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Birth name Janagaraj

'Janagaraj' is a veteran Tamil film actor who has generally played a comedian in his films, and provided stiff competition to the comic duo of Goundamani and Senthil. He has acted in over 100 Tamil films as a comedian or in supporting roles.

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Ilaiyaraaja
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P. Bharathiraja
(19 films)
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Aachi Manorama
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Kamal Haasan
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Filmography of Janagaraj (154 films)

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Thavam
Thavam (2007)

Genres Drama
Actors Arun Vijay, Sanjjanaa, Vadivelu, Janagaraj
Rating15% 0.7777650.7777650.7777650.7777650.777765
The movie begins with Sumathi (Vanthana) and Subramaniam (Arun Vijay), strangers to one another, meet at a suicide point in Chennai. They realise that their goal is the same, that is Suicide! Both had choose to end their lives and duly writes suicide notes.
Kaivantha Kalai
Directed by Pandiarajan
Actors Pandiarajan, Prithvi Rajan, Malavika, S. Manivannan, Revathi, Seetha

Kannan(Prithvi) is in league with his father(Manivannan) in duping the people in his village. He comes across Kausalya(Sruthi), a timid, schoolgoing Brahmin girl and falls for her immediately. From his grandfather he learns that Kausalya's mom is his father's sister and becomes even more determined to wed her. Kausalya begins to like him too but asks him to mend his ways before they can get married.
M. Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi
Directed by Mohan Raja
Genres Romance
Actors Jayam Ravi, Asin Thottumkal, Nadhiya, Prakash Raj, Vivek, Janagaraj
Roles Inspector
Rating70% 3.5424753.5424753.5424753.5424753.542475
For Kumaran (Jayam Ravi) life is all about his mother Mahalakshmi (Nadhiya) who separated from her husband for love Eshwar (Prakash Raj). Kumaran is passionate about kickboxing and he shares a very special relationship with his mother. In between, Kumaran falls in love with Malabar aka Mythili (Asin Thottumkal). But his life is destroyed after his mother's death. On her deathbed she tells her son to meet his father, a kickboxing champion, who lives in Malaysia. Kumaran goes to Malaysia to meet him.
Aayitha Ezhuthu, 2h40
Directed by Mani Ratnam
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Politic, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films
Actors Suriya, R. Madhavan, Siddharth, Meera Jasmine, Trisha Krishnan, Esha Deol
Roles Dr. Viswanath
Rating78% 3.94573.94573.94573.94573.9457
Inba (Madhavan) grew up to be a goon, as his brother had left him to fend for himself and he had no option of earning. He loves, marries, and abuses his wife, Sashi (Meera Jasmine). Michael Vasanth (Suriya Sivakumar) is an influential student leader who wants politicians like Selvanayagam (Bharathiraja) to keep away from college elections. Michael is in love with his neighbour Geetha (Esha Deol) who lives with her parents. And then there is Arjun Balakrishnan (Siddharth), carefree and spoiled son of an IAS officer. He wants to relocate to the U.S. for a better future. He falls in love with Meera (Trisha Krishnan), whom he just met. One day, Meera and Arjun get into a quarrel on the road and Meera gets into an auto. Arjun hitches a ride from Michael, who is riding in the same direction, to catch up with Meera. Suddenly, Michael is shot but Arjun saves him. After talking to Michael, Arjun changes his mind and wants to be a politician. Selvanayagam is worried when he hears news of students standing in the election. He uses every possible resource to get them out of Politics. Firstly he provides scholarship to study at a prestigious foreign university to Michael. When Michael refuses the bribe, he orders his goon Inba to take control. Inba beats some students but faces very strong retaliation from Michael and other students. He kidnaps Arjun and other candidates. However, they manage to escape with the help of Inba's ally, Dilli (Sriman). Inba follows Arjun and beats him up. While running, Arjun manages to call Michael for help. He comes to rescue Arjun at Napier Bridge. Then Inba is handed to the police. Michael wins the four seats he and his college mates have contested for. Sashi leaves for her hometown while Inba remains in prison hoping not to get the capital punishment. Michael, Arjun and two friends enter into politics.
Jai
Jai (2004)

