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Raju Sundaram is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 7 march 1968

Raju Sundaram

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Birth name Rajendra Sundaram
Nationality Inde
Birth 7 march 1968 (56 years)
Awards Filmfare Awards South

Raju Sundaram (born Rajendra Sundaram) is an Indian choreographer who has primarily worked on Tamil and Telugu language films. He has also featured as an actor in the films Jeans (1998), I Love You Da (2002) and Quick Gun Murugan (2009); and directed one feature film, Aegan (2008) starring Ajith Kumar and Nayantara. He is an oldest son of dancer Mugur Sundar, and an older brother to fellow choreographers Prabhu Deva and Nagendra Prasad.

Sundaram began his career assisting as an choreographer for his father Mugur Sundar's projects, before going on to lead troupes. He was a dancer in "Rukkumani Rukkumani" from Mani Ratnam's Roja (1992) and in Aasai (1995). He also regularly featured in cameo appearances in songs featuring his brother Prabhu Deva, with the pair making appearances in Shankar's early films Gentleman (1993) and Kadhalan (1994). After being the lead choreographer for a few Kannada films, his first break came through Mani Ratnam's Thiruda Thiruda (1993), where he was given the chance to design dances for three songs. He then went on to become a choreographer of Tamil directors Mani Ratnam and Shankar, and worked on Amitabh Bachchan's album, Aby Baby (1996).

Shankar then offered Sundaram an acting opportunity in his romantic comedy Jeans (1998), where Sundaram played a full-length role. His played the lead in the sports drama I Love You Da (2002) of which The Hindu stated the film proves "serious acting is simply not his cup of tea". He then went on to feature in the trilingual One Two Three (2003) alongside his brothers, with scenes shot in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. The film opened to mixed reviews and did not perform well at the box office. He has since primarily operated as a choreographer, making a few exceptions by starring in comic roles in Jeeva's Unnale Unnale (2007), Prabhu Deva's Engeyum Kadhal (2011) and in the Telugu film, Action 3D (2013).

Usually with

Jeeva
Jeeva
(5 films)
Prabhu Deva
Prabhu Deva
(6 films)
Nassar
Nassar
(10 films)
Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj
(10 films)
S. Shankar
S. Shankar
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Raju Sundaram (30 films)

