Chithra Arun
Indu Nagaraj
Inchara Rao
Revathi Telugu
Leela Samson
Kharesma Ravichandran
Vani Harikrishna
Mohana Bhogaraju
Anuradha Bhat
Thamarai
Sukrithi Ambati
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
Shweta Mohan
Nabha Natesh
Kranthi Madhav
Geetha Madhuri
Chandrika
Aishwarya Rajesh
Heeba Patel
Shanvi Srivastava
Parvathy Nair
Parvathy Thiruvothu
Kriti Kharbanda
Nithya Menen
Mamta Mohandas
Amala Paul
Aparna Gopinath
Ann Augustine
Miya George
Madhoo
Jyothika Saravanan
Chinmayi Sripaada
Manju Warrier
Anushka Shetty
Tamannaah Bhatia
Shruti Haasan
Shreya Ghoshal
Neeti Mohan
Gautami Tadimalla
Namitha Pramod
Lena
Anusree Nair
Asha Sarath
Sudha Rani
Mayuri Kyatari
Parul Yadav
Nayanthara
Pavithra Lokesh
Avantika Shetty
Ramya Krishnan
Devadarshini Chetan
Radhika Sarathkumar
Pavana
Rafeeq Ahammed
Vidyasagar
BK Hari Narayanan
Shashank Purushotham
Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Shabareesh Varma
Yazin Nizar
Santhosh Venky
Sambhram V. Sridhar
Sri Mani
Ramajogayya Sastry
Sid Sriram
M L R Karthikeyan
Jassie Gift
V. K. Prakash
Ramakrishna
Kabilan
Nedumudi Venu
Jayant Kaikini
Arjun Janya
Rajesh Murugesan
Alphonse Puthren
Vignesh Shivan
Duniya Soori
Martin Prakkat
Madhan Karky
M Manikandan
Najim Arshad
Tovino Thomas
RS Vimal
Salim Ahamed
Anup Rubens
M. Jayachandran
V Harikrishna
Jeethu Joseph
Pawan Wadeyar
Mohan Raja
K M Chaitanya
Gopi Sundar
Anup Bhandari
Mani Ratnam
Krish
Koratala Siva
Bijibal Maniyil
Chandrabose
Anirudh Ravichander
Ananta Sriram
1. Chithra Arun
Chithra Arun is a Malayalam singer. She was born in Kerela and sang for numerous Mollywood movies and audio albums. Arun made her debut with the song Uyirin Varamaayi for the movie ‘Housefull.’ Nin Neermizhi for ‘Pakida,’ Violin Song for ‘Romeo & Juliets,’ Oru Makara Nilaavaay for ‘Rani Padmini,’ and Nee Swapnamaayi for ‘Sarvaadhipan’ are her some notable works. Arun was born to the Late ‘Mundoor Anupurath Bharatha Pisharody’ and ‘Meleettil Pisharath Malathi Pisharasiar.’ She has two children with ‘Pottayil Pisharath Arun.’
She has worked with eminent singers like ‘Vinod Menon,’ ‘Vidhu Prathap,’ ‘Sam Shiva,’ ‘ P Jayachandran,’ ‘Arun Gopan,’ &ls...
2. Indu Nagaraj
Indu Nagaraj is a Kannada playback singer who primarily works in the Kanada film industry. She has a successful singing career and had achieved a Filmfare Award for the song "Pyarge Aagbittaite" from the film Govindaya Namaha in 2012. She was born into a musical family at Chilkunda village in Mysore, Karnataka. She was trained in Carnatic classical music and Sugama Sangeetha music under her father since her childhood. In 2005, she performed and participated together in the singing reality show Ede Thumbi Haaduvenu hosted and judged by acclaimed singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. Both of the sisters together performed at various events and were recognized in the name "Chilkunda Sisters”.
She got her first offer to act in a Television series Minchu , which was directed by T. N. Seetharam. By seeing her singing sk...
3. Inchara Rao
Inchara Rao was born in a small town in Malenadu, Shimoga, India. She is an Indian singer. Inchara preferably works for the Kannada film industry as a playback singer. She started singing at a very young age. She stepped into the singing world through the reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Kannada season 1. She didn’t win the show but has been in the top three contestants of the show.
Nanna Stylu Berene was the first song, which has been sung by her in the movie Geleya. She has sung Ayomaya from the movie Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu. Inchara’s best work was in the song Kareyole from the film Rangitaranga. From this song, she got lots of awards like Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer in Kannada and SIIMA.
...4. Revathi Telugu
Asha Kelunni, better known by her stage name Revathi, was born on 8 July 1966, in Cochin, to Lalitha Kelunni and Malank Kelunni, an Indian Army major from Palakkad. She is an Indian actress and director who is mostly recognized for her work in Tamil cinema, as well as Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, and Kannada films. She participated in a fashion show when she was in school. A group shot taken during the performance was picked as the front cover of a well-known Tamil magazine. The director Bharathiraja, who was at the time looking for a new heroine for his most recent project, Mann Vasanai, just so happened to notice her picture. In 1983, Revathi made her acting debut in the Tamil movie Mann Vasanai.
She received a Filmfare Special Award - South for her performance in the silver jubilee hit movie. Later, in 1983, she made her Malaya...
5. Leela Samson
Leela Samson is an Indian classical dancer, author, actor, and a choreographer. She was born on May 6, 1951 at Coonoor taluk in Tamil Nadu.She is the daughter of Laila Samson and Vice-Admiral (Retd.) Benjamin Abraham Samson.
Leela's father was a Pune native and belonged to the community of Jewish Bene-Israelite while her mother's hometown was Ahmedabad. In 1939, Royal Indian Navy inducted Benjamin as the unit's lieutenant. Within twenty years, they promoted him to the post of the National Defence Academy's commandant.
Benjamin's sister Annie served as the Anjum-e-Islam Muslim school's principal for more than thirty years. When Leela turned nine, Benjamin admitted her to Rukmini Devi Arundale's traditional dance institution named Kalakshetra.
She pursued her graduate degree from Sophia...
