Malayalam Tv Serial Classmates - Cast & Crew

Gautami Tadimalla is an actress who had a lot of competitors like Amala, Revathi, Shobana, or Khushboo, but yet this actress made her identity of her own in Tamil cinema. She was born in West Godavari (Andhra Pradesh) on 2nd July 1968. She was not beautiful or pretty in the traditional way, but she was indeed cute in many of her roles that she played with innocent looks. She had a good chemistry with all superstars of Tamil cinema like Kamal Hassan and Rajinikanth.

Sreelakshmi Sreekumar is a popular actress who is the daughter of popular Malayalam actor Jagathy Sreekumar. Her mother is Kala. Kala is also an actress who has acted in a few Malayalam films such as News, Iniyum Kurukshethram, Peruvannapurathhe Visheshangal and Dasharatham, and some more. Though Kala and Jagathy divorced, Jagathy cared for his daughter Sreelakshmi well. Sreelakshmi Sreekumar entered the film industry through the film Iyer in Pakistan. This film featured Fahadh Fazil. Sreelakshmi has got this chance of acting at the young age of 17. Her father, Jagathy, is not interested in bringing his daughter into the cinema industry.

Suchitra is a renowned singer, who has sung popular songs in the Tamil films. She was born as Suchitra Ramadurai in the year 1979 in Chennai. After completing her schooling in Chennai, she completed her graduation in Trivandrum from Mar Ivanios College. She did her MBA in PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore. She joined in Sify, after her graduation.

Dhivyadharshini is a Tamil TV show host and compere. She is well known throughout Tamil Nadu as ‘DD’. Many newspapers praise her as the most successful compere in the history of Tamil TV industry. She came into this field under the compulsion to make her elder sister and brother study and to meet her family’s ends.

Dhivyadharshini was born in Chennai to Tamil Brahmin parents. She lost her dad at an early age and she entered the TV industry when she was 14. She acquired the chance to host Vijay TV’s ‘UngalTheerpu’. The bubbly actress was loved by everyone on the sets who predicted a history behind her. She was never let go from her alma mater Vijay TV though she had acted in serials in other channels too.

K.Balachander made her debut in serials through his ‘Rekkai Kattiya Manasu’ in Raj TV and the positive reviews she got on account of her good performances gained her a wild card into the silver screen. She featured in Kamal Hassan’s production ‘Nala Damayanthi’ as a Brahmin girl, much to the likings of Tamil people. Subsequently, in her movie ‘Whistle’ her character turns the movie apart. After a few small roles in some movies and a role in an independent English film by Roopa Swaminathan, she again returned to the TV industry.

Her return to the small-screen was ecstatic as she got offers from all TV channels. She meticulously chose Sun TV and Vijay TV, the then leaders of TV industry. She appeared in Radaan’s productions ‘Selvi’ and ‘Arasi’ alongside Radhika and then started participating and then hosting ‘Jodi No.1’. Till date, she is the host of the popular dance show. She also has compered about 20 shows in Vijay TV alone that made her scale great heights. She also is the host of her own show ‘Koffee with DD’ in Vijay TV in which she interviews celebrities.

DD’s got married to her childhood friend Srikanth, who served as Gautham Vasudev Menon’s assistant director. She frequently mentions about her late father, who she misses throughout and dedicates all awards to him and Vijay TV. She also lends her voice for several heroines, mostly in Venkat Prabhu’s movies ‘Saroja’ and ‘Goa’. She did her B.A, M.Phil through correspondence in Loyola College, since she was the most sought TV host and will continue to be the same for years to come.

Priyadarshini Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Hemalatha is a famous Tamil and Telugu actress who is popular for her movies and television serials. She started acting as a child artist and slowly grew to the level she is today, working on multiple serials, being recognized by the public as a good actress.

Hemalatha’s family comes from the movie background. Her uncles and other relatives acted in many movies. Some of them took her to see shootings, and she was instantly hooked. She wanted to act in those movies, not just watch them from the screen or from behind the camera. She told everyone about her wish, and they promised to support her.

Hemalatha acted in several Tamil movies as a child artist. Some of the famous movies like Batsha and Suryavamsam gave her great name and fame. She continued acting even after reaching adult age. She acted in popular movies such as Kadhal Konden, Ji, etc.

