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Balakumaran V is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 5 july 1946
Balakumaran (born 5 July 1946) is a Tamil writer, author of over 150 novels, 100 short stories, and dialogue/screenplay writer for over 14 films. He has also contributed to Tamil periodicals such as Kalki, Ananda Vikatan and Kumudam.
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Vallavan (2006)
, 3h5Directed by Silambarasan
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Silambarasan, Nayantara, Reema Sen, Kaadhal Sandhya, Sathyan, Santhanam
Roles Psychiatrist (Cameo Appearance)
Rating49%
Vallavan (Silambarasan) is a happy-go-lucky college student with a set of friends. Bala (Santhanam) & Suji (Sandhya) are two of Vallavan's friends. When they're at the temple, he sees Swapna (Nayantara). He immediately falls in love with her.. While Vallavan’s at the college, Swapna shows up. She's revealed to be a teacher, who’s three years older than Vallavan. He decides to woo her by turning into Pallavan, an ugly duckling with buck teeth and glasses. Pallavan makes Swapna fall in love with him for his heart, even though he is ugly and they both eventually fall in love and make love. But when Swapna comes to know that Pallavan is younger than her (from one of Vallavan's enemies in school) and that too a student, she dumps him and decides to marry another guy. Meanwhile a sequence of events take place, much to the chagrin of Vallavan who is highly insulted by them. As Vallavan walks in the streets wondering how things could get so messy, he recalls his school life.
Kadhalan (1994)
, 2h46Directed by S. Shankar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Prabhu Deva, Nagma, Raghuvaran, Vadivelu, Girish Karnad, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Roles College Principal
Rating70%
Prabhu, the chairman of Chennai's Government Arts College, is asked by his Principal to invite the Governor of Tamil Nadu, Kakarlal Sathyanarayana Moorthy, to be the chief guest on the annual day of the college. When he goes to invite Kakarlal, he bumps into his daughter, Shruthi, instantly falling in love with her. To propose his love for her, he even joins in the same dance class as her. She too subsequently gets to know more about him and falls in love with him. Since there is considerable fear of terrorism in the state, Kakarlal does not permit his daughter to travel anywhere without bodyguards. On one occasion, she manages to give them the slip and runs away with Prabhu at a dance festival. Shortly after, there is the threat of a bomb being planted. Shruthi is immediately brought home and Prabhu is arrested. Shruthi is forbidden to see Prabhu. After being beaten severely, Prabhu is released from police custody and taken back home, tended by his police father Kathiresan. He then goes to meet Shruthi unaware of the changed circumstances. This is where he finds evidence that will lead him to a hideout of bomb specialist Mallikarjuna who is the mastermind of all the bomb blasts. Prabhu realizes that Mallikarjuna has been working for Kakarlal to kill innocent civilians with bombs. Kakarlal pays Mallikarjuna to put a bomb in Government General Hospital. Kakarlal betrays Mallikarjuna by killing him with a (bomb radio). Unfortunately, Mallikarjuna survives but he's wounded. Mallikarjuna changes the time, so the bomb can explode earlier. When Kakarlal shows up, he realizes that Mallikarjuna's still alive but Mallikarjuna disappears again. Prabhu and other people take the patients out of the Government General Hospital. Kakarlal, Kakarlal's wife, and Shruthi get stuck in an elevator. Prabhu finds the bomb and manages to get out of the hospital as soon as possible, so he can throw the bomb off the bridge into the water. The bomb explodes in the water. After Shruthi gets out of the elevator, a wounded Mallikarjuna breaks from the top and electrocutes Kakarlal to death. Mallikarjuna also dies because of blood loss. The film ends with the reunion of Prabhu and Shruthi. It's presumed that Prabhu and Shruthi got married.
