Acting
Jul 13, 1954
New Delhi, India
R. Sarathkumar
Acting
Biography
Ramanathan Sarathkumar is an Indian film actor, journalist, politician, the former president of the South Indian Film Artistes' Association and former body builder. Sarathkumar has acted in more than 130 Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. He can speak Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and English fluently. In 1986, Sarathkumar started his acting career in the Telugu film Samajamlo Sthree. He first acted in negative roles, and later played minor roles before establishing himself as a lead actor in the subsequent years earning him the title Supreme Star in Tamil cinema. He has won two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. In 2007, he launched a new political party All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) in Tamil Nadu claiming to carry out the ideals of K. Kamaraj. He is the former Member of Legislative Assembly of Tenkasi constituency. He served as the president of the Nadigar Sangam from 2006 to 2015 for three consecutive terms.
Feature Films (159)
Samundi and his mother move into a nearby hamlet to live peacefully. Terror strikes them once again through the local goon, who spoiled his sister's life. Will he now exact retribution for the past?
Samundi
Rathnavelu loves Rasathi, who is in love with Kannan, brother of Veerapandi, an archrival of Rathnavelu. She is forcefully married to Rathnavelu, which leads to the death of Kannan.
Oor Mariyadhai
In order to punish his brother's murderers, a lawyer struggles to collect evidence.
Munarivippu
Two brothers are raised under difficult circumstances where one becomes a policeman and the other a gangster. Resultantly, fate pits them against each other causing their relationship to fall apart.
Magaadu
A maverick, vigilante cop who is forced to misbehave the limits of law when the system fails. It weaves across past and present whilesolving the motives and moral bruises that shape his actions.
Christopher
A secret agent, forced to live anonymously, encounters a woman in debt. Against his detached lifestyle, he befriends her while rescuing a pup, sparking a journey to help with her financial troubles.
Mazhai Pidikatha Manithan
A honest and peace loving village man turns into a politician but his past haunts him till he seeks redemption by surrendering himself to law.
Ayya
After starting an affair with a married woman, a married man's life starts changing for the worse in more ways than he could imagine.
Pachaikili Muthucharam
Loganathan, a senior cop is asked to mentor Prakash, an academically bright but faint-hearted rookie and this unlikely duo team up to investigate a series of murder cases, and realize all of them are interlinked and that a psychopath serial killer is on the run.
Por Thozhil
Television & Series (4)
To solve a kidnapping case of a high-profile politician and to investigate the mysterious disappearances of men from the city's affluent families, ACP Robert Vasudevan is appointed. Will he succeed in finding the culprit?
Irai
When powerful, wily Naidu's ruthlessness becomes too much, his nephew, Gopi, steps up to avenge the injustice met to his father.
Parampara
Five equally talented candidates. One vacancy. Having journeyed through trying times in their lives, each of them must prove why they deserve the job. Can they rely on their past to help build their future?
