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Soundararaja

Soundararaja
Actor Soundararaja.jpg
Born (1983-08-11) August 11, 1983 (age 33)
Occupation Actor, producer
Years active 2008–present

Soundararaja (சௌந்தரராஜா) is an Indian film actor and short film producer who appears in Tamil films. Following a stint as a system engineer had worked in Singapore and France he bagun considering acting as career. He was working as a background actor, playing minor supporting roles for over five years; he started his career as villain role in S.R.Prabakaran in Sundarapandian (2012), Varuthapadatha Valiber Sangam (2013), Jigarthanda(2014), in between he did many roles in various projects again in 2016 he acted as Villain again in Dharma Durai (2016 film) (2016) with his best friend Vijay Sethupathi. In the same year 2016 he got introduced as a second Hero in Enakku Veru Engum Kilaigal Kidayathu (2016), with Goundamani. which earned critical and commercial success, turned Soundararaja into a popular name in Tamil cinema.

Soundararaja was born in Usilampatti, Madurai District he finished schooling and college in his native place, then he moved to Chennai. According to Soundararaja he was an average student right from school and was interested in neither sports nor extra-curricular activities.

He did a series of odd jobs for pocket money: Salesman at a retail store, promoter and many part-time jobs in Chennai. He graduated with a B.E degree from Bharth Niketan Engineering College affiliated by Madurai Kamaraj University in 2004. Three months after he finished college, he joined as an project engineer in Invensys India Pvt Ltd, due to his performance and project need he deputed to Singapore in 2005 after 2006 he moved Technip France US-based company from there he deputed to Qatar in 2007.

Unhappy with his job, he returned to India in 2008. After he started new film production company called Madurai Touring Talkies with his childhood friend M. Manikandan director of Kaaka Muttai and also he invested some money in share market business with friends, he joined Koothup-pattarai acting drama school in 2010. He and his friends Manikandan and Karthik Subbaraj director of Jigarthanda produced many short film under his banners(Madurai Touring Talkies.) 1. Thuru, 2.Raavanm, 3.Petticase, 4. Wind 5. Aram etc. with his friends' support.


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