Oru Viral Krishna Rao
Also Known As: Oru Viral KrishnaRao
Biography: Oru Viral Krishna Rao was an Indian film actor and comedian who appeared in Tamil-language films. A recipient of the state government's `Kalai Maamani' award, Rao got the nickname Oru Viral (a finger) for his first Tamil film in 1965. He acted in nearly 600 Tamil and Telugu films in a career spanning four decades.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1929
Deathday: August 19, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Subramaniya Swamy
Overview: Velayudham leaves his village in hopes of finding a job to return and marry his lover. However, things get complicated when the daughter of the man who gives him a job falls in love with Velayudham.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1994-02-11
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Senathipathi
Overview: Sethu falls in love with the village head's daughter. However, things are not all that smooth, as his elder brother is given the responsibility of protecting the girl's honour until she is married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1996-11-10
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Ullam Kollai Poguthey
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2001-02-09
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Anjali
Overview: After a few years, Chitra learns that her child, who was believed to be dead, is alive but is suffering from a mental illness. However, her family faces many challenges while looking after her child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1990-07-12
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Lottery Ticket
Overview: This film directed by CV Rajendran.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1982-08-10
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Aanazhagan
Overview: In order to help his friends find accommodation, Ajay dons the garb of a homely, married lady. Now, Ajay leads a comical, dual role as he romances his girlfriend on the side.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1995-03-11
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Vanakkathukuriya Kathaliye
Overview: After an accident, Shanti develops extra sensory perception. Since she can foresee future events, people believe she has divine powers. This bothers her and causes problems for her marriage prospects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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Pudhu Varisu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Veettukku Vandha Marumagal
Overview: When arrogant matriarch Parameshwari's tyranny drives her daughter's husband away from home, do his three children cope with the loss? Or do they grow up in Parameshwari's image?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1973-09-07
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Puguntha Veedu
Overview: A rich brother and sister's relationship grows dangerously strained as they marry into a poor family
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Vaazhga Jananayagam
Overview: Bhagat Singh, an honest poor man, makes his living by selling used goods. His quiet life turns nightmarish when he refuses to act as a henchman to a local politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1996-03-07
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Pudhiya Vaanam
Overview: Pandidurai adopts military officer Jeevadurai's son, Rajaratnam, after Govindan, a criminal, kills him. Years later, Rajaratnam becomes a policeman and must take down Govindan and his henchman.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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Udan Pirappu
Overview: Best friends Sathya and Viji are against selling their colony to a land grabber. Their friendship is put to the test after Viji falls in love with Sumathi and marries her.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1993-08-15
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Salem Vishnu
Overview: Vishnu, a clever student but intolerant to cheating, is detained from college. He then becomes a car mechanic, but his life starts to change when his brother is transferred to the same city.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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Thayamma
Overview: Thayamma is a 1991 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by Gopi Bhimsingh, starring Pandiyan, Anand Babu and Babu with Geetha and Oru Thalai Ragam Shankar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1991-12-17
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Navarathinam
Overview: In order to stay away from his mother and her influential demeanor, Thangam, a young and affluent feudal lord, sets off on a quest to avenge his father's death.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1977-03-05
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Gokulam
Overview: Chellappa (Jayaram), an orphan, runs a photo studio in deficit with his friends (Chinni Jayanth and Vadivelu). Mary (Bhanupriya) comes to his village to learn singing to a guru (Kalyan Kumar) and she helps her guru's family in many ways. Kannan (Arjun Sarja), her guru's son, is supposed to be in the city. Chellappa falls in love with Mary and he proposes to marry her. Mary reveals that she was married and she tells him her past. Her real name was Gayatri, she was a rich girl and she was in love with Kannan. Kannan had lot of responsibility and had to help his poor family. Gayatri's guardian (Jaishankar) accepted for their marriage but Vasanth (S. N. Vasanth), his son, also wanted to marry her and sent henchmen to kill him. Kannan died at Gayatri's birthday party where her guardian had arranged for their engagement after Gayatri promised to help his family. Vasanth's father sent his son to jail and he apologized to Gayatri. She went to her friend Mary's village instead of her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1993-06-11