6. Kharesma Ravichandran
Sixteen- year-old Kharesma is an Indian playback singer. She was born on 8th May, 2000 in London UK. She spent her early years in London. Since her childhood, she has had a keen interest in music and hence she honed her skills which ultimately opened the gates of Tamil music, industry in India . In British Heart Foundation she appeared for the first time. She sang we are one a song from the lion king musical. Her performance gained her much appreciation back in London, where she spent her childhood. Kharesma is a professionally trained singer. In 2011 Kharesma moved to India to learn Hindustani and karnataka music. In India, she learned the roots of Indian music and its essence. Indian classical music, which is known worldwide fascinated young Kharesma to endeavor her singing dream.
In 2014, she made her debut through a Tamil s...
7. Vani Harikrishna
Vani Harikrishna is Kannada playback singer, Vani won few awards from South Indian Film Industry for her works. Vani born in Bangalore. Harikrishna narrated several songs and had sung them. Vani composed songs before starting her career as a singer. Vani received a state reward from Kannada for singing the song Madhuvana Karedare from the cinema Inthi Nina Preethiya. Vani created a fame as screenplay director through the movie Loosegalu released in the year 2013. Vani started her career as a singer and composer in the year 2008 and active till now by releasing her albums in songs or cinemas. Vani belongs to a family of musicians. Harikrishna grandfather was a famous singer in Kannada Industry and even known as a composer.
Vani grandfather name is G.K.Venkatesh. About her personal life, Vani married to a musical composer V.Harik...
8. Mohana Bhogaraju
Mohana Bhogaraju is an Indian Playback Singer. She works in the Tollywood, Kollywood, and Sandalwood Film Industries. Mohana was born in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. Her family moved to Hyderabad after she was born. Mohana spent her childhood in Hyderabad. Mohana pursued her Bachelor’s degree from Bhojreddy Engineering College. She later pursued her Master of Business Administration Degree from Osmania University. Mohana was always fascinated with singing and music. She started learning music at a very young age of six. Her mother recognized her talent and encouraged her. She participated in many competitions in school.
She then got a chance to perform in Ravindra Bharati and Thyagaraja Ghana Sabha at a very young age. Mohana started her career as a Playback Singer in the Telugu Film Industry with the film Jai Sri Ram (2013), w...
9. Anuradha Bhat
Anuradha Bhat is a playback singer. She was born on 23rd of July in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. She was the daughter of Mrs. Gayathri Srikrishna, and Mr. Srikrishna Bhat. Her parents loved music. She has a sister, Anupama Bhat. She is a famous TV actor cum anchor. Coming to her studies, she completed her education from St Ann’s Girls High School, and Carmel English School.
She did her college from Canara College and joined MSNM Institute of PG Studies. She did MBA and B. Sc. Then, she placed in a renowned company in Bengaluru. However, she quit the job of MNC and tried to work on her music. She builds her knowledge on music. Apart from this, she had to train from Mrs. Kamala on Bharatanatyam. She did the course completely. She had training in singing, the vocal improvement from Late M Srinath Marathe.
In her chil...
10. Thamarai
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...
11. Sukrithi Ambati
Sukrithi was Born on 5 July, 1993, in Delhi. She is a South Indian Film Actress and made her debut in the movie into Tollywood Industry, Kerintha in 2015. Being a Telugu girl, Sukrithi Ambati was brought up in Delhi. She did her theater during her College days while pursuing her B.Tech in 3rd year from Banastahli University, Rajasthan. She did her schooling from Kulachi Hansraj school, Delhi. She was participating in the youth festival where theater called her up.
She got selected during a star hunt conducted by Sri Venkateswara Creations and was selected after auditioned at Hyderabad before cast into “Kerintha” which released in 2015. According to her, she was unaware about the precepts of the industry, being from a non-filmy background. She now fe...
12. Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, is a singer and a musician, specialized in playing a rare and a beautiful instrument, Gayatri Veena. She was born on 7th of October, 1981, with visual impairment. Gifted with a beautiful voice, but she was deprived of the pleasure of seeing the world. And that hasn't stopped her ever from reaching high and chasing her dreams. She won special jury mention for her very first song Katte Katte for the movie Celluloid. She learned about 100 ragas in just a year, all by herself from listening to them, and started making her compositions. Though all the great musicians of all times have said music requires having training from a knowledgeable teacher. But this lady, surprised everyone with her talent and lust for learning, all by herself by getting better and better. With...
13. Shweta Mohan
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...
14. Nabha Natesh
Nabha Natesh is a film actress from India. She predominantly acts in Kannada movies. Nabha was born in 1995 in Sringeri, situated in Karnataka. Nabha has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science from Mangalore, Karnataka. After finishing her studies, she started working as an IT Engineer. Later she went on to pursue her interest in acting and modelling. Nabha was among the top 11 contestants to make it to the Femina Miss India Bangalore in the year 2013.Before debuting in Sandalwood, Nabha had done theatre acting as well. She has taken formal acting lessons in Abhinaya Taranga. Her interest in acting and theatre led her to work closely with Prakash Belawadi. Due her dedication and passion for acting, she even went on to assist him in some plays. While being at the backstage of the plays, she ...
15. Kranthi Madhav
Kranthi Madhav is a film director who works in the Telugu film industry. In the initial days, Kranthi was not interested in making films. But during his Mass Communication’s Masters Course in Manipal University, he learned about the art of filmmaking. His professor A.F. Mathews taught him the art of filmmaking. After completing his studies, Kranthi left for Hyderabad. On reaching, he started trials but never worked under any other director. He was associated with 3-4 production houses, though. After narrating storylines to various actors, he thought of directing a film of his own.
This was when Onamalu occurred. Kranthi gets his inspiration from Guru Dutt, T.Krishna, and Balachander. He once said, ”Look around, the majority of the people fall in love, but not everybody enters wedlock with the person...
16. Geetha Madhuri
Geetha Madhuri is a well-known playback singer and is best known for her works in films like ‘Nachavule’ and ‘Golimaar’ for singing the songs like, ‘Ninne Ninne’ and ‘Magaallu.' She was born in August on 24th in the year 1989. She was born to parents Lakshmi and Prabhakar, in the Palakol area in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Her father, Mr. Prabhakar, was an official of the SBH and Geetha Madhuri was her parent’s one and only child. She did her higher secondary education from a school named Loyola in the area of Vanasthalipuram in the city of Hyderabad.
