Silambarasan filmography

Silambarasan is an Indian actor, director, producer and singer, who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. He began his career playing minor roles as a child artist in films produced by his father T. Rajendar before his first lead role in Kadhal Azhivathillai (2002) also produced and directed by his father. [1][2] His second film Dum (2003), a remake of the 2002 Kannada film Appu, fared well commercially.[2][3] In the same year he appeared in Alai, a box office failure.[4]

Silambarasan in 2011.

Silambarasan had three releases in 2004. The first was Kovil, which deals with the relationship between a Hindu boy and a Christian girl.[5] Silambarasan was praised by Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu for acting with "restraint and maturity".[6] It was a box office success.[7] Silambarasan appeared next in Kuththu, a remake of the Telugu film Dil.[7] The film received unfavourable reviews but had a successful theatrical run.[8] His final release in 2004 was Manmadhan, which he also wrote. The film was a major success,[3] and propelled Silambarasan to stardom.[9] The following year, he had only one release: Thotti Jaya, in which he plays an orphaned gangster who finds love.[10] In 2006, Silambarasan had two releases: Saravana (directed by K. S. Ravikumar) and Vallavan which he helped write and directed himself.[11][12] The film was a box office success.[13] He starred in two films in 2008: the action-masala films Kaalai and Silambattam. Neither received positive reviews, but the latter was profitable.[14][15]

Silambarasan's sole release in 2010 as a lead actor was the romance Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, directed and written by Gautham Menon. The film attained cult status in Tamil cinema, and was a major breakthrough in his career.[16] It was considered an image makeover for Silambarasan as most of his earlier films were in the action genre.[17] The following year, he appeared in two films. The first was the ensemble drama Vaanam, where he stars as an impoverished cable operator.[18] The second was Osthe, a remake of the Hindi film Dabangg where he played a police officer.[19] Podaa Podi, which began production in 2008 and was released in 2012, was a commercial failure.[13][20] His next appearance as a lead actor was in Vaalu (2015), followed by two releases in 2016: Pandiraj's Idhu Namma Aalu and Menon's Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada.[21][22]Then he acted in the Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan (2017) which is most anticipated movie for the different looks released. Then for the first time he collaborated with Mani Ratnam for Chekka Chivantha Vaanam which brought him more positive reviews. Then acted in Sundar C.'s Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven which got positive reviews for acting even it didn't go well.

Films

• All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role(s)	Director	Notes	Ref.
1984	Uravai Kaatha Kili	Silambarasu	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[23]
1986	Mythili Ennai Kaathali	Unknown	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[24]
1987	Oru Thayin Sabhatham	Unknown	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[23]
1988	En Thangai Kalyani	Unknown	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[24]
1989	Samsara Sangeetham	Unknown	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[25]
1991	Shanti Enathu Shanti	Unknown	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[26]
1992	Enga Veetu Velan	Velan	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[27] [28]
1993	Pettredutha Pillai	Kumaran (Kumar)[lower-alpha 1]	Poornachandran	Child artist	[29]
1993	Sabash Babu	Babu	Sasi Mohan	Child artist	[30]
1994	Oru Vasantha Geetham	Silambhu	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[31]
1995	Thai Thangai Paasam	Unknown	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[32]
1999	Monisha En Monalisa	Unknown	T. Rajendar	Child artist	[33]
2001	Sonnal Thaan Kaadhala	Himself	T. Rajendar	Guest appearance	[34] [35]
2002	Kadhal Virus	Himself	Kathir	Guest appearance	[36]
2002	Kadhal Azhivathillai	Simbhu	T. Rajendar		[37]
2003	Dum	Sathya	A. Venkatesh		[38]
2003	Alai	Aadhi	Vikram Kumar		[39]
2004	Kovil	Sakthivel	Hari		[6]
2004	Kuththu	Gurumoorthy	A. Venkatesh		[7]
2004	Manmadhan	Madhankumar (Manmadhan), Madhanraj[lower-alpha 2]	A. J. Murugan		[40]
2005	Thotti Jaya	Jayachandran (Thotti Jaya)[lower-alpha 1]	V. Z. Durai		[10]
2006	Saravana	Saravana	K. S. Ravikumar		[11]
2006	Vallavan	Vallavan (Pallan)[lower-alpha 1]	Silambarasan	Also director and screenwriter	[41]
2008	Kaalai	Jeeva	Tharun Gopi		[42]
2008	Silambattam	Vichu, Thamizharasan[lower-alpha 2]	S. Saravanan		[43]
2010	Goa	Madhankumar	Venkat Prabhu	Guest appearance	[44]
2010	Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa	Karthik	Gautham Menon	25th film	[45]
2010	Ye Maaya Chesaave	Himself	Gautham Menon	Guest appearance Telugu film	[46]
2011	Vaanam	Thillai Raja ("Cable" Raja/Raj)[lower-alpha 1]	Krish		[18]
2011	Osthe	Osthi Velan	Dharani		[19]
2012	Podaa Podi	Arjun	Vignesh Shivan		[47]
2013	Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya	Himself	K. S. Manikandan	Guest appearance	[48]
2014	Inga Enna Solluthu	Raghu	Vincent Selva	Guest appearance	[49]
2015	Dongaata	Himself	Vamsi Krishna	Guest appearance Telugu film	[50]
2015	Kaaka Muttai	Himself	M. Manikandan	Guest appearance	[51]
2015	Vaalu	Sakthi (Sharp)[lower-alpha 1]	Vijay Chander		[52]
2016	Idhu Namma Aalu	Shiva	Pandiraj		[21]
2016	Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada	Rajinikanth Muralidharan	Gautham Menon		[22] [53]
2017	Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan	Madura Michael, Ashwin Thatha, Thikku Siva[lower-alpha 3]	Adhik Ravichandran		[54]
2018	Chekka Chivantha Vaanam	Ethiraj	Mani Ratnam		[55]
2018	Kaatrin Mozhi	Himself	Radha Mohan	Cameo appearance	[56]
2019	Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven	Adithya (Raja)[lower-alpha 1]	Sundar C.		[57]
2019	90ML	Himself	Anita Udeep	Special appearance	[58]
2020	Karthik Dial Seytha Yenn	Karthik Sivakumar	Gautham Menon	Short film	[59]
2020	Maha	TBA	U.R.Jameel	Filming; special appearance	[60]
2020	Maanaadu	Abdul Khaliq	Venkat Prabhu		[61]

Voice over

Year	Title	Voiced for	Director	Notes	Ref.
2009	Naanum Kodeeswaran	Dev Patel	Danny Boyle		[62]
2017	Katha Nayagan	N/A	Muruganantham	Narrator	[63]

Notes

1. Silambarasan played a single character with two or more names.
2. Silambarasan played two different characters.
3. Silambarasan played three different characters.

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External links

• Silambarasan on IMDb