Telugu Movie Review Agnyaathavaasi - Cast & Crew

Niranjana Ramanan is an Indian-Singer. She primarily works in the Telugu Film Industry. She had worked in Agnyaathavaasi directed by Trivikram Srinivas which released on 10 January 2018.

On 28th March 1997 (age 20) at Chicago, Illinois, USA, Anu Emmanuel was born. Her current state of dwelling is Dallas, Texas, United States. With the actress’s hometown at Thazhathangady, Kerala, India. Anu Emmanuel is an Indian artist who made her performing entrance as a child performer in the Malayalam movie Swapna Sanchari, portraying the daughter of Jayaram and S. Sunil in the picture.

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)

Pooja hegde was the second runner up at miss universe India contest 2010. She won Miss India talented 2009 honour.

Pooja’s family belongs to Mangalore, Karnataka. She was born on 13th October 1990 in Mumbai. She is a model turned actress who did various big budget commercials like that of ‘lays’ and ‘hero maestro’ opposite Ranbir kapoor, the youth icon and heart throb of this era.

Pooja went to MCET School. She is a trained bharat natyam dancer. She finds peace in dancing. The girl considers herself as very simple who loves to be like her own self when not shooting. She is very fond of reading all genres of books and spends time in watching game of tennis. She is also interested in singing.

The girl began her career with the Tamil film ‘Mugamoodi’, released in the year 2012.  In the movie she played the role of a care free girl to whom she empathies in real life.

Her talent helped her survive in the industry and later she was seen in some other moves like ‘oka laila kosam’ and ‘mukunda’, a Telugu film released in the year 2014.

Director Ashutosh gowarikar’s wife saw the exotic potential within her and thereby suggested her name to her husband. These days the actress is hence busy working for Gowarikar’s next movie, ‘Mohenjo daro’ starring Hritik roshan. The movie is expected to be released in 2016 probably.

Since the very beginning, pooja had taken interest in her mother’s e-commerce business and had worked with her as well.

Buzz is that pooja rejected Mani ratnam’s next movie. She says that her prime focus is in doing the Hindi films these days and so wants a break from the regional movies.

Trivikram Srinivas, a Telugu director and writer, who brought out a need for new marketing strategy for Telugu film makers. He had always presented and structured to carve out the original marketing plan that was required in Tollywood then. His clever promotion strategies than he had planned, for example, for a film like’’ Athadu’’, he made the film in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam languages. Later, the same film was dubbed into Polish language for Poland people. The film’s satellite in Telugu circuit was sold to a whooping sum of $45 million then, and it became the top grosser in 2005. His next flick in 2008 was Jalsa which had released in 1000 theatres and the film grossed $220 million in just 50 days. Later on, he continued with the same formula for Khaleja (2010) which did not meet the same expectation which he had, the film became just an average grosser. This filmmaker had always pitched or his every film project according to his audiences, and then went to define a target audience for his project’s promotional strategy. But why was drawn to such marketing? Because, his first film Nuvve Nuvve’’ was superhit which had new comer Tarun Kumar and Shriya Saran playing the lead. Success of this film really inspired the director to bring a new trend in marketing films. He has directed many stars of Tollywood such as Mahesh Babu, Trisha, Pawan Kalyan, Ileana D'Cruz, Allu Arjun, Upendra, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who were just ultimate superstars. Although he was a dialogue writer he had penned lyrics ( film Oka Raju Oka Rani) and rendered his voice too for his own film “Nuvve Nuvve”.

V. Manikandan, an Indian cinematographer, was born on January 13, 1968, at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. His brother is a National Awardee Artist, V. Jeevananthan, for his book Thiraicheelai on Cinema at the National Film Award 2010. He has filled in as the cinematographer for various significant box office hits in Hindi and Tamil. He is an acclaimed advertisement film cinematographer with more than 3,000 promotion movies to his credit. He began his profession in Tamil films. His debut film was ‘Atharman’ (Tamil) in 1994. In the next two years, he worked in Tamil movies ‘Sarigamapathani’ (1995), ‘Sengottai’ (1996), and ‘Mr. Romeo’ (1996).

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..

