Since there was another actor by his birth name of
Swaminathan, he briefly considered Chama as a stage name, which was what he was called by
Crazy Mohan. He renamed himself as Chaams for the serial
Chinna Papa Periya Papa. He initially acted with comedians like
Vadivelu and supported their comedy roles and later bagged larger roles. His breakthrough role came in the film
Arai En 305-il Kadavul as Java Sundaresan, an aspiring software engineer who bags a job due to his knowledge of
Java. He constantly climbs the social ladder due to his high paying job.
The Hindu stated that "Chaams as the doting fan whose blinkers fall off" is "a riot". Similarly in the year 2013, another film
Onbadhule Guru was released, where he played the role of a disgruntled married man who wanted to go back to his bachelor days along with his other friends. The film needed all leading actors to do comedy as per the script. He played one of the leads in the film
Thittam Poattu Thirudura Kootam (2019). In 2021, Chaams played the lead role in the film
Operation JuJuPi as a serious man. In 2025, he changed his stage name from Chaams to Java Sundaresan as many meme creators were using the latter name. ==Filmography==