Tamil Movie Review Vaaliba Raja - Cast & Crew

Veena Ghantasala is an Indian dubbing artist who works in the South Indian film industry. Born in the famous Ghantasala family, she is the granddaughter of musician Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao and Savitri. Her father, Ratna Kumar is also involved in the art of dubbing in the movies. Based in Chennai, she completed her schooling at Holy Angels Convent School in the city. Later, she went on to pursue B.Com in finance and MBA at MOP Vaishnav College for Women in the same metropolis. Previously stated, Ratna Kumar had dubbed for Hindi superstars such as Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan for the regional version of their flicks.

Who will forget the dictator and bossy girlfriend of ‘Pyar Ka Panchnama,' a story depicting the life of three friends? The role was played with such perfection that it will remain forever with the audiences. No point in guessing, we are talking about Nusrat Bharucha, the leading lady and the “Babu” of the movie. 

Vishakha Singh, daughter of Mr. Jitendra Singh, is an Indian film actress and producer who found her way in the film industry and gained applause not only in Hindi but also in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam language films. She studied at Abu Dhabi Indian School and Delhi Public School, completed graduation in business studies from Delhi University, post graduation in advertising and public relations. She become a model in 2007 and acted in many television and print commercials and that’s how she started her talent in South Indian language films and made her film debut with a Telugu film “Gnaapakam” in 2008 then followed by Bollywood is in “Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey” directed by Ashutosh Gowariker in 2010 along with Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone in which she won the best performance award by StarDust Awards in 2011. Vishaka Singh, the Rajput girl from Uttar Pradesh also acted in many advertisements like Sunsilk, D'mas Jewelry, Medimix, Motorola Moto phone, etc.

Neelima is a decently prestigious Tamil Actress. Neelima began her acting career in “Oru Pennin Kathai” when she was in school. In her late spring excursions, she likewise did gimmick movies like Thevar Magan, Virumbugiren and Pandavar Bhoomi. When she was 15 she performed the lead part in “Acham Madam Naanam”.

Devadarshini is a Tamil TV serial actor who first made her debut in the year 1998 and is now married to fellow serial actor Chetan with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter, Niyati. She has played several supporting roles in more than 50 films and has appeared in around 20 TV serials. She got her first break through the series ‘Marmadesam’ where she acted along with Chetan. She has also played several pivotal roles in cult serials like Annamalai, Kolangal, Athi Pookkal, Poovilangu among many others. She is widely known for her comedy and sentimental roles in several movies in the first decade of the 21st century.

Sriranjani is an Indian actress known for her work in the Tamil film industry. She started her career in television series directed by K. Balachander in 2000. She later took the role Madhavan's sister-in-law when she was offered the role in Alaipayuthey by Mani Ratnam. She has also played the role of Nandini's mother in the film Anniyan by S. Shankar and produced by V. Ravichandran. In 2006, she appeared as Srimathy’s mother in Thimiru. In 2012, Sriranjani appeared in the Bollywood film “Ek Deewana Tha” which was produced and directed by Gautam Menon. 

Sai Gokul Ramanath is a writer and a director well-known for his work in the Tamil film industry. He was born in Chennai, India. He completed his schooling from his home-town and for his college, he moved to Vellore. While he was in school, he used to be quite a silent kid and used to study.

H. Murali is an Indian producer who worked for the South Indian film industry. Not only a great producer Murali is also an executive producer in Tamil movies. His first work as a producer was included in the movie Bose which lead the television in 2004. Murali got very praised for his work in his first debut and later he started working more on movies like Mersal in 2017, Vaaliba Raja in 2016, and Jaganmohini in 2009. Presently he is working on more upcoming films.

Ganesh Raj is one of the most promising new generation directors in Malayalam Cinema. The youthful director’s getting a "fantasy make a big appearance" in Mollywood with Aanandam. Post his B.Tech course, he moved away from the engineering field and joined film industry as the Assistant Director (AD) to Vineeth Sreenivasan. Ganesh' first movie as AD was 2012 surprise hit Thattathin Marayathu. Later he was AD in Vineeth's Thira, Jacobinte Swargarajyam and Anjali Menon's Bangalore Days. During this time he wrote and directed two short films as well, titled Where Do You Live? (2011) and Oru Kutti Chodyam (2012). After JSR, Ganesh took a break to write the script for his debut directorial venture, Aanandam. This flick also became Vineeth's debut as a producer.

