Background
Chakravarthy was born on December 15, 1945, in Usilampatti to Adimoola Thevar and Manjuvani Ammal.
Chakravarthy was born on December 15, 1945, in Usilampatti to Adimoola Thevar and Manjuvani Ammal.
The 2007 released movie Muni was his landmark 1000th movie. On completion of his education, Chakravarthy worked as a Reserve Sub-Inspector 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.
Since then, Chakravarthy has made over 1,000 films in four South Indian languages - 900 in, 30 in, 5 in Telugu and one in Badaga language.
He has also directed movies on his own and is credited with introducing sex siren Silk Smitha. He said “I’m always referred to as the ‘lucky token’ by superstar Rajinikanth.
I have starred in 25 films with him and all those films have turned out to be super-duper hits. Rajini believed that if I’m cast in his film, the film would be a success.
I’m thankful to him for that belief.
Films with Rajinikanth Chakravarthy criticised popular television and film producer Ekta Kapoor for her depiction of Silk Smitha in The Dirty Picture, a recent biographical film on the actress. He also expressed displeasure over Ekta Kapoor"s choice of casting. He also said Silk Smitha had wide expressive, inviting eyes, which Vidya Balan does not have.