Andrea Jeremiah
Mamta Sharma
Shreya Ghoshal
Neeraja Kona
Shruti Haasan
Kajal Aggarwal
Scarlett Mellish Wilson
Amy Jackson
Jayasudha
Vamsi Paidipally
Dil Raju
Lakshman
Abburi Ravi
Vakkantham Vamsi
Chota K Naidu
Devi Sri Prasad
Krishna Chaitanya
David Simon
Karthik
Krishnakumar Kunnath
Ranina Reddy
Ranjith K Govind
Sagar
Suchith Suresan
Anand Sai
Raju Sundaram
Shobi Paulraj
Ravi Kumar Pilla
Marthand K Venkatesh
Peter Hein
Stunt Silva
Yugandhar Tammareddy
Allu Arjun
Ajay
Brahmanandam
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Rahul Dev
Sai Kumar
Supreet
Vennela Kishore
Hari
Praveen Ghanta
1. Andrea Jeremiah
It is sometimes fascinating to read about how film stars, especially in the South, get into the industry from totally diverse fields, and with no conscious intentions to be in movies. Andrea Jeremiah’s career seems to fit into this category. Her childhood ambition was to go for higher studies and get to become a psychiatrist. But music was always in the background, as she started learning classical Western piano when she was just eight, and she quickly showed her prowess when she formed her own troupe called Young Stars which also was a precursor for her later singing and music composing career.
However, entry into acting came to her via the theatre route, as it was hard to refuse offers from Girish Karnad, in whose “Nagamandala” she performed first, and then went on to perform all over the country, during whi...
2. Mamta Sharma
Mamta Sharma is a very renowned playback singer of Bollywood. She was born on September 7, 1980, in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Right from the beginning she had the urged to sing and had formed her bands. She used to sing at parties, weddings, reception, cultural fests and all. Her singing lifestyle provided her a strong base in singing career.
She started her career by singing for albums in Bengali and Bhojpuri. Lalit Pandit noticed her talent and became the person to get her an amazing launch with Munni Badnam Hui in Dabangg. Her very first song became a hit and remained on the top chartbusters throughout the year. Her launch couldn't have been better. Then after she went on singing for many Bollywood movies like Bol Bachchan, Rowdy Rathore, Son of Sardar, Dabangg 2, ...
3. 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 ...
4. Neeraja Kona
Neerja Kona is a costume designer and a stylist and works predominantly in the Tollywood and Kollywood cinema. She was born on April 29 in the year 1983. She is a native of Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh. She currently stays in Hyderabad in Telangana.
She began her career as a stylist assistant for the movie Badshah which is a 2013 release. She worked for Jr NTR and Kajal Aggarwal for the Badshah. An important and significant point in her career was when she styled the famous Nithin for the project Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde which went on to be a tremendous success and received a lot of appreciation.
Nithin recognized her potential and went on to give her work on the two film he was working on next. So, it is though Nithin is how she got Courier Boy Kalyan as well as Puri Jagannadh’s Heart Attack. She hit yet another su...
5. Shruti Haasan
Shruti Hassan is an Indian film actress born on 28 January 1986 to the veteran Tamil actor Kamal Hassan and Sarika. Her original birth name is Shruti Rajalakshmi Hassan. Shruti Hassan studied at Abacus in Chennai and later on moved to Mumbai to study Psychology. She has a younger sister Akshara Hassan. Shruti Hassan is well known for her singing and acting skills in kollywood, tollywood and bollywood.She entered into films as a child artist in her father’s film HEY RAM. At the age of 23 she did her first film LUCK in bollywood. She got the interest in music and finally travelled to USA to learn music. She did many films both in Tamil and Telugu and received positive reviews for her act. Shruti Hassan sang her first song at the age of six for her father’s film named Thevar Magan.She even composed music for a Tamil movie Unna...
6. Kajal Aggarwal
Kajal Aggarwal is a modern Indian model and film actress, known for working predominantly in Telugu, Tamil and few Bollywood films. She was born on June 19, 1985, in Mumbai, Maharashtra in India to Vinay and Suman Aggarwal. Her younger sister, Nisha Aggarwal, also works in the same field and appeared in Tamil and Telugu films.
