Hard Kaur
Shreya Ghoshal
Sonu Kakkar
Rakul Preet Singh
Anjali
Catherine Tresa
Surekha Vani
Vidyullekha Raman
Annapoorna
Devadarshini Chetan
Vinaya Prasad
Boyapati Srinu
Allu Aravind
Rishi Punjabi
Krishna Chaitanya
Ramajogayya Sastry
Sri Mani
Brijesh Shandilya
Jubin Nautiyal
Nakash Aziz
Sameera Bharadwaj
Sri Krishna
Vishal Dadlani
Ram Lakshman
Ravi Varma
Allu Arjun
Jaya Prakash Reddy
Meka Srikanth
Pradeep Rawat
Rahul Verma
V Jayaprakash
Karthik (Singer)
Aadhi Pinisetty
Ananta Sriram
Deepu
Dhanunjay Seepana
MC Vickey
Aadarsh Balakrishna
M M Manasi
Raja Krishna Murthy
Rajeevan
S Thaman
Sahi Suresh
1. Hard Kaur
Taran Kaur Dhilon, better known by her stage name Hard Kaur, is a British Indian rapper and actress.
Born 29 July 1979 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Kaur hails from a humble parentage. Her mother operated a small beauty parlour which was later destroyed after her father's death. Kaur's mother later remarried a British citizen and eventually moved to Birmingham, England. While in UK, Kaur developed her interest in hip-hop and started pursuing her musical career.
Her first musical release was Ek Glassy which fared well on UK charts. Hard Kaur debuted on Bollywood playback with the song 'Move Your Body' from the movie Johnny Gaddar. After her debut, she has lent voice to songs from movies Ugly Aur Pagli, Singh is King, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani, Prince and Kismat Konnection.
Her acting career started with the 2010 flick Patiala House. She appeared in television reality show Jhalak Dikhala Ja 3 as a contestant. Hard Kaur's recent television appearance was in Coke Studio where she sang a Ram Sampath song with Bhanvari Devi.
Hard Kaur's meteoric rise to the top has not certainly been an easy journey. She had to overcome her personal obstacles as well as the conventional barriers that come with being a female rapper in India. She has successfully overcome it all and is still on the way to become one of the most memorable names in Bollywood.
2. Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.
...3. Sonu Kakkar
Indian playback singer and album artist Sonu Kakkar was born in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. Neha Kakkar, and Tony Kakkar are the siblings of Sonu kakkar. She started singing jaguars when she was five years old. She was the contestant of the V channel shows Indian Pop Star. Music director Sandeep Chowta gave her first song Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo, and this is the most famous song in her career.
...4. Rakul Preet Singh
Rakul Preet Singh is a famous Indian model working predominantly in South India. She has got a wide range of craze in a short span of time. She was born on 10 October, 1990. She was born in New Delhi to an army family. She completed her schooling from Army public school and graduation from Jesus and Mary College. She is a professional Golf player and has played National level golf competition. She is a huge fan of Sharukh Khan. Rakul has been passionate about acting since her childhood. So, she opt Modeling as her career. She started modeling when she was just 18. She debuted with the Kannada film Gilli. Next she played a small role in Tamil film, Keratam.
...5. Anjali
Indian top model and Telugu and Tamil star Anjali was born in Andhara Pardesh in 1986. Acting was her passion so she started her career from short films. Small projects like short films and modeling assignments lead her to the silver screen. Director Siva Nageswara Rao recognized her talent and offered her the role of “Swapna” in Telugu Thriller “Photo” in 2006. Start of her career was from low budget and low profile Telugu films.
In 2007 a new comer writer and director Ram offered her a lead role in a Tamil movie which proved a blockbuster on Tamil and Telugu screen. Her best performance in the role of “Anandhi” awarded her with “Filmfare award for best female debut” and “South Vijay award for best debut actress”. This was the start of a long list of successful films. She has worked in more than 20 Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films.
She won her first “Filmfare award for best actress” and “Tamil Vijay award for best actress” in 2010 for the movie “Angadi Theru”. But this wasn’t the end. She got one more “Filmfare award of best actress” in 2011 for “Engaeyum Eppothum”. These consecutive awards made her a superstar of South Cinema. Her journey towards fame is continued yet. Many of her films are hitting the screen this year that can bring more success to her career.
