Venniradai Moorthy
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Venniradai Moorthy is a Tamil film comedian. He has starred in many Tamil films and television serials as a comedian and also essayed supporting roles. He is lawyer by profession and holds a B.L. degree in addition to being a self proclaimed astrologer. He is also a well known script-writer. Kamal Haasan's first full-fledged film as hero, Maalai Sooda Vaa
had Murthy as a script writer.
We had Englishmen for teachers back then and our principal, Dr. Alexander Boyd, was a very popular man. When I entered the hostel, there was a photo of Gemini Ganesan there. He had also been an alumnus of the college.
Tambaram itself was like a forest in the 1950s. It was bare and there was no traffic or even people, for that matter. There were no shops at all and the college was on the other side of the station. Sometimes, we would cross the station and visit the few shops on the other side. There was a G.K. Theatre then, where we would catch the late night shows.
There was also a temple around that area but we wouldn't really go there until the evening before our exams, to pray for marks. On weekends, we would take the train to Park station and walk to the beach. We'd eat, catch a movie and get back.
There weren't many places to eat around the area. There was the station canteen and a Hotel Manasarovar, where we would sometimes go. When I finished my degree, I wanted to pursue law but had to wait a year since I was down with jaundice during the admissions. At that point, I worked as an assistant lecturer in a college in Meenambakkam.
I moved into a small room in Triplicane with a friend. We would frequent the many messes around the area for food. Sydoji Mess was very popular back then and it was run by a family. I would then take the train from Park Town to Meenambakkam.
After law school (I stayed in YMCA then), I never practised because my father took ill and didn't want me to be an assistant to anyone but him. So, in 1961, I joined Remington Rand, which was in Agurchand Mansion on Mount Road, as a sales representative. But I quit within a year and began looking for another job.
Woodlands Drive-in opened around that time and I went there about four days later. There I ran into my friend N.C. Chakravarthy, who was working with director Sridhar and asked him to get me a role in films. He had seen me in plays before and set me up for an interview with the director. I met him and landed a role as a hero in Vennira Aadai, which released in 1965. The irony is, the first ever shooting I saw was when I went for a make-up test for my first movie.
I was never much into Tamil films until I began acting. I would watch only English movies. I frequented the Elphinstone, Casino and Minerva theatres where I enjoyed many Hitchcock movies, Tarzan and a couple of Laurel and Hardy comedies.
When we had to get to places, we either took a bus or a baby taxi, which was usually a smaller car such as a Standard 10 or a Herald that would cost lesser than an Ambassador or a Fiat taxi. I've seen tram tracks but never a tram. There was a Ramakrishna Lunch Home where they served breakfast. Since I was always out of money, I would save up for three or four days and have a late brunch there.
Most hotels used to give out food tickets then. You could buy them for a week or a month or even more. But I was never interested because I wanted the freedom to eat anywhere, anytime. Other places we would frequent were Rayar Café in Mylapore and Coimbatore Krishnaiyyer hotel in Triplicane, which would always be crowded.
Mount Road was known for Buharis; Kodambakkam had studios, tea shops and a few costume rentals; and the beach was just an empty stretch of sand.
I REMEMBER When I joined Chitralaya Gopu's Unity Club, we spent a lot of time in Triplicane. I realised now that it hasn't changed all that much. There are still people in a constant rush, trudging up and down the streets, lazy cows hanging around, sometimes right in the middle of the road. But my fondest memory of Triplicane is that it is the only place where you can get a plate of idlis and filter coffee as early as four in the morning.
Born in 1936 in Chidambaram, Venniradai Moorthy came to Chennai to study and did his BL from Madras Law College. He entered films with ‘Vennira Adai' in 1965 and became a well-known comedian, with a career spanning 45 years and 817 films. He entered the small screen in 1993 and has been a familiar face on it too, writing as many episodes as he acted in. His hobbies include astrology and reading.
