Raadhika Sarathkumar is an Indian

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, entrepreneur, producer and politician who works predominantly in Tamil cinema along with

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cinema as well as a few

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films. She is the founder and CP of the Radaan Mediaworks India Limited and doing serials in most of the south Indian languages. and is a recipient six

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, two

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and three

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards Tamil Nadu State Film Awards were given for excellence in Tamil cinema in India. They were given annually to honour the best talents and provide encouragement and incentive to the South Indian film industry by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Th ...

Personal life

Raadhika is the daughter of the late Tamil actor and comedian, M. R. Radha who hails from Tamil Nadu and Geetha who is a Sri Lankan. Raadhika did her education in India, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. She has a younger sister Nirosha, who is also an actress, and two younger brothers, Raju and Mohan. She also has an older half-brother Radha Ravi. Raadhika married actor Sarathkumar on 4 February 2001. They had been friends before their marriage and had been paired in two films: '' Namma Annachi'' (1994) and '' Suryavamsam'' (1997). The couple has a son named Rahul born in 2004. Her daughter Rayane married Cricketer Abhimanyu Mithun in 2016. Raadhika became a grandmother in 2018 when Rayane had a son.

Film career

She made her cinematic debut in 1978 Tamil Movie '' Kizhakke Pogum Rail''. Then she started acting in many Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam films. She has also produced a film titled '' Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai'' (1985), which won the

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. She was awarded Best Telugu Actress for '' Nyayam Kavali'' (1981), Best Tamil Actress for '' Dharma Devathai'' (1986), '' Neethikku Thandanai'' (1987) and '' Keladi Kanmani'' (1990). After becoming successful in cinema, Raadhika wanted to do something different and decided to take on the small screen, a venture that everyone thought was a mistake she would regret. But determined to pursue something she believed in, namely producing her own TV software under the Radaan Mediaworks, she started the same in 1994. After some initial hiccups, the company re-emerged successfully as Radaan Mediaworks (I) Ltd in 1999, and by 2008, had an annual turnover exceeding. She was a judge on

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'' Season 4. She produced serials such as ''Idi Katha Kadu'' (

), '' Chitti'', '' Annamalai'', ''Selvi'', ''Arasi'', '' Chellamay'', '' Vani Rani'', ''

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'' and '' Chithi - 2''. In September 2019, she was awarded as "Nadigavel Selvi" during audio launch of '' Market Raja MBBS''. She has won 1 - National Film Awards (Producer), 6 -

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and 1 -

Political career

She joined before the 2006 Assembly elections to join the AIADMK along with her husband R. Sarathkumar. On 18 October 2006, she was dismissed from AIADMK for anti-party activities. She was the vice president of All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi from 2007.

Awards and nominations

Filmography

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