...6. Catherine Tresa
Catherine Tresa was born in Dubai. She could neither speak any Indian language (except Hindi) but made her impact in south Indian cinema, especially in Kannada, Telugu and even Malayalam cinema. Though born in a Malayalee Christian family, she cannot speak in Malayalam either. Well, she is one of the Kollywood Divas, who experience issues with the language dialect, but even then makes impression on viewers with stunning look and mind blowing performances.
She did modeling before making her debut in Kannada cinema while she was in Bengaluru. She walked in many ramp shows in Sandal region and got her first break in Shankar IPS opposite Duniya Vijay I 2010. Soon she grabbed some offers in the Malayalam industry and acted in two films ‘’The Thriller’’ and ‘’Back in Action’’. After completing her Malayalam projects, she again grabbed a few more Kannada offers and did two films such as ’’ Vishnu’’ and “Godfather”. Later on, she was cast in Telugu movies such as in Puri Jagannath's “Iddarammayilatho’’ and even “Chammak Challo”.
With a few films on her hand and who cannot speak her dialects well, this model-turned-actress is now the flavor of the season. She is hot, she is sexy and superbly entertaining in any role, be it in Muslim character played by her in Telugu film “Paisa” or even as a mentally challenged woman in Kannada film Godfather. With towering performances, she has now entered the Tamil industry too with ‘’Madras’’which had Karthi in the lead. Her latest release would be director Gunasekhar’s 3-D film ‘’Rudhramadevi’’, which will be simultaneously released in Tamil and Kannada too.
Buzz in the tinsel town is that, Catherine Tresa might be roped in, to play a heroine character with Vishal in Pandiraj’s next flick. She also will be hopefully seen in Selvaraghavan's upcoming film with Simbu. With such big banners, the Madras girl will rule the tinsel town with some good films, although language will remain her issue always.
Another Version Of Catherine Tresa :
Catherine Tresa was born on 10 September in the year 1990. She was born in Dubai, which is in the United Arab Emirates. Her real name is Catherine Tresa Alexander. Katherine is a model and, an Indian Film actress who is very versatile in her roles. She has played in many movies in the Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada movie industries. Catherine was born to Roman Catholic Christians who are Malayali in their origin. Her father’s name is Mr. Frank Mario Alexander, and her mother’s name is Tresa Alexander. At home, she mostly converses in the English language and a decent little Hindi. Although she has her origin as Malayali she does not know a bit about the Malayalam language. She pursued her secondary education the city Dubai. She pursued her graduation degree from the College St. Joseph’s in the city Bangalore. She spent two years in the college. She was not so much inclined towards the studies, and she pursued the extra co-curricular ventures such as singing, debating, declamation, skating, dancing. She also learned piano and ice skating. She always believed in herself and claimed that she is best at everything or anything unless or until she does the work wholeheartedly and with full zeal. Katherine was also a volunteer in the Emirates Environment in Dubai during her course of studies.
...7. Surekha Vani
She was born on October 31 in Vijayawada, new Capital city of present Andhra Pradesh state. She was grown up in the same city and her education was also completed in the same city. Her father was a business man. She studied up to intermediate.
During her school age she was always excited to participate in cultural activities and it’s the driven force for her present life. She was always busy participating in cultural activities everywhere.
Once she was spotted and an opportunity knocked her door, when she was in 8th class she was offered a chance in local TV channel in Vijayawada for anchoring children shows. She got popular along the city. She felt thrilled being an anchor; afterwards she put a halt to her studies and took up anchoring as the profession.
She fell in love with her colleague at the same TV channel, she later married him. Her husband was ‘Shivaji’ who also later became a famous artist in Telugu film industry. She was married at very young age. Couple were blessed with a cute daughter.
Later on she got opportunities to act in movies. She acted in about 60 Telugu movies. Her first movie was ‘Seenugadu Chiranjeevi Fan (movie based on hero Chiranjeevi follower)’. She was charming and beautiful for which she got many opportunities for good roles and acted in supporting roles and also a comedian in few films. Her big projects include ‘Ye Maaya Chesave (a Gautham Menon film)’, ‘Bhadra’, ‘Oye, ‘Baadshah’, ‘Bommarillu’ all the movies are blockbusters.
