Vinu Chakravarthy profile
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Vinu Chakravarthy

15th December 1945 Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India Acting

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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Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Muni poster
Muni 30th September 2007 as Ganesh's Father
Gajendra poster
Gajendra 22nd September 2004 as Peedhambaram
Military poster
Military 28th February 2003 as Sundaramoorthy
Villain poster
Villain 4th November 2002 as Minister Ramasamy
Red poster
Red 5th May 2002 as Narayanan's House owner
Kasi poster
Kasi 14th November 2001 as Valaiyapathy
Citizen poster
Citizen 8th June 2001 as Minister Idithaangi Vaithiyar
Dharma poster
Dharma 9th July 1998 as Chakravarthy
Veera poster
Veera 14th April 1994 as Rajamanikkam

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