She had an internship with the famous cosmetics and beauty company, L’Oreal and that’s when she started her career in modeling. She initially planned on taking an MBA in Brand Management before she decided to start her acting career. Kajal was debuted in the Bollywood romance film, ‘Kyun! Ho Gaya Na..’, Where she played a small role as Aishwarya Rai’s sister.
This was followed...
7. Scarlett Mellish Wilson
Scarlett Mellish Wilson is a British model and actress who works in Indian Cinema. She was born on 9th May 1989 and grew up in Folkstone, Kent, UK. Her mother Rosalind was a dancer, and it was her influence that Scarlett started dancing as soon she learned to walk. She started singing and acting at a tender age of 13. At the age of 16, she studied performing arts at Tiffany Theatre College in London where she trained professionally in dance forms like ballet and jazz. She came to India after college in 2009 after being offered a modeling contract in India. She then worked across many cities on various television projects and some commercial ads and also assisted for the choreography of TV show Chak Dhoom Dhoom. She has worked with many notable Indian choreographers and actors such as Bosco-caesar, Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali ...
8. Amy Jackson
Amy Jackson is the popular actress in India, who is a British by her nationality. Her full name is Amy Louise Jackson and she was born in the year 1992 to Alan and Marguerita Jackson. Amy Jackson’s father is working as a producer on the BBC. Amy chose to study English literature, philosophy, and ethics. At the age of 16, she started her career as a model.
She was the winner of Miss Teen World 2009 and Miss Liverpool in 2010. She was brought to India to act in the films by A.L. Vijay, the director of Madrasapattinam, who introduced her in that film. After her successful entry in the Indian film, she got many offers from various languages. Among those offers, she filtered a few and started to act. Her first debut in Hindi is Ekk Deewana Tha. Yevadu is her first Telugu movie, opposite Ram Charan Teja.
9. Jayasudha
Born on 17 December 1958 Jayasudha is predominantly a Telugu actress, though she has worked in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada films too. She was born in Chennai, but her mother tongue is Telugu. Her aunt, Vijaya Nirmala has acted in Telugu films and she is a director too.
Jayasudha entered into films during the age of 12; she acted in a Telugu film named Pandanti Kapuram. Later, she did a minute role in K Balachander’s Arangetram. She worked with K Balachander in several films. Her original name is Sujatha and she changed it to Jayasudha. The Telugu film industry welcomed her and she worked in many good films there. The greatest credit to her acting prowess...
10. Vamsi Paidipally
Vamsi Paidipally also called as Vamshi, is a Telugu and Tamil movie director and screenwriter who has been in the industry for eight years. His directorial debut was Munna, a Telugu film in the year 2007, which is about a college student and his struggle to kill Don Kakha. The movie fared well at the box office, and its soundtrack was a huge success.
Vamsi’s first movie Munna in 2007 proved to be a disaster at the box office.
Vamsi is most known for directing the films, Brindavanam (2010), which was a decent hit. This movie is from the rom-com genre which starred N.T Rama Rao Jr., Samantha and Kajal Aggarwal in lead roles. His next film, Yevadu, which released in 2014, was one of the top grossing movies that ye...
11. Dil Raju
Dil Raju was bon in Narsingpally, Nizamabad District, Andhra Pradesh, India (Now Telangana). He lives in Hyderabad (Telangana, India). Dil Raju is a Producer and Distributer. Dil Raju is considered as a Man with Midas Touch in the Tollywood film industry. At the beginning of his career, he failed as a distributor but, got his best shot with hits like Arya and Bommarillu.
He was interested in films since his schooling at Mudakpally, (3km from Nizamabad), then shifted to Hyderabad during the intermediate. He started working in the automobile business ventured by his brothers at RP Road. Incidentally, RP Road is famous for film distribution offices and lead him to his favorite field of films and the film industry. Chiranjeevi Films Stint: Mahen...
12. Lakshman
Lakshman is a Kollywood film distributor, director, and producer. He has debuted as a director in the movie Romeo Juliet in 2015. The film features Jayam Ravi, and Hansika Motwani in the leading roles and the film got success in the box office. He was born on 22nd June 1977 in Chennai Tamil Nadu.
His 2017 released movie bogan, which was a supernatural action thriller film which has got many appreciable reviews from the south industry. The film has got average stars from IMDB. He has his official Twitter account with 9K+ fan followers. He is currently involved in many upcoming projects in Tamil movies like Jayam Ravi which will be releasing 2020.
