The title, Nambiarswami: the good, the bad & the holy, encapsulates the personality of M.N. Nambiar, on and off the screen. He played the villain in films, but was a good man off it, leading a ...

MN Nambiar, the much-hated villain of Kollywood, earned his audience’s wrath on screen and received immense love and respect off it. He was celebrated as an ekapatniviradhan—faithful husband, an elder ...

The success of Velaikkari (1949), written by C.N. Annadurai, where I played two roles – a rich man’s son in love with the poor housemaid, as well as a lecherous guru – was largely instrumental in ...

Using the MGR-Nambiar characters as analogy, the director drives home the point how negative thoughts can overpower a person and deviate him from his goal. It’s an interesting concept, where the ...

Villain on screen, hero off it — that was M.N. Nambiar, who acted in 1,000 films, and a Hollywood film too. Nambiar was guruswamy to hundreds of Ayyappa devotees, including those from the film ...

Chennai: Perhaps taking a cue from Jyothika Suriya, yet another actor’s wife, who is well known in social circles, turns producer. This is none other than Vandhana Srikanth, wife of actor Srikanth, ...

TIRUCHY: Polling at Devarayaneri was a star-studded event. The village, a settlement of Narikkuravas, has a tradition of naming children after Tamil film actors. On Friday, silver screen rivals, MGR ...

MN Nambiar, the handsome villain that generations of cinegoers loved to hate, passed away in Chennai on Wednesday. He was 88. CHENNAI: MN Nambiar, the handsome villain that generations of cinegoers ...