Siddharth is a South Indian actor and also well-known as a producer. He was born on 17 April 1979 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. Siddharth has started acting debut in S. Shankar’s coming-of-age Tamil film Boys (2003).
The success of the film provided an opportunity to feature in Mani Ratnam’s multi-starrer Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004) before he branched off to receive critical and commercial acclaim in Telugu and Hindi cinema through Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2005), Rang De Basanti and Bommarillu (2006).
In the late 2000s, he established himself as a bankable lead actor in Telugu films and subsequently chose to become more selective with his projects, while also winning acclaim for his work as a carrom player in Striker (2010) and as a blind warrior in the fantasy film Anaganaga O Dheerudu (2011).
In 2011, he returned to Tamil films after a sabbatical and produced Balaji Mohan’s commercially successful romantic comedy Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012).
The actor then had a prolific year in 2014, winning critical acclaim and box office success for his two ventures: Jigarthanda, where he portrayed an aspiring filmmaker, and Kaaviya Thalaivan, in which he played an actor from the 1920s Madras theater scene.
After that, he acted in Sundar C’s horror comedy Aranmanai 2 (2016). Then, he acted in Malayalam film Kammara Sambhavam (2018) written by Murali Gopy.
In 2019, he has acted in two Tamil films – Sivappu Manjal Pachai, directed by Sasi, and Aruvam, directed by Sai Shekar, and in October 2019, Aruvam, a supernatural thriller film that received mixed reviews.
Siddharth next signed Ajay Bhupathi’s Telugu film Maha Samudram. He starred alongside Sharwanand. The film was released on 14 October 2021 in theatres to negative reviews and is also a part of the upcoming movie Indian 2 (2023) which will be released in 2023.
Siddharth married Meghna in November 2003, after the pair had fallen in love growing up in the same neighborhood in New Delhi. However, by early 2006, the pair were living separately and later divorced in January 2007.