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Priyanka Arul Mohan is an Indianactress in 1994 born to a Tamil-speaking family. Her pop’s name is Arul Mohan. She completed her early schooling from Chennai. In Bangalore city, she pursued her higher studies. Having completed her higher studies, she started or commenced her acting career. She has predominantly and incessantly worked in Telugu, Kannada ,and Tamil cinema industry.

Lakshmi or Lakshmi Narayan is an Indian film actress who was born as Lakshmi Yaragudipati to Yaragudipati Varada Rao from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil actress, Rukmini who is also the daughter of actress, Nungambakkam Janaki. Lakshmi’s father is a notable actor and Telugu filmmaker who usually does films that deals with significant social issues. Lakshmi was born on December 13, 1952 in Madras Presidency in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Lakshmi was only fifteen when she entered the film industry. She was first introduced in the Tamil film, Jeevanamsam in 1968 and later appeared in the Telugu film, Bandhavyalu. Then she went on acting in many Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada movies. She became popular after doing her very first Malayalam film, Chattakkari, where she played the lead role of the Anglo-Indian girl, Julie in 1974. This film got her the Best Actress Award in the Kerala State Film Award. Chattakkari is the first Malayalam film that runs constantly in Bangalore Theater for a span of 40 weeks. This film was also adapted in Hindi as Julie and Miss Julie Prema Katha in Telugu. In 1976, Lakshmi received the Best Actress Award in Filmfare Awards for her performance in the Hindi film, Julie. Prior to this, she also got the Most Outstanding Work of the Year in Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards in 1975 for the film, Julie. Lakshmi was known to be very versatile and one of her best performance was from the Telugu film, Panthulamma in 1978.

After the super hit film Chattakkari, Lakshmi was starred in several megahit Malayalam films. She received the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Malayalam Actress for her appearances in Chanalum (1975) and Mohiniyattam (1976). She started to act in various films together with some of the lead actors and South Indian stars, but her performance with the famous, Anant Nag in 1970 to 1980 that really hit the eyes of many audiences. They were considered as one of the greatest tandem in South Indian films. The two acted with a total of 25 films together.

After the success of Julie, Lakshmi concentrates on South Indian films instead of doing Hindi films. Her performance in Tamil film, Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal as Ganga gave her the Best Actress Award in the National Film Award in 1977. Lakshmi was one of the South Indian actresses to win that award for a Tamil movie. Her career as a leading lady ended in 1980’s and started doing supporting roles of a mother and later appeared as a grandmother. In 1998, she was Krishnaveny Paathy, the grandmother of Madhumitha (played by Aishwarya Rai) in the Tamil romantic comedy film, Jeans and as the grandmother of Anjali (played by Kareena Kapoor) in 2004’s Hindi film, Hulchul.

Lakshmi has acted in over 400 films and she also got involved in the world of politics. She took a hiatus from acting and became a host of talk shows like Achamillai, Achamillai. And because of her fluency in South Indian languages, she hosted talk shows in different language like the Kannada’s Du Kathe Alla Jeevana and Neena? Naana? on Survana channel and Tamil’s Kathai Alla Nijam on Vijay TV. Lakshmi also try his hand in directing the Kannada film, Makkala Sainya with K. Balachander’s supervision. She was also one of the juries in the Malayalam reality show, Champions which was aired on Surya TV.

Lakshmi was married three times. First is with the Bhaskar in year 1969, a Malayali who works in an insurance business. They had an arranged marriage when Lakshmi was 17 years old and their daughter is South Indian actress, Aishwarya. Then in 1975, she got married again to Indian actor and producer, Mohan Sharma. He was Lakshmi’s co-star in the Malayalam film, Chattakari, but they had a divorced in late 1980’s. Lastly, she got married to actor, K.S. Sivachandran in 1989.

Lakshmi received many awards for her good performances as an actress. She said that she will continue to act until her last breath. She was last seen in the film Gulmohar with her political rival and long time screen partner, Anant Nag.

