32 Facts About Siddharth Narayan

Siddharth Narayan subsequently graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Kirori Mal College, New Delhi.

Siddharth Narayan participated extensively in extra-curricular activities during college, serving as the president of the college's debating society and attending the World Debating Championships.

Siddharth Narayan then went on to complete his MBA from S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, while ultimately winning a speaking skills competition which earned him the CNBC Manager of the year award in 1999.

Siddharth Narayan noted that he knew he was headed for a career in films since childhood, showing particular fascination for writing and directing, and thus only signed up for business school as a "safety cushion" as insisted upon by his father.

Siddharth Narayan worked on the film throughout 2001, making an uncredited appearance as a passenger on a bus.

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Siddharth Narayan shot for the film throughout 2002 alongside fellow debutants Genelia D'Souza, Bharath, Nakul, Thaman and Manikandan, while suffering an injury which led to him being hospitalised for three days.

Siddharth Narayan then ventured into Telugu films by signing on to appear in Prabhu Deva's first directorial project, the romantic drama Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana in which he was again paired alongside Trisha.

Siddharth Narayan was insistent that he dubbed for himself and learned the Telugu language during the making of the film.

Siddharth Narayan then wrote the story and worked on the screenplay for his next release, the Telugu film Chukkallo Chandrudu directed by Sivakumar, being credited as a playback singer for the first time.

Siddharth Narayan was further attracted to the offer through the opportunity of working with Aamir Khan as well as by the film's ensemble cast of Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor and Soha Ali Khan.

Siddharth Narayan was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor and Best Debut Actor categories for his performance at the Filmfare Awards, Zee Cine Awards and IIFA Awards.

Siddharth Narayan then worked with director Vishal Bhardwaj and cinematographer Guillermo Navarro on a short film titled Blood Brothers, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival as part of Mira Nair's AIDS Jaago project.

Siddharth Narayan then went twenty months without a film release, taking a sabbatical and then working extensively on the making of his second Hindi film.

Siddharth Narayan had two Telugu films which released in 2009, with the family drama Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam opposite Tamannaah receiving good responses from critics and audiences.

The film opened to mixed reviews and had an average run at the box office, with a critic noting "Siddharth Narayan has given a brilliant performance as a lover boy, but his acting is not up to the mark in some emotional scenes".

Siddharth Narayan's second Hindi film, Striker, was a period drama set in the 1990s portraying the life of a carrom player.

Siddharth Narayan became extensively involved with the making of the film and in order to adapt into the role, he took training in the sport for two months and relocated to the Malwani district in Mumbai.

However, Siddharth Narayan won positive reviews for his performance with a critic from Rediff.

Siddharth Narayan then chose to produce his first film under his newly launched production studio, Etaki Entertainment Private Limited, which he had registered in October 2010.

Siddharth Narayan financed the bilingual college romantic comedy Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi, based on the same-titled short film by Balaji Mohan, and featured in the lead role alongside Amala Paul.

Siddharth Narayan revealed that after watching the ten-minute Tamil short film, he found it interesting and developed an interest to turn it into a mainstream full-length feature film.

Siddharth Narayan was selected to be a part of the ensemble cast for Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children, a 2012 British-Canadian film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of the same name.

Siddharth Narayan sped read the book to prepare for his role and attended a series of workshops to portray the role of Shiva, earning positive reviews for his performance.

Siddharth Narayan then worked on Nandini Reddy's Telugu romantic comedy Jabardasth opposite Samantha, with the pair portraying wedding planners.

Siddharth Narayan was seen in Srinu Vaitla's Baadshah, performing a guest appearance in a flashback sequence.

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Siddharth Narayan then featured in Sundar C's commercially successful Tamil comedy film Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru portraying a timid IT employee who seeks the help of a love guru.

Siddharth Narayan was chosen by the director as "he had not done a role like it before", and his on screen character was named after and drew allusions to Karthik Subbaraj's career as a film maker.

Reviewers noted Siddharth Narayan "gives a commendable performance" and that he "was simply terrific in the scenes where he plays a cat and mouse game with the gangster".

The success of the film meant that Siddharth Narayan had four successive commercially successful films in Tamil and was at the peak of his career in the industry.

Siddharth Narayan has worked on Sundar C's horror comedy, Aranmanai 2 alongside Trisha and Hansika Motwani.

Furthermore, Siddharth Narayan has signed on to appear in a Malayalam film directed by ad film maker Rathish Ambat in his feature film debut.

Siddharth Narayan married Meghna in November 2003, after the pair had fallen in love growing up in the same neighbourhood in New Delhi.