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R. Madhavan
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Indian actor, film director, and producer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Museum of Kerala History and its makers
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 448
- Total plays
- 4,496
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome
· 2021 · cited 4,250x
- Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
· 2021 · cited 4,163x
- Extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19
· 2020 · cited 2,647x
- COVID-19 and Thrombotic or Thromboembolic Disease: Implications for Prevention, Antithrombotic Therapy, and Follow-Up
· 2020 · cited 2,353x
- BDD100K: A Diverse Driving Dataset for Heterogeneous Multitask Learning
· 2020 · cited 2,176x
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Quotes
- “I am the kind of guy who believes that films are supposed to be entertainment. I do not subscribe much to movies that leave you with a lingering feeling, make you feel angry or depressed. I am not yet ready to make films like that. I have grown up with films that are entertaining. Since I am such a huge fan of entertainment, I believe that the films that I do should also be entertaining, people can talk about it for three days and forget about it.”
- “When you see what goes on inside a slaughterhouse, I think you'll lose your appetite for animal flesh, too… Animals feel pain, just as people do. They value their lives, just as we value ours. They're terrified by the sights and smells of the slaughterhouse, and they fight for every last breath. I hope you'll also make the compassionate choice to go vegetarian.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Ranganathan Madhavan , ( 1970-06-01 ) 1 June 1970 (age 56) , Jamshedpur , Bihar (now in Jharkhand ), India
- Occupations
- Actor screenwriter film producer film director
- Years active
- 1993–present
- Works
- Full list
- Spouse
- Sarita Birje ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1999 )
- Children
- Vedaant Madhavan
- Awards
- Padma Shri (2026)
- Preceded by
- Shekhar Kapur
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ranganathan Madhavan (born 1 June 1970) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, film producer, and film director who predominantly works in Tamil and Hindi cinema. Madhavan has appeared in over 70 films, he has won one National Film Award, five Filmfare Awards South, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, and five SIIMA Awards. He was awarded Padma Shri by Government of India in 2026 in field of Art. Since September 2023, Madhavan is the President of FTII, Pune.
Madhavan attained his first break in Tamil cinema with Mani Ratnam's romantic drama Alai Payuthey (2000) and followed it with romantic roles in Gautham Vasudev Menon's directorial debut Minnale (2001) and Madras Talkies' Dumm Dumm Dumm (2001). He had major commercial successes in Run (2002), Thambi (2006) and Rendu (2006) and gained praise for his performances in Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Anbe Sivam (2003), Nala Damayanthi (2003) and Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004). Towards the late-2000s, Madhavan inclined to Hindi films with pivotal roles in three highly successful productions: the patriotic Rang De Basanti (2006), Mani Ratnam's biopic Guru (2007) and the comedy-drama 3 Idiots (2009), which went on to become the highest-grossing Indian film of all time at the time of its release. Simultaneously, he continued to appear in Tamil films like Evano Oruvan (2007) and Yavarum Nalam (2009).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “R. Madhavan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.