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Tamil Cinema Actor Dhanush
Tamil actor Dhanush is recently very famous throughout the world by singing the song Why this Kolaveri di. The real name of Actor Dhanush is Venkatesh Prabhu. He is one of the best and shining actors of the Kollywood film industry. Other than acting, he spends his time as a lyricist, music director, and singer. He started his cinema life as an actor. The first movie of Dhanush was commercially success and his Tamil cinema travel started to move in his own style. Now he was acted more than twenty-five number of movies.
Tamil actor Dhanush Bio Data
Date of birth: 28-07-1983
Age: 38 ( as of 2022 )
Wife name: Aishwarya ( Daughter of Rajnikanth )
Debut movie: Thulluvadho Ilamai ( 2002 )
He has crossed 18 years so far in Cinema.
Father name – Kasthuri Raja ( Director )
Brother Name – Selva Raghavan ( Director )
School -Thai Sathya Matriculation, Sali Gramam, Chennai ( till 10th std ) | St Johns Matriculation school, Chennai & JRK MAtriculation school ( Chennai ) – 11th and 12th Standard.
He is shy in character.
He was not nervous in his first-day shooting of Thulluvadho Ilamai also he did not feel pleasant.
The first-day shoot of Rhanjana ( debut movie for Dhanush in Bollywood ) was pleasant for him. He has taken the first-day shoot of Rhanjana as an opportunity to feel the first-day shoot which he had to miss in his first-day shoot of Tamil cinema.
It has been difficult for him to act by talking in Hindi for that movie as Dhanush does not know Hindi. He had to memorize the whole dialogue throughout the movie.
He treated his debut to Hollywood movies only as of the third language movie that he is doing to act in.
Dhanush beating Amitabh Bachan scene for Shamitabh movie shooting was conducted right on the exact date of VIP movie release date.
Acting career of Tamil cinema Actor Dhanush
Tamil Actor Dhanush Cinema Entry
In Kadhal Kondein movie he acted like a psycho youngster, the name of the character he played is Vinodh. The story of Kadhal Kondein is a love subject. He paired with Tamil actress Sonia Agarwal. The third movie of Dhanush was released in the year 2003. Thiruda Thirudi is the third movie, he got good comments for this move. The song Manmadha Rasa Kanni Manasa kollathey was super hit for its fast beat and Dhanush Chaya Singh dance. It is the next commercial success movie of Dhanush.
Tamil Actor Dhanush Cinema Career Continues:
After getting success in the first three films, Dhanush continued his cinema travel with great hope. The next movie Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan was directed by S. S. Stanley was released in the year 2004. The movie was not in the expected range. It has disappointed the expectations of the audience and especially fans of Tamil actor Dhanush. Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan got many negative comments and the movie is the first flop to Dhanush. The next movie Sullan was also not in the expected range. Another movie named Dreams was released in the same year. Director of Dreams is Kasthuri Raja, movie stamped as a failure and to date the biggest failure of Dhanush is Dreams. Then he continued in the year 2005, Dhanush movies released In 2005 are Devathaiyai Kanden, Adhu Oru kana kalam.
Dhanush started the year 2007 with a Kannada dubbed movie called Jogi. In Kannda Jogi is a box office hit mother sentiment movie. Jogi Tamil remake Paratti Engira Azhagu Sundaram, Tamil audience has seen many mother sentiment movies, so the movie did not touch the heart of the audience, again Paratti Engira Azhagu Sundaram pairing with Tamil actress Meera Jasmine was a failure to Dhanush. In the same year he did another movie Polladhavan super hit movie. Then he acted many movies like Yaaradi nee Mohini pairing with Tamil actress Nayantara and Tamil movie Padikathavan pairing with Tamil actress Tamanna Bhatia, Kutty with Shriya Sharan, and Uthama Puthiran pairing with Tamil actress Genilea Dheshmukh. These movies are neither hit, not flop.
Dhanush in Aadukalam Super Hit movie
Then Dhanush acted in the Tamil movie Venghai pairing with Tamil actress Tamannah under the direction of Tamil cinema director Hari. Then Dhanush acted in Mayakkam Enna Tamil Movie was directed by Selvaragavan. The songs are good and the movie is a box office hit.In this movie, Dhanush acted as a photographer who loves to become a wildlife photographer and facing a number of huge troubles in his career. As this role got a high hope for Dhanush to act, he did his role well and good and got applause from the audience. In this movie, Tamil actress Richa Gangopadhyay did the female lead role of this movie with a strong character.
After that Tamil actor, Dhanush acted in the movie Moonu ( 3 ) pairing with Tamil actress Shruti Hassan under the direction of his own wife, Aishwarya Dhanush. In this movie Dhanush acted with two get-ups; one is a Schoolboy and the other is a youngster after marriage. The video song of Why this Kolaveri of this movie with the own voice and acting of Tamil actor Dhanush got a huge response all around the world. After that Dhanush made a cameo role in a Malayalam movie namely Kammath and Kammath.
