Tamil Movie Review Aranmanai 2 - Cast & Crew

Sixteen- year-old Kharesma is an Indian playback singer. She was born on 8th May, 2000 in London UK. She spent her early years in London. Since her childhood, she has had a keen interest in music and hence she honed her skills which ultimately opened the gates of Tamil music, industry in India . In British Heart Foundation she appeared for the first time. She sang we are one a song from the lion king musical. Her performance gained her much appreciation back in London, where she spent her childhood. Kharesma is a professionally trained singer. In 2011 Kharesma moved to India to learn Hindustani and karnataka music. In India, she learned the roots of Indian music and its essence. Indian classical music, which is known worldwide fascinated young Kharesma to endeavor her singing dream.

Padmalatha Ramanand is a South Indian playback singer. She was born on 15th of August in the southern metropolitan city, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has sung over 500 songs for more than 150 films that include her work in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, and Tulu. Apart from the songs, Padmalatha also takes interest in gingles, devotionals, and albums.

Born on 4th May, 1983 in Palakkad by Krishnan and Uma Krishnan as her parents. Before starting her carrer in modelling and acting, she did her schooling from Sacred Heart Matriculation school in Church Park and then BBA from Ethiraj College for Women (Chennai). She entered into film industry after making a mark as a model and winning several beauty pageants like Miss Salem and Miss Madras in the same year. In 2001, she won Miss India Pageant “Beautiful Smile” award. She got her first acting break in Tamil film Jodie. After that, she got her first lead role in Mounam Pesiyadhe (2002) opposite Surya and won critical acclaim.

Kovai Sarala is an actress who acted in more than 750 films in her career spanning for over 25 years. She has acted in Tamil (even Telugu films) and had joined films as she was the sole bread earner in the family. Many feel that she filled the void left by Manorma and she is the only actress who had stepped in her( Manorama) shoes. In this film industry, Sarala could carry scenes on her own merits. There was a time; she would be seen in every successful movie (just as Manorama) during 1980-90s. Looking back at her career, she played a 55-year old character in Chinna Veedu( her second film) when she was just a teenager. Everyone had wondered how she played that role. She even played the unforgettable character of Palani as Kamal Haasan’s wife in Balu Mahendra’s Sathi Leelavathi. Both Kamal and Balu Mahendra too had complimented her for this role and it is her best role till date. 

Then she was seen as a lover of Sathyaraj in couple of films which were declared hit (Karagattakaran, Kaalam Maari Pochu, Periya Manushan). The greatest asset in her performance was that, she never told any vulgar lines in her comedy dialogues. At least she preferred not to do this kind of comedy at all in any of her film. Although she is a Malayalee by birth, she gained popularity in Tamil film industry only. Recently, she had acted in two successful movies such as ‘Kanchana-2’ and ‘Komban’, which was a box-office winner and people had watched her antics and appreciated her comedy. This versatile actress had learnt acting through theater participation in Coimbatore before she made her break in movies. For her family’s sake, she remained unwedded to anybody, but yet she faced many struggles with her relatives who cheated and even have emptied her bank accounts. 

Currently, she is choosy with her films and five films are under stage of production. She will be remembered for her comedy performance in South Indian cinema. She is an evergreen actress who will continue to please every generation.

Poonam Bajwa is a well-known actress who was born on April 5, 1989, in Pune. This actress’s nickname is Jolly. She appears in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu movies. Poonam’s father is a naval officer and mother a housewife. Poonam’s father was a naval officer, but that didn’t affect her career. Though she is a Punjabi, she worked for South Indian movies. She has a fair complexion with black hair and light brown eyes. Her height is 1.79 m, and she stands as a landmark in the South India. While studying, she started modeling as a part time career. In 2005, she was crowned as Miss Pune. In Hyderabad ramp show, director Matti asked her if she was interested in acting. Just then she has completed her class 12 exams and signed in his movie.

Vinodhini is an Indian film actress. She has worked in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada films. She started her career as a child actress and then went on playing as lead and supporting roles in Television series. In Kannada films, she was credited as Shwetha.

Khushboo or also called Kushboo’s original name is Nakhat Khan. She was born on 29th September’1970 in Mumabai. She completed her schooling at Swami Muktananda High School, Mumbai. Khushboo has 3 brothers. She had a live-in relationship with Tamil actor Prabhu for 4 years and then she married Sundar C. She has two daughters named Avanthika and Ananditha.  Khushboo speaks Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English and Marathi languages.

