V. S. Raghavan

V.S. Raghavan (18 February 1925 – 24 January 2015) was a Tamil actor, who has acted both in Tamil films as well as television, had started his career as a dramatist and stage actor and went on to act as a character actor in films, starting with Vairamali (1954) and over 1000 films in all. He has also acted in numerous television series. He died on 24 January 2015.

Early life and education

Born in Vembakkam village, near Kanchipuram,where he spent early part of his childhood, later for three years he lived in Mylapore neighborhood of Chennai, and studied at the P. S. High School. Subsequently he studied at St. Columbus Higher Secondary School, Chengalpattu, followed by two years in Madras Christian College, Chennai. However, as he finished his school the death of his father prompted his mother to shift from native village to move to Vellala Street in Purasawalkam, Chennai where his elder sister lived.

Career

V.S. Raghavan started his career in 1942, as a sub-editor for Malathi magazine run by humourist Thumilan (N. Ramaswamy), and after it closed he joined a printing press. At the press a group of fellow employees used to do amateur stage plays, which led him to act in some plays including some Hindi plays. Earlier, he had acted in YMIA Fine Arts' theatre group's play Vairamalai, written by Thottakara Viswanathan, staged at the YMCA, and when the production adapted the stage play into a film, he played the same role in it, thus made his film debut in 1954. In the same year, he made his debut as a dramatist and started the Indian National Artists (INA) with four other friends like Malli, Vadiraj, Nataraj and K. Balachander. The INA staged plays at reputed Sabhas in Chennai.

V. S. Raghavan (director)

V.S. Raghavan was a film director in the 1950s and 1960s who primarily directed Tamil movies. His full name was V. Srinivasa Raghavan, often simply credited as "V.S. Raghavan". He should not be confused with actor V. S. Raghavan.

Director V.S. Raghavan had directed films like Kalvanin Kadhali (1955), Sarangadhara (1958), Manimegalai, Chandrika (1950 - Malayalam).

He was also a very proficient sound engineer. He owned the erstwhile Revathi Studios in Kodambakkam, Chennai. V. Srinivasa Raghavan was very famous among the sound engineer in Indian film industry.He is the first person to do dubbing movie and also only person to have dubbing theatre.His wife lux R.Padma was famous actress.He was the first sound engineer in south India

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