Tamil Movie Review Rajini Murugan - Cast & Crew

Kalpana is an Indian Playback singer who is professionally a Carnatic music singer also. She is also a songwriter and actor in Malayalam and Telugu languages. She was born on May 8, 1977, in Chennai Tamil Nadu, India. She started the singing from the age of five and with her voice; she started the playback singing for Tamil and Malayalam songs. Until now she did with the 1500 tracks and done the shows around 3000 in India and worldwide. Kalpana was born and brought up in the musical family. Her father name is T. S. Raghavendra, who is also a reputed singer, composer, and director. Inspire of this her mother Sulochana, is a singer. Her younger sister Prasanna Raghavendra is also famous in the field of opera singing. Her stage name is Shekinah Shawn.

Keerthy is the daughter of yesteryear actress Menaka and producer 'R Suresh Kumar' who made her debut with Priyadarshan’s ‘’Geetanjali’’. Naturally, she had dreamt always to become an actress. And then she also had the support of her parents who wanted Keerthy to grow up as an actor. She never had any second thoughts about her career and she had always wanted to become an actor only. Although she is from a family where acting is the only passion, she had naturally gotten to the skin of many characters and had left a mark with each character that she had played.

She was given various roles to portray, whether it is a bubbly and loud girl as Maya in Rajini Murugan( Tamil -2015), or an urban, calm and quiet Chennai girl in Idhu Enna Maayam (Tamil-2015), every character had helped her to evolve as an actor. But before making a debut as a leading lady, in Mollywood (Geetanjail), she was seen as a child artiste. She appeared as a child artiste in her father’s productions such as’ Pilot’, ‘Achaneyanenikku Ishtam’, and’ Kuberan’(all films had released in 2002).

She acted even in a Telefilm that was made by Suresh Krishna. She has a keen interest in fashion design too. With her sparkling screen presence in ‘Geethanjali’, she grabbed other films too in hand. After ‘Geetanjali’, she was in demand and rightly so in other regional languages too. With her performances, she has proved that she can pull off any role that is offered to her. Will she be seen in a Hindi film too? This is because her sister Revathy Suresh, had acted in many Indian languages, and considered to be a very versatile screen performer. Like most of the actors these days, Keethy also looks for a good script. For Keerthy, making her inroads in cinema was not a cakewalk. The entry was easy, of course, because of her parents and elder sister Revathy’s connections. But she had a talent too in her genes. Apart from two Telugu films such as ‘’Aina Nuvvu Ishtam” and “Harikatha” (2015), she has been signed up for a project with Dhanush too.

Keerthy Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Dheepa Ramanujam was born on October 24 in the year 1983. He is a professional Indian film actress, Playwright, and a director as well. Dheepa preferably works in the Tamil film industry. He started his career in the year 1997 with the movie Arunachalam. Then in the year 2015, she made his second debut in Uttama Villain and played the role of a Queen. In the same year 2015, she did another movie named Pasanga 2, where she enacted as a School's principal. In the next year, she made Rajini Murugan and acted as Murugan's mother in the film. In the same, she made another named Pichaikkaran as a Bhuvaneshwari. Again she got another film to sign, named Idhu Namma Aalu,

Kanaka Mahalakshmi, known as Kanaka, is a South Indian film actress who was born to popular Telugu yesteryear actress Devika and Devadas. Actress Kanaka, best known for her pretty big eyes, shot to fame at a young age through her debut film, 'Karagattakaran' opposite Ramarajan in 1989. She was diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer in late January in 2013 and thus fought her battle against deadly disease while undergoing treatment in Kerela. The pretty actress has starred with top actors like Rajinikanth, Karthik, Mohanlal, Vijayakanth, Mammootty, Prabhu.

Lingusamy is the well known Indian film director, who is popular for his family scripts. He was born on November 14, 1967. Lakshmipuram in Tamilnadu is Lingusamy’s native. He worked as the assistant to “A Venkatesh” and “Vikraman.” His career as a director started in the year 2001, through the “Mammootty” starrer, “Anandham.” His first movie got him the Best Film Award at Filmfare by Cinema Express. He got consecutive success through “R Madhavan” starrer, “Run” and Vishal Reddy flick “Sandakozhi.” Lingusamy also owns a production house along with his brother Subash Chandra Bose, called, “Thirrupathi Brothers.” He has produced nearly 16 films with his production house. “Deepavali” was the first movie under his production banner. He scripted and directed “Bheema” in 2008. The movie showed the action face of Chiyaan Vikram and won the acclaim as a good action movie in his career. In 2010, he scripted, directed and produced, “Paiyaa,” the Karthik Sivakumar and Tamannaah movie, which earned him positive criticism.

