NAPOLEON
Napoleon is all time great actor and made a long history in Kollywood film industry. He proved his talent in politics also, because now, he is the minister of state in the ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Manmohan Singh’s Cabinet. He won to the Lok Sabha from the Perambalur constituency on a DMK ticket. The actor was first elected to the assembly from Villivakkam constituency in 2001 and was also the chairman of the Jeevan Group of Company.
BIOGRAPHY
Napoleon was born in Peruvalanalloor,Trichirappalli in 1963 as the son of an agriculturist Duraisamy and Saraswathi. He has three sisters and two brothers. He did his graduation in B.A.History from “St. Joseph’s College”, Trichi. He is an actor, politician and business man by profession. His born name was ‘Kumaresan’ and his screen name was ‘Napoleon’. He was married to Jayasudha. His cinema carrer had started with the movie of “Pudhu Nellu Puddhu Nathu” in 1991. As an actor, he has worked in more than 85 films and is proficient in all South Indian languages including Tamil,Telugu and Malayalam. Some of his notable films include “Seevalaperi Pandi”, “Vattaram”, ” Saleem”, “Pallikondapuram”, “Azhagarmalai”, “Devasuram” and “Ravanaprabhu”. He was honoured with ‘Kalaimamani Award’ in 1998 and also received the ‘M.G.R. Award’ in the same year. He was conferred with the ‘Best Actor Award’ by the Government of Tamil Nadu for the film ‘Ettu Patti Rasa’. Napolean was learning the politics from his uncle State Transport Minister K.N. Nehru and was first contested to the assembly from Villivakkam constituency and was elected as MLA in 2001. He was continued his service as MLA until 2006. He was lost his MLA seat in 2006 at Mylapore to fellow colleague and actor S V Shekher, of AIADMK. As a Politician, he was responsible for managing the party’s propaganda, organizing political rallies and planning and administrating campaigns and was also won the Murasoli Trust “Kalaignar” Award in the year 2007. Napolean’s another popularize is the owner of the “Jeevan Technologies”. Jeevan Technology is an efficient IT Solutions Strategy that has evolved as a strategic development partner to some of the leading independent software vendors in the world. It was started in 2000 in Chennai, and then expanded into USA and New Zealand. Today, the company has employed more than 800 professionals. In broadly speaking, Napolian is an active politician, people’s person, family man etc.
