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.

Most Known For

Arunachalam

as Chokkalingam

Mappillai

Gajendra

Anbu Thollai

Melangottu Thalikattu

Kauravar

as Vijayan

Kalyana Kacheri

Manidhan Marivittan

Nattamai

Ilakkanam

Pugaipadam

Gemini

Galatta Ganapathi

Arul

Anbulla Appa

Murai Maman

as Parameswaran

Dharma

Thenkasipattanam

as Thevar

Thambikku Entha Ooru

Theertha Karayinile

as Sarasu's Husband