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Paravai Muniyamma is a Actor and Playback Singer Indian born on 26 june 1937
Paravai Muniyamma (born 1943) is a Tamil folk singer and actress who prominently plays supporting roles. Appearing in many Tamil films, she has also sung playback in films as well as having her own cook show on Kalaignar TV.
Muniyamma's career started off with a role in Dhool, which garnered her a cult status. Since then she has appeared in over fifty films, usually playing grandmother roles.
The lady has completed 2,000 stage performances on folk songs, which also includes shows in London, Singapore and Malaysia.
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Muniyamma's career started off with a role in Dhool, which garnered her a cult status. Since then she has appeared in over fifty films, usually playing grandmother roles.
The lady has completed 2,000 stage performances on folk songs, which also includes shows in London, Singapore and Malaysia.
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Mappilai Vinayagar (2015)
Actors Rashmi Gautam, Lollu Sabha Jeeva, Yami Gautam, Santhanam, K. Bhagyaraj, Pandiarajan
Savaale Samaali (2015)
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Ashok Selvan, Bindu Madhavi, Nassar, M. S. Bhaskar, Aishwarya, Karunas Sethu
Roles Karthik's grandmother
Rating50%
Oru Second Class Yathra (2015)
, 1h40Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Vineeth Sreenivasan, Nikki Galrani, Chemban Vinod Jose, Nedumudi Venu, Joju George, Sreejith Ravi
Roles Balu's step-mother
Rating53%
Police constables Balagopal (Sreejith Ravi) and Jolly Kurien (Joju George) have been at odds for years but are under orders to transfer two prisoners from Kannur to Trivandrum. They board the Parasuram express with the handcuffed inmates. While at the Kayamkulam station, prisoner Nandu (Vineeth Sreenivasan) escapes. The two officers get off the train at the next stop with second inmate Maran (Chemban Vinod Jose) and frantically searches for Nandu. The three unlikely musketeers finds the back-story of Nandu. Nandu's father, Narayanan (Nedumudi Venu) always have a wrongful intention to his step-sister, Lakshmi (Nikki Galrani). Nandu, one day determines to kill his father for the same, but the trap he set accidentally killed his mother. He was arrested for his mother's murder. One day his Narayanan comes to visit him at jail and reveals his true intentions for his step-sister. Nandu determines to escape at any possible opportunities. The three musketeers finds Nandu while roughing with Narayanan, both with the intention to kill. Accidentally Jolly Kurien kills Nandu's father. With knowing Narayanan's story, Maran devises a plan to not let the issue known to others, to which everyone agrees. Narayanan's body is buried in a nearby church cemetery at that night itself. In the end of the day everyone is shown as happy in their karmic lives.
Veeram (2014)
, 2h35Directed by Siva
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Ajith Kumar, Tamannaah Bhatia, Santhanam, Bala, Abhinaya, Vidharth
Rating64%
Vinayagam (Ajith) is a brave person living in a village called Oddanchatram, who lives with his four brothers Murugan (Bala), Shanmugam (Vidharth), Kumaran (Suhail) and Senthil (Munish). The elder brother loves the younger ones to the core, and sacrifices his happiness for their good. They are often caught in fights and they are proud of it. Advocate Bail Perumal (Santhanam), who bails them out whenever legal issues arise because of their brawls. Vinayagam hates the idea of marriage as he feels that his wife might create disharmony among brothers. Though the four younger brothers say that they don't want to either fall in love or get married, when Vinayagam is not around, they all have their secret lovers. Now, in order to get the green light for their love stories, they learn through his brother's childhood friend Collector Subbu (Ramesh Kanna) that Vinayakam, in school, was in love with a girl named Koppuram Devi (fondly called Kopu) and his brothers hatch a plan to find her and reintroduce her to Vinayakam, so he can fall for her all over again. But she's married now and has kids. So the brothers conspire to do the most logical thing, which is to find another woman named Koppuram Devi (fondly called Kopu), because, you see, Vinayakam was not in love with that girl so much as her name, and when he meets another (completely random) girl with that name, he is sure to lose his heart to her, just because she bears that name. Though initially reluctant later Vinayakam himself falls in love with her. He clashes with a goon called Vanangamudi (Pradeep Rawat) to take care of market in the village. Vanangamudi tries to kill Vinayagam's brothers while Vinayagam kidnaps Vanangamudi's son (Amit Kumar Tiwari) after clashing, Vinayagam orders Vanangamudi to leave this village.
Kasethan Kadavulada (2011)
Genres Comedy
Actors Kamna Jethmalani, Karunas Sethu, Pandiarajan, Sathyan, Sathyan, Divya Padmini
Venghai (2011)
, 2h35Directed by Hari
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Dhanush, Tamannaah Bhatia, Rajkiran, Prakash Raj, Ganja Karuppu, Livingston
Roles Veera Pandi's house cook
Rating50%
Veera Pandi (Raj Kiran), landlord who is also the most respected person in Pandiapuram, a hamlet near Sivaganga. He is a do-gooder who commands respect from all and is feared the most by his enemies. Selvam (Dhanush) is his loyal son, who always does the right things at the right time and sees his father as his role model. Rajalingam (Prakash Raj), the local MLA, who has risen to his position mostly because of the influence enjoyed by Veera Pandi in the region. Rajalingam doesn't share the good motives of Veera Pandi. He has come into politics to enjoy power and earn lot of money. Veera Pandi tries to influence him, but the MLA has no intention to listen to him. At the same time, he cannot afford to ignore Veera Pandi. Meanwhile,Veera Pandi, who has many enemies because of his strictness, wants to protect his son from them. So he sends him to his uncle who lives in Trichy.