After that, she got her first break in television serials, thanks to Radhika Sarathkumar’s super hit television serial “Chitti.” She played the role of Kaveri in this serial and became a known face to people. She then acted on several other serials, such as Kana Kaanum Kaalangal and Anbe Vaa. Her role as Deepa in the Thendral serial gave her superb recognition. She also performed at the famous dance program “Jodi Number 1,” where she got a huge fan. Today Hemalatha is getting mature roles. She carefully thinks and chooses what roles she wants to act to achieve her ultimate goal of becoming the best actress in the television media with the support of everyone.

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.

Divya Darshan is a Malayalam actor well-known for his work in Karanavar and Long Livingstone 7000 Kandi. He was born on 26 October 1987, in Kollam, Kerala, India. He is the son of famous actor E.A. Rajendran. His mother’s name is Sandhya Rajendran. He is the grandson of O. Madhavan and Vijaykumari. His grandfather was a well-known theatre artist and writer. He used to sit beside his grandfather and learn about acting and theatre. During his school days, he used to perform in various cultural events held at his school. He started his career in Malayalam film industry when he made his debut in the movie “Hide n’ seek,” directed by Anil, starring Mukesh, Divya Darshan, Natasha Doshi, Shankar, Maha Gaida, and Anil Murali. He played the role of a lead actor in the movie.

Sivakarthikeyan is a stand-up comedian, actor, and an anchor born on 17th February 1985 in Singampunari, Tamil Nadu. He was born to an Engineer father and has a sister who is a doctor. He was in Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School in his school years and graduated from JJ College of Engineering and Technology and holds a degree in B.E. Later. he went on to do MBA from Indian Institute of Planning and Management Chennai. He was participative in his college in theatre and stand-up comedy. It was the gap he had between his engineering and MBA he participated in a Star Vijay reality show, Kalakku Povathu Yaaru after he was forced by his friends and eventually won the show.

Cheran was born on December 12, 1970, in Pazhaiyurpatty, Melur. His father Pandian was a Projector Operator in Vellalur touring theater and his mother Kamala was a primary school teacher. He has two sisters. He is a Tamil, film Director.

Bhanu Chander is a popular Tamil and Telugu actor. He is the son of the popular music director Madduri Venu Gopal. Bhanu Chander was born in the year 1952 in Chennai. In his childhood, he wanted to become a music director. He learnt guitar and could string it flawlessly. Bhanu Chander completed his graduation in National College. His father joined him with the popular music director Naushad and he assisted him for few years.

Hariharan is a renowned Indian singer, who sings mainly for Hindi and Tamil films. Born in 1955, he is a well-known Ghazal singer. He was also instrumental in bringing fusion music to India. 

Colonial Cousins is the name given to Hariharan’s band, wherein he collaborated with Lesle Lewis. This band was featured in many private albums. Not only this, they have also composed music for a few movies in Hindi and Tamil. 

Hariharan is born and brought up in Mumbai and he is well-versed in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Hindi. Hariharan is the offspring of famous Carnatic vocalists H.A.S. Mani and Shrimati Alamelu. Hariharan inherited the music skills from his mother. Hindustani music was made known to him in his youth. Hariharan indeed, took great efforts to reach the position that he is in today; he used to practice singing for 13 hours. 

During the initial stages of his career Hariharan used to sing for television serials. After winning a prize in a competition at all India level Hariharan was offered to sing in the film “Gaman” by late music composer Jaidev. The song “Ajeeb Sa Neha Mujh Par Guzar Gaya Yaaron" from the film earned him recognition that he rightly deserved. 

The song “Thamizha Thamizha” from the movie Roja was an instant hit and Hariharan, who sung it was awarded the “Best Male Playback Singer” in the Tamil Nadu State Government Film Awards. 

Hariharan was introduced into the Tamil film industry by A R Rahman, who was also a newbie at that time. Since then, the duo created magic with soul stirring songs in films, including Minsara Kanavu, Jeans, Indian, Muthu, Taal, Mudhalvan, Iruvar, Indira, Rangeela, Alaipayuthey, Kannathil MuthamIttal, Sivaji etc. Hariharan is credited with the Padma Shri Award and has received National awards for a couple of times. Hariharan is the proud singer of around 700 songs. He had also sung in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi.

