Tamannaah Bhatia
Aishwarya Lekshmi
Jonita Gandhi
Nikhita Gandhi
Sadhana Sargam
Sakshi Agarwal
Akanksha Puri
Chaya Singh
Vishal Reddy
Sundar. C
Hiphop Tamizha Adhi
Yogi Babu
Anbarivu
R Ravindran
Dudley
Bamba Bakya
Kaushik Krish
Kutle Khan
Nakul Abhyankar
Pa Vijay
Arun S Mani
PC Vishnu
G Durairaj
Dinesh
Johnson
Makarand Surte
Siddhartha Gandhi.
Anish Kuruvilla
George Maryan
Kabir Duhan Singh
Ravi Venkatraman
Sayaji Shinde
Shah Ra
Murali Krishnan
Paul B Sailus
Rajan Chelliah
Vishal Krishna
1. Tamannaah Bhatia
Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil and Telugu film industry with lots of fan following. Chand Sa Roshan Chehra was her first Hindi movie, in the year 2005. Her Telugu debut was Sri and the Tamil debut was Kedi. In Kedi, she did a negative role and the movie did not go well. It was also the debut movie for Ileana, the South Indian popular actress. Tamannaah Bhatia acted in Vyapari with director S.J.Suryah; but she did not get a good recognition. After she performed in Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori, she became notable. Her performance in that film was appreciated by everyone. Similarly, her Telugu film Happy Days was also a super hit and got her good name. Tamannaah Bhatia steadied her market by choosing good films.
...2. Aishwarya Lekshmi
Aishwarya Lekshmi is an Indian actress who has worked in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil movies. She has acted in many movies of these film industries. She is best known for her movies like ‘Rasukutty’, ‘Butterflies’, ‘Gardish’, ‘Aambala’ and many more. She has been a part of many Malyalam television series. She was born in Chennai as Shanta Meena Bhaskar. Her father K Bhaskaran was a Malayali and mother Lakshmi was a Tamil actress. She was interested in the film industry as she grew up watching her mother working hard in the industry and got inspired to become an actress. She debuted with the movie ‘Nyaayangal Jey Kattum’, a Tamil movie in 1990.
...3. Jonita Gandhi
Jonita Gandhi is an exceptionally talented singer from Canada. This Indo-Canadian singer is born in Delhi, brought up in Canada. Like many other singers, Jonita too comes with a family background that supported music from the beginning. Her father is a Musician by his own interest in music and by profession he is an electronics Engineer. Her first performance was much recognized when she performed along with her father in Toranto at an event organized for Christmas. Her music career has come a way long way already. She had sung in Bengali, Malayalam and Hindi film Industry.
...4. Nikhita Gandhi
Nikhita Gandhi is a famous Indian playback singer. She is known for her work in movies like ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’, ‘Jagga Jasoos’, ‘Sachin: A Billion dreams’ and many more. She sang the title track of ‘Raabta’ for Deepika Padukone. She was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. Her birth name is Nikita. She is half-Punjabi and half-Bengali. She did her graduation from Chennai and is a Dentist. She has also learned Classical music and Odissi dance for 12 years.
...5. Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974, she changed her name to Sadhana Sargam on advice given by Kalyanji Anandji, who had promoted her singing career.
...6. Sakshi Agarwal
A North Indian girl, brought up in Chennai, sought education in one of Chennai’s leading engineering institutions affiliated to Anna University, St.Joseph’s College of Engineering. She then went on to pursue MBA in one of the most reputed colleges in Bangalore. It was in Bangalore that she received her first break as a model. A fashion designer had a keen eye over her and sought to it, that Sakshi stepped onto the ramp.
...7. Akanksha Puri
Akanksha Puri is an Indian model-turned-actress. She is a Punjabi by birth. Puri was born in Indore to R. K. Puri (father), a retired Police A.C.P. and Chitra Puri (mother), an astrologer. She studied in a Convent in Bhopal. After graduation, Akanksha worked for Kingfisher Airlines as an air hostess. There she met a model coordinator who suggested her to venture into modeling. She had done over 90 commercials and print ads. Her parents supported her throughout, which she claims had hugely helped her.
