Noted Tamil movie director P. Vasu also used to reside in this locality.Tamil film actor M. N. Nambiar also was a resident of Gopalapuram until his death 19 November 2008.
She made her acting debut at the age of seven, and has since then acted with several leading actors like Sivaji Ganesan, MGR, Gemini Ganesan, M. R. Radha, M. N. Nambiar and N. S. Krishnan.
It was remade in Tamil as Ninaithadhai Mudippavan (Finishes everything he thinks) with M. G. Ramachandran reprising Rajesh Khanna's roles and M. N. Nambiar reprising Vinod Khanna's role which was released in 1975.