Actor Arjun

Arjun Sarja is an Indian film actor and director. He has primarily acted in Tamil and Kannada films and also appeared in Malayalam and Telugu films.
Arjun Sarja was born in a Kannada family in Bangalore to a popular Kannada film actor Shakthi Prasad.He had one elder brother Kishore Sarja, who has directed Kannada films. He is married to Niveditha (Asha Rani), a former actress who has acted in a Kannada movie called Rathasapthami. Kannada actor Rajesh is his father-in-law.Sarja has two daughters, Aishwarya and Anjana. Aishwarya Arjun will be making her acting debut in 2013. His nephews Chiranjeevi Sarja and Dhruva Sarja both act in Kannada movies. Another nephew of Arjun, Bharat Sarja, will also be making his acting debut in 2013.He is a black belt holder in Karate.

He has acted in over 200 films in five different languages. Sarja started as actor in Kannada film Simhada Mari Sainya with director Rajender Singh Babu. Other movies include Male Banthu Male, Pooja Phala in Kannada, he moved to Tamil and Telugu films. His first Tamil film was Nandri in 1984, but the film that really catapulted him to the big league was Shankar's Gentleman (1993). His other films in Tamil include Jai Hind (1994), Karnaa (1995), Kurudhipunal (1995), Sengottai (1996), Mudhalvan (1999), Rhythm (2000), Vedham (2001), Ezhumalai (2002), Giri (2004), Marudhamalai (2007) and Mankatha (2011). In Telugu, he debuted in the 1985 movie Maa Pallelo Gopaludu by Kodi Ramakrishna, after which he had acted in four films in his direction.

Sarja has also directed and produced some films. In 1991 when he was unhappy about his career, he directed the film Sevagan besides producing, directing and act in it. The film became a hit at the box office.Sarja won a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor for Gentleman 1993 and a Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor for Prasad 2012.