Aadukalam Naren was born in Chennai the heartland of Tamil cinema, in a family which took keen interest in movies. He was interested in acting and was also encouraged by his family members, and so he decided to go through formal training before he could enter the industry.

Jeeva is a Tamil Film Comedian Actor. He made his debut in one Television air-comedy show. He has popularly known as Lollu Sabha. Lollu Sabha was hosted on famous channel Vijay TV. The show acts about doing the spoof on some famous Kollywood movies over that; they express the comedy. JEEVA acted alongside with the comedian actor Santhanam and Manokaran. His appearance is predominantly in Tamil Film industries.

Dev Anand would be nostalgically remembered by filmgoers of the golden era of Bollywood that saw the transition from the black and white age to the age of colour. He happened to be one out of the famous quartet of heroes of that golden age, along with Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and the evergreen Ashok Kumar. More than his core acting abilities, Dev Anand was remembered more for his sheer handsomeness and an unbroken style of delivering dialogues with subtle and sudden modulations, and a fascination for nodding while delivering. Yet he had hit films to his credit, one after the other, in the 100 plus films that he had acted in, most of which had him as the central male protagonist.

Like most of his famous contemporaries, Dev Anand also came from Punjab, and having completed his graduation in English Literature, he moved over to Mumbai for a job in the early 1940s. This seems to have been a happy coincidence for him, as his older brother Chetan, who was already in Mumbai and an active member of the Indian People's Theater Association (IPTA), encouraged Dev into the performing arts. Dev himself was also inspired by seeing films and nursed a desire to emulate famous actors of his time like Ashok Kumar. His own break came in the 1946 movie “Hum Ek Hain” produced by Prabhat films, whose production team was won over by his handsome looks and were confident of his making the grade in a film career. As luck would have it, during the making of the film he struck up a friendship with the famous Guru Dutt who also went on to become one of the renowned producer director and actors of the period.

This association resulted in so many hit films over the next 10 years, starting with the 1951 film, “Baazi”, which incidentally was the very second film of Dev’s own production House Nav Ketan. This film was directed by Guru Dutt, and its tremendous success propelled Dev onto the front lines of Hindi cinema. This was followed in 1952 by “Jaal”, which like Baazi was another big musical hit. Even though Guru Dutt himself got busy as an actor, the Dev Anand – Guru Dutt co-operation continued through director Raj Khosla, who was Guru Dutt’s chief assistant and whom he seems to have specially earmarked for Dev’s films, like “CID” (1956) and “Kala Paani” in 1958.

Like Dev’s association with Guru Dutt, his working together with the singing star Surayya in late 1940s also raised a lot of ripples, for its perceived romantic overtones, the duo having worked in seven films, one after the other between 1948 and 1951, including hits like “Afsar” (1950) and ending with “Do Sitare” . Likewise, Ashok Kumar too had a hand in boosting the career of Dev, after the latter had become typified as an actresses’ hero in the 40s. It was in “Ziddi”(1948) that Ashok Kumar, with his Bombay Talkies’ connections, selected Dev to be the hero, and it worked wonderfully well with the film becoming a overnight hit. This film also marked the beginning of Kishore Kumar becoming the singing voice of Dev Anand, an association that lasted till the legendary singer’s death.

To recount the life of a legend like Dev Anand, is not easy, and one can hardly do justice to his entire career, studded as it was with so many hits. The films from a more serious genre that would obviously remain in people’s minds would be “Guide” in 1968 based on R.K. Narayan’s famous novel; and the earlier “Hum Dono” in 1961, and “Kala Pani” in both of which he has given sensitive portrayals. On the lighter and romantic side were “CID” in 1956 and “Jewel Thief” in 1968 both being crime thrillers and “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” in 1971 which saw Dev in his directorial debut.

During a long career, as long as his, it was natural to have to his name a string of awards and honours, but more than any of these would be his inimitable style that would remain in the minds and hearts of his fans for years to come.

