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Charuhasan is a Actor and Producer Indian born on 5 january 1930 at Chennai (Inde)

Charuhasan

Charuhasan
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Nationality Inde
Birth 5 january 1930 (94 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South

Charuhasan (born 1930) is an Indian film actor, acting mostly in South Indian movies. He was born in 1930 to D. Srinivasan. He won the National Film Award for Best Actor and also the Karnataka Government's Best Actor Award for the movie Tabarana Kathe, directed by Girish Kasaravalli in 1987.

Charuhasan is the father of Indian actress Suhasini Maniratnam and the brother of Kamal Haasan.
He has acted in several Tamil & Malayalam films, and a few Telugu & Kannada movies. His other notable movies include Dalapathi which was directed by his son-in-law Maniratnam. He also acted for a short time in Sun TV's serial Chithi & Anandham. Charuhasan is an avid amateur radio operator (callsign - VU2SCU). He lives in Chennai.

Before entering the film industry, he was a lawyer. He had a different schooling to other children his age; due to an accident he was unable to attend school for the first few years of his life and had a private tutor give him a basic education.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Charuhasan (64 films)

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Kunthapura
Kunthapura (2013)

Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Charuhasan, Priya Lal, Anu Hasan, Biyon
Roles Krishnappa Shastri
Rating65% 3.283313.283313.283313.283313.28331
Structured on the point of view of three individuals, Krishnappa Narasimha Shashtri, an old Indian freedom fighter, Gowri Iyer, an Indian journalist and Emma Hall, a British banker. The film is set in the 1920s of colonial India and revolves around the lives of three groups of people, the peasants from a village called 'Kunthapura', the freedom fighters of the princely state of Mysore and a group of archeologists commissioned to do an excavation in the village of Kunthapura. The film shot in India and England is due for release in 2013.
Raghuvinte Swantham Raziya
Directed by Vinayan
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Spadikam George, Meghana Raj, Thilakan, Charuhasan, Lakshmi Menon, Lakshmi Menon
Roles Bappu Musaliar
Rating43% 2.184322.184322.184322.184322.18432
The film shows how terrorist outfits use money to lure unemployed youth to do their bidding. A mentally challenged young woman wanders on the city streets creating a lot of commotion. Many people, including policemen, take advantage of her. A report on her miserable plight is aired on television. Following this, Aboobacker (Sphadikam George), a rich businessman, seeks out the young woman and gets her admitted to a hospital. Aboobacker is certain that the young woman is Raziya (Meghna).
Uthama Puthiran, 2h49
Directed by Mithran R. Jawahar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Dhanush, Genelia D'Souza, K. Bhagyaraj, Vivek, Ashish Vidyarthi, M. N. Nambiar
Roles Swamiji
Rating59% 2.9535452.9535452.9535452.9535452.953545
Siva (Dhanush) is a happy-go-lucky young boy in a large family. The head of this family are 3 older brothers. One of the brothers, is the father of Siva. Siva studies from a hostel away from home. He is always helpful and always comes in when others need him. In one of his obliging acts he helps his cousin Kalpana (Shriya Saran) to elope with her lover against the family's choice. This aggravates the family and they are asked to forget all about him.
Karka Kasadara
Directed by R. V. Udayakumar
Genres Romance
Actors Vikranth, Raai Laxmi, Diya, Robo Shankar, Aachi Manorama, Vadivelu
Rating42% 2.103642.103642.103642.103642.10364
The film begins with Rahul (Vikranth) coming from US to India to see his grandparents for the first time. He helps a girl who was going to commit suicide due to her upcoming marriage. He performs some comedy with Vadivelu and falls in love with Vijayalakshmi.
Oru Kalluriyin Kathai, 2h36
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Arya, Sonia Agarwal, Santhanam, Thalaivaasal Vijay, Charuhasan, Charle
Roles Doctor
Rating49% 2.4955552.4955552.4955552.4955552.495555
Satya (Arya) is told to meet five friends at their old college at Valentine's Day, when his dad comes in a van. Unfortunate Satya in coma. In a physcho test, conducted by doctor (Charuhasan), it turns out that he`s in love with Jothi (Sonia Agarwal) for five years, but never confesses it to her during college days. On the last day of college, his friends and he decided to meet there again after 5 years. But his friends are shocked to see him, his mind is not completely sound. What happen to Satya, does he become alright, and where does Jothi fit in all, this is what this movie is about..
Kamaraj
Kamaraj (2004)
, 2h1
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Political films
Actors J. Mahendran, V.S. Raghavan, Charuhasan, Vijayan, Samuthirakani, Vijayakumar
Rating77% 3.8646653.8646653.8646653.8646653.864665
The narration is divided into three phases. The pre-Independence period, depicting Kamaraj’'s childhood, the influence of Satyamurthy, Kamaraj’s growth as a politician and his prison life.
Parasuram
Parasuram (2003)
, 2h35
Directed by Arjun Sarja
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Arjun Sarja, Abbas, Kiran Rathod, Goundamani, Rahul Dev, Gayathri Raguram
Roles Judge
Rating46% 2.320632.320632.320632.320632.32063
An underground terror group led by a mysterious proxy Akash recruits unemployed youth and turns them into suicide bombers. Asst. Commissioner of Police Parashuram (Arjun) decides to take the case (and the film) into his own hands in a fit of patriotic fervour. In a subsequent fit of wisdom, he hides a key witness (Gayathri Raghuram) at the home of his flaky fiancee (Kiran), thereby endangering both and his anti-terror mission in general.
War & Love
War & Love (2003)

