Ajith Kumar is a Tamil film actor and car racer, born as the middle child in Hyderabad to a Tamil father and a Sindhi mother. He has acted in many Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies. However, he has strong ties to the Tamil culture and society, as he grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He dropped out of Asan Memorial Senior Secondary School in 1986 to become a part-time two-four wheeler mechanic and a full-time garment exporter based in Erode till 1990. Several business agencies pushed him into modeling for advertisements in print media.
Ajith began dating his Amarkalam co-star Shalini in 1999 . They both married in 2000 in Chennai, where they invited many other Kollywood actors and actresses including Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Joseph Vijay, Surya Sivakumar and R. Madhavan. On January 3, 2008, the couple were blessed with a baby girl, Anoushka Kumar. On 2nd March, 2015, their second child, a son was born.
Ajith is an ardent car racer, he also has participated in various races like Formula 2 Championship, 2003 Formula Asia BMW Championship & many races abroad.
Career
Ajith started his film career at the age of 21 as an actor in the Telugu movie Prema Pustagam in 1992. His next film was a super-hit Tamil film Amaravathi. His second Tamil film Pavithra was delayed for 17 months because of a racing injury that left him bed-ridden. Both films received vast appreciation from the Tamil audience. It was his third Tamil film that released 10 months later in 1995, Aasai, directed by Vasanth and produced by Mani Rathnam, helped establish his career as an actor in Kollywood.