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Sevagan
Overview: Story about a honest police man and his fight against politicians.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-19
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Shankar Guru
Overview: Shankar Guru is a 1987 Indian Tamil film, directed by Raja and produced by M. Saravanan and M. Balasubramanian. The film stars Arjun, Seetha, Sasikala and Baby Shalini in lead roles. The film had musical score by Chandra Bose.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Varavu Ettana Selavu Pathana
Overview: Sivaraman, an honest government clerk, and his wife Lakshmi, belong to a middle-class family and they have two children. Anja Singam Marudupandi, a corrupted politician, moves into a new house near Sivaraman's house. Marudupandi's life style influences Lakshmi and she tries to ape him by buys luxurious items on installments. This puts pressure on Sivaraman and he takes a loan from his office peon but the police arrests him for corruption. He later finds a job in a brandy company with Marudupandi's recommendation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1994-04-14
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Thillu Mullu
Overview: Chandran lies to his boss that his mother is unwell to get a leave but gets caught. In order to save his job, he is forced to pretend to his boss that he has a good-for-nothing twin brother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Chakravarthy
Overview: Chakravarthy, a new CID officer, lives in Bhanu's rental house. Bhanu hates the police department so Chakravarthy lies about his job. His superior reveals that Bhanu killed her half-brother Boopathy. Chakravarthy begins to investigate in this odd affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1995-06-28
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Irattai Roja
Overview: Uma marries Balu, an honest civil engineer. Uma thinks that he is rich and receives lot of bribes but turns out Balu is from the middle-class like her. Uma is a miser and dreams to become rich. After few years, they have two children. In the meantime, Priya, the daughter of Balu's boss Rajasekhar, falls in love with Balu and asks him to marry her unaware of Balu's marriage and his two children. Balu refuses to marry her as he was already married but she compels him. When Priya meets Uma, she offers her one crore rupees in exchange for marrying Balu. Uma immediately agrees and she starts forcing Balu for remarriage. Finally, Balu agrees with heavy heart as Uma threatens to commit suicide. Soon, Balu also starts falling in love with Priya. Uma slowly realizes her mistake and wants to get Balu back. The rest of the story is what happen to Balu, Uma and Priya.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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Idhaya Kovil
Overview: Shankar, a budding singer loses his love, Gowri, who commits suicide. When Shankar turns famous, he eventually develops friendship with Surya, a college girl, who falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1985-09-14
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Nadigan
Overview: Nadigan (English: Actor) is a 1990 Tamil film directed by P Vasu. The film stars Sathyaraj in the lead role pairing with Kushboo Sundar.[2] The film released with largely positive reviews and was declared a blockbuster. The film was a remake of Hindi film Professor
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1990-11-30
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Manithan
Overview: The Story of a young man who returns from jail after imprisonment on crime he commits for justice during young age. He comes out and again fights for justice in everyway. This film released along with Kamal hassan starred and Mani Ratnam directed Nayakan,Sathyaraj starred Brahma and Vijayakant starred Uzhavan Magan for the Deepavali season. Collection wise, reportedly this was a hit.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1987-05-01
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Ulagam Pirandhadhu Enakkaga
Overview: Raja is a rich person who returns from America to India. He gets surprised when most of them call him with different name and later he sees another look alike , Quarter Govindan, jobless guy and wanted to earn money for his Sister's life. Raja requests another Govindan to pretend like him, so that he will be able to find his enemies.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1990-04-14
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January 1
Overview: January 1 is a 1984 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by Manivannan, starring Vijayakanth, Sulakshana and Sathyaraj in lead roles.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1984-12-06
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Pass Mark
Overview: Murali, a playful youngster, makes quick money by challenging others. But when one of his challenges goes haywire, it ruins a girl's wedding, and he decides to make it up to her.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1993-07-23
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Kaalam Maari Pochu
Overview: Indra and her three sisters are married off to mediocre men by their patriarchal father. However, he realises their importance when his son stirs discord in the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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Pongalo Pongal