Director
Idhu Namma Aalu (1988)
Directed by Balakumaran V
Genres Comedy
Actors Shobana, K. Bhagyaraj, J. V. Somayajulu, Aachi Manorama
Rating71%
Gopalsamy (K. Bhagyaraj) is a poor B.A graduate who travels to the city from his town to earn money and pay for his mother's eye operation, but he is unable to make ends meets, or even put food on the table. He meets a Brahmin priest who sells food by employing young boys whose identities he changes according to their target customers. The priest compels Gopal to change his identity, pretend to be a Brahman and sell food in the nearby agraharam. But Gopal does not want to do so, as he feels it is wrong to wear the sacred thread whilst being a non-Brahmin. In the end, though, his circumstances compel him to don the identity of a Brahman, and he sets off to perform Ganapati homam along with three other priests.
Munthanai Mudichu (1983)
, 2h30Directed by K. Bhagyaraj, Balakumaran V
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Urvashi, K. Bhagyaraj, Deepa Unnimary, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Sujitha, Kovai Sarala
Rating73%
Parimalam (Urvasi) is a mischievous nubile lady who perennially plays pranks on unsuspecting villagers, aided by her gang of preteen children. These often end her and the gang in the panchayat. A widower (K. Bhagyaraj) enters the village with his infant child (Sujitha) to take up the vacant teacher's post in the local school and is immediately pranked by Parimalam's gang upon his arrival. Parimalam's playful nature transforms into love when she learns that he's a widower. She tries many ways to win the teacher's heart, but fails every time. The teacher believes that a stepmother could not care for his child. As a desperate measure to attain him, Parimalam falsely accuses the teacher of molesting her. She even swears upon the teacher's child's life to prove her case at the panchayat. The teacher is then forced to marry her against his wishes. However, he vows never to touch Parimalam and to remain forever in celibacy. Parimalam relentlessly tries to seduce him by various methods. All her advances are ignored by the husband. Faced with the prospect of never attaining her husband's love, Parimalam decides to take the drastic measure of going through a tubal ligation procedure. With this she hopes that her husband will understand that she would never ill treat his son as a stepmother. Shocked upon hearing of Parimalam's decision, the husband rushes to the hospital to prevent her from undergoing the procedure. He reaches the hospital to find Parimalam unconscious on the bed and assumes she has already undergone treatment. However, the doctor assures him that she has not been operated as he found Parimalam to be a virgin and realized that she must have wanted the operation under duress. The story ends with the couple happily united and in the process of planning for another child.
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Pudhupettai (2006)
, 2h50Directed by Selvaraghavan
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Political films, Gangster films
Actors Dhanush, Sneha, Sonia Agarwal, Vijay Sethupathi, Bala Singh, Thennavan
Roles Dialogue
Rating84%
The story is set in the backdrop of the slums of Pudhupettai in Chennai, as the title suggests, where a high school kid Kokki Kumar (Dhanush) sees his mom dead after he comes back from watching a film. His father, the murderer is also planning to kill his son Kumar. Kumar sensing danger runs away from home. Homeless and with no food Kumar resorts to begging until he is falsely arrested while standing by and watching a commotion on the street. In jail he befriends handymen of a local goon who take Kumar with them and give him petty jobs to do. In a confrontation with goons of another gang Kumar kills the brother of his enemy gang's head Murthy thus earning the respect of his gang and making enemies for himself both within his gang and outside.
Vallavan (2006)
, 3h5Directed by Silambarasan
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Silambarasan, Nayantara, Reema Sen, Kaadhal Sandhya, Sathyan, Santhanam
Rating49%
Vallavan (Silambarasan) is a happy-go-lucky college student with a set of friends. Bala (Santhanam) & Suji (Sandhya) are two of Vallavan's friends. When they're at the temple, he sees Swapna (Nayantara). He immediately falls in love with her.. While Vallavan’s at the college, Swapna shows up. She's revealed to be a teacher, who’s three years older than Vallavan. He decides to woo her by turning into Pallavan, an ugly duckling with buck teeth and glasses. Pallavan makes Swapna fall in love with him for his heart, even though he is ugly and they both eventually fall in love and make love. But when Swapna comes to know that Pallavan is younger than her (from one of Vallavan's enemies in school) and that too a student, she dumps him and decides to marry another guy. Meanwhile a sequence of events take place, much to the chagrin of Vallavan who is highly insulted by them. As Vallavan walks in the streets wondering how things could get so messy, he recalls his school life.