...8. Chaya Singh
Chaya Singh was born on 16th May’1981 in Bangalore. Her parents belong to Uttar Pradesh. Before her birth, they migrated to Karnataka. Chaya Singh belongs to Raiput family. She spent her childhood in Bangalore. She has completed her schooling in Lourdes School, Bangalore. She did her Plus Two in Bangalore.
Chaya Singh is a film and TV actress who has started her film career with Kannada films and has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Telugu and Oriya films. Her debut film was the Kannada film Munnudi in the year 2000. Some of her Kannada films are- Haseena directed by the Kannada director Girish Kasaravelli, Thuntata which is a hit film, Chitte directed by Dinesh Babu and Rowdy Aliya directed by Sai Prakash. She has acted in the Kannada film Chitte which has received the National Film Award for Best Film for the year 2001. Chaya Singh is known for her being selective for her roles. After that she has migrated to Kollywood and has acted in the some Tamil films. The film Thiruda Thirudi in which she has acted was a big hit.
She has acted in a Kannada short film called Simply Kailawesome. This short film won the most prestigious Platinum Remi Award at 44th Annual World Fest Houston International Film Festival. This film revolves around the conversations among playwright T.P. Kailasam and the female protagonists of his four plays. Chaya Singh has acted as all the four characters.
Chaya Singh has also acted in 2 Malayalam films and 2 Bhojpuri films. She has also directed a Bengali movie.
She did supporting roles in some Kannada serials like- Prema Kathegalu and Sarojini for ETV Kannada. She has also acted in a Tamil serial called Nagamma for Sun TV. She is currently acting in the Telugu serial Kanchana Ganga for MAA TV.
...9. Vishal Reddy
Born as Vishal Krisna Reddy, he is called upon as Vishal as a stage name. Being the son of a producer, Vishal Reddy has enough experience about the film industry. Before making his debut as an actor, he worked as an assistant director of Arjun. Vishal Reddy’s brother Ajay Krishna alias Vikram Krishna is also an actor, who appeared in Poo Parikka Varugirom alongside Malavika.
...10. Sundar. C
11. Hiphop Tamizha Adhi
Hiphop Tamizha is an Indian Hiphop duo based in Chennai and composed of Adhithya Ramachandran Venkatapathy and Jeeva R. Primarily remained nameless, but gained acknowledgement after release of their track “Club le Mabbu le” which successfully attained 2 million views in a short span of two weeks in 2011. After listening to the track, the international hiphop brand Remy Martin, declared Hiphop Tamizha as an endorsed brand in the world of music. It was in 2012, that Hiphop Tamizha released their first official album, Hiphop Tamiizhan which became India’s first Tamil Hip Hop Album. The release of this album became the milestone for the destiny of their band. Apart from releasing their own music tracks, the duo has also composed music for various movies Kathakali, Thani Oruvan, Indru Netru Naalai and Aambala. Their contribution to the world of music wasn’t limited upto this only, they also launched a clothing brand name Tamizhanda Clothing.
Coming to the foundation of this hiphop brand, one if its founder named Adhithya was born on 20th February,to a middle class family. Only when his neighbour made him listen to the tunes of Michael Jackson, Adhi developed the intrest in the field of rapping. To break the stereotypical tradition of rap, he decided to compose raps in Tamil instead of English. He faced serious oppossition by his parents for pursuing the career of his interest.
He made his first Youtube Account with an image of Tamil poet Subramaniam Bharathi, due to the fear of getting caught. Adhi did his schooling at Chavara Vidya Bhavan and completed his electrical engineering at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology. He also did his Masters of Business Adminstration from University of Madras and completed his Doctorate from Bharathiar University, where his father works. The Second constituent of the duo is Jeeva R., who was born on 29th June, 1991 and did a course in Visual Communication from the prestigious Loyola College, Chennai. They both first met each other through a social netwroking website, Orkut. They were invited by the Tamil Nadu Election Commission to compose the anthem of election campaign.
