Tamil Movie Review Haridas - Cast & Crew

Suhasini R. Naidu, more popularly known by her screen name ”Sneha” is a south Indian actress who works in the Tamil and Malayalam Film Industry.

She was born on the 12th of October, 1981, to parents Rajaram Naidu and Padmavathy Rajaram. She began her career in the year 2000, debuting in the Malayalam film Ingane Oru Nilapakshi where she played the role of an aspiring dancer, where she performed for 7 classical songs. Her first commercial hit was the 2001 movie Aanandham, a family drama by the hugely successful director N. Linguswamy.

Due to her appearance in several commercially successful movies in the 2000’s, she has become one of the most contemporary lead actresses in the Tamil movie industry. Her debut in Kollywood was in the movie Ennavale where she played the lead role opposite R Madhavan. She made her debut in Tollywood with the movie Priyamaina Neeku in 2001 which was also a box office hit, followed by Tholi Valapu.

She has shared screen space with some of the top actors in South India including Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Ajith, Vikram, Vijay, Suriya, Simba, Balakrishna, Ravi Teja  & Nagarjuna. Her work in Tollywood has given her several compliments, including those where she is considered the next Soundarya. 

She also played a major role in the 2002 mega-hit Hanuman Junction apart from roles in King, and Virumbugiren where she played the role of a rustic village belle, and the movie went on to win several awards, including the Best Actress for Sneha.

She has won the Best Supporting Actress award in the Filmfare Awards in 2002 for her supporting role in Unnai Ninaithu.  She is also the recipient of the Tamil Nadu State Film Award – Best Actress category, first for her role in Aanandham, Punnagai Desam and Virumbugiren in 2001, and later in 2008 for Pirivom Santhippom.

Her role in the Telugu hit Radha Gopalam also won her the Nandi Special Jury Award – Telugu, apart from several other awards and accolades.

She has also hosted different shows on the Tamil channel networks, including judging the Jodi Number One show, Season 5 on Star Vijay in 2011; and hosting the Melam Kottu Thali Kattu, Seasons One & Two in 2014 on the Puthuyugam TV channel.

Her hit movie includes the 2000 Tamil movie Ennavale, where she won several awards in the Debut Actress Category.

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Sneha is an Indian actor. She was born on October 12, and the year 1981. She was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her other name is Suhasini Rajaram. Her father name is Rajaram Naidu. Her mother's name is PadmawathyRajaram. She is also a promotional model by profession. Her spouse name is Prasanna. Marriage year for them is May 11 and in the year 2012. She has a son. Her son's name is Vihaan. He was born in the year 2015.

Randy Rathnavelu is a cinematographer who was born on 24th February 1971 in Chennai, India and is actively working in the Tollywood industry since 1997. He is a well known cinematographer in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. He has also been critically acclaimed for his works in certain movies.

Gopal Balaji is a digital imaging technician who works predominately in the Tamil film industry. He is a digital cinema designer who works for the Indian cinemas. His noted works include Spanish masala, thanga meengal and idhu kathirvelan kadhal. Gopal Balaji was born on 18th December 1975 in Chennai. Commonly known as Balaji he did his graduation in computer applications and further did advance diploma in multimedia. Later on, he was also a participant of an ICA colorist course.

Vijay Antony is an actor, composer and even playback singer in Tamil movies. He made his debut with Tamil movie ‘Naan’ that released in 2014 which was a hit. He followed up with another hit movie ‘Salim’ and his third movie ‘India Pakistan’ did only average business. His wife produced the film “India-Pakistan'. After receiving the overwhelming response from audiences for two films ‘Naan and ‘Salim’, the actor has emerged as the reliable actor in Kollywood.

Annamalai is a Lyricist in the Tamil Film Industry. Some of the movies in which he has worked as an actor include Ennul Aayiram, which released on 22^nd April 2016, and it is directed by Krishna Kumar. Some of the movies in which he has worked as a lyricist include Madha Gaja Raja, which released on 22nd October 2020, and it is directed by Sundar C. Kuthoosi, which released on 25^th January 2019, and it is directed by Siva Sakhti. Kalavu Thozhirchalai, which released on 22nd September 2017, and is directed by T Krishnasamy. Saithan, which released on 01^st December 2016, and is directed by Pradeep Krishnamoorthy. Angusam, which released on 09^th May 2014, and is directed by Manu Kannan. Haridass, which released on 22^nd February 2013, and it is directed by Kumaravel.

Maalavika also known by Mali was born on 16 September 1993 in Chennai to Malayali parents from North Malabar. She is an Indian independent musician and songwriter presently based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She started her music career as a member of the underground band, Bass-in-Bridge, but soon became a solo artist after the band was disestablished in 2011. Maalavika’s passion for music stems from her childhood as she says she has been listening and appreciating music from her childhood days. Though her parents were not musicians, they would play a lot of the 1970s and 1980s style music to her, even though she was fairly young. Her father listened to a lot of electronic music in early 1990’s. When Maalavika was five years old, her parents decided to enroll her in various extracurricular classes ranging from swimming, Bharata Natyam, piano and drawing classes.

Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 April 2012 which is a thing of pride. Shankar has always considered himself as a restless student wanting to learn more every time. He says he’s thirsty and want to learn every time and experiment with something new. He wants to be a perfectionist. Shanker also feels that Karnatak music is the most powerful form of music and he himself started with Karnataka classic which he says is the best to create a prominent base for music. Music is the thing which excites Shanker the most, and he would always be attached to it. Personal Life: Shanker Mahadevan was born in Chennai to a Tamil family but was later brought to Mumbai and was raised there. Being born into a Tamil family and later raised in Mumbai, he knows both Hindi and Tamil language but is not well versed with Tamil and Malayalam. He finished his schooling from OLPS High School in Chembur and his engineering in computer science from R.A.I.T (D Y Patil, Navi Mumbai). His wife, Sangeeta is Maharashtrian and oldest son Siddharth Mahadevan. Also, a singer, made his debut on the 2013 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’s song, Zinda. Shankar’s youngest son, Shivam Mahadevan, also a singer made his debut in 2013 in the movie Dhoom 3’s song, Bande Hain Hum Uske. Mahadevan is fluent in Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu and English.

Raja Mohammad is an editor for Indian films and is involved in the working of the Malayalam and the Tamil film industries. Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Raja Mohammad has received much critical fame in his career. In his early ventures, Raja was involved in the editing and work on Malayalam movies. The first movie he worked on was in 2002 by the name 'Nakshathrakkannulla Rajakumaran Avanundoru Rajakumari’. In the coming years, he worked on subsequent films - ‘Kaazhcha’ in 2004, 'Thanmathra’ in 2005 and 'Palunku’ in 2006.

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.

Yugi Sethu is a multi-talented man. He is an actor, screenwriter, director, writer, producer and a show host. So many qualities in one person are rare to find. He was born on 28th January in Chennai. He belongs to Oothukaadu, which is a small town near Kumbakonam. He has done his graduation in Commerce and his masters in Political Science. Though he studied two subjects, his interest was more towards fine arts, but he could not pursue that. Well! None of the three subjects could give him the success and fame that he has today. He is married to Amritha Kalyani and has two children with her. As an actor, he has done only a few films. He has played the lead roles as well as supporting roles. He is mainly a screenwriter. He applied his diversified skills in the less known Tamil movie ‘Maathangal Aezhu’ which means seven months. He had written not only the movie but also directed it. He played the hero in this film, and the other actors were Nassar and Ramya Krishnan.

He is an India-based film director who works predominantly in the Tamil film industry. He is the son of the legendary director G.N. Rangarajan who has made films with superstar Kamal Haasan. He is famous for directing movies like ‘Haridas’ and ‘Yuvan Yuvathi.’ He has worked with all the legendary names in the Tamil film industry. Born to G.N. Rangarajan in Tamil Nadu, he was exposed to film making and direction from his childhood. His father has made films like ‘Maharasan’ and ‘Meendum Kokila’ after collaborating with Kamal Haasan. He was assisting the famous director Balu Mahendra in ‘Sathi Leelavathi’ as an early job and then went to superstar Kamal Haasan as an assistant director for movies like ‘Marudhanayagam’ and ‘Ladies only.’ Unfortunately, both of the films couldn’t get released, but his hard work doesn’t go vain as he learned a lot of things from this experience. His debutant directorial was ‘Ninaithale Inikkum’ which was a remake of Malayalam hit film ‘Classmates.’ This drama film had a good star cast, but it didn’t do much good at the box-office and was considered a little above average movie. He was planning to cast R. Madhavan for his upcoming movie, but somehow the project didn’t go to floors, and he had to drop this idea. His second movie was romantic comedy starring Bharath and Santhanam.

Prasanna is a South Indian actor who was born on 28 August 1982. He has acted in Tamil and Telugu films. He had always dreamt of being an actor since his school days. His father worked for Bharath Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and his mother a home maker. His father wanted Prasanna to complete Engineering and look at a profession in that field. However, destiny had other plans for this talented actor and he soon got a chance to prove himself. During his second year in college, he saw an advertisement that changed his life forever. The advertisement was for an audition to play a role under Manirathnam’s Production. Prasanna applied for this audition and was shortlisted to play the lead role in the movie ‘Five Star’.

Initially his parents were not happy and were against his decision to enter movies. Prasanna even wanted to complete his Engineering so that he could fulfil his father’s dream. However, he could not do so which further upset his father more. However, Prasanna does not regret his decision as he knew that he would not be interested in an Engineering profession even if he had completed his studies. Instead he would be looking for opportunities in the movie field. He also maintains taht he will only do meaningful movies which will bring out the best in him so that the producers and directors casting him would not regret their decision.