Thotti Jaya (2005)
, 2h42Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Silambarasan, Gopika, Pradeep Rawat, Vincent Asokan, Cochin Haneefa, Linda Arsenio
Roles Dialogue
Rating60%
Jayachandran (Simbu) is an orphan working in a hotel as a helper. It is assumed he gets his title name "Thotti Jaya" as he is found in a garbage bin as an infant. One day he beats and fends off a man who gets into a squbble with the hotel owner. The following night the hotel owner rewards him with cash and dreads him the next morning. He realizes people only respect people they fear. So he walks out from the hotel and reaches chennai. He is spotted by Seena Thana (Pradeep Rawat) and hired as a hench man.In an incident, Jaya gets entangled in a political and police trap. To escape from police, Jaya slips to Calcutta and goes into hiding. Meanwhile, Brinda (Gopika), a college lass from Kanyakumari comes to Calcutta on a tour along with her friends. Pimps operating in the red light area of Calcutta take away Brinda. Jaya accidentally meets Brinda when she tries to escape from the gang. He helps Brinda escape from the gang and takes her safely to Kanyakumari. On her way back home by train, Brinda starts admiring Jaya's niceties and gradually falls in love with him. When she expresses her desire, Jaya reciprocates her love, and both decide to enter into wedlock but little does he know that Brindha is actually the daughter of Seena Thana. Jaya takes away Brinda from her house and thus, earns the wrath of Seena Thana. Angered by this, Seena Thana summons his rowdy gangs and plots to bump off Thotti Jaya. How Thottijaya accomplishes his hopes of marrying Brinda is told in the remaining part of the story.
Manmadhan (2004)
, 2h45Directed by Silambarasan
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Silambarasan, Jyothika, Goundamani, Sindhu Tolani, Mandira Bedi, Santhanam
Roles Dialogue
Rating71%
A violently depressed Madhan (Silambarasan) arrives at a hospital seeking psychiatric counselling. This proves to be a ruse, however, and he craftily seduces the psychiatrist (Mandira Bedi). Subsequently, he kills her.
Kadhal Sadugudu (2003)
, 2h27Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Vikram, Priyanka Upendra, Prakash Raj, Vivek, M. N. Nambiar, Rekha
Roles Dialogue
Rating55%
The film starts off by showing Chithambaram (Prakash Raj), and how he's an important man in the village. He is an adamant character who always sticks on to his decisions. When the temple festival starts, Kausalya (Priyanka) goes to her grandfather's house to celebrate. There she meets Suresh (Vikram) and they fall in love. Meanwhile, Chithambaram gets into many conflicts with Suresh, not even knowing who the other was. All the things that Suresh did were unintentional but Chithambaram doesn't realize this. Therefore, Chithambaram ends up with a very negative opinion of Suresh. When the day comes that everyone in Kausalya's grandfather's's home find out that Suresh and Kausalya are in love, they try to get Chithambaram (Kausalya's father) to agree to the wedding. He, however stubbornly sticks to his decision that the marriage should not take place.
Baba (2002)
, 2h58Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action
Actors Manisha Koirala, Rajinikanth, M. N. Nambiar, Ashish Vidyarthi, Goundamani, Vijayakumar
Roles Dialogue
Rating53%
The film opens with the birth of Baba (Rajinikanth), who is a 'baba amsa sambhootudu'. Baba grows up as an atheist, hot-blooded man but a Good Samaritan. His life style includes consuming alcohol, smoking substances, chewing tobacco. His mother (Sujatha) and his maternal uncle (M. N. Nambiar) are ardent devotees of Mahavatar Babaji (the Baba who is supposed to be of 2000 years old and who live in Himalayas). Chamundeswari (Manisha Koirala) stays in the neighborhood of Baba's residence who often quarrels with baba but eventually falls in love with his style and falls for his attitude.
