Ajith Kumar , Ultimate Star was born in Hyderabad, India born May 1,
1971. Ajith is the middle son of three children others being Anil Kumar
and Anup Kumar, both being software engineers. Ajith Kumar, the second
child born in Hyderabad, India, to a Palakkad Iyer father and a Sindhi
mother from Kolkata and grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In his childhood
he was brought up in Chennai, Tamil
Nadu. Schooling days were numbered for Ajith as he dropped out of Asan
Memorial Sr. Secondary School in 1986 to become a part-time two-four
wheeler mechanic and a full-time garment exporter based in Erode till
1990. Business agencies pushed him into modelling for adverts in print
media. He also took it on realising an income in the job, it eventually
paved his way into Tollywood otherwise nown as the Telugu film industry
and later into Kollywood.
Early Days in Career
Ajith
started his film career at the age of 21 as an actor Telugu movie Prema
Pustagam in 1992.. His next film was in Tamil entitled Amaravathi for
which he was paid a token salary of Rs.390. His second Tamil film
Pavithra was delayed for 17 months because of a racing injury that left
him bed-ridden. Both films received appreciation from the Tamil
audience. It was his third Tamil film that released 10 months later in
1995, Aasai, directed by Vasanthan and produced by Mani Rathnam which
helped to establish his career as a teen icon in Kollywood. Ajith's
first big budget venture Aasai but only after Agathiyan's Vaanmathi and
particularly the National Award winning Kadhal Kottai established him as
an accomplished actor in Kollywood. Ajith later played in Amitabh
Bachchan's debut Tamil production in Ullasam. This venture paid him a
salary of over Rs.1 million for the first time ever.
A string
of successful movies followed, most notably Kadhal Mannan and Aval
Varuvala and the multiple award winning Vaali which cast him alongside
Simran. Vaali saw a new peak in Ajith's career. He played a dual role in
the film as a deaf-and-dumb twin who lusts after his naive brother's
wife.
Marriage & Business Ventures
During the
shooting of Amarkalam directed by his freind SARAN , Ajit fell in love
with the co actress Shalini,. Shalini is an actress from her childhood
days who had almost 97 movies to her kitty. They got married in 2000 in
Chennai. As both were of different religions Ajith being a Hindu and
Shalini being a Christian, together they were married in the customs of
both religions. Ajith – Shalini love and marriage was one of the most
talked about news over the period and the star couple are still known
for their love and affection for each other.
Post marriage ,
Ajith set up his own distribution company AK International with office
located within the premises of NIC Arts which was run by his
friend-producer-distributor S.S.Chakravarthi. This office was shifted in
2006.In 2000, Ajith was cast alongside Mammooty, Abbas, Tabu and
Aishwarya Rai in Kandukondain Kandukondain. The film's audio rights were
sold for a record Rs.22 million, which still stands. Mugavari followed
as Ajith acted in alongside Jyothika. In 2001, Ajith played the role of
Shahrukh Khan's brother in the historical film Asoka.
The Making of THALA
In 2001, Ajith played a movie called Dheena, directed by debutant
director A R Murugadoss,. Dheena was the first ever Action flick he
tried and acted alonside with Veteran Actor Suresh Gopi & Actress
Laila. This movie had song called “ Vatikuchi pathi kadthu da” during a
costar shall say “ THALA Erukkum pothu Vaal ada Kudathu, Nee Adu Thala”
.(menaing a co- artist shall not pretend in the presence of a prominent
star). This song was extremely popular and since the word Thala( Meaning
leader/ the group lead) was catchy and from then on the fans started
calling him , THE THALA. This word become so popular that even print and
television medias started referring him as THALA and this name has been
a house hold referring only AJIT KUMAR. Then Thala acted a lot of
action movies like Magnum Opus movie CITIZEN, RED. During this period he
was also concentrating in romantic entertainers like Poovellam un VASAM
& RAJA.
The King of Opening
He won the South
India Filmfare Best Actor Award for Villain, directed by K. S.
Ravikumar.Villain, in which he once again donned a dual role, grossed
almost Rs.300 million at the box office marking a new office box peak in
Ajith's career. The amount of collections received in the first week of
the release for any Ajit started increasing from then . Almost 75% of
the revenue expected out of the movie was getting collected in the first
ten days itself leaving just 25% Depending on the content of the movie.
