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Ponvannan is a Actor and Dialogue Indian born on 23 september 1964
Ponvannan (born 9 May 1963) is an Indian film actor and director, who has worked in the Tamil film industry. After beginning his career as an artist, Ponvannan apprenticed as a director and dialogue writer under Bharathiraja. He subsequently made his directorial debut with Annai Vayal (1992), before making the critically acclaimed venture, Jameela (2003). He has since appeared as a supporting actor in films, winning acclaim for his role in films including Paruthiveeran (2007), Ayan (2009) and Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014). In October 2015, he was elected as the Vice President of the Nadigar Sangam alongside Karunas.
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Ponvannan
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Ponvannan married actress Saranya, daughter of Malayalam film maker A. B. Raj, in 1995. Saranya made her breakthrough as an actress with Mani Ratnam's Nayakan (1987) and has since become one of the most prominent supporting actresses in South Indian films. The couple have two daughters.Usually with
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Bhooloham (2015)
, 2h1Genres Action, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Jayam Ravi, Trisha Krishnan, Prakash Raj, Nayantara, Narayan "Lucky", Ponvannan
Roles Rathinam Master
Rating57%
Yatchan (2015)
, 2h20Directed by Vishnuvardhan
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Arya, Kreshna, Kishore, Deepa Sannidhi, Swathi Reddy, Adil Hussain
Roles Durai
Rating56%
Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014)
Directed by Vasanthabalan
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Prithviraj Sukumaran, Siddharth, Vedhika, Anaika Soti, Thambi Ramaiah, Ponvannan
Roles S V Bairava Sundaram
Rating74%
Un hommage au cinéma tamoul des années 30/40 et, aux troupes de théâtre tamoul en voie de disparition. De 1920 à 1940, un voyage dans la vie d’artistes de théâtre tamoul, à travers leur amitié, leur amour et leurs rivalités. Sans être un biopic, Vasanthabalan reconnait s'être inspiré de quelques artistes de l’époque tels que K.B. Sundarambal, ou encore de S.G. Kittappa, doyens des théâtres musicaux de Madurai, capitale culturelle de l'Etat du Tamil Nadu, en Inde.
Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014)
, 2h30Directed by Vasanthabalan
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Siddharth, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Vedhika, Nassar, Anaika Soti, Thambi Ramaiah
Roles S V Bairava Sundaram
Rating74%
Thavathiru Sivadas Swamigal (Nassar) runs a drama troupe in which Thalaivankottai Kaliappa Bhagavathar (Siddharth) and Melachivilberi Gomathi Nayagam Pillai(Prithviraj) are his direct disciples. Gomathi is left by his father in the troupe of Swami. Kali is found by Swami during a train trip where the boy is singing and begging alms. Impressed by his singing talents, Swami takes the boy with him. Gomathi and Kaliappa have relationship like brothers. They grow up together and stage many plays where Gomathi often plays "Sthripart" - the female role and Kali plays "sidepart"- supporting characters. While Vadivambal (Vedhicka), the female member in the group falls in love with Kali, the latter loves Rangamma (Anaika Soti), the princess of the zameen. Bhairava (Ponvannan) who is another student of Swami is a popular "Rajapart" - performing main title characters of a stage play. He becomes headstrong over his acting capabilities and does not attend the rehearsals for which he gets scoldings from Swami. After a quarrel, he leaves the troupe as he could not bear the torture of Swami. Swami does not give up and conducts an audition for the main character role of Soorapadman in which Kali and Gomathi perform. Kali gets selected, which leaves Gomathi angry. The reason behind Swami's bias towards Kali is never answered clearly to Gomathi which leaves him more frustrated.
Lingaa (2014)
, 2h58Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Rajinikanth, Anushka Shetty, Sonakshi Sinha, Vadivelu, Santhanam, Karunakaran
Roles Government officer
Rating55%
A dam in the village of Solaiyur, which is the lifeline of that village is under assessment for structural integrity by the Public Works Department. The dam inspector (Ponvannan) assesses that the dam is still strong 75 years after it was built. Later that evening, he is hacked to death by the corrupt local MP Nagabhushan (Jagapathi Babu), who wants the dam destroyed for his own benefit. The dying dam inspector throws a pen drive containing details about the proposed plan to destroy the dam into an abandoned Shiva temple near the dam and warns the village head Karunakara (K. Viswanath) that the temple has to be opened as soon as possible, after which he passes away. Karunakara and the villagers are of the opinion that the temple can only be opened by the descendant of Raja Lingeswaran (Rajinikanth), who built the dam as well as the Shiva temple. Lakshmi (Anushka Shetty), the granddaughter of Karunakara and a television journalist, goes on a search to find the Raja's descendant. She soon manages to find the descendant, whose name is Lingeswaran aka Lingaa (Rajinikanth). Lingaa is the grandson of Raja Lingeswaran, but is a petty thief with his family having now fallen on hard times. He holds a grudge against his grandfather, feeling that he had brought down his family into poverty by squandering all his wealth and hence refuses to go with Lakshmi to Solaiyur. However, Lakshmi implicates Lingaa in a robbery, as a result of which the police pursue Lingaa. Lingaa is forced to accept Lakshmi's invitation to avoid getting caught and travels with her to Solaiyur.
