Soundararaja

Soundararaja was born in Usilampatti, Madurai District he finished schooling and college in his native place, then he moved to Chennai. According to Soundararaja, like Vijay Sethupathi, he was a below-average student right from school and was interested in neither sports nor extra-curricular activities, but did a lot of show-off.

He did a series of odd jobs for pocket money: Salesman at a retail store, promoter and many part-time jobs in Chennai. He graduated with a B.E degree from Bharth Niketan Engineering College affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University in 2004. He joined as a project engineer in Invensys India Pvt Ltd, deputed to Singapore in 2005 after 2006 he moved Technip France US-based company from there he deputed to Qatar in 2007. He was fired due to lack of skills in technologies.

He returned to India in 2008. After he started a new film production company called Madurai Touring Talkies with his childhood friend M. Manikandan director of Kaaka Muttai and also he invested some money in share market business with friends, he joined the Koothu-P-Pattarai acting drama school in 2010. He and his friends Manikandan and Karthik Subbaraj, director of Jigarthanda produced many short films under his banners (Madurai Touring Talkies) – Thuru, Raavanm, Petticase, Wind, Aram, etc. with his friends' support.

He subsequently joined the Chennai-based theatre group Koothu-P-Pattarai as an accountant and actor where he observed actors.[2][3] He made his beginnings as a background actor, particularly playing the role of the lead character's friend in a few films, including the well-known series Penn that began in August 2008,[4] as well as several short films as part of the television show Nalaya Iyakunar for Kalaignar TV. He worked on many short films with M. Manikandan and Karthik Subbaraj, who later cast him in his first feature film.

Soundararaja accompanied who went to director Lingusamy's studio to audition for his film Vettai (2011) and was selected to play Lingusamy's friend in the film. Following Vettai,and he worked Pattarai. However, the film did not see a theatrical. After making an appearance in S. R. Prabhakaran's Sundarapandian (2012),[5] he was cast by director Ponram in minor supporting roles in his first project, Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam (2013). Soundararaja would later credit S. R. Prabhakaran with having had an "important role in helping him realise his dreams". S. R. Prabhakaran, furthermore, guided Soundararaja to many tips. Then director Karthik Subbaraj got him his second negative role in Jigarthanda (2013), in which he portrayed a shepherd.[6] After Jigarthanda's release, with actor Vishal and actor Siddarth, Soundararaja performed in Poojai.[7] After Jigarthanda he got a chance to work in director Bharathan's Athithi (2014).[8][9]

• Thuru (2010)
• Ravanam (2010)
• Petticase (2010)
• Wind (2011)
• Aram (2012)