Acting

Manobala

Born December 8, 1953 · Marungur, Tamil Nadu, India

Died May 3, 2023 · aged 69

Manobala is a Tamil director, producer and comedian actor who predominantly plays supporting roles. He has appeared in nearly 700 films. Manobala has directed 40 films, 19 television serials and 9 tele-films during his career as a director

Known For

Boys

MovieDramaComedy

The story centers on six youngsters, who experience the downfalls of teenage life. The film conveys a message about the importance of a good education and career over other distractions, such as romance and sex.

Ethir Neechal

Ethir Neechal · 2013

MovieRomanceComedy

Kunchithapatham's unique name becomes the butt of joke and ridicule for others. He relates his failures to his name and wants to change it. He meets an astrologer who is popular in giving fancy names that could bring luck to people. His named his changed to Harish and soon after his luck changes.

Savaale Samaali

Savaale Samaali · 2015

Savaale Samaali

MovieRomanceComedy

Two employees try to get their debt-ridden TV channel to the top position by manufacturing a fake reality show that involves uniting lovers who face opposition at home.

Sowkarpettai

Sowkarpettai · 2016

MovieComedyDrama

Lovers murdered by a moneylender come back as ghosts to make him answer for his crime. Meanwhile, an evil tantric has been waiting for them for years to take his revenge.

Aruvam

MovieThrillerHorror

A food safety officer and a teacher who has no sense of smell come together to fight the practice of food adulteration and its devastating effect on people.

Bose

MovieCrimeAction

Former army commando Bose gets fired after he stops a rapist's attack on a student. The young woman and Bose fall in love, but then his family is kidnapped, and he discovers that the rapist has connections to terrorists.

Minsara Kanna

Minsara Kanna · 1999

Indira hates men and only employs women in her company and personal staff. Kasi enters her life as a driver and soon, one by one, his entire family starts working in the same household.

Anniyan

Anniyan · 2005

MovieActionDrama

Unable to tolerate society's injustices and devastated by rejection from the woman he loves, a meek lawyer develops a split personality: one side a vengeful vigilante killer punishing evildoers, the other a dashing playboy capable of winning her heart. Complications arise when the three sides begin to collide.

Filmography

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Boys

MovieDramaComedy

The story centers on six youngsters, who experience the downfalls of teenage life. The film conveys a message about the importance of a good education and career over other distractions, such as romance and sex.

Ajay

Ethir Neechal

Ethir Neechal · 2013

MovieRomanceComedy

Kunchithapatham's unique name becomes the butt of joke and ridicule for others. He relates his failures to his name and wants to change it. He meets an astrologer who is popular in giving fancy names that could bring luck to people. His named his changed to Harish and soon after his luck changes.

Astrologer Gunashekar Raja

Savaale Samaali

Savaale Samaali · 2015

Savaale Samaali

MovieRomanceComedy

Two employees try to get their debt-ridden TV channel to the top position by manufacturing a fake reality show that involves uniting lovers who face opposition at home.

Sowkarpettai

Sowkarpettai · 2016

MovieComedyDrama

Lovers murdered by a moneylender come back as ghosts to make him answer for his crime. Meanwhile, an evil tantric has been waiting for them for years to take his revenge.

Aruvam

MovieThrillerHorror

A food safety officer and a teacher who has no sense of smell come together to fight the practice of food adulteration and its devastating effect on people.

School Head Master

Bose

MovieCrimeAction

Former army commando Bose gets fired after he stops a rapist's attack on a student. The young woman and Bose fall in love, but then his family is kidnapped, and he discovers that the rapist has connections to terrorists.

Minsara Kanna

Minsara Kanna · 1999

Indira hates men and only employs women in her company and personal staff. Kasi enters her life as a driver and soon, one by one, his entire family starts working in the same household.

Anniyan

Anniyan · 2005

MovieActionDrama

Unable to tolerate society's injustices and devastated by rejection from the woman he loves, a meek lawyer develops a split personality: one side a vengeful vigilante killer punishing evildoers, the other a dashing playboy capable of winning her heart. Complications arise when the three sides begin to collide.

Ticket Conductor

Kanithan

Kanithan · 2016

MovieActionRomance

A reporter who gets arrested realises that he is a victim of a fake degree certificate racket, and decides to track down the person responsible for misusing his identity.

Madhan

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.

Kunjithapatham

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?

Kavalai Vendam

Kavalai Vendam · 2016

MovieComedyDrama

A chef who is separated from his wife decides to win back her love after she lands up at his doorstep asking for divorce.

Pattai Babu

Inba Twinkle Lilly

Inba Twinkle Lilly · 2018

Inba Twinkle Lilly

MovieComedyDrama

Three elderly women, who are in desperate need of money, plan to rob a bank — the same place where they had previously lost their hard-earned money during a bank robbery!

Siruthai

Siruthai · 2011

MovieActionComedy

A thief comes across a little girl who says that he's her father. When he learns the truth about his lookalike, who's an honest cop, he decides to turn a new leaf and help get rid of the local baddie.

Boom Boom

Street Lights

Street Lights · 2018

MovieCrimeThriller

The story of Street Lights is based on the life of a Crime Branch police officer, James, who in his pursuit to solve a certain mystery, crosses path with several people and encounters various thrilling events. Will James succeed or fail in his mission and how will he react to the outcome, forms the crux.

(Tamil Version)

Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani

Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani · 2014

Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani

MovieComedyRomance

An uneducated and naive young man from a family of Siddha doctors wants to marry an educated woman so that he won't be cheated in life. He marries a girl lying that he is a doctor but the girl has her own secrets...

Soori

Aayudham

Aayudham · 2005

Siva(Prashanth) is admitted to a medical college in Chennai and his father(Rajesh), a police constable, gets a tranfer to Chennai too so that he can keep an eye on Siva. He develops a liking towards Mahalakshmi(Sneha), his collegemate. But Naga(Subburaj), Maha's servantmaid's son, is obsessed with making Maha his own.

Vaigai Express

Vaigai Express · 2017

MovieCrimeDrama

An investigative officer takes up a case involving the deaths of three different women murdered by three different killers with varying motives.

Azhagiya Tamil Magan

Azhagiya Tamil Magan · 2007

Azhagiya Tamil Magan

MovieActionDrama

Guru has the ability to predict future events. With his unique ability, he identifies several future events, including the attempted murder of his lover by a look-alike.

Unnodu Ka

Unnodu Ka · 2016

MovieComedyDrama

Two middle-aged men, who are settled in the same city, try to put an end to their families' blood feud in their village. Meanwhile, their children, fall in love with each other and decide to get hitched.

Traffic Police

Devadas

Devadas · 2018

MovieActionComedy

A sincere doctor Das works at a private clinic, where he meets the dreaded don Deva who arrives injured. After the treatment, Das and Deva form a deep friendship until Deva's mafia background and gruesome history causes a rift in their bond.

Tata Rao, Pooja's assistant

Pattathu Yaanai

Pattathu Yaanai · 2013

Pattathu Yaanai

MovieActionComedy

A bunch of wedding caterers lead by Santhanam run from trouble and land in Trichy - only to find more trouble. In Trichy, the problems are bigger than before and running away is not an option.

Nagesh Thiraiyarangam

Nagesh Thiraiyarangam · 2018

Nagesh Thiraiyarangam

MovieRomanceHorror

A real estate dealer, who sets out to sell his father’s old property, a movie theatre, finds that the building is possessed by a ghost

Priya's father

Urumeen

Urumeen · 2015

MovieActionFantasy

A freedom fighter betrayed by his best friend is reborn along with him in the modern era and is guided by a magical book that also hints this might not be his second birth.