Sekar P. R.

Sekar P. R. also known as Rudrapathy Sekar is a dubbing artist in the Southern Indian film industry. He has dubbed actors in the Tamil industry including Shahrukh Khan.^[2][3][4] He is a recipient of the Tamil Nadu State Film Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu.^[5]

P. R. Sekar
Born	Rudrapathy Sekar Chennai, India
Occupation(s)	Actor and Voice actor
Years active	1980 - Present
Spouse	Gayathri Sekar
Children	Akshath Tej Vilva
Parent	K. P. Rudrapathy (Father)^[1] Danam Rudhrapathy (Mother)
Awards	Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Male Dubbing Artist (for Actor Vignesh for the film Malarinum Melliya)

Career

Sekar was born in a Tamil family. His father K. P. Rudrapathy worked under director A. P. Nagarajan.^[2] Sekar started his career dubbing for child artists. He made his debut with the straight Tamil film Pavithra (1994) lending his voice to actor Ajith Kumar's character, in his second venture. His major break was with the Baahubali (franchise) lending his voice to actor Prabhas for the Amarendra Baahubali character. He also dubbed Vivek Oberoi for a film Vivegam.^[3] His other major works include Kadhal Desam, Ullam Ketkumae and Payanam. He won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Male Dubbing Artist for Malarinum Melliya (2011).^[5] He mainly dubs in Tamil and dubs Telugu, Hindi and English films, including the Marvel Comics Universe films Deadpool (franchise), Ant-Man and the Wasp, X-Men: (franchise) for young Charles Xavier actor James McAvoy. He dubbed actor Ram Charan's blockbuster Telugu Film Maaveeran to Tamil voice.^[4]

He dubbed a TV show in Tamil Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 2 by actor Sharukh Khan, the show telecast by Vijay TV.^[2] He has acted in a few Tamil films including Kodaikanal, Yennai Arindhaal, where he played police inspector and Adanga Maru.^[5]

Personal life

Sekar is married to Gayathri and has two sons- Akshanth Tej and Vilva.^[2]

Filmography

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Ref(s)
2008	Kodaikanal	Nandha
2011	Payanam	News reporter
2015	Yennai Arindhaal	Police officer
2018	Adanga Maru		Deleted scene^[6]
2020	Seeru	Kishore

Dubbing roles

Tamil films

Year	Film	Role	Actor	Notes	Ref(s)
1994	Pavithra	Ashok	Ajith Kumar
1994	Ilaignar Ani		Harish
1994	Ungal Anbu Thangachi		Raja Ravindra
1996	Kadhal Desam	Karthik	Vineeth
1996	Chellakannu		Vignesh
1997	Nandhini		Vineeth
1999	Kadhalar Dhinam	Raja	Kunal
1999	Malabar Police		Abbas
1999	Monisha En Monalisa		Raman Trikha
1999	Suyamvaram		Abbas
2001	Aanandham		Abbas
2001	Kanna Unnai Thedukiren		Sathyan
2001	123		Raju Sundaram
2002	Punnagai Desam		Kunal
2002	Kadhal Virus	Deepak	Richard Rishi
2002	Varushamellam Vasantham	Ramesh	Kunal
2002	Pesadha Kannum Pesume	Vikram	Kunal
2002	Kadhal Kirukkan		Vineeth
2002	Arputham		Kunal
2003	Banda Paramasivam		Abbas
2003	Enakku 20 Unakku 18	Sridhar	Tarun Kumar
2003	Soori	Surya	Vignesh
2003	Kurumbu	Ravi	Allari Naresh
2004	Super Da		Kunal
2004	Shock		Abbas
2005	Sevvel		Jai Akash
2005	Ullam Ketkumae	Shaam	Shaam
2005	Chinna		Vikramaditya
2005	Bambara Kannaley	Gautham	Vikramaditya
2005	Vanakkam Thalaiva		Abbas
2006	47A Besant Nagar Varai		Abbas
2006	Manathodu Mazhaikalam		Shaam
2006	Oru Kadhal Seiveer		Santosh
2007	Nanbanin Kadhali		Vikramaditya
2007	Oru Ponnu Oru Paiyan		Sandeep
2008	Nepali		Prem
2008	Malarinum Melliya	Elango	Vignesh	Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Male Dubbing Artist	^[7]
2010	Pen Singam		Uday Kiran
2010	Kutty		Sameer Dattani
2011	Payanam	Major Raveendra	Nagarjuna Akkineni
2011	Kasethan Kadavulada		Saran
2014	Ninaithathu Yaaro		Richard Rishi
2015	Baahubali: The Beginning	Amarendra Baahubali	Prabhas
2015	Vedalam	Abhinay	Kabir Duhan Singh
2016	Oru Melliya Kodu		Shaam
2017	Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	Amarendra Baahubali	Prabhas
2017	Vivegam	Aryan Singha	Vivek Oberoi
2018	Sollividava		Chandan Kumar
2018	Bhaskar Oru Rascal	Sanjay	Aftab Shivdasani
2019	Kanchana 3		Kabir Duhan Singh

