Arvind Swamy is one of the finest actors from Indian film industry. He has many blockbusters in his account. Arvind Swamy was a successful businessmen before entering into the acting career. He made his acting debut with Mani Ratnam’s movie Thalapathi in which he played a character of young collector and was pitted against a Don. After that Arvind was signed by Mani for the 1992 blockbuster Roja and Bombay. Arvind got National as well as State Film Awards for both the movies and his acting skills in Bombay were also noted by the Time Magazine. After getting critically acclaimed so early in his career Arvind was seen in several Tamil blockbuster movies for which he received several awards and recognitions. His 1997 super hit Minsaara Kanavu, again gave him national award along with great box office success. He also lend his for the Tamil version of Disney’s The Lion king. In the year 2000, Arvind took a temporary retirement from acting to concentrate on his business. He later decided to return back to acting world but because of his physical injury he was had to wait. Then finally in 2013 he returned to silver screen in Mani Ratnam’s Kadal for which Arvind had to lose 15 kg’s.