Bengali Tv Serial Nandini-bangla - Cast & Crew

Kousalya Senthamarai is a well-known actress from India, working in Tamil Film and Television Industry. On 1946 January 18, She was born in Chennai in Tamil Nadu. She married the late veteran actor Kalyanaraman Senthamarai and lives with her daughter. She made her first appearance in 1961 with the Tamil film Thriudathe, produced by V. Arunachalam and she played the roles of the protagonist and the Antagonist in this industry. She is best known for her role in Vayasu Pasanga, released in 2004. Kousalya Senthamarai worked with renowned people like Diwakar, Rahul Ravi, Madhan Pandian, Yuthan Balaji, Malavika Wales, and Raghavendra.

"Shreya Anchan is a young, beautiful and talented Kannada movie actress. She was born on 23rd December, 1995. Her hometown was Mangalore, Karnataka. As of now, she resides in the capital of Karnataka, Bangalore. She is one of the three daughters and one son who are namely Akshitha Prasad, and Priya Anchan. She graduated from Besant Womens College from the city of Mangalore itself. She lived a big phase of her life in the streets of Mangalaore. Shreya made her career acting debut in the Kannada film “Chathurbhuja” along with Aarva, which was directed by Krishna Lekhana and was produced by Shivananjappa.

Deepa Nethran is a TV and film actor. Her home town is Kerala, India. She studied at Kerala University. She currently lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her date of birth is 17th February 1985. She is married to Yuvanraj Nethran, actor and dancer.

Meena Vemuri is an Indian Actress who was born in Kerala. She works in the Tamil television industry. Meena started her acting career with the Tamil film Rajini Murugan¡ beside Sivakarthikeyan, directed by Ponram and produced by N.Linguswamy. She acted with well-known actors like Ramesh Pandit, Narasimha Raju, Vijayakumar, and Thameem Ansari.

Padmini Jagdeesh is an actress in the film industry. She predominantly worked in the Kannada television industry. She shared the screen with talented actors of the industry such as Raghavendra, Chaitra, Sanjana, Narsimha Raju, and Preeti. The actress has worked with almost all the known Kannada channels at one point or the other in her lifetime. She did daily soaps which aired on Sun TV, Star Suvarna, Kasthuri TV, Colors Kannada and many more. Padmini is very committed towards her career and always want to do shows from which she can learn new things. The star always gave more importance to enriching experiences than fame or money in her life.

Sudha Raghunathan is an Indian classical singer who is renowned for her skilled Carnatic style of music. Her career has been highlighted by several concerts, and she has also worked as a musical director in the Tamil film industry. Sudha was a naturally talented singer who began her training when she was but a toddler. Her mother initiated her musical education with devout Hindu bhajans and sons, all of which she was quick to absorb. She later studied under B V Lakshman. The Indian Government awarded her with a scholarship to learn under the tutelage of the artist, Dr. M L Vasantha Kumari, in 1977. During this period, she underwent rigorous training in the Gurukula style, where all learning was in the form of observation and vocal instruction. She accompanied professionals on their concerts and developed her musical prowess. Throughout her journey, she has collaborated with some of the World’s best talents. Sudha has been an annual performer at the Madras Music Season since 1990. Her work has been showcased at the United Nations, Theatre de la Ville in Paris and Broadway in New York. She is the only Indian singer to have taken part in the Global Vocal Meeting organized by the 'Burghof,’ an Academy of Music and Arts in Germany.

Nithya Ram is a Kannada film actress seen in Kannada movies and television serials. Her talent in glamor world was recognized when she appeared in television series. She is glamorous and has a photogenic face. Following a successful television career, Nithya tried her acting debut in the 2015 Kannada language film ‘Muddu Manase’ as the female lead paired opposite Aru Gowda, which went to become commercially successful.

Kavya Shastry is an Indian film and television actress, popularly known for her performance as Shraddha on Zee Kannada’s Shubhavivah. In 2007, Kavya was debuted in action-oriented Kannada film, Yuga, opposite Duniya Vijay in the lead roles. The flick failed at the box office, and she was not seen acting in any films after its release.

Yuvina was first known as a child actress in the AVM Productions television serial Uravukku Kai Koduppom. AVM is the only production company in South India, which has kept promoting only social drama that had a strong message to viewers. She was just two-and-a-half-year-old, when the director K. A. Bhuvanesh, used to flash the camera arc lights upon her face. But the child artiste would deliver any emotion with the good modulation. 

