The tall and handsome actor Jayam Ravi celebrates his birthday today (September 10) and we at Movie Crow bring up a list of 5 movies that actually shaped and established the stardom of this actor to a greater degree.

5. Adanga Maru – The film depicted him in the role of an angry young man, which was greatly raved and appreciated by the audiences. Be his expressiveness in venting out his infuriated thoughts or his action packed stunts, he was just over the top.

4. M Kumaran S/o Mahalakshmi – Being his second outing, this film didn’t establish Ravi as a handsome actor, but made him a favourite of family audiences as well. The equation of bonding between his characters with his mother in first half and estranged father in second hour became the major ingredient of film’s success.

3. Peranmai – More than his action packed stunt, what made him look more adorable was the attitude that he inherited and implemented for his role. The way he rendered the dialogues and change his body language made his screen presence praiseworthy.

2. Santhosh Subramaniam – This can be regarded as the magnum opus of Jayam Ravi as he became very much popular for his characterization. To have Prakash Raj play his father again was yet another additional privilege, where the chemistry worked out to a greater extent on par with Genelia D’ Souza.

1. Thani Oruvan – A major breakthrough for Jayam Ravi and he was almost renamed as ‘Mithran IPS’. It was yet another angry young man role for Ravi and his characterization that was laced with brainy and brawny ingredients made it more appealing.