Directed by S. Narayan
Actors Prashanth, Rajkiran, Thiagarajan Sivanandam, Rajan P. Dev, Bhanupriya, Seetha
Rating17% 0.8921450.8921450.8921450.8921450.892145
The film opens with Veerapandi (Thiagarajan) returning from USA after a long gap with his wife (Bhanupriya) and 8-year-old son Jai (Junior Prashanth). Veerapandi’s late father was a well-known factionist in that area & owned a land of 4,000 acres. While leaving for USA, Veerapandi gave the responsibility of managing this land to Vajravelu (Rajan P. Dev). Now back in India, Veerapandi realises that Vajravelu is misusing his power. He wants to donate all his land to the 2000 families staying in that village. When Vajravelu comes to know of this charity giveaway, he attacks Veerapandi, killing him & his wife. Nallamuthu (Rajkiran), a trusted lieutenant of Veerapandi, takes the kid Jai and escapes to the city (Chennai). After the murders, Veerapandi’s trusted people are put in jail with a prison sentence of 14 years.
New
New (2004)

Directed by S. J. Surya
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Simran, S. J. Surya, S. Manivannan, Kiran Rathod, Devayani, Aishwarya
Roles Doctor
Rating64% 3.242133.242133.242133.242133.24213
Pappu an eight-year-old boy who is very mischievous always troubling his mother. His mother scolds him when he eats the toothpaste, urinate in bed at night. Pappu falls down on a road one day and a young woman helps him. Pappu's elder brother plans to watch adults movie with his friends in the absence of their parents and Pappu wishes to join him to which his brother does not allow him. Angered, Paapu cuts off the power which creates a short circuit at home. Pappu's mother scolds for his dangerous mischief and shouts at her husband for not stopping with one child as Pappu is troubling her a lot. This hurts Pappu and he runs away from home to jump into a river. But he is stopped by an old man and he takes Pappu to his place. The old man introduces himself as a scientist who has his own laboratory. He insists Pappu to help him in his research of transforming a child to a young man. Pappu agrees and the scientist transforms him to a young man. Pappu starts to live as a young man physically but as a child mentally and stays away from his family. The only person other than scientist who knows the truth is his child classmate friend. Pappu meets the girl at a park who helped him once he fell down on road. Innocent child Pappu helps to remove dust from her eyes, smiles at her and leaves the place. The girl is very much attracted towards him and she looks for him every day.
I Love You Da
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Raju Sundaram, Simran, Raghuvaran, Prakash Raj, Senthil, Venniradai Moorthy

Raghuvaran pays Indian cricketers to lose the match so he can bet on the Pakistan team to make a lot of money. One day Raghuvaran's daughter Simran was sad that India never wins any matches so Raghuvaran just for one match lets India win. One time India loses and a small boy commits suicide seeing this Raju Sundaram works hard to become a cricket player and make India win for once. He is stopped by Raghuvaran but wins and becomes a cricket player. Raju Sundaram goes to Pakistan to win but is stopped by Raghuvaran but he is killed by his own daughter Simran. Eventually India wins but Simran goes to jail. She comes out and is reunited with Raju Sundaram.
King
King (2002)
, 2h43
Directed by Prabhu Solomon
Genres Drama
Actors Vikram, Sneha, Nassar, Santhana Bharathi, Vadivelu, Janagaraj
Rating61% 3.093833.093833.093833.093833.09383
The story evolves around Raja (Vikram), a business management student and professional magician living in Hong Kong with his single-father, Shanmugam (Nassar), who he loves a lot. Then one day, they end up in a car accident, and when Shanmugam is in need of blood, he is given an unanalyzed amount of blood which was infected with multiple sclerosis. Dr. Cheenu suggests to Raja that he take his father to his old home in India, and to keep him happy for the last 2 months of his life. It is then that Raja finds out that Shanmugam was exiled from his home 25 years ago because he had a love marriage. But all that changes when the family meets him again, and when they meet Raja for the first time. However, Shanmmugam's father still doesn't talk to his son until Raja threatens him by attempting suicide. It is around then that Raja meets his crush, named Tamil (Sneha). It is revealed that Tamil's father and Shanmugam were good friends, and he gives her a picture of him with her father. Shanmugam also says that Tamil is the ideal daughter-in-law. Meanwhile, Raja is doing a countdown of his father's life, trying to express his love to Tamil, and entertaining his cousins.
Dhaya
Dhaya (2002)