...13. Abburi Ravi
As a screenwriter for some of the best blockbusters in the Telugu industry, Abburi Ravi is well-known for his wonderful stories. His way of words, which shaped up the movie ‘Bommarillu’, won a Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer.
His full name is Abburi Ravi Sesha Ramakrishna. He grew up in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, and completed his entire education period in the town of Bhimavaram. He is a holder of a graduate degree for a Bachelor of Science with Botany, Physics, and Chemistry.
Ravi, and the well-noted director, Trivikram, graduated from the D. N. R. College in Bhimavaram. Most of his movies have a perfect storyline to them that attracts all kinds of audience and lingers in the industry well out of their time.
Mr. Perfect, starring Prabhas, Kajal Agarwal, and Tapsee, was a stor...
14. Vakkantham Vamsi
Vakkantham Vamsi is an Indian Telugu Film actor who has now diversified his talents and became a dialogue writer and screenplay writer in the Telugu cinema. In recent years he has also been seen writing scripts in Hindi for the Bollywood film industry. He was born in a small village called Arikela which is near Punganur which is in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. He did his graduation from Sri Venkateshwara University which is in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. This university was founded by the Chief Minister Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu in the year 1954. His father was Vakkantham Suryanarayana Rao and Vakkantham Vamsi followed in his legacy of being a writer. He gained true recognition for his language skills in diction and acting during his formative schooling years.
After graduating Vakkantham Vamsi started his television ...
15. Chota K Naidu
Chota K. Naidu is a prominent Indian cinematographer in the Telugu film industry. He is the brother of Tollywood cinematographer, Shyam K. Naidu and the uncle of Sundeep Kishan (Telugu actor). His first film as a cinematographer was the 1991 Telugu film, Amma Rajinama, helmed by Dasari Narayana Rao. He earned the Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer – South for the 2008 Telugu film, Kotha Nagaru Lokam and the 2012 Telugu fantasy film, Damarukam. He worked in the cinematography of the Telugu films, Raguluthunna Bharatham, Santaan, Deyyam, Veedavadandi Babu, Master, Choodalani Vundi, Kunwara, Annayya, Daddy, Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai, Baba, Aadi, and much more. He is notable for his work in the blockbuster Telugu comedy film, Venkatadri Express, in 2013. This film stars Sundeep Kishan and Rakul Preet Singh ...
16. Devi Sri Prasad
After the success of "Dhinka Chika" song for Salman Khan, starrer "Ready", South Indian composer Devi Sri Prasad, has been getting numerous offers in Bollywood. Devi Sri Prasad liked the evergreen film ‘Sholay’ so much in his youth days, that he has seen the movie many times in his young days, and had then made his thoughts to make his journey to the film world.
He stated that music in’ Sholay’ could always be an inspiration for his generation. Thus, he always wanted to be part of Bollywood and entertain the music lovers throughout India. He has so much passion for music and the film industry that he does not miss any music show hosted for his fans in abroad. Though offers from Bollywood are in the pipeline, he wants...
17. 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 skill...
18. David Simon
David Simon is an Indian singer who predominantly works in the Telugu film and music industry. He has given his voice as a playback singer to several songs for the movies Singam 2 (2013), an action crime thriller written by Shivgopal Krishna, directed by Hari, starring Suriya, Anushka Shetty and Hansika Motwani, Attarintiki Daredi (2013), an action comedy drama written and directed by Trivikram Srinivas, starring Pawan Kalyan, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Pranitha, which got the award for Album of the Decade at the Mirchi Music Awards South 2021, Bhai (2013), an action comedy thriller written by Vamsy Krishna and Praveen Shruthik, directed by Veerabhadram, starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Richa Langella and Sonu Sood, Yevadu (2014), an action thriller written by Vakkantham Vamsi and Abburi Ravi, directed by Vamshi ...
19. Karthik
20. Krishnakumar Kunnath
Krishnakumar Kunnath is an Indian playback singer of Malayalam region. He was born and brought up in Delhi. Krishna was born to C.S. Menon and Kanakavalli, both his parents are Malayali. He has sung a song in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayali languages. His other names are K.K. or Kay Kay. He has completed his schooling from Mount St. Mary’s school, Delhi. Krishna graduated from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University from the commerce background. During his school days, he won many singing competitions. Even before joining singing as his profession he was the lead vocalist for different college bands. KK was very much influenced by singer Kishore Kumar and music director R.D. Burman. No training was taken up by him in this field. After completing his graduation, he moved to Mumbai with dreams to become a s...
