
M. N. Nambiar
Acting
Biography
M. N. Nambiar (born Manjeri Narayanan Nambiar) was a film actor in Tamil cinema who dominated the industry in the role of villain for around 50 years. Also known as Nambiar Swami or Maha Guruswami, he was a spiritual leader who pioneered the movement of taking pilgrims to Sabarimala. Nambiar started as a hero, Nambiar Guruswami soon started donning the role of a villain — so much so that today his name is synonymous with villainy in Kollywood. Nambiar swami has worked with seven generations of actors. His first pay was Rs.3 with Boys Company. He would retain Rs.1 and send Rs.2 to his mother. He made quite a statement in the early 50s with his portrayal of 11 roles in Digambara Samiyar, one of his films as the Lead. His arresting performance in films such as Manthiri Kumari, Velaikaari, Ayirathil Oruvan, Thillana Mohanambal, Missiyamma and Nenjam Marappadillai paved way for a very successful career that spanned over five decades. A majority of the more than 1000 films that he has done is in Tamil, though he has acted in Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi, besides an English film `Jungle' (with Rod Cameron, the film's hero, directed by William Burke) in which he appears in a few brief scenes. The film was released in 1952. The Hindi film he acted in was a remake of the Tamil Kanavane Kankanda Deivam. After becoming popular in Tamil films he started his own drama troupe called Nambiar Nataka Mandram. They staged two plays — `Kaviyin Kanavu' and a comedy play `Kalyana Supermarket.' Nambiar swami was that rare contradictory personality - a cruel, charming villain on the silver screen while being a very pious man in real life. He was also a pure vegetarian and teetotaler. He was also an ardent devotee of Sabarimala Sri Ayyappan. He has had a long association with the temple, and visited the shrine more than 65 times over the last half a century; this has led to him being called Maha Guruswamy. His colleagues noted that he died during the famous Sabarimala season and it may be due to the blessing of his Lord.
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Rajaraja Cholan is a 1973 Tamil film about the life of the Chola king Rajaraja Chola.
Rajaraja Cholan

Baba 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.
Baba

Sakthivel (R. Sarath Kumar) is the leader of his village and is adored by the people. His only brother is Selvam (Vikram) who, after completing his education in Singapore, returns to the hamlet. Both Sakthivel and his wife Lakshmi (Khushboo) are very fond of Selvam and want him to get married and live happily. Selvam is keen on marrying a girl he has seen in his dream. Sakthivel is prepared to go anywhere to find the girl. Selvam actually comes across the photograph of his dream girl Devayani (Devayani) in a TV advertisement and discovers that she is an actress . A film crew lands in the village for shooting, and Devayani, as she is called in the film too, is in the group. Sakthivel approaches her with his brother's proposal, but she insults him.
Vinnukkum Mannukkum

Kicha is a modern-day Robin Hood, who along with his friend, Mani, steals from the rich to aid the poor. In society, he is a respected man who runs a small business.
Gentleman

Thotta Chinungi film starring Karthik Muthuraman, Raghuvaran, Revathi, Devayani and Nagendra Prasad.[Gopal (Raghuvaran) is in love with Bhuvana (Revathi) ever since they were kids. As adults, they get married.There are two things Gopal disapproves of, after their marriage: Bhuvana's unemployed younger brother Prasad (Nagendra Prasad) who lives with them, and Mano (Karthik), Bhuvana's childhood friend.Mano is quite handsome and a very famous singer and Bhuvana who is very fond of him, talks to him quite often on the phone. The hardworking Gopal, who loves his wife...
Thotta Chinungi

Shanmuga Pandian is a kind-hearted person and respected estate owner, he lives with his father Selvanayagam and mother Lakshmi and sister Sumathi. Shanmuga Pandian and Divya fall in love with each other. At Sumathi's wedding, Selvanayagam is falsely arrested for suppliyng weapons to terrorists. Thereafter, Sumathi's wedding is immediately stopped, Lakshmi becomes paralyzed and Divya refuses to marry him only because Shanmuga Pandian became poor. Nandhini hires Shanmuga Pandian in her company but her father considers Selvanayagam as his nemesis. Shanmuga Pandian and Nandhini fall in love with each other. The conspiracy against Selvanayagam was in fact planned by the corrupt politician P.K.R and his son Vasu. Later, Divya gets married with Vasu but the sadistic Vasu tortures Divya. The rest of the story is Shanmuga Pandian proves his father's innocence and revenge the villains with the help of Divya and Nandhini.
Karuppu Nila