During her childhood, Geetha was given training in music and singing by her parents and was given the opportunity to train under great musicians of that time. For h...
17. Chandrika
Chandrika has been marking her presence in the Kannada film industry since her childhood. Chandrika received her first break in the movies from the south performing as a child artist in the film ‘Masanada Hoovu’ along with Ambarish. The director of her debut film was Puttana Kanagal. After that, she has carried on being a part of the cast in various films playing her part as a child. However, her initial venture in a lead role was in 1989 in the movie Thayigobba Tharle Maga being cast opposite Kashinath. With the assistance from Srinivasamurthy, she had received her first break and since then her career saw an upward journey. Thayigobba Tharle Maga was being accepted as a hit by the audience which led her to perform in films like Narasimha, two series of Radhakrishna Golmaal, Swarna Samsara...
18. Aishwarya Rajesh
Aishwarya Rajesh, commonly known as Iyshwarya, is an Indian actress who works in the Tamil film industry. She was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on 10th of January, 1990. She was born into a family that was famous and had its mark in the film industry for three generations.
Her father is a very well-known actor in Telugu movies, and his name is Rajesh. Aishwarya did her education in the field of commerce by completing her graduation from Ethiraj College for Women and received a degree of B.Com from there. She is a wonderful dancer and had participated in a dance reality show that airs in Kalaignar TV named Maanada Mayilada. Aishwarya not only participated in the third season of the show but also managed to outshine all other contestants and was declared the winner.
Her v...
19. Heeba Patel
Hebah Patel is a young and gorgeous actress, who was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra. This Mumbai-wala is a budding artiste in the South Indian Film Industry. At a young age of twenty-two, she has acted in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil films. Hebah made her debut when she was a twenty-year-old, through the Kannada movie, titled Adhyaksha. The film is the official remake of the Tamil blockbuster movie, Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam.
Hebah became a known face in Kollywood, after acting in the movie Thirumanam Enum Nikkah that released in the year 2014. She played the role of a Muslim girl named Naseema, which was a vital character in the movie. The movie had high expectations but failed to impress the audience. Patel then stepped into Tollywood, by making her debut through the movie, Ala Ela. She played a ...
20. Shanvi Srivastava
Shanvi Shrivastava, who recently turned 23 on 8th December, is an Indian actress and model. She started her career in South Indian films, and most of her works are in Tollywood. Entered film industry in just 2012, Shanvi has made her name in the industry already. She is considered as a ‘big asset’ for the movies. Even though she was just doing her graduation, she got a role in a movie in 2012 and later on continued with movies and did her studies side by side. Most of her works are in Tollywood. Personal Life: Shanvi is from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Her family includes her brother and sister, and she is the youngest one. Her elder sister, Vidisha Srivastava also belongs to the film industry and is a part of The South films. She has completed her graduation (B.Com) from Thakur College of Science ...
21. Parvathy Nair
A confident girl, who knew ever since she performed in a college play that she wanted to be an actress- Parvathy was born in a Malayali family in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is an Indian model and actor. She completed her secondary education in Abu Dhabi and resumed senior secondary education in Kerala, India. Parvathy graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Software Engineering and worked for a brief period before committing to the silver screen. Before taking onto acting as a full-time job, Parvathy ventured into modelling and bagged the titles of “Miss Karnataka” in 2009 and “Miss Navy Queen” in 2010.
She became the face of Mysore Sandal Soap and appeared in many commercials. Nair began her acting career with a debut in V.K. Prakash’s Poppins in 2012. Ever since then there has been no going back for this...
22. Parvathy Thiruvothu
Parvathi is an Indian actress and dubbing artist. Mainly, she is a Malayalam actress and has done a lot of Malayalam movies. She began her career as a Radio Programme Producer. She made her debut in the film industry with the movie, ‘Out Of Syllabus’. It was directed by renowned director Vishwanathan. He has given many great hits to the film industry. For many years, before she stepped in the film industry, she did a show on the radio where many celebrities were frequently interviewed. She is an actor, model, and an anchor as well. After doing the movie ‘Out Of Syllabus’, she did an ad film. After that, she was approached by Director Lijo Jose Pellissery for his next venture ‘Double Barrel’.
She had to work a lot for this film as ...
23. Kriti Kharbanda
Model-turned- actor Kriti Kharbanda is a popular actress in Sandalwood and Tollywood, who was born in New Delhi and brought up in Bangalore. She took active part in dramas and other cultural activities when she was in college, which gave her space in acting and even modeling. Even in her college days, she did take up assignments in advertisements. Her much popular advertisement in Fair & lovely caught the attention of an NRI director. Director Raj Pippala was in Chennai in search of a new face for his film “Boni”( Telugu film in 2009) and happened to see her face on the billboard. He contacted her through a mediator in Bengaluru and she had to go to an audition for the film. As many as 150 new faces had to contest for the heroine role, but luckily she was select...
24. Nithya Menen
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 ...
25. Mamta Mohandas
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....
26. Amala Paul
Amala Paul is the super talented star of South Indian film industry. She is the promising actress that had been critically acclaimed of her work. The south Indian beauty had many ups and downs in her career, but a star shines bright after midnight. She started off with a low budget film ‘Neelathamara’ in 2009 in which she played just a minimal role.
Later she signed a movie ‘Sindhu Samaveli’ in which her role became controversial and was criticized but this criticism was silenced by her next debut film ‘Mynaa’ a romantic film that made her realize as a promising actress in industry. The gorgeous actress made her way in the right direction and got acclamation.
Afterwards there was no stopping and one...
27. Aparna Gopinath
Peering through her professional looking glasses and with a no frills dress pattern, Aparna Gopinath hardly looks a typical Malayalam film actress. Perhaps her looks reveal her approach to movies and also her background. The main forte of Aparna has been her serious theatre acting and her specialising in western dance forms. Her entry into movies may, however, have happened due to a combination of circumstances. Both her parents were movie buffs, always discussing about films, and were very much infatuated with the screen exploits of the veteran matinee idols of Malayalam cinema like Mammooty and Mohanlal. While this may have indirectly coaxed Aparna into films, the fact that she herself was a theatre artist from her childhood days facilitated and expedited her entry into the world of movies. Being basically from Chenn...
