Surya Shivakumar is an Indian actor who has starred in the films Lionheart, Overcome Yourself and All Together. He also works as a TV presenter and producer.
Biography and personal life
Surya was born on July 23, 1975 in Chennai, India. The actor's real name is Saravanan. Surya is a stage name. His father, Palaniswami Gounder, is a Tamil actor known to viewers under the pseudonym Sivakumar. Surya also works for Tamil television. A boy and a girl grew up in the Shikavumar family. Surya's brother also became an actor. Shivakumar was educated at Loyola College and graduated as a merchant.
He did not aspire to be an actor. Surya was going to export clothes. He even turned down offers to act in films. In the end, he agreed to one of them, but only to earn money to start his own company. The first roles were disastrous, because Saravanan did not know anything about acting. The painting "The Son of a Mother" in 2001 helped him to feel what to do in front of the camera, how to behave. The director Bala was pleased with the work of Surya. For his role, Shivakumar received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award.
Since 2006, Surya has been married to the Indian actress Jyotika. The couple have several joint films. Their family has two children - daughter Divya was born in 2007, son Dev was born in 2010.
Creativity and career
Surya's first film is called Face to Face. It came out in 1997. Vasant became the director of this dramatic action movie. The next work of the young actor was the melodrama "Love is the whole world", filmed with the participation of such actors as Githa, Manivannan, Murali, Nasser, Radhika, Thalaivasal Vijay and Vivek. A year later, Surya played with his future wife in the melodrama "Reconciliation". In 2001, Shivakumar starred in a melodrama with elements of the comedy Friends.
Surya's most successful film was the action drama Son of God, directed by Bala. The film stars Chiyan Vikram, Laila, Sangeeta, Mahadevan, Karunas, Monobala and Rajendran. The film tells the story of how the lives of several people bizarrely intersect. Surya plays Shakti in her, a successful, eloquent swindler who lures money from naive people. One girl, whom he repeatedly deceived, turned him over to the police.
A year later, he landed the lead role in Mani Ratnam's action movie Youth. His partners on the set were Madhavan, Siddharth, Mira Jasmine, Esha Deol, Trisha Krishnan, Bharathi Raja, Janagaraj and Karti Shivakumar. The film tells about the fate of the killer, politician and student. Surya got the role of Michael in it.
In 2006, Surya and Jotyka played the main roles in the melodrama Love is a Breeze. According to the plot, the spouse accidentally learns that she was not taken as a wife for love, that her husband is still faithful to his past lover in his heart. In 2008, Surya, along with the Indian actress Simran, starred in Gautam Menon's musical "Surya, the son of Krishnan." The film describes the life of a man for whom his father has always been an example. In the filmography of the actor there are many successful, rating films, for example, "Blood Story", "Aaru", "Gemini", "Elusive" and "The Most Beautiful".
