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Nagesh (born Nageswaran C. Krishna Gundu Rao; 27 September 1933 – 31 January 2009), was a Tamil film actor, mostly remembered for his roles as a comedian during the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the most prolific comedians in Tamil cinema.
Nagesh was born in a Kannada family from Dharapuram, Erode. He was educated in Madras and worked as a clerk in the Indian Railways before entering Tamil film industry. He acted in over 1,000 Indian films from 1958 to 2008, performing in variety of roles as comedian, lead roles, supporting actor and antagonist. He died on 31 January 2009.
In a stark contrast to the comic roles he performed, Nagesh's personal life was wrought with suffering. After losing his father at an early age, Nagesh had to endure a weak financial situation and family ostracism which plagued him throughout his life. The film Server Sundaram, a rags to riches story in which Nagesh plays the lead role, is believed to be roughly based on the real life story of the actor.
Despite being primarily a comedian, Nagesh was rated highly as a character actor by his peers. Nagesh's style of comedy was largely inspired by Hollywood actor Jerry Lewis. Similarities between Nagesh and Lewis earned Nagesh the sobriquet "Jerry Lewis of India".
Actors: Neha Dhupia (actress), Saurabh Shukla (director), Saurabh Shukla (writer), Saurabh Shukla (actor), Rajat Kapoor (actor), Sanjay Mishra (actor), Sanjay Mishra (actor), Vinay Pathak (actor), Saurabh Shukla (producer), Naseeruddin Shah (actor), Brijendra Kala (actor), Anand Abhyankar (actor), Sai Gundewar (actor), Sankalp Meshram (editor), Veena Mehta (actress),
Plot: The cultural clash between traditional-orthodox-India and modern-urban-India. The collision of two cultures creates havoc in the beginning but finds a peaceful co-existence, at the end. An orthodox boy from the holy city of Banaras, is forced to stay with a chorus dancer in Bombay... The film does the journey of these two opposite personalities and how, after the initial phase of rejection, they find each others place in their respective lives.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Brahmanandam (actor), Tabu (actress), Ram Gopal Varma (producer), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), Nagendra Babu (actor), Subbaraju (actor), Ravi Teja (actor), Kona Venkat (writer), Jyothika (actress), Ravi Kale (actor), Vajja Venkata Giridhar (actor), Bhanodaya (editor), Harish Shankar (writer), Ajay (composer), Harish Shankar (director),
Genres: Action,Actors: Rana Jung Bahadur (actor), Guddi Maruti (actress), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Sadashiv Amrapurkar (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Mushtaq Khan (actor), Raza Murad (actor), Aashif Sheikh (actor), Goga Kapoor (actor), Kunika (actress), Dilip Sen (composer),
Plot: Vijay lives with his mother, attends college and is in love with beautiful Anita Malik, a fellow collegian who he would like to marry. When Anita is molested by Nagesh, Vijay intervenes, thus incurring the wrath of Nagesh's gangster father, Bhujang, who wants to do away with Vijay, who is now afraid as to what is going to happen to him and his mother. Bhujang hires a hit-man named Jagga to put an end to Vijay's life, but Vijay, though wounded and hospitalized, survives. And then Jagga is hunted down and killed, and Bhujang is warned not to even think of harming Vijay, for Vijay and his mother have an unknown protector, an ominous and deadly person, known as "The Don", and no one knows why the Don has chosen to protect Vijay and his mother.
Genres: ,Actors: Sunil Dhawan (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Saroj Khan (miscellaneous crew), Bharat Bhushan (actor), Birbal (actor), Shiva Rindani (actor), Asha Sharma (actress), Vikas Anand (actor), Rana Jung Bahadur (actor), Moolchand (actor), Mushtaq Merchant (actor), Master Rinku (actor), H.L. Pardesi (actor), Habiba Rehman (miscellaneous crew), Imtiaz Khan (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: K. Bapaiah (director), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer), Asrani (actor), Manik Irani (actor), Jagdeep (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Viju Khote (actor), Suresh Oberoi (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Satish Shah (actor), Dalip Tahil (actor), Shoma Anand (actress), Bindu (actress),
Plot: Police Inspector Ram takes over charge of a police station in a crime-laden region of Bombay. He finds that whenever he attempts to arrest anyone, a gangster named Nagesh always intervenes and arranges their release. He confers with some havaldars about this issue, and they inform him that Nagesh has political influence and no one dares to oppose him. The only one who can dare to stand up to Nagesh is an elusive man called Vishal. On the other hand is Usha, Nagesh's sister, who has fallen in love with a middle-class fellow collegian named Raju. When Nagesh finds out he has Raju severely beaten up and left for dead, and asks his sister never to see Raju again. Raju survives and both he and his mother approach Vishal for justice. What is Vishal's background? Why does he dare to stand up against Nagesh when no one else can?
Genres: ,Actors: Yash Chopra (director), Vikas Anand (actor), Avtar Gill (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Anil Kapoor (actor), Annu Kapoor (actor), Dilip Kumar (actor), Javed Akhtar (writer), Javed Akhtar (writer), Mohan Agashe (actor), Alok Nath (actor), Nilu Phule (actor), Amrish Puri (actor),
Plot: After being dismissed from his employment as a newspaper editor, for writing against S.K. Vardhan, a influential politician and underworld don, Vinod Kumar, re-locates to the slums of Bombay, and starts his own publication. He soon runs into problems with the local street-gangs, one of which is headed by the notorious Raja. Vinod adopts a positive approach, and this brings out the best in Raja, who even manages to take Vinod's wife, Sudha, to hospital, risking his life, during a Bombay Bandh. Raja then decides to go straight, give up his gang, and study further, encouraged by girlfriend, Geeta. He leaves the slums to upgrade. Several months later, he returns back, anxious to get working with Vinod and his publication, only to find that Vinod is now a criminal don, who has no interest whatsoever in any publication, nor in Raja.
Genres: Drama, Family,Actors: Madhavi (actress), Kamal Hassan (actor), K. Balachander (director), Nagesh (actor), Prathap K. Pothan (actor), Rajnikanth (actor), Rajnikanth (actor), Showkar Janaki (actress), K. Balachander (writer), Vijaya Y. (actress), Visu (writer), Visu (actor), Thengai Srinivasan (actor), Poornam Vishwanathan (actor), Gundu Kalyanam (actor),
Plot: Ayyampettai Arivudainambi Kaliyaperumal Chandran is a hip graduate who gets a job through his family doctor. The employer, Sri Ramachandramurthy has some frivolous notions about character, moustache, patriotism, thrift, recreation, etc. Chandran changes himself as a Nehru-jacket wearing, boring person, with no interests other than studies. His plan goes for a toss when he lies about his (dead) mother's accident to watch a hockey match. Unknown to him, his boss finds him having a fiesta in the stadium. To avoid losing his job, he creates a fictional wild and westernized twin Ayyampettai Arivudainambi Kaliyaperumal Indran by removing his moustache on the advice of his actor friend Nagesh and becomes the music teacher for his equally wild daughter. Confusion and complications ensue when he has to recruit a small-time actress as his mother, and a kid who knows the proceedings starts blackmailing him.
Keywords: comedy-of-errors, dual-role, employer-employee-relationship, fake-moustache, football-match, identical-twins, idiosyncratic-character, job-interview, mistaken-identity, mustache