Vinu Chakravarthy

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 SubInspector 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 1000 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