Strangely from the beginning till date Murthy's career as a comedian has never seen dizzying highs or worrisome lows. “My guru in Astrology, K. S. Krishnamurthy, had predicted accurately. ‘You will act till the time you hobble with a walking stick,' he said,” recalls Murthy.
His father, K.R. Nataraja Sastri, was a leading criminal lawyer in the district. “We lived in Chidambaram. Initially my idea was to toe his line,” he smiles. Like many famous film personalities, Murthy's Chennai sojourn began at Club House, a lodge opposite Siva Vishnu Temple in T. Nagar. The young student of Law had no inkling of the waiting turnabout!
“Actors Nagesh and Srikanth, and their friend N.C. Chakravarthy were regular TT players at the place I stayed,” says Murthy. After college his job with Remington Rand kept him busy. And when he met Chakravarthy at the Woodlands Drive-in restaurant one evening and learnt that Chakravarthy was an associate director to Sridhar, Murthy casually asked him whether he could get him to appear in a scene in a film. “Chakra had seen me act in the plays staged at YMCA, where I was staying then and knew I can carry off comedy. “A new cast has already been fixed. But you can come over to the office (Chitralaya) and meet Sridhar,” he told Murthy.
“Why do you wish to do comedy? There's nothing funny about your appearance. In fact, you are good looking,” commented Sridhar. (The picture of him as a young man which you get to see is proof enough.) “Because I'm confident in the genre,” Murthy replied, and as he was leaving, added, “I've heard that appealing looks are a fortune. Now I realise they bring ill luck.”
“True to God, the words worked like magic,” says Murthy. “Let's try him,” suggested Sridhar, and the words threw open a new world of fantasy and fame for the young man.
Hailing from an orthodox family where fine arts in any form was taboo, Murthy couldn't bring himself up to tell his folks that he'd got a chance to play a comedian in Sridhar's ‘Vennira Aadai.' The youngest of seven, Murthy insisted on studying at the Madras Christian College, Chennai, only because his father had been a student there, and thus came to the city. Changing tack could shock the family.
“My dad was unwell and I had gone over to Chidambaram. That's when I found the guts to tell him that I was acting in a film,” remembers Murthy. “‘I've no strength to disagree or argue. If you earn too little, life will be difficult. And earning too much will be dangerous,' is all that my father said. The words have been prophetic. I've never scaled the top nor have I hit rock bottom,” he observes.
Murthy has worked with notable directors, producers, writers and actors of the time -- Joseph Thaliath, ‘Chitralaya' Gopu, Ramanna, K.S. Gopalakrishnan, Pa. Neelakantan, Mahendran, T. Rajendar, Kalaimani … the list is endless. He has worked in 817 films so far, including five in Telugu and a couple in Malayalam and has hobnobbed in theatre with ‘Major' Sundarrajan, and as a member of Chitralaya Gopu's Unity Club. Now it's television time for the veteran.
Murthy was the first to present a series on astrology on television. “Titled ‘Astrology and Vaasthu' and telecast on Jaya way back in 1993, the response it evoked was incredible,” says Murthy. He wrote 222 episodes of ‘Meendum Meendum Sirippu,' the 11-year hit show on Sun. Murthy's latest comedy trip, ‘Sirikka Sirikka Sirippu,' is now on air on Kalaignar.
How did interest in astrology come about? “Like acting, I stumbled on it by accident. When I found a great teacher in Krishnamurthy, I took it up seriously. He gave me books to learn on the subject. But he warned me not to make a career of it. ‘It won't help you,' he said,” says Murthy. When he met his mentor in February 1964, he predicted that the young man will be in cinema by October 30. “I laughed it off because I had no such thought then. But on October 24 when I first donned make-up for ‘Vennira Aadai,' I realised he was bang on,” says Murthy. Awe-struck he went over to tell him about it. “I'm happy you've come all the way to inform me. Not many bother. Astrology is not magic, it's science,” was his response.