Apart from the Tamil movies, he has also worked on a Telugu movie named ‘Bhai’ in which he got to share the screen space with Akkineni Nagarjuna. He was very excited about his Telugu debut and also nervous as there were a lot of expectations on this movie. Though he had received offers to act in other languages, he had never accepted any. However, the movie, ‘Bhai’ holds a special place in his heart as he got to play a cop in the movie and he is a big fan of Nagarjuna and he got to act with his favourite actor.

Prasanna fell in love with Actress Sneha and the couple tied the knot in 2012.

Kishore was born in the year 1974 in Karnataka. Basically, he was a theater artist. When he was doing his graduation in National College, he started to act in various theater plays. He is a Masters Degree holder in Kannada Literature. After his graduation, he started to work as a teacher. Then, he worked as a fashion designer. Kannada movie ‘Kanti’ was his debut movie, which gave him a good career. It got released in 2004. He got the State Award for the Best Supporting role for the movie ‘Raakshasha’. His role in the movie Akash was widely appreciated by the critics. He acted as the brother for four sisters, who brought them up strictly. This movie has the resemblance of the Malayalam movie Hitler. 

Tamil director Vetri Maran was searching for a talented Kannada actor, who could speak Tamil well. Kishore caught in his eyes, but the movie was dropped. But, he got a chance in the movie Polladhavan with Dhanush. The movie was a super hit, which gave a good recognition to Kishore. Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, Jayamkondaan and Haridas are the super hit movies in which Kishore was praised. Haridas with Sneha is the most appreciated role and Kishore did a lead character. Kishore became the popular and best performer, as a good actor and he got many opportunities and he selected good movies, which had good acting scope. His performance in Arrambam and Thilagar were appreciated well. He has not only performed in lots of Kannada and Tamil movies, but also in Telugu movies. Kishore has proved that art has no language.

His current projects are Yatchan, Thoongavanam and Kadhali Kanavillai in Tamil, Ricky, Octopus in Kannada and Cheekati Rajyam in Telugu. Vascodigama in Kannada, a comedy movie is the latest hit movie of Kishore. He has done as the film lead with Parvathy Nair. 

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Kishore Jayaram is actually known as the “good villain” of Tamil cinema, has done some memorable roles in films such as ‘Aadukalam’, ‘Pollathavan’, ‘Porkalam’, ‘Shaithan’ and ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’. In these films he was given the film centering roles. In the last decade or so, this actor has excelled in bringing us a variety of antihero roles that the industry liked him to cast in major good characters only. This gentle and soft-minded person is actually a lecture-turned-actor who is known for doing “good” villain role in the Tamil film industry. He is also a costume designer for films. Currently, Kishore has now been considered to play an important role in the upcoming Tamil movie ‘Kabali’. A few months earlier, this actor was seen busy shooting for the Kamal Haasan starrer ‘Thoongavanam’. 

After Kamal’s film shooting has been almost over, the actor has now been roped in for a key role in Rajinikanth’s next (Kabali). While making a biopic on Veerappan, his looks had so much justified him in playing the character that it turned out to be a stellar performance from the actor. Veerappan was made a bilingual film (Attahasa in Kannada and Vana Yudhdham in Tamil). Kishore was noticed in the Tamil film industry when he got to play the villain Selvam’s role in the Dhanush-starrer Polladhavan. Later on, Aadukalam too brought him much attention. In the same year, his performance in Haridas, where he played a cop and father of an autistic child was critically acclaimed a lot. Actor Kishore also made a space for himself in Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam film industry. This actor always had wanted to face the camera and become actor. He left his teaching profession and joined the film industry out of passion for acting. Although he had made his debut in Kannada film, his experiments in Kannada film industry had given him the critical acclaim. But it is only in Tamil film industry where he got his major success..

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Kishore (also known as Kishore Kumar G ) is an actor born in Karnataka. He has basically evolved from the theater. Today, he is known as ‘Veerappan’, for portraying the role of a bandit in 'Vana Yuddham' (Tamil), and 'Attahasa' (Kannada), which was directed by A. M. R. Ramesh. It was a technically brilliant biopic of dacoit, Veerappan, and the critics praised the performance of Kishore as Veerappan in the film. The actor always wanted to become an actor, but missed many chances. Before making his debut in acting, he was a professor in Sharada College in Bengaluru, but opted to quit the job. His first break came in the year 2004 in ‘Kanti’, when he was a part-time fashion designer. He bagged the role of 'Byaadara Beera' in the movie 'Kanti', when he was supposed to design the costumes for the film. But as the lady luck had smiled upon him, the actor got his first acknowledgment as an actor by winning the State Award for his performance in the film. In the year 2004, he again won the State Award for his performance in the movie, 'Rakshasa'.