Tamil Movie Review Puli - Cast & Crew

Shruti Hassan is an Indian film actress born on 28 January 1986 to the veteran Tamil actor Kamal Hassan and Sarika. Her original birth name is Shruti Rajalakshmi Hassan. Shruti Hassan studied at Abacus in Chennai and later on moved to Mumbai to study Psychology. She has a younger sister Akshara Hassan. Shruti Hassan is well known for her singing and acting skills in kollywood, tollywood and bollywood.She entered into films as a child artist in her father’s film HEY RAM. At the age of 23 she did her first film LUCK in bollywood. She got the interest in music and finally travelled to USA to learn music. She did many films both in Tamil and Telugu and received positive reviews for her act. Shruti Hassan sang her first song at the age of six for her father’s film named Thevar Magan.She even composed music for a Tamil movie Unnaipol Oruvan.In Telugu she did many box office hit films and won Film fare award for the film Race Gurram. She even won SIIMA awards for stylish actress of South Indian Cinema. Shruti wrote lyrics for the film Hisss starring Mallika Sherawat. In Tamil she did few films 7aum Arivu, 3 and Poojai. She won Edison Awards for best introduced music director in the year 2010 .She is also a brand ambassador for Emami Navaratna Cool Talc. Her upcoming projects are in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. In Tamil her upcoming project is Thala 56.

Madhumitha or Jangiri Madhumitha is a Tamil Serial and Film actress who was born on January 1, 1986 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She was first seen in the comedy series, Lollu Sabha on STAR Vijay. Later, she acted in a few films and television serials. She was first featured in the Tamil romantic-comedy film, Oru Kal Oru Kannadi under the direction of M. Rajesh. She was paired with actor, Santhanam and played the role of Jangiri.  Her performance in this film received appreciation by the viewers and made her popular. She even got the Vikatan Award for Best Actress in Comedy Role in 2012.

Nandita Swetha is a South Indian Actress. Swetha is her birth name. She was born in Bangalore, Karnataka. Her father is a businessman and mother is a homemaker. She has two brothers, both of them are younger to her. Nandita entered films in the year 2008 with the Kannada release ‘Nanda Loves Nanditha’; she played the role of Nanditha in the film that she continued as her screen name after that.

Sridevi is an Indian an actress renowned for her work in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies. She is regarded as Hindi cinema’s first female superstar. She was born as Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan on August 13, 1963, in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu to Ayappan and Rajeshwari. Her father is a Tamilian and mother is a Telegite. Sridevi made her debut as child artist at the tender age of four with the devotional film Thunaivan. She made her debut in Bollywood in 1975 with the film Julie where she was a child actor. Sridevi’s debut as a lead actress happened in the year 1978 with the movie Solva Sawan after which she delivered several hits like Himmatwala, Mawaali, Tohfa, Masterji, Karma, Mr. India, Waqt Ki Awaz, Chandni, Sadma, Nagina, Chaalbaaz, Lamhe, Khuda Gawah, Gumrah, Laadla and Judai. Her portrayal of a child-woman suffering from amnesia in the movie Sadma won her critical acclaim and she was nominated for Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 1996 she married producer Boney Kapoor the elder brother of actor Anil Kapoor, they have two daughters named Jahnavi and Khushi. After a long gap she recently appeared the movie English Vinglish which won critical acclaim. Sridevi is renowned for her comic style acting and work in heroine oriented movies for which she denied starring opposite to Amitabh Bachchan.

Vidyullekha Raman Vidyullekha Raman also called Vibhu Raman is an actress in Tamil cinema known for essaying her character roles with depth. She is equally good in playing a comic actor or cameo role even which has appealed to the masses. It was in the year 2012 that gave her visibility as an actress in Gautam Menon’s bi-lingual films (“Neethaane En Ponvasantham” and “Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu”) but it was in 2014 with movies like ‘Jilla’ and ‘Veeram’, the actress became favorite with the masses.

Gayathri Raman is an actress in the Indian film industry. She has been working with the Tamil film industry for the last fifteen years. Gayathri started her career as a model. Before opting for modeling she used to live a simple life. She doesn't have any interest in modeling or acting. Later, she got an offer from a company, and that moment changed her life. She has modeled for many brands and acted in many Tamil films. She is a family woman and loves to take care of them. Her hobbies include cooking food, taking care of her children, listening to music, etc.

Chimbu Deven was born in Madurai. His parents were Mr. Venkataraman, who was a supervisor by profession in the telegraph office and to Mrs. Thiraviam Venkataraman. He was the second child to the couple, who has also pursued the education in the field of Botany from Madurai Kamaraj University.