Surekha Vani anchored shows like ‘Maa Talkies’ and ‘Heart beat’ along with her husband on MAA TV. She also appeared in a show ‘Moguds Pellams’ which was directed by her husband. All the above shows are related to couples.
She was presently busy with Telugu movies. She recently acted in big projects like ‘Power (starring mass hero Ravi Teja)’.
...8. Vidyullekha Raman
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.
...9. Annapoorna
10. Devadarshini Chetan
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.
...11. Vinaya Prasad
Vinaya Prasad (or Vinaya Prakash) is a popular senior south Indian actress in both films and Television serials. She has acted in films in all four south Indian languages and has won the Karnataka State Best Actress Award twice in her acting career.
Vinaya hails from Udupi district in Karnataka. She was trained in music at very young age. She made her debut in films by performing a small role in Kannada film Madhvacharya way back in 1988. Her first lead role was in a Kannada movie Ganeshana Maduve opposite Ananth Nag in 1990. His film was was the real turning point in her acting career and she had no looking back in her career in 90s with basket full of movies mostly in Kannada and Malayalam. Some of her best Kannada movies were Nee Nakkare Halu Sakkare (1991), Mysore Jaana (1992), Aaganthuka (1993), Suryodaya (1993), Bannada Hejje (2001) etc. She bagged the state award for Aaganthuka and Bannada Hejje. Vinaya’s noted Tamil movie was Thaikulame Thaikulame (1995) in which she played the lead role opposite to Pandiarajan along with Urvashi.She also acted in Rajinikanth’s Chandramukhi (2005)Vinaya Prasad’s best Malayalam movies as lead roles were Mookilla Rajyathu (1991) as heroine, M T Vasudevan Nair’s Perumthachan (1991), Manichitrathazhu (1993), Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu (1994) and the list goes on. She did a few Telugu movies like Indra (2002), Donga Dongadi (2004) and Andhrudu (2005) in which her performance was lauded.
After a decade of lead roles, Vinaya shifted to playing character roles in movies and also moved to TV serials. She immortalized the character Indu of her debut Malayalam TV serial Sthree among Malayali family audiences. Sthree was aired on Asianet from 1998-2000 over 400 episodes. Vinaya acted in the Kannada version of the serial as well. Since then she has been a part of many TV serials in both Kannada and Malayalam. To name a few Bangaara on Udaya TV, Anupama and Nithyotsava on Zee Kannada, Saradha and Devimahatmyam on Asianet, Neermathalam on Surya TV and Balamani on Mazhavil Manorama. Amidst the busy scheduled in TV serials, Vinaya is doing noted character and supportive roles in movies. In 2014 she has done five Malayalam movies including Om Shanthi Oshana, Bangalore Days and Avatharam.
In personal life, Vinaya was first married to acclaimed Kannada film director and editor V.R.K. Prasad who passed away in 1995. Vinaya is now married to Jyothiprakash, a TV serial director. She resides with her daughter Prathama Prasad in Bangalore.
...12. Boyapati Srinu
Boyapati Srinu, also spelled Boyapati Sreenu, is an Indian film director. Boyapati Srinu hails from Pedakakani, situated in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He has made his laudable contributions in the Telugu movie field.
...13. Allu Aravind
Allu Aravind is a film producer in Andhra Pradesh who is also a distributor in Tollywood. The film producer has produced films in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi too. He is the brother-in-law of actor Chiranjeevi, He is also the uncle of actor Ram Charan. He has three sons, Allu Venkatesh, Allu Arjun, and Allu Sirish.
...14. Rishi Punjabi
Rishi Punjabi is an Indian cinematographer. He was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He worked in two industries, Hindi and Telugu. He began his career as a still photographer with Shaadi Ke Side Effects, released in the year 2014. Eventually, he stepped into cinematography. Till 2006, he worked as an assistant or collaborated with others. After 2006 he became an independent cinematographer. His works include 'Sarrainodu,' which was released in 2016, and Dil Toh Deewana Hai, which was also released in 2016. He also worked behind the cameras in 2017 for Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Raag Desh.
