The film, set in a Madurai village of the 1980s, told the story of a series of violent happenings on the backdrop of a love story and Jai grew a long beard to reflect the 1980s look for the project. He was then selected to play a leading role by debutant director Sasikumar in Subramaniapuram (2008), after he had seen him at Deva's residence and Jai signed up for the film without hearing the script under the basis that it was to be produced by director Ameer. The success of the film began an association with Venkat Prabhu and Jai has repeatedly collaborated in Prabhu's ventures through leading or cameo roles. He was the only actor to be auditioned amongst the eleven lead roles and was the final selection for the film. His friend, the singer Yugendran, recommended Jai to audition for a role in Venkat Prabhu's directorial debut Chennai 600028 (2007), based on gully cricket. He instead chose to concentrate on a career in music, often working for Deva's films a keyboardist alongside his cousins, music composers Srikanth Deva and Bobo Shashi. Several other offers came his way including roles in Alai (2003) and Devathayai Kanden (2005), but Jai was insistent that he earn his place in the film, rather than being chosen on the basis that he was music composer Deva's nephew. He was also expected to feature in Velmurugan's Ammu and Nambiraj's Touch but neither film materialised. Jai was then set to make his debut in a lead role in a remake of the Telugu film 6 Teens, but the film remained unreleased despite being complete. Venkatesh choosing Jai as a result of his striking similarity in appearance to Vijay. Jai made his film debut at age 16 as Vijay's younger brother in the 2002 film Bhagavathi, with director A. Acting career 2002–2008: Debut and breakthrough In an interview with Ananda Vikatan, he confirmed on the rumors about him embracing Islam, that he has been practising Islam for seven years and thinking of changing his name to Ajeesh Jai in future. He has called himself a "huge fan" of Yuvan Shankar Raja's work, saying that he has "often dreamt of surpassing his work as a composer someday". He completed fifth grade in keyboard from Trinity College London and has said that he likes to be involved in the music compositions of his films. He completed his schooling in Lamech School, Valasaravakkam, Chennai. 2.3 2011–2013: Success in multi-starrersīorn into a family of musicians, Jai has stated that music was close to his heart and that it influenced him in his "growing years", particularly crediting his uncle, the composer Deva.The music of Maanadu has been composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The film also stars Kalyani Priyadarshan, SA Chandrasekhar, Bharathiraja, SJ Suryah, Premji Amaren, Karan, Karunakaran, Aravind Aakash, Manoj Bharathiraja, Daniel Pope and Y Gee Mahendran. Meanwhile, Silambarasan is currently busy shooting with director Venkat Prabhu for Maanaadu. In the film, Simbu plays a character named Abdul Khaaliq. The actor also has Breaking News, Yenni Thuniga and Party in the pipeline. Jai was last seen in Capmaari, which was written and directed by S. He was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in Tamil in 2011 for this movie.
Jai was also acted in Atlee’s directorial project, Raja Rani.
The 37-year-old actor has done notable Tamil movies like Subramaniapuram, Chennai 600028, Engaeyum Eppothum, Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham, Saroja, Goa, Vadacurry, Thirumanam Ennum Nikkah, Kalakalappu 2 and Neeya 2.
Later, this movie was remade in Kannada with the title Kashi from Village in the year 2005. The film starred Reema Sen Vadivelu, Ashish Vidyarthi and Yugendran. Jai made his acting debut in the 2002 Tamil film industry in a supporting role with Thalapathy Vijay's Bagavathi, which was written and directed by Venkatesh. Thank you for making my Birthday Extra Special. It means a lot to me that you took the time to come by. Sharing pictures of himself with Silambarasan from the birthday celebration, Jai wrote on his Twitter account, "It was totally Unexpected and a Pleasant Surprise. He is the nephew of famous music director Deva, who worked in all South Indian languages.Īs the actor celebrated his 37th birthday on Tuesday, April 6th, the young actor was in for a surprise, when actor STR joined the celebrations. Jai made his debut as an actor playing Thalapathy Vijay's brother in Bhagavathi in 2002Īctor Jai Sampath, popularly known as Jai, has acted in over 25 films in the Kollywood film industry.