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Poornam Vishwanathan is a Actor Indian born on 4 july 1921
Poornam Viswanathan (Tamil: பூர்ணம் விஸ்வநாதன்) (1921–2008) was a theater artist and film actor in the Tamil film industry. He started performing on stage at age 18. He worked as a reader for All India Radio deemed it a matter of great pride to have announced the news of India, obtaining independence in the first news bulletin broadcast on 15 August 1947. He acted in movies such as Chithram, Varusham 16, Thillu Mullu, Keladi Kanmani, Moondram Pirai, Aasai, Mahanadi and Varumaiyin Niram Sivappu. He has a son and two daughters. Viswanathan died on 1 October 2008.
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Thamizhan (2002)
, 2h42Genres Drama, Action
Actors Vijay, Priyanka Chopra, Nassar, Revathi, Vivek, Ashish Vidyarthi
Rating52%
Surya (Vijay) is a lawyer with right values, who tries to redress things the legal way. He falls in love with Priya (Chopra). His brother-in-law Shakthivel (Nassar), also an upright lawyer, is killed in the process of upholding justice. Surya's sister (Revathy) also meets a pitiful end at the hands of criminals. But Surya refuses to give up. His mission is to make the layman understand his legal rights .
Aasai (1995)
, 2h25Directed by Vasanth
Genres Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Ajith Kumar, Suvalakshmi, Prakash Raj, Rohini, Poornam Vishwanathan, Nizhalgal Ravi
Roles father of Ganga and Yamuna
Rating74%
Saraswathi "Yamuna" (Suvalakshmi), one of the two daughters of an orthodox father, comes to Madras for finishing her studies. Major Madhavan (Prakashraj) is the husband of Yamuna's elder sister Ganga (Rohini), who infatuates about Yamuna after seeing a photo in a letter sent by Yamuna. Meanwhile, Yamuna meets Jeevanantham (Ajithkumar), in a city bus who gives his ticket to her as she had not taken her own. Later one day on the advice of his friends, Jeeva decides to express his love to Yamuna by writing 1 4 3(the number of letters in “I love you") in a letter and giving it to her. But he witnesses a group beating a boy who did the same thing. So he crumples the letter and it is found by Yamuna who realizes his love. One day when they were walking together Jeeva tries to remove the dirt from Yamuna's eyes and he kisses her. Yamuna is angry with him. Jeeva senses it and gets wet in the rain and gets a cold. Hearing this Yamuna meets him. Jeeva expresses that she is the only medicine to him and he needs her. Yamuna promises that she will marry him. On Yamuna's birthday, Jeeva jumps into her house and presents her a puppy. One day, fearing that Yamuna's father might not marry him to Yamuna, he decides to marry her in a register office on the advice of his friends. But Yamuna refuses and Jeeva leaves angrily.
Pingami (1994)
, 2h40Directed by Sathyan Anthikad
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Mohanlal, Kanaka, Thilakan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Sukumaran, Janardhanan
Roles Varma
Rating73%
Kumaran (Thilakan) is a social worker. Captain Vijay (Mohanlal) is an army captain who is on his annual leave and has come to stay with his maternal uncle who raised him and his sister after the untimely death of their parents. In a turn of events Vijay sees Kumaran injured from an accident and crying for help. He takes Kumaran to a hospital but could not save his life. There develops a strong bond between Kumaran and Vijay which pulls him into finding out the accident was a preplanned murder.
Mahanadhi (1994)
Directed by Santhana Bharathi
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution
Actors Kamal Haasan, Sukanya, Cochin Haneefa, Sennalkudi Narayana Thevar Lakshmi, Poornam Vishwanathan, Sangita
Roles Panjapakesan Iyer
Rating85%
Krishnaswamy (Kamal Hassan) is a widower living happily along with his mother-in-law Saraswathi (S. N. Lakshmi), daughter Kaveri (Mahanadi Shobana) and son Bharani (Mahanadhi Dinesh) in a village near Trichy. Dhanush (Cochin Haneefa); a con from the city has an eye on Krishnaswamy's prosperity and asks him to join his chit fund business. At first Krishnaswamy is reluctant; however when a rich friend from a foreign country visits house, he too wants to be rich like them. Hence he agrees to Dhanush's proposal and arrives at the city. However, he is unaware of Dhanush's tricks and when Dhanush swindles away the chitfund money, the blame is put on Krishnaswamy. and he lands up in jail. He finds that even his future father-in-law Panjapakesan (Poornam Viswanathan) is also in jail for same reason whose daughter is Yamuna (Sukanya) working as nurse. He advises Krishnaswamy not to be angry if the jailor is cruel; as he might be released sooner if he is submissive in the jail. During Krishnaswamy's tenure in jail, Yamuna takes care of his family. Due to unavoidable situations, his mother-in-law dies and his son and daughter go missing. Krishnaswamy learns this after coming out from the jail suffering unnecessary hardships.