28. Ann Augustine
Carrying the acting tradition in the family is nothing uncommon in the film industry, and so it was almost natural for Anate Augustine one of the current crop of promising Malayali actresses to have chosen an acting career following in the footsteps of her father Augustine, who himself had acted in more than 100 films in his lifetime. While entering films, however, she chose to abbreviate her name from Anate to ‘Ann’ and this change may have brought her luck as her current standing in the industry bears out, having been a recipient of so many awards right from her debut film in 2010. Like many others in the current generation of actor and actresses, Ann too comes with a solid educational background, having earlier studied in Calicut and Thiruvananthapuram, and then graduated in psychology from Bangalore. Wh...
29. Miya George
The young Indian model and South Indian actress Gimi George, who is widely known as Miya George, is a gift and promise for the Malayalam film industry. She was born on Jan 28th, 1992 in the busiest city in our country, Mumbai. Later she moved back to her native Kerala. She completed her schooling from Sacred Heart’s girl’s high school and St Mary’s higher secondary school, Bharananganam in Kottayam district. She did her BA at Alphonsa College and from Master in St Thomas College in Pala. Born as the second daughter of George and Mini, Miya George entered the industry through Television commercials (soap ads) and modeling projects. Later she acted in the television serial ‘Alphonsaamma’ which is screened in Asianet channel and also in Kunjaali M...
30. Madhoo
Madhoo is indeed a cute and bubbly actress, oozing with confidence in all her films. Who would forget Madhoo’s performance as a newly married woman who relentlessly strives for her husband’s release from the clutches of the Pakistanis in the Tamil film Roja? Madhoo became famous throughout India through this film of ace director Maniratnam. Born on 26th March 1972, Madhoo debuted in the film industry with the Malayalam movie Ottayal Pattalam. She shared screen space with Mukesh in the film. Later, she worked in the Tamil flick Azhagan which had distinguished artists as Mammootty and Bhanupriya. The 1991 Hindi flick Phool Aur Kaante was the debut flick of Ajay Devgan, and Madhoo forayed into the Hindi fraternity with that film.
This film was a box office success. The 1992 flick Roja made her a great success all...
31. Jyothika Saravanan
Jyothika is a highly famous Indian cinema artist. Though she belonged to Tamil Industry, her skill and talent have gone viral to Bollywood and Telugu movie industry as well at one point. She is a winner of one award from Filmfare and three awards from Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She has also received Kalaimamani award.
Jyothika started her career in Tamil industry with a movie called ‘Vaali’ in 1999. However, she got her first hit as a leading heroin through the movie ‘Kushi’. After this film, she had successful hits in a row. ‘Mugavaree’, ‘Dumm Dumm Dumm’ and ‘Snegithiye’ are few in that series. In most of her movies, she was never an arm candy who would just show up in songs, next to the hero. Her movies are all carefully chosen where her role is i...
32. Chinmayi Sripaada
33. Manju Warrier
Manju Warrier is a South-Indian film actress, born on November 1, 1978, in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, to an accountant father and a homemaker mother. She completed her schooling from Chinmaya Vidyalaya and further from Chovva Higher Secondary School, both situated at Kannur. She graduated from SN College, Kannur. Manju was only seventeen when she made her debut in the film industry with ‘Sakshyam’, a classic Malayalam drama directed by Mohan.At the age of eighteen, she worked in ‘Sallapam’, a love story by Sundar Das. In the first three years of her career, she was awarded for her work in four major films. First is with the film ‘Ee Puzhayum Kadannu’, a drama thriller starring Dileep in the lead role, won her the Kerala State Film Award, Filmfare, and the Scr...
34. Anushka Shetty
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...
35. Tamannaah Bhatia
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.
36. 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...
37. 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 ...
38. Neeti Mohan
Intro: Neeti Mohan appeared on Hindi television while performing as a competitive singer and soon she won the hearts of millions with her performances. Now she is a celebrity singer with huge success.
A beautiful diva with a golden voice is how one can introduce Neeti Mohan, the dazzling young star. She first appeared with her golden voice on television for the musical programme Popstars which was aired on Channel V in the year 2003. She won the show and along with other winners, created a musical group Asma. Under the auspicious guidance of Shankar Mahadevan, she also represented the team of Shankar’s Rockstars on the musical competitive show Music Ka Maha Muqabala. This show was aired on Star One in the year 2009. Since then, she is a regular member of A.R. Rehman live shows performing all over the world.
39. Gautami Tadimalla
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.
She was very much content to do all glamour roles mostly with Kamal Haasan. But she was equally at ease when she was paired with Sarath Kumar, Sathyaraj or Prabhu. She also was noted for her brilliant performance with Kamal Hassan in films like Devar Magan, Aboorva S...
40. Namitha Pramod
Namitha Pramod, born to Pramod and Indu on 19th September 1996 in Thiruvananthapuram is a Malayalam actress who rose to fame through television. She started her acting career when she was in her 7th grade by appearing in the very popular fictional Christian Devotional teleserial Velankanni Mathavu. She appeared as Mathavu in the serial and was accepted by the Malayalam television viewers. After that she played the role of goddess Devi in Amme Devi, portraying her character through her expressive eyes. She acted as Anjali in Ente Manasaputhri, a very popular serial in Asianet directed by Baiju Devaraj. She chose to play it safe as she did not overwork and put her education at stake.
She entered the big screen through the movie Traffic, a trend setter movie which revolved aroud the theme of orga...
41. Lena
Lena Abhilash is known for her character Jancy played in the hit mega serial Omanathinkalpakshi where she played along with the famous actress Sreevidya. She has won accolades for playing several characters in Television and Cinema. She won the Kerala State Film Awards in 2013 as Best Actress in supporting role for her roles in Left right Left and Kanyaka Talkies. She won the Filmfare Award and Amrita TV Award in 2011 as Second Best Actress Award for the movie Traffic.
