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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.

Known For

Arunachalam

Arunachalam

Sri Raja Rajeshwari

Sri Raja Rajeshwari

Arul

Arul

Vinnukkum Mannukkum

Vinnukkum Mannukkum

Neethiyin Marupakkam

Neethiyin Marupakkam

Athisaya Piravi

Athisaya Piravi

Desingu Raja

Desingu Raja

Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey

Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey

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