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{{Short description|Indian actor}}
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| years_active = 1992-1994<br />2006-2013
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| notable_works = ''[[Valli (film)|Valli]]'' (1993)
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'''Hariraj''' is a former Indian actor who worked in Tamil-language films.

== Career ==
Hariraj worked as a hero in films during the 1990s with the most notable one being ''[[Valli (film)|Valli]]'' (1993).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tamil.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/rajini-shot-his-hand-at-the-director-s-desire-valli-is-not-scarred-131692442962202.html|title=Valli: 'இயக்குனர் ஆசையில் கையை சுட்டுக் கொண்ட ரஜினி' வடு மாறாத வள்ளி!|language=ta|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|first=Pandeeswari|last=Gurusamy|date=20 August 2023|access-date=20 February 2024|archive-date=19 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219100834/https://tamil.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/rajini-shot-his-hand-at-the-director-s-desire-valli-is-not-scarred-131692442962202.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 January 2013 |title=நண்பர்களுக்கு உதவ ரஜினி எடுத்த படம் வள்ளி: பிரியாராமன் அறிமுகம் |url=http://cinema.maalaimalar.com/2013/01/07231703/valli-movie-rajini-get-to-help.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028112843/http://cinema.maalaimalar.com/2013/01/07231703/valli-movie-rajini-get-to-help.html |archive-date=28 October 2014 |website=[[Maalai Malar]] |language=ta|access-date=20 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kamadenu.hindutamil.in/flashback/29-years-of-valli|title=ரஜினியின் எழுத்து, ராஜாவின் ஜாலம்: 'வள்ளி' வெளியாகி 29 ஆண்டுகள்!|first=V.|last=Ramji|work=[[Kamadenu (magazine)|Kamadhenu]]|language=ta|access-date=20 February 2024|archive-date=28 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928233946/https://kamadenu.hindutamil.in/flashback/29-years-of-valli|url-status=live}}</ref> He left films as a personal choice and worked in agriculture and photography in Coimbatore.<ref name="N"/>

After a sabbatical, he returned with a negative role in [[Sundar C]]'s ''[[Rendu]]'' (2006) followed by the role of an uncle who turns rogue in ''[[Kadhalil Vizhunthen]]'' (2007).<ref name="N">{{cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/tamil/2009/Mar/28/back-to-cinema-36477.html|title=Back to cinema|date=15 May 2012|work=[[The New Indian Express]]|access-date=20 February 2024|archive-date=19 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219101027/https://adgebra.co.in/afpf/TPHtmlTemplate?p1=181&p2=null&p3=1&p6=6765&p7=0&p8=0&refUrl=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/tamil/2009/Mar/28/back-to-cinema-36477.html&p4=newindianexpress.com|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/hariraj-back-as-a-baddie-malayalam-news-26696|title=Hariraj - Back as a baddie|date=8 November 2006|work=Indiaglitz|access-date=20 February 2024|archive-date=19 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219101553/https://www.indiaglitz.com/hariraj-back-as-a-baddie-malayalam-news-26696|url-status=live}}</ref> He played a psychopathic doctor and the father of [[Harish Kalyan]]'s character in ''[[Aridhu Aridhu]]'' (2010).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cinema.dinamalar.com/movie-review/238/Aridhu%20Aridhu/|title=அரிது அரிது|date=25 December 2011|work=[[Dinamalar]]|language=ta|access-date=20 February 2024|archive-date=19 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219101016/https://cinema.dinamalar.com/movie-review/238/Aridhu%20Aridhu/|url-status=live}}</ref> Regarding his role, a critic wrote that "Hariraj, as the mentally disturbed father who has his own demons to battle with, is impressive".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2011/jan/05/aridhu-aridhu-216632.html|title=Aridhu Aridhu|website=The New Indian Express|access-date=20 February 2024|archive-date=26 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126034209/https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2011/jan/05/aridhu-aridhu-216632.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He worked with [[Atharvaa]] in the unreleased film ''Anandam Arambam''.<ref name="N"/> He also played a negative role in ''[[Ivan Veramathiri]]'' (2013).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfEJGgn9w0A|title=Actor Hariraj Speaks at Ivan Vera Mathiri Movie Press Meet|date=28 November 2013|work=[[Sulekha]]|access-date=20 February 2024|archive-date=19 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219100924/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfEJGgn9w0A|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Filmography ==
===Films===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Film
! Role
! Notes
|-
| rowspan="2"|1992 ||''Vasantha Malargal'' || || {{fact|date=April 2025}}
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| ''Chinna Chittu'' || || {{fact|date=April 2025}}
|-
| 1993 || ''[[Valli (film)|Valli]]'' || Velu ||
|-
| rowspan="2"|1994 || ''[[Vandicholai Chinraasu]]'' || Sankar ||
|-
| ''[[Sainyam]]'' || Cadet || Malayalam film
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Rendu]]'' || Rakesh ||
|-
| 2007 || ''[[Pachaikili Muthucharam]]'' || Ramachandran ||
|-
| 2008 || ''[[Kadhalil Vizhunthen]]'' || Kasirajan ||
|-
| 2009 || ''[[Mariyadhai]]'' || Land buyer ||
|-
| 2010 || ''[[Aridhu Aridhu]]'' || Father ||
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Ivan Veramathiri]]'' || Sadasivam ||
|-
|2016||''[[Manithan (2016 film)|Manithan]]''||Rahul Dewan's father||
|-
|}

===Television===
*''Nambikkai'' (Sun TV)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb name|6120873}}

[[Category:Actors in Tamil cinema]]
[[Category:Indian male film actors]]
[[Category:21st-century Tamil male actors]]
[[Category:20th-century Tamil male actors]]

Hariraj - Revision history

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