She won the Kerala State TV Award in 2008 for Best Actress for her role in Aranazhika Neram telecasted on Amrita TV, and in the same year, she received Atlas Film Critics TV Award as Second Best Actress for her role in Chilluvilaku. She has been doing plays and films since her school days. Her first movie was Sneham direc...
42. Anusree Nair
Anusree is a leading Malayalam actress. She was born in the year 1990 and was brought up in the district of Kollam in Kerala. Anusree’s small family includes her father Muralidaran Nair, mother Sobana and older sibling Anup. Anusree started her career as a television star and later got many opportunities in the big screen. Anusree rose to fame after her stellar performance in the show Active Fair Big Break, telecasted by a leading Malayalam television channel. She eventually won the show and was offered an important role in the movie Diamond Necklace. Anusree’s performance in the show won the hearts of the audience and judges. Active Fair Big Break was a program where young ladies could showcase their acting and dancing skills.
43. Asha Sarath
Asha Sarath, famous for her role in 'Kumkumapoovu', is a Malayalam serial actress hails from Perumbavoor, Ernakulam. She was born in Perumbavoor as a daughter of famous classical dancer Smt. Kalamandalam Sumathy. At a very young age, Asha was bought into the field of classical dance by her parents. She got trained in all forms of classical dance including: Mohiniyattam, Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam as well. In college days, Asha always used to get prizes for her performances on classical dance. In 1992, she got first prize in All India Dance Fete held in Benares. She is married to Sarath a business entrepreneur in Dubai.
Asha Sarath acted in Tele-Serial 'Nizhalum Nilavum Parayunnathu' and bagged Kerala State Television Award for second best actress. She came to fame-dome on her role with ...
44. Sudha Rani
Sudha Rani is an Indian actress in Kannada movie industry. Sudharani was born to Nagalakshmi and Gopalakrishna. She started her modeling career in print ads at the age of 3.Her mother joined her in dance classes at age 5.Sudha Rani is a Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi dancer. Sudha Rani has featured in several critically acclaimed films in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. Films like Anand, Panchama Veda, Mysooru Mallige, Anuraga Sangama, Mannina Doniand, Sparsha etc. are some of her memorable films. She has twice won the Filmfare Awards and Karnataka State Film Awards for her performances in Kannada film industry.
Sudha Rani began her film career as a child artist in the film Kiladi Kittu in 1978.In 1989 she has acted in her first film which is Tamil and after a gap of three years she has made her debut in ...
45. Mayuri Kyatari
Mayuri catapulted to fame with her debut role in the famous serial Ashwini Nakshatra.In the serial she played the role of a beautician and she crosses the path of a super star played by Jayram Karthik. The stars of the show became famous overnight and Mayuri is no exception as she played the lead role of Ashwini in the serial.
The pretty actress is from Hubli and she got her break when she auditioned for a reality show in Dharwad. He actress who is a talented dancer was forced by her friends to audition for the show and hence got selected. She took part in the reality show SYE for five episodes before quitting pursuing her further studies. During the course of her studies she anchored a few shows as it gave her an opportunity to be independent.
After completing her graduation in commerce she was approached by the ...
46. Parul Yadav
Parul Yadav is a popular Kannada actress in both television and film. The model turned actress started her acting career in Bhagyavidhaata, a television series telecasted on Colors. In the year 2011, her acting performance in the Govindaya Namaha, a Kannada film that brought her to the limelight. She played the role of Mumtaz, a Muslim girl falling in love with Govinda played by Komal Kumar. For this very performance, she received SIIMA Best Debutant award as well as the Bangalore Times Best Newcomer Award. In addition to this, she was also nominated in the Best Female Actor category for the Udaya Awards. The song "Pyarge Aagbittaite" featuring her went viral on the internet sites and took her towards stardom. The young actress also received the 'Glamour Icon of the Year' award from the Suvarna TV channel.
She w...
47. Nayanthara
Nayantara also called as Nayanthara Kurian, is a renowned Indian actress from Kerala. She was born on 18th November in the year 1984 in Bangalore that is situated in Indian province Karnataka. Her actual name is ‘Diana Mariam Kurian’ the daughter of ‘Omana Kurian’ and ‘Kurian Kodiyatto’. Due to her father’s service, she stayed in several places of India. She joined in “Mar Thoma College” for attending her B.A in English Literature. Besides study she also initiated her modeling career.
As she was indifferent towards building her career in the film industry she denied her first offer, but at last she agreed to do the film ‘Manassinakkare’ where she was casted opposite Jayaram. This was a financially successf...
48. Pavithra Lokesh
Pavithra Lokesh is a popular South Indian Actress born on 19th February. She is the daughter of yesteryear actor Mysore Lokesh, who has acted in about 300 Kannada movies. She also has a brother named Adi Lokesh who has acted in several Kannada movies. She got married in 2008 to Suchendra Prasad.
The couple has a son named Viskrutha. She entered into movies at the age of 16. After her father had passed away, she was given the offer to act in a movie as a heroine, and she agreed. She did several other movies in the lead role which were not big hits and at some point of time she felt that acting was not her cup of tea and decided to focus on her studies. However, things changed when she got a small role in a movie which went on to be a block buster hit. Since then she has o...
49. Avantika Shetty
Avantika Shetty from Mumbai is an aspiring actress currently pursuing her studies. Having dabbled as a net jockey for Yahoo and amid doing a print ad and a Tamil commercial, she made her entry as an actress in a show titled Dharamveer for NDTV Imagine. True blue Mumbai lass, she feels there is no city like Mumbai. This is what she has to say about her dream of being on the silver screen: “While my parents are not supportive of my dream to make it as an actress, I know deep down they are praying for me to make it big.
Obviously their prayers are working for me as I got a chance to perform as a participant on Idea Bollywood Club. What&...
50. Ramya Krishnan
Ramya Krishnan is a South Indian movie and TV actress who has acted in more than 200 films. She has acted in the 5 big languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. She is a pro in the likes of classic dances, Bharathanatiyam and Kuchipudi, and has performed worldwide as well. She was born in Chennai to Telugu parents, who speak fluent Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She is the niece of Cho Ramasamy, an actor and a leading politician. She is married to Krishna Vemsi, a Telugu director, and has a son named Ritwik.
