Tamil Awards 57th Filmfare Awards South - Cast & Crew

Kalpika Ganesh is also called Kalpika, was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. She is a professional actress. Kalpika preferably works for the Telugu film industry. She is the only daughter of her father and mother Indumati Ganesh, along with Brother Karthik Ganesh. She did finish her primary education from Gautami High School, Hyderabad.

She has been graduated B.A in statistics from Bhavan’s Vivekananda College, Secunderabad. She adores traveling, dancing, and singing is her all-time fun. Kalpika started her career and gave it a thumbs up in the year 2009. She made her first-ever debut as a supporting role in the film “Prayaanam.” She became famous and recieved a lot of stardom.

She got the fame just a depicted as a supporting role, not even the lead one. Then she has been seen in Orange. Later, Kalp...

Priya Himesh is a renowned female playback singer primarily working in South Indian Film Industry. She has sung in various languages including Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Odiya etc. His most popular song across the whole India remains RingaRinga from movie Aarya 2 for which she also won Film fare Awards South. Priya was born 10 February 1982 in the suburbs of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. From a very early age, she was into singing and had classical training within her family. Then she started to participate in many local singings show and got the attention of local crowds. After completing her studies at Chennai University, she started auditioning to try her luck in the film industry as a singer.

He started as a backing vocalist & extra in many films. Priya got his first big break when famous music director Devi Sri Prasad gave her...

Sujatha Sivakumar born on 23 December, 1972 at Madurai, Tamil nadu. Sujatha is a famous Tamil Actress. She is a one of the greatest Actress in Tamil film industry. She started her Career with movie "Paruthiveeran” which gave her huge fame. She has played both lead roles and the Supporting roles in Tamil movies. Sujatha is famous for her versatile acting in industry. She has played all types of roles in her career. She made her debut in "Virumaandi”. She got Breakthrough with her Performance in "Paruthiveeran”. She became a great Actress with this movie. After this movie, Sujatha was on the top. All Film makers opened doors for her. She has also worked with famous Director" Pandiraj ".

She has worked with him in his two Superhit movies “Paranga &q...

Dr. Shamitha Malnas was born on 9th June to parents Professor U. V. Ramachandra and H. G. Sunanda. She was born in Thirthahalli, Shimoga. She is currently married to Arun Kumar D. K who is from Sringeri, and they have two children together. They are named Advaith Hegde and Shadjaa Hegde. She is famous as an Indian playback singer and that too a multilingual one at that. But, she is more popularly known for her career in the Kannada film industry. She has sung many chartbuster numbers for Kannada films and also provided good songs for her devotional albums as well., She is also an anchor, a dubbing and voice artist and also has the degree of the Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree (B.D.S) from Vokkaligara Sangha Dental College, KIMS, Bangalore, in addition to being a singer. She also holds a degree of B.A.(Hin...

Thamarai was born in Tamil Nadu, India on 10th November 1975. She is a lyricist by profession and also writes poems, essays and is also a former journalist. She is a renowned lyricist and mostly writes in Tamil. She received her primary education from Coimbatore and graduated from Government College of Technology in Coimbatore. After her graduation, she continued to work there and later moved to Chennai and devoted her time for a company as an independent journalist, where she used to write essays, poems and short stories for them.

She came into the limelight and became very popular among the people through her writing and also joined the Tamil Industry where she started to write lyrics for various movie songs. Thamarai made her debut in 1998 film, “Iniyavale”. The story is about a poet who dre...

A multi-talented Indian actress, Tulasi started her career as a child actress following it was her role as the main lead and then as a motherly figure in supporting roles. Her linguistic film approach has made her a quite famous actress. In 1967, when she was three months old, she acted in her first film. In the Telugu film, Bharya a baby was needed, and she was placed in the cradle. The film ‘Jeevanatarangalu’ also had her at the age of one and a half years old. Then later she went to become a full-fledged actress at the age of three. The fact was that she never went to school. Her marriage story is also very interesting. She says that at the age of 28, she met the man of her dreams in the morning and tied the knot with him in the evening.

Eventually after h...

Sujatha Mohan (Sujatha or Baby Sujatha) is one of the most prolific singers after S. Janaki, P. Susheela, and K.S. Chitra. She has sung nearly 10,000 songs in many Indian languages and has performed over 5000 live concerts in her career. She came to spotlight while singing songs with K.J. Yesudas in musical concerts. This fetched her recognition, and she got her first break as a playback singer when she was in the sixth standard. 

