Actor Mahendran started acting at the age of 3. As as a child artist, he appeared in over 100 films in six languages, most for a child actor in India. He twice won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Child Artist, for Thaikulame Thaikulame (1995) and Kumbakonam Gopalu (1998).
Mahendran turned a hero with a Tamil film titled Vizha which released in the year 2013. He has also featured in a famous dance reality show.