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Indian actor, producer, director (Born: )

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Born	Srinivasa Sarja () 15 August (age&#;62) Madhugiri, Mysore State, India
Occupations	Actor director producer screenwriter distributor
Years&#;active	– present
Works	Full list
Spouse	Niveditha &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	2
Parent	Shakti Prasad (father)
Relatives	Sarja family

Srinivasa Sarja (born 15 August ), better known by his stage name Arjun Sarja or simply Arjun, is an Indian player, producer, and director who works predominantly in Tamil cinema in addition to Telugu and Kannada films and a few Malayalam and Hindi films.

Referred to by the media and his fans as "Action King" for his roles in action films,^[1][2][3][4] Arjun has acted in more than films, most of them being lead roles.^[5][6][7] He is one of few South Indian actors to attract fan tracking from multiple states of India.^[8][9] He has directed 12 films and also produced and distributed a number of films.^[10]

In , he starred in S.

Shankar's blockbuster Gentleman which opened to positive reviews, while Arjun went on to win the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor.^[11][12][13] During this second, he starred in hits such as Jai Hind (), Karnaa (), and the action thriller film Kurudhipunal (), for which Arjun won acclaim for his role while the film became^[14]India's official entry for the 68th Academy Awards in the Top Foreign Language Film category.^[15][16][17] In , he starred in the political action-thriller, Mudhalvan, which earned him for his role as well as numerous other nominations.

He was then featured in Vasanth's romantic drama film Rhythm, where he played a photographer, who eventually falls in devote with a widow. Featuring a popular soundtrack and opening to positive reviews, Rhythm also became a commercial success.^[18]

Arjun made particular appearances in the Kannada production Sri Manjunatha () and the Telugu film Hanuman Junction ().

He won the Karnataka Express Film Award for Best Star for his work in the film. The multilingual film Abhimanyu () won the Karnataka Articulate Film Award for Second Top Film.^[19]

Personal life

Arjun was born as Srinivasa Sarja on 15 August to Kannada actor Shakti Prasad,^[20] and Lakshmi, an art lecturer.

Arjun had always thought and dreamt of becoming a police officer but his fate took him into an entirely diverse direction.^[21] Inspired by Bruce Lee's film Enter the Dragon, Arjun began training in Karate at the age of 16^[22] and now holds a black belt.^[23]

Arjun married Niveditha Arjun in , a former actress who has appeared in the Kannada motion picture Ratha Sapthami under the stage name of Asha Rani.

Kannada actor Rajesh is his father-in-law.^[24] He has two daughters, Aishwarya and Anjana.^[25][26] Aishwarya made her acting debut in with Pattathu Yaanai.^[27] She was nominated for the SIIMA Award for Finest Debutant Actress — Kannada for the bilingual film Prema Baraha / Sollividava ().^[28] She married Umapathy Ramaiah on 10 June in an intimate ceremony at Arjun's Sri Yoga Anjaneyar Temple in Gerugambakkam, Chennai.^[29]

Arjun had one elder brother Kishore Sarja, who directed Kannada films.^[30] His nephews Chiranjeevi Sarja and Dhruva Sarja are Kannada actors.^[31] Bharat Sarja, made his acting debut in with Veera Pulikeshi.^[32][33]

Arjun is an ardent devotee of Hanuman.

He is building the Hanuman temple in the outskirts of Chennai. A foot statue of the Lord Anjaneya was sculpted exclusively for the temple; the statue is in a seated posture and weighs around tonnes. The single-stone statue is 35 feet high, 12 feet wide and 7 feet thick.^[21][34]

Arjun was honoured with a honorary doctorate by Dr.

M.G.R. Medical University in November ^[35]

Acting career

Early career and breakthrough

Arjun's father Shakti Prasad, a renowned actor of Kannada films, did not want his son to become an star and turned down film suggestions that Arjun began to get as a teenager.

In a surprise move, film producer Rajendra Singh Babu managed to convince Arjun to begin shooting for a feature film for his production house without Shakti Prasad's express permission and consequently, his father agreed to Arjun's career choice.

The film Simhada Mari Sainya () featured him as a junior artiste and the director of the film gave him the stage name of Arjun, replacing his original specify Ashok Babu.^[36] While he began to establish himself Kannada films, he received an offer from actor-producer A.