...15. Krishna Chaitanya
Krishna Chaitanya is a famous lyricist in the Indian film industry, especially in the South Indian cinema. He was born in the city of Eluru, Andhra Pradesh on 2nd of May, in the year 1983. He did his education from CRR Public School. He further attended Sriram Engineering College, Madras University. It was while he was studying engineering that he became highly fascinated towards the film industry. It was when he was in the final year of his engineering that he decided to try his skills out and contribute to the Indian Cinema. He realized his potential and made his debut as he wrote a few songs for the film Sambhavami Yuge Yuge. He was, however, given his first break in the movie Yuvutha in which he wrote the lyrics for all its songs. It was after this that he had established himself as a talented and skillful lyricist.
...16. Ramajogayya Sastry
Ramajogayya Sastry was born on August 24, 1970 in the small village called Arepalli Muppalla, Ipur Mandal which is near Narasaraopet of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh to parents Suryaprakasa Rao and Saraswatamma in an agricultural family. His father was a priest and an agriculturist by profession. His mother is a home-maker. He was the only child of his parents. He is a Computer Science Engineer who persuaded his B.Tech from NIT Warangal and his Master’s degree in M.Tech at IIT Kharagpur.
...17. Sri Mani
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.
...18. Brijesh Shandilya
Brijesh Shandilya aka Brijesh Kumar Tripathi is a Bollywood singer who pursued playback singing from a non-musical background family. He hails from Uttar Pradesh. Brijesh Shandilya was born on December 13, 1980, in Basti District of Uttar Pradesh.
...19. Jubin Nautiyal
The talented Jubin Nautiyal was born on 14th June 1989 in the city of Dehradun, Uttrakhand. He hails from a Brahmin family with roots in Jaunsar region. His father Mr. Ram Sharan Nautiyal is a politician as well as a businessman while his mother Mrs. Neena Nautiyal is a businesswoman as well. Jubin states that his father came from a small agricultural background and that he feels extremely proud that his father came so far starting from zero. He further says that he enjoys all the attention he gets considering the fact he has worked hard and that he doesn’t come from any ‘Bollywood family’ or has any ‘Bollywood connection.’ He did his schooling till the eighth grade from St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehradun. He continued school at Welham Boys’ school, Dehradun where he studied music as a subject and built his base in the teachings of Hindustani classical music. After completing his schooling, he enrolled in Mithibai College in Mumbai.
...20. Nakash Aziz
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”.
...21. Sameera Bharadwaj
Sameera Bharadwaj is a famous playback singer in India. She is an established singer in the industry and has sung songs for films in different languages. From her childhood days, Sameera aspired to become a singer. She began learning music when she was in the second standard. Sameera also participated in a lot of television music shows. She was the runner up in Super Singer 8th Season. Her grandmother, Vaani was also a music teacher.
...22. Sri Krishna
Sri Krishna is a Tamil Playback Singer, and he had contributed many of his songs to the Tamil industry. Some of his music were on the top charts, and which made him famous. He was born on 17th August, 1983. After completing his studies, he tried his luck in singing, and everybody loved the way he attracts the audience when he is performing. He was also an actor and sung some of their top hits. He is very hardworking and dedicated to his career and wants to grow more in the music Industry. He believes himself lucky that he got a chance to showcase his talent to the entire world, and also people love him when he sings. In 2015, Mr. Sri Krishna acted as the screenplay writer and playback singer for a movie called 'Unakkenna Venum Sollu' also known as 'Unakenna Venum Sollu'.
