Sathish Muthukrishnan (born 23 May 1987) is an Indian actor and comedian working in the
Tamil film industry. He made a breakthrough portraying a role alongside
Sivakarthikeyan
Sivakarthikeyan (born 17 February 1985), also referred to as SK, is an Indian actor, singer, film producer, lyricist, and television presenter, who works predominantly in Tamil films. He has also won a Tamil Nadu State Film Award, four Edison ...
in ''
Ethir Neechal'' (2013). He won
Edison Award for Best Comedian for his performance in ''
Kaththi'' (2014), ''
Thangamagan'' (2015) and ''
Remo
Remo Inc. is an American musical instruments manufacturing company based in Valencia, California, and founded by Remo Belli in 1957. Products manufactured include drum kits, drumheads, drums, and hardware.
History
Drummer and founder R ...
'' (2016) and
Edison Award for Best Appearance for the film ''
Tamizh Padam 2'' (2018).
Personal life
Born in a middle-class brahmin family, Sathish barely attended school and worked part-time jobs alongside his studies to support his family. Interested in cinema, he joined Crazy Mohan's Troupe in 2001, at the age of 14 and performed for nearly 8 years as part of the troupe. Crazy Mohan saw potential in Sathish and took him as one of his own, educated him and supported him financially and helped him land small roles in ''
Jerry
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'' and other small roles until 2009. He received many awards for his dramas in Crazy Mohan from Kamal Haasan and other celebrities.
Sathish married Sindhu in December 2019 and the marriage was attended by many celebrities including
Sivakarthikeyan
Sivakarthikeyan (born 17 February 1985), also referred to as SK, is an Indian actor, singer, film producer, lyricist, and television presenter, who works predominantly in Tamil films. He has also won a Tamil Nadu State Film Award, four Edison ...
,
Vijay Sethupathi
Vijaya Gurunatha Sethupathi (born 16 January 1978), known professionally as Vijay Sethupathi, is an Indian actor and film producer who predominantly works in Tamil films. He is a recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award.
Fo ...
,
Jiiva
Amar Choudary (born 4 January 1984), known professionally as Jiiva, is an Indian actor and film producer who works mainly in Tamil cinema and a few Hindi films. He is the youngest son of film producer R. B. Choudary. He began his career as a c ...
,
Vijay Antony,
Udhayanidhi Stalin
Udhayanidhi Stalin (born 27 November 1977) is an Indian film producer, actor, and politician who prominently works in the Tamil cinema. He is the Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development of Tamil Nadu in the ministry led by his father, ...
, and many others. The couple have a daughter named Niharika, born 4 November 2020.
Career
Sathish worked with
Crazy Mohan
Mohan Rangachari (16 October 1952 – 10 June 2019) known professionally as Crazy Mohan, was an Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright. An engineer by profession, Mohan started writing plays and established his own drama troupe calle ...
in his theatre troupe for eight years, honing his histrionics and acting, while also helping write dialogues for his productions and acting in their stage play "Chocolate Krishna".
A. L. Vijay made him a co-dialogue writer for ''
Poi Solla Porom
''Poi Solla Porom'' () is a 2008 Tamil comedy film directed by A. L. Vijay. It is a remake of the Hindi film '' Khosla Ka Ghosla'' and stars Karthik Kumar, debutante Piaa Bajpai, and Nedumudi Venu, alongside an ensemble supporting cast includi ...
'' (2008), before offering him an acting role in ''
Madrasapattinam
''Madrasapattinam'' () is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language historical romantic drama film written and directed by A. L. Vijay. The film stars Arya and Amy Jackson, in her feature film debut, while Nassar, Cochin Hanifa, Lisa Lazarus, and Al ...
'' (2010), but his debut was in the movie ''Jerry'' (2006) where he played a small role named fariq where he was shown in two shots without any dialogue.
In 2013 he appeared in Senthil Kumar's ''
Ethir Neechal'' portraying Peter, with a critic noting that
Sivakarthikeyan
Sivakarthikeyan (born 17 February 1985), also referred to as SK, is an Indian actor, singer, film producer, lyricist, and television presenter, who works predominantly in Tamil films. He has also won a Tamil Nadu State Film Award, four Edison ...
and Sathish "complement each other’s comic timing". His next notable role was as an IT professional Sandy in ''
Maan Karate
''Maan Karate'' () is a 2014 Tamil-language sports comedy film written and directed by Krish Thirukumaran. The film was written and co-produced by AR Murugadoss and produced by P. Madhan under banner of Escape Artists Motion Pictures. It s ...
'' (2014), written by
AR Murugadoss
Murugadoss Arunasalam (born 25 September 1974), commonly known as A. R. Murugadoss, is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He is best known for directing action films mainly on ...
.
He played an important role in ''
Kaththi'' (2014), co-starring
Vijay in the lead role.
He received
Edison Award for Best Comedian for the films ''Kaththi'' (2014), ''
Thangamagan'' (2015) and ''
Remo
Remo Inc. is an American musical instruments manufacturing company based in Valencia, California, and founded by Remo Belli in 1957. Products manufactured include drum kits, drumheads, drums, and hardware.
History
Drummer and founder R ...
'' (2016).
Sathish played the role of an antagonist in the 2018 parody film ''
Tamizh Padam 2'', which was written and directed by C. S. Amudhan.
He marks his debut as a lead actor in ''
Naai Sekar'' (2022). Sathish has chosen a wise script and put up a solid performance as the story's lead.
Filmography
References
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Indian male film actors
Male actors in Tamil cinema
Living people
Tamil comedians
1987 births
People from Salem district