Sujatha’s debut was in the year 1975 when she sang for a Malayalam movie ‘Tourist Bungalow.' She then sang for two other movies ‘Kamam Krodham Moham’ (music composer Shyam) and ‘Aparadhi’ (music composer Salil Chowdhury ). During this time, she also sang non-filmi songs. In 1998, she...

Shweta Mohan is a female playback singer in Indian cinema who is also the daughter of playback singer Sujatha Mohan. Like her mother, she also had sung in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born on 19 November 1985 in Chennai.  In fact, earlier she was a bit hesitant to take up singing as her career. But as she sung, she enjoyed singing very much. Had not she been in singing, she could have opted for doing MBA and got settled other way. 

Shweta grew up watching her mother sing and eventually looked her as a role model for her life. She has always aspired to be like her. Taking inspiration from her mother’s versatile career in Indian cinema, she eventually made her ground too in film music. She is well...

Yagna Shetty, an Indian film actress, was born in a place called Kudremukh, at Karnataka to UmeshShetty and Jayanti Shetty. She completed her schooling from Kendriya , at Panambur, and did herunder graduation in Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) from SDM collegeat Managalore, and later she also pursued MBA in Finance from Manipal University.

Yagna did her debut film (‘OnduPreethiyaKathe’) in 2007 in Hindi due to her non-fluency in Kannada, but still she was able to get the role. After a gap of an year, in 2009,she appeared in two films back-to-back namely‘EddeluManjunatha’ and ‘Love Guru’.

In 2011 , she had three consecutive releases:’ Panchamrutha’, ‘Allide Nammane Ille Bande Summane’, and’ Kalla Malla Sulla&...

Sriya Reddy is an Indian film actress mainly performed in Tamil and Telugu films. She has also worked as an anchor in television serials and previously worked as video Jockey. She made her debut in the film industry after winning the VJ hunt by SS music and later started hosting TV shows like Connect and Phonetastic. She made a maiden debut in the film Appudaappuda but unfortunately the film failed to gain momentum in theatres. However, she appeared in 2004’s Black in which she played the role of village woman completely contrary to her main role in real life.

Sriya Reddy has also played the role of a rich girl in an English film ’19 Revolutions’. Chicago-based Shridhar Reddy directed the film. The film did quite well in U.S. She has made debut in Samur...

Sheerin Ramalingam belongs to Bikaner, Rajasthan (India) as she was born there. She was born in a Tamil-Hindu family that are from Neyveli. She came to America (first to Boston) when she was 5. She attended Cypress Creek High School, and there she used to play saxophone, and she wants to be a cardiologist. Because of her acting career, she left her studies in between and began her acting career. Personal Life: Sheerin Ramalingam was born to a Tamil-Hindu family and hence got a taste of two different cultures. Her father, Rajaram Ramalingam, is a computer consultant and her mother, Noor Ramalingam, is a house wife. Her younger sister has appeared on screen in Mayilu (Tamil film), as the younger version of Shammu's character. When Noor Ramalingam was aged 12, she was in Chennai (formerly Madras), in the s...

This Kannur born actress, who made her debut with ‘Rasikan’ in 2004, has ever since been a much-cherished name for the average Malayalee. Her successful eight-year-long career has undoubtedly left a tangible mark in the Malayalam film industry. Samvrutha Sunil was born on October 31, 1986, to Chalatt Sunilkumar and Sadhana. She’s an alumnus of St Theresa’s College and Annamalai University. Under veteran director Lal Jose’ guidance, Samvrutha made her debut with the 2004 Dileep starrer movie Rasikan.

Rasikan was followed by ‘Nerariyan CBI’ and ‘Chandrolsavam’ with Samvrutha in prominent roles beside Mohanlal and Mammootty; the two giants of Malayalam industry. With this, Samvrutha sealed her space and continued to rise...

Pooja Umashankar is also popularly known as Pooja Gauthami Umashankar. Pooja was born in the year 1981 in Sri Lanka. She is an Indian-Sri Lankan actress whose father is an Indian Kannadiga Brahmin and mother is a Sri Lankan. She has proved her acting skills in Tamil movies as well as Malayalam, amateur, Sinhala films. Pooja has completed her pre-schooling in Sri Lanka, and later on, they moved to India. Pooja’s father was not at all interested in the film industry, but she had a keen interest in this industry. She has completed her post graduate degree in Bangalore. She started her career as a role of the Anglo-Indian girl in a Tamil venture. Pooja received many favorable reviews in her second film opposite R. Madhavan.

She has started working in commercial Tamil m...