Shibu Thameens is an Indian film producer and distributor, working in the South India. With his family in the business of goods distribution, Shibu studied B.Tech in the mechanical branch at Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur. He possesses an MBA degree in Materials Management too. After his education, he did not hesitate to join his family business, Thameens Group. The institution started in the early 90s with handling minor exhibitions’ operations. Gradually, the group entered the cinema industry by distributing and producing movies. Apart from these fields, this establishment is responsible for the goods’ distribution of Nestle (a major FMCG famous for KitKat and Maggi) in Kerala.

After the success of "Dhinka Chika" song for Salman Khan, starrer "Ready", South Indian composer Devi Sri Prasad, has been getting numerous offers in Bollywood. Devi Sri Prasad liked the evergreen film ‘Sholay’ so much in his youth days, that he has seen the movie many times in his young days, and had then made his thoughts to make his journey to the film world. 

Vairamuthu is a very famous Tamil writer, poet, and lyricist. His full name is Vairamuthu Ramasamy. He was born on 13th July 1953. He was born in a middle-class family to Ramasamythevar and Angammal in Mettur. His family moved to Vadugapatti, Theni in Tamil Nadu when he was four years old. He is famous by the pen name Kaviyarasu or Kaviperarasu. He got married to Ponmani Vairamuthu and had two children, Madhan Karky Vairamuthu, and Kabilan Vairamuthu. He got inspiration from the Tamil and Rationalist movements in the 1960s that enthused him to pursue a career as a writer. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. As a speaker and a poet, he was highly praised as the best in his college.

Javed Ali (Javed Hussain) was born in Delhi in 1982. He has been working as an Indian playback singer since 2000. Ali started his singing journey at a very early age with his father, who is a popular Qawwali singer named, Ustad Hamid Hussain. He is also a playback singer in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, and Tamil. 

He has been singing since 2000, but his song “Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein” from the film Naqaab (2007) made him famous in Bollywood. After that, he sang hit song like Jashn-E-Bahaara from the Movie Jodha Akbar (2008). He also sang the song Guzarish (Ghajini) and Maula mere Maula (Arziyan). Javed started his career by singing the song for movie Beti No.1, but this couldn’t help him to grow up his career. After that, he worked in many movies like Chameli, Golmal, Ho Gaya Na, Dil Jo Bhi Kahey, Neal n Nikki and Zindagi Rocks. His song Nagada Nagada with Sonu Nigam from the movie “Jab We Met” has been a great hit. Also, his song “Tu Muskura” along with Alka Yagnik and A R Rahman from movie Yuvvraaj had hit. 

He has also sung many songs in Tamil movies like Siragugal, Chinnanjirusuga Manasukkul, Kungumapoovum Konjumpuraavum, Maattrraan, Thuppakki, Alex Pandian, and Singam 2. Javed Ali has even sung many Telugu songs in popular movies like Tanemando, Maham Maye, Alibaba, Surro Surra, Raccha Rambola, O Meri Jane Jana, Ori Devudo, and Vachchaadu.

He was also seen as a judge for the show “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs” in 2011 which is a famous reality show on Zee TV.

Mano (Real name- Nagoor Babu) is a famous South Indian playback singer. He was not only a great singer but also a voice-over artist, an actor, a producer, a television anchor and a music composer. He was born to Father Rasool (Musician in All India Radio) and Mother Shaheeda (stage actress) on 26th October 1963 in Satterapalli, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, he joined the stage theater and had role played as many historical characters. As he had said in an interview “I have always been impressed by my dear mother’s talent and she has always been and will always be my inspiration.”

Pooja Vaidyanath belongs to Hyderabad (Telangana). She is an upcoming singer in cinema. Trained in classical music and violin, she is a brilliant singer today and it seems that music is running in her veins. Through reality singing contest, she wanted to establish herself as a classical singer. Today, she has done over 300 stage shows in India and abroad. When she was performing in reality singing contests, in various TV channels, she did not have any training in classical music. But she often feels that she was born in a family of music lovers and she owes inspiration from her late father. This singer performed her first stage show in Telugu TV channel show Padalani Undi in ‘MAA TV’ and won the rounds in 2006. Later, she even participated in Zee Telugu Sa Re Ga Ma voice of youth and became a runner-up in 2008.