Sathuranga Vettai (2014)
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Natarajan Subramaniam, Ponvannan, Ilavarasu
Roles ACP
Rating80%
The protagonist in the film, Gandhi Babu (Natraj) is a skilled conman. He dreams up ingenious scams and executes them perfectly. He sells ignorant people ordinary snakes claiming that they are exotic and will fetch crores in the international market. He promotes a non-existent 'multi-level marketing' company with its controversial chain referral schemes promising a BMW car within the year. And the climax has him pulling off 'the rice pulling scam', one of the most high-profile scams of recent times. About 40 minutes into the film Gandhi Babu is arrested and multiple cases filed against him. But the money he has scammed over the years comes to his rescue and he is released. He is not in the least remorseful and continues to manipulate everyone. He believes that if a person is foolish or greedy enough to be duped, then the person is to be blamed. He argues that every election voters are conned by the candidates who promise them the moon, but never come through. Banu (Ishara Nair) is from a poor family. She comes to work for him and falls for his charms. Despite having a soft corner for her, money is Gandhi Babu's first priority and he abandons her. Some of his friends betray him and is beaten to pulp. Banu looks after him for some time and they get married. She becomes pregnant. Towards the end of the film, a group of people whom he had tricked, capture him. They threaten him to settle their lump sum of money. He performs a final heist to hand over the money to them. The passage of money results in a tussle. Babu kills each one of them and returns to his wife and child with the money. Finally, the look on her face makes him realise the value of life and leaves the money to the police custody.
Kadal (2013)
, 2h44Directed by Mani Ratnam
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gautham Karthik, Thulasi Nair, Arjun Sarja, Arvind Swamy, Lakshmi Manchu, Thulasi Nair
Roles Chetty
Rating55%
Bergmans (Arjun), a brilliant but unruly student, is thrown out of his seminary for committing the sin of the flesh after being caught red-handed by fellow student Sam Fernando (Arvind Swamy). Blaming the good-hearted Sam for his ouster, Bergmans vows revenge and challenges to prove that evil does reign supreme in this world. Sam finishes his education and training and arrives at a village as the new Father of the local church. A local boy named Thomas of this village who is the illegitimate son of a local fisherman (Ponvannan) has grown up in a rough neighbourhood, following the death of his mother and thus being forced to fend for himself.
Thalaivaa (2013)
, 3h3Directed by A. L. Vijay
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action
Themes Gangster films
Actors Vijay, Amala Paul, Sathyaraj, Rajeev Govinda Pillai, Abhimanyu Singh, Ragini Nandwani
Roles Ranga (Chithappa)
Rating62%
Vishwa (Vijay) is a dancer who lives in Sydney, Australia. He also manages a water distribution business there with his childhood friend Logu (Santhanam) and his dance team members. He is the son of Ramadorai (Sathyaraj), a Mumbai-based don who fights for the rights of the Tamil-speaking migrants in the city. Ramadorai had sent Vishwa away to Australia when he was a child for his safety and although they are in regular contact, he lies to Vishwa that he is a businessman.
Ponnar Shankar (2011)
Directed by Thiagarajan Sivanandam
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Films about families
Actors Prashanth, Prabhu, Jayaram, Prakash Raj, Rajkiran, Divya Parameshwaran krishna
Roles Chinnamalai Kozhundu
Rating40%
A love affair between Thamarai (Kushboo) and her maternal uncle Nellaiyankondan (Jayaram) is badly received by their family, especially since he is not financially well off. Thamarai's father, King Periyamalaikozhundhu Gounder (Vijayakumar), arranges for her marriage to Mandhiyappan (Prakashraj), ruler of a neighbouring country. Thamarai rejects the arranged marriage, angering Mandhiyappan. She later marries her lover, who had come to see her marry Mandhiyappan, and challenges her brother Chinna Malaikozhundhu (Ponvannan) to marry his daughters off to her sons (the marriage of cousins is a gounder custom). Periyamalaikozhundhu disowns his daughter for choosing Nellaiyankondan and banishes them from his kingdom.
