R. Madhavan

R. Madhavan

1970-06-01 Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India 75 Credits

Biography

Madhavan is an Indian actor, writer and film producer. Madhavan has received two Filmfare Awards, an award from the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards alongside recognition and nominations from other organisations. He has been described as one of the few actors in India who is able to achieve pan-Indian appeal, appearing in films from seven different languages. Madhavan began his acting career with television guest appearances, including a role on the Zee TV prime-time soap opera Banegi Apni Baat in ...

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SSMB29

SSMB29

2027

Acting
Dhurandhar

Dhurandhar

2025

Acting

Uncover the story of unknown men and their unstoppable fight!

De De Pyaar De 2

2025

Acting

A sequel to De De Pyaar De.

Aap Jaisa Koi

Aap Jaisa Koi

2025

as Shrirenu

Acting

Shrirenu lives by tradition. Madhu lives unapologetically. When their paths cross, a tender romance unfolds — awkward, sweet but shadowed by patriarch...

Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh

Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh

2025

as Neville McKinley

7.2
Acting

A dramatization of the life story of C. Sankaran Nair, the lawyer who fought for the truth behind the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Test

Test

2025

as Saravanan

5.2
Acting

The worlds of three ordinary people converge during a historic cricket match, ultimately forcing them to make life-altering decisions.

Hisaab Barabar

Hisaab Barabar

2024

as Radhe Mohan Sharma

4.5
Acting

Radhe Mohan, an honest TC working for Indian Railways and a self-proclaimed accounts expert, sets out to uncover a massive financial fraud by banker M...

Shaitaan

Shaitaan

2024

as Vanraj Kashyap

6.4
Acting

Kabir and his family's fun weekend retreat takes terrifying turn when an intruder takes over the control of the body of his teenage daughter, putting...

Amriki Pandit

2022

as Purab

Acting
Dhokha: Round D Corner

Dhokha: Round D Corner

2022

as Yathaarth Sinha

5.0
Acting

When a delusional housewife with a personality disorder is taken hostage by a terrorist on the loose and a husband accused of cheating on his wife hav...

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect

2022

as Nambi Narayanan

7.7
Acting

The story of the great Indian rocket scientist, Shri Nambi Narayanan's life, a true patriot, who was turned into a villain in the blink of an eye afte...

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect

2022

Director, Writer, Producer

7.7
Directing Writing Producing

The story of the great Indian rocket scientist, Shri Nambi Narayanan's life, a true patriot, who was turned into a villain in the blink of an eye afte...

Maara

Maara

2021

as 'Maara' Manimaaran

6.7
Acting

When Paaru sees a fairy tale she heard from from a stranger as a child painted across the walls of a costal town, she goes in search of the man who pa...

Putham Pudhu Kaalai

Putham Pudhu Kaalai

2020

as Narrator (segment "Ilamai Idho Idho")

6.4
Acting

Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Men...

Nishabdham

Nishabdham

2020

as Anthony

5.4
Acting

Seattle PD is investigating the murder of a man and Sakshi, a deaf and mute artist, and her husband Antony, a renowned cello player, are related to it...

Zero

Zero

2018

as Kartik Srinivasan

5.2
Acting

Short in stature but big on love, a bachelor meets two very different women who broaden his horizons and help him find purpose in life.

Savyasachi

Savyasachi

2018

as Arun Raj

5.4
Acting

A twin brother of the protagonist is absorbed due to Vanishing Twin Syndrome and controls his left hand. When his life is threatened, the twin brother...

Magalir Mattum

Magalir Mattum

2017

as Surendar (Cameo)

6.8
Acting

A progressive-minded documentary filmmaker reunites three older women who have been separated since college and takes them on a trip.

Vikram Vedha

Vikram Vedha

2017

as Vikram

7.3
Acting

A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in ...

Irudhi Suttru

Irudhi Suttru

2016

as Prabhu Selvaraj

7.4
Acting

A grumpy boxing coach takes on a young, rebellious woman under his wings and starts training her for the world championship. But their biggest battle ...

Irudhi Suttru

Irudhi Suttru

2016

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

A grumpy boxing coach takes on a young, rebellious woman under his wings and starts training her for the world championship. But their biggest battle ...

Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn

Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn

2015

as Tom

5.0
Acting

A group of survivors trapped in a New York apartment fight to stay alive against legions of zombies.

Tanu Weds Manu: Returns

Tanu Weds Manu: Returns

2015

as Manoj 'Manu' Sharma

6.9
Acting

After Tanu and Manu's marriage breaks apart, the latter finds himself smitten by Datto, a lookalike of his ex-wife. But the estranged couple's feeling...

Sunglass

Sunglass

2013

Acting

A bilingual satirical comedy about the seven-year itch of a married couple, and how their life turns topsy-turvy with the entry of what seems to be an...

Jodi Breakers

Jodi Breakers

2012

as Sid

5.5
Acting

Jodi Breakers is a Hindi film directed by Ashwini Chaudhary featurring R Madhavan and Bipasha Basu in the leading roles with Omi Vaidya and Dipannita ...