Priyadarshini Ram is a popular director, actor and writer of Telugu film industry who hailed from Tenali. He was born in the year 1955. When his father left this world, Priyadarshini Ram has been just 13. Due to his hard work he succeeded a degree, but could not carry his dream of a Management master. He has talents in writing different articles. He was a great writer, right from his college days. His works were well appreciated by his friends and teachers. As he is very creative, he got placed in an advertising company. He was offered to advertise the political campaign of the leaders. Grey America is the company that tried to acquire Priyadarshini Ram’s ad company, but they did not get succeeded, as Ram wanted to stay with his mother. Later on he got connections with the film people and entered into the Telugu film industry. Manodu is the first film that turned him as an actor. He was the writer, director and producer of that film. Priyadarshini Ram’s first film got him the special Jury award in Nandi Awards from Andhra Government. Later, he directed the film Toss, in which the story was also written by him. Priyadarshini Ram is the CEO of Sakshi, the Telugu Newspaper and TV channel.

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.

Sooraj Santhosh is a multilingual versatile playback singer who has made a noteworthy contribution in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Badaga music. The singer is well known in the Bollywood and Tollywood as well. He was born on 19th September 1987 at the Kollam village in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is well known for his polyglot and fluent knowledge about various types of music and has achieved overwhelming success in the same. Sooraj's father, Santhosh Kumar worked in forest department and his mother, Jayakumari is a high school teacher. He has a younger brother who presently works at IBM as an engineer.

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.

As they always say, "it runs in the blood", the same has been proven in Vijay Joseph's life. His dad is a very famous Tamil movie director, S. A. Chandrasekhar. Vijay's mother is a famous playback singer. He began his acting journey as a child artist in a film called "Vetri". He acted in many movies as a child artist supporting veteran heroes like Vijayakanth and Ajith Kumar. His career started as a leading hero with the movie, "Naalaiya Theerpu", in 1992. He won the "Cinema Express Award for New Face" for this movie.

He is an Indian art and film production designer. He is famous for his works in Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi Cinema. His work in ‘Angadi Theru’, ‘Pazhassi Raja’ and ‘Nanban’ was highly appreciated and critically acclaimed. In his career, he has contributed in more than 43 movies and 185 commercials. He has been awarded the ‘best art director’ award for his creative works. He was born to N. Thangavel and T. Muthulakshmi in Coimbatore. He was raised in Coimbatore along with his two younger sisters and an elder brother. He graduated with the degree of B. Sc Visual communication from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai in 1991. After graduating, he started assisting Sabu Cyril. After that he started getting offers from many production companies for set design.

Lee Whittaker is one of the top Stunt Performers in the Film Industry, having experience of working off and on the camera. He has worked for twenty years on some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbuster movies. Whittaker was working as a Second-Unit Director and Stunt Coordinator for ten years when he started his career; many Hollywood Directors hired him for the action-stunt scenes. The artist’s creativity to turn the most difficult action scene into the safest boundaries through innovative styles of cinematography was highly appreciated. 

Sunil Rodrigues is a stunt director and stunt coordinator in the Indian film industry. He also works as the supporting actor and is mainly seen in Bollywood films, but he works in many South Indian films too.

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.

Ajay Rathnam is a Tamil cine actor who also appears in TV serials and movies. He is known for his supportive and negative roles and has acted in over 300 movies.

Brahmanandam was born on 1st February 1956. He was the seventh son to Kanneganti Nagalingachari and Kannaganti Lakshmi Narsamma. He completed his high schooling from a high school at Sattenapalle. He later pursued his intermediate and graduation from D.N.R College, Bhimavaram. He completed his post graduation in Telugu literature from Andhra University. Before becoming an actor, Brahmanandam had worked as a lecturer in Atthilli for nine years.

Brahmanandam is considered as one of the most versatile Indian comic actors, noted particularly for his comic expressions. He has gone ahead to receive many accolades in the world. In the year 2007, he was in the Guinness World Record for appearing in the highest number of films that is over 1000 movies. The government of India honored him with Padma Shri Award in the year 2009. Brahmanandam was awarded the Best Actor in a comic role in the year 2011 at The Hyderabad Times Film Awards.

In the year 2012 in Dookudu, he was voted the Best Comedian in the Cinemaa Awards. The same year he was also awarded the Best Comedian in the SIIMA Awards. He went ahead to clinch the Best Actor in a Comic Role Award in the TOIFA awards ceremony. Surely Brahmanandam deserves all this because of his natural talent and hard work in the acting industry. Brahmanandam is married to Lakshmi Kanneganti, and he is blessed with two children, namely; Raja Goutham and Siddharth.

Brahmanadam Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Imman Annachi is one of the most popular television anchors in the history of Tamil Television. He is also a well-known actor and comedian and is best known for his sense of humor. He gained popularity through popular television shows such as 'Kutty Chutties' and 'Sollunganne Sollunga'. He was born as Immanuel in the city of Thiruvaluthinadar Vilai in the district of Thoothukudi in Eral in the state of Tamil Nadu. He was a talented young man since his early life and got his fame and recognition after he appeared on a talk show on Makkal TV.

