Maruthi
Maruthi Raj (born April 6, 1989) is an Indian film actor better known by his stage name Maruthi who mainly appears in south Indian films. He is currently working in the Tamil film industry. He is a good dancer and a martial artist. He is the son of Nellai.K.Vasanthan, a famous Astrologer in Southern Asia.
Early life and family
He has a very strong love towards cinema right from his young age. He not only chose film industry as a passion and hobby but also as his profession. He set his goal towards cinema and completed Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication on the process of achieving his goal. His College Project 1960 short film has won him 3rd price in an National level competition and was screened in Theaters
Career
He began his career as an assistant director in the year 2010 in the film Pournami Naagam. Later in the year 2011 he joined as an assistant to director Vikraman for the film Ilamai Naatkal. Director Vikraman identified his acting skills and gave him the lead role in that film. Later however the film was dropped due to some financing issues. In the year 2014 his uncle PL Babu offered him a lead role in the film titled Marumunai which was produced under the banner of MPL Films by PL Babu and PL Subu in which he made his debut. He made the audience set their eyes on him through his extraordinary performance. The film was directed by Mariesh Kumar in which maruthi portrays as Kathir, a medical college student from a poor family background. The film was launched in March 2014 and had Maruthi pair up with fellow rookie actress Mrudhula Baskar. He transformed himself for the character by shedding few kg’s of weight in a short notable period of time. He received good positive reviews from the critics. iluvcinema.com stated that “Maruthi has delivered his best as a student with required looks and expressions”. Similarly few other newspaper reviews stated that “Kollywood has found its new charm boy”. While other papers stated “when you talk about the next generation actors you need to mention this name, Maruthi”. After the success of this film he got committed under the same banner for the next film and also production and post production work for Marumunai in other languages is under process.[1]