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Ramasamy Subramania Manohar is a Actor and Editor Indian born on 29 june 1925 at Namakkal (Inde)

Ramasamy Subramania Manohar

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Birth name Lakshmi Narashiman
Nationality Inde
Birth 29 june 1925 at Namakkal (Inde)
Death 10 january 2006 (at 80 years) at Chennai (Inde)

R. S. Manohar was a popular actor of yesteryear who performed roles ranging from hero, villain to comedic characters. He was born at Namakkal in 1925. He acted in over 200 films. He is known for his versatility and dominating personality. He is also known as Nadaga Kavalar for his love for stage plays and his undeterred passion in continuing to put mythological stage plays almost his entire life.

Biography

Ramasamy Subramania Manohar was born on 29 June 1925 at Namakkal as Lakshmi Narashiman to Subramania Iyer and Rajalakshmi Ammal. He got the name Manohar after playing the lead role in the play Manohara during school days. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai.

While in college, Manohar used to perform stage plays. After graduation, he joined films. His first effort was 'Rajamabal,' produced by Aruna Films. His early memorable roles were in films such as 'Vannakkili,' 'Kaidhi Kannayiram,' 'Vallavanukku Vallavan,' 'Vallavan Oruvan' and 'Iru Vallavargal.'

But Manohar will always be remembered for the 'bad guy' roles, especially while facing off with M.G. Ramachandran in films such as 'Ayirathil Oruvan,' 'Ulagam Suttrum Valliban,' 'Pallandu Vazhga,' 'Adimai Penn,' 'Kaavalkaaran' and 'Idayakkani.'

Manohar will also be remembered for his immense contribution to the stage. After Nawab Rajamanikkam, it was Manohar who took theatre to a higher plane. Most of the 31 plays in which he acted - these were staged 7,950 times - were adaptations or interpretations of historical incidents or mythological stories.

Famous among Manohar's plays were 'Ilangeswaran,' 'Chanakkiya Sabadam,' 'Soorapadman,' 'Sisupalan,' 'Indrajith,' 'Sukrachariyar,' 'Naragasooran' and 'Thirunavukkarasar.'

He was a pioneer in introducing 'dramascope' with stereophonic sound system, split second transformation of scenes and pyrotechniques to represent battle scenes.

He received many awards for his contribution to drama and cinema, including a 'Nadaka Kavalar' award from MGR in 1970.

Usually with

M.S.Viswanathan
M.S.Viswanathan
(25 films)
Nagesh
Nagesh
(22 films)
S. A. Ashokan
S. A. Ashokan
(20 films)
Sivaji Ganesan
Sivaji Ganesan
(20 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ramasamy Subramania Manohar (73 films)

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Thai Veedu
Thai Veedu (1983)

Directed by Thiagarajan Sivanandam
Genres Drama
Actors Rajinikanth, M. N. Nambiar, Vijayakumar, Jaishankar, Silk Smitha, Sundarrajan
Rating66% 3.348543.348543.348543.348543.34854
Rajasekaran (Major Sundarrajan) is a rich man who is in possession of an antique sword that holds the key to a treasure. Nagalingam (Thengai Srinivasan), a criminal, makes several unsuccessful attempts to steal the sword from Rajasekaran. On one such attempts Anand (Jaishankar) saves Rajasekaran and becomes his trusted guy to protect the sword. Raju(Rajnikanth), an orphan who is being raised by an alcoholic, ex-thief Rajasingam (M.N Nambiar), is an expert in boosting cars and Anita (##Anita Raj) is his love interest. Several years back Rajasingam had stolen a car owned by Nagalingam with a child inside without knowing that the car and the child (Raju) actually belonged to Rajasekaran. One day Rajasingam spots Nagalingam in a shopping complex and believing that Raju is the son of Nagalingam, he hands Raju to him as his own son. Nagalingam deceitfully accepts Raju as his son and cleverly employs him to steal the sword from Rajasekaran, his real father. While Raju attempts to steal the sword, Anand keeps thwarting him. Despite Anand's efforts Raju manages to loot the sword but then discovers that he's actually the son of Rajasekaran and he himself had been instrumental in stealing his own family treasure for the wrong men. With the help of Anand, Raju fights with Nagalingam's gang to successfully retrieve their family treasure and reunites with his family.
Theeb
Theeb (1981)

Genres Drama, Action
Actors Rajinikanth, Aachi Manorama, Suman, Sripriya, Shobha, Sowcar Janaki
Rating66% 3.329623.329623.329623.329623.32962
The movie tells the story of two brothers, Raja and Ravi, who follow different career paths: Raja is a smuggler and Ravi the policeman who is asked to hunt Raja down. Raja (Rajinikanth) and Ravi (Suman) are the sons of a trade unionist (AVM Rajan), who was defeated and disgraced by the management of his firm using his family as bait.
Billa
Billa (1980)
, 2h55
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Rajinikanth, Sripriya, Reena Roy, Sundarrajan, Ramasamy Subramania Manohar, Aachi Manorama
Roles Ranjith
Rating74% 3.7374953.7374953.7374953.7374953.737495
Billa (Rajinikanth) is a powerful mafia lord, who in spite of being one of the most wanted on the list of Interpol, remains elusive to the police. Along with the police, he makes a few other enemies through his merciless approach in running his organisation, especially when he kills one of his own men, Rajesh, when Rajesh decides to leave the business. This introduces Billa to two new enemies, Kamini (Helen), Rajesh’s fiancee, and Priya, (Sripriya) Rajesh’s sister. When Kamini seduces Billa and attempts to have the police arrest him, her plan backfires as Billa outsmarts her and escapes, and in the process Kamini was killed.