Ravi Kumar is a Lyricist from India. He works in Telugu Cinema. He penned lyrics for more than 390 songs and has contributed to more than 125 films. He considerably worked with directors like Puri Jagannadh and music director Chakri and S.S. Thaman. He predominantly writes songs appealing to the masses. His genres include mass, melodies, and romance. He gained the credit and won two Santosham Film Awards in the year 2006 and 2008. He also received SIIMA Award in 2013. Ravi Kumar Bhaskarabhatla born on June 5, 1974, in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was brought up in Rajahmundry among five siblings. He got passionate about literature and got the inspiration from his maternal Grandfather Aravelli Rajagopalacharya, in his early years of childhood. While he was in Rajamundry he used to visit Gouthami library and it influenced him to approach into poetry.

Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry is an Indian Lyricist and Poet. He works in the Telugu Film Industry as a Lyricist. His actual name is Chembolu Seetharama Sastry. Sastry was born on the 20th of May in the year 1955. He was born in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh. He is currently staying in Hyderabad, Telangana. Seetharama Sastry had his debut with writing songs for the legendary director K. Vishwanath.

Sri Mani, an Indian Lyricist is known for his unique style. He mostly writes lyrics for the Telugu Film Industry, and has won many music awards for his unique work. He was born in Nandigama situated in the Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, India. He started his work in the year 2011 and is currently on a roll. In his early life, his parents died, and he was living with his grandparents since then. When he was eight, he dabbled into writing short stories and essays. During his graduation, his grandfather died. He dropped out of college and started looking for a job. He went to Hyderabad, and there Mr. Sukumar offered him a job of a lyricist. He then wrote the lyrics of his first film, '100% love' and received a lot of appreciation for it. Afterward, he started writing more songs, and people started recognizing him.

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”.

Pawan needs no introduction to South Indian people. He is a famous actor and politician. Pawan Kalyan is one of the multi-talented personalities on Telugu film screen. Pawan is the craziest actor and a youth icon in Tollywood. He is the younger brother of Legendary Telugu actor cum Politician, Konidala Chiranjeevi. Pawan Kalyan was born on 02 September, 1974. He is known for his ferocious dialogue delivery and it’s the main reason for youth going crazy about him. Pawan debuted with the film Akkada Abbayi Ikkada Ammayi as Chiranjeevi’s brother. He gained critics appreciation with the first film itself.

He is an ace choreographer in the Tollywood industry. Founder of IBO Dance Studio, he has also choreographed in Bollywood movie, Holiday, starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha.

Rakesh Nukala is a talented and accomplished costume designer was passionate about creating memorable and impactful costumes. He is from Hyderabad, Telangana. Rakesh completed his Bachelor’s in Fashion/Apparel Design from Osmania University, Hyderabad. His contributions as a designer may be seen in several well-known films, like Agnyathavaasi, Nannaku Prematho, S/O of Satyamurthy, etc. Nukala also designed the costumes for King Akkineni Nagarjuna in the first season of Big Boss Telugu. He has 27 feathers to his cap as a celebrity stylist and his other works are seen in movie flicks such as Jai Lava Kusa (2017), Janatha Garage (2016), Radha(2017), ShamanthakaMani(2017), Andhagadu(2017), Rajugadu (2017), Ism(2016) and others as well.

Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao- The most wanted editor for the directors of Indian Cinema. He was born in David in Krishna district which is located in Andhra Pradesh. Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao is a film editor in Telugu cinema industry. He is not only an editor but he also produces a lot of films. He started his career in the year 1977. He lived in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. And he served as the president of Andhra Pradesh film federation along with his younger brother Kotagiri Gopal Rao. He had been in that post for almost six years. He married Sujatha and he has two daughters namely Padmaja and Neeraja.

He was born in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. At the age of two, their family moved to Hyderabad, so he was grown up in Hyderabad.

He learnt Kathak (Indian classical dance) while he was studying 3rd class. Afterwards he learnt Bangra (dance originating from the Punjab region) extensively for eight years. He was even familiar with mime (imitation without use of speech) and gave many performances. He used to participate in lot of cultural activities mainly dance competitions.

He completed his engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Later on he went to USA and pursued Masters in Computers. He even joined in a job at Rediff. At the same time he joined a three month course in NYFA (New York Film Academy), which helped him a lot for his acting career. Meanwhile he also worked for a production house ‘Hollywood Bollywood’ as Model and for some while he worked as production assistant. He was married in 2006 and claims that movies are his passion.

He made his debut in 2005 through a film named ‘Vennela’, in which he played a role of Syed, a Muslim youth. His first project was a big hit and helped him getting many more chances. He moved to Hyderabad and started his acting career. He was offered one of the main roles in ‘Nuvve’ by Gopichand (Telugu film director). He got more opportunities in big movies like Bommarillu, Sainikudu and Rakhi. He was presently busy in Tollywood acting in supporting roles.

