Acting

Robo Shankar

Born December 24, 1978 · Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Died September 18, 2025 · aged 46

Robo Shankar is an Indian stand-up comedian who has also appeared in character roles in Tamil films. He made his breakthrough with STAR Vijay's Kalakkapovathu Yaaru performing stand up comedy. He is a now cast as regular on several shows on STAR Vijay and has presented television shows for the channel. He visited and performed stage shows in more than 30 countries. He was awarded "Doctorate" by…

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Trisha Illana Nayanthara

Trisha Illana Nayanthara · 2015

Trisha Illana Nayanthara

MovieRomanceAction

A young man falls in love with his childhood friends only to keep breaking up with them, not realising that he will always end up as a loser.

Si 3

MovieCrimeAction

A reputed cop from Tamil Nadu takes charge in Andhra Pradesh to solve the mysterious murder of a top police officer, and takes on local thugs and criminals during the course of his mission.

Tamilarasan

Tamilarasan · 2023

MovieActionDrama

Frustrated with a greedy hospital, an honest cop takes its heart surgeon hostage to save his son. Can he succeed, especially with his corrupt superior Rana Pratap Singh already has a bone to pick with him, trying to put him down?

Yutha Satham

Yutha Satham · 2022

MovieCrimeThriller

A young woman is murdered right in front of a police station. The inspector at the station suspects her boyfriend, a private detective, who claims he is innocent. Who killed the girl and why?

Maya

MovieDramaHorror

An artist realizes that the story that he is illustrating, about a ghost who was an inmate of an asylum in a forest, could be real. Meanwhile, an aspiring actress takes up a challenge to watch a horror film all alone in the theatre at night. How are these storylines connected?

Velaikkaran

Velaikkaran · 2017

MovieDramaThriller

An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on an ambitious capitalist, who only wants to dominate his field.

Strawberry

Strawberry · 2015

A taxi driver is befriended by a medium who tells him that a spirit is trying to communicate with him. Who is this spirit and what does it want?

Puli

MovieFantasyAction

A virtuous soldier Magadheera aka Puli (Tiger) vows to save his people from the rule of a cruel queen and her treacherous Marshal. Does good triumph over evil?

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Trisha Illana Nayanthara

Trisha Illana Nayanthara · 2015

Trisha Illana Nayanthara

MovieRomanceAction

A young man falls in love with his childhood friends only to keep breaking up with them, not realising that he will always end up as a loser.

auto driver

Si 3

MovieCrimeAction

A reputed cop from Tamil Nadu takes charge in Andhra Pradesh to solve the mysterious murder of a top police officer, and takes on local thugs and criminals during the course of his mission.

Subba Rao 'Subbu'

Tamilarasan

Tamilarasan · 2023

MovieActionDrama

Frustrated with a greedy hospital, an honest cop takes its heart surgeon hostage to save his son. Can he succeed, especially with his corrupt superior Rana Pratap Singh already has a bone to pick with him, trying to put him down?

Yutha Satham

Yutha Satham · 2022

MovieCrimeThriller

A young woman is murdered right in front of a police station. The inspector at the station suspects her boyfriend, a private detective, who claims he is innocent. Who killed the girl and why?

Maya

MovieDramaHorror

An artist realizes that the story that he is illustrating, about a ghost who was an inmate of an asylum in a forest, could be real. Meanwhile, an aspiring actress takes up a challenge to watch a horror film all alone in the theatre at night. How are these storylines connected?

Forest Officer

Velaikkaran

Velaikkaran · 2017

MovieDramaThriller

An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on an ambitious capitalist, who only wants to dominate his field.

Chinna Thambi

Strawberry

Strawberry · 2015

A taxi driver is befriended by a medium who tells him that a spirit is trying to communicate with him. Who is this spirit and what does it want?

Puli

MovieFantasyAction

A virtuous soldier Magadheera aka Puli (Tiger) vows to save his people from the rule of a cruel queen and her treacherous Marshal. Does good triumph over evil?