Manjula Vijaykumar is a famous South Indian Actress who was born on 9 September 1953. She married actor cum politician Vijay Kumar who has acted in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies. He also appeared in a few Television Serials. The couple have three children together i.e, Vanitha, Preetha and Sridevi Vijaykumar She has acted in over 100 movies in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. She started her career as a child artist in the year 1969 with the movie ‘Shanthi Nilayam’ as a teenaged daughter of Gemini Ganeshan.

Two years later she got a big break as she was chosen to play the heroine with actor MGR for the blockbuster movie ‘Rickshawkaran’. She continued to play lead roles and went on to be one of the heart throbs of the seventies. Working on other languages such as Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam gave her more fame and stardom as she has acted with big names such as Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, Rajinikanth, Venkatesh, Vishnuvardhan, Mammotty, etc.

She also played supporting roles in the 1980’s movies up to the year 2000. She passed away on 23 July 2013 in a Chennai Hospital where she was admitted due to a blood clot in her stomach. She was about to turn 60 in September. Her death came as a big shock to the South Film industry and several stars visited actor Vijaykumar’s house to pay their last respects to Manjula.

Vijayakumar Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Khushboo or also called Kushboo’s original name is Nakhat Khan. She was born on 29th September’1970 in Mumabai. She completed her schooling at Swami Muktananda High School, Mumbai. Khushboo has 3 brothers. She had a live-in relationship with Tamil actor Prabhu for 4 years and then she married Sundar C. She has two daughters named Avanthika and Ananditha.  Khushboo speaks Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English and Marathi languages.

Khushboo is a film and TV actress, TV hostess, producer and a politician. She is mainly known with her acting in south Indian films. She started her acting career in 1976 as child artist in the Kannada film Raja Nanna Raja. She has acted in some Hindi films as child artist. She was introduced as heroine to south with the Telugu film Kaliyuga Pandavulu in 1986. Venkatesh was hero in this film. This film was directed by K.Raghavendra Rao and produced by D.Rama Nayudu. Then she has acted in over 100 films in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalayam languages with leading south Indian actors like Kamal Haasan, Prabhu, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna, Vishnu Vardhan, Mohanlal, Mammootty etc. She became south India superstar. Some of her Telugu films include- Kirai Dada, Shanti Kranti, Chinnodu Poddedu, Pekata Paparao, Stalin, Yama Donga etc. She received 2 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Best Actress.

Khushboo has acted in some Tamil serials like Sondhame Endrallum, Kalki, Rudra etc. The serial Rudra was dubbed into Telugu language as Rudra. She did anchoring for some Tamil shows like Jackpot, Koteshwari. She did anchoring for the Telugu show Get Ready for ETV Telugu. 

Khushboo started a production house after her daughters name and produced some Tamil films like Rendu, Giri, Kalakalappu etc. 

Chaya Singh was born on 16th May’1981 in Bangalore. Her parents belong to Uttar Pradesh. Before her birth, they migrated to Karnataka. Chaya Singh belongs to Raiput family. She spent her childhood in Bangalore. She has completed her schooling in Lourdes School, Bangalore. She did her Plus Two in Bangalore. 

Chaya Singh is a film and TV actress who has started her film career with Kannada films and has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Telugu and Oriya films. Her debut film was the Kannada film Munnudi in the year 2000. Some of her Kannada films are- Haseena directed by the Kannada director Girish Kasaravelli, Thuntata which is a hit film, Chitte directed by Dinesh Babu and Rowdy Aliya directed by Sai Prakash. She has acted in the Kannada film Chitte which has received the National Film Award for Best Film for the year 2001. Chaya Singh is known for her being selective for her roles. After that she has migrated to Kollywood and has acted in the some Tamil films. The film Thiruda Thirudi in which she has acted was a big hit. 

She has acted in a Kannada short film called Simply Kailawesome. This short film won the most prestigious Platinum Remi Award at 44th Annual World Fest Houston International Film Festival. This film revolves around the conversations among playwright T.P. Kailasam and the female protagonists of his four plays. Chaya Singh has acted as all the four characters. 

Chaya Singh has also acted in 2 Malayalam films and 2 Bhojpuri films. She has also directed a Bengali movie. 

She did supporting roles in some Kannada serials like- Prema Kathegalu and Sarojini for ETV Kannada. She has also acted in a Tamil serial called Nagamma for Sun TV.  She is currently acting in the Telugu serial Kanchana Ganga for MAA TV.

