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Jaishankar is a Actor Indian born on 12 july 1938 at Chennai (Inde)
Jaishankar (12 July 1938 – 3 June 2000) was an actor in Tamil cinema. He was credited onscreen with title of Makkal Kalingnar Jaishankar in most of the film starring him and is sometimes referred to as the Thennagathu James Bond (South Indian James Bond) because of his roles in films such as Vallavan Oruvan and CID Shankar.
He joined Cho's Viveka Fine Arts, which consisted mostly of Mylaporeans where he did insignificantly small roles. Obviously not happy he moved out and the break came with Koothabiran's Kalki Fine Arts where he made a mark playing a lead role in Kalki's 'Amara Thaara'.
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Birth name Subramaniam Shankar
Nationality Inde
Birth 12 july 1938 at Chennai (Inde)
Death 3 june 2000 (at 61 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Nationality Inde
Birth 12 july 1938 at Chennai (Inde)
Death 3 june 2000 (at 61 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Jaishankar (12 July 1938 – 3 June 2000) was an actor in Tamil cinema. He was credited onscreen with title of Makkal Kalingnar Jaishankar in most of the film starring him and is sometimes referred to as the Thennagathu James Bond (South Indian James Bond) because of his roles in films such as Vallavan Oruvan and CID Shankar.
Biography
Jaishankar was called Subramaniam Shankar at birth, on 12 July 1938. His father was a magistrate, and Jaishankar was educated at PS High School and The New College, Chennai, where he was awarded an honours degree. He studied law but gave it up after a year because of his interests in the theater and other art forms.He joined Cho's Viveka Fine Arts, which consisted mostly of Mylaporeans where he did insignificantly small roles. Obviously not happy he moved out and the break came with Koothabiran's Kalki Fine Arts where he made a mark playing a lead role in Kalki's 'Amara Thaara'.
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Vishnu (2003)
, 2h30Directed by S.A.Chandrasekhar, Shaji Kailas
Genres Drama
Actors Vijay, Manchu Vishnu, Sanghavi, Brahmanandam, Jaishankar, Tanikella Bharani
Roles Thangadurai
Rating73%
Vishnu (Vijay)'s father wants to bring up his son as a timid person but the guy desires to explore the world and hates his Dad's overprotection. So Vishnu leaves home and goes to work in an estate claiming that he is an orphan. The owner of the estate adopts Vishnu as his son. Meanwhile Vishnu falls in love with Radha (Sanghavi). Everything goes fine for Vijay till his adopted father shows a photograph and asks Vijay to kill the people in the photo if he really wants to prove the affection he has for him. The man gives the reason that he wants them killed because they ruined his family.Vishnu agrees immediately but he's shocked to see his own father Jaishankar in the photograph. How Vijay gets to solve the mystery forms the climax of the movie.
Chinna Raja (1999)
Directed by Chithra Lakshmanan
Genres Drama
Actors Karthik, Roja, Priya Raman, S. Manivannan, Jaishankar, Manobala
Dharma (1998)
, 2h40Genres Action
Actors Preetha Vijayakumar, Chippy, Ranjith, Jaishankar, Thalaivaasal Vijay, Vinu Chakravarthy
Roles Dharma's father
Rating51%
Dharma (Vijayakanth) lives with his lawyer father (Jaishankar), his mother (Vadivukkarasi), his journalist brother Vijay (Thalaivasal Vijay) and beloved sister Geetha (Shilpa). Dharma and Sharmila (Preetha Vijayakumar) fall in love with each other. Dharma is an angry man who cannot tolerate injustice. One day, his sister is molested by a rowdy Raja and Dharma kills him in public. Thus, he is sent in jail. In the meantine, Ranjith (Ranjith), Dharma's friend, becomes an ACP.
Arunachalam (1997)
, 2h33Directed by Sundar C.
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Rajinikanth, Rambha, Soundarya, Jaishankar, Ravichandran, Raghuvaran
Roles Aathikesavan
Rating74%
Rajinikanth finds himself to be an orphan. He travels from his village to Madras. There he meets Janakaraj, who gives him a job. By some magical situation, Rajni discovers himself to be a son of a dead millionaire—through Visu. Visu is the guardian of Rajni's father's trust. If Rajni wants his inheritance, he has to follow certain rules. He can get an inheritance of ₹3000 crore if he can spend ₹30 crore in a month. The three conditions are: no contributions to charities, not to own any assets at the end of the month, and, above all, no one else must know. If Rajni fails to spend the money according to the rules, all the money will go to his father's trust which is managed by V.K.Ramasamy, "Nizhalgal" Ravi, Kitty and Raghuvaran. These four form a team of "villains". They want to spoil Rajni's efforts and get all the money for the trust and then to loot the money. Rambha is Visu's daughter and she is appointed as the accountant for Rajni for 30 days.
Kaalamellam Kaathiruppen (1997)
, 2h15Directed by R. Sundarrajan
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vijay, R. Sundarrajan, Karan, Jaishankar, Sreevidya, S. Manivannan
Roles Kannan's father
Rating72%
Subash (1996)
, 2h30Directed by R. V. Udayakumar
Genres Action
Actors Arjun Sarja, Revathi, Siddique, Prakash Raj, Monica Bedi, S. Manivannan
Roles Subash's Father
Subash (Arjun), a good-for-nothing youth, enjoys his life as much as possible. His brother, Rajasekhar (Siddique), is a minister and his father (Jaishankar) is a court judge. Subash falls in love with Savitri (Revathi), a middle class Brahmin girl. Savitri loves him but she wants to marry with a intrepid man so Subash joins the army and becomes a military officer.