Manasu Rendum Pudhusu (1993)
, 2h5Actors Jayaram, Kushboo Sundar, V K Ramasamy, R. Sundarrajan, Poornam Vishwanathan, Vinu Chakravarthy
Roles Narayanan Iyer
Thomas (Jayaram) and Lakshmi (Kushboo), both teachers, are a newly and happily married couple. They got married without their families' consent. Lakshmi finally gets pregnant, the news reach their respective family. What transpires next forms the rest of the story.
Meera (1992)
, 2h22Directed by P. C. Sreeram
Genres Romance
Actors Vikram, Aishwarya, Tarun Kumar, R. Sarathkumar, Janagaraj, Chinni Jayanth
Roles Meera's father
Rating70%
Meera is in a college and pregnant nearing labour. Here Meera tells her story of how she got to this point in a flashback.
Sugamana Sumaigal (1992)
, 2h20Directed by Radhakrishnan Parthiban
Actors Vijayakumar, Radhakrishnan Parthiban, Radha Ravi, Sudha Rani, Sridevi Vijaykumar, Renuka
Murthy (R. Parthiepan), a young man, had to work hard for his big family. A LIC agent (Shali) falls in love with him. The rest of the story is how he helped his family from the misery.
Avan Ananthapadmanabhan (1992)
Actors M. G. Soman, Sukumari, Maathu (Madhavi), Raghavan, Rajan P. Dev, Kamala Kamesh
Gopura Vasalile (1991)
Directed by Priyadarshan
Actors Karthik, Bhanupriya, Nassar, Suchitra Murali, Charle, Janagaraj
Rating70%
Karthik is a schoolteacher in a local town. He is a bachelor living along with his friends, Nassar, Junior Balaiya and Charlie. Karthik has had a troubled love-life, having lost his lover, Suchitra in a car accident. His friends are wastrels who roam about the town, flirting with the local girls. During one such dalliance with an army officer, VK Ramaswamy's daughter, Bhanupriya, they are put behind the bars for a few days. Karthik also gets peeved with their behaviour and reprimands them for their uncouth behaviour.
Nee Pathi Naan Pathi (1991)
Directed by Vasanth
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rashin Rahman, Gautami, Heera, Jaishankar, Sreevidya, Janagaraj
Pudhu Manithan (1991)
, 2h20Directed by S. Manivannan
Actors Sathyaraj, Bhanupriya, R. Sarathkumar, Manorama, Goundamani, Ponnambalam
Rating26%
Kabali (Sathyaraj), an orphan, lives in a slum with an old Brahmin woman named Pangajam (Manorama) and he considers her like his mother. Kabali is a fisherman and also the slum's rowdy but he has a heart of gold. He has gone in jail many times only because he fought against injustice.
Keladi Kanmani (1990)
, 2h27Directed by Vasanth
Genres Drama
Actors S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Geetha, Janagaraj, Ramesh Aravind, Anju
Rating72%
The film opens with a bus carrying a group of college students for a trip. Among the students are Anu (Anju) and her girlfriends. The bus is stopped by some masked bandits. They forcibly enter the bus and demand that Anu should kiss their leader Sashi (Ramesh Arvind); otherwise, they will kill everyone on board. This is subsequently revealed to be a ruse: Sashi is in fact a fellow college student trying to win Anju's affection.
Raja Kaiya Vacha (1990)
, 2h25Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Drama
Actors Prabhu, Gautami, R. Sarathkumar, Revathi, Nagesh, Poornam Vishwanathan
Roles the company chairman
Rating60%
Raja (Prabhu) is a thief who falls in love with Vijaya (Gouthami). First, she thinks that he was a police officer, she asks him to find lost stuffs and he steals to fulfill her wishes. One day, the police arrests him front of Vijaya and he's sent to jail, he's welcome like a king in jail. Vijaya leaves the town with her father. When, he's released, he decides to find Vijaya.
Vedikkai En Vadikkai (1990)
Directed by Visu
Genres Comedy
Actors S. V. Sekhar, Rekha, Aachi Manorama, Delhi Ganesh, Pallavi, Sreevidya
Rating65%