R. Madhavan filmography

R. Madhavan is an Indian actor known for his work predominantly in Tamil and Hindi; also few films in Telugu, English, Malayalam and Kannada languages. He began his acting career in the early 1990s by featuring in Hindi soap operas like Banegi Apni Baat, Sea Hawks, Ghar Jamai and Saaya.^[1][2] In 2000, Madhavan gained recognition in Tamil cinema by playing the lead role in Mani Ratnam's romantic drama film Alai Payuthey.^[3] He followed this with appearances in two commercially successful Tamil films, Gautham Vasudev Menon's directorial debut Minnale (2001) and Madras Talkies' Dumm Dumm Dumm (2001), as well as his first Hindi film in a leading role, Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001).^[4][5][6]

R. Madhavan in 2011

In the early 2000s, Madhavan worked on Tamil films including Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Run (2002), Anbe Sivam (2003) and Aaytha Ezhuthu (2004). Madhavan also simultaneously pursued a career in the Hindi film industry, by appearing in supporting roles in films including Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Rang De Basanti (2006), Mani Ratnam's biopic Guru (2007) and Rajkumar Hirani's 3 Idiots (2009), which became the highest-grossing Indian film of all time upon release at the time.^[7] Other Tamil productions that Madhavan worked on during the late 2000s included Evano Oruvan (2007), which he also produced, and the horror film Yavarum Nalam (2009).^[8][9]

After appearing in Tanu Weds Manu (2011) and Vettai (2012), Madhavan took an extended break from signing new film projects. His comeback films, the romantic-comedy Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015), the bilingual sports drama Irudhi Suttru (2016) and the crime film Vikram Vedha (2017) all performed well at the box office. His performance as a boorish boxing coach in Irudhi Suttru fetched him Best Actor awards at the Filmfare, IIFA and SIIMA award ceremonies.^[10][11][12]

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Films

Film performances by R. Madhavan

Year	Title	Role(s)	Language(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
1996	Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin	Singer	Hindi	Guest appearance in the song "Chup Tum Raho"	[13]
1997	Inferno	Ravi	English	credited as Mahadevan	[14]
1998	Shanti Shanti Shanti	Siddhartha	Kannada		[15]
2000	Alai Payuthey	Karthik Varadharajan	Tamil		[16][17]
	Ennavale	James Vasanth	Tamil		[18]
2001	Minnale	Rajesh Shivakumar	Tamil		[19]
	Dumm Dumm Dumm	Aditya	Tamil		[20]
	Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein	Madhav Shastri	Hindi		[21]
	Paarthale Paravasam	Madhava	Tamil		[22]
2002	Kannathil Muthamittal	Thiruchelvan	Tamil		[23][24]
	Run	Siva	Tamil		[6][24]
	Dil Vil Pyar Vyar	Krish Kumar	Hindi		[25]
2003	Anbe Sivam	Anbarasu	Tamil		[26][27]
	Lesa Lesa	Deva Narayanan	Tamil	Cameo appearance	[6]
	Nala Damayanthi	Ramji Narayanaswami Iyer	Tamil		[28]
	Priyamaana Thozhi	Ashok	Tamil		[29]
	Jay Jay	Jagan	Tamil		[30]
2004	Aethirree	Subramani	Tamil		[31]
	Aaytha Ezhuthu	Inbasekar	Tamil		[32][33]
	Nothing But Life	Thomas Roberts	English	Bilingual film	[6]
	Made In USA		Malayalam
2005	Priyasakhi	Sandhana Krishnan	Tamil		[34]
	Ramji Londonwaley	Ramnarayan Tiwari	Hindi		[35]
2006	Rang De Basanti	Ajay Singh Rathod	Hindi		[36]
	Thambi	Thambi Velu Thondaiman	Tamil		[37][38]
	Rendu	Sakthi, Kannan[a]	Tamil	Dual role	[39]
2007	Guru	Shyam Saxena	Hindi		[32]
	That Four-Letter Word	Himself	English	Guest appearance	[6][40]
	Delhii Heights	Himself	Hindi	Guest appearance	[6][41]
	Aarya	Aarya	Tamil		[42]
	Evano Oruvan	Sridhar Vasudevan	Tamil		[43][44]
2008	Halla Bol	Himself	Hindi	Guest appearance	[6]
	Vaazhthugal	T. Kadhiravan	Tamil		[45]
	Mumbai Meri Jaan	Nikhil Agarwal	Hindi		[46]
2009	Yavarum Nalam	R. Manohar	Tamil	Bilingual film	[47]
	13B		Hindi
	Guru En Aalu	Guru	Tamil		[48]
	Sikandar	Rajesh Rao	Hindi		[49]
	3 Idiots	Farhan Qureshi	Hindi		[50][51][52]
2010	Om Shanti	Maddy	Telugu	Cameo appearance	[53]
	Teen Patti	Shantanu Biswas	Hindi		[54]
	Jhootha Hi Sahi	Kabir	Hindi	Cameo appearance	[55]
	Manmadan Ambu	Madhanagopal (Madhan)	Tamil		[56][57]
2011	Tanu Weds Manu	Manoj Kumar Sharma (Manu)	Hindi		[58]
2012	Vettai	Inspector Thirumurthy	Tamil		[59]
	Jodi Breakers	Siddharth Khanna	Hindi		[60]
2013	Taak Jhaank	Sanjay	Hindi		[61]
2014	Akeli	Avinash	Hindi		[62][63]
2015	Tanu Weds Manu: Returns	Manoj Kumar Sharma (Manu)	Hindi		[64]
	Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn	Tom	English	Voiceover	[65]
2016	Irudhi Suttru	Prabhu Selvaraj	Tamil	Bilingual film	[66][67]
	Saala Khadoos	Aditya Tomar (Adi)	Hindi
2017	Vikram Vedha	Inspector Vikram	Tamil		[68][69][70]
	Magalir Mattum	Surendhar Silkurayappan	Tamil	Cameo appearance	[71]
2018	Savyasachi	Arun Raj Varma	Telugu		[72]
	Zero	Kartik Srinivasan	Hindi		[73]
2020	Nishabdham	Anthony Gonsalves	Telugu	Bilingual film[b]	[74][75]
	Silence		Tamil
2021	Maara	Manimaaran (Maara)	Tamil		[76]
2022	Meri Awas Suno	Major	Malayalam	Voiceover	[77]
	Rocketry: The Nambi Effect	Nambi Narayanan	Tamil	Bilingual film	[78]
			Hindi
	Dhokha: Round D Corner	Yathaarth Sinha	Hindi		[79]
2024	Shaitaan	Vanraj Kashyap	Hindi
	Hisaab Barabar	Radhe Mohan Sharma	Hindi		[80]
2025	Adhirshtasaali †	TBA	Tamil	Completed	[81]
	Amriki Pandit †	TBA	Hindi	Completed	[82]
	Test †	TBA	Tamil	Filming	[citation needed]
	De De Pyaar De 2 †	Dev Khurana	Hindi	Filming	[83]
	Kesari Chapter 2 †	TBA	Hindi	Completed	[84]
	Dhurandhar †	TBA	Hindi	Filming	[85]
	Aap Jaisa Koi †	Shrirenu Tripathi	Hindi	Completed	[86]