Padma is an Indian actress and model. She was born on 28 February 1980 in Delhi and brought up in Punjab by her Tamil parents. She completed her schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad (Andhra Pradesh) and graduated from Loyola Academy, Alwal. She has a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and also a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar.

She also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law from National Law School of India University, along with possessing a Masters in Public Administration from New York University. She ventured into modeling hoping it would give way to a career in the film industry. She worked for a music album during her class 12th an...

Harini is an Indian playback singer in south Indian cinema. Harini was born on April 30, 1979, in Chennai. She is a noted singer in Tamil cinema with a career spanning two decades. Her singing career started in 1995 with the movie, Indira. She got her first break by singing for A.R. Rahman. In this film Indira, she sang two solo songs, Next year, she also got a chance to sing for a film like Indian and Iruvar. Her first rendering for Deva was in the year 1996 for the film ‘Nerukku Ner’. In the same year, she got a chance to render a solo song for music composer S.A. Rajkumar for the film ‘Pistha’. Occasionally, she did numbers for composers Karthik Raja, Mani Sharma, Vidyasagar, Bharathwaj, Harris Jayaraj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, M. M. Keeravani, Devi Sri Prasad, D. Imman, Chakri.

Born on April 8, 1988 Nithya Menen is indeed a star to reckon with. She has worked in South Indian films, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Hailing from Calicut, she was brought up in Bangalore. Before joining films, she passed Journalism from Manipal Institute of Communication. Though, she wanted to do a course in Cinematography things didn’t fructify. After working as a child artiste in the film Hanuman, she did a film with Mohanlal during the year 2008. This got her many accolades and she was nominated in the category of Best Supporting actress.

During one of her entrance exams Nithya met director Nandini, who was instrumental in making Nithya ...

This effervescent beauty, who has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, is indeed a name to reckon with. This is not only due to her acting prowess, but also for her determination in battling cancer. Only recently, she opened up that she is very much alive in the industry; she is currently working in the flick Two Countries. 

Born on 14 November 1984, Mamta grew up in Bahrain. After doing her schooling in Bahrain she did her degree in Bangalore. Mamta tested waters in modeling before entering into the film industry. She got herself associated with print ads for big names. The 2005 Malayalam flick Mayookham by Hariharan was her first film....

Kanika also known as Kaniha is a popular south Indian actress, who was born in Madurai. Her original name is Divya. She studied in TVS Matriculation School in Madurai. She was very studious and got Award from the Tamil Nadu Government in 1999. Then, she completed her Mechanical Engineering course in BITS PILANI in Rajasthan. She was a good singer and she appeared in many musical shows during her childhood. She participated in the beauty contest in 2001 in Chennai. She won the contest and her photographs were published in the magazines. Seeing her photo, director Susi Ganesan gave her an opportunity to act in his movie named 5 Star. Prasanna and Krishna were also introduced in that movie, which was produced under the banner of Mani Ratnam. The movie became a hit and Kanika became a not...

Born on 4th March 1980, Kamalinee Mukherjee has worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali films, but she is primarily a Telugu actress. 

Kamalinee graduated in English literature and then she got involved in a theater workshop. Phir Milenge was her debut film, but she was noticed in the film Telugu film Anand, which won several awards. 

Born in Kolkata, Kamalinee worked in every professional and amateur plays on stage during her school and college days. Interestingly, she took up masculine characters. Painting, writing poem...

Born on 26th August 1984, Gopika is a south Indian actress. She has mainly worked in Malayalam films. Before entering the film industry, Gopika was a model. Her debut film was Pranayamanithooval. She has over 35 films to her credit. She has also worked in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. Girly Anto is Gopika’s original name. Hailing form Thrissur, Kerala, she is a Syrian Christian. She graduated in Sociology and also learnt dancing. The turning point in her life was when she was the first runner in Miss Thrissur contest. This fetched her some modeling projects. Gopika once told that her ambition was not to become an actress; she wanted to become an air hostess.Her debut film Pranayamanithooval, which was directed by Thulasi Das didn’t fare well. All the same, her role was acknowledged. It was her second fil...

Ileana D'Cruz made her debut in Telugu film "Devadasu" with Ram Pothineni, which fetched her the Filmfare best female debut award in 2006. After working in the Telugu film industry for nearly six years, Ileana made her Bollywood debut with "Barfi"(2012), co-starring with Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. 

Southern film actresses (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada) have made their mark in Bollywood over the years and went on to become the leading ladies of B-town. The trend of South Indian actresses migrating to Hindi film industry is not new. Bollywood has always welcomed film stars from down south. Ileana D’Cruz is the latest so...