Khushboo is a film and TV actress, TV hostess, producer and a politician. She is mainly known with her acting in south Indian films. She started her acting career in 1976 as child artist in the Kannada film Raja Nanna Raja. She has acted in some Hindi films as child artist. She was introduced as heroine to south with the Telugu film Kaliyuga Pandavulu in 1986. Venkatesh was hero in this film. This film was directed by K.Raghavendra Rao and produced by D.Rama Nayudu. Then she has acted in over 100 films in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalayam languages with leading south Indian actors like Kamal Haasan, Prabhu, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna, Vishnu Vardhan, Mohanlal, Mammootty etc. She became south India superstar. Some of her Telugu films include- Kirai Dada, Shanti Kranti, Chinnodu Poddedu, Pekata Paparao, Stalin, Yama Donga etc. She received 2 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Best Actress.

Khushboo has acted in some Tamil serials like Sondhame Endrallum, Kalki, Rudra etc. The serial Rudra was dubbed into Telugu language as Rudra. She did anchoring for some Tamil shows like Jackpot, Koteshwari. She did anchoring for the Telugu show Get Ready for ETV Telugu. 

Khushboo started a production house after her daughters name and produced some Tamil films like Rendu, Giri, Kalakalappu etc. 

Malathy Lakshman is also called Malathi, was born on 27 August 1973 in Tamil Nadu, India. She is a professional female Indian playback singer. Malathi preferably works in the Telugu and Tamil Industry, so basically she is from the south industry. She started her career in the year 2003 and was welcomed in the film industry in the same year with the two songs named Manmatha Rasa and Vaadi Machhiniyae. In the next year 2004, she got four songs named Kumbida Pona Deivam, Umma Umma, Aa Ante Amalapuram, and Silakemo. In the year 2005, with the songs Gundu Manga, Vangathota, and Jabilammavo. In the next year 2006, she got Undivil, Paniyaram Suttu, and Yammaadi Aathaadi. In the year 2009, she sang songs namely Rangi Ranagamma and En Peru Meenakumari. In the year 2010, Malathi sang Vanga Kadal Ellai.

An Indian Cinematographer, Senthil Kumar has worked mostly with the Tamil and Malayalam Industry. He was born in 1972 in Coimbatore. After studying in the Government Film Institute, Chennai; it was but obvious that he would take up acting as his career. That time he worked in about 50 films. ‘KaruppuVelai’ in 1993 was his first debut directed by Manobala. A trend started when he only worked for Sundar C. but then was replaced by Prasad Murella. It was a time when the late 1990s and early 2000s era was coming down.

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

An amazing poet, an actor and a dialogue writer from South India; Yes, I am talking about no one else , but a famous Chennai-based artist- Piraisoodan. Born on Feb 6-1956, in Nan Nolan, Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu, India; is currently 61 years old, a famous poet and an amazing lyricist. Piraisoodan started his career at the age of 24, in 1980 and passed many stages in his life to reach where he currently is- a recipient of the Tamil Nadu state film award for his beautiful works, including his mind-blowing lyrics for songs in movies like En Rasavin Manasile (1991) and Thayagam (1996). 

Vivekanandan is the birth name of the versatile comedian Vivek. He is introduced by the legendary director Balachander through the film Manadhil Urudhi Vendum. It is the film in which Ramesh Arvind was also introduced. They both acted as brothers of Suhasini in that film. He got famous through Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal, as his dialogue Innaikku Seththa Naalaikku Paal reached the viewers well. He acted with top actors and reached fame within a short span. He performed with Rajini in Uzhaippali, Veera and Sivaji. His role in Kadhal Mannan, an Ajith starter, was loved by many people. Vivek acted with Vijay in Kushi and Priyamanavale. He performed with Vadivelu in few films and the notable one is Middle Class Madhavan, a Prabhu movie. Both Vadivel and Vivek performed humorously in that film. After the invasion of many comedians like Santhanam and Suri, the chances get lessened for Vivek. He performed as Eka in the Dhanush movie Uthamaputhiran, which was outstanding. Singham of Surya had Vivek as a Police constable. His recent movies are Velai Illa Pattadhaari with Dhanush and Yennai Arindhaal with Ajith. He has also acted as a solo hero in the film named Nan Than Bala. The film did not go well as expected, but he has won positive criticism from the critics. 

Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from his childhood. He left his home at the age of 14, for learning music and took proper lessons from his guru.

