Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1945-12-15
Day of Death
2017-04-27
Place of Birth
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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.
Filmography (151)
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum
2014
Desingu Raja
2013Pollachi Mappiley
2010Pugaipadam
2010Unnai Kann Theduthe
2009
Muni
2007
Ilakkanam
2006
Chinna
2005
Neranja Manasu
2004
Gajendra
2004
Arul
2004
Giri
2004
Galatta Ganapathi
2003Alaudin
2003
