“Who killed Kattappa?” was a question raised by whole world, after watching Baahubali, The Beginning. But little do they know about this amazing actor who played that role. Sathyaraj, who was based from Tamil Nadu, came into movie industry as playing small antagonist roles and eventually played lead roles. He worked in around 200 films over Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi languages. His journey teaches us that no one is incapable of any talent if one has zeal to fulfil their dreams with constant practice and patience. He first acted as a henchman, while the main lead was Sivaji Ganesan, Jaishankar, Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Vijayakanth. His college friend Manivannan directed Sathyaraj for the first time in the Tamil film January 1 in 1984, where Sathyaraj had a supporting role. Manivannan directed Sathyaraj in about 25 films from 1984 to 2013 and of them 18 had Sathyaraj as the main lead. He then acted in many films of different genres and got his breakthrough with rom-coms. He proved that he can play different roles back to back and yet entertain the audience. He was one the few artists, who were first henchmen, a protagonist and eventually character artist throughout his career. He in person, is known to be one of the no-nonsense people with a bright smile on his face always.