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Isai
Isai (2015)
, 3h10
Directed by S. J. Surya
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Sulagna Panigrahi, Prakash Raj, S. J. Surya, Sathyaraj, V. Jayaprakash, Thambi Ramaiah
Roles himself (cameo)
Rating63% 3.1985053.1985053.1985053.1985053.198505
Vetriselvan (Sathyaraj) is an established and an old fashioned music director in the industry. He is loved and respected for his works and is termed as the greatest musician of our times. A. K. Shiva (S. J. Surya) who works as an assistant under Vetriselvan gets an opportunity to compose music for a small time film. When he seeks permission from Vetriselvan to go ahead with his first venture as a music director, Vetriselvan doesn't oppose the idea as he wouldn't have imagined even in his wildest dream that one day A. K. Shiva would surpass him in the musical world.
Action 3D
Action 3D (2013)
, 2h30
Genres Comedy
Actors Allari Naresh, Shaam, Vaibhav Reddy, Raju Sundaram, Kamna Jethmalani, Sudeep
Roles Purushottam aka Purush
Rating52% 2.636482.636482.636482.636482.63648
Endrendrum Punnagai, 2h32
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jiiva, R. Madhavan, Vinay Rai, Trisha Krishnan, Santhanam, Sameera Reddy
Rating66% 3.3460953.3460953.3460953.3460953.346095
The movie starts with Gautham (Jiiva) as a kid, being told that women are all bad and are very selfish by his father (Nasser) because his wife had eloped on that day. They then move to Chennai, where Gautham meets Baby (Santhanam) and Sri (Vinay Rai). The trio become inseparable friends. Fifteen years later, it is shown that the trio are running an advertisement agency and Gautham has stopped speaking to his father, the reason being untold. After a heated incident at a friend's bachelor party, the three friends promise to never get married. They get an advertising offer from Sunny (T.M Karthik) and Sunny sends Priya (Trisha Krishnan) to assist them with their ad. Sonia, (Andrea Jeremiah) an international model is assigned to act for the ad. On the day of shoot Sonia falls in love with Gautham and when the ad is finished, she kisses him. Gautham, startled and enraged, retaliates by slapping her. Sunny scolds Guatham for his behaviour and tells Gautham that he will never work with him again, but Priya supports Gautham telling Sunny that it was Sonia's fault for behaving unprofessionally. After the shoot Gautham calls up Priya and thanks her for supporting him. While speaking to Gautham, Priya meets with an accident. He rushes her to the hospital where Priya recovers the next day. After a few days, Baby and Sri decide to get married not telling the reason for their sudden change of heart.When gautham gets to know about it he gets furious and ends their friendship.On the same day of the marriage Gautham's father tells Priya that he had got married second time many years before for the sake of his son and that is the reason for Gautham's anger towards him.He requests priya to take care of gautham. Gautham and Priya get another contract with Sunny and Sonia and they leave for Switzerland for the shooting. On the day of shooting Sonia recalls everything Gautham had done and asks him to apologize for his act. He refuses to apologize because he knows it's not his fault and tells Sonia to leave, Priya then takes the role of Sonia and acts for the advertisement. During the shooting Priya and Gautham fall in love . When they come back from Switzerland, Gautham meets his friend in whom bachelor party he promised never to be in a commitment in the airport, because of his ego he introduces Priya as just a stranger whom he met in the flight. Hurt by Gautham's cheap behaviour, she leaves the airport immediately. When Gautham gets back home he goes into his father's room for the first time and notices many paintings of him being happy,a wish his father wanted. Gautham then discovers that his father was ill and rushes him to the hospital, where the doctors say that his father is suffering from pancreatic cancer and cannot be treated. Gautham is heartbroken and starts weeping. Sri comes to meet Gautham and tells him that he knew that his father was suffering from this disease, Baby then comes and tells that his father was the one who compelled them to get married so that Gautham might change his mind and get married too and be happy. As the three friends reconcile, Priya comes to the hospital to meet Gautham's father, where Gautham apologizes and admits to Priya that he has fallen for her. The film ends a happy ending Gautham and Priya getting engaged in front of Gautham's dad at the hospital.
Vettai
Vettai (2012)
, 2h48
Directed by N. Linguswamy
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors R. Madhavan, Arya, Sameera Reddy, Amala Paul, Ashutosh Rana, Nassar
Rating60% 3.0015353.0015353.0015353.0015353.001535
Thirumurthy and Gurumurthy are two brothers in Thoothukudi, with Thirumurthy being the elder. He is however sensitive to violence and his younger brother is brave and rogue. Whenever Thirumurthy is beaten by anyone, he has Gurumurthy to finish them. However, Gurumurthy gets frequently punished by his policeman father (Nagendra Babu) for beating up the local people, while Thirumurthy only feels for him.
Julayi
Julayi (2012)
, 2h32
Directed by Trivikram Srinivas
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors Allu Arjun, Ileana D'Cruz, Rajendra Prasad, Sonu Sood, Rao Ramesh, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Rating71% 3.596893.596893.596893.596893.59689
The movie begins with Bittu (Sonu Sood) planning with the local MLA Varadarajulu (Kota Srinivasa Rao) to rob ₹15 billion (US$230 million) from Vizag Co-operative Bank. Ravindra Narayan a.k.a Ravi (Allu Arjun) is a brainy individual who believes in earning quick money rather than toiling like his father Narayana Moorti (Tanikella Bharani) for every month's salary. He gets into a dispute with his father about his attitude and challenges him that he would convert ₹ 10,000 into ₹ 100,000 in quick time. He happens to meet Bittu on his way, who drops him at his destination. Ravi inadvertently reveals his plan of making quick money by betting on an IPL match and also the location of betting to Bittu and his companions on the way. However, his plans turn upside down when police raid the location and is caught red-handed. During interrogation, Ravi guesstimates that Bittu could have diverted the Police and that he is about to commit a robbery at the Vizag Cooperative Bank. He convinces ACP Raja Manikyam (Rao Ramesh) that Bittu is planning to rob the bank and both go to catch him. Bittu successfully robs the bank and his brother Laala (Shafi) takes the money to the city's dumping yard, as per Bittu's instructions, as the Police follow them. However Police catches Lala, who resists them only to be killed by Ravi. Police try to trace the money but in vain. Meanwhile, Bittu gets arrested but is rescued in transit by his sidekick Devayani (Sheetal Menon). They go to the dumping yard to collect the money, but Bittu is shocked as the dumping yard is burnt to ashes. Having his brother dead and the money burnt, Bittu decides to kill Ravi.
Engeyum Kadhal, 2h5
Directed by Prabhu Deva
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Jayam Ravi, Hansika Motwani, Suman, Raju Sundaram, Prakash Raj, Prabhu Deva
Roles Raju
Rating51% 2.558672.558672.558672.558672.55867
