Tamil Movie Review Gulaebaghavali - Cast & Crew

Revathi is a popular south Indian actress, who has appeared in Hindi films too. Born as Asha Kutty, she changed her name to Revathi, for the stage. Right from the beginning of her career, she did not lose her popularity, because of her excellent performances. Mann Vasanai, directed by Bharathi Raja is her first movie. Pudhumai Penn was the movie that showed her in a different angle and she was praised for her performance. Pagal Nilavu is one of her top snatched films and in Aan Pavam she acted as a dumb girl, who lost her voice in an accident. In this film, she paired with Pandiya Rajan and the movie was a super hit. Kai Kodukkum Kai is the only film, she paired Rajini Kanth. She has acted with Kamal Hassan in a number of films, among which Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, Magalir Mattum, Thevar Magan and Punnagai Mannan are memorable. In Magalir Mattum, she co-starred with Urvashi and Rohini and the film was a super hit.

Anand Kumar is a prominent Bollywood director, producer, editor and screenplay writer. He was born on December 10th 1970. He had worked as a movie director and screenplay writer for his famous movies like the Mission is On, Zila Ghaziabad, and Delhi Heights. These movies did a remarkable job in the box office collection. He was born and brought up in Delhi. He had done his schooling at DTEA school, which is located in the Lodhi Estate. 

He did his graduation in Mass Communication in Hyderabad. After his success as a director, Anand thought of setting up a production house as his home banner. It had also apparently did well and the name is Anand Kumar Productions. It was started off in the year 2013. He had a sort of specific genre in his company like his production house only works of motion pictures. It is a dedicated company working on producing entertainment based movies in particular. 

His production house had made many victories with his projects. It had always come up with many good projects and after the launch of the movie, it did turn up to be even bigger. This is the best part of the success of Anand Kumar's production house. The various aspects of jobs that the company got engaged include of-course production, circulation of the movies, and it had also created substance for the entertainment aspect of the industry. 

His prominence gave him great rewards and huge places in the industry. In fact, Anand Kumar had featured in the Galmcob magazine, which was released in April 2013. No sooner did the director cum actor opened his production house; its impact had spread to the masses as in a campfire and reached its immense fame. The production house is based in Mumbai since 2013.

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Vivek Siva and Mervin Solomon, the duo commonly known as Vivek-Mervin, is considered as India’s youngest duo music directors. They are currently working as music composers, singers, arrangers, music producers, etc. They have composed songs for various Tamil films like Vadacurry, Pugazh, Dora and Gulebakavali. Vivek and Mervin, both of them hail from Chennai and started their singing in their childhood only. Mervin is said to have started playing piano since when he was 3 years old. He then started writing many gospel rock songs in the church.

Vivek Siva is a Playback Singer, music director, and lyricist in South India. He has done predominant work in the Tamil film industry. He is known for being part of a film composing duo with Mervin Solomon for his work in Tamil films, and they are known as Vivek-Mervin. 

The name Anirudh does not need any introduction down South among the music lovers. With his boy next door looks, he can really amaze you by his skills when it comes to composing and singing. This music Rockstar will rule our playlists whenever his new album is released. He can make you go 'Gaga' right from the first time you hear his songs. His recent movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' has took the town by storm. This is not the first time he has done this. He did the same on his debut movie '3' (Three). He evolved as a star overnight after the music release of '3' and became the talk of the town. Indeed Kolaveri made him get famous worldwide and it got him more fans.  

Anirudh is always good with experimental aspects in music. His movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' is the first of its kind as all the songs from the movie got released as single tracks on specific dates, just to increase the hype & curiosity among the fans. Indeed, it worked out well. His tracks in the film Vellayilla Pattathari have become a huge hit, due to his different composition style. The song “Amma Amma” from the movie VIP brings tears to us with his tunes. His latest tracks from the movie “Maari” have also fetched him fame, especially the songs ‘Don Don Donu’ and ‘Maari’. He won the Best Music Director award for his works in VIP and Ethir Neechal. 

Born on 16th Oct 1990, Anirudh is the son of Ravi Raghavendra (an actor) and Lakshmi, who is a dancer. He is the nephew of superstar Rajinikanth. He is not only a music director, but also a playback singer and he gave many hits even as a playback singer. His upcoming projects to name a few are VIP 2, Naanum Rowdydhaan, Singam 3, Vedhaalam, etc..

Nakash Aziz, is an Indian playback singer and music composer in Bollywood industry. He was born on 24 February, 1985. Basically Nakash Aziz comes from a petit town Moodbidri, near Mangalore, Karnataka. He is well known for his hit songs like “Sari Ke Fall Sa” and “Gandi Baat”, both songs came from the movie ‘R… Rajkumar’ (2013) and another song ‘Dhating Nach’ from a film ‘Phata Poster Nikla Hero’ (2013). All these songs are picturised on ‘Shahid Kapoor’. Nakash has also assisted a very famous and “The Living Legend Composer and singer” Mr. A. R. Rehman on Hindi films such as ‘Delhi 6’,’I’, ‘Rockstar’, ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Highway’. Before becoming a playback singer he worked as music composer for TV serials. He also composed for Marathi films like ‘Raada Rox’ and ‘No Entry Pudhe Dhoka Aahe’. Nakash comes from a musical family, and his taste was influenced by his father and uncle. They were famous for voice-alike of very famous singers ‘Kishor Kumar’ and ‘Mukesh’ in hometown Mangalore. During his initial days in Mumbai, Aziz got a small-time job in a reality show where A.R. Rehman was one of the judges. And now in 2015 he is performing in ‘IIFA awards’ with a new singer in the block, ‘Sonakshi Sinha’ and ‘Mika Singh’. Aziz says, “I want to be anything that music allows me to be, even if it comes up with a small musical idea like introducing a slight variation in my singing for Amit Trivedi’s Aisha title song”.

