The boy in photo is a star in Bollywood and South cinema, delivered many superhit films, fell in love with a student, his name is..., wife is...

India.com

14-07-2025

R Madhavan, who is known by everyone as Maddy, his acting skills are unmatched. Everyone says that he is a star from birth. The audience has given immense love to each of his films. He has proved his strong acting skills many times, whenever his films come on screen, they win the hearts of the audience, so we all are well aware of his professional life, but today we are going to tell you about the love story of R Madhavan and his wife Sarita Birje, how a student and a teacher became life partners. What was the love story of Madhavan?
In his personal life, R Madhavan is a shy and very romantic person. He fell in love with a former air hostess, after which both of them got married. At the same time, their love story is very filmy. After earning a degree in electronics engineering, Madhavan wanted to join the army to serve the country, but on the insistence of his parents, he later chose the field of management, and after performing excellently in it for some time, he started training students in communication and public speaking. Once during his class in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, he met Sarita Birje. She used to come to attend Madhavan's lectures to get trained to become an air hostess.
In an interview to a media house, Madhavan recalled his first meeting with Sarita and said, 'I met Sarita when I was taking personality development classes in Kolhapur. During that time, she aspired to get a job in an airline and used to come to my class for training. When she finally got the job, she thought that it was partly because of my class, and she took me to dinner as a thank you. After which our love story started.' View this post on Instagram
A post shared by R. Madhavan (@actormaddy) How did Maddy's love begin?
After getting a job in an airline company and getting a lot of help from Madhavan's excellent coaching, Sarita planned the entire dinner. However, Madhavan had started feeling something different for Sarita by then, so he took advantage of this opportunity for the first time and immediately said yes to dinner.
Actor R Madhavan with his wife, Sarita Bijre.
He said in an interview to PTI – 'Sarita was my student, and one day she asked me to go for dinner. I thought it was a good opportunity. I did not know if I would ever get married or not, so I took advantage of the opportunity, and later I got married to Sarita.' Madhavan and Sarita got married with all the rituals
After dating each other for eight years, both got married in 1999 with traditional Tamil rituals. This marriage proved lucky for Madhavan, because only after this he got a chance to act in Mani Ratnam's film, 'Alai Payuthe', released in 2000. This film was a huge hit at that time; everyone liked Madhavan's acting. How did Maddy get a big break in Bollywood?
In 2001, Madhavan got a big break in Bollywood with the film 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein', in which he was paired with Dia Mirza. Although this film was not successful, his character and songs were well-liked. Let us tell you, Madhavan used to bring his wife on the sets of the film so that he could spend as much time with her as possible.