Arjun Chidambaram

Arjun Chidambaram is an Indian actor, who has appeared in Tamil language films. He made his debut as an actor in Moone Moonu Varthai (2015). He made a breakthrough appearing in Nerkonda Paarvai (2019). He has since appeared in leading and supporting roles in films.

Arjun Chidambaram
Born	Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Occupation	Actor

Career

Arjun is a theatre artist who acts in plays. Arjun himself wrote plays such as First Day, First Show. Arjun worked with the Evam and Stray Factory.^[1] He got the opportunity as the protagonist of S. P. B. Charan's production, Moone Moonu Varthai.^[2] In 2017, he signed onto Rum where he played a deaf and mute hacker.^[3][4]

Arjun got his break through role as Adhik in H. Vinoth's Nerkonda Paarvai alongside Ajith Kumar.^[5] He played the antagonist of the film who attempts to abuse a woman and takes revenge once she refused. Arjun took the role as it will set an example of how men should not be and the film opens up discussion about sexual violence and consent.^[6][7][8] Arjun has been officially cast in Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan: I.^[9][10]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2015	Moone Moonu Varthai	Arjun	Debut film
2017	Rum	Kural
2019	Nerkonda Paarvai	Adhik
	Enai Noki Paayum Thota	Police officer	Uncredited
2020	Theeviram	Ismail
2022	Ponniyin Selvan: I	Varagunan
2023	Aneethi	Ajee
	Kolai	Arjun
	Raththam	Shyam Sunder
2025	Thug Life	Kahlua

Web series

Year	Title	Role(s)	Platform	Notes
2018	America Mappillai	Ganesh	ZEE5	[11]
2019	Auto Shankar	Inspector Kathiravan	ZEE5	[12][13][14]
2019	Behind Closed Doors	Prashanth	VIU	[15]
2020	Addham	Ajith	Aha	Telugu series Segment: "The Unwhisperable Secret".[16][17][18]
2023	The Village	Prakash	Amazon Prime Video

Short films

Year	Film	Role	Ref(s)
2014	The Unknown	Kumar	[19]

Dubbing artist

Year	Film	Actor	Ref(s)
2021	Doctor	Milind Soman