
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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.

as Parameswaran

as Chokkalingam
1997

as Rajamanikkam
1994

as Parameswaran
1995

as MLA
2002

1998

as Balakrishnan
1983

1986

1986

as Idhayakani's Grandfather
2013
1993

2004

2004
2010

as Adhikesavan
2014

as Idhayakani's Grandfather
2013
as Muthu Gounder
2010
2010
as Dhanapal
2009

as Ganesh's Father
2007

2006

2005

2004

as Peedhambaram
2004

2004

2004

2003
2003

2003

as Kader Mohammed
2003

as Cheran
2003

as Sundaramoorthy
2003

2003

as 'Leaked' Sampasivam
2003

as Pannayar
2003

2003

as Minister Ramasamy
2002

as Mongoose/Ratchasa Keeri
2002