Venu Arvind

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Venu Arvind
Born (1965-11-09) 9 November 1965 (age 59) [1]
Occupation(s)Stage artist, actor, dubbing artist, director
Years active1985-present
Spouse
Shoba
(m. 1987)
Children2 (Veena, Vijay)

Venu Arvind is an Indian actor. He is known for his roles in television serials of K. Balachander and Kovai Anuradha. He initially gained popularity as lead hero of television serials with Costly Mappilai (1996), Green Signal (1997) both directed by Kovai Anuradha. Then K. Balachander directed him in Kadhal Pagadai (1997), Kasalavu Nesam (1999).

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He played the leading antagonist Ranga in the television soap Alaigal which was super successful and his role is popular among the audiences even now. [2]

He debuted as a director with the film Sabash Sariyaana Potti. He has been married to Shoba since 1987 and the couple have two children, a daughter, Veena and a son, Vijay. He was the first TV actor to win kalaimamani award in 2007. [3]

Filmography

Films

As actor
YearFilmRoleNotes
1983 Muthu Engal Sothu
1984Nyayam Ketkiren
1985 Andha Oru Nimidam Inspector Raju
Pagal Nilavu ChandrasekharUncredited
Padikkadha Pannaiyar Pannaiyar's son
1998 Iniyavale
2000 Alai Payuthey ACP Arumugam
2001 Ennavalle Kumar
2001 Narasimha
2006 Vallavan
2007 Naalaiya Pozhuthum Unnodu Sakthi's uncle
Vegam
2008Megam
2010Azhukkan Azhagakiran
2011 Sabash Sariyana Potti also director
2021 Oh Manapenne! Karthick's father
As director
As dubbing artist
YearTitleActorLanguageNotes
1984Kadamai Arjun Tamil [4]
1985Vilangu MeenHariprasad
1990 Paadagan Kamal Haasan Dubbed Version
1994 May Madham Vineeth
1999Kaadhal Vaangi VanthenAravind KhathareTeleserial

Television serials

Television seriesYearRole
Nilapenn
SivamayamDetective Pandiyan
Costly Maapilai1996Kalyanraman
Green Signal1997
Rishimoolam
Raghuvamsam
Kadhal Pagadai 1997Raj Babu
Kasalavu Nesam 1999Gautham
Alaiosai2001–2004
Vazhkkai2000–2001Prabhakar
Irandaam Chanakyan2001-2002Thiagarajan / Kumar
Alaigal 2001–2003Rangarajan "Ranga/Raja"
Agnisakshi2002
Janani2003
Adugiran Kannan2003-2005Arvind Krishna
Sivamayam2004–2005Pandian
Selvi / Arasi2005–2009Ganesan Jayadev "GJ/Deva"
Manjal Mahimai2007–2008Sanjay
Vani Rani 2013–2018Bhoominathan
Kuttiz2018–2019Rajeev
Chandrakumari 2019Neelakantan
Thayamma Kudumbathaar 2024–2025Velmurugan

References

  1. "Tamil Tv Actor Venu Arvind Biography, News, Photos, Videos".
  2. Chitra Swaminathan (24 March 2003). "Serialised success". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 19 April 2003.
  3. Parthasarathy, Anusha (19 April 2012). "The dark knight". The Hindu.
  4. "Dubbing in Tamil cinema | Venu Arvind | Vinadigal with Venu". Venu Arvind Official. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 25 March 2025 via Youtube.