...23. Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani mostly known by duo name Vishal Shekhar in the music world. Vishal is an Indian film music director. He not only composes music in Hindi, but equally famous for composing music in Telegu, Tamil, or in Marathi. Actually dedication brings success to a person and Vishal Dadlani has justified his talent by giving various types of music. Vishal was born on 28th June 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He first came to the limelight when he composed the movie songs in the films ‘Jhanker Beats’, ’Dus’, ’ Bluffmaster’, ’Om Shanti Om’, ‘Bachna Ae Haseena’, ’Dostana’, ‘Anjana Anjani’ and many such famous filmy songs, the present genres caller tunes or ring tones. Vishal Dadlani was the vocalist of Mumbai based electronic band Pentagram. He worked jointly with Imogen Heap for the song ‘Mind Without Fear’, for an episode of ‘The Dewarists’. The song ‘Tu Aashiqui Hai’ from the film ‘Jhanker Beats', soared him to the zenith of fame,name and prosperity in the film world. Along with Shekhar, he had been awarded the Filmfare R D Burman Award for New Music Talent for ‘Jhanker Beats’. After that he did not turn back. He mixed techno music with Indian sounds. His musical composition in the films ‘Saaki’, ’Door Se’, gave him confidence and he composed many famous films like ‘Bang Bang’, ’Happy New Year’, ‘Chennai Express’, ‘Student Of The Year’ and many more. He himself has owed his voice to the actors. He has given his voice in Tamil, Kannada, and in Marathi films also. His latest appearance in the show ‘Indian Idol’ has gathered a motion to attract people for the show. Vishal has done a cameo role in the films ‘Om Shanti Om’ and ‘Tees Maar Khan’. Vishal has performed in the live show at IIT, Kharagpur. He is famous for giving music to the IPL theme song of the season 3 and the Anthem of Kolkata Knight Riders. We hope he will give us such sweet songs for many years.
...24. Ram Lakshman
Ram and Lakshman are twin brothers who work as stunt masters in the South Indian film industry, predominantly in the Telugu film industry. The two of them were born in 1968, in Prakasam, a very small village in Andhra Pradesh. They were into farming and looking after goats before getting an opportunity to work as a part of the stunt teams in movies. They were excited to move to a city from their village and to earn a good livelihood.
...25. Ravi Varma
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.
Another Version Of This Bio
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.
...26. Allu Arjun
The actor was born to producer Allu Arvind and Nirmala on April 8, 1983. H Hence, it makes sense to say that acting bug ran in him too. Allu Arjun is related to some pretty big-time Tollywood heroes (Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan are maternal uncles) and has kept their flame burning on the silver screen. Considering big heroes like Chiranjeevi, Pawan and Charan as famous actors in Indian screen could have earned him passage to Tollywood royalty. Allu Arjun still realizes that he needs his space in Indian screen. Today, he is undoubtedly a popular name in Telugu cinema. He is also the paternal grandson of comedian Allu Rama Lingaiah. As a two-year-old boy then, the actor had begun his journey in a Chiranjeevi’s film ‘Vijetha’ and appeared in two scenes as actress Subha's son. Later he also acted as a dancer in “Daddy’ and was appreciated.
...27. Jaya Prakash Reddy
Jaya Prakash Reddy or also known as JP is a renowned Telugu film actor. He was born in Sirvel in the Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh in India. He lived in Nalgonda for 30-years and settled in Guntur. Right now, he stays in Hyderabad, Telangana in India. His father works as a police inspector and stage actor, which influenced him in his early age. He worked as a school headmaster and as a stage artist before he became a film actor.
He did a solo act in a sociological stage play entitled Alexander in October 2010. Prior to this, he made another solo play in Kotha Sainyam. He was debuted as an actor in the 1988 Tollywood film, Brahma Puthrudu, helmed by Dasari Narayana Rao. In 1997, he was starred in like a mighty factionist in Rayalaseema in Jayanth C. Paranjee’s Preminchukundam Raa. Since then, Jaya Prakash is best known for his Rayalaseema slang.
This was followed by few more films until his limelight came in the year 1999 through B. Gopal’s action drama film, Samarasimha Reddy. He acted as Veera Raghava Reddy and through his character in the movie, he was marked as one of the best villains in Tollywood. Later, his performances as the main antagonist in N. Shankar’s Jayam Manade Raa and as Venkat Reddy in the action film, Chennakesava Reddy were both notable. Besides doing serious villain roles, he is also known for donning comedy films including Kithakithalu in 2006, Evadi Gola Vaadidhi in 2005, Siddu from Sikakulam in 2008, Madatha Kaja, Seema Tapakai and Kandireega in 2011, Lacchimdeviki O Lekkundi in 2015.