Maalai Sooda Vaa
Maalai Sooda Vaa is a 1975 Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan and Manjula in the lead roles. The script was written by Venniradai Moorthy. It was one of the very early films in which Kamal Haasan acted as hero....
had Murthy as a script writer.
His own words to Hindu
My first tryst with Chennai was my father's alma mater, Madras Christian College, which was then located on Thambu Chetty Street. I wanted to study BA in Economics there instead of doing it in Chidambaram. And so, in 1955, I landed up here and then found that the college had shifted to Tambaram and moved into the hostel there.We had Englishmen for teachers back then and our principal, Dr. Alexander Boyd, was a very popular man. When I entered the hostel, there was a photo of Gemini Ganesan there. He had also been an alumnus of the college.
Tambaram itself was like a forest in the 1950s. It was bare and there was no traffic or even people, for that matter. There were no shops at all and the college was on the other side of the station. Sometimes, we would cross the station and visit the few shops on the other side. There was a G.K. Theatre then, where we would catch the late night shows.
There was also a temple around that area but we wouldn't really go there until the evening before our exams, to pray for marks. On weekends, we would take the train to Park station and walk to the beach. We'd eat, catch a movie and get back.
There weren't many places to eat around the area. There was the station canteen and a Hotel Manasarovar, where we would sometimes go. When I finished my degree, I wanted to pursue law but had to wait a year since I was down with jaundice during the admissions. At that point, I worked as an assistant lecturer in a college in Meenambakkam.
I moved into a small room in Triplicane with a friend. We would frequent the many messes around the area for food. Sydoji Mess was very popular back then and it was run by a family. I would then take the train from Park Town to Meenambakkam.
After law school (I stayed in YMCA then), I never practised because my father took ill and didn't want me to be an assistant to anyone but him. So, in 1961, I joined Remington Rand, which was in Agurchand Mansion on Mount Road, as a sales representative. But I quit within a year and began looking for another job.
Woodlands Drive-in opened around that time and I went there about four days later. There I ran into my friend N.C. Chakravarthy, who was working with director Sridhar and asked him to get me a role in films. He had seen me in plays before and set me up for an interview with the director. I met him and landed a role as a hero in Vennira Aadai, which released in 1965. The irony is, the first ever shooting I saw was when I went for a make-up test for my first movie.
I was never much into Tamil films until I began acting. I would watch only English movies. I frequented the Elphinstone, Casino and Minerva theatres where I enjoyed many Hitchcock movies, Tarzan and a couple of Laurel and Hardy comedies.
When we had to get to places, we either took a bus or a baby taxi, which was usually a smaller car such as a Standard 10 or a Herald that would cost lesser than an Ambassador or a Fiat taxi. I've seen tram tracks but never a tram. There was a Ramakrishna Lunch Home where they served breakfast. Since I was always out of money, I would save up for three or four days and have a late brunch there.
Most hotels used to give out food tickets then. You could buy them for a week or a month or even more. But I was never interested because I wanted the freedom to eat anywhere, anytime. Other places we would frequent were Rayar Café in Mylapore and Coimbatore Krishnaiyyer hotel in Triplicane, which would always be crowded.
Mount Road was known for Buharis; Kodambakkam had studios, tea shops and a few costume rentals; and the beach was just an empty stretch of sand.
I REMEMBER When I joined Chitralaya Gopu's Unity Club, we spent a lot of time in Triplicane. I realised now that it hasn't changed all that much. There are still people in a constant rush, trudging up and down the streets, lazy cows hanging around, sometimes right in the middle of the road. But my fondest memory of Triplicane is that it is the only place where you can get a plate of idlis and filter coffee as early as four in the morning.
Born in 1936 in Chidambaram, Venniradai Moorthy came to Chennai to study and did his BL from Madras Law College. He entered films with ‘Vennira Adai' in 1965 and became a well-known comedian, with a career spanning 45 years and 817 films. He entered the small screen in 1993 and has been a familiar face on it too, writing as many episodes as he acted in. His hobbies include astrology and reading.
