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Stun Shiva
Born1970 (age 54–55)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupations
  • Action Choreographer
  • Actor
Years active1989-Present
SpouseLany Hau (m.1997-Present)[1]
ChildrenKevin Kumar[2][3]
Steven Kumar[4]

Stun Shiva (born as V. Siva Kumar), is an Indian action choreographer and actor who works predominately in Tamil films apart from a few Telugu, Hindi and Kannada films.[5][6][7]

Early and personal life

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Stun Shiva was born in 1970 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His uncle Natarajan was a stuntman, specialized in performing motorcycle stunts in movies. Since childhood he was interested in sports and passionate about motorcycles that he became a motorcycle mechanic and learnt to perform stunts with motorcycle.[8]

Stun Shiva met an Indian-Vietnamese martial artist Lany Hau, the daughter of his martial arts master and married her in 1997. The couple has 2 sons.[9][10]

Career

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Stuntman

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Initially Stun Shiva started his career as a motorcycle mechanic, due to his interest in the vehicle. His workshop was located near a saloon where all the stuntmen, assistant stunt coordinators and stunt coordinators used to come and he got attracted towards cinema especially stunts following his acquaintance with them. In 1989, he joined the South Indian Cine & TV Stunt Directors, Stunt Artists Union with the help of his uncle Natarajan. He had worked as a stuntman to stunt coordinators such as Rambo Rajkumar, FEFSI Vijayan, Vikram Dharma, V. Raja, Judo. K. K. Rathnam, Judo. K. K. Ramu, Rocky Rajesh and Kanal Kannan.

Assistant Stunt Coordinator

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Later Stun Shiva was promoted as an assistant stunt coordinator to his mentor Rambo Rajkumar & former colleague Kanal Kannan. K. S. Ravikumar who got acquainted with Stun Shiva when the latter had worked as a stuntman as well as assistant stunt coordinator in the former's movies, had given him the prefix "Stun" and changed his name to Stun Shiva.[11] He became well noted for his work in performing many highly risky stunts and assisting in coordinating stunts in movies, at the same time he had also faced severe injuries as well as near fatal major accidents. Especially in movies such as Thozhar Pandian in which he had toppled an auto three wheeler while riding it in a chase sequence, Pudhiya Mannargal in which he had jumped from a bus in an action block and Mr. Romeo in which he had performed a motorcycle stunt as a stunt double for Prabhu Deva by jumping with a motorcycle while riding it.

Stunt Coordinator

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Stun Shiva decided to become a stunt coordinator and he was given an opportunity by Vijay who got acquainted with him when the latter had worked as a stuntman as well as assistant stunt coordinator in the former's movies such as Deva, Vishnu & Chandralekha. In 1997, Stun Shiva made his debut as a stunt coordinator in Love Today.[12][13]

Stun Shiva had done both commercially appealing as well as experimental live realistic fight scenes notably in movies such as Kadhalukku Mariyadhai, Kannukkul Nilavu, Sethu, Nandha, Pithamagan & Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu.[14][15][16][17] In 2000, he had received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator for his work in Kannukkul Nilavu.[18]

Awards &and Honourshonors

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Filmography

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Stunt coordinator

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Actor

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Awards and honors

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Legacy

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Stunt coordinators and actors such as Anal Arasu, K. Ganesh Kumar, Silva, Ram-Laxman, Anbariv, Besant Ravi, Rajendran and Nandha Saravanan had worked as stuntmen and assistant stunt coordinators to him. [21]

References

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  1. ^ "Stun Siva turns Director". The Times of India. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Stun Siva's Son gets his own fight sequence". Times of India. 28 July 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Stun Siva's Kevin Kumar makes his debut in a Hindi Movie as a Fight Master". The Hindu. 13 July 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  4. ^ "The Audience should feel that a new Hero is their own guy: Stun Siva". Times Entertainment. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Meet the top stunt choreographers in the Tamil industry". indulge.com. 27 June 2014. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  6. ^ "300 படங்களுக்கு மேல் சண்டை பயிற்சி அளித்த ஸ்டண்ட் மாஸ்டர்". Dina Thanthi. 14 January 2025. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  7. ^ "தனுஷும் தனுஷ் நிமித்தமும்: தொடரி இசை வெளியீட்டு விழா துளிகள்". Hindu Tamil Thisai. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  8. ^ "Our Heroes are no less than Tom Cruise". Times Entertainment. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  9. ^ "ANI Press Releases Stun Shiva: The man behind action scenes of the super hit film 'Akhanda'". The Print. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  10. ^ "The man behind action scenes of the super hit film 'Akhanda'". Business Standard. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  11. ^ "சாம்பியன் வில்லன் ஸ்டண்ட் சிவா சிறப்பு நேர்காணல்". FilmiBeat. 17 January 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  12. ^ "Vijay had given me the 1st opportunity". YouTube. 22 July 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  13. ^ "Jodhaa Akbar, Ghajini sweep IIFA's technical awards". Hindustan Times. 9 May 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  14. ^ Rangarajan, Malathi (17 December 1999). "Film Reviews: The Haunting / Sethu". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 17 November 2000. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Balakrishna would train a week before every fight scene: Stun Siva". The Hindu. 6 January 2022. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  16. ^ Rangarajan, Malathi (31 October 2003). "Pithamagan". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 16 November 2003. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  17. ^ "Dishoom! Dishoom! No Stunt This". The New Indian Express. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  18. ^ "Rajinikanth heaps praise on Viijay Karthik Kannan, Nirmal, and Stun Shiva for their work in Jailer". Cinema Express. 18 September 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  19. ^ "Tamil Nadu announces film awards for three years — Tamil Movie News". IndiaGlitz. 2004-10-01. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  20. ^ Thorpe (2010). The Pearson General Knowledge Manual 2010 (New ed.). Pearson Education India. ISBN 978-81-317-2790-4. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  21. ^ Ramanujam, Srinivasa (2016-08-15). "The Action Brothers". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 2023-04-03. Retrieved 2019-11-02.