Nagesh

Nagesh earns my deep admiration as one of Indian cinema's great comic craftsmen. Born Cheyur Krishna Rao Nageswaran in Dharapuram, he lit up 1960s Tamil films and went on to appear in over a thousand movies across five decades, working in Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada too. Comedy is the hardest thing to sustain, yet he ranged into leads and villains while never losing his timing, and his 1994 National Film Award confirmed the depth behind the laughs. I love performers who commit to a single craft for a lifetime, and Nagesh did exactly that with astonishing range and stamina.

Name (English)

Nagesh

Name (Japanese)

ナゲシュ

Reading

なげしゅ

Born

September 27, 1933 – January 31, 2009

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rooster

Origin

Dharapuram, Tiruppur district, India

Occupation

actor / entrepreneur / film actor

Awards & achievements

• 1994 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
• 1996 Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagesh
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1022530

Tags

• Tiruppur district
• actor
• entrepreneur
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.