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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-12-15

Place of Birth

Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Vinu Chakravarthy

Biography

Vinu Chakravarthee was a Tamil actor, script writer and director who is known for acting in more than 1000 movies in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Badaga and Malayalam mostly as a comedian, supporting actor or in a villainous role. The 2007 released Tamil movie Muni was his landmark 1000th movie. On completion of his education, Chakravarthy worked as a Reserve Sub-Inspector at the Ice House police station for six months before joining the Southern Railways where he worked for four years. Chakravarthy was working as a script writer for Kannada director Puttanna Kanagal when he was noticed by film producer Tiruppur Mani who, in 1977, gave him a role in the Kannada film Parasangada Gendetimma which was later remade into Tamil. Since then, Chakravarthy has made over 1,000 films in four South Indian languages - 900 in Tamil, 30 in Malayalam, 5 in Telugu and one in Badaga language. He has also directed movies on his own and is credited with introducing Silk Smitha.

Known for

Kalyana Kacheri

Kalyana Kacheri

Movie about a couple who fights odds of being separated by their parents.

Manidhan Marivittan

Manidhan Marivittan

A naive man who is new in town gets entrapped in a crisis due to his resemblance with a gangster. The revelation gets shocking when the criminal turns out to be his own twin brother.

Arunachalam

Arunachalam

Arunachalam, the son of a prominent village elder, discovers the truth about his past.

Mappillai

Mappillai

Rajarajeswari gets Aarumugam's sister arrested after she learns that she is in love with her son. Aarumugam decides to marry her daughter Geetha in order to teach her a lesson.

Theertha Karayinile

Theertha Karayinile

Anbu Kattalai

Anbu Kattalai

Shakthivel is determined to kill Balakrishnan and Rajamanikam for killing his brother and his family. He succeeds in killing Balakrishnan but his own son is hunting for him to kill him.

Gajendra

Gajendra

Gajendra is the remake of Telugu film Simhadri and was later dubbed in Hindi as Return of Khuda Gawah. Gajendra (Vijayakanth), an orphan, is adopted and grows up under Azhagarsamy's (Sarath Babu) family care. Azhagarsamy considers him like his own son. Kasthuri (Flora), Azhagarsamy's granddaughter, falls in love with Gajendra. Gajendra takes of a mentally ill girl called Indhu (Laya). The rest of the story is about why he took care of her.

Pollachi Mappiley

Pollachi Mappiley

Satyaraj and goundamani's combo.

Neranja Manasu

Neranja Manasu

The villagers of Suriyakudi believe that young Ayyanar will be their saviour. He soon gets Sivanandi imprisoned for killing his own father, and years later, Sivanandi returns to kill him.

Enna Petha Raasa

Enna Petha Raasa

Lakshmi and Raja fall in love and decide to get married. But on the day of the marriage, Raja is accused of murdering a woman.

Parasuram

Parasuram

ACP Parasuram helps Siva's mother, a widow, in recouping their wealth. Brainwashed by Akash, a terrorist, Siva works against the police and the government and believes they killed his brother.

Mullil Roja

Mullil Roja

Enga Ooru Maappilai

Enga Ooru Maappilai

A naive Velu arrives at his uncle's house after his mother's death only to get neglected by his aunt. Soon, a woman named Panchavarnam falls for him, but the notorious Rajalingam sets his eyes on her.

Sandhana Kaatru

Sandhana Kaatru

A decorated military officer avenges his wife's suicide prompted by the heinous acts of several very bad guys.

Chinna

Chinna

Chinna (2005) is a love-drama thriller Tamil language movie directed by the Tamil Director Sundar C. It stars Arjun Sarja and Sneha in the lead roles. It did reasonable business at the box-office.