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Jai Akash, also known as Akash, is an Indian actor, who acted as hero in Telugu and Tamil films. He has acted in a Kannada film as hero too.[2] He is the hero of the Telugu blockbuster movie Anandam Anandam (2001).

Jai Akash
Born	Jai Sathish[1] (1981-03-18) 18 March 1981 (age 41) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Other names	Akash
Occupation	Actor, Director
Years active	1999-Present

Career

Jai Sathish, a Tamilian of Sri Lankan origin settled in London, sent his modelling photographs to the "Star Search" service run by Suhasini's entertainment portal website TamilTalkies.com during the late 1990s. K. Balachander, when casting a new actor to portray the second hero role in Rojavanam (1999), used the "Star Search" platform and selected him to be in the film under the stage name of Akash.[3]

Akash began his career with his first film in Telugu, Anandam, directed by Sreenu Vaitla and produced by Ramoji Rao. Anandam was a Silver Jubilee film and Akash won many awards for his excellent natural acting. He was the overnight super star and many top producers and directors were in queue to sign him. But, Akash acted in new directors films and struggling producers films. He acted in several Telugu films including June July opposite Sadha,"Pillistae Palukkutha" opposite Shamitha Shetty, directed by Kodi Ramakrishna and the songs composed by Bahubali Fame M.M.Keeravani became super hit. Especially, the song Manasa Ottu Maatadothu" .[4] He returned to Tamil as a lead with the film Inidhu Inidhu Kadhal Inidhu (2003) opposite Neha, which was a remake of Anandam, also produced by Ramoji Rao. He was credited as Jai Akash due to presence of Aravind Akash, an actor with a similar name.[1] In 2004, he teamed up with Sreenu Vaitla again in Anandamanandamaye. He also starred in six Tamil films between 2004 and 2005; Ramakrishna, Kicha Vayasu 16, Gurudeva, Sevvel, Amudhae and Kaatrullavarai. The Tamil films he acted as hero were with all the top directors, such as Agathiyan and Ezhil but the films didn't get the proper release.

Jai Akash returned to the Telugu film industry as a second hero and acted in three films produced by Super Good Films with Andala Ramudu (2006), Nava Vasantham (2007) and Gorintaku (2008). All the three films became super hit and Akash got many offers as hero in Telugu. He acted and directed a film called "Sweet Heart", which got good reviews for Akash acting and direction. In 2009, he acted in the romantic story, Adada Enna Azhagu.[5] In the bilingual movie Vandae Maatharam (2010), he played alongside Mammootty and Arjun Sarja along with a huge array of actors in supporting roles.[6] Jai Akash returns after a gap and is both acting in and directing this film Ayudha Porattam (2011), which deals with the issue of arms supply to the island nation of Sri Lanka.[7] Kadhalan Kadhali (2011), Yuganiki Okka Premikudu (2012), Mr. Rajesh (2013) and Aa Iddaru (2013) are the films in which he acted as a hero and also worked as the director. In the Telugu film Mr. Rajesh, he acted in seven roles.[8]

In 2020, Jai Akash acted as the hero in soap opera Tamil's Neethane Enthan Ponvasantham which premiered on 24 February 2020, has successfully completed 300 episodes on 12 May.[9]

Controversy

In 2005, Jai Akash's Gurudeva released, but the film didn't become a commercial success. The Telugu version of the film, Guru, also failed with Muppa Ankanna Rao, the executive producer of the version, failing to promote the film. Akash complained at the producer council, that his film was killed by the producer purposely.[10]

In 2009, Jai Akash filed a complaint to the Nadigar Sangam against actress Sunaina for not giving dates to complete his film "Madhan". He brought Sunaina from the Telugu film industry as a newcomer to the Tamil film industry and allowed her to act in "Kadhazhil Vizunthen", while she was on his contract, but Sunaina demanded more payment after the success of her film.[11] Denying such reports, Jai Akash complained that Sunaina doesn't have any gratitude as he is the one that introduced her into the Tamil film industry and that he allowed her to act in Kadhalil Vizhunthen (2008) when she was in his contract. But, after the film became hit, she is not giving him dates to finish his film.[12]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
1999	Rojavanam	Siva	Tamil
2000	Penngal	Bharath Nageswaran	Tamil
2001	Ramma Chilakamma	Vishwa	Telugu
	Anandam	Kiran	Telugu
2002	Roja Kootam	Sriram	Tamil
	Neetho Cheppalani	Balu	Telugu
	Manasutho	Kanishk	Telugu
2003	Hitech Students	Akash	Telugu
	Pilisthe Palukutha	Ajay	Telugu
	Inidhu Inidhu Kadhal Inidhu	Sibi	Tamil
	Vasantham	Michael	Telugu
	Three Roses	Akash	Tamil	Guest appearance
2004	Anandamanandamaye	Kiran	Telugu
	Ramakrishna	Ramakrishna	Tamil
2005	Kicha Vayasu 16	Krishnamoorthy	Tamil
	Gurudeva	Guru	Tamil
	Sevvel	Sevvel	Tamil
	Amudhae	Dhinakar	Tamil
	Guru	Guru	Telugu
	Kaatrullavarai	Bala	Tamil
2006	Naidu LLB	Lawyer	Telugu	[13]
	Andala Ramudu	Raghu	Telugu
2007	Jambada Hudugi	Rakesh	Kannada
	Nava Vasantham	Prasad	Telugu
	Dhee	Ajay	Telugu
2008	Nesthama	Ravi	Telugu
	Gorintaku	Akash	Telugu
2009	Adada Enna Azhagu	Vasan	Tamil
	Sweet Heart	Raja	Telugu
2010	Namo Venkatesa	Ajay	Telugu
	Vandae Maatharam	Ashok	Malayalam Tamil
2011	Lady Bruce Lee		Telugu
	Ayudha Porattam	Jai / Leader	Tamil	dual role; also director
	Othigai	Suriya	Tamil
	Kadhalan Kadhali		Tamil	also director
2012	Madhan		Tamil	also director
	Yuganiki Okka Premikudu	Gautam	Telugu	also director
2013	Win	Arya	Telugu	also in Tamil[14]
	Mr. Rajesh	Seven Characters	Telugu	also director
	Aa Iddaru	Subash	Telugu	also director
2014	Kadhalukku Kanillai	Murali / Anand	Tamil	also director[15]
	Donga Prema		Telugu	also director
2016	Naan Yaar		Tamil	also executive producer and story writer
2017	Aama Naan Porukkithan		Tamil
2019	Chennai 2 Bangkok	Jai Akash	Tamil	Also choreographer
2022	Amaichar		Tamil

As distributor

• Oruthal (2016)[16]

Television

Year	Series	Role	Language	Notes
2020–2021	Neethane Enthan Ponvasantham	Surya Prakash (Surya)	Tamil	Zee Tamil
2022–Present	Thavamai Thavamirundhu	ACP Abhimanyu	Tamil	Zee Tamil

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result[17]
2002	Cinema Express Awards	Best Actor	Anandam	Won[18]
2002	Vamsi Film Awards	Best New Actor	Anandam	Won
2002	NTR film Awards	Best Actor	Anandam	Won
2002	Andhra Cine Awards	Best Actor	Anandam	Won
2003	Santosham Award	Best Supporting Actor	Vasantam	Won
2009	Santosham Award	Best Character Actor	Gorintaku	Won[19]
2007	Santosham Award	Best Actor Jury Award	Nava Vasantham	Won

References

External links

• Jai Akash at IMDb

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