Other crew positions

Year	Film	Position	Language	Notes	Ref(s)
2005	Ramji Londonwaley	Screenwriter	Hindi		[87]
2007	Evano Oruvan	Producer, dialogue writer	Tamil		[88]
2016	Saala Khadoos	Producer	Hindi		[89]
2020	Putham Pudhu Kaalai	Narrator	Tamil	Voiceover in Ilamai Idho Idho segment	[90]
2020	Soorarai Pottru	Narrator	Tamil	Voiceover in credits	[91]
2022	Rocketry: The Nambi Effect	Director, producer, screenwriter	Tamil Hindi English		[92]
2024	Sarfira	Narrator	Hindi	Voiceover in credits

Television

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes	Ref(s)
1993	Yule Love Story	Crook	Hindi		[93]
1993 – 1997	Banegi Apni Baat	Ashley Alexander	Hindi		[94]
1995	A Mouthful of Sky	N/A	English		[95]
1995	Suhana Safar	N/A	Hindi		[96]
1996	Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum	Raj Parmar	Hindi		[97]
1995	Badalte Rishtey	Abhilash Verma	Hindi		[97]
1996	Hum Dono	Rahul	Hindi		[citation needed]
1995 – 1996	Aarohan	Shammi	Hindi		[98]
1996	Aahat	Raj	Hindi		[citation needed]
1997	Raj Kahani	Aditya / Mungi[c]	Hindi		[99]
1997 – 1998	Ghar Jamai	Subodh	Hindi		[100]
1997 – 1998	Sea Hawks	Preet	Hindi		[101]
1997	Kabhie Kabhie	N/A	Hindi		[102]
1997	Tol Mol Ke Bol	Host	Hindi		[103]
1998	Saaya	Shekhar	Hindi		[2]
2000	Rishtey	Sameer	Hindi	Segment: Kashish	[2]
2005 – 2006	Deal Ya No Deal	Host	Hindi		[104]
2009	CID	Himself	Hindi	Guest appearance	[105]
2010	Big Money	Host	Hindi		[106]
2018	The Final Table	Judge	English	Episode 5	[107]
2018	Breathe	Denzel Mascarenhas (Danny)	Hindi	Mini series	[108]
2021	Decoupled	Arya Iyer	Hindi		[109]
2023	The Railway Men	Rati Pandey	Hindi	Mini series	[110]

Documentaries

Film	Year	Role	Language	Ref(s)
2008	Herova? Zerova?	Himself	Tamil	[111]
2011	Big In Bollywood	Himself	English	[112]
2018	Mega Icons	Host	English	[113]
2021	India's Space Odyssey	Narrator	Hindi	[114]

Notes

1. Madhavan played dual roles in this film.
2. Although the film was made in both languages, he only shot his portions in Tamil.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000098-QINU`"'
3. Madhavan played dual roles in this series.