Manjula is an actress and worked in Kannada & Telugu Serials. She is from Bangalore and her mother tongue is Kannada. She can speak Telugu, Hindi, English and kannda. Majula’s father was a head constable and also an actor and mother is house wife. She has 3 sister and she is the 2nd one. In her childhood, she wanted to be a bank manager for that she have taken commerce subjects in inter and degree. Her younger sister Kirthi is a child artist but Manjula does not know any thing about shootings. One of her dad’s friends was a director at that time and he asked his father to ask your daughter to act in my serial then her father asked Manjula and then she accepted to act in his serial. She started her acting career in Kannada. She worked for almost 15 Kannada serials. After that she got a chance to act in Telugu serials. Her first serial in Telugu was Chandramuki, she played title role in this serial, and nearly 5 years she worked for it.

Manjula’s husband’s name is Nirupam. He is also an actor. He is the son of actor Omkar. He is from Chennai, but his mother tongue is Telugu. He was played a hero role in Chandramuki serial. Manjula’s and Nirupam’s love started through this serial. First Nirupam proposed Manujula and then she accepted and their both parents have also accepted their love. And now they are having one kid Akshaj Omkar.

Now, Manjula and her husband are acting in Kanchana Ganga serial on maa TV. They were participated in many shows in Telugu. They both were hosted C-real stars show on Maa Gold. She said that if any one met outside they were called her with serial names and in real life also, they were recognizing her as an artist. In the beginning of Chandramuki, she does not know Telugu. Everyone in the set laughed at her because of her Telugu but now she can speak good Telugu. She got fame into Chandhramukhi serial.

Serials: Chandramuki, Tharangalu, Kanchana Ganga.

Shows: Ce-real stars, Star Mahila, Modern mahalakshmi, Abiruchi, Bhale Chancele etc.

Gayatri Jayaraman is a South Indian artist. She was born on 27th September 1984 in Bombay to Jayaraman and Chitra. She had her schooling at Adarsh Vidyalaya where she was a prodigy. Her college education was at Church Park in Mumbai. She has acted in all South Indian languages namely Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.

Keerthi is a south Indian actress. She is from Bangalore and her mother tongue is Kannada. She can speak Telugu, Hindi, English and Kannada. Majula’s father was a head constable and also an actor and mother is house wife. She has 3 sisters and she is the last one. In her childhood, she wanted to be a doctor and her dream is to be a good dancer. She likes dancing. Her father used to practice acting at home and she used to observe her father and did same thing like her father and she did stage shows with her father and one of Kannada director had seen her and gave her a child artist chance in Kannada movie. After that she got many offers and also she acted as a heroine role for few Kannada movies. She did her B.A. when she was studying intermediate, she got many love proposals and love letters and every one are used to tell her that you are looking beautiful. When she competed inter, her sister was doing Chandhramuki serial and she used to go with her sister to shooting sets. At that time she got offer in Dasari Narayana Rao’s banner and the serial name was Turpu Padamara. And after that she acted in many serials like Kaliyuga Ramayanam, Puthadi Bomma, Abishekam, Sudi Gundalu, Samudhram, Sravani Subrahmanyam, Shambavi, Tharangalu, Anubandhalu, and etc. She acted also most in 10 serials. 

Kanya Bharathi or popularly known as Kanya is a popular television actress in the Tamil and Malayalam Television Serial industry. She was born and brought up in Kerala but got settled in Chennai for the past 20 years. She came to the tinsel town serial industry in her early teen. Her most notable serial is “Amma,” a Malayalam serial aired on Asianet TV. 

Suman Ghosh was born in 1972. He is a Film Director, Professor, and Economist. He studied B.Sc. Economics at Presidency College, Calcutta. He did his M.A.in Economics at Delhi School of Economics. He pursued his Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University in 2002. He researched the topics of public economics, Personnel economics, and Development economics. He is an Economics professor at Florida Atlantic University. He went to Cornell University in New York for film-making training.

Sri Ganesh is a film scriptwriter as well as a director who works in the Indian film industry. A majority of his projects predominantly belong to the Tamil movie industry. He directed the movie called 8 Thottakkal which released in the year 2017. The film starred actors such as Vetri, Aparna Balamurali as well as M. S. Bhaskar and Nassar in the central roles. Ganesh also wrote the script for 8 Thottakkal. He is also associated with the film by the name 8mm Bullet which released in 2018. He was the writer of the story of the project. Since his childhood days, Sri Ganesh possessed a strong inclination towards theatre and dramatics. He began his journey by assisting Crazy Mohan and troupe while they performed stage shows and plays. He assisted Crazy Mohan was while Ganesh was still in college.

Vichu Viswanath is an actor. He featured in the film Aranmanai in the year 2014 and in Aambala (2015), which included Hansika Motwani and Vishal in the lead roles.

