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Gayathri Iyer is a well-known Indian film actress and a model. She was born as Gayathri Venkitagiri on June 16, 1983, in Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu in India. She took a Mechanical Engineering course, and her modelling career started during college when she joined many fashion shows, which led her to participate in intercollege fashion shows. Later, she got noticed by certain casting directors and coordinators from Kerala. Gayathri subsequently did some print ads before she went on to become a TV commercial model for popular brands like Garnier, Vivel Soap, Pantene, Prince Jewellery, Eashoffbang, Yamaha Dream Rider, ParleG, Airtel Digital TV, Colgate Max Fresh, Vanitha Magazine Cover, Cool Lips, Kalamandir Sarees and many more She did some modelling ramp in Bangalore for various fashion labels. When she already established herself as a successful model, she then shifted to acting and has worked predominantly in the Telugu and Kannada film industry.

Vinaya Prasad (or Vinaya Prakash) is a popular senior south Indian actress in both films and Television serials. She has acted in films in all four south Indian languages and has won the Karnataka State Best Actress Award twice in her acting career.

Vinaya hails from Udupi district in Karnataka. She was trained in music at very young age. She made her debut in films by performing a small role in Kannada film Madhvacharya  way back in 1988. Her first lead role was in a Kannada movie Ganeshana Maduve opposite Ananth Nag in 1990. His film was was the real turning point in her acting career and she had no looking back in her career in 90s with basket full of movies mostly in Kannada and Malayalam. Some of her best Kannada movies were  Nee Nakkare Halu Sakkare (1991), Mysore Jaana (1992), Aaganthuka (1993), Suryodaya (1993), Bannada Hejje (2001) etc. She bagged the state award for Aaganthuka and Bannada Hejje. Vinaya’s noted Tamil movie was Thaikulame Thaikulame (1995) in which she played the lead role opposite to Pandiarajan along with Urvashi.She also acted in Rajinikanth’s Chandramukhi (2005)Vinaya Prasad’s best Malayalam movies as lead roles were Mookilla Rajyathu (1991) as heroine, M T Vasudevan Nair’s Perumthachan (1991), Manichitrathazhu (1993), Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu (1994) and the list goes on. She did a few Telugu movies like Indra (2002), Donga Dongadi (2004) and Andhrudu (2005) in which her performance was lauded. 

After a decade of lead roles, Vinaya shifted to playing character roles in movies and also moved to TV serials. She immortalized the character Indu of her debut Malayalam TV serial Sthree among Malayali family audiences. Sthree was aired on Asianet from 1998-2000 over 400 episodes. Vinaya acted in the Kannada version of the serial as well. Since then she has been a part of many TV serials in both Kannada and Malayalam. To name a few Bangaara on Udaya TV, Anupama and Nithyotsava on Zee Kannada, Saradha and Devimahatmyam on Asianet, Neermathalam on Surya TV and Balamani on  Mazhavil Manorama. Amidst the busy scheduled in TV serials, Vinaya is doing noted character and supportive roles in movies. In 2014 she has done five Malayalam movies including Om Shanthi Oshana, Bangalore Days and Avatharam.

In personal life, Vinaya was first married to acclaimed Kannada film director and editor V.R.K. Prasad who passed away in 1995. Vinaya is now married to Jyothiprakash, a TV serial director. She resides with her daughter Prathama Prasad in Bangalore.

Anuradha Bhat is a playback singer. She was born on 23rd of July in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. She was the daughter of Mrs. Gayathri Srikrishna, and Mr. Srikrishna Bhat. Her parents loved music. She has a sister, Anupama Bhat. She is a famous TV actor cum anchor. Coming to her studies, she completed her education from St Ann’s Girls High School, and Carmel English School.

Chaitra H G was born on June 18, 1984 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Chaitra’s father 'H S Gopinath' is an eminent tabla player and Indian Classical singer. Chaitra H G is a well-known playback singer and has provided vocals to over 500 songs in different languages like Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil. She attended Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore where she pursued her graduate studies in Information Science and Engineering.