Shruthi is the original name of Haripriya, who is a south Indian actress. Hailing from Chikkaballapura, Karnataka, she is also a Bharathanatyam dancer and model. Her maiden venture is in a Kannada film named Manasugula Mathu Madhura. Later, her films didn’t do that well. However, she got Filmfare nomination for her good performance in the political movie Kallara Santhe. The film Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu gained her much appreciation and she became famous in Karnataka. She also acted in a couple of films in Tamil and Telugu. 

Shruthi proved her dedication towards acting by taking up a workshop for her role in the Telugu venture Abbayi Class Ammayi. Her Kannada film Ug...

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...

Priyamani is a talented actress of the Southern film industry. She received the prestigious National Award for her role in the Tamil film Paruthiveeran. Before entering into the film industry, Priyamani was doing modeling. 

Born on June 4, 1984 in Bengaluru, Priyamani debuted into the film industry with the film Tamil flick Kangalal Kaidhu Sei. The film was a disaster at the box office and she shifted to Telugu and Malayalam films. Pellaina Kothalo is her debut Telugu film opposite Jagapati Babu. This film gained her the much-needed recognition and it was declared a super hit. She came to Tamil industry with a bang through the flick Paruthiveeran, sharing screen sp...

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...

Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...

Nikita Nigam was born to Agam Kumar Nigam and Shobha Nigam, both singers by profession. This Kayastha family born 25-year-old damsel is blessed with not only a great voice but also in looks. Nikitha Nigam, popularly known as Teesha Nigam, did her silver screen debut by lending her voice in the film ‘Singh Saab The Great.’ Teesha is the younger sister of the musical magician Sonu Nigam, who use to accompany her father on stage when he was young. She also has a sister Meenal Nigam.

Nikita, with her mesmerizing voice, made her debut as a young kid by singing bhajan for a devotional album just like how her brother started his career. According to her, she can adapt to any music since she had been given a wide exposure to various styles right from her childhood.

Even though Teesha comes from a musical background ...

Priyanka Kothari is an Indian film actress, who has acted in multiple language movies like Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil. She is also known by her character’s name, Amoga, from her first film ‘Jay Jay’. She is the daughter of a chemical businessman and was born on 30th November 1983 in Varanasi and she aspired to become something in the chemical research field and earned a bachelor’s degree from Delhi University in Chemistry.

However, she started doing modelling after her college and appeared in some advertisements and video songs as well. It was actor Madhavan, who recommended her for auditioning for his next movie ‘Jay Jay’ after seeing her photos. It was in the year 2003 and &lsquo...

Being called as Aachi, Manorama is strongly seeded in the hearts of Tamil audiences. This talented lady has crossed many hurdles in her life and achieved a great success to retain her name and place in the cinema industry. She has appeared in almost all the Indian language films and gained goodwill too. Born as Gopishantha, she was renamed as Manorama to appear in theatres. She has crossed several stage dramas and films and has got a guiness record of acting in more than 1000 films. This wonderful lady has started her cinema career in Maalyitta Mangai. The only film she played as a heroine is Konjum Kumari in the year 1963. She was suggested for the role by Kavi Arasu Kannadasan.

Aachi Manorama is not only a talented actress; she is a wonderful dancer and a great singer ...

Anushka Shetty is the popular South Indian star who is very famous for her work in Arundhati, a Telugu movie. This film was dubbed in Tamil and made her more popular among the Tamil audience. Her first Tamil movie was Rendu with R. Madhavan. Anushka Shetty was not well known during the time of Rendu. It is only through Arundhati, she entered the hearts of the people. She masters all the roles given to her. She has paired with almost all the top stars of South Indian film industry right from Rajini Kanth. She paired Super Star in the film Linga and got a decent role in that film.

Her appearance in Thaandavam with Vikram was praised by many people, as she did a good role, leaving the heart hard at the end in the movie. She acted with Vikram in Deivathirumagal as an Advocat...

Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil and Telugu film industry with lots of fan following. Chand Sa Roshan Chehra was her first Hindi movie, in the year 2005. Her Telugu debut was Sri and the Tamil debut was Kedi. In Kedi, she did a negative role and the movie did not go well. It was also the debut movie for Ileana, the South Indian popular actress. Tamannaah Bhatia acted in Vyapari with director S.J.Suryah; but she did not get a good recognition. After she performed in Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori, she became notable. Her performance in that film was appreciated by everyone. Similarly, her Telugu film Happy Days was also a super hit and got her good name. Tamannaah Bhatia steadied her market by choosing good films.