The best V. Gopalakrishnan’s movies

V. Gopalakrishnan

V. Gopalakrishnan

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Periya Marudhu

Periya Marudhu
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/11/1994
Periya Marudhu remains a loyal henchman to Sivasankaran attracting the villagers' ire. However, his life changes when Kaveri comes to stay with him, and he falls in love with her.

Sankarlal

Sankarlal
6.1/10
A criminal, Chelladurai, frames the innocent Dharmalingam for a crime which leads to the latter being jailed. Years later, Dharmalingam returns to take revenge and establish contact with his family.

Aayiram Poi

Aayiram Poi
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/07/1969
  • Character: Singaram, Lilly's Car driver/Ethiraj's henchmen
Chinna Durai(V. K. Ramaswamy) dislikes his brother-in-law, Kanagasabi(V. S. Raghavan) stands in the way of a marriage arrangement for his daughter Malathy(Vanisri) and Kanagasabi's son Ravi(Jaishankar). The film deals with how Ravi's resourcefulness helps him in getting Malathi's hand in marriage.

Galatta Kalyanam

Galatta Kalyanam
7.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1968
  • Character: Gopi (a) Gopalakrishnan, Shantha's Finace
In order to marry Lalitha, Madhan sets out to find suitable bachelors to marry her three beautiful sisters as part of a condition set by her father.

Anbukku Naan Adimai

Anbukku Naan Adimai
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/06/1980
This is the story of a street dancer, a policeman, and a thief - and the latter two are brothers

Adutha Varisu

Adutha Varisu
5.5/10
When the sole person to inherit the family wealth is missing, her grandmother desperately searches for her. A conniving relative, who also killed the girl's parents, finds a look-alike to help him gain the wealth.

Melnaattu Marumagal

Melnaattu Marumagal
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/05/1975
The film is about two brothers, Sivakumar and Kamal Haasan and their spouses. Sivakumar marries a European girl who admires Tamil culture and tradition. On the other hand, Kamal Haasan marries a Tamil girl who is attracted to Western customs.

Coolikkaran

Coolikkaran
Raja lives with his elder brother, sister-in-law, and their little daughter. Rajabecomes a coolie and transports articles. He is jailed for smuggling. His brother gets into an accident at work at the mill and loses his arms. He loses his job and needs money for treatment. Raja begs his brother's boss , but he refuses. Raja breaks into the boss' safe to get the money but it is too late as the brother dies. The boss throws Raja in jail. How he escapes and gets his revenge on the boss forms the climax of the movie

Unarchigal

Unarchigal
7.9/10
  • Release: 25/06/1976
A poor man rescues a prostitute, who starts developing feelings for him and allows him to work as a servant in her house. But he is soon thrown out and left to fend for himself.

Thiruvarutchelvar

Thiruvarutchelvar
7.6/10
  • Genre: Fantasy
  • Release: 28/07/1967
When a dancer makes a king realise the insignificance of the worldly pleasures, he decides to devote his life to the Almighty and starts reciting tales and songs of His greatness.

Andharangam

Andharangam
5.4/10
Thangadurai does not talk to his wife assuming that she has cheated him. However, after many years of married life, he gets attracted towards Kanaga, who is after his wealth.

Saavi

Saavi
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 10/10/1985
  • Character: Public Prosecuter
When a woman learns that her husband married her for her money, she decides to divorce him.

Padikkadha Medhai

Padikkadha Medhai
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/06/1960
Chandrasekaran, an industrialist, is very successful in his business and has a loving family. His three sons and two daughters live happily as one family. He brings up an orphan, Rangan (Sivaji Ganesan), who is utterly devoted to the family. Calamity strikes the family in the form of loss in business. The last daughter's marriage gets cancelled. The brothers and their wives ill-treat their parents and Rangan and his wife. Seeing this Chandrasekaran has no choice to ask Rangan and his wife leave their house. Aftermath Chandrasekaran dies a broken-hearted man leaving his wife and youngest daughter to be in their children's merciless hospitality. Rangan, with his simplicity and pure-hardheartedness, takes it upon himself to look after the mother and sister. In the end, he proves that love and affection is the greatest wealth.

Simla Special

Simla Special
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/04/1982
Two friends, Gopu and Babu, own a troupe that performs comedic plays. When Babu faces a financial crisis, the two friends decide to accept a commission and perform for the Tamilians in Shimla.

Navarathiri

Navarathiri
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/11/1964
Navaratri combined the story telling skills of filmmaker A. P. Nagarajan and the performances of all-time greats Sivaji Ganesan and Savithri. It was the 100th film of Ganesan, who began his career as a stage artiste at the age of nine. Beginning with Parasakthi in 1952, the actor completed 100 films in a dozen years! BBC News mentioned Navaratri as one of Sivaji Ganesan

Chandralekha

Chandralekha
7.3/10
The film follows two brothers (Veerasimhan and Sasankan) who fight over ruling their father's kingdom and marrying the village dancer, Chandralekha.

Indru Pol Endrum Vaazhga

Indru Pol Endrum Vaazhga
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/05/1977
  • Character: Gobhi
Because it was humbled that by his betrothed, Murugan a nice provincial, puts itself to find in the capital, an even more beautiful and more intelligent wife who will be the liked for what he is : A simple man of the campaign. He will not be at the end of his surprises but will finally find the one person in a million of the name of Mainaga.

Shankar Guru

Shankar Guru
Shankar Guru is a 1987 Indian Tamil film, directed by Raja and produced by M. Saravanan and M. Balasubramanian. The film stars Arjun, Seetha, Sasikala and Baby Shalini in lead roles. The film had musical score by Chandra Bose.

Kaali

Kaali
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 18/09/1980
  • Character: Somu
After being released from jail, Kaali is in search of Raja Rao, a rich businessman who is responsible for the death of his family members.

Alaya Deepam

Alaya Deepam
  • Release: 29/06/1984
  • Character: Guest appearance
Alaya Deepam is a 1984 Tamil Indian feature film directed by C. V. Sridhar and produced by K.R.Gangadharan. It stars Sujatha and Rajesh in the lead roles.

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