Gemini Ganesan

Ramaswamy Ganesan , better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian film actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was nicknamed Kadhal Mannan for the romantic roles he played in films. Ganesan was one among the three biggest names of Tamil cinema, the other two being M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. While Sivaji Ganesan excelled in films with drama, and MGR dominated films with fight sequences, Gemini Ganesan held his own with sensitive portrayals of the yearning lover. A recipient of the Padmashree in 1971, he had also won several other prestigious awards such as the Kalaimamani, MGR Gold Medal and Screen Lifetime Achievement Award. He came from an orthodox Brahmin family, and was one of the few graduates to enter the film industry at that time.

Gemini Ganesan was born Ganapathi Subramania Sarma in 1920. Ramaswamys father Narayanaswami was the Principal of the Maharajahs College, Pudukkottai. Early in his life, Narayanaswami was married to a Brahmin girl but on the early death of his wife, he married again, to a woman named Chandramma from the Isai Vellalar community. Notable among Narayanaswamis children with Chandramma were Muthulakshmi and Ramaswamy, father of Gemini Ganesan.

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