After many attempts, he didn’t get the right teacher. He began to learn music, by listening to the classical music of Indian singers like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kumar Gaurav, Pandit Gokulotsav Maharajand and also Lata Mangeshkar. After that, he started to teach music for his expenses in Delhi. Because of some problems in the family, he left singing and completed his graduation from Delhi University. When he was staying in Delhi, he met Paresh Kamath and Naresh Kamath in a concert. They together, started his band named “Kailasa”. Thus, he started his journey in his music career. 

He has sung more than 5000 songs in 20 different languages of India. He got the opportunity to sing in the movie “Andaaz” (Rabbaa Ishq Na hove). After this, his song “Allah ke Bande” from movie “Waisa Bhi Hota Hai 2” became very popular, and made him a popular singer in Bollywood. The song "Teri Deewani" from the album of the same name by his band Kailasa and the song "Ya Rabba" from the movie Salaam-e-Ishq had record sales. His band albums are Kailasa(2006), Jhooma Re (2007), Chaandan Mein (2009), Rangeele (2012),Naina Chaar (2013) etc. 

He won Filmfare award as Best Male Playback singer for the film Fanna (2007) and also won the Filmfare award as Best Male Playback Singer-Telugu for the film Mirchi.

Aadukalam Naren was born in Chennai the heartland of Tamil cinema, in a family which took keen interest in movies. He was interested in acting and was also encouraged by his family members, and so he decided to go through formal training before he could enter the industry.

Radha Ravi is a populous actor cum producer in the Tamil cinema industry. He has come from a cinema background family, where his father, brother, and sisters were the actors. He is the son of the popular actor M R Radha, who is well known for his villainy and character roles in the early 50s and 60s. Radha Ravi was born in the year 1952. He did his graduation in the New College in Chennai. He has a brother called M.R.R.Vasu and three sisters namely Rashya, Rani and Radhikala. Radhika and Nirosha are his half-sisters.

Soori is a South Indian actor in Kollywood. His nickname is “Parotta Soori’ which has been derived from his Tamil movie that he had acted. In 2009, he acted in a film ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’(2009) where a scene was shot with a crew of actors, who sit together and eat Parotta by keeping a challenge who eats more Parotta’s. In this scene, Parotta Soori performed his best, so people coined his name as Parotta Soori. Basically, he appeared as a comedian in many Tamil movies. After the film became a blockbuster, he never looked back. He is doing five to six films in a year. Today, this dusky lad with the moustache look has placed him in line with other comedians like Vadivelu, Santhanam and Goundamani. He is in peak of his career today playing comedian roles and doing a number of movies with the lead actors. With his popularity reaching a new height, the actor even now demands to play a lead role in some movies. Although these movies are not yet been officially announced, we can hear the announcement very soon. He has rejected some new movies that came in his hand and want now a scripted-backing role for his comedy touch. It is believed that a film in which he would play a lead actor, a need for new heroine is all the way. This actor was born on August 27, 1977 in Madurai. When he was new in the industry, he shared the screen as one of the junior artistes and did side acting only. Later on, he got comedy roles, which had given him a good chance to show his timing comedy sense and dialogue delivery on the screen. 

He was a very busy actor in between 2011-14, that placed him with other comedians like Vadivelu or Santhanam. There was neck-to-neck completion amongst every comedians and he also got a nice space to expose his great timing comedy sense amidst talented actors and actresses, which became a good factor behind every movies. His best films are Thillu Mullu, Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai and Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara etc. Film lovers today prefer more subtle comedic performers and even opt for a slapstick actor, who can crack jokes in every second of the movies. In that sense, hope Soori will not let down his fans in his near future.

Vaibhav Reddy is the son of a prominent director of Telugu films, A. Kodandarami Reddy, and is an actor himself by profession. He hails from Hyderabad and has studied at Cambridge Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, as well as from the famous St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. He did his training as an actor at the Asha Chandra School of Acting. 

Thalapathy Dinesh, a fight master/action choreographer who is known for his work mainly in Kollywood. He is famous for his work in "Ejamaan"(1993) Born on May 17, 1963, in Tamil Nadu. He started his career in Kollywood in "Naan Sigappu Manithan" as merely an extra fighter. But slowly, he rose to become an actor and an incredible stunt master. The stunting skills run in his family. Hari Dinesh, who is his son, is also a stunt actor.

Comedy is the forte of Manobala (Manobala Mahadevan), who is also a director. He was born on 4th June 1953 and acts in supporting roles too. His primary region of interest is Tamil. He has over 40 movies and 16 television serials to his credit. Having worked in 3 telefilms too, he has over 200 movies to his credit. He has worked under director Bharathiraja. 