Rajesh Dhruva is an Indian actor who appears in the Kannada television industry. He appears in lead roles in a number of daily soaps and has earned a ‘boy-next-door’ image among the audience.

"Tam,” short for Thameem Ansari was born on 27th December 1992 in Bangalore, India. He is about 170cm in height and weighs 143.235lbs. He is well-known as a photographer and an actor in films & television. He is an Indian personality making a net of million in USD.

Sundar C Babu is an Indian music director and composer, popular amongst the regional audience for his work on the soundtracks of movies like Chaarulatha (2012), Rangrezz (2013), Thoonga Nagaram (2011), Markandeyan (2011), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in Telugu, Malayalam, and Tamil films, he has often been admired by the local critics and spectators for his creativity as a music composer.

Anu Mohan is an Indian actor by profession who majorly works for Malayalam South Indian Film world. He took birth in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerela, India. His mother’s name is Shobha Mohan, and his father’s name is K. Mohan Kumar. His Grandparents’ were Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair and Vijaya Lakshmi Amma. Before entering the South Indian Film Industry, he was somehow, already connected to it as his real elder brother named Vinu Mohan was already an actor and Saikumar Vaishnavi is his cousin. He did his schooling from Govt. Boys Higher Secondary School located in Karunagappally and from Govt. Model B.H.S.S. located in Trivandrum.

Dhina (also called Dheena), is a recognised South Indian music composer in movies and television shows. He is famously known for his composition of the title track in the cult TV show ‘Chithi”, which aired on Sun TV. His compositions have struck a chord into the hearts of many listeners and made him a popular musician in the South Indian Industry.

K.S.G. Venkatesh is a veteran film actor of the film industry in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Till date, he has been a part of more than twenty-five Tamil films and has also had a fledging career in the Tamil TV industry, having worked on more than twenty TV shows. Venkatesh is someone who was born into the film industry down south; his father is the legendary K.S. Gopalakrishnan, who worked in the industry as a director, screenwriter, lyricist and even a producer.

Mahanadhi Shankar, formerly known as Shankar, is a Tollywood actor. He is mostly known for his villainous characters. He played the role of a wicked jail warden Thulukanam who created problems for Kamal Hassan in his debut movie Mahanadi. After such a brilliant performance, he got to be known as Mahanadhi Shankar in the industry. Since then he has been doing many villainous roles as well as comic roles in various movies.

Vinay Gowda is a TV actor who rose to fame and popularity with a TV serial 'CID Karnataka' on Zee Kannada channel. The actor is a national athlete champion in his personal life. In addition, his masculine body image helped him a lot to get the role in the serial. In this mega serial, the actor portrayed the role of a police detective who is an expert in getting clues to solve crimes happening in the city. In this serial, his co-star Sachin Suvarna, narrated the role of unit chief. The actor resembles sometimes even Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor.

Ramesh Khanna is Tamil Film director and actor. Ramesh was born on 30th November 1955 in Coimbatore. He is the third child to his parents. He lives in Chennai. He is married and has two children. Ramesh is into acting since the age of 5. In ‘Nadaga Kavalar’ drama troupe of R S Manohar, Ramesh did around 1000 dramas till the age of 10.

An Indian Cinematographer, Senthil Kumar has worked mostly with the Tamil and Malayalam Industry. He was born in 1972 in Coimbatore. After studying in the Government Film Institute, Chennai; it was but obvious that he would take up acting as his career. That time he worked in about 50 films. ‘KaruppuVelai’ in 1993 was his first debut directed by Manobala. A trend started when he only worked for Sundar C. but then was replaced by Prasad Murella. It was a time when the late 1990s and early 2000s era was coming down.

Bava Lakshmanan is a popular Tamil actor, who hailed from Madurai. His original name is Lakshmanan. His friends used to call him as Bava and the name stayed with him till now. Bava Lakshmanan has seven siblings. He has two sisters and five brothers. When a shooting troupe came to Madurai to shoot in the Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple, the director called Bava Lakshmanan, who was watching the shooting. He asked him whether he is interested to act and Bava nodded yes, after getting the permission from his family.

Ramesh Pandit is a professional Indian actor. He has acted in many South Indian films especially in Kannada and Telugu and also in Tamil. Ramesh Pandit has also appeared in many television serials. Ramesh Pandit was born on 22nd of July in Karnataka. He is currently living and working from Bengaluru, Karnataka. He is also known as Ramesh Pandith or Ramesh Pundit. Ramesh Pandit made his debut in the media industry with the Kannada film named Nigooda Rahasya which was directed by film director Perala, produced by Jagadish Malnad and acted along actress Geetha. This movie was released in the year 1990. Other films in which Ramesh Pandit has performed are Banadi which hit the big screens in the year 2018, Stunt Master, Choo Baana, Ulta Palta in the year 1997, Ayya, Andaman which got released in the year 1998 and many more.

