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Vinu Chakravarthy

Profession
Acting
Born
December 15, 1945 · Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Died
April 27, 2017

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

Arunachalam poster
Arunachalam
Film · 1997 · ★ 7.3
Annamalai poster
Annamalai
Film · 1992 · ★ 7.3
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum poster
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum
Film · 2014 · ★ 6.2
Citizen poster
Citizen
Film · 2001 · ★ 6.3
Thenkasipattanam poster
Thenkasipattanam
Film · 2000 · ★ 7.3
Villain poster
Villain
Film · 2002 · ★ 6.6
Amarkalam poster
Amarkalam
Film · 1999 · ★ 6.5
Meleparambil Aanveedu poster
Meleparambil Aanveedu
Film · 1993 · ★ 7.6
Thamizhan poster
Thamizhan
Film · 2002 · ★ 5.8
Veera poster
Veera
Film · 1994 · ★ 6.3
Gemini poster
Gemini
Film · 2002 · ★ 5.9
Guru Sishyan poster
Guru Sishyan
Film · 1988 · ★ 7.6

Filmography