Battling Mani

Battling Mani is an Indian cinema artiste who worked mainly in Tamil films.

Silent films
During the period of silent films, most of the films were made with stories already known to the people. But they introduced attractive dances and stunt scenes to capture the audience's enthusiasm. There were two stunt artistes working at that time. One was Battling Mani and the other was Stunt Raju.

Tamil talkies
In 1936, the very first action film in Tamil was produced and released. Battling Mani was the obvious choice for the main role that was a daring young man with full of stunt works. He also wrote the story of this film, Madras Mail was a huge success.

Miss Sundari was his next film released in 1937. P. S. Sivapackiam paired with him in this film.

After a few years he featured in the lead role of Thaai Nadu that was released on the day India became an independent nation, 15 August 1947.

As director
In 1938 he directed the one and only film Harijana Singam or Madras CID, a film that had two alternate titles as per the norms of the day. He also featured in the lead role.