He also acted in a TV serial named “Mogalirekulu” which was aired on Gemini TV. Mogalirekulu is an Indian soap opera created and written by Manjula Naidu and Bindi Naidu (sister’s leading the TV serial industry as writers, directors and producers). It was started on February 18, 2008 and ended on May 24, 2013.

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Ravi Varma is an actor who has been working in the Telugu film industry as a supporting actor and side character for a  long time. Born in Andhra Pradesh in a very affluent family, Ravi had hopes of getting into the film industry since his early days in school, where he was inspired by the cinema. He was raised in Hyderabad from where he completed his graduation in engineering. After his graduation, he moved to New York City to complete his post-graduation and he later got a job in NYC itself. During his time in New York, Ravi decided to go ahead and attend a few acting classes and he started enjoying acting a lot and decided to take a risk and quit his job and then he moved back to India.

One of the most talented face in Telugu film industry, his latest flick ’ Drushyam’ proves that age does not matter to be a successful hero in the industry. In his career spanning 27 years, the actor still has huge fanfare and he is the evergreen hero of Telugu cinema.

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was born to a veteran filmmaker, Ramanaidu Daggubati; hence getting an entry in filmdom was not a tough. His elder brother was Suresh Babu Daggubati, who too owned Suresh Productions. Hence he had always wanted to make his mark in the film production, but destiny had some other things in store for him. Thus, he got his first break as leading hero in Kaliyuga Pandavulu in the year 1986. With huge success, the film makers were at his door steps signing films after films, which broke many records in the Telugu film industry. Viewers liked his performance in K. Vishwanath’s flick’ Swarnakamalam’, a film which won him international appreciation too. Venkatesh also acted in musical romance film ‘Prema’ and acted in series of hits like ‘Bobbili Raja’, with Divya Bharti and even starred opposite Sridevi in Ram Gopal Varma’s blockbuster ‘Kshana Kshanam’.

Venkatesh has ruled the industry like one-man show. He also acted in Hindi film such as’ Anari’, with Karishma Kapoor. This film was a remake of Telugu film ’Chanti’ (1992). In 1995, he appeared opposite Raveena Tandon in ‘Taqdeerwala’. He also acted in ‘Shatruvu’ and ‘Surya IPS’ where viewers raved his performances. He was seen playing a dual role in ‘Suryavamsam’ and was acknowledged for his towering performance in the role of father and son.

He is one of the very few actors in Telugu cinema, who made a huge impact on the audiences minds for his sweet, adorable and entertaining movie that always boasts of his brilliant performances. As he is popular with his tag name that is “Victory Venkatesh”, he is currently working in a Tollywood movie “Venky the Rascal’, which is a remake of a Malayalam movie. This actor has acted so far in seventy movies, out of which, thirty-five movies are remake films!

Venkatesh Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

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.

Boman Irani is a well known name today in the Bollywood industry with a strong audience support for his studied comic roles tinged with traces of villainy in many cases. His entry into the industry was, however, much later in life when he was already 41. In fact, his route to film acting was laced with diverse previous occupations. Along with his love for photography, which many people are not aware of, he had a nascent fondness for acting too, but was never very open about it. It was ultimately Shiamak Davar who facilitated this and got him to audition for the veteran theatre personality Alyque Padamsee. Once the acting bug caught on with him, there was never a looking back. He swiftly established himself not only as one of the leading theatre personalities but also one who was clearly acknowledged by many as a prodigy. Theatre it was, that took him places, and soon he was a familiar face not only on the regional stage but also well known for his roles in English drama in the Mumbai circuit. In fact his most noteworthy stage appearance was in “I am not Bajirao”, which drew audiences for almost ten years. His transition from stage to the silver screen was punctuated by several ad shoots for leading brands, till he finally landed up with a small role in the 2003 film “Darna Mana Hai”, which in spite of not being commercially successful, had the audience look up to him as an actor of immense talent. For one like he, so obviously steeped into acting and rendering each of his roles with aplomb, it was natural that his name as a character actor of substance spread very fast and wide. His brand of comedy laced with villainous touches has been very popular with his large fan following, but on a more serious note, his performances in other roles too have been appreciated by critics. While the Raj Kumar Hirani films like his first film “Munna Bhai MBBS”, followed by his sequel “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”, the subsequent “3 Idiots” and the more recent “PK” have already made him a character whose next appearance is anxiously awaited, his more serious or varied roles in films like the Yash Raaj films “Veer Zara”; “Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Maara”, remembered for Anupam Kher’s brilliance and Ram Gopal Varma’s crime thriller “My Wife’s Murder” have been equally appreciated by the discerning moviegoers. With over 70 films to his credit including one in Telegu, Irani’s tally of films and awards is likely to rise steeply, and his place in movies can be considered not as a loss for the world of theatre, but as a gift from theatre to cinema, since he continues to equally enthuse theatres not only in India but elsewhere too with his superb acting skills.