V. M. Rajan and director Rama Narayanan to do a Tamil film Nandri (). Simultaneously he was offered a Telugu film, Kodi Ramakrishna's Maa Pallelo Gopaludu () in Telugu too which went on to be a big victory, running for days.^[37]

His career as an actor began to receive off in the mids and he sometimes worked for up to seven shifts in a day to keep up with the films he had pledged to do.^[36][38] In Telugu, he established himself as a bankable actor with roles in films such as Naga Devatha (), Cowboy No.

1 (), Konaseema Kurradu () and Manavadostunnadu (). In Tamil, his successful films during the period included Shankar Guru (), Thaimel Aanai (), Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu () and Sonthakkaran (), Thangaikku Oru Thalattu () and Thanga Thamaraigal ().

Commercial success and critical acclaim

In , he subsequently chose to direct his feature film Sevagan.^[39] Soon after, Shankar cast him in the lead role in his first film, Gentleman (), after much persuasion.

Arjun had initially rejected the film without listening to Shankar's narration but the director's persistence prompted him to feature in the clip as a vigilante against corruption. The film opened to positive reviews and went on to become a trendsetter in the Tamil film industry, as good as achieving significant box office success, while Arjun went on to win the State Award for Best Actor.^[40][15] His alter of fortune at the box office continued and Arjun began to gain ground as a bankable lead star in behavior films after his films including his patriotic directorial venture Jai Hind () and Karnaa (), where he played a dual role, went on to grow blockbusters.^[41]Kamal Haasan approached Arjun to play a police officer in the action thriller film Kurudhipunal (), and the actor approved the opportunity and agreed to do the film even without hearing the narration.

Arjun won positive acclaim for his role, while the film became India's official entry for the 68th Academy AwardsBest Foreign Language Movie category.^[16]

In the late s, after a series of action films, including Sengottai () and Thaayin Manikodi (), he teamed up again with Shankar in the political drama film Mudhalvan ().

Srinivasa Sarja born 15 Augustbetter known by his stage label Arjun Sarja or simply Arjunis an Indian actor, producer, and director who works predominantly in Tamil cinema in addition to Telugu and Kannada films and a few Malayalam and Hindi films. Referred to by the media and his fans as "Action King" for his roles in action films[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Arjun has acted in more than films, most of them creature lead roles. Inhe starred in S. He was then featured in Vasanth 's romantic drama film Rhythmwhere he played a photographer, who eventually falls in love with a widow.

Showing an ambitious TV journalist who receives the opportunity to get the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for a day, Arjun offered bulk dates for filming the project to Shankar. The film subsequently won positive reviews with Arjun described as having "acquitted himself with aplomb in the challenging role".^[42]

Arjun then briefly experimented in softer roles, describing critically acclaimed characters of businessman with "shades of grey" in Prabhu Solomon's Kannodu Kanbathellam () and as an energetic civil service officer in Vaanavil ().

He then featured in Vasanth's romantic drama film Rhythm (), where he played a widower and a professional photographer, who eventually falls in love with a widow. Featuring a famous soundtrack and opening to positive reviews, Rhythm also became a commercial success, with a critic noting "Arjun is as polished as ever" and adding "who would have conceived this notion that the "action king" could attempt a soft-natured role of this kind".^[18] He carried on with a lighter theme in his next directorial venture, the love story Vedham (), while he ventured into Telugu cinema again by appearing in Raja's Hanuman Junction () and as a Hindu devotee in Sri Manjunatha ().

Action roles and experimentation

The image of "action king" made him popular with town and village centre audiences, who appreciated the actor's battle and stunt scenes. He thus actively chose to specialise in action films, often collaborating with directors who specialised in them such as Sundar C, Venkatesh and Selva.

In the mids, he appeared in several move films with the same premise, often portraying a police officer or a local do-gooder. He directed and featured in both the action films Ezhumalai () and Parasuram (), while also being involved in Maharajan's Arasatchi ().