Genres Drama, Action
Actors Prakash Raj, Meena, Raghuvaran, Janagaraj, Lakshmi Narayan, Pandu
Rating54% 2.705112.705112.705112.705112.70511
Dhaya is a hit film which story is about rowdy who hires his services to the highest bidder. Who in the midst of indulging in arson, murder, and poisoning an entire ashram of orphans, also gets to do the song and dance routine.
Piriyadha Varam Vendum
Directed by Kamal
Themes Buddy films
Actors Prashanth, Shalini Ajith Kumar, S. Manivannan, Gowri Chandrasekhara Pillai, Krishna, Aachi Manorama
Rating59% 2.958012.958012.958012.958012.95801
Sanjay (Prashanth) and Nithi (Shalini) are best friends right from their childhood days. They are neighbours, have grown up together, attend the same college and spend every minute of their waking hours together. Both have their admirers in college with Sneha (Jomol) wooing Sanjay and Praveen (Krishna) revealing his love for Nithi. Nithi's week-long trip to Bangalore, along with some prodding by his housemaid, makes Sanjay realise how much he misses Nithi and that he is in love with her. But respect for their friendship and her makes him hide his feelings. Meanwhile, Nithi accepts Praveen's proposal and things quickly move towards their marriage. But when things come together Nithi realises that she cannot stay without Sanjay and at that time he reveals that he too loves her.
Kadal Pookkal
Directed by P. Bharathiraja
Actors Murali, Sindhu Menon, Manoj K. Bharathi, Prathyusha, Uma Shankari, Vaiyapuri

Karuthayya and Peter (Murali - Manoj) are the best of friends, sharing with each other their hopes and dreams. Karuthayya's plan, to get his beloved sister Kayal (Uma) married elsewhere, is thwarted when he learns that Kayal is in love with Peter. He hears this from Uppili (Pratyksha) who has a soft corner for Karuthayya and vice versa. For his sister's sake, Karuthayya approaches Peter with the marriage proposal. A shocked Peter, who had all along shared an easy relationship with Uma, consents for the sake of friendship. Peter then makes a counter proposal - that Karuthayya marry his sister Maria. Peter however withholds the fact that Maria had been seduced by a man from the city and was carrying his child. Family honour being uppermost in his mind, friendship takes a back seat. But Peter does not know that Karuthayya was already aware of his sister's affair, though not of her pregnancy. Karuthayya knowing his friend's aggressive nature had not told Peter about the matter earlier. Karuthayya now throws the ball back in Peter's court, asking him to first get Maria's consent. Sure that Maria would not give her consent for the marriage. But to his shock Maria agrees.
Seenu
Seenu (2000)

Directed by P. Vasu
Actors Karthik, Malavika, P. Vasu, Vivek, Janagaraj

Kesavan (P.Vasu) is a famous singer while his younger brother Seenu (Karthik) spends his time picking fights with people who speak ill of Kesavan. This is a constant source of irritation to everyone in the family. Kesavan slowly becomes a slave to drinks which affects his ability to sing. When this happens at a concert, Seenu fills in for him and sings. While he intended this to be a one-time affair, his singing catches the public's fancy and he becomes more popular than Kesavan. This makes Kesavan jealous and he starts hating Seenu. Kesavan leaves home, Seenu searches for him, only to receive the news that he is dead. In the climax, Seenu becomes a famous singer and credits his brother as the reason for his success.
Malli
Malli (1999)
, 1h30
Directed by Santosh Sivan
Actors Janagaraj
Rating74% 3.7298953.7298953.7298953.7298953.729895
The film revolves around the story of Malli (P. Shwetha), a poor girl who spends most of her time helping her family by collecting firewood, and playing games in a nearby forest with her deaf and dumb best friend. Amongst her many dreams, her one main wish is to get herself a colourful dress to wear to a lively festival. However, during her quest she meets an old, local storyteller, who shares with her a story of a magical blue stone that can cure her best friend's muteness. With new horizons to pursue, she sets off to find this mysterious blue wishing stone.