Pudukkottai Ulaganathan Pillai Chinnappa (5 May 1916 – 23 September 1951), also popularly known as P. U. Chinnappa, was a popular singer and Tamil movie actor during the 1930s and from Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, India. He is also credited to be one of the first major influential actors of South Cinema. His notable movies include Uthama Puthiran, Aryamala, Kannagi, Manonmani, Kubera Kuchela and Jagathalaprathapan.Despite attaining the super star status, his career was cut short by a sudden death.P. U. Chinnappa was born to Ulaganathapillai and Meenakshi ammal on 5 May 1916. He had two sisters. His father was a stage artist and hence he made his way easily into stage acting. Chinnappa had education only till 4th grade, he was not much involved in academics, he was rather interested in acting. Even as a kid he acted in several stage shows, his acting as a thief in Sadaram stage play as a kid won applause from audiences. Not only in acting Chinnappa was interested in wrestling and Silambam. Since his family was poor, at an age of 5 he went to rope production work for 5 rupees per month. However he didn't work there for a long time. Wikipedia
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