Raghu Manivannan

Raghu Manivannan is an Indian actor, director, and scriptwriter who was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu to ace director Manivannan and Sengamalam. He is also known as Ragavendran or Raghuvannan. He completed his schooling from Sherwood Hall Senior Secondary School, Chennai. Raghuvannan has made many appearances in Tamil talkies. His debut movie was Maaran (2002) in which he played the character of Sudhandhiram and it was critically acclaimed and some critics from national dailies said that the role of a medical student suited him so much that the audience forgot he was acting.

After that he acted in many low budget movies with different characters as he did not get any big film offers including Thodakkam (2008) portraying the character of Vanchinathan, Goripalayam (2008) playing the part of Azhagappan, Thamizh Desam (2011), Nagaraja Cholan MA, MLA (2013) depicting the role of Gangaikondaan. Nagaraja Cholan MA, MLA was a milestone in his career as it was his father’s 50th directorial movie and additionally he played a leading role along with Sathyaraj and actress Komal Sharma.

He has done films alongside actors like Manoj Bharathiraja Manoj Bharathiraja also known as Manoj K. Bharathi >> Read More... and Kunal. On September 16th, 2013, he got married to Abigail Manuelraj, a native of London, United Kingdom. His wife gave birth to two children called Adhvik Benjamin born on 14th November 2016 and Aadhityan Bennaiah born on May 13th, 2018. Raghu Manivannan also has a sister called Jyothi. Before his father expired in 2013, he signed his next directorial project Thalattu Machi Thallatu that eventually got canceled due to his father’s death.

His father died of a cardiac arrest at his home and, after two months of Manivannan’s death, Raghuvannan’s mother also died. In February 2015, he announced a project for remaking director Manivannan’s Nooravathu Naal (1984) a mystery crime thriller. He signed Natarajan Subramaniam Natarajan Subramaniam is a cinematographer turned >> Read More... of Sathuranga Vettai fame to play the protagonist. He also roped in the music composer Niro Praba from AR Rahman team residing in the UK.

In addition to being an actor, he is also a script writer and has worked on the script of the remake version of Nooravathu Naal as there was a need to alter the text and modify it according to the current audience. Also, he wanted to change the plot of the movie as well as a few characters. The message behind the film was also made to be different from its original version. In addition to this, he worked on the remake project as a director.