Udhay Karthik

Udhay Avishek Karthik is a South Indian actor who works predominantly in Tamil language films. His father, Mohan Reddy, is from Tirupathi, and his mother, Suryakala Yalamanchili, is from Sivakasi. He is the brother of actress Maheswari & the nephew of veteran actress Sridevi. Before starting his career as an actor, Udhay started his journey as an assistant director. He started working in 2006 with Gautham Menon's directorial team during the production of the movie Pachaikili Muthucharam (2007). Thereafter, Menon decided to cast Udhay as one of the main leads for his new movie ‘Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikaalam.’ The film was set in the backdrop of Chennai's IT industry, and the shooting was about to begin in mid-2007 with the actress Trisha, but due to some reason, it was later delayed and then eventually shelved.

Karthik continued his work with Menon as an assistant director and got an opportunity to get featured in the supporting role of Mahesh in the movie ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’ (2008). After this film, Udhay refused to join Menon's team for the next movie ‘ Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa is an Indian-Tamil musica >> Read More... ’ (2010). Finally, he was approached by Menon to act in his experimental film called ‘Nadunisi Naaygal’ (2011) alongside Veera and Sameera Reddy Sameera Reddy was born on December 14, 1980, in Ch >> Read More... . The film was a major hit, and the audience was especially impressed by Udhay’s role as Police Commissioner. The movie was later dubbed into Telugu. In 2013, Udhay got his second movie as an actor, called ‘Pardesi’ and, another major hit ‘Dinosaurs,’ was released in 2023. The movie was about an unforgivable and outrageous act manipulated by a notorious gangster Salaiyar which leads to a raging feud between him and an intrepid youngster Mannu (Udhay). The movie was directed by M.R. Madhavan.