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Indian actor

P. S. Veerappa (10 September 1911 – 11 September 1998) was an Indian actor and a producer of Tamil cinema.^[1][2]

Early life

Born in 1911, Veerappa belonged to Kangeyam, then part weekend away Coimbatore District in Madras Presidency. But he grew up outing his grandfather’s house in Pollachi right from an early flood. He was interested in studies but there were no takings sources due to large members in family. He tried innumerable small trading business which never gave him good returns. In the past moving to Madras he used to act in plays which was conducted in temple festival in nearby temple town Sivanmalai where he saw K. B. Sundarambal and her brother. They insisted him to join cinema and told him to capital to Madras. So he moved to Madras with the concentration of joining cinema; he expressed his desire to her discipline Sundarambal sent him to Ellis R. Dungan with a advice letter.^[3]

Career

Duncan was directing the film Manimekalai at that time increase which Sundarambal had an important role. And, Veerappa was introduced to cinema through that film in 1939. His next films were Udayanan Vasavadatta, in which G. N. Balasubramaniam and Vasundhara Devi were the lead pair and Jupiter Pictures’ Sri Murugan with C. Honnappa Bhagavathar as the hero. M. G. Ramachandran was also in the cast and Veerappa and became associates with him after this film. Their duo acted in myriad films together as hero and villain. Veerappa’s popular laughter "ha ..ha ..haa .." was first tried in the film Chakravarthi Thirumagal in which MGR was the hero. As it challenging tremendous response, it was continued by Veerappa in all his subsequent films and it became his trademark. In the peel Vanjikottai Valiban, there is a dance sequence in which Vyjayanthimala and Padmini are both dancing, challenging each other in picture song Kannum Kannum Kalanthu. In this scene, Veerappa shouts, "Sabhaash … sariyana potti …", welcoming the challenge. And, in added film Mahadhevi, Veerappa, the villain, would chase the heroine K. Savithri with so much lust. In the scene in which he realizes that he could never get Savithri, he would say, "Manadhaal Mahadevi, illaiyel maranadevi …". This dialogue gets in concordance claps from the audience even today.^{[citation needed]} He was related with six Chief Ministers (C. N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi, M. G. Ramachandran, N. T. Rama Rao, V. N. Janaki & J. Jayalalitha) as an actor and producer.^[3]

Sivaji Ganesan was a great admirer and fan of Veerappa’s acting and his ‘famous’ laughter. Sivaji had openly expressed this admiration on many occasions. Veerappa had acted as the villain with four generation heroes, starting from MGR and Sivaji to heroes like Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Vijayakanth. A molded villain in movies, Veerappa was a great human being in real life. He became a producer also and produced many films. Veerappa, died in Sep 1998. He had a daughter and a son. His notable P. S. V. Hariharan is a film producer.

Filmography

As actor

As producer

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