Anand (actor)

Anand
Born	(1968-02-21) 21 February 1968 (age 57) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (now in Telangana, India)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1988–present
Spouse	Poornima ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	1

Anand is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam films along with a few Kannada films. He has also acted in several Malayalam TV shows.

The actor's biggest film till date is Mani Ratnam's black comedy film Thiruda Thiruda , but unlike his co-stars of that film, it failed to give him a breakthrough. He has also played second lead roles and supporting characters in several films including Kamal Haasan's Sathya and Vijayakanth's Poonthotta Kaavalkaaran . ^[1]

Early and personal life

Anand was born in Hyderabad as the youngest of four sons. His father V. S. Bharathi, worked for Brooke Bond India Ltd, and his mother Rajalakshmi is a house wife. His brothers are B. Ramesh, a Vice President of Finance with Times of India , Dr. B. Suresh, a teacher at English Vivekananda College, and Bharat Arun, a former Indian cricketer and now bowling coach for Indian cricket team. Anand also owns a restaurant named Zenzerro in Thiruvananthapuram. ^{[2] [3]}

Anand has been married to actress Poornima since 2002.

Career

He made his film debut in 1987 with Vanna Kanavugal . ^{[4] [5]} He is best known for his works in films such as Sathya (1988), Anbe En Anbe (1988), Apoorva Sagodharargal (1989), Oor Mariyadhai (1992), Thalaivasal (1992), and Thiruda Thiruda (1993), screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. ^{[6] [7]}

Anand also produced and directed a Malayalam short film "Kassu Panam Thuttu Money Money". ^{[2] [3]} His recent works as a character actor include hits such as 1: Nenokkadine (2014), Ring Master (2014), Ivan Maryadaraman (2015), Srimanthudu (2015), and Gentleman (2016). ^[8]

Legal issues

In 2000, the actor was involved in drunk driving hit and run case, where he hit a police officer who had tried to stop him. The police officer, Ramachandran, subsequently died due to his injuries and the actor faced a murder charge. ^[4] The actor made a financial settlement with the victim's family. ^[5] Later he was acquitted, and was found innocent.^{[ citation needed ]}

