

The serial led to his popularity among the Tamil audience, and his performance in the show was well appreciated and received. After doing a number of negative and supporting characters, he got his break with Thirumathi Selvam (2007-2013) in which he played the main lead for the first time. He entered the television industry with the serial Metti Oli in which he played a negative role in 2002. Sanjeev started his career doing supporting roles playing Vijay's friend in most of the movies. Sanjeev has two children: Laya, who was born in May 2010, and Adhav, who was born in April 2014.

His close friends in the television industry are Deepak Dinkar and Shreekumar. Sanjeev and his wife Preethi had conducted her wedding in 2017, as her parents. His sister Sindhu died in 2005 and Sanjeev took full responsibility for his sister's daughter (who was only 9 years old at the time of her mother's death). His only sister Sindhu has done few films as a heroine and later acted in many successful serials like Metti Oli, Penn, Anandham and so on. Sanjeev married leading television actress Preethi Srinivasan in 2009. He is the nephew of late actress Manjula Vijayakumar. Both of them studied visual communications at Loyola College. Sanjeev is a close friend of Tamil actor Vijay.
