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Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthoori Raja (born 28 July 1982) better known by his stage name Dhanush, is an Indian film actor, producer, director, writer, lyricist, screenwriter and playback singer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. Starring in 44 films over his career, he has won nine Vijay Awards, seven Filmfare Awards South, five Vikatan Awards, five Edison Awards and three National Film Awards.

Dhanush’s first film was Thulluvadho Ilamai, a 2002 coming-of-age film directed by his father, Kasthuri Raja. He collaborated with debutant director Vetrimaaran in Polladhavan (2007) which was critically acclaimed and commercially successful. He collaborated with Vetrimaaran for the second time in Aadukalam (2010), where his role as a rooster fight jockey in the film won him Best Actor at the 58th National Film Awards and Best Tamil Actor Award at the 60th Filmfare Awards South.

Dhanush made his Bollywood debut with Aanand L Rai‘s Raanjhanaa (2013). His performance as an obsessive one-sided lover in the film won him the Best Male Debut Award and earned a Best Actor nomination at the 59th Filmfare Awards. Dhanush produces films through his production company, Wunderbar Films. He made his directorial debut with Pa Paandi (2017).

In 2011, Dhanush’s popular song “Why this Kolaveri Di” from the film 3 (2012) became the first Indian music video to cross 100 million views on YouTube. His song “Rowdy Baby” from the action comedy film Maari 2 (2018) became one of the most-viewed Indian songs of all time. As of March 2020, it is the only South Indian video song to receive more than 800 million views on YouTube.

Personal life

Dhanush was born to Tamil film director and producer Kasthuri Raja on 28 July 1982. He entered acting after being pressured by his brother, director Selvaraghavan. Dhanush married Aishwarya, Rajinikanth‘s eldest daughter on 18 November 2004. They have two sons named Yatra and Linga, who were born in 2006 and 2010.

filmography

Year	Film	Role(s)	Director(s)	Note(s)	Ref.
2002	Thulluvadho Ilamai	Mahesh	Kasthuri Raja		[19]
2003	Kaadhal Kondein	Vinod	Selvaraghavan	Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[20]
2003	Thiruda Thirudi	Vasu	Subramaniam Siva		[21]
2004	Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan	Saravanan	S. S. Stanley		[22]
2004	Sullan	Subramani (Sullan)[a]	Ramana		[23]
2004	Dreams	Sakthi	Kasthuri Raja		[24]
2005	Devathaiyai Kanden	Babu	Boopathy Pandian		[25]
2005	Adhu Oru Kana Kaalam	Seenu	Balu Mahendra		[26]
2006	Pudhupettai	Kokki Kumar	Selvaraghavan		[27]
2006	Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam	Thiru Kumaran	Boopathy Pandian		[28]
2007	Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram	Azhagu Sundaram (Parattai)[a]	Suresh Krissna		[29]
2007	Polladhavan	Prabhu	Vetrimaaran		[30] [31]
2008	Yaaradi Nee Mohini	Vasu	Mithran Jawahar	Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[32]
2008	Kuselan	Himself	P. Vasu	Special appearance in the song “Cinema Cinema”	[33]
2009	Padikkadavan	Radhakrishnan (Rocky)[a]	Suraj		[34]
2010	Kutty	Kutty	Mithran Jawahar		[35]
2010	Uthamaputhiran	Siva	Mithran Jawahar		[36]
2011	Aadukalam	K. P. Karuppu	Vetrimaaran	National Film Award for Best Actor Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[37]
2011	Seedan	Saravanan	Subramaniam Siva	Cameo appearance	[38]
2011	Mappillai	Saravanan	Suraj		[39]
2011	Venghai	Selvam	Hari		[40]
2011	Mayakkam Enna	Karthik Swaminathan	Selvaraghavan		[41]
2012	3	Ram	Aishwarya R. Dhanush	Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer – Tamil	[42]
2013	Proprietors: Kammath & Kammath	Himself	Thomson K. Thomas	Malayalam film Cameo appearance	[43]
2013	Ethir Neechal	Himself	R. S. Durai Senthilkumar	Special appearance in the song “Local Boys”	[44] [45]
2013	Raanjhanaa	Kundhan Shankar	Aanand L Rai	Hindi film Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actor	[46] [47] [48]
2013	Maryan	Maryaan	Bharat Bala	Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor – South Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[49] [50]
2013	Naiyaandi	Chinna Vandu	A. Sarkunam		[51]
2014	Velaiilla Pattadhari	Raghuvaran	Velraj	Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[52]
2015	Shamitabh	Danish	R. Balki	Hindi film	[53]
2015	Anegan	Ashwin, Murugappa, Kaali[b]	K. V. Anand	Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[54]
2015	Vai Raja Vai	Kokki Kumar	Aishwarya R. Dhanush	Special appearance	[55]
2015	Maari	Maari	Balaji Mohan		[56]
2015	Thanga Magan	Thamizh	Velraj		[57]
2016	Thodari	Poochiyappan	Prabhu Solomon		[58]
2016	Kodi	Kodi, Anbu[c]	R. S. Durai Senthilkumar	Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil	[59]
2017	Pa Paandi	Paandi (Paandian Pazhanisami)[d]	Dhanush	Also director and screenwriter	[18]
2017	Velaiilla Pattadhari 2	Raghuvaran	Soundarya Rajinikanth	Also screenwriter Simultaneously shot in Telugu as VIP 2	[61] [62]
2018	The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir	Ajatashatru Lavash Patel (Aja)[a]	Ken Scott	English film	[63] [64]
2018	Vada Chennai	Anbu	Vetrimaaran		[65]
2018	Maari 2	Maari	Balaji Mohan		[66]
2019	Asuran	Sivasamy	Vetrimaaran		[67]
2019	Enai Noki Paayum Thota	Raghu	Gautham Menon		[68]
2020	Pattas	Shakthi, Thiraviyaperumal[c]	R. S. Durai Senthilkumar		[69]
2020	Jagame Thandhiram	TBA	Karthik Subbaraj	Filming	[70]
2020	Karnan	TBA	Mari Selvaraj	Filming	[71]
2021	Atrangi Re	TBA	Aanand L. Rai	Hindi film; Filming	[72]