Hiphop Tamizha’s single ‘Ezhuvoam Vaa’ was selected as election anthem for tamil nadu’s 2011 election. However, their hit track ‘Club le Mabbu le’, faced immense criticism due its depiction of women. Despite the controversies, “Club le Mabbu le” became a huge hit.
His latest Movie where he acted : Hip Hop Tamizha hero entry : Meesaya Murukku
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12. Yogi Babu
Yogi Babu is one of the famous actors in Indian films. His appearance is there in only Tamil movies. At present, he is a regular comedy actor in Tamil films. Babu was born in Chennai, Tamilnadu. His acting career started from 2009 onwards. He was famous for his outstanding movie called Maan Karate (2014); a fantasy oriented Tamil film under the direction of Thirukumaran. There are some prominent stars in this movie namely Sathish, Vamsi Krishna, Soori, Hansika Motwani and Sivakarthikeyan. Famous writer Murugadoss wrote the entire script for this movie and went on to screens under the production of Escape Artists Motion Pictures. Anirudh Ravichander gave an outstanding music for this movie. Mr. Babu was also notable for his famous film Yaamirukka Bayamey (2014), a comedy horror movie under the direction of debutant Deekay. It was under the production of Elred Kumar with casting by Anaswara Kumar, Oviya, Kreshna and Rupa Manjari.
...13. Anbarivu
The secret recipe to make any action movie memorable is having proper action directors to make fight sequences. Action choreography, much like dancing, is art and if not handled correctly, it could lead to the action being choppy, unstructured, unrealistic, and plain tedious to watch. However, if done correctly, It could lead to a surge of emotions from the audience towards the protagonist of the movie and can instill a sense of heroism in them. One such director who makes amazing action sequence is, Anbariv. The Kollywood industry, as we all know, is rich in action; placing a lot of emphasis on fighting scenes.. This is where stunt directors and choreographers, such as Anbariv thrive.
...14. R Ravindran
R Ravindran is a Producer born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. So far, R Ravindran has worked in Kollywood and Tollywood entertainment industries. He has worked in popular movies like Enna Solla Pogirai, Action. He is also known for being the producer of Avvai Shanmugi(1996). His previous film to hit the theatres was Enna Solla Pogirai in 2021. He has produced many other popular movies such as Shivalinga, Devi 2, Lakshmi, Action 2019, Mr. KK, Abhinetri 2, Shivalinga, Vetrivel, etc.
...15. Dudley
Dudley is an Indian cinematographer who is currently working in Bollywood. Dudley one of the most wanted cinematographers of Indian cinema. He is sought after by numerous directors in the industry. He worked in many Bollywood movies such as 'Golmaal Returns' in 2008 which is comedy, crime, drama movie, 'All the Best: Fun Begins' in 2009, 'Golmaal 3' in 2010, 'Bol Bachchan' in 2012 and 'Singham' in 2011. He has worked with famous Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan in 'Chennai Express' in 2013, and in 'Dilwale' in 2015. He also worked in 'Singham Return's in 2014 and 'Singh Is Bling' in 2015. Before he made a step in Bollywood movies he started his career as a camera operator in TV serials. Some of the TV serials he worked on were 'Luftthansa Nat Geo Genius' in 2008, 'Nat Geo Genius' in 2008, 'Tryst with Destiny' in 2007 and 'Mumbai Calling' in 2007.
...16. Bamba Bakya
Bamba Bakya is a playback singer who belongs to the Kollywood Industry. Till date, he has sung over eight songs. He is well known for singing the song called Simtaangaran along with Vipin Aneja and Aparna Nandan, under A R Rahman’s composition.
...17. Kaushik Krish
Kaushik Krish is an Indian playback singer. He is also a music director by profession. He mainly works for Tamil film industry. Kaushik's previous film island the hit to the theatres was OdavumMudiyathu OliyavumMudiyathu in the year 2018. The movie is in the Tamil language. The genre of the movie is the comedy. The movie releases in June and, in the year 2018.