Loganathan Srinivasan is an Indian cinematographer. He is mainly working for Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil film industry. He has the Indian Nationality. He has two daughters. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and India. His other name is Loknath. He is also the director of Photography by profession. He has started his career with Telugu Industry. Loganathan has worked in the two films with Allari Naresh. After some time, he did projects for Malayalam film Industries. He did films like Moonnamathoral in the year 2006, Annan Thambi in the year 2008, and Kurukshetra in the year 2008. Kurukshetra is a war film. He also did the Ustad Hotel in the year 2012. He has recently begun to work in Tamil films beginning with the Thotti Gang. He did various projects.

Radhan is an Indian Film Music Composer. He works in the Tamil and Telugu Film Industry. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in India. Radhan made his debut as a Music Composer in the Film Industry with the Tamil film Vikadakavi (2011). Later, he got an opportunity to compose music in the Telugu film Andala Rakhshasi (2012). He produced some soulful and romantic music for this film.

Madhan Karky Vairamuthu was born on March 10, 1980. He lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his education from College of Engineering, Guindy and University of Queensland. He is an Indian lyricist, software engineer, a professor, research associate, and a film dialogue writer. His parents are Vairamuthu and Ponmani; his father is a poet and a lyricist.

Na. Muthukumar is a poet, lyricist, writer and novelist, who writes in Tamil. He is famous for writing scripts and songs for Tamil films. Na. Muthukumar was born on 12 July 1975 in a small village named ‘Tirur’ near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. His Father, Mr Nagaraj was a Tamil teacher.Mr Nagaraj always maintained a collection of 5000 books throughout his life, and after he had passed away, this collection was preserved by his son in his office. Also, his mother passed away when he was merely four years old. Muthukumar reminisces that he acquired most of the knowledge of his life from his father’s book collection. Also, to help others he has plans to open a library where everybody could access those books. Na. Muthukumar began his career with a dream to be a director. So, he started working under director Balu Mahendra for about four years as assistant director. But due to turn of events, he landed into being a lyricist. He began with writing the lyrics for the Tamil movie ‘Veera Nadai’ which was directed by Seeman.

Viveka is a lyricist, who works in the Tamil film industry of South India. Viveka started as a lyricist in the year 2015. Viveka was born in 1985, and currently resides in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. Before venturing into the film industry, Viveka studied engineering and then law. Inspired by the work of Vairamuthu, a famous lyricist of the Tamil industry, he also began penning down poems. In the year 2015, he received his first breakthrough movie, “Enakkul Oruvan”, for which he wrote the lyrics of the songs “Poo Avizhum Pozhudhil”, and “Yaar”. After that, there was no looking back for this star lyricist. In the same year, he wrote lyrics for movies like “36 Vayadhinile”, "Indru Netru Naalai", “Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam”, and “144”. These included songs such as “Happy”, “Pogiren”, “Vaadi Raasathi”, “Kadhale Kadhale”, “Ennodu”, ” Mokka Piece”, “Mora Saiyyo”, and “Sarakka”. In the year of 2016, he has worked on four films, namely: “Kathakali”, “Irudhi Suttru”, “Aranmanai 2”, and “Jil Jung Juk”. He is working on the upcoming film, “Oru Naal Koothu”. These five in total include around ten songs that are being written by Viveka.

Unlike foreign countries, India has produced a very few good rappers. Among them, very few have managed to achieve critical as well as commercial success. 'Blaaze' is one of them. Born on October 15, 1975, his birth name is Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman and originally belongs from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Bobo Shashi is an Indian Music Director and Playback Singer. His actual name is Sashikanth. He works in the Telugu and Tamil Film Industries. Shashi was born on the 12th of October in the year 1981. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is the son of Murali, who is a music composer. His father works with his uncle, Sabesh.

