
Acting
Karuppu Subbaiah
Place of birth
Madurai, Tamilnadu, India
Known for
Acting
Credits
52 titles
Karuppu Subbaiah was a Tamil film actor comedian who appeared in Tamil-language films.
Known for
Fate brings Kulothungan, a petty thief, and Radhika, a wealthy heiress, into marriage in an unexpected circumstance. Later, Kulothungan has to fight many enemies to protect his wife.
Rajadhi Raja Raja Kulothunga Raja Marthanda Raja Gambeera Kathavaraya Krishna Kamarajan
1993
6.0Sankar is an ambitious man who wants to make it big through fair means. However, the friend he works under, Sampath, begins to use corrupt measures to make them rich.
Sorgam
1970
Pattabi's wife Parimala, an ex-police officer, makes his life miserable. Pandiyan, a criminal, kills Parimala and her husband helps him discard her body.
Pondattiye Deivam
1994
When Valli learns of her husband, Chettiar's affair with her sister, she commits suicide. Thirukkaval, her son, vows to take revenge on Chettiar.
Sindhu Nathi Poo
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Enga Annan Varattum
1989
Velu, a poor farmer, lives with his sister, Thangam, in a village. But when he suffers a heavy loss on his farm, he goes to the city to find a job and ends up becoming a robber.
Rettai Kuzhal Thuppakki
1989
Film credits
1990s · 23 titles
Fate brings Kulothungan, a petty thief, and Radhika, a wealthy heiress, into marriage in an unexpected circumstance. Later, Kulothungan has to fight many enemies to protect his wife.
Rajadhi Raja Raja Kulothunga Raja Marthanda Raja Gambeera Kathavaraya Krishna Kamarajan
1993
Pattabi's wife Parimala, an ex-police officer, makes his life miserable. Pandiyan, a criminal, kills Parimala and her husband helps him discard her body.
Pondattiye Deivam
1994
When Valli learns of her husband, Chettiar's affair with her sister, she commits suicide. Thirukkaval, her son, vows to take revenge on Chettiar.
Sindhu Nathi Poo
1994
Palanisamy, a folk dancer, suspects his wife, who dances with him in the village festival, of having an affair with a rich landlord. He abandons his wife and separates her from her newborn son.
Nattupura Pattu
1996
A woman falls in love with her brother's personal manager unaware that he is already in a relationship with someone else.
Puthu Paatu
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Themmangu Paattukaaran
1997
Upili, a dedicated person towards serving the village temple, marries Arasaee who plans to embarrass him while joining hands with Sundaralingam, a fraudster.
Koyil Kaalai
1993
No synopsis available yet.
Ponnuketha Purushan
1992
Solaiyamma is a mother-less woman who is looked after by her father. She has been promised in marriage with her relative Balraj and they are in love. Vairavan is a heartless muscular man who spreads terror among the villagers and rapes the village girls. One night, Vairavan enters Solaiyamma's house and tries to rape Solaiyamma but she stands against him and Vairavan runs away. The entire village thinks that she has been raped including her relatives and then her father commits suicide. Thereafter, she is rejected by the village. Vairavan tortures her psychologically to spend a night with him. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.
Solaiyamma
1992
NRSamrat is a psychopath who wants to take revenge on the person (Sundar) at any cost, who killed his father and damaged his mother's conduct. He believes that his late mother is still alive. Samrat wants to impose the same fate as Sundar's daughters. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.
Samrat
1997
NRHamsaveni, a teacher, agrees to marry an illiterate man on the condition that she will stay with her ailing father after marriage. However, on the wedding night, he refuses to comply with her terms.
Thirumathi Palanisamy
1992
Ammu, a little girl, runs away from her bungalow as her stepmother physically tortures her. However, the girl finds love and solace in the arms of Kamala, a milk vendor.
Vasalil Oru Vennila
1991
3.0Periya 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.
Periya Marudhu
1994
7.0Raja feels stifled under his strict father Col. Chandrasekhar, and when his father picks a girl he doesn't like for him to marry, it is the last straw and he runs away to Ooty. There he teams up with Vasu and they come up with an ill-advised plan to kidnap Indu, the daughter of Vishwanathan, for ransom. Vishwanathan is in fact Col. Chandrasekhar's friend and it is Indu that Raja was supposed to marry. Their exploits result in a hilarious comedy of errors.
Ullathai Allitha
1996
Avuthu Nayagam, a wealthy politician, remarries Vasantha, a cunning woman. She creates problems in her stepson Veeraiyan's life and tries to grab the land from the villagers at meagre rates.
Thirumbi Paar
1996
Three villagers go to Chennai to become rich and promise Lord Ganapathi a quarter of their profit if he becomes their partner. However, when the time comes for them to pay him, they refuse to do so.
Vaanga Partner Vaanga
1994
Vishnu, a clever student but intolerant to cheating, is detained from college. He then becomes a car mechanic, but his life starts to change when his brother is transferred to the same city.
Salem Vishnu
1990
9.0Two men end up falling for the same woman, but which one will she choose?
Pudhiya Mannargal
1994
NRPandian's mother refuses to let him and Rajeshwari, his poor wife, live together until her family settles the dowry. So he begins to borrow money in order to stay with his wife.
Purushan Pondatti
1996
NRArun falls in love at first sight with a bank cashier Seetha and follow her everywhere. Seetha refuses his love and tells him her past. In the past, Seetha was from a middle-class family. Seetha's brother-in-law was a jobless, and lived with them. Balu was a bank manager and falls in love with Seetha. Mani, Balu's father, a miser, looked for a rich daughter-in-law. Finally, Balu got married with Seetha and the same day, Balu died in a crossfire. So Mani refused to keep Seetha in his house. Later, without money, Mani begged Seetha to come with him and she took her late husband job. Seetha's brother-in-law took his wife's thaali and tied the thaali to Seetha. She immediately removed the thaali. Arun decides to marry her despite her past. The court cancels the marriage between Seetha and her brother-in-law. Seetha's sister kills her husband to save Seetha's marriage. At the end, Arun and Seetha get married.