...18. Kutle Khan
Born in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, Kutle Khan is a playback vocalist, who has worked mostly in Tamil cinema. He comes from the Manganiyarfamily of musicians. He is master of instrument Khartal. At 8 years old, he started playing as many acoustics as he can.
...19. Nakul Abhyankar
Nakul Abhyankar is a playback singer who works in the South Indian film industry. He was born on the 25th of May 1990 at Belthangady, Karnataka. He completed his graduation from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Karnataka in Mechanical Engineering. He is a trained Carnatic musician. Nakul sings songs in various languages such as Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Tulu. He made his debut in the year 2013 with the song called Usiragu Baare from a Kannada movie named Janma.
...20. Pa Vijay
P Vijay (Pa Vijay) is a Tamil poet and film lyricist, who wrote the award-winning lyrics for the song’’ Ovvoru Pookalume’’ in Cheran's Autograph in Kollywood film industry. This lyricist had an extensive impact on Tamil cinema and was considered to be a gem writer of many songs that had featured in many movies. This poet and lyricist-writer were born in a middle-class family where his mother was a school teacher, and his father worked as a spinning master in a textile mill in Coimbatore. The actor was born in Coimbatore on 20 October 1974 and did his MA Literature in Tamil from Annamalai University. This poet was a discovery of director K Bhagyaraj, who was his family friend. He was associated with K. Bhagyaraj in the magazine ‘Bhagya’ and even got a chance to pen his lyrics for the film Gnanapazham, which had music by K. Bhagyaraj himself. But it was in 2004 when the film ‘Autograph’ was released, his song ’Ovvoru Pookalume"’ became an instant hit. Dr. Karunanidhi had given him the title’ Vithaga Kavignar’ and he came to be known as one of the best poets in Tamil Literature. Even poet Vali felt that Pa Vijay was part of him and claimed that he alone can be his successor in the field of cinema lyrics. Pa Vijay is still humble despite he has contributions to the literary field by writing many books. He considered Kannadasan and Vairamuthu as his role model. He also acted in lead roles in films like ‘Gnabagangal’, ‘Ilaignan ‘and ‘Thagadu Thagadu’.
...21. Arun S Mani
Arun S. Mani is an Indian Sound Designer, Mix Engineer, and Foley editor. He predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil film Industry. Arun is famous for his work in Velayudham (2011), Pizza (2013), Inam, Left Right Left and 1 by two. Arun was born on 1984 in Kaapil, a beautiful rural area in Thiruvananthapuram, Tamil Nadu. He spent most of his childhood in Nedumangad in Tamil Nadu. His parents Mani and Padma both are teachers. His brother Prem kumar RL works in the advertising world. Arun was passionate about films from a young age.
...22. PC Vishnu
PC Vishnu has a versatile personality. He is highly experienced and striving in the film industry as a Sound Designer, Sound Recording Mixer, and Sound Editor for over 14 years. He completed his education from Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan (1990-2001) and later from Laidlaw Memorial School & Junior College, Tamil Nadu (2001-2003).
...23. G Durairaj
Durairaj is an Associate Art Director. Durairaj was born in Chennai. His father worked for the highways department. He completed his schooling and then completed a Bachelor’s and master’s degree in visual communication in the college of arts Chennai. He worked as an art director in 2013 in Naan_ Rajayaga_Pogiren and Udhayam_NH4. In 2014 he was Art Director in Eetti and Kaaki Sattai. He was born on 19 February 1979.His nickname is Durai.
...24. Dinesh
25. Johnson
Johnson is a PRO, a Public Relations Officer in the Tamil industry. He has handled the PR of various Tamil movies. Johnson is from Nagercoil, a city in Tamil Nadu. His mother is Johannal, and his father, KGA John, is an ex-naval officer. He has six siblings. He married to H.J. Mano in 1994. Johnson always dreamt of being a filmmaker. He aspired to assist the Indian actor R. Parthiban. He left his city, Nagercoil, and moved to Chennai to fulfill his dream. He met the editor of the magazine Kungumam, Paavai Chandran. Paavai brought him into the world of magazines. There, he started to write snippets about Tamil films. The films he wrote about were handled by Nellai Sundarjan as a PRO.