Some of his films, Giri () and Marudhamalai (), were box office successes, with several of his projects were not, including Madrasi (), Vathiyar () and Durai (), in all of which he was the story writer.^[43]

Despite not achieving any significant hit films in the s, producers often considered Arjun as a "minimum guarantee" actor and felt his sizable fan following would help recover money even through the Telugu dubbed versions of his Tamil films.^[44][45] In a rare experimental film for him in the decade, he portrayed the role of the Hindu deity Hanuman in Krishna Vamsi's devotional movie Sri Anjaneyam () and worked on the film without taking remuneration as a self-confessed worshipper of the deity.^[46]

present: Character roles and recent projects

Since the change of the decade, Arjun has attempted to move away from his "action king" image and accepted to star in films where he would play the antagonist or a supporting role, with the move drawing praise from film critics.^[47] In , Arjun accepted the opportunity to act alongside Ajith Kumar in Venkat Prabhu's action thriller Mankatha, with critics praising his production as a police officer in the blockbuster.^[48] The following year he appeared in Kannada production Prasad, for which he won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor.

Portraying a middle-class father with a deaf and dumb son, Arjun noted it was a rewarding encounter for him to break the monotony of his standard roles and attempt something different, admitting he was moved by the script. The film opened to unanimously positive reviews in Pride and then was selected to be screened at the Berlin Film Festival.^[49]

Arjun collaborated with Mani Ratnam with Kadal (), in which the actor portrayed a negative role of a smuggler in coastal Tamil Nadu.

While the film opened to mixed reviews and became a box office failure, Arjun won rave reviews for his portrayal with noting Arjun is "deliciously despicable in his career's most remembered negative role" and The Hindu labelling him as "brilliant".^[50] He then won acclaim for his portrayal of a real-life police officer K.

Vijay Kumar in the Kannada film Attahasa (), the biopic of notorious forest brigand Veerappan, as well as for his role of a paralysed swimming coach in Vasanth's romance film, Moondru Per Moondru Kadal ().^[51]

His directorial venture, Jai Hind 2 () contained a message about the declining express of the Indian education system.

The film became a box office success in Kannada, while the Tamil and Telugu versions did not perform well at the box office.^[52] In , he played a realistic police officer in Bharathiraja's critically acclaimed Final Cut of Director (dubbed in Tamil as Bommalattam), where a reviewer felt his "showcase of the soft, subtle yet unrelenting cop was noteworthy".^[53][54] In , he appeared in his th film Nibunan, an behavior thriller where he played a police officer hunting a serial killer.^[55] The film won positive reviews, with a critic noting that Arjun "looks stylish and suave as the fit and honest officer, and excels in a couple of action blocks he gets".^[56] He then directed a bilingual film titled Prema Baraha () starring his daughter Aishwarya Arjun in the foremost role^[57] While, the Kannada version performed well, the Tamil version, Sollividava, went unnoticed at the box office.^[58] He starred in the Telugu films Lie () and Naa Peru Surya ().^[59]Irumbu Thirai () showed a alternative Arjun to the audience.

Kolaigaran () was also a performance-oriented film.^[60] Arjun Sarja's performance as Karna is another highlight of the movie Kurukshetra ().^[61]

He played the role of a warrior called Anandan in the grand historical action Malayalam film, Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea () directed by Priyadarshan.^[62] His was next roped in to play the role of one of the antagonists in the Vijay starrer Leo (), directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, earning him praise from critics for this role as well.^[63]

Currently, he has been cast in the Ajith starrer Vidaamuyarchi (), to act a crucial role, directed by Magizh Thirumeni.^[64]

Filmography

Main article: Arjun Sarja filmography

Awards

Controversy

In October , as part of the #MeToo movement, actress Shruthi Hariharan accused Arjun Sarja of misconduct, on the establish of the film Vismaya (Nibunan in Tamil), where she portrayed Arjun Sarja's wife.

In response, Arjun Sarja denied her allegations and filed a Rs 5 crore defamation suit against her.^[68]

After Arjun's defamation case was filed, Sruthi filed a sexual harassment case with the police with a new set of stories.

The Bangalore Police immediately investigated this case and they submitted their report also. In their report, they said there was "no evidence" in favour of her. In this investigation, all crew members of this motion picture said there was no such incident that happened on the sets and director Arun Vaidyanathan who was named as the eye-witness in the case, said Arjun Sarja is a kind person.

The romantic scene script was already finalized before the shooting. According to the director, Arjun Sarja had asked the filmmaker to reduce the passionate scenes in the movie. He had also said that Arjun Sarja and Sruthi Hariharan were good friends and he never noticed Arjun Sarja misbehaving with Sruthi on the sets.

It was eventually proved to be a false case.^[69]

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