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Vinod Prabhakar is one of the three children from Tiger Prabhakar’s first marriage to Alphonza Mary. Following his father’s footprints, he too joined the Kannada film industry, and since then he has acted in various films. One of his early films was in 2005 with the film ‘Tadipaar’, in which he was casted alongside Charanraj and Bhavya. It was directed by S. S. David and produced by Shiv Kumar, but wasn’t favored much by the critics. Following this, he did two more films in the year of 2007, which were Vip 5 and Circle Rowdy. However, he first tasted success with the release of his 2008 film, ‘Navagraha’, directed by Dinakar and starring Darshan and Sharmila Mandre, along with him. A heist film showcasing 9 actors, all sons of famous Kannada villains, representing the nine planets in a negative light and their quest to steal the golden howdah from the Mysore palace, Navagraha ran for 125 days.

Chikkanna was born in Ballahalli district of Mysuru city in Karnataka, India. He has been working in the show-business since 2011. He is best known for his works in the Kannada cinema. He has played many comic roles in various south Indian films. He debuted on television in a Mysore-based comedy show, titled Drishya Kalavide.

Girish Shivanna is a well known Indian theatre artist, Television Serial actor, and movie actor, and he works mostly for  Kannada industry. He started his career from the debut comic roles. He was Born on 19 January 1976, and now he is 42 years old.

Thriller Manju is a person who has left no stone unturned in the field of cinema. A multitalented person, he is a director, a stunt director, an actor and a choreographer. He was born as Manjunatha Kumar in the city of Bengaluru in Karnataka. He has been working in the Kannada Film Industry since the year 1990. Manju entered the film industry through the movie Gejja Nadu in the year 1993. He started out as an actor and did small supporting roles in movies like Jana Nayaka and Shh! a thriller film in the 1990s. After a few stints in acting, he went on to become the captain of the ship that is the director. He ventured into filmmaking in the year 1996 through a cop movie. Thriller Manju, as his name suggests, made a thrilling and racy cop flick titled Police Story. This movie, whose story and screenplay were also written by Manju, had actor Sai Kumar in the lead. It became an instant blockbuster and even today remains a trademark film. The after effect of the movie was so high that fans started to expect another similar movie from Manju, which led him to direct the sequels for this cult film. In the year 2006, after ten years of the release of the first one, Manju directed its sequel movie titled Police Story 2. This flick also had the ‘Dialogue King’ Sai Kumar in the lead. The movie opened up to mixed reviews.

Honnavalli Krishna is a film actor. He mainly acts in the Kannada films. He has worked in the movies such as Anand (1986), Ratha Sapthami (1986), Aasegobba (1990), Janumada Jodi (1996). Krishna’s journey to the film industry has been a long narrative. Honnavalli Krishna spent forty-five years with Raj Kumar, the famous actor. He was an immense fan of Raj Kumar, Krishna wanted to see Raj Kumar. He departs from his village Honnavalli in the Taluk of Arakalgudu and goes to Bangalore to meet the actor Raj Kumar in the year of 1969. He was born in a poor family. He arrived at Bangalore with many difficulties. Then he searches and goes to Raj Kumar’s house, in that time Raj Kumar had shifted to Chennai. For Krishna Chennai was not a familiar city and the language also not known, even when he went to Chennai and worked as a cleaner in the hotel.

Jassie Gift is a music composer and singer who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He predominantly works for Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil movies and is currently, based in Bengaluru.

Ravi Basrur is one of those few people who have the courage to leave a high paying career, set a path away from the established family business and follow their dreams. Ravi had been working as a programmer for 14 years before he finally decided to take the leap of faith and join the entertainment industry. Ravi hails from a family deeply interested in music and in his own words, he grew up listening to yakshagan and bhajans. Sculpture-making is the family business and needless to say the art runs in the family blood.

