Raghuvaran

Acting

Raghuvaran

Born — Died

1958-12-11 — 2008-03-19

Place of birth

Kollengode, Kerala, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Raghuvaran was an Indian actor who predominantly acted in movies made in South India. He became famous for his portrayal of villain and character roles in Tamil films. He has acted in more than 150 Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. According to the Hindustan Times, "the actor had carved a niche for himself with his special style and voice modulation. He played the protagonist of a Tamil soap opera, Oru Manidhanin Kadhai, about a well-to-do man who becomes an alcoholic. He received critical acclaim for his role as Father Alphonso in the Malayalam movie Daivathinte Vikruthikal, directed by Lenin Rajendran and based on M. Mukundan's novel of the same name. Following his begin…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 29 titles

Pelli Kani Prasad poster
NR

Gopalrao hates the concept of love marriage. When his daughter, Sujatha, falls in love with a young man, he threatens to commit suicide if she continues to meet her lover.

Pelli Kani Prasad

2008

Kandukondain Kandukondain poster
7.1

Two young women with differing views on love find themselves with three suitors in this modern take on Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility' set in Tamil Nadu.

Kandukondain Kandukondain

2000

Sivaji: The Boss poster
7.1

A wealthy engineer arrives in India with the mission of serving the nation and investing in the country's welfare but is met with strong opposition from corrupt officials and politicians. After being faced with insurmountable hardships, he decides to take drastic measures.

Sivaji: The Boss

2007

Grahan poster
10.0

The widowed Chief Minister Jagdish Acharya lives an opulent lifestyle along with his daughter, Sunita and son, Sanjay. One day he gets a phone call from the Police Commissioner informing him that a woman has filed a FIR of rape against Sanjay

Grahan

2001

Asura poster
NR

Hidden secrets from the past are unravelled when a dreaded gangster falls in love with a police officer's adopted daughter.

Asura

2001

No artwork available
NR

A woman haunted by visions of a murder from 1965 undergoes hypnotic therapy, uncovering a possible past life and a connection to the original crime. As the investigation deepens, buried secrets reveal a shocking truth behind the decades-old murder.

Sila Nerangalil

2008

Vallarasu poster
5.7

Vallarasu is the honest Deputy Commissioner of Police who has arrested Wasim Khan, a terrorist from Pakistan. His wife is Anjali, and they both have two children. Vallarasu kills his senior police officer and father-in-law because he knows the latter is working alongside terrorists.

Vallarasu

2000

Bheema poster
5.5

A constant tug of war between two underworld gangs trying to outsmart each other is offset by the arrival of a man of steel.

Bheema

2008

Mugavari poster
6.8

Sridhar, an aspiring music director, has been struggling to get a foothold in the music industry for many years. He falls in love but is willing to put his relationship on a backburner for success.

Mugavari

2000

Sachein poster
6.7

A happy-go-lucky college student falls in love with a beautiful young woman at first sight, but decides to use a unique approach to get close to her, as she has many admirers in the college. How will their relationship evolve?

Sachein

2005

I Love You Da poster
NR

A match fixer faces tough competition when a young player decides to fight him and make his country win.

I Love You Da

2002

Durgi poster
NR

Durgi was living happily with her family in a small village. But 2 businessmen entered the village to make a sugar mill. They used to be drunk always. One day, they raped her sister and she died in hospital. When Durgi and her family were in agony, they killed Durgi's father. After this, she promises to kill everyone.

Durgi

2004

Sudhandhiram poster
5.0

Vishwa, a goon and an aspiring boxer, works for Sopraj, a gangster. When Sopraj brutally kills a social worker in front of Vishwa, he decides to turn approver against his boss.

Sudhandhiram

2000

Johnny poster
6.6

A martial arts coach struggles to earn money through fights in order to save his wife suffering from blood cancer.

Johnny

2003

Red poster
5.0

Red is a local don who possesses a heart of gold. Seeni, another don in the area, is his biggest enemy. Red falls for Gayathri and she too likes him but wants him to give up his life of violence. Meanwhile Rajesh, a reporter, begins to serialize Red's story for Ananda Vikatan and it becomes quite the rage among readers.

