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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-05-25

Place of Birth

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Goundamani

Biography

Goundamani (born Subramani Karuppaiya) is an Indian film actor and comedian. He is better known for his comic duo partnership in Tamil films with fellow actor Senthil. His real name "Mani" got the "Counter" prefix for his ability to give counter on the spot and off the script on stage and during shooting which eventually evolved into Goundamani as per Bhagyaraj who was writing scripts and title credits for Bharathiraja in his early days during the movie 16 Vayathinile. While performing roles of a solo comedian in films, he often co-starred with Senthil to form a comedy duo. The pair was described as "Tamil cinema's Laurel and Hardy" and have performed slapstick humour in several Tamil films since the mid-1980s until the early 2000s. After recuperating from diabetes and respiratory illnesses during the late 2000s, he is about to feature in Vaaimai and also play the lead role in 49-O, which began productions in 2013. It is being directed by debutant Arokiadoss, a former assistant of Gautham Vasudev Menon. The Film 49-O was released on 17 September 2015 and most of the critics gave positive reviews. He had a successful career that spanned over three decade thanks to his timing and ability to reinvent himself from comedian to character artiste to villain to second hero to comedic duo.

Known for

Thaayin Manikodi

Thaayin Manikodi

Arjun is a sincere CBI officer. He rescues a kidnapped lady (Tabu) from the clutches terrorists. But in the process Rani loses her parents. Arjun takes Rani to his house. With the help of Rani, he makes a sketch of the kingpin and publishes it in major newspapers. The kingpin summons a local don to eliminate Arjun.

Mettupatti Mirasu

Mettupatti Mirasu

Durai and Radha love each other but their relationship is opposed by Radha's nephew Shiva. The rift between Shiva and Durai widens further when Shiva's father, reveals that Durai is his son.

Naane Raja Naane Manthiri

Naane Raja Naane Manthiri

A self centred egoistic village zamindar who makes fun of people, is rude by nature and brash tries to accommodate a teacher who comes to his village in search of work. How she gets to understand him, how he reacts and how his uncle's daughter who initially adversely reacts to his tantrums reacts towards the end is the story. In short it is a triple edged love story with truth, passion and emotions galore.

Sadhu

Sadhu

Pattathu Raani

Pattathu Raani

Two brothers own a colony, but their tenants refuse to pay the rent. Eventually, one of the owners comes up with a plan to rent a house to a beautiful woman to trick the tenants into paying up.

Anandha Ragam

Anandha Ragam

Anandharaagam is a 1982 Indian Tamil film, directed by Bharani, starring Sivakumar and Radha in lead roles. The film had musical score by Ilayaraja and was released on 1982

Neengalum Herothan

Neengalum Herothan

In a village where all the villagers who would be doing their day to daily activities would get excited when a film crew comes to shoot in their village.

Poovarasan

Poovarasan

Vandicholai Chinraasu

Vandicholai Chinraasu

Vandicholai Chinraasu is a 1994 Tamil film directed by Manoj Kumar. The film stars Sathyaraj, Sukanya and Goundamani in lead roles.

Baba

Baba

Baba is an atheist who always questions the existence of a higher power. But when a turn of events bestows him with divine powers, he uses the opportunity to help other people.

Sakkarai Panthal

Sakkarai Panthal

A rich man, gets fed up of his gambling brother and his spoilt son, Vijay. Upon his death, his son and brother learn that the property will be inherited by Rakayi, a poor girl, if she marries Vijay.

Periya Gounder Ponnu

Periya Gounder Ponnu

Thangamuthu's mother wants him to marry her brother's daughter Manju as per their tradition. However, Manju is against the relatioship and her father insults him and his mother.

Suriyan

Suriyan

The CBI is in search of Suriyan, an intelligent security officer of central ministry, who is accused of murdering a central minister. He hides his identity and takes shelter in a remote village.

Periya Thambi

Periya Thambi

Siva lives with his father Soundarapandian, a police officer, and his little sister Geetha. Geetha gets engaged and Siva notes that his father will not invite his family to the wedding. Hence, Siva finds out his family's village and goes there. At his father's village, Siva is insulted by his uncle Sankarapandian, while his aunt Kamachi welcomes him. Soon, Kamachi's daughter Selvi and Siva fall in love with each other. How Siva reconciles his uncle and marries Selvi forms the rest of the story.

Velai Kidaichuruchu

Velai Kidaichuruchu

Baasha, a local thug controls the whole village by his atrocities. Pazhanisamy, who relocates to the village, earns Baasha's enmity when he tries to end his reign.