We are delighted to announce that award-winning Indian actor R Madhavan has become a strategic investor and stakeholder in Parent Geenee.
Ranganathan Madhavan is an Indian actor, writer, film director and producer.
At the launch, he said “As a parent in the digital age, I know first-hand how challenging it is to balance screen time and online safety for our children. But childhood should be about real expereinces, not just screens. Parent Geenee is a game-changer – it’s Safe Zones feature gives parents the control they need while helping kids develop responsible digital habits.”
At the age of 18, his college entrusted him with the responsibility of representing India as a Cultural Ambassador to Canada. A year later, he and three others from his college were sent to Britain as army cadets and received training in the royal army, navy, and Air Force. A vegetarian and animal lover, he is a brand ambassador for PETA. He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Tamil.
Before making his appearance on the tinsel screen, he was popular on the idiot box on Sony’s Deal Ya No Deal (2005). Having done close to 1800 episodes of various soaps on varied National Networks, he subsequently also appeared as the main character in a mobile game.
He made his debut with Inferno (1997) in 1998, and since then acted in around 50 movies in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada. He is popularly known as the ‘chocolate hero’, and his most popular film is 3 Idiots (2009) where he starred opposite Aamir Khan and Sharman Joshi. 3 Idiots was one of the first ever Indian films to become successful in East Asian markets such as China and Japan, eventually bringing its worldwide gross to $90 million, making it the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time until 2013.