V Nagendra Prasad is a lyricist, music director, director and an actor in the Kannada film industry. He was born on 3rd December 1975 to ‘MV Venkata Ramanappa’ and ‘Chandramma’ in Nagamangala, Karnataka. Prasad completed his schooling in Bangalore. Being passionate about literature, he chose Kannada literature in his under graduation course. To pursue his post graduation, he moved to Mysore. Nagendra is interested in writing poems from his young age. His career in cinema started as a lyric writer in 2000. His first film is “Gajina Mane”, directed by ‘KV Jayaram’. “Hamsalekha” composed the tunes for the lyrics of Nagendra. He developed his knowledge in cinema gradually. Prasad has penned the lyrics for more than thousand songs.

Yogaraj Bhat was born on 8th October, 1973 in Mandarthi, in coastal district Udupi of Karnataka. He is the 7th child of Ramachandra and Jayalakshmi Bhat. Ramachandra lost his life in a boat mishap.

Yogaraj is a famous director in Sandalwood industry. He has also tasted success as a lyricist, producer and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his 2006 hit Mungaru Male, which was written by Bhat along with Preetam Gubbi. He directed the film and wrote lyrics with others. Mungaru Male recorded the highest box office collections in Sandalwood history. His other achievements include introducing talented technicians to the industry like Pawan Kumar of Lucia, Pawan Wadeyar and many others.

His lyricist journey started with Mungaru Maleye from his film Mungaru Male and there was no looking back. He has written lyrics for more than 100 super hit songs for the films such as Gaalipata, Jackie, Junglee, Hudugaru, Paramathma, Pancharangi, Chingari, Super, Anna Bond, Crazy Loka, Shiva, Lifeu Ishtene, Johny Mera Naam, Victory and many more. He is so versatile that he can write a song like Mungaru Maleye and a fast one like Hale Paathre, showing his range of lyrical talent.

Bhat was inspired by classics like Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Akira Kurosawa's Ran and came to Bangalore at 22, to become a cameraman. As a newcomer, he served as an assistant to Girish Kasaravalli, Sunil Kumar Desai and many others. He was more thrilled about watching film making at close quarters than working with big names.

Bhat directed a TV serial, before making his first film. But it took him 8 years, before a producer could back him independently. His first movie was Mani and that showed memorable performances by Rangayana Raghu and veteran actress Umashree, both won State awards for their roles in the movie. Then he directed Ranga SSLC (2004) starring Sudeep and Ramya in the leading roles, however it did not do very well.

His next film after a long break Mungaaru Male became the biggest hit in South India, creating a record and followed by another hit, Gaalipata. He also acted in the film Dyavre for one of his assistants, which started his acting career.

Chandan is a South Indian playback singer, rapper, lyricist, composer and music director. He is also known as Kannada Rapper Chandan Shetty. He was born on 17th September 1989 in Sakleshpur in the Hassan district of Karnataka. He has written lyrics for about 30 songs, sang more than 45 songs and worked as an assistant music director for about 40 Kannada movies.

Shashank Sheshagiri is a Kanada singer, music composer, and music director. He has sung in many popular movies like Randhawa (2019), Avane Srimannarayana, Padde Huli and others.

Tippu is a playback singer of Indian cinema. He has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages. He has lent his voice to over 4000 songs in the four south Indian languages. His voice for Puneeth Rajkumar went well with the audience. Shiva Shiva Hoguthidde, Hey Hey Paaru, etc are some of his hit songs. His association with music director V Harikrishna is very famous. Tippu has sung for Tamil music composers A R Rahman, Imman, Harris Jayaraj, and Joshua Sridhar.

Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force.

