Manikandan was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In initial years of his career he worked as a mimicry artist and then as a RJ and later, he started to work as a dubbing/voice artist in TV serials and films. He has written dialogues for various tamil films. He has also acted in some of the tamil blockbuster movie like Vikram Vedha (2017), Kaala (2018) and Netrikann (2021).