His house in Uthandi, Chennai was burgled in 2008 and the actor cited that it was an "inside job". ^[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes
1987	Vanna Kanavugal		Tamil
1988	Sathya	Anand	Tamil
	Poonthotta Kaavalkaaran	Anand	Tamil
	Anbe En Anbe		Tamil
	Dharma Teja		Telugu
	Annanagar Mudhal Theru	Flirty son	Tamil
	Sudhanthira Naattin Adimaigal		Tamil
1989	Apoorva Sagodharargal	Vincent	Tamil
	En Kanavar		Tamil
1990	Nila Penne	Krishnamoorthy	Tamil
	Adhisaya Manithan	Vivek	Tamil
	Kadapa Redamma		Telugu
	Anjali	Anjali's friend	Tamil
1991	Master Plan	Antony	Malayalam
	En Pottukku Sonthakkaran		Tamil
	Manchi Roju		Telugu
	Adhikari	Sarath	Tamil
1992	Oor Mariyadhai	Kannan	Tamil
	Thalaivasal	Sudhakar	Tamil
	Mudhal Kural	Kumaran	Tamil
1993	Chinna Mapillai	Mythili's husband	Tamil
	Thiruda Thiruda	Kadhir	Tamil
	Naan Pesa Ninaipathellam	Anand	Tamil
1994	Muthal Payanam		Tamil
	Ammayi Kapuram	Aravind	Telugu
1995	Kizhakku Malai		Tamil
	Aunty	Anand	Telugu
	Street Fighter		Telugu
	Khaidi Inspector [9]	Kumar	Telugu
1996	Avathara Purushan	Anand	Tamil
	Merupu	Naveen	Telugu
	Srikaram	Chandram	Telugu
	Akka Bagunnava	Chandu	Telugu
	Amma Nanna Kaavaali		Telugu
	Pellaala Rajyam	Gopi	Telugu
1997	Kurralla Rajyam		Telugu
1998	Kondattam	Anand	Tamil
	Sollamale	Riyaz	Tamil
	Snehithulu	Vijay	Telugu
1999	Ninaivirukkum Varai	Aravind	Tamil
	Malabar Police	Anand	Tamil
	Seenu	Riyaz	Telugu
	Unnaruge Naan Irundhal	Anand	Tamil
	Aasaiyil Oru Kaditham	Anand	Tamil
2000	Vaanathaippola	Anand	Tamil
	Ennavale	Anand	Tamil
2001	Vande Matharam	Citizen rights council member	Kannada
	Deevinchandi		Telugu
	Love Channel	Anand	Tamil
	Sri Manjunatha	Manjunatha's friend	Kannada
2002	Red	Radha krishnan	Tamil
	Raajjiyam	Kiran Kumar	Tamil
2003	Naaga		Telugu
	Nee Manasu Naaku Telusu	Sridhar's brother-in-law	Telugu
	Enakku 20 Unakku 18	Sridhar's brother-in-law	Tamil
2004	Shweta Nagu		Telugu
2005	The Tiger	Sudev Sachidanand IPS — Musafir	Malayalam
	Thommanum Makkalum	Kaliyappan	Malayalam
	Alaiyadikkuthu		Tamil
	Udayananu Tharam	Dinesh	Malayalam
2006	Yes Your Honour	DFO Sarath Shetty	Malayalam
	Vargam	Sheriff	Malayalam
	Chacko Randaaman	Kaalan Madhavan	Malayalam
	Oruvan	SI Madhavan	Malayalam
2007	Payum Puli	Ravishankar	Malayalam
	July 4	Vincent	Malayalam
	Inspector Garud	Saravanan	Malayalam
	Ali Bhai	Bhaskaran	Malayalam
2008	Aandavan	Sadashivan	Malayalam
2009	Josh	Sathya's father	Telugu
	Muthirai	Azhagar Thondaiman	Tamil
2010	Marykkundoru Kunjaadu	Johnykutty	Malayalam
	Advocate Lakshman Ladies Only	Haridas	Malayalam
	Thanthonni		Malayalam
	The Thriller	City Police Commissioner Manmohan	Malayalam
	Andari Bandhuvaya		Telugu
2011	Arjunan Sakshi	Rajan Thomas	Malayalam
	Christian Brothers	Renjith	Malayalam
2012	Etho Seithai Ennai	Nambi	Tamil
	Kunjaliyan	Suresh Varma	Malayalam
	Ajantha	Singer	Kannada Malayalam
	My Boss	Mathew Abraham	Malayalam
	MLA Mani: Patham Classum Gusthiyum	Ananthan	Malayalam
2013	Caribbean	Shiva Subramaniyam	Malayalam
	Crocodile Love Story	DFO	Malayalam
2014	1: Nenokkadine	Chandrasekhar	Telugu
	Ring Master	Raju	Malayalam
2015	Ivan Maryadaraman	Indrasimhan Sooryasimhan	Malayalam
	Srimanthudu	Meghna's father	Telugu
	365 Days	Chandrasekhar	Telugu
2016	Kalyana Vaibhogame	Divya's father	Telugu
	Gentleman	Ram Prakash	Telugu
	Aatadukundam Raa	Anand Rao	Telugu
	Oozham	Karthikeyan	Malayalam
2017	Mister	Chai's father	Telugu
	Thikka	Madan Mohan	Telugu
	Rangoon	DRI Officer Syed Nawazuddin	Tamil
	Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi	Abhi's father	Telugu
	Villain	Dinesh Tharakan	Malayalam
	Yuddham Sharanam		Telugu
2018	Savyasachi	Mahalakshmi's husband	Telugu
	Juvva	Sivakrishna Hegde	Telugu
2019	Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy	Kumara Mallareddy	Telugu
	Maharshi	Ramavaram District Collector	Telugu
	Dear Comrade	Bobby's father	Telugu
2020	IIT Krishnamurthy	Srinivasa Rao	Telugu
	Joshua		Malayalam
2021	Cold Case	Aadhavan Padmanabhan	Malayalam
	Varudu Kaavalenu	Karthik's father	Telugu
2023	Paayum Oli Nee Yenakku		Tamil
	Kolai	DCP Tilak Varma	Tamil
2024	Siddharth Roy		Telugu
2025	Dilruba		Telugu
	Arjun Son of Vyjayanthi	Vishwanath	Telugu

Television

Year	Title	Network	Language
1998	Peyarai Solla Vaa	Sun TV	Tamil
2000	Nippulanti Nijam	ETV	Telugu
2001	Sigaram	Sun TV	Tamil
	Soolam
2004	Aalipazham	Surya TV	Malayalam
2005	Kadamattathu Kathanar	Asianet
2006	Ezham Kadalinakkare
2007	Swami Ayyappan
2010–2012	Idhayam	Sun TV	Tamil
2011	Devimahatmyam	Asianet	Malayalam
	Sabarimala Shridharma Shastha
2012	Veera Marthandavarma	Surya TV
	Dost	Kairali TV
2015	Spandanam	Surya TV
	7 Raatrikal	Asianet
2016–2017	Kayamkulam Kochunniyude Makan	Surya TV
2018	Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo	ETV	Telugu
2020–2021	Ammayariyathe	Asianet	Malayalam
2020–2023	Anbe Vaa	Sun TV	Tamil
2021	Kannana Kanne
	Rudramadevi	Star Maa	Telugu
2025- present	Teacher Amma	Asianet	Malayalam

References

1. "Google Groups" . Retrieved 7 April 2020.
2. "Actor Anand - official website". actoranand.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
3. "Anand". IMDB. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
4. "Rediff On The NeT, Movies: Our weekly box office update". Rediff. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
5. "rediff.com, Movies: Gossip from the southern film industry". Rediff. 30 June 2000. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
6. Nayar, Parvathi (25 June 2010). "Jewel of Indian cinema". AsiaOne . Retrieved 19 May 2012.
7. Ramya Kannan (9 August 2002). "Facts on films". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
8. "Burglars strike at actor Anand's house". The Times of India . 1 August 2008. Archived from the original on 19 November 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
9. Ganesh Videos (5 November 2014). Khaidi Inspector Full Length Telugu Movie || Suman, Rambha, Maheshwari || Ganesh Videos . Retrieved 24 November 2024– via YouTube.

External links

• Anand at IMDb