Jaya Prakash also donned a memorable dance performance to the tune of Gangnam Style in the 2013 comedy drama film, Noothi Lo Kappalu, which stars Rajendra Prasad. In the same year, he made a cameo appearance in G. Karthik Reddy’s Adda. Though it’s just a cameo role, the talented actor managed to make the audience laugh with his usual slang and the way he delivers his dialogue. He is best known for his films such as Chatrapathi, Temper, Manam, Oosaravelli, Masala, Shadow, Race Gurram, Autonagar Surya, Baadshah, Naayak, Kandireega, Namo Venkatesha, Gabbar Singh, Kick, Prasthanam and King. This 2015, he will be seen in a dual role in the upcoming Telugu action film, Bruce Lee – The Fighter, which was helmed by Srinu Vaitla. The film stars Ram Charan and Rakul Preet Singh in the lead roles. His comedic performance in the movie is something that the audience should look forward to.
Jaya Prakash Reddy is a multilingual actor, who has played not only in Telugu but in Tamil and Kannada too. He played in Tamil films, “Anjaneya,” “Aaru,” Chinna, “Dharmapuri,” Thiru Ranga and Uthama Puthiran. It is interesting to know that he has dubbed his voice for Uthama Puthiran that had “Dhanush” in the lead role. JP Played in Swetha Naagara, Satya In Love and Citizen in Kannada. Besides playing in the films, he had also played in a lot of stage plays.
...28. Meka Srikanth
Meka Srikanth, born in Gangavathi, Karnataka (23 March 1968), currently placed at Hyderabad, is an Indian film Telugu actor. He did his graduation (B.Com.) from CSI College Of Commerce Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka and even got a diploma from the film institute. He is married to Ooha and has two sons and a daughter.
...29. Pradeep Rawat
30. Rahul Verma
Rahul Verma is an Indian actor who was born on the 4th of June 1996 at Himachal Pradesh. He was a cricketer who played for a private academy in Delhi. Rahul had to quit his cricketing career because of an accident. Later on, he began auditioning for films.
...31. V Jayaprakash
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.
...32. Karthik (Singer)
Karthik is an Indian playback singer. He was born November 7, 1980, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Karthik has sung in many languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi. He is known to be a very versatile singer. In the Tamil language, he has sung for over 1000 songs, his highest for any language followed by Telugu in which he has sung over 500 songs. Karthik had the love for music since his childhood days. He is trained in Carnatic Music and had got trained for it since long.
...33. Aadhi Pinisetty
Aadhi is an Indian film actor born on 14 December 1982 mostly worked in Tamil films. His name is Sai Pradeep Pinisetty by birth. He is the youngest son of director Raja Ravi Pinisetty. He did his schooling at Don Bosco. Later he completed computer science engineering at Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering. Aadhi applied for Pilot training, since because he was interested in travelling around the world. Meanwhile he enrolled in silambam classes under Pandian master where actor Surya and actor Karthi used to come. A big day came for actor Aadhi when he met director Saamy in the silambam classes, when the director came to meet actor Surya. One day the director came to Aadhi’s home to give the script for the film Mirugam. Aadhi immediately accepted the offer as he was in great need for the film offer. Due to his interest in acting he enrolled in Satyanand Institute of Acting in Vishakapatnam and became a trained actor. His favorite actors are Vikram and Surya.
...34. Ananta Sriram
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.
...35. Deepu
Pradeep ‘Deepu’ Kumar is an Indian playback singer who enchanted the South Indian film industry with his Telugu & Tamil euphonies. He was born on 10th April 1986 in Andhra Pradesh to Sujata and Venkata Chary. He graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology) from the Devarakonda Vittal Rao College of Engineering and Technology, which is an affiliation of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad in 2007. He practiced the art of singing in Carnatic vocals for almost a decade under virtuosos, K. Ramachari and S.P. Balasubramanyam. His first song was ‘Jabilki Teliyadu’ for the movie “10th Class” (2006).
...36. Dhanunjay Seepana
Dhanunjay Seepana is a Playback Singer, guitarist, and Performer. He is known for his contribution to Telugu film Industry. On 24th May, he was born in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh. Dhanunjay received the best male singer in the GAMA Awards. Dhanunjay Seepana is a Music (Vocal) graduate at Potti Sriramulu Telugu University. He has performed in many stages shows and events and lives in Hyderabad. He married Priyanka Sampathirao in 2013, and he has two daughters. Some of his projects are Bheeshma, Maestro, Katamarayudu, etc. He has worked with renowned people like Allu Arjun, Jr NTR, K.S. Chitra and other producers and directors.
