Siddharth Suryanarayan is an Indian film actor who appears in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam language films. Apart from acting, he has also been involved in films as a screenwriter, producer and playback singer. He has been featured in advertising because of his "pan-Indian" appeal.After completing his business management studies, Siddharth chose to work in film making and assisted Mani Ratnam, before going on to make an acting debut in S. Shankar's coming-of-age Tamil film Boys. The success of the film provided an opportunity to feature in Mani Ratnam's multi-starrer Aayutha Ezhuthu, before he branched off to receive critical and commercial acclaim in Telugu and Hindi cinema through Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana, Rang De Basanti and Bommarillu.