Vettai

Vettai

2012

as Thiru Murthy

6.4
Acting

Guru always helps his timid brother win accolades and promotions in his career as a policeman. But a brutal incident makes Guru realise that he needs ...

Big in Bollywood

Big in Bollywood

2011

as Himself

7.5
Acting

27-year-old American-born Omi Vaidya, a struggling actor in L.A., miraculously lands a dream role in the Bollywood film "3 Idiots". Curious to better ...

Tanu Weds Manu

Tanu Weds Manu

2011

as Manoj "Manu" Sharma

6.8
Acting

Manu comes to India to find a bride for himself and falls for Tanu at first sight but she is a free spirited girl has no plans of marrying him.

Manmadhan Ambu

Manmadhan Ambu

2010

as Madanagopal

5.4
Acting

Madhan is convinced that Ambu is unfaithful and refuses to pay detective Mannar when he reports otherwise. Wanting to make money to help a friend, Man...

Teen Patti

Teen Patti

2010

as Prof. Shantanu Biswas

3.8
Acting

A professor uses the three-card game to prove his probability thesis. He involves some of his students on his research and later realizes it was a big...

Om Shanti

Om Shanti

2010

as RJ Maddy (extended cameo)

3.0
Acting

Om Shanti (Telugu: ఓం శాంతి) is a 2010 Telugu film directed by Prakash Dantuluri released on 13 January 2010.[1]. It stars Navdeep and Kajal Aggarwal ...

3 Idiots

3 Idiots

2009

as Farhan Qureshi

8.0
Acting

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious unive...

Sikandar

Sikandar

2009

as Lt. Col. Rajesh Rao

6.3
Acting

14-year-old Sikandar Raza has been living with his uncle and aunt in Kashmir, ever since his parents were killed by militants 10 years ago. The young ...

Guru En Aalu

Guru En Aalu

2009

as Guru

3.5
Acting

Guru (Madhavan) wants to start a company of his own. He works for his boss Krishna (Abbas), who is a successful entrepreneur leading a happy married l...

Yavarum Nalam

Yavarum Nalam

2009

as Manohar

6.2
Acting

Manohar and his family move into a new apartment on the 13th floor. However, their peace is disturbed by a spirit that uses the television set as a me...

Mumbai Meri Jaan

Mumbai Meri Jaan

2008

as Nikhil Agarwal

7.0
Acting

Shortly after 1800 hours, 11 July 2006, Mumbai was shattered by seven bomb blasts on Western Railway stations: Matunga, Mahim, Khar, Bandra, Jogeshwar...

Vaazhthugal

Vaazhthugal

2008

as T. Kadhiravan

4.0
Acting

Kadhiravan, a businessman, desires a wife who should respect his parents. After seeing Kayalvizhi on TV, he meets her on the pretext of being a home c...

Halla Bol

Halla Bol

2008

as Himself (uncredited)

4.9
Acting

Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed da...

Evano Oruvan

Evano Oruvan

2007

as Sridhar Vasudevan

8.0
Acting

A common man who represents his society, gets tired of the illegal activities happening around him and decides to take law into his own hands by punis...

Evano Oruvan

Evano Oruvan

2007

Co-Producer

8.0
Producing

A common man who represents his society, gets tired of the illegal activities happening around him and decides to take law into his own hands by punis...

Aarya

Aarya

2007

as Aarya

6.2
Acting

Deepika (Bhavana) is an arrogant rich girl. A medical college student, she dictates terms at the college. Sister of local don Kasi (Prakash Raj), she ...

Delhii Heights

Delhii Heights

2007

5.0
Acting

Delhii Heights is a high-rise apartment in Delhi, where Abi (Jimmy Shergill) and his wife (Neha Dhupia) lives, a married couple who work for rival com...

Guru

Guru

2007

as Shyam Saxena

6.8
Acting

A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.

Rendu

Rendu

2006

as Sakthi / Kannan

3.7
Acting

Sakhti moves to Chennai in search of a job but lands himself in trouble when a CBI officer chases him for a series of murder committed by his lookalik...

Thambi

Thambi

2006

as Thambi Velu Thondaiman

6.2
Acting

A man cannot tolerate injustice and opposes it in any form; this earns him the wrath of a local goon, who plans to get rid of him at all costs.

Rang De Basanti

Rang De Basanti

2006

as Ajay Rathod

7.1
Acting

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's ...

Ramji Londonwaley

Ramji Londonwaley

2005

as Ramnarayan Tiwari (Ramji)

6.8
Acting

Ramji Tiwari and his sister, Parvati, had their parents pass away at an early age. Ramji is a skilled cook and is familiar with all aspects of vegetar...

Ramji Londonwaley

Ramji Londonwaley

2005

Dialogue, Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Ramji Tiwari and his sister, Parvati, had their parents pass away at an early age. Ramji is a skilled cook and is familiar with all aspects of vegetar...

Kettavarellam Padalam

Kettavarellam Padalam

2005

Acting

Three friends struggle to cope with their personal and professional lives as they deal with jealousy and loss of loved ones.