Arun Seenu is a well-known audiographer. He is famously known for his workings in movies such as Soorarai Pottru (2019) directed by Sudha Kongara; the film was inspired by events from the life of G R Gopinath, founder of Indian low-cost airline Simplify Deccan. Seenu has also worked in movies such as Action Hero Biju (2016) an Indian Malayalam- language police procedural comedy film directed by Abrid Shine and Super Deluxe (2019) an Indian Tamil-language film co-written, co-produced and directed by Thiagarajan Kumararaja. Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe has won a lot of love and appreciation from the audiences. The film has created an offbeat and unpredictable. One of the major contributors to this movie is the work done by the film’s sound department.

Prasanna Sujit is one of the most talented choreographers working in the film industry. Born in a family of dancers, Prasanna is the youngest generation of dancer in his family. His famous family members include Brinda master, Kala Master and Raghu Master. Prasanna was a shy child growing up, he was an introvert. In fact he was such a low-key person that no one in his school knew that he dance in his bloodline, and he himself was such a gifted dancer. During school days, it was one of Sujit’s friends who suggested Prasanna to start competing in dance competitions.

Indian film editor, Satyaraj Natarajan is born in Dharmapuri,Tamil Nadu. He studied at Kongu Engineering College,Perundurai, and later went to LV Prasad Film and TV Academy.He has worked in Tamil-language films and has also worked asan assistant to Praveen KL, a noted film editor who has worked with over 70 films. ​

Sethu was born in India. He is an actor by profession and did many roles in TV series also. He acted in Kollywood mostly in Tamil films. Sethu became very popular after his portrayal in “Malli”, it is a daily soap which aired its first episode on 23rd November 2013. A. R. Ramesh directed the show, and it focused on the lives of Shivani and Bala. Bala lost his elder sister, Malli, at a very young age and he mourns when he thinks about her. Shivani belongs to a royal family and never received the love and affection that a child should receive from her parents. Her parents just like many others are blindly running for money and building up their profession.

Srinivasan was born in 1962 in Simmakal, Madurai. He completed his degree at Madurai Kamraj University. He first worked as a medical practitioner, then moved on to business by setting a finance firm Baba Trading Company. Having seen failure in both of his occupation, he then landed in Cinema Industry. Due to his interest towards films, he moved from Madurai to Chennai. He directed and acted in a film Lathika that was running for 220 days.

Kanal Kannan is an Indian actor, screenwriter, stunt director and a stunt choreographer in Kollywood, Malayalam cinema etc. He was born in Tamil Nadu. Kanal Kannan is one of the highly respected and senior stunt directors in south India. Kannan, as a stunt master is believed to beequalling Jackie Chan and is poised to become Tamil version of the same. He has choreographed many breath taking stunt sequences featuring the likes of Vikram, Kamal Haasan, Nagarjuna, Vijay, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Suriya and Ajith. Apart from some lead roles, he has also done cameos in many of his films. We can call him as a boisterously funny, action star who has worked his way up from stuntman.

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. 

V Jayaprakash is a Tamil film actor and producer, known for his production of “Gopala Gopala,” “Porkkaalam,” “Thavasi,” “April Maadhathil,” and “Julie Ganapathi,” among many others. Jayaprakash has also featured in more than 50 movies, including Tamil and Malayalam. Jayaprakash started off with productions of various films right from the beginning of the millennium decade, and is the owner of the production house, “GJ Banner.” 2007 saw Jayaprakash cast in the Tamil director, Cheran’s “Maya Kannadi,” which saw the inception of his career as an actor. Consequently, Jayaprakash featured in various movies in memorable supporting roles such as in Pandiraj’s “Pasanga,” and other films such as “Moodar Koodam,” “Yuddham Sei,” “Naadodigal,” “Mankatha,” and “Naan Mahaan Alla.” Born in the town of Sirkazhi in Tamil Nadu, Jayaprakash didn’t pursue acting or producing films, as a career. His financial constraints saw him undertake small business ventures such as owning a dairy farm, operating a petrol firm and owning a billiards parlor.