21. Ranina Reddy
Ranina Reddy is a playback singer who got associated with music composer Harris Jayaraj. One can coin her with simple words like ‘bold, brash and unique’ for her gifted voice. And perhaps she is the most influential style icon in music too. Ranina Reddy even appeared in a cameo appearance in Venkat Prabhu's film Saroja. Ranina began her singing career in 2008 but her recognition came a few years later.
After an initial struggle, she made her big break with the "Ola Olaala Ala" soundtrack (2010), composed by Harris Jayaraj and evolved as one of the Tamil and Telugu cinema's most sought-after singer by the early-2010s (2010-14).
Within 4 years (2010-13), Ranina Reddy has sung over 50 songs which can be considered as her peak time in the music caree...
22. Ranjith K Govind
Ranjith is a very famous and versatile south Indian singer. He has a vibrant personality and can make the crowd tap their feet with his energetic songs, can make them emotional with his soothing voice and is a mass entertainer. He was born on February 21, 1977. He is a very well-known playback singer and has worked for many films. He is mainly working for the Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Ranjith was born in a Malayali family, in Chennai. His family belongs to a small town, Kalluvazhi, Kerala. Ranjith grew up listening to various types of music he stayed in a society where social-programmes were a trend. The localities used to participate in these programmes. Once, a family friend suggested training Ranjith for classical music.
He is trained in Hindustani music and Carnatic music by Vidwan Cuddalore S...
23. Sagar
24. Suchith Suresan
Born on August 24, 1987, in Trivandrum, Kerala, Suchith Suresan is a South Indian playback vocalist who is a part of Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu Industry. He is the son of K.P. Sucheeta, a resigned broker and C. Suresan, a resigned government worker and a presumed painter who centers in oil-around cavas. His sister is a musician and cousin is a mridangam artist. His father was a fan of famous artist Mohammad Rafi and brought his records home. Suchith heard the melodies often and became interested in music. He then shifted to Chennai to finish his degree at Madras Christian College in visual communications. He has a senior sibling, Dr.Surej, who plays the drums for another musical gang situated in Trivandrum called SPASM and is likewise an aide specialist in wellbeing administration department for Government of Kerala.
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25. Anand Sai
Anand Sai is a famous art director in South Indian Cinema, a temple architect, and most importantly, a philanthropist. He was born and raised in Parlakhemundi Odisha. Later, he took an interior designing course in Chennai. And before debuting in the film industry, he also did event management. He is the son of B. Chellam, and his father was an art director for more than 700 movies across all the languages in North and South. He married Vasuki Anand, an actress who acted in Pawan Kalyan’s movie “Tholi Prema,” as a supporting role of Pawan Kalyan’s sister. After that, she stopped acting in films and started working at Google. He has two children, a daughter Harshitha Anand and a son Sandeep Anand.
As an art director, he has worked on more than a hundred movie sets across multiple industries such as Ya...
26. Raju Sundaram
Raju Sundaram is an Indian choreographer, actor, and director. Raju was born on 7th March 1968. His father Mugur Sundar is a prominent choreographer. Raju is the eldest among the three brothers; all the three brothers are choreographers. One is the famous Prabhu Deva and other is Nagendra Prasad. He is married and his wife name is Vasanthi. In his youth he was forcefully taken to film sets by his father to assist him. Raju invented interest in films and choreography after that. Raju started his career being a dancer in films like ‘Roja’, ‘Aasai’ and playing cameo appearances in songs with his brother Prabhu Deva in the films ‘Gentleman’, ‘Kadhalan’.
Then he went on to do a few Kannada films as a lead choreographer. Then he ...
27. Shobi Paulraj
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.
He made Tamil superstars like Kamal Haasan, Ajith, Vijay groove to his tunes in movies like Uttama Villain, Mankatha, and Thupakki; and now, after a break, choreographer Shobi Paulraj is returning to Mollywood.
The veteran dance master is all set to make Unni Mukundan dance to his tunes in his upcoming flick 'Style'. Shobi will be helping the young actor groove to a romantic number crooned by singer Karthik. Currently, he is the Director of Cine and TV Dance Director’s Association.