Red

2002

Naani poster
5.9

An impulsive youngster, who is furious with his mother, seeks assistance from a scientist for a way to become an adult overnight. His wish is granted and he begins look like a 28-year-old man. How will he deal with the complexities of adulthood? How will his relationship with his mother evolve?

Naani

2004

Yaaradi Nee Mohini poster
7.0

Vasu falls in love with Keerthi, but when he expresses his feelings to her, she turns him down and says that her marriage has already been arranged. He later learns that she is set to marry his close friend Cheenu.

Yaaradi Nee Mohini

2008

Sivappathigaram poster
4.7

A man is working on a project with a smart professor whose daughter starts to like the man. During the legislature elections some mysterious killings take place. It's up to the guy to trace the killer.

Sivappathigaram

2006

Ellam Avan Seyal poster
7.0

A lawyer, who defends criminals, wages vigilante justice against them in private. The movie deals with the murder of a girl who was ragged and brutally murdered by her classmates. The lawyer, through his own investigation arrives at the fact that she was brutally raped by college authorities and framed the students as culprits.

Ellam Avan Seyal

2008

Anjaneya poster
2.5

DCP Paramaguru is an efficient police officer who fights with the scum of the society. He later masquerades as a thief to infiltrate into the underworld. The bad guys are surprised to find that Paramguru is the DCP, out to get them. So they all gang up against him. In this process a thrilling encounter takes place between the good and the evil. Paramaguru is helped in his fight against injustice by Divya who falls in love with him.

Anjaneya

2003

Good Luck poster
7.0

Surya (Prashanth) is a carefree youth living in Malaysia with his brother Chandramohan (Raghuvaran) and sister-in-law Devi (Sukanya). Chandramohan and Devi are childless because of a problem with Chandramohan. Surya falls in love with dancer Priya (Riya Sen) and manages to steal her heart too. Just when things seem happy, a bombshell is dropped by a Sister Mary who tells Surya that he is the father of a small girl Pooja. Pooja must undergo an operation to save her life but insists on seeing her dad before agreeing to the operation. Surya agrees to pose as her dad and is forced to do so on a more permanent basis even after the operation is done.

Good Luck

2000

Arasatchi poster
6.0

Siddharth has suffered at the hands of corrupt lawyers and decides to kill all lawyers who help criminals evade the law. He doesn't even refrain from going against a lawyer who turns out to be family.

Arasatchi

2004

Marudhamalai poster
5.0

Marudhamalai, a cop, gets involved in a scuffle with the local gangster and helps the villagers get rid of his atrocities.

Marudhamalai

2007

Uyirile Kalanthathu poster
4.8

A man, who is the youngest in the family and much pampered, is detested by his elder brother. He falls for a girl and decides to meet her family, but out of animosity, his brother damages his image in front of them.

Uyirile Kalanthathu

2000

Naaga poster
3.5

A man wages a battle against politicians and their dishonourable ways of campaigning when some political goons harm his father and sister due to a trivial issue.

Naaga

2003

Mass poster
6.2

Mass, an orphan, bonds well with his landlord's son, Adi, who is in love with a mafia head's daughter. Attempting to separate the lovers, the gangsters kill Adi and Mass sets out to seek revenge.

Mass

2004

Deepavali poster
5.1

Susi, who suffers from post traumatic event disorder, falls in love with Billu. After Susi undergoes the treatment for her cure, she is unable to recognize Billu..

Deepavali

2007

Alai poster
4.5

Aadhi and Meera are in love. During their friend's marriage in his village, they intervene and help him marry the girl he loves, against the wishes of his parents, resulting in dire consequences.