VTV Ganesh is a renowned Tamil film actor, comedian, and producer. He was born as Ganesh Janardhanan in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India. He became popular for his hoarse voice. Ganesh has appeared in many of Silambarasan’s films. He was debuted in Gautham Menon’s Tamil musical romantic drama film, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010). His performance as a cinematographer, who assisted Silambarasan in connecting with Trisha Krishnan’s character in the film, earned him a nomination at the Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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.

Gana Bala, a famous singer and lyricist of Kollywood, was born as Bala Murugan, but he adopted the name Gana Bala himself as a stage name. Sometimes, he is also known as Anathai Bala, 'Gana Kuyil King' Bala. He was born to V. S. Mani and M. Punniyam. Bala studied law at Presidency College in Chennai after studying Botany. After being graduated, his chance at fame began when he participated in a reality TV show called Gana Kuyil Pattu. The show was aired on Kalaignar TV, and he won it. In the singing field, he has specific expertise in the Gaana genre in the Tamil industry. In fact, he is given a lot of credit for reviving the genre back in the industry. He gained a lot of success and fame after Aadi Pona Aavani, and Nadukadalula Kappala came out as a part of the soundtrack of Attakathi. He also received several nominations and won the Vikatan Award for playback singing in that movie. It was his big break and after that he has done innumerable songs in movies, albums under famous composers like G. V. Prakash Kumar.

Chithra Laksmanan was born on January 22, 1948. He is a journalist-turned actor, producer and director. When his friend, P. Bharathiraja became a director, Chithra has the chance to work with him as an associate director. He worked in over 25 Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. His very first project as a film producer is from the 1983 Tamil film, Mann Vasanai under the direction of P. Bharathiraja. Later, he produced many films with several actors, producers and directors like Kamal Hasaan, Karthik, Prabhu, Sathyaraj and many more. Then in year 1987, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. G. Ramachandran governed the 100th day function of the Tamil crime film, Jallikattu which he produced along with Chitra Ramu, under the direction of Manivannan. He was also the producer of the films, Vaazhkai and Chinnappadass.

He was debuted as a director in the 1988 Tamil film, Soora Samhaaram which stars Kamal Hasaan. Subsequently, Chithra directed the 1997 Tamil drama film, Periya Thambi with actor, Prabhu. He also produced and directed the 1999 Tamil film, Chinna Raja which stars Karthik in the main lead role.

Chithra works in the Tamil Film Producers Council for a span of four years as a Secretary. He also works in the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce, FFI or the Film Federation of India and in Tamil Film Directors Association as an Executive Committee Member for several years. In 2002, he was also one of the Jury in the National Film Awards and he was also voted to be an Executive Committee Member in the Tamil Film Producers Council in 2011.

Chithra became an actor as Munusamy Guide in 1985 Tamil film, Japanil Kalyanaraman and since then, he got the chance to work in over 50 films like Periya Thambi, Unnai Ninaithu, Bose, Giri, London, Kusthi, Dhanam, Boss Engira Bhaskaran, Saguni, Isakki, Settai, Pattathu Yaanai, Ya Ya, Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham, Nimirndhu Nil and a lot more.

He was debuted as a television actor in Sun TV’s Ganga Yamuna Saraswathi along with M. S. Bhaskar. Then he appeared as the father of Reshmi (played by Sabarna) in Sondha Bandham in 2012. Then he was casted in the mega serial, Idhayam on Sun TV, followed by the Tamil super hit serial, Anantham.

In 2011, Chithra published the first part of the book, 80 Years of Tamil Cinema. The book is all about the Tamil Cinema’s History comprising of some very rare photos and latest information about the growth of Tamil cinema from the year 1931 to 2011.

Rajeev is a popular Tamil actor, who had been working in Tamil and Malayalam films. He was born in Madurai as Rajashekar to Balasubramanya Mudaliyar and Rajeshwari Ammal. His father was a government employee working in Indian Telephone Industries in Bangalore. Rajeev did his schooling in Bangalore ITI Vidya Mandir. Rajeev was interested in acting during his school days. After graduating, he started to seek opportunities in cinema. In his initial stages, he was rejected by many of the filmmakers.