Director

Vinu Chakravarthy

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 238021

IMDb ID: nm1678662

Known for: Acting

Born: December 15, 1945

Died: April 27, 2017

Age: 71

Place of birth: Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1980 - 2014

Years active: 35

Average TMDB rating: 6.73

Wikidata: Q7932907

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Vinuchakravarthy

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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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