Senthil Kumar, popularly known as Mirchi Senthil is an Indian film and television actor, television presenter, radio jockey and voice actor. He began his career as a radio jockey with the radio station Radio Mirchi. He performed in the lead character Saravanan in STAR Vijay's sensational serial Saravannan Meenatchi. Senthil and his co-star Sreeja Chandran had married on 2 July 2014 in a private function in Tirupathi. He made his debut as a film actor in Thavamai Thavamirundhu and has continued acting in lead roles in Sengathu Bhoomiyilae, Kan Pesum Vaarthaigal, Vennila Veedu and Rombha Nallavan Da Nee.
Personal life
Senthil was born in Chennai on 18 October 1978 to S. Govindan and Premavathy. He did his schooling in Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Chennai. He has completed his Bachelors at Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai and Masters at Madurai Kamaraj University. He had a brief career stint in banking industry before he moved on to the media. He married his co-star of Madurai & Saravanan MeenatchiTamil serials fame Malayalam-Tamil actress Sreeja Chandran. Senthil confirmed his marriage with Sreeja on his radio show His sudden marriage announcement created a buzz amongst their thousands of worldwide fans in joy of their marriage
Career
Radio
Senthil joined Radio Mirchi, Chennai as a Radio Jockey in 2003 and has performed various roles such as Radio producer, EP and Programming Head. Later he moved to Coimbatore to head Coimbatore Radio Mirchi for 4 years. He has hosted many shows like Mirchi Gold, Mirchi Bazaar, Pettai Raap and Love Talkies. Currently, he is presenting a culture based story program Neenga Naan Raja Sir which is a special program on the music Ilaiyaraaja's music that is aired between 9 PM and 11PM from Monday to Saturday. This is a very popular program and was acknowledged and endorsed by music Ilaiyaraaja himself. In 2016 may, he finished that show and started a new show called " Sentilin sutta kadhai", which tell interesting short moral stories from around earth.
Television
Senthil played the lead character in the successful television serial named Madurai in STAR Vijay telecasted from 2007 to 2009. Following the success of this serial, Senthil has played the lead character by the name Saravanan again in another sensational serial Saravanan Meenatchi in STAR Vijay. Senthil rose to fame following his performances in these two serials and is very popular by his character name Saravanan. Senthil has performed in a micro-serial 777 for Polimer TV which was directed by the movie director Manobala. Apart from the serials, Senthil has hosted a number of shows for STAR Vijay. He has hosted a weekly movie review show Tamil Cinema Indha Vaaram in which he discusses about the movies along with the cast and crew of the movie. Senthil has conducted a game show for women by name Boxing for Polimer TV.
Film
Senthil made his Tamil film debut in the 2005 filmThavamai Thavamirundhu in which he played the elder brother of director Cheran. He was nominated for the category of Best Supporting Actor – Tamil. He won his first lead role in Sengathu Bhoomiyilae which had the music score by Ilaiyaraaja. This is followed by Kan Pesum Vaarthaigal, Pappali, Vennila Veedu and Rombha Nallavan Da Nee which was his last film.
Filmography
As actor
As Radio Jockey
Love Talkies is a unique concept in radio in which stories and characters are created and played along with the Tamil movie songs. Senthil has been a part of many radio movies.
