The renowned Indian actor and director Prathap Pothan passed away on July 15, 2022, in Kilpauk, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Learn about his marriage to Raadhika, his first wife.
On Friday, the 69-year-old Filmfare Award winner was discovered dead at his Chennai home. Initial police findings state that there are no signs of murder and that Pothan’s death was caused by a natural cause.
Pothan has worked in more than a hundred films in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi since making his acting debut with the Malayalam film Aaravam in 1978. Three times in his career, he has taken home the prestigious Filmfare award.
Raadhika Sarathkuma, First Wife of Prathap Pothan
Indian actress Raadhika Sarathkumar, who was born in Chennai, and Prathap Pothan wed in 1985.
Malay actor and filmmaker There are no offspring from Pothan and Raadhika’s brief union. But a year after being married, they promptly took separate paths.
The well-known actress served as producer on Pratap Pothen’s film “Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai,” which won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director. They fell in love while working on the 1985 film, in which they both played supporting roles.
Raadhika is a multi-talented Indian actress, producer, and businesswoman who was born on August 21, 1963. Raadhika primarily appears in films in Tamil, Telugu, and occasionally in Malayalam, Hindi, and Kannada.
Indian actress and producer Raadhika Sarathkumar is a gifted performer
She is also the daughter of the late Tamil actor and comedian M. R. Radha from Tamilnadu, Geetha. Raadhika attended school in India, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. She has a younger sister named Nirosha who is an actor as well as two younger brothers named Raju and Mohan. She is also her older half-brother, Radha Ravi.
She established Radaan TV, her own production company, in 1994 after becoming well-known as an actor. Her business saw some failures, but in 1999 it was renamed Radaan Mediaworks India Ltd and rose to become one of the top production companies.
Additionally, Raadhika entered politics in 2006. Before the 2006 Assembly elections, she and her husband R. Sarathkumar both joined the AIADMK. On October 18, 2006, she was expelled from the AIADMK due to anti-party behaviour. She also holds the position of deputy general secretary for the All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi since 2007.
The second husband of Radhika is Rayanne Hardy’s father
Raadhika, a 58-year-old Dharma Devathai actress, wed Richard Hardy, a British citizen and the father of Rayanne Hardy.
The pair was married in London, England, in 1990, and Raadhika moved in with him. Just a few months before their divorce, on August 22, 1992, they welcomed a daughter named Rayanne.
Sarathkumar Raadhika Abhimanyu Mithun, a cricketer, and Rayane got married.
Rayanne married cricketer Abhimanyu Mithun on August 28, 2016, in Chennai, during a religious ceremony. Abhimanyu has represented Karnataka in first-class cricket in addition to playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Mumbai Indians in the IPL.
Rahul Sarathkumar: Who Is He?
Raadhika and her third husband, Ramanathan Sarathkumar, have a son named Rahul Sarathkumar. He was born in India in June 2004 and is now 18 years old.
Raadhika returned to India following the dissolution of her marriage to Richard. On February 4, 2001, she fell in love with Sarathkumar Ramanathan, an Indian actor and politician. Before getting married, they were close friends who acted together in the films Suryavamsam and Namma Annachi.
Additionally, their son Rahul is a gifted young singer and songwriter who is planning to debut soon in South Asian films.