...26. Makarand Surte
Makarand Surte is a Hindi Colorist. He works as a colorist for RedChillies, a firm based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a highly respected a highly demanded colourist. He was one of the founding members of RedChillies, and he holds the position of a senior colourist. He also worked as a Digital Intermediate Colourist for a lot of movies such as Son of Sardaar (2012), Ferrari Ki Sawaari (2012), Shanghai (2012), Agneepath (2012). Apart from these movies, he has also worked in the editorial department of films such as Minnal Murali (2021), Pathaan (2023), Haseen Dilruba (2021), Chennai express (2013).
...27. Siddhartha Gandhi.
Siddhartha Gandhi is a highly experienced colorist in the motion pictures and film industry of Indian origin. He has a strong background in Broadcasting, Video, and Feature Films. He received his training at Digital Film School, specializing in DI COLORIST SCRATCH OPERATOR and MEDIA, in the years 2010-2011. He also pursued a Bachelor’s degree of Technology in the subject Electronics from IET ALWAR, which he completed in 2010. He is working as a Colorist at Red Chillies.Color, a position he has held since May 2017. Prior to that, he served as the Lead VFX Colorist at redchillies.vfx.
...28. Anish Kuruvilla
Anish Kuruvilla is an Indian actor, executive producer, and director. He was born and brought up in Hyderabad. The Malayali actor completed his Higher Secondary Education from The Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur.
...29. George Maryan
George Maryan is an Indian comedian and actor who works predominately in Tamil cinema. He was born on the 23rd of March in the year 1963 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. George started his career as a theatre actor in the year 1989; he continued to perform in play up to 2002.
...30. Kabir Duhan Singh
Kabir Duhan Singh is a famous Indian actor and a model. He was born in Faridabad in Haryana. He has done many films in different languages such as Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu. His debut movie was ‘Jil’ which was in the Telugu language and it was released in the year 2015. Now, Kabir has made his career in the South Indian films as an Antagonist. To make his career in the Film Industry, Kabir moved to Mumbai in the year of 2011. He initiated his career with Modelling. He worked on many Fashion Week assignments, and he made an attempt in Bollywood movie starring actor Shiney Ahuja.
...31. Ravi Venkatraman
Ravi Venkatraman is a Tamil film actor, who is mostly seen in character roles. He slightly resembles the popular actor Jaya Prakash. Ravi has a good cinema background. His father Venkatraman is the popular film editor in Malayalam cinema industry. He has worked as an editor for more than 500 films. Ravi has two brothers; one elder and one younger. He studied Philosophy in Vivekananda College in Chennai. His career started as an assistant director to the popular art director Sabu Cyril. His first movie as an actor is Poi Solla Porom. This movie identified him as a Police Inspector. After this movie, Ravi was searching for acting chance. Then, he was introduced to Samuthrakani and he selected Ravi for his film Nadodigal. He is nearing 40 Tamil films in his acting career.
...32. Sayaji Shinde
33. Shah Ra
Shah Ra is an Indian Film Actor and Video Jockey. He works in the Tamil Television and Film Industry. His full name is Shiva Shah Raji. He is popularly known as VJ Shaa Raa and Chavvu. Shiva was born on the 24th of December in the year 1986. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is 5 feet 7 inches tall. He has a sister whose name is Udhaya Raji. He had his schooling from Laurel High Secondary School in Pattukottai. He pursued his Bachelor’s of Science Viscom from SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Tamil Nadu. He is married to his girlfriend Selvi Shah on the 11th of September in the year 2014. Shah’s favorite actor is Prabhas. His favorite actress is Tamannah Bhatia. His favorite color is Black. He loves eating seafood. His favorite holiday destinations are Paris and London. His hobbies are Mimicry, traveling, and playing cricket. Shah made his debut as an actor in the Film Industry with the Tamil Film Maanagaram (2017).
...34. Murali Krishnan
35. Paul B Sailus
36. Rajan Chelliah