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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

Neengal Kettavai
Neengal Kettavai (1984)
, 2h12
Directed by Balu Mahendra
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Thiagarajan Sivanandam, Archana, Bhanu Chander, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Silk Smitha, Y. G. Mahendran
Roles Muthulingam
Rating60% 3.0068253.0068253.0068253.0068253.006825
Poornima Jayaram, a widow living in Ooty leads a peaceful life with her two sons. Jaishankar, a tourist who visits the place gets tempted and rapes her. In the act, Pornima dies leaving her two sons who witness the murder. The eldest son (Bhanu Chander) is raised by his maternal uncle while the younger brother (Thiagarajan) joins a blind music teacher as he has great interest in music. Years later he becomes a great singer. Meanwhile, his brother is trained effectively by his uncle learning martial arts with the intention of avenging the death of his mother as he very well remembers the culprit's face. With a turn of events leading to both sons joining together and take revenge for their mother's death forms the rest of the story.
Vidhi
Vidhi (1984)

Genres Drama
Actors Mohan, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Sujatha, K. Bhagyaraj, Jaishankar, K. Balaji
Roles "Tiger" Dayanidhi
Rating69% 3.464783.464783.464783.464783.46478
Raja (Mohan), the son of a popular lawyer "Tiger" Dayanidhi (Jaishankar), is a playboy and a womaniser from a rich family. Whenever Raja sets his eyes on a beautiful girl, he pursues and impresses her and convinces her that he is madly in love with her, then abandons her after getting into a physical relationship with her. This becomes a routine for him. Radha (Poornima Jayaram) is a girl from a middle-class family. Raja meets her, tries his old techniques to impress her and finally succeeds. Radha sincerely loves him and yields to Raja's advances for a physical relationship. When Radha becomes pregnant and requests Raja to marry her, he writes off their relationship, saying he does not even know her and refuses to marry her.
Chavi
Chavi (1984)

Actors Jaishankar, Sathyaraj, Saritha, Nizhalgal Ravi
Roles CID Shankar
Rating60% 3.013753.013753.013753.013753.01375
Thai Veedu
Thai Veedu (1983)

Directed by Thiagarajan Sivanandam
Genres Drama
Actors Rajinikanth, M. N. Nambiar, Vijayakumar, Jaishankar, Silk Smitha, Sundarrajan
Rating66% 3.3484153.3484153.3484153.3484153.348415
Rajasekaran (Major Sundarrajan) is a rich man who is in possession of an antique sword that holds the key to a treasure. Nagalingam (Thengai Srinivasan), a criminal, makes several unsuccessful attempts to steal the sword from Rajasekaran. On one such attempts Anand (Jaishankar) saves Rajasekaran and becomes his trusted guy to protect the sword. Raju(Rajnikanth), an orphan who is being raised by an alcoholic, ex-thief Rajasingam (M.N Nambiar), is an expert in boosting cars and Anita (##Anita Raj) is his love interest. Several years back Rajasingam had stolen a car owned by Nagalingam with a child inside without knowing that the car and the child (Raju) actually belonged to Rajasekaran. One day Rajasingam spots Nagalingam in a shopping complex and believing that Raju is the son of Nagalingam, he hands Raju to him as his own son. Nagalingam deceitfully accepts Raju as his son and cleverly employs him to steal the sword from Rajasekaran, his real father. While Raju attempts to steal the sword, Anand keeps thwarting him. Despite Anand's efforts Raju manages to loot the sword but then discovers that he's actually the son of Rajasekaran and he himself had been instrumental in stealing his own family treasure for the wrong men. With the help of Anand, Raju fights with Nagalingam's gang to successfully retrieve their family treasure and reunites with his family.