Date of birth: 1953-07-31
Place of birth: Sulur, Tamil Nadu, India
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Manivannan Rajagopal S, മണിവണ്ണൻ, మణివన్నన్

S Manivannan Rajagopal or popularly known mononymously as Manivannan, was an Indian film actor and director. In a career spanning three decades, Manivannan went from being a story and dialogue writer for veteran director Bharathiraja from 1980–82 to a successful director who thrived in experimenting with different genres, before becoming an actor. With over 400 films to his name, Manivannan was one of the most experienced actors in the field and has directed exact 50 films.[4] Manivannan was mainly a supporting actor in films and often played the comedian or the villain's role. During his lifetime, he supported various political parties, including the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He later became affiliated with the Naam Tamilar Katchi and had long supported its ideology of Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism.
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Sethu falls in love with the village head's daughter. However, things are not all that smooth, as hi

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A wealthy engineer arrives in India with the mission of serving the nation and investing in the coun
1998-02-20
Pandi, an uneducated villager, sets out to find a job and his life partner in a big town.

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2006-11-24
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2006-06-18
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2001-04-13
Adityan, a city slicker's marriage is fixed by his dad in the village to Ganga, a village belle. He

2008-09-24
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1997-09-01
Raghu and Shanti are divorced couple which sparks problems between both respective younger brothers.

2008-10-26
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1989-11-10
A mafia leader tries to kill policeman Sivagiri, who took down his illegal businesses, with the help

1999-04-10
Padayappa, a mechanical engineer whose father gives up his property to his foster brother, and then

2008-05-05
An investigation is immediately opened up into the alleged death of Trishna, who was in the car. CBI

1999-11-07
A man accepts a challenge to act as the Chief Minister for one day only, and makes such a success of
2000-09-01
The police find a dead body in a river holding on to a 'thaali' and a wedding invitation. They begin

2007-09-07
Tamizharasu, who aspires to become a police officer, discovers a terrorist's ploy to assassinate the

2003-01-15
Bhupathi's father sends him to live under the guidance of his best friend, Viswanath, and find a job

1999-09-09
Indira hates men and only employs women in her company and personal staff. Kasi enters her life as a

1997-12-18
Jeevanandhan meets Mini in a book shop and their eyes meet leading to sparks of love in their hearts

2001-11-14
Life of a blind person and his sufferings because of cruel people who exploit his weakness. The rema

2005-11-02
Govindan (Manivannan) is a thief who has two children. Aadhi (Pasupathy) and Mathi ('Chiyaan' Vikram
2007-04-20
Hari, a painter, settles in Kanyakumari to earn his livelihood and falls in love with Jenny without

2007-05-25
The story of two friends Raja (London Ravi) and Vinoth (R. V. Bharathan), who fall for the same wome

2007-12-21
Ramesh (Githan ramesh) son of Manivannan and Saranya. Manivannan is the leading Ad-Film maker. Karup
2000-04-14
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1996-09-20
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2002-05-05
Red is a local don who possesses a heart of gold. Seeni, another don in the area, is his biggest ene

1996-07-12
Kamali loses her bag in the railway station. Later, her bag is sent to her home, along with a letter

2004-07-23
A man is forced to fight back when a moneylender goes after his family and friends.

2007-09-15
Vasanthi (Bhavana) is the daughter of the big man (Lal), who does a lot of help for the refugees. Bh

1996-11-10
A divorced husband desperately misses his daughter. In order to be with her, he takes up a job in hi

2006-02-22
A man cannot tolerate injustice and opposes it in any form; this earns him the wrath of a local goon

2001-11-14
A doctor becomes an instant heartthrob after making an appearance in a movie and soon marries a woma

2008-05-03
A son sets out to look for the man responsible for his father's disappearance, which is connected to

2006-11-24
A man is working on a project with a smart professor whose daughter starts to like the man. During t

1998-01-14
An archaeologist gets involved in a situation where the brother of a girl holds him captive because

1998-07-09
Two friends, who've known each other for a while, fall in love. But, their relationship is thrown in

1999-04-14
Suriya kills the people who murdered his family and goes to jail. A young girl learns music and sing
1997-02-28
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1995-03-11
In order to help his friends find accommodation, Ajay dons the garb of a homely, married lady. Now,

2001-12-07
Chandru agrees to marry the girl of his father's choice when his lover Indu goes missing. However, C