Made in USA

2005

as Roby Thomas

Acting

Roby Thomas migrates to the U.S. with the help of a priest and works as a barman in a casino in Las Vegas. Roby is a simple youngster who believes in ...

Priyasakhi

Priyasakhi

2005

as Sandhana Krishnan (Sakhi)

3.4
Acting

Sakhi, a car company manger, falls in love with Priya, a model. They decide to get married, but their different family backgrounds seem to ruin their ...

Nothing but Life

2004

as Roby Thomas

Acting

Two East Indian men move to the United States and take work in Las Vegas, hoping to earn enough to move back home and live comfortably.

Aayitha Ezhuthu

Aayitha Ezhuthu

2004

as Inbasekaran

7.2
Acting

A goon, who dreams of making it big in life, a student leader, who strives to keep politicians away from college election and a third guy who wants to...

Aethiree

Aethiree

2004

as Subramani aka 'Bottle' Mani

4.7
Acting

Subramani poses as a criminal to evict bachelor tenants from a Brahmin's house, but ends up helping one of them to kidnap his lover from her marriage....

Jay Jay

Jay Jay

2003

as Jagan

7.2
Acting

Jagan and Jamuna spend all day chatting on their first meeting. Jamuna puts down her details on a 100 rupee note declaring that if the note comes back...

Priyamaana Thozhi

Priyamaana Thozhi

2003

as Ashok

6.4
Acting

Two childhood best friends, who does not share any love interest, get married to two other people. But, problem arises when his wife doubts their frie...

Nala Damayanthi

Nala Damayanthi

2003

as Ramji Narayanaswami Iyer

7.5
Acting

A village cook Ramji goes to Australia to become a chef at a multi-millionaire Indian's home. Unfortunately, the millionaire dies of indigestion the d...

Lesa Lesa

Lesa Lesa

2003

as Deva Narayanan (Guest Appearance)

6.8
Acting

Chandru's grandfather is going to visit him but Chandru has spent all his money. So he requests his wealthy friend, Rakesh, to pose as the owner of al...

Anbe Sivam

Anbe Sivam

2003

as Anbarasu

7.6
Acting

Anbarasu, young and arrogant, and Nallasivam, damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that ...

Dil Vil Pyar Vyar

Dil Vil Pyar Vyar

2002

as Krish Kumar

5.3
Acting

Three friends, who have known each other for a long time, decide to enter a singing and musical competition. The events that lead to this competition,...

Run

Run

2002

as Siva

6.8
Acting

Siva comes to Madras from a small Tamil Nadu town to study. He instantly falls in love with elusive stranger Priya who resists his charms quite persis...

Kannathil Muthamittal

Kannathil Muthamittal

2002

as Thiruchelvan

7.6
Acting

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, ...

Paarthale Paravasam

Paarthale Paravasam

2001

as Dr. Madhava

3.3
Acting

A doctor becomes an instant heartthrob after making an appearance in a movie and soon marries a woman. But just after their marriage, the truth about ...

Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein

Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein

2001

as Madhav "Maddy" Shastri

6.3
Acting

Maddy impersonates Rajeev, the person his love interest, Reena, is about to marry and attempts to woo her. However, he is unprepared for the moment wh...

Dum Dum Dum

Dum Dum Dum

2001

as Adhithyan

5.8
Acting

Adityan, a city slicker's marriage is fixed by his dad in the village to Ganga, a village belle. He is not happy with it, as he wants to marry a city ...

Minnale

Minnale

2001

as Rajesh Shivakumar

7.0
Acting

Rajesh Shivakumar is a college hoodlum who has his first crush on Reena Joseph, who unfortunately, is engaged to be married to Rajiv Samuel, an Indian...

Ennavale

Ennavale

2000

as James Vasanthan

Acting

When a man and his friends start a music troupe that performs at weddings, he is highly motivated by his landlord's daughter.

Alaipayuthey

Alaipayuthey

2000

as Karthik Varadharajan

7.3
Acting

Karthik and Shakthi marry against the wishes of their families and start their new life. However, they soon realize that marriage is not the bed of ro...

Operation Cobra

Operation Cobra

1997

as Inspector Ravi

4.6
Acting

When Interpol officer Kyle Connors, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, watches his partner die in an explosion, he swears he'll hunt down the killer. Yanked of ...

Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin

Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin

1996

as Singer in Club (Uncredited Role)

4.8
Acting

An advertising executive, Aditya (Nirmal Pandey) has a beautiful wife (Tara Deshpande) and a beautiful mistress (Smriti Mishra). This secret affair is...

Adhirshtasaali

Adhirshtasaali

N/A

Acting

The life and achievements of GD Naidu.

Kangana Madhavan's Next

N/A

Acting
G.D.N

G.D.N

N/A

as GD Naidu

Acting

GD Naidu's Biopic

Shaitaan 2

Shaitaan 2

N/A

Acting

The sequel of Shaitaan

G.D.N

G.D.N

N/A

Producer

Producing

GD Naidu's Biopic