The film is set in France and Italy. Kamal (Jayam Ravi), a young billionaire, doesn't believe in love. He works hard for 11 months and takes a month's break from all the work related commitments. Celloist Kayalvizhi (Kayal for short or Lolita for Kamal) (Hansika Motwani) believes in true love and is highly fascinated with Indian culture. Then she sees Kamal one day and it is love at first sight for her, but before she can follow him he gets into his car and goes away. Her father Rajasekhar (Suman) runs a small detective agency in France and Kayal often reads her father's case files for interesting stories. One day, Rajasekhar gets a new client (Sonu Gates) who wants to know about his girlfriend's mystery man. After a brief investigation, Rajasekhar finds that his client's girl friend is dating Kamal. Sonu gets angry and decides to kill Kamal. Kayal overhears the conversation and deciding to save them, rushes to their hotel. Sonu has sent some men to kill Kamal and he is on his way there. When Kayal reaches Kamal's room she finds the door locked from inside. Without knowing what to do Kayal tries to get inside through the balcony. When she was about to enter she hears a gunshot and faints in the balcony. By this time sonu's girlfriend has escaped from there. Just when Kamal is about to win the fight Sonu enters the room and threatens Kamal with a gun. Then he searches for his girlfriend he can't find her, instead he find Kayal in the balcony. Then he thinks that Rajasekar has made a mistake and apologizes to Kamal. Understanding that Kayal has saved him, he tries to get to know her better during their incidental meetings and even though Kayal tries to resist she cannot. Kamal leaves Paris for some board meetings and Kayal is heart broken. When he returns he doesn't remember her immediately even though she has been waiting for him. Kayal tries to make Kamal love her by pretending to have many boyfriends. Kamal does get a bit jealous and he decides to get a detective to know everything about her and her possible boyfriends. Initially the detective he chooses is Rajasekar Kayal's dad. Kamal doesn't know Kayal's name, but he says about all her fake boyfriends. Rajasekar realizes that the girl's boyfriends' names are same as the names of the people in his case files realizes that Kamal is actually inquiring about his daughter, Kayal as only she has seen them. He tells Kamal about it and asks him to leave his daughter as he always does when someone falls in love with him. Kamal agrees and tells Kayal that he will be leaving for Germany and that he doesn't know when he will return. Kayal is heartbroken. Kamal tries to forget her but find that he cannot as he realizes that he too loves her. So he returns to Paris and finds her. But Kayal is angry with him and walks away. Kamal runs after her saying that he is in love with her and will never leave her and they will be together thereafter.
Quick Gun Murugan, 1h37
Directed by Shashanka Ghosh
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Rajendra Prasad, Sandhya Mridul, Nassar, Raju Sundaram, Ranvir Shorey, Vinay Pathak
Roles Rowdy MBA
Rating58% 2.9014952.9014952.9014952.9014952.901495
Quick Gun Murugun is an unlikely superhero (played by Telugu actor Dr. Rajendra Prasad) a South Indian Tamil cowboy whose duty is to protect the world against arch villain restaurant owner, Rice Plate Reddy (played by Nassar), who wants to create the ultimate non-vegetarian dosa! The movie revolves around adventures of Quick Gun Murugun along with his love to-be Mango Dolly (played by Rambha) and Locket Lover (played by Anu Menon).
Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam, 2h45
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Siddharth, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Ramya Krishnan, Vaibhav Talwar, Brahmanandam
Rating69% 3.4920853.4920853.4920853.4920853.492085
The story is set in the backdrop of a village where Geeta (Tamannaah) grows under the shade of her doting father Subramaniam (Nassar) who takes care of everything for her and she is equally attached to him. She comes to Hyderabad for higher studies and stays at her uncle Gachibowli Diwakar's (Brahmanandam) house. There, her cousin Swathi (Karuna) has a group of friends and one among them is the happy and playful Siddharth, or Siddhu (Siddharth).
Unnale Unnale, 2h42
Directed by Jeeva
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vinay Rai, Sadha, Tanisha, Lekha Washington, Raju Sundaram, Srinath
Roles Raju, an energetic friend to Karthik with a severe habit of ruining the situation.
Rating71% 3.5871453.5871453.5871453.5871453.587145
The film opens with two people – a man (Aravind Akash) and a woman – interviewing civilians' thoughts on love and the opposite sex. After a mixture of answers, they cease their questions and the credits roll. The credits end as a boy, after being rejected by his girlfriend, commits suicide by jumping onto a passing car. Karthik (Vinay Rai) walks off disturbed to his girlfriend Jhansi's (Sadha) office. There, he is criticized by her for his antics with other women and his lack of passion for their love. She walks off, ending their relationship.
Pellaina Kothalo, 2h31
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jagapati Babu, Priyaman, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Raju Sundaram, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam
Roles Prakash
Rating61% 3.0937753.0937753.0937753.0937753.093775
Veeramachineni Harikrishna (Jagapati Babu) is a software professional who earns Rs. 50,000 a month. Under enormous pressure from his parents who want him married, his friend Bhagawan (Krishna Bhagawan), a lawyer always dominates his wife Satya Bhama (Hema (actress)|Hema) and she bears it all silently. So his advice to Hari is to dominate his wife from the beginning to lead a happy life. Lakshmi (Priyamani) is also a software professional earns the same salary. Lakshmi's close friend and guide Janaki (Jhansi) a domineering wife who keeps her husband Chalapathi (Sunil) under her toe, who tells Lakshmi basically the same thing.
Ullam Ketkumae, 2h36
Directed by Jeeva
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Shaam, Arya, Laila, Asin Thottumkal, Pooja Umashankar, Murali
Rating70% 3.535463.535463.535463.535463.53546
The movie is all about a group of five college friends - Emaan (Arya), Shaam (Shaam), Pooja (Laila), Priya (Asin), and Irene (Pooja). The friends gather for the wedding of Emaan, years after everyone has parted ways.
Anniyan
Anniyan (2005)
, 3h1
Directed by S. Shankar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Psychologie, Musical films
Actors Vikram, Sadha, Prakash Raj, Vivek, Nassar, Nedumudi Venu
Rating82% 4.147134.147134.147134.147134.14713
Ramanujam Iyengar, also known as Ambi, is an orthodox Brahmin and a straightforward consumer protection advocate living in Chennai. He expects everyone to follow the laws and prosecutes those who flout them. However, his efforts fail as circumstantial evidence always seems to favour the accused. He also fails to raise civic awareness due to pervasive corruption and a general lack of seriousness. Frustrated at his inability to bring about a change in society, his suppressed anger manifests itself in an alter-ego named "Anniyan", a grim reaper-themed serial killer who punishes corrupt and indifferent people. Anniyan creates a website, compiles a list of wrongdoers from his site, and kills them using punishments described in the Garuda Purana, one of the ancient Hindu scriptures.
123
123 (2002)

Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Prabhu Deva, Jyothika, Nagendra Prasad, Raju Sundaram, Sandeep Malani, Karunas Sethu
Roles Palani
Rating58% 2.915582.915582.915582.915582.91558
Tirupathi (Prabhu Deva), Pazhani (Raju Sundaram) and Chidambaram (Nagendra Prasad) are physically impaired — one cannot see, the second is hard of hearing and the third is mute. None has a family. They are friends who begin to live under the same roof. Narmada (Jyotika) enters their lives and all three fall in love with her. Who wins her hand eventually (and that's an easy guess) is what ``One Two Three tells you.
I Love You Da
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Raju Sundaram, Simran, Raghuvaran, Prakash Raj, Senthil, Venniradai Moorthy
Roles Raju

Raghuvaran pays Indian cricketers to lose the match so he can bet on the Pakistan team to make a lot of money. One day Raghuvaran's daughter Simran was sad that India never wins any matches so Raghuvaran just for one match lets India win. One time India loses and a small boy commits suicide seeing this Raju Sundaram works hard to become a cricket player and make India win for once. He is stopped by Raghuvaran but wins and becomes a cricket player. Raju Sundaram goes to Pakistan to win but is stopped by Raghuvaran but he is killed by his own daughter Simran. Eventually India wins but Simran goes to jail. She comes out and is reunited with Raju Sundaram.