Alai

2003

Aatadista poster
4.9

Jagan alias Chinna is industrialist Lion Rajendra's jobless son. He falls in love with Sunanda. Meanwhile he suggests that his father and his rival Raghunath get into a partnership to double up their efficiency. Without his knowledge his marriage is fixed to Raghunath's daughter, who obviously turns out to be Sunanda, but the families are not on great terms even after they fix the match. Raghunath is dealing in tobacco businesses that is actually owned by Bonala Shankar, a brusque and notorious MLA. Rajendra doesn't want to deal in that area, but Bonala threatens the board of directors too. Now Jagan has to deal with this corrupt politico and plays a game with him that shakes him from his very roots-spreads a rumor that he hit Shankar.

Aatadista

2008

1990s · 21 titles

No artwork available
NR

A serial killer known to target prostitutes is on the run. Vikram, a policeman, investigates the case and embarks on a mission to track him down.

Witness

1995

Shiva poster
6.7

Shiva, a fresher at VAC College, is forced to stand up against the students' union president and a group of gangsters who have made the college environment increasingly violent.

Shiva

1990

Suswagatham poster
5.8

Ganesh is in love with Sandhya throughout their college years, but she does not reciprocate. In his quest to gain her love, he ends up losing more than he bargained for.

Suswagatham

1998

Baasha poster
7.6

Auto rickshaw driver Manickam avoids violence at all costs. When some thugs begin to intimidate Manickam's family, it triggers the revival of Manickam's old self.

Baasha

1995

Muthu poster
6.8

The story concerns Muthu, a charismatic, well-respected and loyal servant and charioteer of Raja Malayasimman, a wealthy zamindar. While Muthu and Raja's exploits lead them to fall in love with the same woman, an actress and dancer named Ranganayaki, Raja's materal uncle Ambalathar is keen on assuming control of the family's property.

Muthu

1995

Izzatdaar poster
6.5

Brahm Dutt is set up and framed for a murder for which he is jailed because of his scheming son-in-law, Raghuvaran. His daughter, Sonu, is also killed at the hands of Raghuvaran when he slaps and tries to molest Mohini when she confronts him about his evil deeds. Brahm Dutt avenges the death of his daughter and the years spent in prison. Against this backdrop, Vijay is a man who works for the underworld after he is shot as a child. After finding love with Mohini, he changes his ways and joins up with Brahm Dutt to take revenge as he too has been wronged by the same group of villains.

Izzatdaar

1990

No artwork available
NR

Dhool Parakuthu is a 1993 Tamil film directed by Raja. The film stars Raghuvaran, Ramya Krishnan, Ravi Raghavendra and Malaysia Vasudevan in lead roles.

Dhool Parakuthu

1993

Lal Baadshah poster
5.3

A man who got separated from his biological parents at birth, grows up to become the voice of the people. His caring nature for others, eventually leads him on a dangerous journey to uncover the truth about who his real parents are.

Lal Baadshah

1999

No artwork available
NR

Raja is a CBI officer with a happy family. He finds out that a terrorist has escaped from Tihar jail and killed his father. He goes in search of the terrorist with the help of Margandayan, a prisoner.

Raja Muthirai

1995

Ratchagan poster
7.7

A girl falls for a violent man, who keeps taking law in his hands and beats people up. She wants to marry to him and eventually even he says yes, but her father has a condition that he should control his anger and work with him in his factory.

Ratchagan

1997

Endrendrum Kadhal poster
6.5

Endrendrum Kaadhal starring by vijay and rambha. Vijay is the managing director of a large shipping corporation. He lives in a joint family with his father (Nambiar), two brothers (Radharavi and Dhamu), their wives and children and a spinster sister(Banupriya). He goes to Switzerland to stipulate a contract with 'Nizhalgal' Ravi and Raghuvaran. There he meets Rambha, Ravi's sister. The two fall in love.Ravi approves of Vijay but when he expresses the condition that Vijay should stay with them after the marriage because India is not good, he refuses his offer and returns home....

Endrendrum Kadhal

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pudhiya Raagam

1991

Mudhalvan poster
7.0

A man accepts a challenge to act as the Chief Minister for one day only, and makes such a success of it that soon he is embroiled in political intrigue.

