R Madhavan Beams With Pride As Odisha CM Honours Son Vedaant For His Achievements In Swimming

It's a double bonanza for R Madhavan! The Indian actor is basking in the glory of his movie Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. Just recently he celebrated the success of the movie. Not only that, he is also celebrating his son Vedaant Madhavan's achievements.

Vedaant Madhavan honoured by Odisha CM

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His son was recently honored by the Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik. He met with the CM with his entire family. In the photos, he is beaming with pride for his son's achievements.

The CM presented him with a swim t-shirt as a memento.

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After a candid conversation, they all posed for a photo together.

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Expressing his gratitude, he thanked CM Naveen Patnaik on Twitter. He thanked him for his commitment to putting the state firmly on one of the Best Sports Venue maps in India. Here's what he wrote:

Such a pleasure to meet with honorable CM & very dynamic Shri @Naveen_Odisha Ji.Thank you so much for the kind hospitality & the most fantastic endeavor of putting Odisha firmly on one of the Best Sports Venue map of India-Your commitment for the future of sports is invigorating pic.twitter.com/l5tePqMOss

¡ª Ranganathan Madhavan (@ActorMadhavan) July 21, 2022

This comes after Vedaant Madhavan recently broke a national record. He won the 1500m freestyle to bag the gold medal and set a new record previously held by Advait Page.

Vedaant also won a silver and a gold medal at Danish Open 2022. He says he doesn't want to live under the shadow of his father and rather wants to make his own name. "I didn't wanna live under my dad¡¯s shadow. I wanted to make name for myself. I didn¡¯t want to be just R Madhavan¡¯s son."

Yeh Dil Mange More ????Adding success colours to his own account. Stay blessed. Captured during the presentation ceremony at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, Odisha @ActorMadhavan @ActormadhavanFC pic.twitter.com/S7eHJmOLiw

¡ª MRasmi (@Vpmr2022) July 19, 2022

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Madhavan and his family had shifted to Dubai so that his son could practice there. Madhavan said that he didn't have access to larger pools in India because of the Covid-19 lockdown. Hence, they decided to move to Dubai so that he could continue practicing there.

He says he is proud of his son and has no regrets that he doesn't want to be an actor like him. "His chosen vocation is far more important to me than my own career", he said.

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Did you know Madhavan's parents wanted him to become an engineer?

R Madhavan's father Ranganathan Iyengar was a management executive in Tata Steel and his mother, Saroja was a manager in the Bank of India. When he told them about his ambitions, "They (his parents) were distraught, in fact, my dad was driven to tears. And I remember a line where he said, ¡®I wonder what I have done wrong with you,'" he told Curly Tales in an interview.

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R Madhavan has made them proud!

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