N Subash Chandra Bose is an Indian producer who works particularly in Tamil cinema. He has a produced a lot of films and has also won several Filmfare, national and south Indian international movie awards. Subash who is currently residing in Tamil Nadu started a production house along with his brother N Lingusamy in 2006 titled Thirupathi brothers. It is a production company under motion pictures and has its headquarters located in Tamil Nadu, India. Between the two brothers, Subash is a producer and Lingusamy is the director. Subash started his career in the industry under this production house with the film Deepawali. Deepawali is a romantic movie starring Jayaram and Bhavana in lead roles. Released on 9th February 2007 and directed by Ezhil; the film is a tragic love story about a girl who forgets her boyfriend after post-traumatic stress disorder.

Immanuel Vasanth Dinakaran, acknowledged as D. Imman, is an Indian big screen musician and songster mainly for Tollywood. Imman was in Chennai in Sothern parts of India on 24 January 1983. He did his schooling Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai and completed his graduation in Pachaiyappa's College. He did his Master's from Madras University. Immanuel got married on 24th April 2008 to Monica Richard, and the couple is blessed with two adorable daughters.

Yugabharathi is an Indian lyricist and poet. He specializes in writing Tamil poems and Tamil songs. He was born in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu. Yugabharathi’s real name is Prem Kumar, but he changed it to Yugabharathi as it was his pen name for his poems. Yugabharathi completed his Matriculation from Maxwell Matriculation Higher Secondary School. He also has a Diploma in Engineering from Government Polytechnic College. He started his career as a poet in early 90’s and wrote poems for various Tamil magazines. He changed his name to Yugabharathi to honor his idol Subramanya Bharathi. He started his career as a lyricist with the movie Aanandham. He wrote lyrics for Pallankuzhiyin in the movie. After that, he wrote lyrics for many songs. His first work as a successful lyricist came out in the year 2002 in the movie Run. He wrote the song Kadhal Pisase, which became a huge hit. In 2003, he wrote songs for the movie Vasiya Kaari and Manmadha Raasa. In the year 2004, he went back to writing poems for magazines.

Badava Gopi is a stand up comedian who gained popularity by his very popular show ‘Kadi TV’. As a seasoned artist and television comedian, he has made a name for himself in the Tamil entertainment world. His regular acts on Kaun Banega Crorepati and its Tamil version were acclaimed by viewers a lot, which made him a household name in Tamil TV world. Gopi made his debut with the film ‘Poi’ in which he got an opportunity to work with K. Balachander.

Jithin Raj is a playback singer as well as an actor who has sung mainly in South Indian movies. He is a native of Malappuram, a district in Kerala but settled in Chennai for achieving more heights in the field of music.

Mahalakshmi Iyer was born on 21 March 1990, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She is a professional Indian singer and playback singer. Iyer is best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung songs in many other Indian languages like Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Assamese, and Kannada. She belonged to a piece of Tamil music backgrounded family. Iyer was the daughter of her mother, who is a Carnatic classical singer as well. She started taking classes in Hindustani music at a very young age. Iyer has three sisters named, Kalpana, Padmini, and Shobha, and she was the youngest of all. Iye has been raised in Chembur, Mumbai, India.

VM Mahalingam is an Indian playback singer. He works predominately in the Tamil film industry. He hails from Tamil Nadu, India. He is a Kollywood playback singer. His height is 5 meter 8 cm. His hair color is black, and has an average body type. Heis a Hindu by religion and his nationality is Indian. He has sung a lot of songs un popular movies like Natpe Thunai, Maari 2.

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.

