Goundamani
Actor · b. 1935 · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Goundamani (born Subramani Karuppaiya) is an Indian film actor and comedian. He is better known for his comic duo partnership in Tamil films with fellow actor Senthil. His real name "Mani" got the "Counter" prefix for his ability to give counter on the spot and off the script on stage and during shooting which eventually evolved into Goundamani as per Bhagyaraj who was writing scripts and title credits for Bharathiraja in his early days during the movie 16 Vayathinile. While performing roles of a solo comedian in films, he often co-starred with Senthil to form a comedy duo. The pair was described as "Tamil cinema's Laurel and Hardy" and have performed slapstick humour in several Tamil films since the mid-1980s until the early 2000s. After recuperating from diabetes and respiratory illnesses during the late 2000s, he is about to feature in Vaaimai and also play the lead role in 49-O, which began productions in 2013. It is being directed by debutant Arokiadoss, a former assistant of Gautham Vasudev Menon. The Film 49-O was released on 17 September 2015 and most of the critics gave positive reviews. He had a successful career that spanned over three decade thanks to his timing and ability to reinvent himself from comedian to character artiste to villain to second hero to comedic duo.
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Movie9.0Baasha, a local thug controls the whole village by his atrocities. Pazhanisamy, who relocates to the village, earns Baasha's enmity when he tries to end his reign.
Velai Kidaichuruchu
1990 · 1 votes
- MovieComedyDrama
Aruna, an industrialist, is unable to confront Thiruttani, a local criminal, and hires Murugan, who is in need of a job, on the condition that he solves her dispute with the criminal.
MovieDramaDurai and Radha love each other but their relationship is opposed by Radha's nephew Shiva. The rift between Shiva and Durai widens further when Shiva's father, reveals that Durai is his son.
- Movie9.0DramaRomance
Anandharaagam is a 1982 Indian Tamil film, directed by Bharani, starring Sivakumar and Radha in lead roles. The film had musical score by Ilayaraja and was released on 1982
Anandha Ragam
1982 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Meenu, who belongs to a small family, falls in love with Chinnaiya, a village leader. However, she pretends to like the son of Chinnaiya's enemy who already is head over heels in love with her.
Movie7.3DramaRomanceTwo college students, the slum child Raja and the dean's daughter Roja, chat with each other over the Internet and fall in love. However, Roja is engaged and Raja cannot bear to disrespect her father, to whom he owes his livelihood.
Movie6.3DramaActionBaba is an atheist who always questions the existence of a higher power. But when a turn of events bestows him with divine powers, he uses the opportunity to help other people.
- MovieDrama
Chinnakaruppan goes to jail after accidentally killing his brother for cheating him. His son, Rasa, tries to make peace with his cousin who holds vengeance against his family for murdering his father.
Movie7.0Vandicholai Chinraasu is a 1994 Tamil film directed by Manoj Kumar. The film stars Sathyaraj, Sukanya and Goundamani in lead roles.
- Movie2.0ComedyDrama
Satyaraj and goundamani's combo.
Movie8.0ActionDramaACP Parasuram helps Siva's mother, a widow, in recouping their wealth. Brainwashed by Akash, a terrorist, Siva works against the police and the government and believes they killed his brother.
- Movie7.0FamilyAction
Walter Vetrivel is a 1993 Indian Tamil film, directed by P. Vasu, starring Sathyaraj, Sukanya and Ranjitha in lead roles. The film had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 14 January 1993. It completed a 150 day run on theaters and became one of the highest grossing films for Sathyaraj during 90's in terms of revenue. The movie released to extremely positive reviews and became a blockbuster. The film was later remade in Telugu as S. P. Parasuram with Chiranjeevi and in Hindi as Khuddar with Govinda.
- Movie7.0DramaComedy
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.
Movie7.0DramaRomanceLakshmi, an orphan, saves a man and falls in love with him. However, she is unaware that he is a prisoner who is on the run from the cops.
Movie6.0DramaDivya keeps rejecting Jeeva's love due to her dreadful past with her psycho husband, which she later reveals to him. When Divya finally decides to marry Jeeva, her husband reappears in her life.
Movie7.1DramaBusinessman Gopinath abandons Shanti, his first love, to marry a rich heiress. Later, Bharath, Gopinath and Shanti's illegitimate son, seeks revenge from him for the injustice meted out to his mother.
- MovieRomanceComedy
In order to resolve her sister, Geetha's marital problems, Chitra decides to marry Geetha's bachelor brother-in-law, Balu. She disguises herself as a village belle, Rajathi and enters Balu's life.
Movie7.0RomanceActionSadhu
1994 · 1 votes
Movie6.8RomanceDramaNandini is a rich girl raised by her three loving brothers. However, after an astrologer predicts that she will marry a man of her choice, her brothers try to protect her all her life.
Movie3.5ComedyDramaA self centred egoistic village zamindar who makes fun of people, is rude by nature and brash tries to accommodate a teacher who comes to his village in search of work. How she gets to understand him, how he reacts and how his uncle's daughter who initially adversely reacts to his tantrums reacts towards the end is the story. In short it is a triple edged love story with truth, passion and emotions galore.
Naane Raja Naane Manthiri
1985 · 1 votes
Movie7.6ComedyRomanceSingaravelan film revolves around a young man (Kamal Hassan) living in a village with his mother. He gets to know that his mother was estranged from her brother's family owing to her marriage with his father.She tells him that while her brother and his wife met with a fatal car accident soon after, they have a daughter (Khushboo) who since grew up in the city of Chennai. She hands him a photo of a baby Khushboo and asks him to track her down and marry her.Accordingly, Kamal sets out for the big city and heads for his friend Mano's house who is living with his 3...