Arjun Sarja, the ''Action King'' of Kollywood (Tamil Cinema), has more than 150 films to his credit as an actor and a director. Born to a Kannada film actor, the industry wasn't unfamiliar to Arjun. He began his career in Kannada movies just like his father but received offers for films in Tamil and Telugu languages as well. Arjun won the State Award for the Best Actor for the Tamil movie Gentlemen (1993), which was appreciated by critics as well as the audiences. In 1995, his film Kurudhipunal, a crime drama made it to the 68th Academy Awards as Indias official entry for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, he portrayed an ardent journalist in the political drama Mudhalvan. This movie was critically acclaimed as well as received well at the box office. Mudhalvan was translated in Telugu as Oke Okkadu and remade in Bengali as Minister Fatakeshto (2007) starring Mithun Chakraborty, and in Hindi as Nayak (2001) starring Anil Kapoor. In 2000, he featured in a romantic drama Rhythm that received positive reviews and was a commercial success. In Tollywood, the Telugu film industry, he is famous for his movie Hanuman Junction (2011), which was later dubbed into Tamil. In 2012, his 150th film Prasad, which was made in Kannada, was screened at the Berlin Film Festival.