[1][2][3] He is credited as Ranjan in his earlier films such as Captain Prabhakaran (1991) and Sundara Purushan (1996) and is well known in the critically acclaimed movie Sollamale (1998).
He wrote the screenplay for the movies Kanni Rasi (1985) and Kaakki Sattai (1985) along with G. M.
He started out playing villains and graduated to playing lead roles with Sundara Purushan (1996), Sollamale (1998),[5] Viralukketha Veekkam (1999), En Purushan Kuzhandhai Maadhiri (2001) and Engalukkum Kaalam Varum (2001) are other films in which he has appeared in lead roles.
His father, Samuel Jones worked as a supervisor in Binny and Co., while his mother was a homemaker who was of Malaysian Tamils descent.
On 6 September 1997, he married Jessy Irudayaraj a Roman Catholic in a private ceremony in Chennai.