Siddharth is a Indian actor, film executive, playback singer and screenplay writer. After his business management studies, Siddharth chose to work in film making and worked as assistant director before making debut in the Tamil movie Boys. In the subsequent years, he had worked in many Telugu, Hindi and Tamil movies.
Personal Life
Siddharth married Meghna on November 3, 2003 and later divorced in early 2006. He is currently dating Soha Ali Khan, his co-star in Rang De Basanti. However, in numerous interviews with Soha Ali Khan for reknowned English newspapers such as The Times of India, she has claimed that she is not in a relationship with Siddharth.
Education
Siddharth was born as Siddharth Suryanarayanan in Chennai. He studied at DAV Boys' Senior Secondary School,Chennai and Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi. He got his B.Com (Honors) degree from Kirori Mal College, New Delhi. Siddharth was popularly known as "Siddu" in school and college, and was part of the reputed theatre group of the college The Players. He was also president of the college's debating society and attended the World Debating Championships. He completed his MBA in 2001 from S.P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. He was declared "CNBC Manager of the Year" in 1999.
Film Career
After his MBA, Siddharth landed the role of assistant director for Mani Ratnam's Kannathil Muthamittal through cinematographer P C Sreeram and his brother Jayendra. Screenplay writer Sujatha recommended his name to Shankar for casting in his then upcoming movie Boys. The movie was a moderate success in Tamil but the dubbed version in Telugu gave Siddharth an opening in the Telugu industry.
Siddharth worked for Prabhu Deva in the film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantanathat gave his first filmfare best actor award. In 2005, Siddhu also ventured into the writing forum as well as singing forum as he wrote the screenplay for his Telugu film Chukkallo Chandrudu directed by Siva Kumar and sang as a playback singer. Siddharth debuted in Bollywood as part of the critically acclaimed Rang De Basanti which starred Aamir Khan as a lead. Siddharth received the Star Screen Debut Award for his role in as Karan Singhania in the movie. Siddharth's next Telugu film - Bommarillu received critical acclaim as well as box office success. He worked with director Vishal Bhardwaj and Oscar winning Lensman Guillermo Navarro on a short film titled "Blood Brothers" which screened at the Toronto film festival.
Siddharth run of success at the Telugu box office ended when Aata (2007) didn't fare to expectations, ending up as an average grosser. In 2009, Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam directed by debutant Dolly Kishore and oppsite with Tamanna received good responses from the critics and the audiences. Siddharth has signed to the lead role in debutant director Anand Ranga's Oye and is awaiting the release of his second Bollywood movie Striker.
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