2001-05-01
Lovely starring Karthik Muthuraman and Malavika. Mahadevan(Manivannan) is a man who hates the very m
2000-09-01
Kuberan, director Rama Narayanan's return to family drama, that has any richness. The movie itself i

1999-04-30
Prakash and Murthy have been thick friends ever since Prakash took Murthy into his house - against t

1997-05-09
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Chinna Durai, a village do-gooder who helps people in distress earns the enmity of a fellow villager

1998-10-19

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Dharmapuri movie revolves around Sivaram (Vijayakanth) who lives in exile in Rameswaram with his par

2004-01-15
Prabhakar and Bhavani are deeply in love with each other. However, lovers turn enemies when Prabhaka

1997-06-27
The movie shows a true to life story related to a common run Indian family, where the esteem of a fa
1997-10-31
A man keen on getting his daughters married to two brothers, who happen to be sworn to bachelorhood,

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Selvarasu is the head of the family and his two brothers Thangarasu and Chinnarasu are ready to give
1999-02-06
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1999-01-29
A struggling singer feels guilty about a girl losing her eyesight; to meet the cost of her eye trans

1999-06-25
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A musician dreams of a beautiful girl and sets out to find her. Soon after, he meets her at a weddin

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1996-12-01
Selva befriends Kamini, daughter of a minister, who has just moved into his colony. When a terrorist

1996-02-18
Sathya and Vasanth are two best friends since their childhood. However, when Sathya and Pooja get en

1996-07-01
Raja feels stifled under his strict father Col. Chandrasekhar, and when his father picks a girl he d
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2013-04-25
Raja is a boxing champion based in Chennai and Jeeva, his look alike, is an innocent man living in H

2013-05-10
Amavasai (Sathyaraj) turns Nagaraja Cholan, a successful politician. Corrupt to the core, the movie

1995-06-23
Meenatchi Sundara Sasthiriyaar, an eminent lawyer, is against the relationship of his daughter with

1994-01-13
An ambitious and unscrupulous man becomes a major politician, but his illegitimate son is posted as
1998-08-28
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1997-07-04
Vijay, a guy with a careless attitude, gets Selvam, a senior home inmate, to act as his dad for an i

1998-01-13
Prabhu, a swindler, pretends to be in love with Pooja, a wealthy businessman's daughter, to steal an

1996-09-01
An archaeologist plans to steal a valuable sword preserved for generations by the descendants of a s
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Chinna Raja passable comedy-thriller with the director succeeding more in the thriller portions.Raja
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A vegetable vendor takes care of an elderly woman and her two young daughters, but he has a dark pas
2001-05-25
Roja, a part-time singer, works at a finance company where her colleague, Murali, is madly in love w
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The film deals with the social stigma associated with a handicapped girl in a rural milieu.

1998-10-19
The film is about a Chief minister and his family being kidnapped and taken to a remote village maki

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Sivadhanu, an educated but unemployed honest man, gets married to the daughter of a rich man and mov

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Madhu steals the map to a treasure during an archaelogical expedition and couriers it to the baddies

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A young boy has to go beyond being a normal romantic lover to impress the girl he loves.
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Jeeva loves Meena, a widow with a son, and respects her even more when he learns about her past. How

2000-02-02
Sridhar, an aspiring music director, has been struggling to get a foothold in the music industry for

2000-05-05
Two young women with differing views on love find themselves with three suitors in this modern take

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Surya (Ajith) has been brought up in the army barracks in Ooty, ever since his mother(Sukanya) hande

2006-10-15
Dorai (Arjun) is a do-gooder don. But a police force led by ACP Easwara Pandian (Prakash Raj) and hi

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Against the wishes of his foster parents, Aathi goes to college in Chennai. He is actually looking t

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Vishwa spends his time hanging out with Anandham to avoid his mother, who always quarrels with his d

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London in this movie Sivaraman is an innocent rustic youth who lands up in the big, bad London in se

2004-10-22
Thulasi, returns to her village to become a dance teacher. She cannot forget her love, Vishwa, but i

2002-05-03
Pailey, a stuntman, goes back to his village as he gets severely injured in an accident. He sees his

2002-06-28
Ram's friends hire Maggie, a call girl, to help him get over his wife, who mistakenly believes him t