Then she acted Dhanush made a cameo appearance in the Tamil movie Ethir Neechal which is his own production movie. Then Dhanush acted in the Bollywood movie Raajhanna and won the Filmfare award in Bollywood for the best debut actor in the year 2013. After that Dhanush acted in Maryan under the direction of Bharath Bala and Tamil actor Parvathy did the pairing role with Dhanush in this movie. On seeing the acting of Dhanush in this movie, most of the people believed that Dhanush will receive his second national award for this movie for the second movie in his career.
Then Dhanush acted in the movie Naiyaandi pairing with Tamil actress Nazriya Nazim and this movie did not go well with the box office. After a gap, Tamil actor Dhanush acted in the movie Velai Illa pattadhaari under the direction of Velraj. The role of Dhanush in velai illa pattadhaari ( VIP ) is an unemployed youngster is facing many problems and insults in his life as he does not have a job and then how he wins in life and love with Tamil actress Amala Paul. This movie got a huge hit.
After that Dhanush acted in Anegam movie under the direction of KV Anand pairing up with Amyra Dasdut. In this movie Actor, Karthik did one of the main roles as the MD of a Gaming company. Dhanush got nominated for a Filmfare award for his nice performance in this movie. The main story of this movie was talking about how the employees working for a Gaming company are getting affected by showing 3 parallel stories combining all together in the climax.
After that he did a kind of cameo role in Vai Raja Vai movie as the director of that movie is his wife, Aishwarya R. Dhanush. In this movie, Dhanush acted as Kokki Kumar which is the role he did in the movie, Pudupettai. The hero of the movie Vai Raja Vai is Gautham Karthik who is the son of actor Karthik.
Then Dhanush acted in the Tamil movie Maari pairing up with actress Kajal Aggarwal under the direction of Balaji Mohan. Even though the movie did not do well in the box office, the songs and the character of Dhanush have got a good place in the Tamil cinema audience.
After passing the movie, Maari, Dhanush acted in Tamil movie Thanga Magan pairing up with 2 heroins, Samantha and Amy Jackson under the direction of Vel Raj. As the movie came up with the same combination of Dhanush and velraj in the movie VIP gave a big success, the expectation for Thanga Magan was huge but the result was not as much as expected. But again, the songs of Thanga Magan were sweet.
After that, he acted in Thodari movie pairing with Keerthy Suresh for the first time under the direction of Prabu Solomon. Music was done for this movie by D Imman. The basic story of this movie is about how extreme a pantry worker boy goes to save the life of his girlfriend he got in train travel.
As Thodari also was also not much celebrated by the audience, then he acted in Kodi in which Dhanush acted in a dual role. In this movie, Dhanush pairs were Trisha and Anupama Parameshwaran as he did dual roles of twin brothers. This was one of the completely different storylines chosen by him that the story related to twin brothers, one of them is involved in politics.
Then, Dhanush went for making the movie under his own direction namely Power Paandi having actor Rajkiran doing the main role, and Dhanush himself acted as the character comes as the young age of hero character. In this movie actress, Revathy did the female main role paired up with Raj Kiran and Madonna Sebastian did the pair for Dhanush.
Then he acted VIP part 2 under the direction of Soundarya Dhanush having Amala Paul doing the main female role, Kajol in an important role. The music for this movie was done by Sean Roldan.
After then, as a pleasant surprise to all the Tamil audience, he went to act a Hollywood movie which celebrated with pride across the region. In this movie, Dhanush took the lead male role as a north Indian man.
After doing a Hollywood movie, Dhanush came back with a bang that he joined hands with director Vetrimaaran who gave remarkable success movie Aadukalam. This time the team came with Vada Chennai a raw cult movie showing the life of North Chennai people. In this movie, director Amir did an important role. Then actresses Aishwarya Rajesh and Andrea Jeremiah had good characters to play.
Then he acted in Maari 2 the sequel of Maari with the same director Balaji Mohan. Sai Pallavi, Robo Shankar, and other actors acted in this movie. The song took place in this movie starting with Rowdy Baby got a huge hit in youtube crossing 910M views and still going on.
Then the sincere / success combo of Dhanush and Vetri maaran happened again for the movie Asuran. In this movie, Dhanush acted as a village family man who is saving the life of his young son who does a murder. This movie was made based on a Tamil novel namely Vekkai.
Dhanush acted in Ennai Nokki Paayum Thotta ( ENPT ) under the direction of Gautham Menon in the first quarter of 2016. for some reason, this movie got a delay in releasing till 2019 end. In this movie, Megha Akash acted with Dhanush. All the songs of this movie got a good reach to all classes of audiences with the work of Darbuka Siva as Music director.
Dhanush Facebook Account
In the year August 2009, the Facebook account in the name of Dhanush Kasthuri Raja was not his real Facebook account. This was a fake account. This account held more than 4000 friends. Dhanush asked to delete the account which was in his name and the account was deactivated later.
Awards of Dhanush
Total number of awards won by Dhanush so far – 46
Total Number of award nominations – 76
Dhanush won the national best actor award for Adukalam Tamil movie in the year 2011
Won National Award for Co-Producing Kaakka Muttai movie ( 2014 )
Won National Award for Co-Producing Visaranai ( 2015 )