Y. G. Mahendran

Yechan Gunja Mahendran popularly known as Y G Mahendran or Y Gee Mahendra is an Indian dramatist actor singer playwright and comedian from the state of Tamil Nadu He has acted in a number of plays and films He is the son of Y G Parthasarathy regarded as one of the pioneers of modern Tamil drama and Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy founder and dean of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan group of schools In 1971 Mahendra was cast by veteran director K Balachander in the latters film Navagraham The film was an average grosser Mahendra was discovered to have a nasal accent which made him funny He acted in a variety of roles in a number of movies particularly as a dim witted fool of a cousin generally eclipsing roles enjoyed by Cho Ramaswamy in the 1960s and 70s Mahendra is also the cousin of Bollywood actress Vyjayanthimala and the cobrother of Rajinikanth and Mohanlal