More information available in the website. This is only a sample and this page would be insufficient to describe the versatile and variety of roles he has played. His roles included V.O.C., Vanchinathan, Thiruppur Kumaran, Bhagat Singh (freedom fighters), Karnan, Bharathan (epic characters), Naradhar, Appar, Aazhvar (puranic characters), lepor, doctor, judge, advocate, rickshaw puller, etc. Sivaji Ganesan was the first Indian actor to get an award for Best Actor abroad. His role in the film Veerapaandiya Kattabomman won him the Best Actor Award at the Afro-Asian Film Festival held in March 1960 at Cairo. In the film Navarathiri (1964), Ganesan donned nine different roles that represented the nine emotional states of a person.
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His performance as Lord shiva in the movie Thiruvilayaadal is a classic and is the first to be bought one intends to collect movies for personal use. And his performance as Appar in Thiruvarut Selvar, received appreciation from the Saint Maha Periyaval, Jagat Guru Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi. In historic roles too, his performances as Raja Raja Sozhan, Samrat Asokan, have won him laurels throughout the world. In Karnan, based on Mahabharatha, his performance as Karna, stands evergreen even today. In puranic epic stories, his performance as Bharatha in Sampoorna Ramayanam was outstanding and the accolade came from none other than Chakkaravarthi Rajagopalachariar. Right from the first film Parasakthi, he has covered almost all characters of the society as well as puranic, historic and the like. In his career spanning 6 decades, Sivaji Ganesan has donned innumerable characters. Ramasamy, a torch bearer for Dravidian Movement, freedom fighter and atheist, was very much impressed by Ganesans performance as the Maratha warrior Sivaji in the Play "Sivaji Kannda Hindu Raajiyam" and called him as Sivaji.Incidentally the role should have been played by M.G. The script for the film was written and directed by the now-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Ganesans first film was the Tamil film Parasakthi in 1952, co-starring actress Pandari Bai. Apart from his immense success and reception in Tamil cinema, he has also acted in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada-language films. Sivaji Ganesans acting career runs to more than 6 decades. That day was a Monday, and on that day his father Chinnaiya mandrayar was arrested for taking part as a freedom fighter in an anti-British campaign in Villupuram. Sivaji Ganesan was born on to Chinayya Mandrayar and Rajamani Ammal, in a Tamil middle class Kallar family. He was the first Indian film actor who won a best actor award in an international film festival, the Afro-Asian Film Festival held in Cairo, Egypt in 1959 and the first Indian actor to be made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His fame came from his versatility and expressive prowess in Tamil cinema.
Viluppuram Chinnaiahpillai Ganesan Mandrayar, popularly known as Sivaji Ganesan was a Tamil stage and film actor who was considered to be among the first and finest method actors in India.