Mithun Tejasvi

Mithun Tejasvi is an Indian film actor who has majorly worked in Tamil and Kannada based movies. He was born on December 15th, 1979, in Mudigere taluk of the Chikamagalur district in Karnataka, India. He sought his school education from The Poornapraja English primary school, located in a small town called Aldur. He had to travel almost 40kms every day to reach the school which was situated on a hill, surrounded by coffee estates. He then shifted to Bangalore to complete his schooling. There, he was a student of The National College, which is famed for being established by well-known educationalist H Narasimhaiah. During his school days, he met a relative Mr. Ramesh Rao, who was a screenplay writer. Thus, he started spending a lot of time on different movie sets & came across many interesting people. When he was 16, he was spotted by a camera man Mr. Sundernath Suvarna, and was offered a role by him in the movie “Marikannu Horimyaage.” The role required him to play the heroin’s brother’s role and his screen time was around 10-15 minutes. This small yet worthy experience was very enriching for Tejaswi. He was offered his second role in the movie “Aryabhata” with Ramesh Aravind Ramesh Aravind [born 1964] is an Indian writer, ac >> Read More... and Late Soundarya. In the movie, he asked by Ramesh Aravind himself to play the role of his brother. While working for this movie, he found his calling in acting and decided to make it his profession.

Therefore, instead of continuing his studies, he went on to pursue acting. To further his acting skills, he shifted to Chennai and started training at the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu (FTIT). While pursuing his studies in Chennai, he ventured to create many contacts in Tamil film industry. Immediately after completing his course, he landed a role in the Kannada movie, “Haalu Sakkare”. After Haalu Sakkare, he acted in Tamil movies like Suki S. Murthi’s debut film Gummalam, Kanmani’s Aaha Ethna Azagu, which literally means Wow! What Beauty, and Arunmoorthy’s unreleased film Wullam. There was a recognizable improvement in his performance from one movie to another. In 2006, he bagged a role in the movie 7’O clock in Kannada. This role gave him the required recognition and acclaim by the movie industry. On 26 March 2006, Tejasvi married a software engineer named Rohini. He is currently working on a Tamil based television sitcom which airs on SunTV titled- Apoorva Raagangal. After the movie 7’O clock, Tejaswi did many notable movies like Lena Muvendhar’s Kannukulle (2009) and director Shankar’s debut film Antharathma (2010), which was an adaptation of the Oscar-winning Hollywood film titled Ghost. His latest blockbuster was a Tamil movie called Inippu Pulippu, a family entertainer which was released in 2014. Tejaswi continues to be an acclaimed actor of the South Indian film industry.