Raa Raa (2011)
Genres Romantic comedy
Actors Udhaya, Shweta Basu Prasad, Ponvannan, Adithya Menon, Sathyan, Meera Krishnan
Roles Shivashankaran
The story revolves around Bharathi (Udaya) and his family, consisting of his dad, mom, brother, sister-in-law and sister. Saravanan, a rich cloth merchant, is very particular that the Thirukural is recited regularly within his home and whenever Bharathi wants to please his dad, he recites a kural or two and proves an exemplary son, even though he is up to his youthful antics the rest of the time. In all, it’s a happy existence.
Singam Puli (2011)
, 2h40Genres Action
Themes Films about families
Actors Jiiva, Ramya, Honey Rose, Santhanam, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Ponvannan
Roles Shiva and Ashok Kumar's father
Rating44%
The film has a deceptively casual beginning: a middle-class family consisting of parents (Kuyili and Ponvannan), a daughter and twin sons—Shiva (Jiiva), who works in a fish-market and Ashok Kumar (Jiiva, again), who is a lawyer.
Seedan (2011)
, 2h15Actors Unni Mukundan, Ananya, Dhanush, Suhasini Maniratnam, Sheela, Ponvannan
Roles Vijay Ramalingam
Rating33%
Mahalakshmi (Ananya) is a servant at the residence of the elderly Amritavalli (Sheela). Everyone is really fond of her and treat her as one of the family, not a servant. However she finds herself doing all the work in the house. She is also a great devotee of the magnificent lord Murugan. Residing in Palani, she is unable to attend the temple. In a dream she finds herself at her wedding with an unknown man. The next day that man comes to the house. He is none other than Amritavalli's own grandson Mano (unni). He falls head over heels in love with maha. Maha though hesitant at first finds herself in love with him as well. Mano constantly assures her that his mother will arrange marriage. However as fate has it mano is afraid to admit to his mother thangam (Suhasini) that he is in love. This encourages thangam to fix his marriage with her childhood friends daughter. However when thangam comes to know of the love affair she is helpless and all she is able to do is encourage the lovebirds to forget each other. Soon everyone ( excpet amritavalli, thangam and mano) treat Maha in a rude way... as a servant not a family member. Mahalakshmi, angry claims to Lord Murugan that she will not face ever again. Enters Saravanan (Dhanush). Dhanush enters as the cook appointed by Madhave Gounder (Ilavarasu). Everyone finds his cooking awesome. However Mahalakshmi disapproves as cooking was her only peaceful hobby in the house after she fell in Love. Saravannan is told to stay in the guest house where Gumbidiswamy (vivek) is staying. Gumbidiswamy is a fraud and is now trying to pass as a presit in strong believe of god. For this reason he has stayed at their house. It did not take Saravannan long to realize that Gumbidiswamy is a fraud and he used this to blackmail him. Having this control over Gumbidiswamy, Saravanna tells him to tell everyone that according to background and religious research, Mano and his fiancee are not suitable for each other. After doing many things such as this, Saravannan is able to get Maha and Mano together. thangam and Amritavalli agree to let Mano marry Maha. Maha and Mano (on the day of their wedding) search for Saravannan to thank him for his help.Instead of Saravanna, another person comes and says he is the only Saravannan around the area. Disappointed, Maha goes to Murugan's Altar to pray... and there she sees Saravannan. He soon fades away. At that point, Maha understood that Saravannan was Murugan in Human form - in the Hindu religion it is believed that god may come down to earth in a human form to help those in need.
Vaagai Sooda Vaa (2011)
, 2h3Genres Drama
Actors Vimal, Iniya, K. Bhagyaraj, Ponvannan, Thambi Ramaiah, Elango Kumaravel
Roles JP
Rating80%
Veluthambi (Vimal), who is driven by the pride of having gained high education, wants nothing less than a government job. Due to compulsion, he finds himself in a village educating the children of people working in the brick kilns. As Velu reaches the village, he is greeted by innocent faces that fear that he would spoil children who are into work. As time passes by, Veluthambi manages to convince the families to send their children to school. He is revered by the villagers as a godsend to lift them out of their miserable lives. In between, in the same village a girl, Madhi (Iniya) falls in love with him but he fails to recognise it. The local bigwig JP (Ponvannan) treats the whole village almost like his bonded labourers. And he is irked by the new-found freedom that the villagers and their children seem to enjoy. He tries to threaten them but fails. Fate comes in the form of a government job for Veluthambi. But he feels the pinch of conscience to leave the children and walk away to a comfortable life. He returns to confess his love for the children and Madhi.
Maathi Yosi (2010)
Genres Drama
Actors Shammu, S Ravi Mariya, Ponvannan, G. M. Kumar, M. Sasikumar
Rating59%
The voice of director Sasikumar to introduce the four mischievous guys Pandi, Mangaa, Kona, Maari, in his typical Madurai lingo who think they rule the 'Kadavur' village.