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Vinu Chakravarthy

Dec 15, 1945 - Apr 27, 2017 (71 years old) in 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.

Known For

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Arunachalam
Chokkalingam
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Murai Maman
Parameswaran
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Arul
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Amarkalam
Aarumugam
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Red
Narayanan's House owner
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Muthu Kulikka Vaarieyala
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Muni
Ganesh's Father
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Meleparambil Aanveedu
Veeramuthu Gounder
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Pudhiya Mannargal
Tamilmagan, The Chief Minister
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Annamalai
S. Ekambaram

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