Ramya Krishnan started to act in movies in a lead role when she was only 13. She starred opposite Y. G. Mahendran in ‘Vellai Manasu’. Since then, Ramya Krishnan started acting her best in every character possible. Her pinnacle was the Rajnikanth starrer, ‘Padaiyappa’, ...
51. Devadarshini Chetan
Devadarshini is a Tamil TV serial actor who first made her debut in the year 1998 and is now married to fellow serial actor Chetan with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter, Niyati. She has played several supporting roles in more than 50 films and has appeared in around 20 TV serials. She got her first break through the series ‘Marmadesam’ where she acted along with Chetan. She has also played several pivotal roles in cult serials like Annamalai, Kolangal, Athi Pookkal, Poovilangu among many others. She is widely known for her comedy and sentimental roles in several movies in the first decade of the 21st century.
Her first movie was Kaakha Kaakha where she played a supportive role and continued to act in many other movies like Kadhal Kirukkan...
52. Radhika Sarathkumar
Radhika is a famous actress in multiple of languages like Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi. She did her education in different places like Sri Lanka, India, and the United Kingdom. She was born in India. Her father is a famous Tamil comedian actor, M. R. Radha, and her mother is Geetha Radha. She has married with Sarathkumar at Chennai. She has a son and a daughter.
After a successful stint on the big screen for about 15 year, in which she acted as the leading actress, Radhika started working on her small screen career as a producer. In 1994, she started a TV film production under her own banner, Radaan Mediaworks, in which she produced several TV serials hits, and also played a leading role in those serials. Her first TV serial was “Chitti”, which has 467 episodes. For her performance a...
54. Rafeeq Ahammed
Rafeeq Ahammed was born on 17 December 1961 at Akkikavu, Trichur, Kerala, to Syed Sajjad Hussain and Thithayikutty. Rafeeq is a Malayalam poet, lyricist, and novelist. He has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for his Poetic work, Aalmara, and is a Five-time winner of the Kerala State Film Award for Best lyrics.
Rafeeqis considered as one of the finest and successful Malayali artists, with more than 600 songs in his credit for about 400 Malayali films.
He graduated in English literature from Sree Krishna College, Guruvayur. Rafeeq married Laila, and today, he is blessed with two children, Maneesh and Lasya. His first work as a lyricist was in 1999, in the film Garshom, directed by P.T. Kunju Muhammed. After the success of his first film as a lyricist, there was no looking back for him.
His second work ...
55. Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar is an Indian Playback Singer, Composer, Music Director, Record producer Music director, Arranger, Keyboardist, and Keyboard Programmer with a melodious voice. The particular contributions of the talented Singer and music Editor came in the south Indian movies. He has the unique ability to play all kinds of instruments, particularly Keyboard, piano, guitar, vocal. He has worked dominantly in the Indian Film industry and keeps coming up with some gratifying work. Vidyasagar was born in a Telugu musical family, as the son of a self-led musician and music composer Ramachander, and Sooryakantham. He is also known as "Gaanaa" Vidyasagar, and he is an Indian composer, musician, and singer who is best known for his super hit blockbuster songs. He works predominantly in the Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hin...
56. BK Hari Narayanan
Hari Narayanan is a Tamil and a Malayali song lyricist. It is hard to find a native Malayali who has never heard any music composition or song made by this famous lyricist. They are very fond of his music and almost hear him regularly. The most popular and famous Malayalam music and song of 2014 was composed and written by Hari. The name of the song was Olenjali Curuvi. The lyrics of the song were so touching and soothing that it captured the attention of not only the young generation, but also the old people couldn’t resist themselves from loving this composition. Even the song Kaatumooliyo Pranayam was a great hit.
But this song was restricted to youngsters and teenagers only. His lyrics are a great hit always. The year 2015 saw great success in his career. His songs filled the TV station telecasts, radio stations, thea...
57. Shashank Purushotham
Shashank Purushotham is an excellent director, actor, lighting designer, trainer, voice-over artist as well as a make-up artist. He was a dental surgeon before coming into the film industry. He is the president of BLT; Bangalore Little Theatre. He took birth in Mumbai, Maharashtra. His schooling was done at the National Public School. His journey to go in the film industry began when he got a role in a play at his school, which brought interest in him. Later on, he ran away from his home at 14 to become a big star but soon returned home. Shashank Purushotham got his first break in BLT; Bangalore Little Theatre in the year 2006, where he performed as 10,000 years old man, who belongs to Dwaparayuga in the play of Kurukshetra Burning.
For Shashank, it was hard to maintain the appearance of an old man, and as a result, he was not ...
58. Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry is an Indian Lyricist and Poet. He works in the Telugu Film Industry as a Lyricist. His actual name is Chembolu Seetharama Sastry. Sastry was born on the 20th of May in the year 1955. He was born in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh. He is currently staying in Hyderabad, Telangana. Seetharama Sastry had his debut with writing songs for the legendary director K. Vishwanath.
His first song was for the film “Janani Janmabhoomi” (1984). He wrote songs for the film “Sirivennela” (1986). The songs were loved by the audience. That is the reason he got renamed from Chembolu Seetharama Sastry to Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry. Some of his famous works are “Lasku Labo,” “Yennadu Vidiponi,” “Love Me,” “O Chilaka,” “Nee Kosam,” “...
59. Shabareesh Varma
Shabareesh Varma is an Indian Lyricist, Sound Engineer, Actor and Playback Singer. He primarily appears in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films. Varma is popular for his rendition of Pistah song in the movie Neram (2013). He also acted in Blockbuster movie Premam (2015). His lyrics in Premam are also famous. Varma was born on 23 August 1985 in North Paravur in Kochi, Kerala. His father P.K. Nandana Varma is a writer and mother Sulekha Varma is a Carnatic singer. That is why he grew up in a cultural environment in his childhood. He completed his 12th from Samooham High School.
After that, Varma joined M.E.S College in Marampally to study B. Com in Accounts. He was very active in extra-curricular activities in his school and college days. His passion about films driven his talent to the full potential. He participated in poetry reci...
60. Yazin Nizar
Yazin Nizar is a prominent name in the South Indian Music industry. He is an excellent Playback singer singing in various language movies which include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies.
