Dhruv Vikram

Dhruv was born on 23 September 1997^[1][2] in Chennai to actor Vikram and his wife Shailaja. His elder sister Akshita is married to Manuranjith, who is the great-grandson of politician M. Karunanidhi.^[3] Dhruv's paternal grandfather Vinod Raj was also an actor who acted in a few Tamil films.^[4]

Dhruv had been approached by Pandiraj to play the role of Anbukkarasu in Pasanga (2008); however, Vikram was then not keen on letting his son get into acting and the role subsequently went to Kishore DS.^[5] An English-language short film titled "Goodnight Charlie" directed by Dhruv based on child abuse was released in 2016 on YouTube while he was pursuing a six-month filmmaking course at MetFilm School.^[6]

Dhruv was to have made his feature film debut with Bala's Varmaa, a remake of the Telugu film Arjun Reddy (2017); however, the release of the film was stalled after the producer was not content about the final product.^[7][8][9] The film was relaunched as Adithya Varma, directed by Gireesaaya, with Dhruv continuing his role,^[10] and released in 2019 with M. Suganth of The Times of India noting that "Dhruv Vikram comes up with a performance that captures Vijay Deverakonda's intense and raw act from the original note for note, but there is an assuredness and honesty here that makes us appreciate it rather than dismiss it just as mimicry".^[11] Varmaa had a delayed release in 2020 and Suganth stated that "As for Dhruv Vikram, he is rawer here, looking sure-footed in some scenes and like a novice in some".^[12]

Dhruv acted alongside his father in the latter's 60th film, Mahaan (2022) which was released directly on Amazon Prime Video.^[13] He also wrote and sang a song named "Missing Me" for the film.^[14] Later the same year, Dhruv wrote, sang and directed the music video of "Manase", a non-film song composed by Ujwal Gupta.^[15] The same year he sang another non-film song "Oru Kaayam", also composed by Gupta,^[16] and the following year "Poomadhiye", composed by Santhosh Narayanan.^[17] After a near-three hiatus, Dhruv returned to acting with Bison Kaalamaadan (2025).^[18] He has signed up for Jackie to be directed by Ramesh Varma.^[19]

On 12 August 2018, Dhruv was arrested after a car driven by him crashed into three auto rickshaws, injuring three people including an auto driver who had to be hospitalised. Dhruv was released on bail the same day but never charged with drunk driving.^[20]