2002-01-14
When Sambandham gets hurt, Dr Janaki performs a surgery in order to heal him. However, during the su
1996-11-09
Karunamurthy (Kitty) an honest man and the Home Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu is forced to hel
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Tata Birla is a 1996 Tamil film directed by C. Ranganathan. The film stars Parthiban, Rachana Banerj

1998-02-20
Swarnamukhi is a dancer who still loves Pandian, who left her at the altar. She eventually falls for

1999-07-16
Sangamam is a 1999 Tamil film directed by Suresh Krishna. The film stars Rahman, Vindhya, Manivannan

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Thodarum (Tamil: தொடரும்) (English: Will Continue) is a Tamil film directed by Ramesh Khanna featuri

2003-05-05
DCP Paramaguru is an efficient police officer who fights with the scum of the society. He later masq

2005-02-21
Vasu (Ajith), a final year college student is happy go lucky. But he is forced to contest elections
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2000-08-11
Doubles is a 2000 Tamil film directed by Pandiarajan. The film stars Prabhu Deva, Pandiarajan, Meena

1996-11-10
Rishi, the son of a wealthy man, leads a carefree lifestyle. However, his life begins to change when

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2003-02-13
Kadhaludan is a 2003 Tamil film directed by Rajakumaran. The film stars Murali, Devayani, Abbas and
1997-02-12
Kaalamellam Kadhal Vaazhga is a 1997 Tamil language film directed by Balu and produced by Sivasakthi

1998-02-13
Dhinamdhorum is a 1998 Tamil language film directed by Nagaraj. The film features Murali, Suvalakshm

1998-04-10
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1998-07-10
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1998-10-18
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1997-07-04
A thief is mistaken for an NRI returning to work with a rich businessman and marry his daughter. The
2001-02-16
Bose (Prabhu) and his cousin Pandi (Pandiarajan) come to a village to discover the miracles of the v
2001-10-10
Chellaiya is at loggerheads with his uncle Masilamani and his two sons for backstabbing his father.

2003-12-19
Sridhar and Preeti begin to like each other, but part ways without confessing their feelings. Over t

2004-09-22
Siddharth has suffered at the hands of corrupt lawyers and decides to kill all lawyers who help crim

2005-05-05
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1999-08-13
Seetharam is in love with Kalyani and wants to propose to her. However, when two lovers, Akhila and

2000-09-15
Karthikeyan, a photo editor in Mumbai, is a widower whose parents wish to see him settled and happy.

2000-12-22
When a man and his friends start a music troupe that performs at weddings, he is highly motivated by

2003-07-11
Two childhood best friends, who does not share any love interest, get married to two other people. B

1999-12-03
R. Parthiban plays a die hard fan of Rambha and a self-interest governed taxi driver whose name is n
1997-04-18
This movie is about Sathyaraj who loves Roja one-sided and she marries her uncle. Once Manivannan &

1994-09-16
Rasappan (Sathyaraj) is a useless fellow who loves his sister's daughter Meena (Meena), a graduate g

1999-11-06
Chandru's friends make fun of him as he does not have a girlfriend. He points out at a girl claiming

1999-04-30
Misunderstandings and confusion surround marriage plans of a young woman and two potential suitors.

2001-07-17
Murthy (Prashanth) earns his living taking the blame for the mistakes of other people and the jail i

2001-02-16
Sanjay (Prashanth) and Nithi (Shalini) are best friends right from their childhood days. They are ne

1998-06-12
Vasanth, the son of a wealthy businessman, falls in love with Priya when he visits Rajasthan. He imp
1998-01-16
Muthurasu (Karthik) has come to the city to earn money to finance his mother's (Vadivukkarasi) opera
1980-11-06
A story of three young friends who are unemployed and stricken by poverty finding it hard to make en
1997-07-11
'Nandhini' traces the metamorphosis of a young college going girl, Raji. Raji is in love with Suresh

2000-09-08
Padmanabhan has earned the nickname Budget as he is a miser. However, he struggles to save his fathe
1996-01-15
Avuthu Nayagam, a wealthy politician, remarries Vasantha, a cunning woman. She creates problems in h
1995-12-15
Kai Ezhuthu Gounder (Manivannan) and Kai Naattu Gounder (K. Prabakaran) are the village's bigwig and

2001-08-03
Nila's mother, an actress, is separated from her husband. Nila has all the comforts but no friends.
2003-08-15
A slum boy, who steals from the rich to help the poor, keeps scheming against a powerful man. After

2008-06-27
2010-07-16
Satyaraj and goundamani's combo.