Joe Malloori is an actor who works in the South Indian film industry. His residential abode is in the city of Chennai. Joe is known for his commendable and highly impactful acting skills. He was hugely appreciated by everyone for the performance that he gave in his debut film. The movie with which he made his debut was named Kumki, which was directed by Prabhu Solomon. This film came out in the year 2012. He played the role of Mathayaan, who is a leader of a tribe and also the father of the female lead. He received widespread appreciation, and he was welcomed into the industry with open arms. Audiences, as well as the critics, thought that the best thing that Prabhu did for his movie was to cast Joe for the role he did and that it was laudable.

Karunas is a popular comedian, musician, and producer and Tamil actor. He was born as Karunanidhi Sethu on February 21, 1970, in Peravurani, Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India. He studied at Palangudi Bharati School and moved to Nandaman Arts, Presidency College later on. Karunas started his career as a dancer and pop singer who worked in the Tamil folk music.

Nizhalgal Ravi is a veteran actor in TV serials and films and has acted in hundreds of movies alongside the greatest of actors in the industry. Born on April 16, 1956, he first started out under legendary director Bharathiraja in ‘Nizhalgal’ which later stuck on to his name because of the instant hit with people. He has played many impressive roles in blockbuster movies like Vedam Puthithu, Nayakan, Chinna Thambi Periya Thambi, etc. His versatility has won him praises from all over the industry and from people. He has acted in over 20 movies in Malayalam in the 80s before moving into mainstream Tamil movies.

Robo Shankar is an upcoming comedian artiste in the Tamil cinema who was noticed as a mimicry artist in ‘’Rowtrhiram’’, that released in 2011. But while editing the movie, his role was cut fully, and the actor could not get any recognition. 

Sundeep Kishan is the assistant director of the popular director Gautam Menon. He is acting in Telugu films and hailed from the family of film celebrities. Chota K. Naidu and Shyam K. Naidu are the popular cinematographers, who are the uncles of Sundeep Kishan. Born in the year 1987 in Hyderabad, Sundeep Kishan completed his graduation in Loyola College in Chennai. Though his father is a business man and his mother, an employee of All India Radio, he developed his interest in cinema. Sneha Geetham was the debut movie of Sandeep. He has also acted in the Hindi film Shor in the city. Routine Love Story was an average hit movie in the year 2012, which had Sundeep Kishan in the lead. He has also acted in a Tamil movie called Yaaruda Mahesh, but the movie failed to hit the box office. At present, he is acting in the film Tiger, a Telugu movie. Some of his hit movies are D for Dopidi, DK Bose, Gundello Godari, Ra Ra Krishnayya, Beeruva and Joru. Prasthanam was the movie, which made him popular. He has also sung a song in the film Idega Asapaddav. Cell phone lu balance was the song by Sundeep Kishan, which was murmured by many youngsters.

Both Tamil film actor and comedian, Sathyan is the only son of the veteran producer Madhampatty Sivakumar. Actor Sathyaraj is his uncle while Sibiraj is his cousin. Sathyan studied at PSG College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore. After graduating with a BBM degree, he entered the film industry by playing the lead role in the Ilaiyaraaja musical Ilaiyavan, which was produced by his father himself.

Dhilip Subbarayan is a stunt choreographer, producer, and actor. He has worked in South Indian film industry. His main of contribution lies in Tamil film industry. After a long time of being a stunt choreographer, he made his debut in Sangu Chakkaram. He was born in Tamil Nadu. His father, Super Subbarayan also has served in the industry as a successful stunt chorographer, for many years. He showed interest in the action and fast lifestyle which is practiced. Like his father, he also dreamed of being in the industry and started working in many movies. He was first noticed in ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ in the year 2011. The movie was a full action phased based on the life of the gangster. The movie was a huge hit and received a world première at the South Asian International Film Festival in the city of New York. He had continued his working with many big and small budget movies in Tamil and Malayalam movies. The movies include Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, Arima Nambi, Puli, and the latest movie Theri. In 2013, he turned himself into a produced and produced Anjala. T

Prabhu Ganesan or better known as Prabhu is a prominent Indian entrepreneur, producer, comedian and actor who mainly appear in Tamil films. He was born on December 25, 1956 in Chennai, India. His mother is Kamala and his father, Sivaji Ganesan is a stage and film actor during the 20th century. Prabhu is the father of Vikram Prabhu, who is making a name in the Tamil film industry. After his debut in the 1982 film, Sangili, the actor started to play leading and supporting roles, which gained him the Best Actor in Lead Role Award by the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards in after donning a brilliant performance in the Tamil film, Chinna Thambi in 1991.

