Bala Saravanan

Vijay TV gave Bala Saravanan his start. He began with the channel's school drama Kallikattu Pallikoodam and gained recognition through its college series Kana Kaanum Kaalangal before moving into films. The Tamil actor and comedian was born in Madurai on 2 November 1987. His early film work took in Kutti Puli (2013), Thirudan Police (2014), Darling (2015), Oru Naal Koothu (2016) and Adhe Kangal (2017), and critics singled out his comic timing in Thirudan Police and Darling. Godha (2017) was his Malayalam debut. He later worked alongside Silambarasan in Eeswaran (2021), Sivakarthikeyan in Don (2022) and Ajith Kumar in Thunivu (2023), and his dialogue delivery in the Tamil crime web series Vilangu drew attention. He played a forest guide in the 2024 horror film Pechi. Inga Naan Thaan Kingu and Lubber Pandhu won him the Ananda Vikatan Cinema Award for Best Comedian – Male. After Mandaadi (2026), he appears in Sathyavan Savithiri, a courtroom drama directed by Praveen S. Vijaay with Keerthy Suresh in the lead, set for a worldwide release on 20 November 2026.