South Indian Tamil actor Ajith Kumar is a car racer, was 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 Rajnikanth, Kamal Haasan, Joseph Vijay, Surya Sivakumar and R. Madhavan. On January 3, 2008, the couples 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 participated in various races like Formula 2 Championship, 2003 Formula Asia BMW Championship & many races in abroad.

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 superhit 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 tamil audience. It was his third Tamil film that released 10 months later in 1995, Aasai, directed by Vasanth and produced by Mani Rathnam which helped establish his career as an actor in Kollywood. Ajith's first big budget venture was Aasai but it was only until the release of Agathiyan's blockbuster Vaanmathi and particularly the National Award winning Kadhal Kottai which established him as an actor in Kollywood. Ajith later played the lead in Amitabh Bachchan's debut Tamil production Ullasam. This venture paid him a salary of over Rs. 1 million for the first time ever. In 2000, Ajith was cast alongside Mammooty, Abbas, Tabu and Aishwarya Rai in Kandukondain Kandukondain. The film's audio rights were sold for a record Rs.66 million. Mugavari followed as Ajith acted alongside Jyothika Saravanan. South Indian Tamil Actor Ajithkumar Life History.