Suresh (actor)

Suresh, born Mysore Seshaiah Suresh Babu Naidu, is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Tamil and Telugu films. The actor made his debut in the 1981 Tamil film, Panneer Pushpangal, before going on to becoming one of the leading actor in the Tamil film industry through the 1980s having acted in more than 100 Films as Leading Man.

In the Nineties Entered Telugu Film Industry and acted in more than 130 films as Hero till 2003. Switched to character roles and last seen in Aval (2017) with Siddarth directed by Milind Rau ^[1]

Early life

Suresh was brought up in Chennai and was educated at oxford English High School before moving on to complete his education at Shrine vailankanni English School. Went on to complete his Graduation in Commerce and Post Graduation as an MBA in the 90's while simultaneously pursuing his acting career.^[2] He was married to Anita Suresh and Divorced. He has one son named Nikhil Suresh.

Career

Suresh's Grandfather Seshaiah Naidu was a Poet, Writer and Lyric writer of a few films before he went back to his Teaching proffession. Father M.S.Gopinath is a renowned director who had done 34 films as Director and Producer in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada Films with the then Leading heroes like NTR, ANR, Krishna, Sobhan Babu and the last being Raman Parasuraman (1980) with Sivakumar in the Lead. As his family was into films, Suresh's progression in to the industry was natural and initially tried to make it as an editing assistant and also as a dance assistant for some time. A photographer friend of his dad's opined that Suresh could make it as a lead actor and with a portfolio, Suresh approached director C. V. Sridhar to feature in his films, but his effort went in vain. He then met director duo Santhana Bharathi and P. Vasu who decided to cast him their venture, Panneer Pushpangal (1981), while simultaneously he was cast in the lead role in Bharathiraja's Alaigal Oivathillai (1981) presenting him with a dilemma of which film to choose.^[3] He chose the former, but both films went on to becoming large commercial successes during the period. Till the 1990s, Suresh played the role of a lover boy in many films and at eventually opted against signing such roles and took time out from Tamil films. During the period he enhanced his career in Telugu cinema, while also producing four films and Seven Television serials.

He made a comeback to Tamil films in 2006 after signing the Srikanth starrer Kizhakku Kadalkarai Salai and has since worked in other notable productions in supporting roles including Aasal (2010) alongside Ajith Kumar.^[4] In 2012, Suresh appeared in the Tamil-Telugu bilingual film Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi directed by Balaji Mohan, playing the character of Akilan Venkatesan, who was going through a mid-life crisis. On his Twitter page, the an indu]] noting that he was "effective".^[5]

Suresh is currently hosting and is a judge in the competitive cooking game show "Kitchen Superstar".

Apart from acting, Suresh directed a Telugu film called "Bhavani" starring himself in lead role.Produced 4 Feature films Prarthana, Bhavani, Sivudu and Raghava. Produced 7 Successful Television Drama serials in Telugu and Tamil Languages of more than 2000 Episodes together, Creative Directing/Supervising all of them. He has also worked as an Dubbing/Voice Over artist by providing voices for Ajith Kumar in Aasai (1995) and for Nagarjuna in Idhayathai Thirudathe (1989) Siva (1989), Ratchagan (1997) and a few others.

Filmography

References

External links

• Suresh on IMDb