Albert @ Alpha

RajiniMurugan

RajiniMurugan · 2015

MovieComedyAction

Rajini Murugan locks horns with Yezharai Mookkan who tries to get a share of Murugan's ancestral property by defaming his grandfather.

Politician

Nethraa

Nethraa · 2019

MovieDramaThriller

A young woman moves to Canada with her boyfriend to get married with the help of her friend, but finds herself trapped in a web of lies and deciet.

Kutty Story

Kutty Story · 2021

MovieRomanceDrama

An anthology of four stories that revolve around man-woman relationships.

Prabhakar

Maari 2

Maari 2 · 2018

MovieActionComedy

After falling off the radar for a few years, Maari is back in the fray doing what he does best: taking trouble by the horns and being a total bad-ass. This time around, he is facing off against a formidable opponent named Beeja, who would stop at nothing until he sees Maari's downfall.

Sanikkizhamai aka Sani

Plan Panni Pannanum

Plan Panni Pannanum · 2021

Plan Panni Pannanum

MovieComedyRomance

To track down his friend's sister, who has eloped with her lover, a young man kidnaps her friend who knows about their whereabouts.

Moone Moonu Varthai

Moone Moonu Varthai · 2015

Moone Moonu Varthai

MovieComedyRomance

Arjun and Karna, two happy-go-lucky friends who have resigned from their jobs, start a bad news delivery service and one of their assigments ends up in a marriage getting cancelled. And the bride happens to be the sister of Arjun’s girlfriend Anjali! Can they undo the damage?

Kalathil Santhippom

Kalathil Santhippom · 2021

Kalathil Santhippom

MovieActionFamily

Two friends with contrasting characters lock horns with each other when a girl who was supposed to get hitched with one of them later falls in love with the other .

Mannar Vagaiyara

Mannar Vagaiyara · 2018

Mannar Vagaiyara

MovieComedyRomance

A care-free youngster lands in trouble when he helps his brother to win the lady of his life.

Attack Durai

Cinderella

Cinderella · 2021

MovieHorrorThriller

Akira and her band as they go into the dense forest to research on the sounds of nature. Akira celebrates her birthday there with her band mates and receives a gift of a beautiful Cinderella gown. But when she wears the gown, her behavior starts to change, as if she has been possessed.

Padayappa

Padayappa · 1999

MovieDramaAction

Padayappa, a mechanical engineer whose father gives up his property to his foster brother, and then dies of shock soon after. Neelambari initially loves Padayappa, but plans to humiliate him after his family humiliates her father. The rest of the plot deals with Padayappa overcoming all the obstacles placed by Neelambari.

Dancer in the song "En Peru Padayappa" (uncredited)

Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen

Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen · 2017

Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen

MovieComedyRomance

A lackadaisical youngster falls in love with a girl from whom he’d gotten separated at a younger age. He goes through a slew of unexpected hurdles to win her love.

Saudeshwaran

Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara

Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara · 2013

Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara

MovieComedyRomance

An indolent youth finds himself in trouble when his life gets intertwined with that of a straight-laced banker who is tormented with his demands from his boss.

Sound Shankar

Jarugandi

Jarugandi · 2018

MovieRomanceComedy

An ambitious youngster lands in trouble after making forged documents to earn money. A cop promises to let him go if he coughs up a huge sum, but the guy ends up kidnapping a girl, which makes things worse.

Hero

MovieCrimeThriller

A fraudster gets to fulfill his childhood dream of being a superhero when he takes on a ruthless businessman whose business strategy is to crush the dreams of children.

Inbaraj "Ink"

Arrtham

MovieThrillerAction

A psychological thriller deals with the importance of protecting family values, and propagates the primacy of women in our lives.

Saaraa

MovieCrimeThriller

A Thriller Sentimental Story dealing with a son's love to a single mother. An unimaginable sacrifice done between friendship and love in this decade.

Security Raju

Time Enna Boss!?

Time Enna Boss!? · 2020

Time Enna Boss!?

Bala - an average IT guy, is forced to host 4 random time travellers who land up in his new house until they find their way back. But will they ever leave?

Killi