Narra Srinivas is an Indian Tollywood on-screen character, known for Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017), Bhale Manchi Roju (2015), and Atharintiki Daaredi (2013). Tollywood on-screen character Narra Srinivas last intrigued us with his splendid demonstration in the film Premam (Telugu adaptation of the Malayalam super-hit film of a similar name).

Raghu Babu is a prominent Telugu actor and comedian, who become famous for his outstanding comic timing and expressions. He was born as Raghu Babu Yerra on June 24, 1964, in Ravinuthala, Andhra Pradesh in India. He is the eldest son of Giri Babu, a famous Telugu actor and comedian. He studied in Madras from his 7th standard until college. He took an Engineering course (AMI), but in 1988, he stopped schooling and helped his father in his film production job. In the same year, he also got married. He started acting at the age of 10 in the drama play, Sri Krishna Tulabaram, which became very popular. Initially, Raghu did not have any plans to become an actor. But the late director, Satya Reddy, insisted that he is indeed an artist and the director wanted to make him an actor. He was cast in the film, Dongalu Unnaru Jagratha in the year 1990, which marked his debut in the film industry. His real passion is to become a producer, but one day, Satya Reddy did an ad for the film without informing him. His photo was there and the rest of the cast and when he asked Satya, he just said, he is doing the movie, and so he did it.

Rao Ramesh is a Telugu actor and son of Rao Gopal Rao, one of the greatest actors of Telugu cinema. He was born in Srikakulam district in present state of Andhra Pradesh. He was married and couple has a son and daughter. He was brought up in Chennai with his father being an actor at that time. He completed his B.Com in Chennai. He was very much interested in photography. He also tried at join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, California for pursuing different courses but latter dropped due to reluctance from parents.

Being a son of great actor nobody came up with petty jobs to him, he himself tried to direct a few films on his own but his mother pursued him to become an actor like his father. His career was very low at the starting. He was an avid reader of poetry also and has ferocity of narration. He tried to start his career in a TV serial by Gantasala Ratna Kumar (famous TV serial director), but he was too shy and nervous before camera and odd are against him which made serial stalled in the middle. Later he went back to Chennai and there he started as a small screen artist and started acting in TV serials. He acted in serials like ‘Pavitra bandham’ and ‘Kalavari Kodalu’ and spent about four and half years working on TV serials.

He got a breakthrough movie named Gamyam (message oriented film) in 2008, Later on he has a catastrophic rise in his career and presently he was one of the versatile and busiest actors in Telugu film industry. He acted in more than 30 films in the past three years. He was now offered roles in every big project in Telugu movies. He also acted in Kollywood & Sandlewood movies in 2010.

Sameer Hasan is a south Indian superstar both in movies and as well as in serials. He is from Vizag, and his mother tongue is Telugu, but he can speak, Hindi, English, Malayalam, and Tamil as well. His mother’s name is Mahalakshmi and his father’s name is Intikhab Hasan. He has been working since Doordarshan period. He is recognized as the best supporting actor in his popular serial “Ruthuragalu.” He had completed his schooling from Kalakshethram in Chennai. He has one sister named Purnima.

'Sampath Raj' was born on 25 December 1968 in Chennai. He adopted film field as his profession for more than a decade by acting in a 2004-released film titled ‘Neranja Manasu’ .Though he played only a small role in the film, he gave it his best and had a series of films to his credits almost every year since then. Though born in Chennai, Sampath is not partial about the languages of the movies he acts in, nor is he bothered with the type of role that he gets to play in the films.

Vennela Kishore is a famous Tollywood actor, director and comedian. He was born on 19th September 1980 at Kamareddey, Nizamabad,Telangana. He was working as software quality engineer in the USA.Later, He took a stand and settled in India in 2008 to furnish his passion as an actor or comedian. He debuted in Movie Vennela in 2005.

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