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Vinu Chakravarthy

Vinu Chakravarthy

Acting • 1945-12-15 • 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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Gemini5.9

Gemini

2002

Muni6.2

Muni

2007

Oru Kaidhiyin Diary7.7

Oru Kaidhiyin Diary

1985

Amarkalam6.5

Amarkalam

1999

Kasi6.8

Kasi

2001

Annamalai7.3

Annamalai

1992

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