Vivek Harshan, born on 28 May, 1981 in Kochi , India, is an Indian film editor with a national award to his name for editing film 'Jigarthanda' in 2014. Harshan developed his interest for movies and editing in his college days where he met equally movie enthusiast friends, and it is then that he started taking things seriously. He learned to edit professionally through a course in Chennai and later assisted renowned editor exact==Anthony to whom he also dedicated his national award. He gives credit to his work to Anthony and says whatever knowledge he has of editing is what Anthony gave him.

Raj Kiran is one of the well-known director, actor, and producer in Telugu film industry. He is known for the works that he has done in the industry. He struggled a lot in his earlier age to become a successful director. Before entering into the direction department Raj Kumar acted in a few of the Tamil films like Muni, Komban, Kereedan. He got appreciations for his performance in the movie. Being a director is his lifetime goal. For that, he used to strive really hard. He started writing a story and decided to direct the movie at any cost. That movie was an horror-comedy thriller. Most of the writing he has done in one of the burial grounds of Hyderabad so that he can relate to that subject and can concentrate more and can get effective ideas.

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. 

Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is a film director, producer, and cinematographer, of the Indian cinema. Santosh is an FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) graduate and has so far has done 41 documentaries and 45 feature films. Not only is he a founding associate of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), but also is the bigger of the highest number of Director of Photography (DOP) award in India. Sivan is the first ever Cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific area to achieve an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) fellowship.

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.

A Tamil university lecturer and conversationalist G. Gnanasambandam is also an actor. He was born in Sholavandan, Madurai. He is known for his incredible communication skills.

Sivakarthikeyan is a stand-up comedian, actor, and an anchor born on 17th February 1985 in Singampunari, Tamil Nadu. He was born to an Engineer father and has a sister who is a doctor. He was in Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School in his school years and graduated from JJ College of Engineering and Technology and holds a degree in B.E. Later. he went on to do MBA from Indian Institute of Planning and Management Chennai. He was participative in his college in theatre and stand-up comedy. It was the gap he had between his engineering and MBA he participated in a Star Vijay reality show, Kalakku Povathu Yaaru after he was forced by his friends and eventually won the show.

Samuthirakani has carved a niche for himself in the Tamil cine industry not only as a director but also as an actor. He has tried his luck in screenwriting and voice-over too. One of his earlier films, Nadodigal, was a huge hit at the box office. It was released in the year 2009. Later, this movie was remade in three different languages. Samuthirakani has acted in numerous movies and is best known for his performance in the movies like ‘Sattai’, ‘Easan’, ‘Visaranai’, and ‘Subramaniapuram’.

K.T. Balasubramaniem is an Indian cinematographer. He works predominantly in the South Indian film industry. He was born on 18th August 1966 and comes from the beautiful place of Southern India called Karaikudi situated in Tamil Nadu. He has completed his education from Thirupattur. He was with P.C. Sreeram as an assistant for a very long time. He learned all aspect of cinematography and finished his skills under him. Working with P.C. Sreeram got him opportunities to work for the acclaimed movies like Kuruthipunal and Thevar Magan.

On twenty-six January 1990, a legendary singer was born and named Dhivagar Santhosh. Also called as Diwakar, this playback Indian singer gained his popularity by winning the season 4 of Airtel super singer in the category of Tamil musical television reality show. Dhivagar Santhosh comes from a middle-class family who worked hard to create his successful image in the Tollywood industry. His parents are Santhosh and Ragini Kumar. He is the third brother of the family and has two elder brothers named Murali and Ravikumar. Dhivagar Santhosh was born and brought up in Chennai, he studied at the GWAT boys higher secondary school found in Vadagarai, Red Hills of Chennai. After school, he decided to pursue his higher education at the JHA Agarsen College at Madhavaram.

Ponram was born on 30th November in the vibrant city of Chennai situated in Tamil Nadu. He is an Indian director and works predominantly in Tamil film Industry. He is also a well-known scriptwriter of Tamil industry. He is popularly called as only Ponram. He has a strong build with 5'8" height. He has black complexion and hair. His eyes color is also black. Before coming into direction, he assisted S. A. Chandrasekhar and M. Rajesh in direction. Both his mentors and guides praise him a lot for his hard work and say that he has a long way to go. The director and script writer made his debut as a director with the movie Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam. The movie marked its release in the year 2013. The movie bagged popular star cast such as Sri Divya, Sivakarthikeyan, and Sathyaraj.