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Jaishankar is a Actor Indian born on 12 july 1938 at Chennai (Inde)

Jaishankar

Jaishankar
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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)

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'.

Usually with

Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja
(53 films)
Thengai Srinivasan
Thengai Srinivasan
(43 films)
Aachi Manorama
Aachi Manorama
(40 films)
Nagesh
Nagesh
(29 films)
Sundarrajan
Sundarrajan
(27 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jaishankar (154 films)

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Actor

Naalai Manithan
Naalai Manithan (1989)

Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Actors Prabhu, Amala Akkineni, Janagaraj, Ajay Rathnam, Jaishankar, Mohan
Rating61% 3.090243.090243.090243.090243.09024
A doctor found a drug to give back life from the dead upon injecting this drug within 2 hours of death and it will live forever.He tried the experiment to a dead body belong to an orphan and it was successful.The drug have a side effect which changes the mental behavior to kill people.A cop (Prabhu) kills this murderer, but the villain comes alive indestructible. He starts killing the doctors and his family who gave him his power; How the hero foils his evil plans forms the rest of the story.
Thaai Naadu
Thaai Naadu (1989)

Actors Sathyaraj, Raadhika Sarathkumar, M. N. Nambiar, Jaishankar, Captain Raju, Sreevidya

The film has an intuitive story line with Sathyaraj enacting dual role. The role as an army officer was appreciated by the critics.
Ponmana Selvan
Ponmana Selvan (1989)
, 2h19
Directed by P. Vasu
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Shobana, Gemini Ganesan, B. Saroja Devi, Goundamani, Jaishankar, Radha Ravi
Roles Mettupalayam Jameen
Rating57% 2.89992.89992.89992.89992.8999
Enga Ooru Pattukaran
Enga Ooru Pattukaran (1987)
, 2h
Directed by Gangai Amaran
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ramarajan, Shanti priya, Rekha, Vinu Chakravarthy, M. N. Nambiar, Kovai Sarala
Roles Manjampetti
Rating51% 2.5758352.5758352.5758352.5758352.575835
Shenbagam (Shantipriya), the landlord's daughter, and Seethan (Ramarajan), an orphan milkman, were both in love but they didn't express it directly. Seethan was brought up by Maruthamuthu (Vinu Chakravarthy). When Shenbagam's father decides to engage her with a rich groom, she commits suicide.
Kadhal Parisu
Kadhal Parisu (1987)

Directed by Jagannathan
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Kamal Haasan, Ambika, Radha, Rajkumar, Jaishankar, Delhi Ganesh
Roles Kailash
Rating60% 3.002493.002493.002493.002493.00249
The movie starts with Kamal getting released from prison after serving a sentence on a rape charge. Ambika and Radha are sisters and heirs to a wealthy business. Ambika looks after the business after their parents died while Radha is a student. Kamal meets Radha and soon they fall in love while Ambika has sworn off all men. Jaishankar is their uncle who is after their wealth.
Coolikkaran
Coolikkaran (1987)

Directed by Rajasekhar
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Rupini, Nagesh, Jaishankar, Radha Ravi, S. S. Chandran, Vijayan

VK lives with his elder brother (Nagesh), sister-in-law (Srividya), and their little daughter. He spends his time idly he is scolded by his brother so VK becomes a coolie and transports articles . He is jailed for smuggling . His brother gets into accident at work at the mill and loses his arms. He loses his job and needs money for treatment. VK is released. VK begs his brother's boss (Radharavi), but he refuses. VK breaks into the boss' safe to get the money but it's too late as the brother dies.
Oomai Vizhigal
Oomai Vizhigal (1986)
, 2h56
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Arun Pandian, Chandrasekhar (Tamil actor), Karthik, Jaishankar, Sreevidya, Saritha
Roles Chandran
Rating72% 3.625083.625083.625083.625083.62508
A group of college girls come in a light blue matador to Chola Picnic Village.They take a room in a hotel at that Picnic Spot. At night they go out the beach,lit a bonfire and enjoy by singing and dancing. After the song gets over,all the girls return to the Hotel. One of them is missing, that is Vasanthi. She comes across a bell hung in a "Pie symbol" based structure. She goes near it and rings it for 3 times. At that time PRK came and looks into her eyes and Vasanthi starts running. At one point of time, PRK gets hold her hair and takes her along with him.