Vinu Chakravarthy
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.
Acting
Movie
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum
as Adhikesavan
2014
Movie
Arunachalam
as Chokkalingam
1997
Movie
Annamalai
as S. Ekambaram
1992
Movie
Citizen
as Minister Idithaangi Vaithiyar
2001
Movie
Thenkasipattanam
as Thevar
2000
Movie
Villain
as Minister Ramasamy
2002
Movie
Meleparambil Aanveedu
as Veeramuthu Gounder
1993
Movie
Amarkalam
as Aarumugam
1999
Movie
Thamizhan
as MLA
2002
Movie
Gemini
2002
Movie
Veera
as Rajamanikkam
1994
Movie
Guru Sishyan
as Nallasivam
1988
Movie
Athisaya Piravi
1990
Movie
Red
as Narayanan's House owner
2002
Movie
Arul
2004
Movie
Muni
as Ganesh's Father
2007
Movie
Desingu Raja
as Idhayakani's Grandfather
2013
Movie
Kauravar
as Vijayan
1992
Movie
Rajathi Raja
1989
Movie
Mappillai
1989
Movie
Thambikku Entha Ooru
1984
Movie
Kasi
as Valaiyapathy
2001
Movie
Oru Kaidhiyin Diary
as S. P. Viswanathan
1985
Movie
Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey
1983