He is known for his melodious voice and specializes in various genres such as Classical, Sufi, Ghazal, Rock, Pop and many others. This talented singer was born on 9 February 1990 in the beautiful city of Kollam in Kerala. His passion and interest for music were spotted by his father, and he quickly enrolled his son for Indian classical music lessons. He age was eight at that time.
He slowly emerged as a talented and good singer winning music competitions at school and various events. After completing his schooling, he completed his MBA in Fi...
61. Santhosh Venky
Santhosh Venky is an Indian playback singer who has worked in various Tamil and Kannadian movies and albums. He was born in Bangalore, India. Santhosh Venky started his career in the year 2011 in the film Krishnan Marriage Story. He has been felicitated with several awards such as Karnataka State Film Award in 2015 for Sundarangiye of the film Preethiyalli Sahaja, Filmfare award in 2015 for Raja Raniyanthe of Rhaatee, SIIMA awards in 2015 for Raja Raniyanthe of Rhaatee, Mirchi Awards for Raja Raniyanthe in 2015, and SIIMA awards in 2018 for Salaam Rocky bha of KGF Chapter 1.
Santhosh has worked in 100s of films in his career such as Roberrt, Local Train, Ityartha, Nanna Guri Warrant, Odeya (film), Kiru Minkanaja, Chaya, Summer holidays, Janumada jaathre, Gulal.com, Nimmuru, Andavaada, Vaaruni, Girmit, Bharaate, Kiss, Adyaksha i...
62. Sambhram V. Sridhar
Sambharam V Sridhar is an Indian music composer who works in the Kannada film industry. Sridhar hails from Bengaluru. He attended lectures at SJR College, Bengaluru. 1620 people follow his Facebook account where they get latest updates of Sridhar’s projects. Sridhar got his first Sandalwood chance when the producers zeroed in on him for Mussanje Maathu which released in 2008. Although Sridhar was a newcomer at the time, famous Bollywood vocalists such as Sonu Nigam, Kunal Ganjawala, Udit Narayan, and Shreya Ghoshal lent their voices to the songs for Mussanje Maathu.
In fact, people loved its soundtrack. At the 56th Filmfare Awards (South) ceremony, Sridhar also got a nomination as well. His next project Dubai Babu had Kumar Sanu for the track Pe Pe...
63. Sri Mani
Sri Mani, an Indian Lyricist is known for his unique style. He mostly writes lyrics for the Telugu Film Industry, and has won many music awards for his unique work. He was born in Nandigama situated in the Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, India. He started his work in the year 2011 and is currently on a roll. In his early life, his parents died, and he was living with his grandparents since then. When he was eight, he dabbled into writing short stories and essays. During his graduation, his grandfather died. He dropped out of college and started looking for a job. He went to Hyderabad, and there Mr. Sukumar offered him a job of a lyricist. He then wrote the lyrics of his first film, '100% love' and received a lot of appreciation for it. Afterward, he started writing more songs, and people started recognizing him.
Sri ...
64. Ramajogayya Sastry
Ramajogayya Sastry was born on August 24, 1970 in the small village called Arepalli Muppalla, Ipur Mandal which is near Narasaraopet of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh to parents Suryaprakasa Rao and Saraswatamma in an agricultural family. His father was a priest and an agriculturist by profession. His mother is a home-maker. He was the only child of his parents. He is a Computer Science Engineer who persuaded his B.Tech from NIT Warangal and his Master’s degree in M.Tech at IIT Kharagpur.
During his under graduation, he was very much passionate about writing and he involved into writing lyrics. He was very much interested in writing irrespective of his education which had nothing to do with his passion. Even though, he did not have any connec...
65. Sid Sriram
Indian-American playback singer and music producer Sid Sriram was born 19 May 1990 in Chennai. He spent his childhood in Fremont, California. Sid graduated from Mission San Jose High School. After that, he admitted in the Berklee College of Music and completed his graduation in Music Production and Engineering. He is famous for his musical collaboration with A. R. Rehman and Bharata Natyam dancer, Pallavi Sriram (sister).
He started playback singing with the song ‘Adiye' for the movie Kadal (2013). He gained popularity with this song in India. He sang beautiful songs including Thalli Pogathey, Maru Vaarthai Pesathe, Undiporaadhey, Adiga Adiga, Inkem Inkem Inkem Kaavaale, High On Love. He named Filmfare award for Best Playback singer for music track Ennodu Nee Irunthaal for the film I (2015).
...66. M L R Karthikeyan
MLR Karthikeyan is no longer a budding singer in South Indian movies. He started his journey at the age of 14 by singing in school competitions and went on to become a part of many inter-school competitions. He also completed his BSC degree in Mathematics and Masters of Computer Application from Madras University.
He is the discovery of music composer Devi Sri Prasad (DSP) who gave him first break in the film ‘Aaru’ for the peppy number ‘Freeya Vudu’ which was a group song sung by other singers too - Mukesh, Karthikeyan, Vadivelu, Jassie Gift, Grace Karunas.
After this song, he had no looking back. He started off pretty early as a singer in his life and he is still going so strong. To be able to do that retaining his individuality as singers and ensuri...
67. Jassie Gift
Jassie Gift is a music composer and singer who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He predominantly works for Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil movies and is currently, based in Bengaluru.
Born in a Christian family in Trivandrum, the singer had a passion for music since the beginning. He played the western piano and started playing the keyboard for local bands at a young age. He was influenced a lot by western music.
Later, he evolved as a singer and keyboard player for a local group Moby Dick. His favorite music composers are Freddie Mercury and Ilaiyaraaja. Although he was a gifted singer and keyboard player, he came to learn more about music from music director Jayaraj.
Even before entering the film industry, he composed for an album in Malayalam called ‘Soona Soona’; which became a m...
68. V. K. Prakash
V K Prakash is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Praana (2019), Careful (2017), Nirnnayakam (2015), Natoli Oru Cheriya Meenalla (2013), Trivandrum Lodge (2012), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in Malayali short films, documentaries, TV shows, and Kollywood movies, Prakash has been a prominent part of the South Indian film and music industry for more than five years now. Over the years, he has been admired by the local critics and spectators on numerous occasions for his exceptional performances and albums as a film director.