Raja learns that the girl he loves is in love with another man. When he comes to know about the long-standing dispute between both their families, he goes to their village to unite them.
Poove Unakkaga
Ezhai Jaathi is tamil political drama starring Vijayakanth and Jayaprada in the lead roles. Vijayakanth fighting against dirty, corrupted political party, he supports Jayaprada and unites proletarian class but he couldn't succeed with electoral politics, when politicians and police forces crushing the proletarian class, people started resisting and goes violent, politicians lost in the electoral and beaten up by working class. proletariat revolution succeed at last.
Ezhai Jaathi
This movie is about Sathyaraj who loves Roja one-sided and she marries her uncle. Once Manivannan & Roja's husband get into a fight. Unfortunately Roja & her husband passes away. So Sathyaraj does not marry anyone & Devotes his life for Roja's daughter Sangeetha. Because of this issue there was a break in the family, Lakshmi who is Manivannan wife and Satyaraj's Sister and he were separated. This made Manivannan very angry so he always wants to avenge. Satyaraj save a girl (Meena) from the sea, who doesn't want to divulge her past. As time passes, Meena gets closer into the family and Manorama( mother) asks Sathyaraj to marry Meena. And this creates a problem for Sangeetha as she loses Sathyaraj's attention, she comes out of her family and stays in Manivannan's house. Later Lakshmi explains the whole story to her and lets her go to her father. In the end Meena, Sathyaraj, Sangeetha, Manorama, Goundamani & Senthil live together happily.
Vallal

A very efficient cop, whose entire family has served India at some time, must coax a terrorist to reveal information.
Sethupathi I.P.S

The story opens with two men travelling in an ambassador's car to a bungalow, not knowing how to get there. On the way they see a black magician who is Jayan's character's uncle. They ask him the way and he points towards the bungalow. After reaching the bungalow they start talking about the area, and realise that it is deserted. They meet Jayan's character, a shapeless ghost who tells his life story and how he liked his body.
Sakthi

Kumbakarai Thangaiah (Tamil: கும்பக்கரை தங்கய்யா) is a 1991 Indian Tamil film, directed by Gangai Amaran and produced by Ramumachan. The film stars Prabhu, Kanaka, Pandiyan and M. N. Nambiar in the lead roles. The film had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja.
Kumbakarai Thangaiah
Thadavara is a 1981 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. Chandrakumar and produced by Augustine Prakash. The film stars Jayan, K. P. Ummer, M. N. Nambiar and Seema in the lead roles.
Thadavara

A hardened criminal seeks revenge against his father for abandoning his mother. Soon, he finds a policeman who is a doppelganger of himself and decides to manipulate him for his own motives.
Avasara Police 100
K. Bhagyaraja and Sulakshana star as two people committed by their families to an arranged marriage. As the would-be groom faithfully courts his fiancée, the two fall in love. But when the families disagree on the dowry, both sides are incensed, and the lovers' marriage is forbidden. Now, the dejected fiancé must find a way to marry his beloved. K. Bhagyaraja directs this popular Kollywood romance drama co-starring M.N. Nambiar.
Thooral Ninnu Pochu

Seethan, a poor milkman, and Shenbagam, the daughter of a landlord, love each other despite their social differences. Problems arise when her father fixes her marriage with a rich man.
Enga Ooru Pattukaran

Kadhal Sadugudu is a love-comedy movie directed by the director Durai of Mugavari fame. It stars Vikram and Priyanka Trivedi in the lead roles, with Prakash Raj in the supporting role of Priyanka's father. It flopped miserably at the box-office.The film starts off with Prakash Raj, and how he's an important man in the village. when the temple festival starts,Kausalya(Priyanka) goes to her grandpa's house to celebrate. there she meets Suresh(Vikram) and they fall in love.
Kadhal Sadugudu

Ramakrishnan and Arun both are ACP’s and colleagues, Ramakrishnan fall in love with Divya, and Arun loves Geetha, these two couples get married, but due to some misunderstanding between Arun & Geetha makes them depart, in the flash back. Mean time the Rajiv Gandhi assassination was carried out by Sivarasan & co and they get hide in Bangalore. As a special officer Karthikeyan is taking in charge to find the odd peoples. With the help of two ACP’s Ramakrishnan & Arun, Karthikeyan tracking the network in Tamil Nadu, at last they able to find the Sivarasan gang hiding in Bangalore, in a successful operation Ramakrishnan tries to capture the Sivarasn allies, but unfortunately Ramakrishnan able to capture only the dead bodies of the terrorist organization. What transpires later forms the crux of the story. Based on True Events (Rajiv Gandhi's Assassination).
Kuttrapathirikai

Viswanath (Rajnikanth), a famous lawyer, stays with his widowed mother (Vijayakumari) and physically handicapped sister (Uma). He sends Jegan, a rich magnate's son (Sathyaraj) and Lokaiya, two criminals to jail on the charge of rape and murder of an innocent girl. Jagan’s father, GMK (M N Nambiar) uses his influence and starts creating trouble in Viswanath’s life. GMK succeeds in getting Viswanath imprisoned on a trumped up charge. His heartbroken mother dies. Once out of jail, Viswanath sets out to punish the culprits when he temporarily loses his eyesight.
Naan Mahaan Alla

Pandi is raised with a lot of care by Nesamani. He treats Nesamani's daughter like his own sister, but when he finds out that someone is planning to kill her, he goes out of the way to save her.