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Vinu Chakravarthy

Vinu Chakravarthy

Birthday: 1945-12-15 | Place of Birth: Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2014
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum

as    Adhikesavan

2013
Desingu Raja

as    Idhayakani's Grandfather

2002
Thamizhan

as    MLA

1993
Meleparambil Aanveedu

as    Veeramuthu Gounder

1987
Theertha Karayinile

as    Sarasu's Husband

1985
Oru Kaidhiyin Diary

as    S. P. Viswanathan