Vinu Chakravarthee (15 December 1945 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor, script writer and director who is known for acting in more than 1000 movies in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Badaga and Malayalam mostly as a comedian, supporting actor or in a villainous role.
The 2007 released Tamil movie Muni was his landmark 1000th movie.
He had been hospitalised for the last few months of his life.