Thambi Ramaiah, an Indian film actor, and director is considered as the busiest actors in Kollywod appearing in maximum movies that released in 2014. Once upon a time, he did not even how to make a foray into Kollywood. Anticipating for someone to give a chance in films, he had to wait till his luck could get him a status of an actor. 

Vijayakumar is a very famous actor in Tamil films and television serials. He has acted in more than 400 movies in very popular characters, from child roles to hero roles to supporting roles to father roles to grandfather roles. You name any famous artist in Tamil, Vijayakumar would have acted with him or her. That is the reach he had in the Tamil filmdom.

Vijayakumar’s real name was Panchaksharam Ranaswamy. He wanted to act in movies from a very young age and apparently acted in a movie as a child artist. But, not many called him for future films, so he was discouraged and went back to his home town. Later, when he was a young person, he returned to try movies where he got some very good offers. Movies such as Aval Oru Thodarkathai, Ponnukku Thanga manasu, gave him a good break. After that he started appearing in popular movies regularly. He even acted as hero in some movies. He also acted in few Telugu, Malayalam movies during this time. His emotional type of acting was well received by directors as well as fans.

Vijayakumar started acting in television serials in roles similar to his movie roles. He mostly acted as a person who is well respected in the society, which was true in his real life also. His wife, son, daughters all acted in movies and became famous. Vijayakumar’s super hit television serials include Thangam and Vamsam. His well-known movie performances are Agni Natchathiram, Naattaamai, Kizhakku Seemaiyile, Andhi Mandhaarai, Saamy etc.

Ali is a Telugu actor and also worked in Bollywood movies. He was born in a financially weak family but always had a passion for acting. Irrespective of his financial condition, he kept on developing his passion for acting and got his first role as a child artist in Director Bhagyaraj’s film Seethkoka Chiluka. He performed a great job as a child artist in different movies. Afterward he faced many difficulties for a “Grown up actor’s” role, and his struggle got a life when he got to play a comic role in director S.V Krishna Reddy’s films.

P.T. Selvakumar serves the Tamil film industry as a director, producer, and a press relation officer.Selvakumar had no ambition of being a film director specifically. Instead, he used to be a journalist before getting in touch with the film directors. In his career in journalism, he got in touch with S. A Chandrasekhar, a famous film director from the Tamil industry. Chandrasekhar entrusted him as the PRO (press relation officer) of his son Vijay Chandrasekhar, an actor in the Tamil industry.

Natarajan Subramaniam is a cinematographer turned actor of the Kollywood. At the beginning, of his career, he even worked as a marriage photographer and a videographer. Natarajan decided to quit his school at the age of 18 and neither did he go to college.

MLR Karthikeyan is no longer a budding singer in South Indian movies. He started his journey at the age of 14 by singing in school competitions and went on to become a part of many inter-school competitions. He also completed his BSC degree in Mathematics and Masters of Computer Application from Madras University.

Jasper is a professional actor and acts mostly in South Indian movies. He was born on 6th of February in the year 1972. He does not act in the lead roles. Japer has been active in the South Indian Film Industry since 2003 and has given many good movies. Jasper mainly acts as an antagonist. Jasper does not have the so called hero figure. He does not have biceps or chest or packs to show off. Jasper is on the heavier side. He weighs around 170 kg. The film directors have very cleverly used his high weight to give him catchy roles in the movies.

Sanjeev Sudeep, known by the short name, Sudeep is an Indian film actor, director, screenwriter, playback singer, and producer. He has mostly worked in Kannada cinema. He has also appeared in Big Boss version of Kannada television. Sudeep, being a Mechanical engineer by graduation first had the opportunity begin his acting career with a television advertisement title 'Premada Kadambari'.

M. M. Manasi – The versatile playback singer, who started her singing career in the movies at the age of 9. She was born on 8th January 1993 and her native place is Chennai. She was trained for 15 years in Hindustani vocal. Though her hometown was Chennai, she was brought up in Mumbai. She started to learn the music at the age of 2. Her first performances were during the festivals such as Navaratri and Ganapathi Chaturthi. Her family encouraged her a lot, and good encouragement can go a long way. Manasi has mentioned her t parents' encouragement in a lot of interviews and stages. Her inspiration was K. Pop and Ilayaraja. She is not only a playback singer but she is also a dubbing artist. She finished her studies in the D. g. Vaishnav College in Management.