For more than three decades, Milind Soman has occupied a curious place in India’s cultural imagination — first as the model who defined an era of advertising in the 1990s, later as an athlete and symbol of endurance running and fitness, and then as an actor moving between languages and industries, on screens big and small. 

At 60, Milind continues to move easily between these worlds. His latest project brings him back to the Tamil film industry after a gap of four years with Muthu Engira Kaattaan, a gritty folk-noir crime series created by M Manikandan and starring Vijay Sethupathi.