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person_profile-Periyar Dasan

Periyar Dasan Died at age: 63

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Periyar Dasan

Date of Birth:

Aug 21, 1949

Country of birth:

India

Died:

Aug 19, 2013

Biography of

Periyar Dasan

    Periyar Dasan was an eminent speaker and activist from Tamil Nadu. He was a Tamil Scholar and thinker. He propagated Atheism and Rationalist ideologies for most part of his life. He has also appeared in Tamil-language films. He had acted in around 15 films, starting with Karuthamma.

    Born in a shaivite family he was attracted towards the rationalist ideals of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy founder of the Dravidian movement. During his days in Pachaiyappa’s college, he changed his original name Seshachalam to Periyar Dasan ('Ardent follower of Periyar'). He well versed in Tamil literature, various religious studies and English and he has authored around 120 books. He was served as a professor in his alma mater, Pachaiyappa’s college, for 34 years.

    In 1991, Periyar Dasan embraced Buddhism and added Siddartha as a prefix to his name. He translated the Dhammapada, a compilation of Buddhist virtues, authored by BR Ambedkar, into Tamil. This took him to learn Pali and Sanskrit.

    Taking everyone by surprise, he embraced Islam as his way of life on 11 March 2010 during a visit to Mecca and rechristened his name as ‘Abdulla Periyardasan’. Thereafter, he started giving a series of lectures on Islam. Before embracing Islam, he spent 10 years in knowing the key aspects of that religion and learning the Holy Quran and the Arabic language. Since 2004, he stopped his propagation of atheism.

Filmography of

Periyar Dasan

Found 9 Movies in total

Veeram

Bhai ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2008

... 2008

Oru Kalluriyin Kathai

College Peon ( Actor )

... 2005

Ayya

Actor

... 2005

Azhagi

Actor

... 2002

Anandham

Accountant ( Actor )

... 2001

Kadhalar Dhinam

Periyar Dasan ( Actor )

... 1999

Karuththamma

Mokkaiyan ( Actor )

... 1994