Inspite of his ups and downs in his career , Ajiths movies were greatly
expected by his fans and received a huge collections from the By then
the Kollywood trade had unanimously begun calling him the King of
Opening and placed him only next to Super star Rajini Kanth in terms of
box office collections.
The fall
In 2003 and 2004,
Ajith acted in Anjaneya, Jana and Attagasam opposite Meera Jasmine,
Sneha and Pooja respectively. Anjaneya created a new record for Telugu
rights reported at almost Rs.9 million offered by Dr. Rajasekar while
Ajith's salary reached a peak of almost Rs.50 million for the film but
he waived it when the film did not match expectations. Jana too did not
perform as expected and Ajith suffered some high profile fracas with its
producer. So, he declared an end to motor racing and Attagasam, in
which he donned a dual role again, was successful. Attagasam rejained
Ajith's status at the box office after Jana had not done so well,
however there were many claims that Ajith did not look like his old self
anymore.
In 2005, Ajith acted in the film Ji opposite Trisha.
Project delays by director Bala and producer Chakravarthi forced him to
sit idle for the rest of the year. He thus released only 4 films in the
three years from 2003 through 2005.The film did not do well as expected
beforehand as the producers had failed to release the film when it was
first made. Ajith had reach an all time low in his career and was
desperately in need of a hit in early 2006.
The Pheonix rises again
By contrast, in 2006, Ajith acted 3 projects, Paramasivan directed
P.Vasu, Thirupathi directed by Perarasu and particularly Varalaru
directed by K. S. Ravikumar. This is his comeback movie since Villain.
Varalaru emerged as a successful film. In Paramasivan Ajith looked back
to his best fatigue again and played a prisoner in jail and a secret
agent. Paramasivan gave Ajith the much needed lift to be amongst the
bigger heroes of Kollywood. Now he was desperate to continue his form
with Thirupathi. Thirupathi saw a brand new Ajith, he played a role the
would have normally been played by his peer Vijay. He answered his
critics with the movie where he improved his dancing and pronunciation
of speech. Thirupathi did well but more importantly got a better actor
out of Ajith. Ajith's final film of the year Varalaru was his biggest
hit of his career. He donned a triple role playing a father and two
sons. The role got him a Filmfare award for best actor 2007.
Ajith's first film in 2007 was with the newcomer director Chella
entitled Aalwar. Both Varalaru and Aalwar were opposite Asin. Aalwar did
not live up the expectations created by the success of Varalaru, as a
result it was another major let down for Ajith. After Aalwar, Ajith
acted ina remake of a 1989 National Award winning Mohanlal classic,
entitled Kireedam opposite Trisha Krishnan. The film was produced by
Anil Ambani's conglomerate Adlabs Films and will mark their entry into
Kollywood. Ajith sustained a recurring spinal injury on the sets of the
film.Kireedam went on to become a good hit for Ajith and won him many
praise and fans for acting in such an emotional and different film.
Kireedom also marked a successful entry for ADLABS, a reliance corporate
company in Kollywood and lookign at Ajits sincerity , commitment and
dedication, Ajith became the first choice of Big corporates in the Cine
Industry.
Raise of a New Super Star in tamil cinema
On
December 14 2007, Ajith is set to release Billa. The film is a remake
of Rajinikanth's 1980 Tamil film Billa which itself was a remake of
Amitabh Bachan's 1978 Hindi film Don which was remade by Shah Rukh Khan
in 2006 as Don again. The film is directed by Vishnuvardhan and the
expectations are high on this film with Nayanthara,Namitha paired with
Ajith for the first time. Billa is expected to be the biggest ever
opening , the king of opening ever had. In each & Every city &
towns in Tamilnadu , Theatres apart every three kilometers are screening
Billa. The Buzz is that Billa shall do a business worth of 100 crores
and stands only next to Rajini Kanth’s “Sivaji”. After Billa, Ajith
acted in Aegan directed by Raju Sundaram.
Ajith upcoming film
is "Asal" which is produced by Sivaji Productions and directed by Saran.
It is expected to be released on 2010 Pongal.
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