Biography
Siddharth is not one of those glamorous boys in town acting in movies just because he has good looks. He is an MBA from S.P. Jain, Mumbai who started his career in films because of his interest in making movies. He started off as the Assitant Director of the well known south indian director Mani Ratnam who made movies like Roja, Bombay, Dil Se and Guru which were liked all over the country. Siddharth’s first movie was the Tamil film Kannathil Muthamittal, not as an actor but as the assistant director of the movie. The movie ended up as a big hit bagging regional awards. A.R. Rahman scored the music for the movie. So he started big.
His chance as an actor came when S. Shankar who made movies like Indian and Jeans wanted Siddharth to act in his movie Boys (Tamil, Telugu). His first lead role was in the movie Nuvvu Vastananate Nenu Vaddantana (Telugu) which got him the Best Actor Filmfare award for Telgu language films.
Bio-data
Full Name
Siddharth Suryanarayan
Date of Birth
17 April 1979
Schooling
DAV, Chennai
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi
College
Kirori Mal College, New Delhi – B.Com (Hons.)
S.P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai – M.B.A.
Pas-time activities
Music, Test Cricket, Video games
Trivia
Siddharth was a member of a reputed theatre group known as The Players at college
While at school and college he was known as Sidey among friends, people prefer to call him Siddharth or Siddu now
Siddharth was the ‘ CNBC Manager of the Year 1999 ‘
He got married to Meghna who was his friend at college on 3rd November 2003 and there is a rumour that they are heading for a divorce