Overview: Subramani, Vellaisamy, Arumugam and Ponrasu are four friends from poor family; they are graduate but they cannot find a job. Their fathers feel that they are good-for-nothing and decide to corrupt the politician Anja Nenjam to find them a decent job. Anja Nenjam is linked to Pannaiyar, a ruthless landlord who exploited the villagers. Pannaiyar orders him to flee with their money, otherwise, nobody will respect him. Their friend Pazhanisamy, who is supposed to be a supervisor in the city, is back to his village and was also cheated by Anja Nenjam. The five friends decide to become milk suppliers in their village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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Varumayin Niram Sivappu
Overview: Three educated but unemployed youth who have come to live in a bustling, harsh metropolis struggle to earn a living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1980-11-06
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Raja Kaiya Vacha
Overview: Raja (Prabhu) is a thief who falls in love with Vijaya (Gouthami). First, she thinks that he was a police officer, she asks him to find lost stuffs and he steals to fulfill her wishes. One day, the police arrests him front of Vijaya and he's sent to jail, he's welcome like a king in jail. Vijaya leaves the town with her father. When, he's released, he decides to find Vijaya.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Jamboo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1980-06-13
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Nizhal Nijamagirathu
Overview: Venkatchalam lives with his sister Indumathi, who hates men and vows to never get married. When Sanjeevi, Venkatchalam's friend, meets Indumathi, he falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1978-03-24
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Nadodi Mannan
Overview: Priya calls off her relationship with Ramesh when she finds out that he belongs to a poor family. However, when her father narrates his rags-to-riches story, she undergoes a change of heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1995-08-19
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Anbu Thangai
Overview: Ramu, a lyricist, struggles to find a job and a husband for his sister Sita. He tries to gain recognition; however, difficulties arise when his friend takes all the credit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1974-08-30
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Paasa Paravaigal
Overview: Lakshmi, a lawyer, defends her husband, Sukumar, in court when his sister, Uma, suspects him of murdering her husband, Shankar.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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Kathanayagan
Overview: Mani and Ramani, two poor men, plan to go to Dubai in order to earn money. But they land in trouble when a gangster thinks they are detectives and decides to kill them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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Veedu
Overview: After being forced to vacate her rented house, Sudha decides to build a new house for her family and herself. However, she faces a lot of difficulties owing to rampant corruption and red tape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1988-11-25
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V.I.P
Overview: A thief is mistaken for an NRI returning to work with a rich businessman and marry his daughter. The real guy, meanwhile, ends up with the thief's friend. The odd pairs fall in love midst the chaos.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1997-07-04
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Simla Special
Overview: Two friends, Gopu and Babu, own a troupe that performs comedic plays. When Babu faces a financial crisis, the two friends decide to accept a commission and perform for the Tamilians in Shimla.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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Oru Malarin Payanam
Overview: Nandhini and Sudha are devoted sisters and Sudha is overdependent on Nandhini. Nandhini wants Murthy, an employee in her company, to marry Sudha but he politely declines, citing status conflict.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1985-05-14
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May Madham
Overview: Sandhya is fed up of her life that is controlled by her father. She runs away from home but soon loses her money to Eeshwar. Waiting around for him to pay her back, she falls in love with him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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Naan Avanillai
Overview: A man is arrested and appears in court for conning and betraying four women, posing as four different men.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1974-05-24
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Vasalil Oru Vennila
Overview: Ammu, a little girl, runs away from her bungalow as her stepmother physically tortures her. However, the girl finds love and solace in the arms of Kamala, a milk vendor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Kavalan Avan Kovalan
Overview: Pachiappan loves Anjala but cannot marry her till he makes a name for himself. He finds an opportunity when he meets Chakravorthy, his lookalike and a popular director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1987-05-29
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Jeeva
Overview: Jeeva, an unemployed youth, lives an ordinary life with his widowed mother and younger sister. His life turns upside down when his family gets murdered.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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