Mudhalvan

1999

Rakshak poster
5.8

ASP Raj Sinha is assigned to nab the criminal responsible for printing and circulating fake currency notes. However, he is in for a rude shock when he learns that the criminal is his childhood friend

Rakshak

1996

Aahaa..! poster
NR

Sriram (Jagapati Babu) is the son of "Pepsi" Parasuram (Vijayakumar), who always enjoys his life and his father feels that he is a useless fellow. Raghuram (Raghuvaran), his elder brother is their father's favorite son. To hide his brother secret he take the blame for everyone's shortcomings, becomes the family scapegoat and his father's favorite whipping boy. The rest of the film examines whether or not Raghu is finally vindicated in the eyes of his family.

Aahaa..!

1998

Arunachalam poster
7.3

Arunachalam, the son of a prominent village elder, discovers the truth about his past.

Arunachalam

1997

Addeham Enna Iddeham poster
9.0

Benny’s (Siddique) bid to leave a life of crime, after a lengthy incarceration, goes horribly wrong. Just when all seems lost, help come in the form of an unlikely benefactor.

Addeham Enna Iddeham

1993

Thulli Thirintha Kaalam poster
NR

Kausalya faces several difficulties when she tries to discipline a group of youngsters who are idlers and always cause huge embarrassment to their families.

Thulli Thirintha Kaalam

1998

Nerrukku Ner poster
6.3

Raghu and Shanti are divorced couple which sparks problems between both respective younger brothers.

Nerrukku Ner

1997

Amarkalam poster
6.5

Vasu is a tough street crook who lives at a movie theater. One day while transporting the reels of a new film, he clashes with a music student Mohana. Mohana is the daughter of the Police Commissioner, who Tulsidas an ex-gang leader released from jail has an old grudge against. He tells Vasu to kidnap Mohana for two days in order to ruin the family's honor. While being held captive by Vasu, Mohana falls in love with him after hearing him sing. Vasu rejects her love, but on learning of it, Tulsidas pays him to pretend to be in love with her. By the time Tulsidas learns that his enmity with the police commissioner is false and tells Vasu to stay away from Mohana it is too late, Vasu's love has become real.

Amarkalam

1999

Kaadhalan poster
6.7

Prabhu, a college student, falls in love with Shruthi, a governor's daughter. On knowing about their love affair, her father imprisons Prabhu and forbids him to meet Shruthi.

Kaadhalan

1994

1980s · 8 titles

No artwork available
NR

An honest police officer and a professor rehabilitate a bunch of students, who are addicted to drugs, and start a revolution against corrupt politicians.

Ivargal Varungala Thoongal

1987

En Bommukutty Ammavukku poster
6.8

Vinod and Lakshmi, who lost their daughter in an accident, adopt Tinu, a vivacious young girl, from an orphanage. However, the family faces challenges when Tinu's birth parents set out to find her.

En Bommukutty Ammavukku

1988

No artwork available
NR

Gopi and his brother Satyam get married but Gopi's wife is not treated well in the family. Lakshmi, Satyam's wife, realizes the same and tries to teach her mother-in-law a lesson.

Marumagale Vazhga

1982

Mr. Bharath poster
7.1

Businessman Gopinath abandons Shanti, his first love, to marry a rich heiress. Later, Bharath, Gopinath and Shanti's illegitimate son, seeks revenge from him for the injustice meted out to his mother.

Mr. Bharath

1986

Siva poster
6.6

Siva is a new student in the community college. He is welcomed by a group of collegians, including the lovely Asha, to whom Shiva is instantly attracted. Shiva notices that there is violence within the college, perpetrated by people who are not even students. When he decides to find out their motives, he is met with violence, and threats. Now Shiva must decide to stand up for his college, or just carry on studying, finish college, and move on and get to on job.

Siva

1989

Siva poster
5.0

Siva and John, two best friends, get separated due to the atrocities of a gangster. Siva becomes Tiger and fights injustice, while John is hired by a mafia leader to kill Siva.

Siva

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nee Thodum Pothu

1984

Rudranetra poster
7.0

Netra works for a detective agency and is assigned a mission to track down the underworld activities of an influential personality. The situation changes when he gets killed during his mission.

Rudranetra

1989

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