A. Venkatesh is the well-known director of Tamil films. He is famous for directing the movies in very short period. He started his career by working as an assistant director under K. Rajeshwar for two films project namely “Idhaya Thamarai” (1990) and “Nyaya Tharasu” (1989). Further, he also worked with Pavithran for “Vasanthakala Paravai” (1991) and “Suriyan” (1992). Then he worked as an associate director in “Kadhalan” (1994) and “Gentleman” (1993) with director Shankar. The film “Kadhalan” turned out to be a fortunate one for him as, during this movie the producer, G. K. Reddy approached him to direct a film. And so, in 1996, his success journey began. He directed his debut by the film “Mahaprabhu” with Sukanya, R. Sarathkumar and Vineetha in leading roles.

Sudheera Venkatesh is an Indian Film public relations officer. He commenced his journey in the year 1985. Having done 1200+ films, Sudheera boasts 35 years of experience as a Public Relations Officer, mirroring all his successes. He is the founder of Raghvendra Chitravani. The all-time best movies, “Mungaru Male” and “Dhuniya” got him recognition for his work. He is continuing Sri Raghavendra Chitravani’s legacy. A few big names such as “Hombale films”; “Rockline Productions”; “Pushkar Films”; “And SV Productions” are permanent clients. With Fluency in 5 Indian languages, Sudheera Venkatesh has worked on assignments beyond Karnataka in his era. His noble works were awarded, the Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Kempe Gowda award, Nagara Jilla Kannada Sahitya Prashasthi, and many more. It is an honor to know about such a multi-talented personality.

Mass Madha is one of the prominent stunt directors in Kannada movie industry. Apart from being the stunt director, he has also played the supporting actor in various movies. He made his debut as a stunt director in the film ‘Simhadri’ in 2014. As a stunt director, he has worked in numerous films such as ‘Jyothi Allias Kothi Raja’ in 2014, ‘D.K.’ in 2015, ‘Paatargitthi’ in 2015, ‘Mythili & Co’ in 2015, ‘Neene Bari Neene’ in 2015, etc. He has worked with people such as ‘Chitram Basha,’ ‘Sanul Rathi,’ ‘K Veeru,’ ‘Ashwin Krishna’, etc. He has worked as a supporting actor in the movie Darling in 2014.

Ravivarma is a stunt director of Indian movies. He is mainly a Kannada film action master. He came to limelight after being nominated for best stunt director for the movie “Kempe Gowda” (2011). Apart from that, he notably worked in “Vishnuvardhana”(2011). Verma became popular in Bollywood industry after his debut stunt direction in Salman Khan’s film “ Jai Ho”(2014) directed by Sohail Khan.

Arasu Maharaj is an actor who portrays supporting roles predominantly in Kannada movies. His debut in the Sandalwood industry was in the year 2013 with the film titled Dyavre directed by Gadda Viji. He portrayed a supporting character in the 2014 movie called Doodhsaagar directed by Samuel Tony. Arasu Maharaj has also been a part of the film named Jwalantham, starring Deepa Gowda, Deepthi Kapse, Jwala, Chethan Poojary, etc.

Ravi Kale is an Indian actor known for acting in Telugu, Kannada, Marathi and Bollywood movies. He rose to fame with movies like Sarkar (where he played Amitabh Bachchan’s right-hand man), Agyaat, Mylari etc. He also starred in AMR Ramesh’s movie Cyanide, where he was the mastermind behind Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination. The film showcased the aftermath of Rajiv Gandhi’s murder. He also played the role of a Naxalite in the movie Red Blood. Due to his acting abilities, he has made his presence known in both Malayalam and Marathi cinema.

Jadalathimmanahalli Krishnappa Srinivasa Murthy Aka Srinivasa Murthy was born in Kolar in the state of Mysore. He is a known Kannada actor and television director. He is now at the age of 67 and living in Chikkaballapura in Karnataka. He is excellent for his work as a director and has directed many television series in Kannada. He has appeared in supporting roles in many Kannada films. He entered film industry in 1977. He started his career as a stage artist. He performed in professional and amateur theaters.

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