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?

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.

Ore Oru Gramathiley
2h 18m
Movie 1987

Ore Oru Gramathiley

Shankara fakes a lower-caste certificate for his daughter Gayathri, as he worries that she might not get entrance to university otherwise. Trouble begins when people discover her real identity.

Ondru Engal Jaathiye
2h 10m
Movie 1987

Ondru Engal Jaathiye

Ramu, a fisherman, lives with his sister Meena and seeks to find the man who killed their parents. However, he has no idea that Meena has fallen in love with the son of the murderer.

Ini Oru Sudhanthiram
2h 14m
Movie 1987

Ini Oru Sudhanthiram

Sathyamoorthi is an Indian liberal leader. He tries to get his pension money but all his attempts end in failure. He has a daughter named Kannamma and they are very poor. The daughter gets cheated by a collector and she gives birth to a baby but the collector avoids that baby. He is going to marry another girl. The collector is killed by Sathyamoorthi and capital punishment is given to him by the court. How the lives of such a leader and his family changes due to circumstances, forms the crux of the story.

Aalappirandhavan
2h 16m
Movie 1987

Aalappirandhavan

Durai, a theatre artist, gets obsessed with the roles he plays and murders the men who brutally rape and kill Babu's mother. He tries to eliminate anti-social elements without revealing his identity.

Muthal Vasantham
2h 15m
Movie 1986

Muthal Vasantham

A 1986 Indian Tamil film, directed by Manivannan and produced by P. Kalaimani who also wrote the film's story.

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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