Tamil dubbed films

Year	Film	Role	Actor	Ref(s)
1995	Rangeela	Munna	Aamir Khan
1998	Rush Hour	Lee	Chris Tucker
1999	Thaalam		Akshaye Khanna
2001	Paapa		Venkatesh
2001	Kaadhal Galatta		Venkatesh
2004	Desam		Shahrukh Khan
2005	Veeran		Nagarjuna
2007	Rush Hour 2	Lee	Chris Tucker
2007	Stalin		Gopichand
2007	Don		Nagarjuna
2008	Pudhukottai Azhagan		Nagarjuna
2008	Bedtime Stories	Skeeter Bronson	Adam Sandler
2009	Maaveeran	Harsha	Ram Charan
2011	Sri Rama Rajyam	Lakshmana	Srikanth	Only for Tamil version
2011	X-Men: First Class	Charles Xavier / Professor X	James McAvoy
2012	Businessman		Mahesh Babu
2013	Vikramdada		Naga Chaitanya
2013	Chennai Express	Rahul	Shahrukh Khan	Dubbed for TV
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Charles Xavier / Professor X	James McAvoy
2014	Happy New Year	Charlie	Shah Rukh Khan
2015	Ant-Man	Scott Lang / Ant-Man	Paul Rudd
2015	Rudramadevi		Allu Arjun
2015	Bajirao Mastani	Baji Rao I	Ranveer Singh
2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Red	Jason Sudeikis
2016	Captain America: Civil War	Scott Lang / Ant-Man	Paul Rudd
2016	Deadpool	Wade Willson / Deadpool	Ryan Reynolds
2016	M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story	M. S. Dhoni	Sushant Singh Rajput
2016	X-Men: Apocalypse	Charles Xavier / Professor X	James McAvoy
2018	Nadigayar Thilagam		Vijay Devarakonda
2018	Ant-Man and the Wasp	Scott Lang / Ant-Man	Paul Rudd
2018	K.G.F: Chapter 1	Rocky	Yash
2018	En Peru Surya En Veedu India		Allu Arjun
2018	Padmaavat	Alauddin Khalji	Ranveer Singh
2018	Venom	Carlton Drake / Riot	Riz Ahmed
2019	Avengers: Endgame	Scott Lang / Ant-Man	Paul Rudd
2019	The Angry Birds Movie 2	Red	Jason Sudeikis
2019	Avane Srimannarayanan	Inspector Narayanan	Rakshit Shetty
2019	Dark Phoenix	Charles Xavier / Professor X	James McAvoy
2019	Saaho	Ashok Chakravarthi	Prabhas	lend voice only for Tamil version
2019	Kurukshetram	Duryodhana	Darshan
2020	Vaikunthapuram	Bantu	Allu Arjun
2021	Sema Thimiru		Dhruv Sarja
2021	Pushpa: The Rise		Allu Arjun
2021	83	Kapil Dev	Ranveer Singh
2022	Radhe Shyam	Vikramaditya	Prabhas
2022	K.G.F: Chapter 2	Rocky	Yash
2022	777 Charlie	Dharma	Rakshit Shetty

Tamil dubbed TV series

Year	Series	Role	Ref(s)
2007	Kaun Banega Crorepati	Shahrukh Khan
2009	Dragon Ball Z	Zordan
2011–2014	Best of Luck Nikki	Avatar Singh

Dubbing Director

Sekar has also scripted for different audiences (from other languages to Tamil). He has completed over 2000 movies, and 7000 hours of content for various movies and television

shows, both animated and live action. Shekar is known for his speciality to write for historical and mythological content like Jai Veera Hanuman (Jaya TV), Shirdi Sai Baba (Vijay TV), Ramayan (Sun TV), and Mahabharat (Doordarshan).

Films for Theatre Release

Year	Film	Aired on
2006	The Da Vinci Code	Theatre Release
2016	Ice Age: Collision Course	Theatre Release
2016	Ben-Hur	Theatre Release
2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Theatre Release

Shows

Year	Series	Aired on
2007	Kaun Banega Crorepati	Vijay TV
2011 - 2014	Best of Luck Nikki	Disney Channel
2011	Hairy Bikers	History Channel
2012	Mann Vasanai ( Balika Vadhu)	Raj TV
2013	The Suite Life of Karan & Kabir	Disney Channel
	Hong Kong Disneyland Special	Disney Channel
	Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi's Chanakya	Jaya TV
	Jai Veera Hanuman	Jaya TV
	Shirdi Sai Baba	Vijay TV
	Ramayan	Sun TV
	Mahabharat	Doordarshan
	Vishnu Puran	Doorsarshan
	Akbar The Great	Doordarshan
	Dekh Bhai Dekh	Doorsarshan
	Vansh	Doorsarshan
	Padosan	Doordarshan
	Shaktimaan	Doorsarshan
	Aurath	Doordarshan

References

1. "Shah Rukh's Tamil voice".
2. "அமரேந்திர பாகுபலியாகிய நான் - சேகர்". cinema.vikatan. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
3. "Deadpool, the funny Tamil Guy - Sekar". cinemaexpress. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
4. Rao, Subha J (17 December 2011). "Over to the Voices". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
5. Anandan, ‘Film News’ (2004). Sadhanaigal Padaitha Thamizh Thiraipada Varalaru [Tamil Film History and Its Achievements]. Sivagami Publications. p. 738.
6. Archived at Ghostarchive and the : Adanga Maru - Moviebuff Deleted Scene 02 | Jayam Ravi | Raashi Khanna | Karthik Thangavel. YouTube.
7. "தமிழக அரசின் திரை விருதுகள் அறிவிப்பு" [Tamil Nadu Government announces the State Film Awards] (in Tamil). filmibeat.com. 29 September 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2018.