...28. Ravi Kumar Pilla
Ravi Kumar Pilla, a well-known costume designer from Pithapuram, who announced his arrival into the south film industry in 2012 as the costume designer for the movie “Tuneega Tuneega”, is on his way to becoming a budding director in the film industry. He was born in 1977, from a very small age he was into clothes and used to loiter around tailor shops and picked up the art of stitching when he was in standard 5. Now, he has risen to such a level that he now owns his personal workshop along with permanent assistants.
He has worked with actors like Venkatesh, Prabhas, and various producers like M. S. Raju, Dil Raju, and Puri Jagan. He had discontinued his studies after his matriculation, due to financial problems and got into Costumes Krishna’s workshop as an assistant. From that assistant’s job to constru...
29. Marthand K Venkatesh
Marthand K Venkatesh is a well known professional film editor who is mainly recognized for his works in Telugu cinema or Tollywood. He was born as the son of the famous K. M. Marthand, the most renowned film editor in the Telugu film industry and as the nephew of B. A. Subba Rao, a legendary director in the Tollywood film industry. As a young boy, he used to visit his father’s office where he saw him work. After a certain period, his father, K. M. Marthand had become an alcohol addict and his health quickly declined due to increased consumption of alcohol. Due to this, young Venkatesh had offered to assist his father with his editing, all while he was still doing his higher secondary education.
Marthand made his debut into the field of film editing after he had an honest conversation with filmmaker, K. Raghavendra Rao. D...
30. Peter Hein
A Chennai boy born in Karaikal to the immigrants of Vietnam is famous for his stunt sequences and action director and choreography. He was born and brought up in Chennai itself. He belongs to Tamil Chettiar community. He started off as an extra stunt fighter in many regional films. His first venture as a full-time action director is Murari. Earlier he has worked with pioneers like Kanal Kannan, Ram Gopal Verma, Vijayan, etc. he has done quite a plenty of films in Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam. He earned critical appreciation and fame through his work in films such as Varsham, Anniyan, Athadu, etc. Ram Gopal Verma, impressed by Hein offered him to work for James and thus it was his ticket to Bollywood. His next Bollywood venture was Mani Ratnam’s Raavan.
He had also ...
31. Stunt Silva
Stunt Silva was born in Tuticorin, TamilNadu. He started his career as a male nurse after getting trained in Stanley Medical College. Silva worked as a Ward boy in Tuticorin hospital. Later he joined in Vijaya Health Center in Chennai by the year 1990. To maintain his family’s financial status, he worked in several sectors such as Peon in offices and dabbled in transport sector business offices. He then joined in the background dancer of the film under the guidance and advice of the Dance
Choreographer. He then took his dance lessons from Paul Raj's School.
32. Yugandhar Tammareddy
Yugandhar Tammareddy is a Hyderabad-based Vfx Supervisor. He is a first-generation entrepreneur and aspiring filmmaker. He set up Pixelloid to provide animation and visual effects services and training. Motion pictures, commercials, trailers, music videos, corporate presentations, and architectural walkthrough projects have utilized Pixelloid’s creative skills in techniques such as matte painting, computer-generated imagery, visual effects, and a variety of related processes required in content creation.
Yugandhar also designs and supervises visual effects for feature films, maintains client relationships, runs the company, and sets its quality standards and processes. Yugandhar is a rare blend of creativity and business acumen that makes for a successful entrepren...
33. 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. La...
34. Ajay
Ajay aka Gaurav Kapoor is a young handsome Tamil tv actor, a Punjabi by birth and brought up in Mumbai. His entry into film industry happened when he was studying in class twelve. Though he made his debut as an actor in the Hindi movie Priyadarshan's `Gardish', his Tamil serial ‘Kolangal’ brought him fame. After his appearance in Hindi movie and tele-films, he entered the Tamil Industry through a film called “Ooty” which wasn't a big hit. Later on after entering small screen, he was playing small roles in many serials when he got the offer for a negative character in a mega serial “Kolangal”, which was a big hit. Though he played the role of a savvy business man in that serial he was one of the most hated characters among Tamil audience when that serial w...
35. Brahmanandam
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...