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Lakshmi is the popular south Indian actress, who is popular for her extraordinary performances and fluency in all the languages. Laxmi is born to Y.V.Rao and Rukhmini in the year 1952. Her mother Rukhmini was also an actress. She made her debut in the film industry at the young age of 15. Srivalli was her first film in Tamil, in which she acted as Valli. It was released in 1961. Jeevanamsam, a Tamil movie that was released in the year 1968, was her debut movie as a heroine. She made her Kannada movie debut in the same year with Rajkumar. After 6 years she made her Malayalam debut through Chattakkari, which was the hit film all over India. This movie awarded her with the Kerala state award for the best actress.

She also acted in the remade version of Chattakkari in Hindi and Telugu. The Hindi version Julie brought her the Bengal Film Journalists Association Award for the best performance of the year. She has acted with almost all the top heroes of in the Indian cinema industry like Sivaji Ganesan, MGR, Rajini Kanth, Kamal Hassan, Mamooty, Mohan Lal, Prem Nazir, Rajkumar, Anil Kapoor and many more. She is also the proud recipient of the National Award for the best actress for the film Sila Nerangalil Sila Manidhargal, in 1977. After some years, she started to act in the supporting roles like mother, sister in law, sister and grandmother for the top stars in the Indian cinema. She married Bhaskar in 1969 and got a daughter Aishwarya, who is also an actress. Laxmi divorced Bhaskar and married Mohan Sharma in 1975 and that too ended up in a divorce. Then she got married with actor cum director Sivachandran in 1989 and settled with him. She has adopted a daughter named Samyuktha in the year 2000.

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Pragya P. Rao was born in Karnataka . she is a female child artist. She recently did her debut film “Gang-Leader “ and her 2nd movie to come on the way “ Aatakkuntu lekkakkila “ in Kannada will also be out soon.

Saranya Ponvannan is one of the best actresses in the last three decades of the Tamil film and TV industry has seen. She first made her entry into the industry by playing the lead role alongside Kamal Haasan in the blockbuster movie ‘ Nayakan’ directed by Mani Ratnam. She played a res-cued sex worker and pulled off the role with panache. She is the daughter of Malayalam director A.B Raj and is married to a fellow actor Ponvannan with whom she has two daughters.

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Actor Nani (Naveen Babu Ghanta) is an adorable hero in Tollywood who had a dream to become a film director. He was born on 24 February 1984 in Hyderabad (Telangana). During his college days, he was a movie-buff and was addicted watcher of movies. Hence, he found inspiration from Mani Ratnam’s movies and even became a clap director to Bapu for the film ‘Radha Gopalam.' Later, of course, he worked as an assistant director to Srinu Vaitla and also with great Bapu. After taking a long sabbatical from studios, he worked as a radio jockey for a World Space Satellite.

Naveen Yerneni is an Indian producer mainly associated with the Telugu film industry. Naveen is a native of Vijayawada, one of the major towns in Andhra Pradesh. Naveen has completed his schooling from V.S St. John’s Higher Secondary School, Gannavaram in the year 1989. Later, he pursued his higher studies from Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology (BIET), Davangere, India. Naveen moved to the USA, where he became an active member of the Detroit Telugu Association.

Yalamanchili Ravi Shankar is an Indian producer who works majorly in Tollywood, the Telugu film industry. He founded the Mythri Movie Makers with Naveen Yerneni and Mohan Cherukuri in 2015. The first production of the house was Koratala Siva’s blockbuster action-drama “Srimanthudu” (2015), starring Shruti Haasan and Mahesh Babu.

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..