Citizen (2001)
, 2h52Directed by Saravana Subbiah
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Ajith Kumar, Meena, Vasundhara Das, Nagma, Rajesh, Nizhalgal Ravi
Roles Dialogue
Rating71%
A district collector, a judge, and a police official are all kidnapped in broad daylight. The kidnapper cocking-a-snook at the establishment, calling himself 'Citizen' and appearing in different disguises to get at his targets. C.B.I. officer Sarojini (Nagma) finally traces the common factor among the kidnapped trio to the fictional hamlet of Athippatti, consisting of fishermen. But to her surprise both the village and its 690 odd inhabitants seemed to have been wiped away from the face of the official gazette maps. The diggings tell a story of a mass massacre that must have taken place about a couple of decades back. 'Citizen' is finally apprehended. He comes out with his story of the gory happenings at Athippatti and how he, as a little boy, had been the sole survivor of the nightmare that gripped the village that day from the map of India, twenty years back. The entire village was wiped off including women and children by the three kidnapped officials because of their greed for power and money. Ajith wants the citizenship of the three government officials revoked including their families as a punishment for their atrocities to the inhabitants of Athippatti.
Majunu (2001)
, 2h52Directed by V Ravichandaran
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Prashanth, Rinke Khanna, Raghuvaran, Sonu Sood, Vivek, Rati Agnihotri
Roles Dialogue
Rating53%
Vasanth (Prashanth) is a son of a wealthy MP Gajapathy (Raghuvaran) who hates love and against love marriage. Vasanth lives a fun-filled enjoyable life until he meets a girl (Rinke Khanna) while rushing to save a baby who is about to fall in a railway track while the girl also rushed for the same reason. He develops an attraction for that girl and again meets her in his college and knows her name to be Heena a Tamil speaking Bengali girl. Meanwhile, a trap is set for MP Gajapathy to kill him by explosion in a public gathering. Heena who is on an education trip to Chennai searches for some books in a book shop. Since the book is not available that day she has to come again to the shop and while leaving the shop some sound comes from her bag which she funnily mentions it to be a bomb which on explosion will destroy 20 km. The shop-keeper laughs on her fun. But the sound is actually the sound of watch alarm which she kept it inside.
Mugavari (2000)
, 2h36Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ajith Kumar, Jyothika, Raghuvaran, K. Viswanath, S. Manivannan, Vivek
Roles Dialogue
Rating71%
Sridhar (Ajith Kumar) has been trying to become a music director for eight years. In spite of having earned an M.A., his only dream is to become a music director (he even calls the eight-year wait a "penance"). His family, consisting of his father (K. Vishwanath), his brother Shiva (Raghuvaran), his sister-in-law Shantha (Sitara) and his sister (Preitha Raghav), is fully supportive of him. He runs into Viji (Jyothika) and their friendship soon blossoms into love. She helps him get a foot in the door in the industry but bad luck spoils his chances.
Jeans (1998)
Directed by S. Shankar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Prashanth, Aishwarya Rai, Nassar, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Lakshmi Narayan, Raju Sundaram
Roles Dialogue
Rating63%
Nachiappan (Nassar) is a restaurateur in Los Angeles, USA. His twin sons Vishwanathan (Visu) and Ramamoorthy (Ramu) (both played by Prashanth), are medical students, who help him out in the evenings and alongside with the restaurant's chief cook, Juno (Senthil) who enjoys on weekends.One evening, Vishwanathan goes to the airport to check on the family's supply concession and sees that some fellow Indians – Madhumitha (Aishwarya Rai), her brother Madhesh (Raju Sundaram) and their grandmother Krishnaveny (Lakshmi) – have difficulty with an address. He pitches in to help and learns that they just flew in from India so that Krishnaveny can undergo a crucial surgery to remove her brain tumour.
Velai (1998)
Genres Drama
Actors Vignesh, Indraja, Nassar, Vadivukkarasi, Charle, Charuhasan
Roles Dialogue
Rating22%