User:Sujaraman/sandbox

Early Life

Mathew Ryan Raaj (born on 5th June 1979), known by his stage name as Rayan, is an Indian film actor and director, hails from Southern Kerala-born to a Catholic family. He moved to Chennai to pursue his education. Ryan graduated with Bachelors in Engineering and Masters in Business Administration, excelling in academics as well as in performing arts. He can speak four languages Malayalam, Hindi, English, and French. From an early age with the right amount of motivation from his mother, he became a classical dancer trained under a Bharata Natyam dancer, Revathi. His interest also spread into modern dancing under the guidance of Jeffrey Vardhan. Correspondingly, Ryan has also learned martial arts in Boxing and Kick-Boxing.

Passion

Ryan's intrinsic attribute has created an intense passion for wanting to explore into action films involving risks, real stunt, and actions. His deep-rooted passion is to perform inspirational films like Brave Heart and Gladiator.

Acting

Ryan has acted more than 10 movies and which he made his first debut movie in Nakshatra Kannullah Oru Rajakumaran as a lead role, directed by Rajasenan in 2001. After a short break, Ryan made back his appearance in 19 Revolutions as a lead role in an English feature film by Sridhar Reddy in 2004 and followed by a lead role in Marandhen Mei Marandhen directed by Siva Raman in 2005.

Directing

Following his acting career, he has also directed a short film inspired by true life incidents which are predominantly occurring in many states in India. The story revolves around two brothers and while the younger brother is intellectually disabled and how his fate is being decided by his brother.

Marketing and Business Development

Ryan is in the marketing and business development bringing in over 10 years of experience and has worked for well-known companies in India. He strongly feels that Marketing is a vital strategy for any business, to achieve best results it requires a soft blending of art and science. Marketing a product with authenticity alone is not enough but meeting up to the clients' demands is essential. It does not only involves many communications but targeting the right strategy is important. Although, It is a very challenging journey but rewarding if it is viewed from the top. This has enhanced his professionalism, leadership and wants to take every opportunity to learn, grow and be efficient to be competent in this field.