Hailing from Sulur, Manobala forayed into the Tamil industry with the 1994 flick Thaaimaaman. Doing trivial roles initially, he switched to comedy later. He was appreciated for his comedy, and his skinny appearance added to the laughter of the audience. His rapport with Kamal Haasan, though commendable in the initial stages, was not good after some problems with the Directors Union. But later Manobala confessed that, he doesn’t hold any grudges with Kamal Haasan. The Sun TV program Asathapovathu Yaaru has Manobala’s presence frequently. He had a brief stint with production through the film Sathuranga Vettai. 

Oor Kavalan, Aagaya Gangai, Sirai Paravai, Moodu Manthiram, Pillai Nila, Moondrezhuthil En Moochirukkum, Karuppu Vellai and Nandini are a few flicks of his direction. As an actor his works are Natpukkaga, Taj Mahal, Annai, Minsara Kanna, Perazhagan, Priyasakhi, Samudhiram, Ghajini, Varalaaru, Thambi, Azhagiya Thamizh Magan, Santhosh Subramaniam, Polladhavan, Dindigul Sarathy, Abhiyum Naanum etc. Manobala is active in the industry from 1982 to till date. Manobala is credited to have done projects with three generations. He is a simple person and doesn’t like publicity. 

On his personal front Manobala is wedded to Usha. 

Manobala stated that people asked him to direct films like Pillai Nila. KS Ravikumar tapped his comical streak and his life changed a lot due to him. Manobala is grateful to K S Ravikumar for that. He feels that directing 40 films is indeed a commendable one.  

On 3rd May 2023, Manobala died in Chennai. He was suffering from illness related to pancreas. His sudden death saddened the film industry and fans.

V.I.S. Jayapalan is a writer of Indian origin. He is also a well-known political commentator and an actor who has acted in Tamil films. Born in Uduvil district of Jaffna in Sri Lanka, he gained a degree in Economics from the University of Jaffna and also was the leader of the student union there. His first anthology was published in 1986. After that he went on to publish 12 anthologies of poetry and short fiction.

Subbu Panchu is the son of the very popular producer and writer Panchu Arunachalam who has become a talented actor on his era. He was born in year 1969. Subbu’s first appearance as a child artist was from the Malayalam film, Daisy. After this, Subbu worked in the production department on the P. A. Art Productions of his father for a certain period of time. Then, he returned to acting with his first television serial, Arasi and he gained popularity because of his talented acting in the serial. He also acted in the big screen in 2010 where he did a comedic role in the Tamil film, Boss Engira Bhaskaran and became very popular. He worked occasionally as a dubbing artist and he also choreographed in some movies including K. Balachander’s Vidukathai. Subbu Panchu had lent his voice for the Tamil version of The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

He also made some advertisements for products like Lakshmi Ceramics and more. He also hosted the popular game show, Aayirathil Oruvan on Zee Tamil. His smiling face and a guy next door looks are few of the reasons for his popularity among the viewers.

In an interview, Subbu Panchu stated that, from his very young age, his passion for acting persisted within. He also worked as a production manager for many films.

The business management graduate Siddharth has done movies in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. In Bollywood, he was seeing in movies like Rang de Basanti, Chashme Baddoor and Striker, where he played significant roles. He won the best debutant SCREEN Award for Rang de Basanti. Siddharth has 14 award nominations and a total of 4 awards (including Filmfare and ITFA) The guy made his debut in acting in a Tamil Film in 2002. Mani Ratnam was the man behind the exploration of such a great diamond. He has done a total of 28 movies till today. The talented actor has already tried his hands successfully in playback singing. Siddharth has sung in 12 films out of which, one includes a Bollywood movie, Striker, in which he sang two songs.

Venkat Raghavan is a Tamil director who has directed the venture Muthina Kathirikai. Before becoming a director, he was the assistant director of several Sundar C’s films. Muthina Kathirikai has Sundar C in the lead role. Poona Bajwa shares screenspace with Sundar C in the film.

Anthony Daasan is an Indian singer, traditional Tamil folk musician, lyricist and an artist hailing from Reddiyarpalayam, Puducherry,Tamil Nadu. He currently lives in Chennai, India. He was born on 26th April 1977. He completed his education from the Government High School of Tanjore. Music is an associated and ever-lasting part of his life. He connected to music from a very young age. His vision and dreams lead to him celebrating the flavor of folk music internationally.