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Thanga Pazham (born 6 June 1954 ), known by his screen name Jaguar Thangam, is a famous stunt choreographer in the Indian film industry who works in almost all regional languages in India primarily in Tamil Cinema. He began Silambam when he was 6 years old. In the middle of 1978, he was given the name Jaguar Thangam by a Malayalam director Mr. Chandrakumar. Following his debut in Chandrakumar's Hindi drama Meena Bazzar (1978) as a stunt coordinator, his stunt career commenced with a brief phase of stunt sequences in nationwide film industry.

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Jaguar Thangam
Jaguar Thangam
Born	Thanga Pazham (1954-06-06) 6 June 1954 (age 68) Tutucorin, Tamilnadu, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Stunt Choreographer actor producer screenplay writer Director
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Shanthi Jaguar Thangam (1984–present)
Children	Vijaya Siranjeevi, Jai J Jaguar
Awards	Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator
Honours	Kalaimamani 2020 [1]

Jaguar Thangam was found by Mr. M.G.Ramachandran popularly known as M.G.R. (a famous actor and former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu ) in his early stage. As of now Jaguar Thangam completed 1000+ films in almost all languages in India. Jaguar Thangam has won Four Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator for Five Tamil movies.[2] In addition to stunt, he is also working as a actor,[3][4] producer, Script writer and Director. Apart from his stunt career, he is interested in social activities and politics.

Now Jaguar Thangam is associated as Honourable Secretary with the Film and Television Producers’ Guild of South India, which is located in Thiyagaraya Nagar in Chennai, Tamilnadu.

Early life

Jaguar Thangam was born on 6 June 1954 in Tamil Nadar family at Kommadikottai in Tutucorin, Tamilnadu State.^{[citation needed]} His mother, Chinnammal was a housewife, and his father S.K.Paalpaandian Nadar was a landlord and farmer.^{[citation needed]} He was named Thanga Pazham Nadar, and he is the youngest in a family consisting of 4 elder brothers and 4 elder sisters, including a last elder sister Sakthi Kani.^{[citation needed]} In his early childhood days, he lost his mother.^{[citation needed]} From thereafter his sister Sakthi Kani and her husband Jayaraj Nadar took care in the growth of Jaguar Thangam.^{[citation needed]}

Early career

Jaguar Thangam started learning Silambam at the age of 6. From then till now, he has been the only person in the film industry who has mastered 27 kinds of stunt arts.[5]

At the age of nineteen at Vellamandi in Trichy, M. G. Ramachandran (a famous actor and former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu ) found his talent in silambam and took him to Chennai for further stunt actions study. Jaguar Thangam used this opportunity to mould himself and started learning. He started learning the art of stunts from Dakchinamoorthy Aachariyar, then followed then Tony Ponnaiya, who was a master in the art of Chinese style Chittorian. Jaguar Thangam has also learned Ayurveda from some Siddhas who were only resided in the western region mountains in Tamilnadu.^{[citation needed]}

Film career

Jaguar Thangam started his film career in Hindi as a Stunt Choreographer in the movie Meena Bazaar in 1978. Following that, he has done more than 87 films in Hindi where he did 17 movies with the veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty.

He started his film career as a stunt fighter in the Tamil movie Vetri in which famous Tamil actor Vijayakanth got a lead role. He started his career as a Stunt Choreographer in Tamil movie Vaigasi Poranthachu. He worked in the Hollywood movie Blood Stone, which is the only Hollywood movie of Rajinikanth. He worked with the veteran actor Kamal Hasan in the movie Maharasan.

Till now, Jaguar Thangam completed more than 1000 films in almost all languages in the Indian film industry.

The following stunt choreographers are the students of Jaguar Thangam: Peter Hein, Anal Arasu, K. Ganesh Kumar, Stunt Silva, S. R. Murugan, and Knockout Nandha.

Personal life

Jaguar Thangam married Shanthi, whose native was in Chakkammalpuram, near Pudukkottai, Thoothukudi district, but she was born in Chennai on 24 September 1963 and was named by M. G. Ramachandran known as M.G.R. (a famous actor and former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu ).[6] The marriage took place on 9 September 1984 at Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Dever Kalyana Mandapam in Thiyagaraya Nagar, Chennai. The couple has two sons named Vijaya Siranjeevi and Jai J Jaguar. Both are very active in Tamil cinema as Stunt Choreographer as well as actors. Vijay Chiranjeevi made his acting debut with Suryaa (2008), directed by his father.[7]

Filmography

Films

Television

• 2000 Krishnadasi
• 2001 Jhala Khreedai
• 2014 Romapuri Pandian

Director

• 2008 Suryaa

Actor

• 1990 Vaigasi Poranthachu
• 1996 Gopala Gopala
• 1997 Thadayam
• 1998 Priyamudan
• 1998 Nilaave Vaa
• 2004 Ramakrishna
• 2005 Vetrivel Sakthivel
• 2006 Chennai Kadhal
• 2015 MGR Sivaji Rajini Kamal
• 2017 Julieum 4 Perum
• 2022 Uzhaikkum Kaigal

Awards

Won

• 1996 Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator - Poomani
• 1998 Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator - Priyamudan
• 2002 Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator - Bagavathi
• 2019 Kalaimamani Awards from the Government of Tamil Nadu.

References

External links

• Jaguar Thangam at IMDb

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