Naveen Nooli is an Indian Film Actor and Editor. He was born in India. He mainly works for the Telugu film Industry. He has the Indian nationality. He did his recent films in the year 2018 as Aravindha Samantha, Bluff Master, Mr. Majnu, Tholiprema, Rangasthalam, and Aatagadharaa Siva in the year 2018. He did his debut in Hindi cinema with Hindi film Login in the year 2012. He did his debut in Telugu Movies as Devaraya in the year 2012. His upcoming projects are Mr. Majnu and Bluff Master. Sanjeev Reddy has given the opportunity to make Hindi Film like login. He did various projects in line. The list of the project includes as Atharintki Daaredi in the year 2013, Sarocharu, Login, Devaraya in the year 2012, Govindudu Andari Vaadele and Maaya in the year 2014, Dohchay, Ladies & Gentlemen, in the year 2015, Dhruva, Nannaku Prematho in the year 2016, Darshakudu in the year 2017.

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.

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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.

Mohan Cherukuriis a well-known Indian producer and director. Mohan is known for his predominant contributions to the Telegu Film Industry. He is known for his work in films like People’s Garage in 2016, The Wealthy Man in 2015, and the Stage in 2018. His other famous projects include Savyasachi, and in 2019 his films Dear Comrade and Gang Leader got released.

Miroslaw Kuba Brozek is a Polish-born Cinematographer who works in Polish and Indian films, predominantly in the Telegu film industry. He is famous among the Indian audience as the person who was the cinematographer for the film “Pushpa: The Rise Part 1.” He started his career as a Cinematographer in “Pytania z Bezekresu” (translated - Unlimited Question), which is a Polish language history documentary released at 1998. Soon after that he went on to become the director of photography for several Polish language films, such as Pitbull (2005), Secret Wars (2014), Woman of Mafia (2018), and The Plagues of Breslau (2018), etc. These films belonged to the genre of Action thrillers.

Ananta Sriram, also known as Ananta Sriram Chegondi, was born on 8th April 1984 in the Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Sriram is an extremely popular song lyricist who prominently works in the Telugu film industry. He has also written the lyrics for various films which were re-made or re-dubbed into Telugu.

Inno Genga was born on 8th November, 1993, as Innogen Gengatharan. His parents Rajagopal and Chandrika Gengatharan and are the immigrants from Sri Lanka. He got his education from Tiffin school in Southern London. Then to learn mathematics with finance he moved to the University of Southampton.

Prudhvi Chandra is a Playback singer who was born on the 20th of July 1991 and resided at Hyderabad. He has taken part in a singing show in a Telugu TV Channel. He has sung over 25 songs in Telugu Movies.

Indian-American playback singer and music producer Sid Sriram was born 19 May 1990 in Chennai. He spent his childhood in Fremont, California. Sid graduated from Mission San Jose High School. After that, he admitted in the Berklee College of Music and completed his graduation in Music Production and Engineering. He is famous for his musical collaboration with A. R. Rehman and Bharata Natyam dancer, Pallavi Sriram (sister).

Ajith has 25 years of expertise in the field of audio engineering and has worked as a mix engineer or sound designer on several films in a variety of languages. In addition to serving as a consultant at SJCC College of Communication, the first multimedia institute in Kerala, he played a virtual role in the establishment of the KR Narayanan National Film Institute in Kottayam, Kerala, the third National Film Institute in India. His fields of study include sound engineering, sound mixing, and sound design. He has held the position of Technical and Operational Head at Trivandrum's Vismayas Max Studio Complex. This was Kerala's first fully functional post-production facility. He played a crucial role in creating the Cochin studio division and making the studio the finest in Kerala.

Anish Kuruvilla is an Indian actor, executive producer, and director. He was born and brought up in Hyderabad. The Malayali actor completed his Higher Secondary Education from The Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur.

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.

Satya Akkala is a Tollywood comedian and a supporting actor, known for “Gabbar Singh (2012),” “Ramayya Vasthavayya (2013),” “Rangasthalam (2018),” and “Gang Leader (2019). He got a breakthrough with a crime, comedy, Tollywood movie “Swamy Ra Ra,” directed by Sudheer Varma, under Narasimha EntertainmentsHe acted along-side with several Tollywood actors such as Mahesh Babu, Samantha Akkineni, Naga Chaitanya, Nikhil Siddharth, Nitin, Pawan Kalyan, Jr.N.T.R, Ram Charan, and many more.

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