2003-02-14
A boy joins a college that is full of rowdies. He transforms the students but his own past is shroud

1996-12-06
When Thangamani flees on his wedding day, his brother, Poomani, steps in and marries Vijaya who dete
1998-01-14
A man finds a suitable match for his sister, but turns out that the man is a drunkard and promiscuou

2001-02-09
Kuppan stays at his uncle Mannangatti's house who has three daughters and one son. When Mannangatti

1998-09-05
Ramki moves to the city to stay at his aunty Radhika's house. Radhika is married to Manivannan, a po

1997-04-10
Arun falls in love at first sight with a bank cashier Seetha and follow her everywhere. Seetha refus
2002-10-18
A mindless comedy movie which starts with kidnapping of two grooms on their wedding day by the bride

1999-11-07
Even though Maayan and Machakanni are deeply in love with each other, her brother decides to get her
2001-11-14
Sivaraman belongs to a low caste and is a cobbler by profession. He was orphaned as a little boy and
1995-02-03
1994-08-12
A 1994 Tamil drama film written and directed by Manivannan. It stars Sathyaraj and Ranjitha in the l
1997-10-30
A drama about the blossoming romantic relationship between a man in 40's and a girl of age 18.

1994-04-08
A 1994 Tamil language romantic drama film written and directed by Manivannan.
1994-11-03
A 1994 Indian Tamil action drama film, directed by Manivannan.

1982-04-30
An epic love tale between a blind singer and bharathanatiyam dancer.
1992-03-06
Sundarapandian, an orphan and angry man, is the henchman of a rich man Manivannan and he often went
1992-04-13
Paramasivan has two sons : Subramani and Ganesan. Ganesan, the eldest, gets married with Segamalam.

1990-02-09
A 1990 Tamil family Drama film.
1987-03-06
A 1987 Indian Tamil action drama film.
2014-01-30
A director changes the perception of love for a group of youngsters by narrating how he reclaimed hi

2011-08-26
Munian (R.K), the innocent turned underworld dada. The naïve youngster from a remote village becomes
2011-01-14
Karky works in a shipyard owned by Rajanayagam, a feudalistic industrialist who imprisons his worke

2010-07-23
Nisha leaves Krishna because of his easy-going attitude towards his life and career. Soon, her paren
2011-08-19
A sub-inspector (Alexander) falls in love with a chirpy villager (Pavina). Meanwhile, fake godmen go

2009-06-05
Mayandi Kudumbathar (English: Mayandi's family) is a 2009 Indian Tamil film written and directed by
2009-12-25
Nalai Namathe is about the man who struggles to raise the standards of the society he lives in. The

2008-11-28
A lawyer, who defends criminals, wages vigilante justice against them in private. The movie deals wi

2008-02-14
A rich boy (Vasan) indulges in various bizarre experiments to have different experiences. He eats in

2008-02-08
The movie starts of with a robbery of 20 crores in Pondicherry DID Bank where a college girl is kill
1999-10-01
Rangan is a very ugly man and therefore lives a tough life. He is kicked out of jobs, ill-treated co

2004-12-03
Starting as an extra, Sathya shrewdly paves his way up to stardom as a leading hero. His ever-increa

2007-03-09
A man has to chose between three women, His lady love, his uncle's daughter and the daughter of his
1997-12-05
1998-07-31
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1999-07-09
Two college students, the slum child Raja and the dean's daughter Roja, chat with each other over th

1996-12-16
Pandian's mother refuses to let him and Rajeshwari, his poor wife, live together until her family se
1996-08-02
An honest collector fights against the corrupt politicians while also keeping care of his family.
1997-12-11
Nandini's father, a judge, does not approve of Kannan, her lover. When they elope, Kannan is arreste

2002-07-19
On his wedding day, Shiva (Vijay) discovers that his cousin and bride, Aruna, has run away because s

1997-08-22
Periya Thambi (Vijayakumar) and Chinna Thambi (Rajan P. Dev) are brothers and owners of a company. G
Ashok is a very obedient son and his mother would like an equally submissive daughter-in-law so that

2003-02-28
Madhavan known as Military due to his attitude towards his five sisters. However, when he is forced

2004-12-17
A doctor fails to save the life of a street vendor's son, so the distraught father, who is also a mu
2006-02-10
Kodambakkam in this movie Sugavannan (Nandha), who is staying in village. Later he settles down in C