...37. MC Vickey
MC Vickey is the playback singer, who was born on 9th April. He was born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is one of the notable personalities of the southern film industry. His real name is Mubashir Ahmed while he is famous for his reel name MC Vickey. Apart from being the playback singer, he is also the music composer, rapper, beatboxer, and lyricist.
...38. Aadarsh Balakrishna
Aadarsh Balakrishna is a Telugu cum Hindi actor who was born in the year 1984 in Bangalore, Karnataka. He is born to Balakrishna, a business man and Uma, a homemaker. He has a sister named Apoorva. He is the only person in his family, who is in the cinema industry. Aadarsh Balakrishna’s aim was to become a cricketer and he trained for that hardly. When his family moved to Hyderabad, he joined in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Public School and started to learn and side by side got his cricket training.
...39. M M Manasi
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.
...40. Raja Krishna Murthy
Raja Krishnamoorthy or famously known as Kitty, is a prominent actor, screenwriter and director. He debuted in large screen with the Tamil crime film, Nayakan (1987). Unlike other cine members, he has a huge corporate background. He did his Master of Management in Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Bombay. He started his corporate career as a Management Trainee and a Personnel Officer with Mukund Iron and Steel.
He was also the Personnel Manager in ITC Welcome Group. And later, he became the General Manager in Enfield India Limited. From June 2000 to March 2002, he worked in Polaris Software Lab Ltd. And from 2002 to 2005, he works as a Principal Consultant in ProLease India Pvt. Ltd in Consulting and Training Division. At present, he was leading the HRD function and the Consulting and Training Division in Maximus.
He acted in more than 30 films and directed two films like the critically acclaimed Dasarathan and Krishna. He also lends his voice for Girish Karand in the movie, Minsara Kanavu. He debuted in small screen with Dharmayutham; a story that revolves on two rival groups of lawyers. He plays a senior lawyer supported by his children, Abbas and Anuja Iyer.
Apart from that, he co-published a book called Rajini’s Punchtantra: Business and Life Management along with P C Balasubramaniam. The book contains all the valuable one liners of Rajini. Kitty took the life management part of that book.
He performed in Tamil TV serials, Dharmayutham and Rajakumari in 2012 and films like Nayagan, Thalapathi, Bombay, Baasha, Singham 2 and Ramanujan.
41. Rajeevan
Rajeevan is a prominent Indian Art Director. He was born as Rajeevan Nambiar on December 31, 1969, in Chennai, India. He completed his studies at Loyola College in Chennai. He was the only child of his parents. His father, who is an educationist, wanted him to follow his path. But when Rajeevan chooses to enter the filmdom, his father got so angry that he did not speak with him for six long years. During college, Rajeevan got involved in stage theaters, sketching, and painting. Later, he worked in some agencies and subsequently works in animation and graphics.
...42. S Thaman
Ghantasala Sai Srinivas Thaman Siva Kumar, also known as S.Thaman. He is an Indian film composer, who also works in Tamil and Telugu industry. He is famous for giving his best. He started his career in the film Boys. He then became famous for his passion towards music director. His debut film as music director for Tamil was Sindhanai Sei and for Telugu was Kick. S.Thaman was born on 16th November 1983 in Andhra Pradesh. He is the grandchild of Ghantasala Balaramaya, who is known for producing the Telugu film Seetarama Jananam. Thaman, a 28-year-old hails from a family of musicians from Pottepalam. His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a Drummer; mother Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer and his aunt P.Vasantha is also singer. Thaman married Vardhini, who is a playback singer.
...43. Sahi Suresh
Sahi Suresh is an art director who is known for his work in the South Industry. He was born on August 15, 1978, in Madanapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India. Coming from a middle-class family, Sahi always had the passion and interest towards cinema and art. He completed his Bachelor's degree in arts from the Kurnool and began his journey as an associate for the Art Director, Mr. Peketi Ranga Rao.
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