Dhanush completed his BE Computer Science at Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai. He did his schooling at MP Anandh Mat. Hr. Sec. School, Chennai scoring 313/500 in class 10. After 10th he joined a Diploma course at Panimalar Eng. College, Chennai, and got into Meenakshi Sundararajan College as a lateral entry. His father works as a plumber, and his mother is a housemaid. His ambition is to become a software engineer. He is placed at Osai Ebiz Integrators Pvt. Ltd. as technical engineer.