Ramesh Aravind [born 1964] is an Indian writer, actor, director and producer .He has also acted in few Tamil movies. He did his Mechanical Engineering from UVCE College, Bangalore. His movies are decent, wholesome family films with no vulgarities and crudities but always sensible entertainers.

After success in Tamil films, Kannada film producers started noticing him. His performances in America America, Nammoora Mandara Hoove and Ulta Palta gathered him huge fame. Over the years, Ramesh has starred in several hit memorable Tamil movies like “Duet”, “Keladi Kanmani” and “Rhythm”. Ramesh Aravind decided to work full time in Kannada film industry 14 years ago even while his career in Tamil cinema had just started. Ramesh’s talent found expression early in many plays when he acted in his school days.  Ramesh did movies in Telugu language like Little Soldiers, Rudraveena etc. For the movie Little Soldiers he won prestigious Andhra State Nandi award. After more than two decades in cinema industry and movies in six languages. He had many 100 days films, which is also a record in his career. Ramesh maintains cordial relationship with all the directors and co-stars he has worked with   him in the Film industry.

Ramesh has made a successful changeover from a serious actor into movie roles that experiment with comic roles. Meantime, he directed a suspense thriller ‘Accident’ and the film went out to be a super hit and got him very good reviews from the film industry. Ramesh has also been involved in Direction and directed many memorable movies. His first directorial debut was "Rama Shama Bhama" with Kamal Hasan. Ramesh is known for unconventional ideas, which are portrayed in his movies.  He has acted in more than a hundred films in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Bollywood. He is undeniably one of the most natural actors on screen still breathing life into any character he plays in movies. Ramesh has bagged the Karnataka State award for Best actor twice in 1997 for ‘America America’ and for ‘Hoomale’ in 1999. Ramesh received the eminent film fare award twice for Amruthavarshini in 1997 and for Hoomale in 1999. He has also got the prestigious Andhra State Nandi award for the movie 'Little Soldiers'.

Narasimha Raju is a famous Tollywood actor born on 26 December 1951. He is known for the various roles that he has portrayed in Telugu movies. He is also referred to as ‘Andhra Kamal Hasan’ due to the talent that he possesses in acting. He made his debut with the movie ‘Needa Leni Aadadi’ in 1974 and then there has been no looking back. The Heroine of this movie was also a new debutant named Prabha. The movie was a big success and ran for about 100 days and he started getting various offers to act for other banners as well. 

He also acted in 20 other movies in the late 70’s (i.e, 1976 – 1980). The movies include Athavarillu, Thoorpu Padamara, Kanya Kumari, Rambha Urvasi Menaka, Ammayilu Jagratta, Ammayilu Jagratta, Jayasudha, Anukunnadhi Sadhista, Jaganmohini, Prayanam Lo Padanisalu, Anthu Ledi Vintha Katha, Kaliyuga Mahabharatam, Lakshmi Pooja, Punadhirallu, Gandharvya Kanya, Punnami Naagu, Punnami Naagu, Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Prameswari Mahatyam, Tirloka Sundhari and Venkateswara Vratha Mahatyam. Further has also acted in various other movies till the late 80’s and 90’s and his recent movie was Brindavanam lo Gopika which released in 2013.

One of his earlier movies Jaganmohini which was released in 1978 was a blockbuster hit which was directed by B. Vittalacharya. Further to this, Narasimha Raju and B. Vittalacharya also worked on other projects such as Gandhrava Kanya, Mantradandam, Mohini Sapatham together. Apart from these movies, the actor has also worked with other directors  and he has acted in about a 100 films in 2 decades.

Talking about his personal life, he is married and has a son and a daughter who are married too. He also has grand children and is leading a happy life.

Riyaz Khan is a Tamil and Malayalam film and television actor who has more than 100 films under his kitty and several TV serials under his name. Born on the 9th of September, 1972, Riyaz Khan first made his entry into acting through Malayalam movies, his first being 'Sukham Sukhakaram' directed by Balachandra Menon. He has not looked back since then and has acted in movies in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada with leading directors and actors. He has played supportive roles in many Tamil movies essaying powerful characters like an investigative policeman, bodybuilder, etc.