Chandralekha (1995)
, 2h42Genres Romance
Actors Vijay, Karan, Sarath Babu, Ponnambalam, Senthil, Vanitha Vijayakumar
Roles Ibrahim
Rating73%
Chandralekha, an orthodox Brahmin girl, falls in love with, Rahim, a Muslim boy. Whereas, Salima loves Rahim since her childhood. Mustafa, Rahim's brother, and Jamal, Salima's brother, agreed to engage Salima and Rahim without Rahim permission. Their families discover the love between Rahim and Chandralekha and don't accept it. Meanwhile, the lovers try to run away from everybody, but are caught by militants in the forest. They are rescued from the militants by the police and brought safely to the village. Jamal, upset that her sister has gone mad, kills Chandralekha and Rahim at the railway station. Then, the police kills Jamal. The message of the movie is that love should be beyond religion, caste, and creed.
Thai Thangai Paasam (1995)
Directed by Vijaya Thesingu Rajendar
Actors Vijaya Thesingu Rajendar, Sithara, Silambarasan, S. S. Chandran, Jaishankar, Sreevidya
Rating59%
Kanmani (1994)
, 2h17Directed by R. K. Selvamani
Actors Prashanth, Mohini, Lakshmi Narayan, Sujatha, Jaishankar
Prashanth joins S.R.M. Engineering College where he is teased and taunted by the college rowdies, lead by Mohini who among other things has a Video camera in the ladies room to watch women who bathe there!! After a few confrontations Prashanth shows her who's the boss. Meanwhile Prashanth's sister Lakshmi is a famous criminal lawyer nursing a sad past and wanting revenge against Sujatha, a police officer and her husband Jai Shanker, a judge. She even supports smugglers and represent them in court just to spite Sujatha. One such client of hers is Mansur Ali Khan who is a liquor baron running a medical college (No prizes for guessing who its modeled on). His daughter also pines for Prashanth, and there is this inevitable love triangle. Mohini and Prashanth are soon in love forgetting the initial skirmishes, but suddenly one day Mohini accuses Prashanth of an attempt to molest her. It turns out that she does this to dishonor Prashanth and his sister Lakshmi, as Lakshmi is Sujatha's professional rival. After a few such confrontations, Lakshmi decides to get Prashanth married to Mansur Ali Khan's daughter. But suddenly Prashanth has a change of heart as Mohini threatens to commit suicide, but gives in to his sister's wishes.
Varavu Ettana Selavu Pathana (1994)
, 2h35Genres Drama
Actors Nassar, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Jaishankar, Goundamani, Senthil, Kovai Sarala
Roles Valluvardasan
Rating63%
Sivaraman (Nassar), an honest government clerk, and his wife Lakshmi (Raadhika), belong to a middle-class family and they have two children. Anja Singam Marudupandi (Goundamani), 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 instalments. This puts pressure on Shivarama 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.
Priyanka (1994)
, 2h20Directed by G Neelakanta Reddy
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Revathi, Anu Hasan, Jayaram, Prabhu, Nassar, Jaishankar
Roles Sriram
Rating59%
Priyanka (Revathi) is a straightforward person and daughter of Krishnan (Delhi Ganesh), a post master. Her father Krishnan looks for bride for her elder sister (Sudha) and her. Later, her sister elopes with another man.
Sindhu Nathi Poo (1994)
, 2h15Genres Drama
Actors Ranjith, Jaishankar, Aachi Manorama, Kalpana, Vadivelu
Roles Chettiar
Thirukkaval (Ranjith) is back to his village. At his back, he is respected and treated as God by the villagers. Thirukkaval still hates his father Chettiar (Jaishankar), stepmother Azhamu (Kavitha), stepbrother and stepsister. The kind-hearted Thirukkaval quickly makes ennemies including Munnumunuthan (Vasu Vikram), Kodumudi (Kazan Khan) and his father Chettiar. Meanwhile, Pasupathy (Ravi Shankar) and Chinna Pulla (Rajakumari) are in love. The affair is soon exposed, so Thirukkaval arranges their wedding. Shortly, Pasupathy dies in an accident and the villagers blame Thirukkaval.
Airport (1993)
Directed by Joshiy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Sathyaraj, Gautami, M. G. Soman, Suchitra Murali, Jaishankar, Sumithra
Rating19%
Sathyaraj is a pilot,who works in Indian airlines who fly only government planes.
Gokulam (1993)
, 2h20Directed by Vikraman
Actors Bhanupriya, Jayaram, Arjun Sarja, Kalyan Kumar, Chinni Jayanth, T. M. Soundararajan
Roles Gayatri's guardian
Rating26%
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.
En Rajangam (1993)
, 2h10Actors Anandaraj, Sreeja, Jaishankar, Ravichandran, Venniradai Moorthy, Thiagu
Roles Chief Minister
Gopalakrishnan (Anandaraj) is an honest and naive police constable who lives with his only sister Sugandhi (Vinodhini). Sugandhi and her classmate Suresh (Ramarjun) quarrel for small matters. Meanwhile, Gopalakrishnan and Kalyani (Sreeja) squabble whenever they meet. One day, Kalyani's mother dies and Gopalakrishnan brings her at his home. Later, Suresh and Sugandhi fall in love with each other and they get married secretly. Suresh's mother is later killed and the innocent Gopalakrishnan is arrested. Suresh comes to know that the murder was planned by the corrupt politician Kodandam (Ravichandran). What transpires later forms the crux of the story.