Strangely from the beginning till date Murthy's career as a comedian has never seen dizzying highs or worrisome lows. “My guru in Astrology, K. S. Krishnamurthy, had predicted accurately. ‘You will act till the time you hobble with a walking stick,' he said,” recalls Murthy.
His father, K.R. Nataraja Sastri, was a leading criminal lawyer in the district. “We lived in Chidambaram. Initially my idea was to toe his line,” he smiles. Like many famous film personalities, Murthy's Chennai sojourn began at Club House, a lodge opposite Siva Vishnu Temple in T. Nagar. The young student of Law had no inkling of the waiting turnabout!
“Actors Nagesh and Srikanth, and their friend N.C. Chakravarthy were regular TT players at the place I stayed,” says Murthy. After college his job with Remington Rand kept him busy. And when he met Chakravarthy at the Woodlands Drive-in restaurant one evening and learnt that Chakravarthy was an associate director to Sridhar, Murthy casually asked him whether he could get him to appear in a scene in a film. “Chakra had seen me act in the plays staged at YMCA, where I was staying then and knew I can carry off comedy. “A new cast has already been fixed. But you can come over to the office (Chitralaya) and meet Sridhar,” he told Murthy.
“Why do you wish to do comedy? There's nothing funny about your appearance. In fact, you are good looking,” commented Sridhar. (The picture of him as a young man which you get to see is proof enough.) “Because I'm confident in the genre,” Murthy replied, and as he was leaving, added, “I've heard that appealing looks are a fortune. Now I realise they bring ill luck.”
“True to God, the words worked like magic,” says Murthy. “Let's try him,” suggested Sridhar, and the words threw open a new world of fantasy and fame for the young man.
Hailing from an orthodox family where fine arts in any form was taboo, Murthy couldn't bring himself up to tell his folks that he'd got a chance to play a comedian in Sridhar's ‘Vennira Aadai.' The youngest of seven, Murthy insisted on studying at the Madras Christian College, Chennai, only because his father had been a student there, and thus came to the city. Changing tack could shock the family.
“My dad was unwell and I had gone over to Chidambaram. That's when I found the guts to tell him that I was acting in a film,” remembers Murthy. “‘I've no strength to disagree or argue. If you earn too little, life will be difficult. And earning too much will be dangerous,' is all that my father said. The words have been prophetic. I've never scaled the top nor have I hit rock bottom,” he observes.
Murthy has worked with notable directors, producers, writers and actors of the time -- Joseph Thaliath, ‘Chitralaya' Gopu, Ramanna, K.S. Gopalakrishnan, Pa. Neelakantan, Mahendran, T. Rajendar, Kalaimani … the list is endless. He has worked in 817 films so far, including five in Telugu and a couple in Malayalam and has hobnobbed in theatre with ‘Major' Sundarrajan, and as a member of Chitralaya Gopu's Unity Club. Now it's television time for the veteran.
Murthy was the first to present a series on astrology on television. “Titled ‘Astrology and Vaasthu' and telecast on Jaya way back in 1993, the response it evoked was incredible,” says Murthy. He wrote 222 episodes of ‘Meendum Meendum Sirippu,' the 11-year hit show on Sun. Murthy's latest comedy trip, ‘Sirikka Sirikka Sirippu,' is now on air on Kalaignar.
How did interest in astrology come about? “Like acting, I stumbled on it by accident. When I found a great teacher in Krishnamurthy, I took it up seriously. He gave me books to learn on the subject. But he warned me not to make a career of it. ‘It won't help you,' he said,” says Murthy. When he met his mentor in February 1964, he predicted that the young man will be in cinema by October 30. “I laughed it off because I had no such thought then. But on October 24 when I first donned make-up for ‘Vennira Aadai,' I realised he was bang on,” says Murthy. Awe-struck he went over to tell him about it. “I'm happy you've come all the way to inform me. Not many bother. Astrology is not magic, it's science,” was his response.
Filmography
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