Bale Pandiya (2010)
, 2h20Directed by Siddharth Chandrasekhar
Genres Comedy
Actors Vishnu Vishal, Piaa Bajpai, Pradeep Rawat, Aarthi, Vivek, John Vijay
Roles Guest Appearance in "Happy" Song
Rating57%
AKP (R Amarendran) and his two sidekicks (one of which is a driver that does a full 360 degrees flip from the car window and opens the door allowing AKP to exit from the passenger seat) arrive at a club. The group walks in to the club and AKP and his two sidekicks start showing their power before reaching their table. A finger with a ring is placed on the table/
Magane En Marumagane (2010)
Directed by T. P. Gajendran
Actors Mithun Tejasvi, Vivek, Nassar, Saranya, Paravai Muniyamma, Livingston
Roles Paati
Nasser the ‘Jameendar’ of a village on the foothills of Palani temple is living happily with his wife (Saranya). The couple is liberal and spent all their money on the villagers. Enter Singapetti Singaram (Vivek) a con and a good-for-nothing guy and his Paati (Parvai Muniamma).
Pokkiri Raja (2010)
, 2h16Directed by Vysakh
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Mammootty, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shriya Saran, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Nedumudi Venu, Siddique
Rating51%
The film revolves around Madhavan Nair (Nedumudi Venu) who unknowingly kills a teenager and his eldest son, Raja, takes the blame and is sentenced to jail for five years. After returning from jail, his father refuses to accept him still with no knowledge that his son was innocent,and so Raja moves to Madurai and there he rescues the life of the son of Maniannai, the village land lord and then Raja turns his right hand and he is named as Madurai Raja. Years later, he started being known as Pokkiri Raja (Mammootty).
Thamizh Padam (2010)
, 2hDirected by C. S. Amudhan
Genres Comedy
Actors Shiva, Disha Pandey, Paravai Muniyamma, M. S. Bhaskar, Venniradai Moorthy, Manobala
Roles Shiva's Grandmother/D
Rating73%
The story opens in a village where male infanticide is predominant, and all male babies are required to be killed immediately after birth. One such baby is headed for such a fate, until he "speaks" to his caretaker-grandmother (Paravai Muniyamma) and asks to be sent to Chennai on a goods train, where he plans to grow into a hero. The old woman complies, and takes the baby to Chennai and raises him herself, living in the city's poorer section.
Thoranai (2009)
, 2h28Genres Drama, Action
Actors Vishal, Shriya Saran, Prakash Raj, Kishore, Kishore Kumar, Pandiarajan
Roles Pachamma Patti
Rating40%
Guru (Kishore) and Thamizharasu (Prakashraj) are dreaded gangsters in Chennai. They are against pitted each other and fight to establish their supremacy in city. They indulge in gang war painting Chennai red. Enters Murugan (Vishal). A native of Madurai, he comes to Chennai with a mission. He leaves his village promising his mother (Geetha) that he would return only with his brother, who had run away from the house about two decades ago.
Rajadhi Raja (2009)
Actors Raghava Lawrence, Kamna Jethmalani, Kiran Rathod, Mumtaj, Meenakshi, Neelima Rani
Rating18%
Raja (Raghava Lawrence), a native of Coutrallam, is a happy-go-lucky-youngster. Tragedy strike his life when his father loses his hand when a doctor in an inebriated condition operates on him. As expected his father is gagged by cops and lawyers. They assault him. In his death bed, his father gets a promise that he would make his three brothers into a cop, lawyer and doctor. Though Raja realises his mission, he falls for his own acts. The trio (who become doctor, policeman and a lawyer) gang up with a baddie Shyla (Mumtaj), a gangster, who rises to become a Minister. It is up to Raja to end their atrocities and teach them a lesson. In between, Raja comes across young women (Snigdha, Kamna Jethmalani and Meenakshi) and sings foot-tapping romantic duets with kamna a nurse whose dress changing and nudity is captured by his doctor brother and he helps her.Shyla dislikes Raja as he had attacked her earlier.Shyla had shared her bed earlier to many for her position now.
Poo (2008)
Directed by Sasi
Actors Srikanth, Parvathy, Inico Prabhakar, Paravai Muniyamma, Periya Karuppu Thevar
The film is set in a fictional village, located somewhere between Rajapalayam and Sivakasi in southern Tamil Nadu. It entails two different dreams of two different people for one person. The main aspects of this film are of the selfless, deep love and admiration that Maari (Parvathi) develops for her cousin Thangarasu (Srikanth) and the love and expectations of a poor, hardworking father (Ram) to his son (Thangarasu).
Sandai (2008)
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Sundar C., Nadhiya, Namitha, Ramya Raj, Mithun Tejasvi, Vivek
Roles Kathirvel's Grandmother
Rating58%
Thangalakshmi (Nadhiya) is a rich business woman living in Bangkok who has planned to marry her daughter off Abhi (Ramya Raj) to another rich man's son. But she wishes to conduct the marriage in the place where she born.
Poo (2008)
Directed by Sasi
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Srikanth, Parvathy, Paravai Muniyamma
Rating74%
The film is set in a fictional village, located somewhere between Rajapalayam and Sivakasi in southern Tamil Nadu. It entails two different dreams of two different people for one person. The main aspects of this film are of the selfless, deep love and admiration that Maari (Parvathi Menon) develops for her cousin Thangarasu (Srikanth) and the love and expectations of a poor, hardworking father (Ram) to his son Thangarasu.