedpur, Bihar (now in Jharkhand). His father Ranganath Iyengar was a management executive in Tata Steel. Mother Saroja was a manager in Bank of India. Madhavan did his schooling from an English medium school in Jamshedpur.
Madhavan’s father wanted him to become an engineer and work in Tata Steel Jamshedpur, but due to low marks in Maths and Physics, he was not getting admission in engineering college. After hard work, he got admission in Rajaram Engineering College, Kolhapur. In 1988, he received a scholarship to represent India at Statler, Albert, Canada as a cultural ambassador. He stayed in Canada for about a year.
During college days, 22-year-old Madhavan was selected as the top 7 NCC cadet of Maharashtra. With this, the Government of Maharashtra sent him on a tour of England, where he took training in the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. After taking training here, he decided that he too would join the army and serve the country. However, this dream of his remained just a dream. He was not selected because of his young age of 6 months. After this he started training in Public Speaking and Personality Development Course. During this he represented India at the Young Business Conference in Tokyo, Japan in 1992.
Madhavan’s love story is also quite interesting. He was married to Sarita Birje. Once Madhavan had organized a speaking course workshop in Kolhapur. Sarita Birje wanted to become an airhostess. He joined Madhavan’s workshop for personality development. Both of them met for the first time in the workshop itself.
With the help of this class, Sarita easily cleared the interview of air hostess. He had invited Madhavan on a date to say thank you. Even after this date, the process of meeting both continued. Both dated each other for 8 years, then got married in 1999. The wedding took place as per Tamil rituals and was attended by only close friends and family. Madhavan’s film career started only after marriage. Sarita has also designed the costumes for some of his films.
Madhavan made a portfolio of himself and submitted it to a modeling agency. He thought that this would bring in a little more income. After this in 1996, he got a chance to work in Powder’s ad. This ad was directed by Santosh Shivan. Sivan suggested Mani Ratnam to take Madhavan’s screen test for the film Iruvar. Madhavan later auditioned for the film Tamizhselvan but was rejected by Mani Ratnam. However, Madhavan later made his debut in the South Industry with his own film.
R Madhavan made his Bollywood debut in 2001 with the film Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein. Earlier, he had worked in the film Is Raat Ki Subah Nahi released in 1996, but he was not given credit for the work in it. In 2000, he made his debut in the South Industry with the film Alaipayuthe and after that people came to know him as an actor.
Madhavan was first approached for the role of Jimmy Shergill in the film My Name is Khan, but he refused to do the job due to the shooting of 3 Idiots. He has worked in films in 7 different languages.
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