Thaali Pudhusu
1997
5.3A man comes to the city and lives with a friend. They are tenants of a girl with whom he often gets into fights. Soon they fall in love. But, another man, with whom he has had tiffs, also loves her.
Coimbatore Mappillai
1996
Abhirami is in love with Agaramuthu, a theatre artist, but the latter rejects her since he only cherishes his late wife's memory. Later, Abhirami's stepbrother forces her to marry someone else.
Oorellaam Un Paattu
1991
Thangamuthu's mother wants him to marry her brother's daughter Manju as per their tradition. However, Manju is against the relatioship and her father insults him and his mother.
Periya Gounder Ponnu
1992
1980s · 16 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Enga Annan Varattum
1989
Velu, a poor farmer, lives with his sister, Thangam, in a village. But when he suffers a heavy loss on his farm, he goes to the city to find a job and ends up becoming a robber.
Rettai Kuzhal Thuppakki
1989
Prem, a police officer, and Vidhya, his colleague, fall in love and get married. When Vidhya's brother-in-law is falsely accused of a murder, the couple tries to find the real culprit.
Dharma Pathini
1986
Geetha is a fun-loving girl who loves to play pranks on everyone. Her parents decide to get her married and Pandiyarajan is mistaken by the villagers to be Geetha's groom.
Ullam Kavarntha Kalvan
1987
A death sentence inmate escapes prison and seeks asylum in a rich widow's house where she is living with her only daughter. Whether the marriage of her daughter will happen as planned forms the crux of the story.
Vidinja Kalyanam
1986
5.0Story about how a young girl is ill-treated by her step-mother and how her brother's friend saves her and her husband.
Senthoora Poove
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Malargal Nanaigindrana
1985
Lakshmi and Raja fall in love and decide to get married. But on the day of the marriage, Raja is accused of murdering a woman.
Enna Petha Raasa
1989
Jeeva, the son of a rich landlord, falls in love with Selvi, the daughter of a widow. Problems arise when the landlord marries Selvi's mother.
Aanandha Kummi
1983
Thangapandian, an honest forest officer, is transferred to a village. The village chief cuts illegally the sandalwood trees. Radha is brought up by her adoptive family. When she was young, her father, a famous singer, died in a car accident. Thangapandian falls in love with Radha. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.
Paandi Naattu Thangam
1989
A bank official falls in love with a local resident whose brother doesn't approve of their relationship.
Aagaya Thamaraigal
1985
NRJanakaraj is a cook whose son falls in love with a rich girl. However, his uncle creates obstacles in their relationship and Janakaraj's son decides to go abroad to teach him a lesson.
Nethiyadi
1989
When a police officer gets transferred to a troubled village terrorised by a wealthy landlord, he seeks the help of an ex-convict to seize the tyrant.
En Thangachi Padichava
1988
NRChakravarthi, a devoted father, raises his daughter, Radha, with utmost care and affection. However, Radha's attachment towards her father creates problems for her when she gets married.
Anbulla Appa
1987
NRThis film is directed by R Sundarajan.
Saranalayam
1983
A woman, who belongs to a fisherman family, is dejected by the tragic deaths of her husband and her former lover. Angry with the sea goddess, the bereaved woman refuses to leave the shore.
Doorathu Idi Muzhakkam
1980
1970s · 10 titles
6.0Sankar is an ambitious man who wants to make it big through fair means. However, the friend he works under, Sampath, begins to use corrupt measures to make them rich.
Sorgam
1970
Paramathathan is an atheist who marries Punithavathi, an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva. Their conflicting beliefs in God create problems in their married life.
Karaikkal Ammaiyar
1973
Panchali struggles for her living as her husband is unemployed. She is shocked when she comes to know about her husband's extramarital affair with Alakamma.
Chakkalathi
1979
7.0Babu, a young man, falls in love with Kammo. When a thug rapes her, he murders him out of revenge, which leads to his arrest.
Babu
1971
NRSathyam is a 1976 Tamil film directed by S. A. Kannan starring Sivaji Ganesan, Jayachitra and Manjula Vijayakumar and Kamal Hassan. The film has Kamal Haasan playing the younger brother of Sivaji Ganesan.
Sathyam
1976
7.7Prestige Padmanabha Iyer retires from his company executive position and has a lonely and unhappy life with his family in the ancestral home Vietnam House, named for the constant fighting and arguing.
Vietnam Veedu
1970
A brave woman sets out to save an entire village from the atrocities of a cruel man and even dares to kill him in order to free the villagers.
Jakkamma
1972
6.5Rangadurai borrows money from Somasundaram to sustain his theatre group during a financial crunch. Enmity arises between the two when Rangadurai marries Somasundaram's daughter against his wishes.
Rajapart Rangadurai
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Avan Oru Sarithiram
1977
Manickam and Vairam get married but soon separate due to misunderstandings. Later, Manickam remarries Thangam, who dies leaving behind a daughter due to complications during childbirth.
Sondham
1973
1960s · 3 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Anbalippu
1969
NRKumaran, who is married to Kumudha, takes the blame for a murder he did not commit. Convinced of his innocence, his former lover sets out to unearth the truth, which involves Kumaran's brother-in-law.
Kumudham
1961
8.0After a fight with her father on who her future husband should be, Nalina leaves home on the first night of Navaratri. For the next nine days, she experiences nine types of human behaviour.
Navarathiri
1964