K Kathir is an Indian Art Director. He worked in the Tamil Film Industry. He started his professional career with the film Bangalore Naatakal (2016) by Bhaskar. The film is a remake of Superhit Malayalam film Bangalore Days (2014). The film Bangalore Naatakal revolves around three cousins Arjun, Kannan, and Divya. They move to Bangalore for various reasons. After moving to Bangalore, their lives transform in a specific way. The film has Arya, Sri Divya, Rana Daggubati, Parvathy Thiruvothu, and Bobby Simha in the lead roles. Kathir later worked in the Tamil film Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017) by H. Vinoth. The film revolves around a cop who investigates a serious case of the ruthless highway robbers who rob houses and kill every person in the house.

Vijay Velukutty is an editor cum short film director working in the Indian film industry. Vijay was born on 9^th May 1987. He was born and brought up in Chennai. He had been a stunt editor in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries. Vijay Velukutty was the assistant editor to Suresh Urs and worked with him in many films, including Naan Kadavul directed by “Bala” featuring “Arya” and Pooja Umashankar and “Billa” featuring Ajith Kumar. Bala had worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi movies. In 2014, he started his journey as an independent editor with Ainthaam Thalaimurali Siddha Vaidhya Sigamani, featuring Bharath Srinivasan and Nandita Swetha. LG Ravichandran directed the film. In the same year, he edited the film, Naan Than Bala, directed by Kannan, featuring “Vivek” and Shwetha Bandekar in the lead roles. In 2015, he edited the film Thiranthidu Seese directed by Nimesh Varshan. The film featured Danshika and Narayanan Lucky in the lead roles.

A Chennai boy born in Karaikal to the immigrants of Vietnam is famous for his stunt sequences and action director and choreography. He was born and brought up in Chennai itself. He belongs to Tamil Chettiar community. He started off as an extra stunt fighter in many regional films. His first venture as a full-time action director is Murari. Earlier he has worked with pioneers like Kanal Kannan, Ram Gopal Verma, Vijayan, etc. he has done quite a plenty of films in Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam. He earned critical appreciation and fame through his work in films such as Varsham, Anniyan, Athadu, etc. Ram Gopal Verma, impressed by Hein offered him to work for James and thus it was his ticket to Bollywood. His next Bollywood venture was Mani Ratnam’s Raavan.

Ambani Shankar is a South Indian comedy actor who works in the Tamil film industry. His birth name is K. Sankarnarayanan. He was born on 17th May 1988 in Thirumangalam in Madurai in Tamil Nadu. He is known for his role in Tamil feature films like Ambasundaram Ambani and Pattathaari. The boyishly charming comedian tied the knot with Monica Nandhini in 2012. Inspired by comedy actor Vadivelu, Shankar moved from Madurai to Chennai in order to pursue a profession in acting in 2004. Unable to land a role, Shankar worked as a clerk at director K. Bhagyaraj’s office, where he first encountered the director N. Linguswamy. N. Linguswamy recruited Shankar in his Tamil action movie Ji in a small comedic role as a road-side mechanic, marking Shankar’s entry into the Kollywood film industry. The film hit the screens on 11th February 2005.

Mansoor Ali Khan was born in the small village called Pallapatti in Tamilnadu. He is the popular villainy actor in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies. Mansoor made his debut to the cinema industry through the movie Captain Prabhakaran in the year 1991. He acted as an antagonist in the movie opposite Vijayakanth. This movie gave him a good name and he got opportunities frequently. Rudra is his next movie with Bhagyaraj, Gouthami and Lakshmi.

In the year 1992, he took a hero Avatar through the film, Rajadhi Raja Raja Kulothunga Raja Marthanda Raja Gambeera Kathavaraya Krishna Kamarajan. This movie was directed by Balu Anand and Mansoor Ali Khan composed the music too. As the name was very different, the movie became popular. Most of the roles he did was villainy, and in between, he did some character roles too. Mansoor Ali Khan was naturally a humorous person. So, his movies were filled with humor. In some of the movies, he has acted as a comedy villain. In certain movies like Padayappa, he did some different characters. In the Vikram movie Kandhasamy, he acted as a Police Inspector.

In the year 2013, he again acted as a hero in the movie Lollu Dhada Parak Parak. He was the music director for that movie. But the movie did not hit the theatres as expected. He also appeared in the movies Singam 2 with Surya, Tenali Raman with Vadivel, Kaaviya Thalaivan with Prithviraj Sukumaran and Pulan Visaranai 2 with Prashanth. Mansoor Ali Khan is very famous for his controversial speeches. Some controversies about him rise, as and when. Overall, he is a talented actor, who wants to trial out all the fields in the cinema, like directing, music composing and acting. He also got committed in the politics and he belongs to the Patali Makkal Katchi, led by Dr. Ramadas.

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.

It's no secret that most celebrities use stunt doubles when filming particularly challenging scenes, but it's not something we always remember when caught up in the energy of an action-packed movie. In Indian film industry, particularly in Kollywood and Bollywood, stunt actors are indeed a must.