Sanjeev (Tamil actor)

Sanjeev
Sanjeev after winning Big FM Tamil Entertainment Awards for The Most Entertaining Actor of Television for Thirumathi Selvam - 2011
Born	Sanjeev
Occupation	Tamil Television Actor, Film Actor & Television host
Years active	1998-Present
Spouse(s)	Preethi Srinivasan(2009-Present)
Children	Laya

Sanjeev is a film actor and leading Tamil Television Actor. He is known for his role as Selvam in Superhit Tamil drama serial on Sun TV titled Thirumathi Selvam(2007-2013) in which he starred opposite Abitha. He has also appeared as Vijay's friend in a number of movies.

Personal Life

Sanjeev is a close friend of Kollywood Actor Vijay. Both of them did their Visual Communications at Loyola. He is the nephew of late actress Manjula Vijayakumar. His other friends in the industry are Deepak Dinkar and Shree. Sanjeev married leading Television Actress Preethi Srinivasan in the year 2009 which was a love-cum-arranged marriage.

Career

Sanjeev started his career doing supporting roles playing Vijay's friend in most of the movies. He entered the Television industry with the serial Metti Oli in which he played a negative role in 2002. After doing a number of negative and supporting characters, he got his break with Thirumathi Selvam(2007-2013) in which he played the Main lead for the first time. He starred with Abitha in the show and it was directed by S Kumaran and produced by Vikatan Televistas. He is known to Tamil families as Selvam, the character he portrayed in the series. The show was a Superhit and rose him to popularity among Tamil audience and his performance in the show was well appreciated and well received. He has received number of Awards including one Tamil Nadu State Award for Best Television Actor in 2009 and Sun Kudumbam Award for Best Actor 2010 for his performance in Thirumathi Selvam.

Television

Sanjeev is the host of the Dance reality show Maanada Mayilada on Kalaignar TV directed by Kala Master(From 2007-Present)

Filmography

Awards & Honours

References