Directed by Vinayan
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Dileep, Prabhu, Laila, Vijayaraghavan, Siddique, Mukesh Rishi
Roles Settu Pappa
Rating24% 1.2481451.2481451.2481451.2481451.248145
The filim begins with Major Rajendran (Suresh Krishna) being killed by the Pakistani terrorists in the Indo-Pak border and the war between India and Pakistan begins. Pakistani Army led by General Jaffer Khan (Mukesh Rishi) sends a battalion to capture a village on the Indian side of the Line of Control. Indian Army Brigadier Nayar (Captain Raju) sends the Madras Regiment to recapture the village. Madras Regiment contains Lt.Col Sharath Chandran (Prabhu), Captain Gopinath (Dileep), Major Prabhakar (Saikumar), Captain Kabir (Siddique), Captain Vijayan (Vijayaraghavan), Havildar Kurian (Jagadish), Private Basheer (Kalabhavan Mani), Naik Haneefa, Havildar Prashanthan, Naik Kunjunni (Machan Varghese), Captain Hema (Indraja) and Private Shankar. They recaptured the village after a fierce gun battle that killed all the Pakistani soldiers. Prabhakar and Kunjunni died during this battle. Jaffer Khan was angered by this defeat and hatched a plan to capture the entire Madrasi Regiment alive. He calls Colonel Mushtaq Muhammad, an ISI agent in the Indian Army and pays him 5 crores rupees for capturing the Madras Regiment.
Thamizhan
Thamizhan (2002)
, 2h42
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Vijay, Priyanka Chopra, Nassar, Revathi, Vivek, Ashish Vidyarthi
Roles Sivaraman
Rating52% 2.6041252.6041252.6041252.6041252.604125
Surya (Vijay) is a lawyer with right values, who tries to redress things the legal way. He falls in love with Priya (Chopra). His brother-in-law Shakthivel (Nassar), also an upright lawyer, is killed in the process of upholding justice. Surya's sister (Revathy) also meets a pitiful end at the hands of criminals. But Surya refuses to give up. His mission is to make the layman understand his legal rights .
Dhill
Dhill (2001)
, 2h38
Directed by Dharani
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Action
Actors Vikram, Laila, Ashish Vidyarthi, Nassar, Vivek, Charuhasan
Roles Minister
Rating69% 3.483753.483753.483753.483753.48375
Dhil is the story about Kanagavel (Vikram) whose only dream is to become a police officer. He succeeds in passing the exams and wins a girlfriend, Asha (Laila). One night after having dinner at a restaurant near the beach Velu goes to pay the bill leaving Asha behind. At that moment a corrupt police officer Shankar (Ashish Vidyarti) drinks and behaves indecently to Asha. He then attempts to assault her but is beaten up by Velu severely and receives a scar on his face. Angered by this he seeks revenge against Velu. The rest of the story shows how Velu fights Shankar and his goons finally killing the corrupt policeman.
Kannukku Kannaga, 2h10
Actors Murali, Devayani, Vindhya, Raja, Vadivelu, Mayilsamy
Roles the astrologer

Dharma (Murali) and Devi (Devayani) are sibling and are very close. Devi (Devayani) and Arun (Raja) fall in love but Selvi cannot reveal her love to her kindly brother. Dharma, knowing her love, accepts for the marriage although the astrologer (Charuhasan) says that, if his sister gets married with Arun and they had a male child, Dharma will die definitely. Few months later, they have a male child called Vijay (Master Vasanth) and Dharma's death countdown begins.
Susanna
Susanna (2000)

Directed by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Vani Viswanath, Bharath Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Narendra Prasad, Charuhasan
Rating65% 3.277763.277763.277763.277763.27776
Central character is Susanna, who appears to be a prostitute living with five different people at the same time. These five men and Susanna engage in a strange relationship, easily misunderstood by the society around them. But no one can judge her on grounds of morality. She is a mother, wife, sister, daughter to all her men. They find peace in her presence.