S.P Sreekumar is a famous Malayalam film and TV actor known for his role as Lolithan in Marimayam Serial. He is known for his versatility in acting. He is a Trivandrum based person and started his film career in the movie Kandahar, a war film directed Ravi. Later he acted in many movies. His career graph took a steep rise after the Marimayam Serial.

Marimayam is a comic serial that portrays the current socio-economic issues in a comical way and is aired in Mazhavil Manorama. His character Lolithan made him famous .The best part of his Lolithan character is his smile. Even though he is busy with his films, he is still acting in the Marimayam Serial.

From schooldays itself he was fond of acting and he joined in drama and other competitions. He studied music and later participated in many reality shows. He played many movies like ABCD, DAM99, Kadhayile Nayika', and 'Vallatha Pahayan'. He played a lead role in the movie Papilio Buddha, which focuses the cruelty against the Dalit people. He starred opposite to Saritha Sunil. His movie ABCD gave him a huge recognition in which, he played Cochin guy and the character speaks pure Cochin slang and that was an amazing performance. Though he has done many comic characters he got a breakthrough in his acting career through the movie Memories directed by Jithu Joseph. He played the role of a psycho killer and the character he portrayed gave 100 percent justice. In 2015 his first released movie is Ivan Maryada Raman with Dileep in lead role.

Sreekumar is now working in Marimayam serial and is not ready to skip the serial for the cinema. He is now approached for a Kollywood movie and may be this year will give him a great success for his career.

Shree is a television actor and the son of popular music director Ganesh, who is popularly spelled with his partner Shankar. Shree’s full name is Shree Kumar. He acted in many serials and have done good and appreciable roles. He has done lots of serials and also doing some classic roles. He became famous after the serial Sivasakthi, in which he was called LEFT, as he is a left hander. In Sivasakthi, he acted as the son of Renuka and the brother of Shamitha. After completing this serial, he and Shamitha got married, and they have a girl baby now. Shree and Shamitha shared the screen space together in an another serial, called Pillai Nila. Shree acted as Shamitha’s friend’s husband Shekar in Pillai Nila.

Saakshi Siva is one of the most leading actors in Tamil and Telugu series industry. He is well-known for his character in “Anandham” in which he has portrayed the role as an “Asst. Commissioner”. This role has earned him great fame and honour. The roles that he portrays create a lot of impression in the hearts of the audience, and hence his works are well appreciated by them.

Swaminathan is a talented and popular Tamil actor. He is a person with multidimensional talent. Swaminathan is an eminent Tamil movie and television actor and also an immensely talented stand-up comedian. His full name is Sabha Swaminathan also fondly known within the industry as Lollu. He’s been in the Tamil film and television circuit since the year 1997. He got his nickname after he appeared as Sabha Lollu in leading Tamil entertainment channel Vijay TV’s comedy satirical show Lollu Sabha.

Balaji Balakrishnan is a Tamil actor. He acted in some TV serials and movies. He is also known by his screen name Joe. Balaji was first cast in Vijay TV’s school serial ‘Kana Kanum Kalangal’. He made it through the auditions quite easily, since his talks and actings were vivid and entertaining. He was given the role of Joe, the school Principal’s son. He, as his nature was, lived that character very enthusiastically, rather than just acting. He would crack jokes all of a sudden in the serial and in the shooting spot as well and add to everyone’s laughter. Balaji learnt a lot from his first serial, he later described, and befriended many co-actors whom he worked with in the serial.

Irfan Mohamed is a young, budding Tamil serial actor and model, born on 29th November 1985. He is widely known for his breakthrough role in ‘Kanaa Kaanum Kaalangal’ where he played the cheerful Vineeth. Subsequently, he got an opportunity to participate in the dance reality show 'Jodi Number One' in Vijay TV. He was paired up with Monisha, and he went on to capture the third place. His other co-stars from Kanaa Kaanum Kaalangal came together with him to make a movie ‘Pattalam’ that didn’t make big, before getting an opportunity to play a supporting role in the 2012 movie ‘Eppadi Manasukkul Vanthai’. 

Deepak Dinkar is a popular image in the Tamil Television Industry. He is a popular host and participant of many reality shows and also appears on many shows on Vijay TV. He initially wanted to become an actor but accidentally, by chance, got an offer to become a host and he says "he has loved it totally."