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?

Mappillai
2h 30m
Movie 1989

Mappillai

Rajarajeswari gets Aarumugam's sister arrested after she learns that she is in love with her son. Aarumugam decides to marry her daughter Geetha in order to teach her a lesson.

Manidhan Marivittan
2h 8m
Movie 1989

Manidhan Marivittan

A naive man who is new in town gets entrapped in a crisis due to his resemblance with a gangster. The revelation gets shocking when the criminal turns out to be his own twin brother.

Enga Ooru Maappilai
Movie 1989

Enga Ooru Maappilai

A naive Velu arrives at his uncle's house after his mother's death only to get neglected by his aunt. Soon, a woman named Panchavarnam falls for him, but the notorious Rajalingam sets his eyes on her.

Rajathi Raja
2h 17m
Movie 1989

Rajathi Raja

A rich estate owner is killed by his second wife and her brother Aadimoolam. The estate owner's son Raja returns from USA and learns of this. In order to bring the culprits to book, he makes his friend Sethupati, a rickshaw puller, act as Raja.

Ellame En Thangachi
2h 2m
Movie 1989

Ellame En Thangachi

A Family entertainer about the brother and sister

Enna Petha Raasa
2h 17m
Movie 1989

Enna Petha Raasa

Lakshmi and Raja fall in love and decide to get married. But on the day of the marriage, Raja is accused of murdering a woman.

Vasanthi
Movie 1988

Vasanthi

A man is arrested for stealing at a very young age; upon being released from the prison, he learns about his orphaned sister and circumstances force him to become a habitual offender.

Melangottu Thalikattu
2h 9m
Movie 1988

Melangottu Thalikattu

A village love story

Sangham
2h 10m
Movie 1988

Sangham

A spoilt rich man Kuttapayi befriends a group of four college students. Kuttapayi uses them to do a lot of his dirty work. When things go awry they take refuge in Kuttapayi's remote estate; where his past catches up with him.

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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