Maddy first real solo hero film Tanu Weds Manu in Bollywood

Madhavan aka Maddy is the only south Indian actor to be accepted by the North Indian audiences.

The success of Maddy is that he started off doing Hindi television serials and then graduated to south Indian movies via Mani Ratnam's Alaipayuthey

Though born a Tamil Brahmin, he grew up in Jamshedpur and learned to speak good Hindi without Tamil accent, which many feel, is his calling card in '