36. Kota Srinivasa Rao
Kota Srinivasa Rao is a renowned Indian film actor, who predominantly works in Telugu cinema and theater. He was born on July 10, 1947, in Kankipadu in British India. He started his career as a stage actor and performed in many drama plays. Before he entered the film industry, he worked as an employee at the State Bank of India and continued his passion for stage acting. Kota got married to Rukmini and had three children. His son, Kota Venkata Anjaneya Prasad, died in a road accident in Hyderabad in 2010. Rao is also a former politician, who served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Andhra Pradesh, India from the year 1999 to 2004.
He starred in over 650 feature films and earned a total of eight Nandi Awards for Best Villain, Best Character Actor, and Bes...
37. Rahul Dev
Rahul Dev is an Indian model turned film and television actor. He was born as Rahul Dev Samra on September 27, 1968 in New Delhi, India to a Khatri Punjabi household. He studied at St. Columba’s School in Delhi where he used to be a fast bowler. Gursharan Singh, a former cricket player saw him bowling and he got impressed so he asked Rahul to join his academy. However, Rahul is more focused on his studies at that time. His father was once a police commissioner in Delhi and his brother, Mukul Dev is also an actor. In the early 90’s Rahul has donned modeling. He was the first Indian to be featured in GQ Magazine’s London Edition with 6-pages story. He is also a regular face of the popular brand, Hugo Boss.
Rahul Dev was supposedly debuted as an actor through the unfinished Bollywood film...
38. Sai Kumar
He was born on July 27, 1960 in Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh. His original name was Pudipeddi Saikumara Sarma.
His father P.J.Sharma was a leading dubbing artist and actor. Sai Kumar also followed him starting as a child dubbing artist. He has very exceptional command on Telugu language, he has marvellous calibre in Dialogue delivery and clarity in Telugu diction. He dubbed for leading Telugu actors like Suman (top Telugu hero in 1990’s) and Rajashekar. Later he himself became an actor and played lead roles in many movies. Presently he was acting in important supporting characters.
He was married to Surekha kumar and couple have a son and a daughter. His son Aadi is presently a budding film hero in Tollywood. His brother is also a famous actor and dubbing artist, he is prominent in Kannada industry.
39. Supreet
Born on Hyderabad, Telangana, Supreeth is an Indian performer from Telugu cinema. He is one of the popular villains in the Telugu film Industry. Supreeth was keen on movies from his youth. He discontinued his studies. He is likewise a Volleyball player. He missed the tryouts for the film Jayam. It took him 11 years to enter the cinema. Later, he got notice by chief Teja to keep up a collection. Supreeth began his vocation with the film Jayam in 2002 by Teja under the banner Chitram Movies with T. Gopichand, Nithiin, and Sadha. This motion picture went on to become a hit and got him the much-needed fame. He then acted in Pawan Kalyan's directorial debut Johnny alongside Pawan Kalyan, Raghuvaran, Raza Murad and Renu Desai in 2003.
For the game’s movie Sye coordinated by S. S. Rajamouli, he played the role of Bhikshu Yad...
40. Vennela Kishore
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.
He received a lot of appreciation for role “Shastri” in movie Dookudu. His performance was notable and praised in movies like Bindass, Pilla Zamindar, Daruma, Seema Tapakai, Doosuketta, etc. He received Nandi Award as “Best Male Comedian” in the year 2009. Getting award was the turning point for him. His recent films in 2015 are Elukamajaka, Srimanthadu, S/O SathyaMurty. His fans are eagerly waiting for his upcoming movies Dictator, NamakuPrematho and Savithri in 2016. He followe...
41. Hari
Hari is a Tamil director and was born in Katchana vilai near Nazareth in Tuticorin District. His father, Gopal Nadar, is a vessel merchant. Later for his schooling and graduation they moved to Chennai. Once he plunged into the filming, he began as an assistant director with K Natraj in the movie ‘Valli’ and some more projects like ‘Parthen Rasithen’, ‘Amarkalam’ with the director Saran.
Then he worked with the legendary director K Balachander in a movie ‘Kalki’. After that, he was married to an Actor’s daughter Preetha Vijayakumar and now they have three sons. Director Hari is always into action-oriented commercial movies.
Some of his works include ‘Singam’ (I II & III), ‘Saamy’, ‘Kovil’, ‘Arul’, ‘Ayya&r...
42. Praveen Ghanta