Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan, best known by his stage name Visu, was an Indian screenwriter, film director, stage, film and television actor and talk-show host.
12 Facts About Visu
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Visu initially worked as an assistant to director K Balachander until becoming a director himself.
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Visu later began acting, with his first film being Kudumbam Oru Kadambam, directed by S P Muthuraman.
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Visu started his career as a theatre artist, working with Y G Parthasarathy's drama troupe.
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Visu was writing scripts for stage dramas before getting into the film industry as an assistant to legendary director K Balachander.
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Visu made his debut as an actor in the film Kudumbam Oru Kadambam, for which he wrote the screenplay.
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Visu has shared the screen with Rajinikanth in Nallavanukku Nallavan, Mr Bharath, Mannan, Uzhaippali and Arunachalam.
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Shekher, who has worked in over 20 films with Visu, said that he was extremely disciplined and committed.
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Visu is known to have starred in over 60 films and directed around 25 films.
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In most of the films Visu directed, all the characters were given equal importance.
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Visu's films focused on many family issues like dowry, need of remarriage for women, mother in law-daughter in law disputes and so on which were occurring that time.
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On 22 March 2020 at Chennai, Visu died of kidney failure at the age of 74.