Vinu Chakravarthy

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Dec 15, 1945 (79 years old)
Death date
Apr 27, 2017

Vinu Chakravarthy

Known For

Vaayai Moodi Pesavum
2h 20m
Movie 2014

Vaayai Moodi Pesavum

A mysterious illness declared as dumb flu spreads in a quaint hill station forcing the town's residents from speaking. Will the problems in the place increase due to this or will it lead to better communication?

Unnai Kann Theduthe
2h 10m
Movie 2009

Unnai Kann Theduthe

When policemen find a corpse in a river with a wedding invitation stuffed in the pocket, they set out to investigate.

Ilakkanam
2h 15m
Movie 2006

Ilakkanam

Story of Thamizharasan (Vishnu Priyan) who goes into a coma.

Galatta Ganapathi
2h 18m
Movie 2003

Galatta Ganapathi

Being a cop Ganapathi has troubles getting married. He eventually falls for Nandhini, but his mom demands dowry which results into conflicts. Will Nandhini stand by Ganapathi?

Alaudin
Movie 2003

Alaudin

A slum boy, who steals from the rich to help the poor, keeps scheming against a powerful man. After he finds a magical lamp, which the man had been seeking, he thwarts the man's attempts to abduct him.

Student Number 1
2h 6m
Movie 2003

Student Number 1

A boy joins a college that is full of rowdies. He transforms the students but his own past is shrouded in mystery. It is soon revealed that he is a prisoner attending college by special permission.

Anbu Thollai
2h 20m
Movie 2003

Anbu Thollai

Singamuthu wants that he and his brothers marry girls who are sisters. However, Chinnathayi, his cousin, wants to marry him and decides to jeopardise all the marriage proposals that come his way.

Azhagarsamy
2h 14m
Movie 1999

Azhagarsamy

Thayama gets money from a landlord in order to save her husband and promises to give her child in return. Things turn for the worst when the rich man wants to marry off his daughter to Thayama's son.

Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga
2h 31m
Movie 1999

Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga

Sakthi tries to sabotage his marriage arranged by his father but gets a huge shock when the girl turns out to be the one he loves.

Amarkalam
2h 37m
Movie 1999

Amarkalam

Vasu is a tough street crook who lives at a movie theater. One day while transporting the reels of a new film, he clashes with a music student Mohana. Mohana is the daughter of the Police Commissioner, who Tulsidas an ex-gang leader released from jail has an old grudge against. He tells Vasu to kidnap Mohana for two days in order to ruin the family's honor. While being held captive by Vasu, Mohana falls in love with him after hearing him sing. Vasu rejects her love, but on learning of it, Tulsidas pays him to pretend to be in love with her. By the time Tulsidas learns that his enmity with the police commissioner is false and tells Vasu to stay away from Mohana it is too late, Vasu's love has become real.

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.

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