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Goundamani

25th May 1935 Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Acting

Goundamani (born Subramani Karuppaiya) is an Indian film actor and comedian. He is better known for his comic duo partnership in Tamil films with fellow actor Senthil. His real name "Mani" got the "Counter" prefix for his ability to give counter on the spot and off the script on stage and during shooting which eventually evolved into Goundamani as per Bhagyaraj who was writing scripts and title credits for Bharathiraja in his early days during the movie 16 Vayathinile. While performing roles of a solo comedian in films, he often co-starred with Senthil to form a comedy duo. The pair was described as "Tamil cinema's Laurel and Hardy" and have performed slapstick humour in several Tamil films since the mid-1980s until the early 2000s. After recuperating from diabetes and respiratory illnesses during the late 2000s, he is about to feature in Vaaimai and also play the lead role in 49-O, which began productions in 2013. It is being directed by debutant Arokiadoss, a former assistant of Gautham Vasudev Menon. The Film 49-O was released on 17 September 2015 and most of the critics gave positive reviews. He had a successful career that spanned over three decade thanks to his timing and ability to reinvent himself from comedian to character artiste to villain to second hero to comedic duo.

138 Movies 0 TV Shows 250 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Vaaimai poster
Vaaimai 9th September 2016 as Benny Quick
49-O poster
49-O 17th September 2015 as Savuri
Manmadhan poster
Manmadhan 12th November 2004 as 'Puncture' Pandian
Parasuram poster
Parasuram 5th May 2003 as Sub Inspector Thangaraj
Baba poster
Baba 15th August 2002 as Annamalai
Sishya poster
Sishya 27th April 1997 as Aravind friend
Mannava poster
Mannava 20th February 1997 as Raghupathy
Karnaa poster
Karnaa 14th April 1995 as Khalnayak
Yejaman poster
Yejaman 18th February 1993 as Vellaiyangiri
Suriyan poster
Suriyan 1st July 1992 as Panikutti Ramasamy
Mannan poster
Mannan 14th January 1992 as Muthu
Bramma poster
Bramma 5th November 1991 as Valayapalayam Chinnasamy
Netrikan poster
Netrikan 15th August 1981 as Singaram (Chakravarthy's driver)

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