The year 2014 was a crucial one for Prakash as he made her first portentous contribution on the silver screen with the film Punaradhivasam (2000), produced by NP Prakash, starring Nandita Das and Manoj K Jayan in lead roles. Si...
69. Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna was a Telugu movie actor, born on 15th October 1939 in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh. Initially, Ramakrishna was a stage actor. He was married to a lady in his hometown and had a daughter with her. In the 1950s, he moved to Madras to pursue his career in acting. His sincere efforts brought a good result, and he was offered to play on the film Nithya Kalyanam Pachathoranam in 1960. Following the success of the film, he did Rama Sundari in the same year. In 1961, he played in Kanna koduku and Pelli Kaani Pillalu. After Daksha Yagnam and Bangaru Timmaraju, he played in the film Thodu Needa, in which he shared the screen space with Geetanjali, whom he married after a few years.
In 1965, he shared the screen space with L Vijayalakshmi in Akasha Ramanna. Hantakulostunnaru Jagrattha, Chadarangam, Upayamlo Apayam, Rajayog...
70. Kabilan
Kabilan was born on 16th May 1977 in Pondicherry, India. He is an Indian lyricist in film and television industry, actor, and poet. Kabilan currently resides in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. He acted in the movie Dasavathaaram and enacted as Assistant to Vincent Poovaragavan in the year 2008. He wrote scripts for different television shows like starting in the year 2003 in Sorgam. In the year 2004, he did for Kanavarukkaga.
Then in the year 2005, Kabilan wrote for Nimmathi. Later in the next two years in 2006 and 2007, he wrote for Kasthuri Akka and Thangai. In the year 2009, he worked for Mahalakshmi. He worked in more than fifty films as a lyricist like Dhill, Narasimha, Alli Thandha Vaanam, Thavasi, Pammal K. Sambandam, Aahaa Ethanai Azhagu, Eera Nilam, Boys, Success, Alai, Thathi Thavadhu Manasu, Anbe UN Vasam, M. Kumaran S/O ...
71. Nedumudi Venu
Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is commonly known as Kesavan Venu Gopal. His parents are PK Kesavan Nair and Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi Alappuzha in Kerala. He had four siblings, all brothers. His father was a schoolmaster. Nedumudi completed his primary education at NSS Higher Secondary School and St Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam. During school days, he was interested in music and arts.
He graduated from Sanatana Dharma College in Alappuzha. After graduation, he started his career as a journalist and also worked as a teacher in a tutorial institute. While staying in Trivandrum, he became friends with Padmarajan, Bharath Gopi, Aravindan which made him expose his talent and enter into the domain of movies. In his married life with TR Sushil...
72. Jayant Kaikini
Born on January-24-1955 in Gokarna, Mysore, Jayant Kaikini is an eminent Kannada poet and songwriter. He has also penned down several short stories. His father, Gourish Kaikiki, was a teacher, and his mother, Shanta, a philanthropist. Jayant had a Masters degree in biochemistry and completed his post-graduation from Karnataka University in Dharwad in Karnataka. He then migrated to Mumbai and started working as a chemist in Procter and Gamble. Jayant speaks other languages also including Konkani, Marathi, English and Hindi.
He left no trace of having been a precocious writer and issued his first poetry book, Rangadindostu Doora when he was eighteen. In 1974, he received his first Sahitya Akademi award when he was just nineteen years old. Jayant then went ahead to write several poetry books including Kotithirtha,...
73. Arjun Janya
Arjun Janya is an Indian singer and music composer. In 2006, he made his debut in the industry with Kannada movie Autograph Please starring Dilip Raj and Sanjjanaa. In the south film industry, he is a score director and composer of high demand. The movies for which he composes music have done well on box-office in past. He is known for music in Sanchari and Singam. He was born on May 13, 1980, in Bengaluru, Karnataka to Anusuya and Ashwath Kumar. He learnt music from James and thinks of AR Rahman as his inspiration. It is said that a meeting between him and AR Rahman changed him and converted him into what he is today.
He played keyboard in the background for about thirty films. He started his career with being an assistant to composers K. Kalyan and V. Manohar. His music first became a hit with the film Biruga...
74. Rajesh Murugesan
The youth of today is certainly making a difference. They are making their presence count in every field. The energy and the freshness they display is certainly new and accepted by everyone. One of the people from this youth regime is Rajesh Murugesan. He was born on 14th May 1988. The 27 years old boy is talented enough to mesmerize you. He is one of the youngest music composers we have in India. He is well versed in Indian classical music. He found a passion for music in his early days. He finds himself lucky that he could find his passion at such an early age. He mostly composes songs in Malayalam Film Industry.
He has worked in many regional movies as a music composer but predominantly seen working in the Malayalam Industry. His parents are Tamil, and they come from ...
75. Alphonse Puthren
Alphonse Puthren is a versatile Indian director, actor, producer, playback singer, screenwriter and editor. He was born on 10 February 1984 in Aluva, Kerala to Puthren Paul and Daisy Chacko. He completed his schooling from Amrita Vidyalayam in Kochi and his graduation from M.E.S. College in Aluva with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Applications.
He later joined the S.A.E. College in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, where he received his diploma in filmmaking. His earliest works were short films “Arkan” and “Sutrum Vizhi” which he shot during his college years. On the big screen, he made his directorial debut with the black comedy and thriller “Neram” (2013), starring Nivin Pauly and Nazriya Nazim.
He wrote and edited its script as well, which narrates the story an unemployed engineer who e...
76. Vignesh Shivan
People say that everybody is talented, but most of the people never actually open up their package. But what if a person does not limit himself in one package? What if he has many packages to offer? Yes, you all heard that right. Vignesh Shivan is a very young lad to achieve such huge milestones that most of could have only dreamt about. Shivan is a film director, -but the list of his talent is endless. He is a versatile actor, songwriter, a music composer,and a scriptwriter as well. I know it is very hard to believe, but this multi-talented kid has taken it all, beginning with the love from his audition to an unquestionable pool of talent.
Vignesh was born on 18 September 1985 in Tamil Nadu, Chennai. Vignesh was brought up as a child of two respected police officers of their town. His father is no more, but he served as a supe...
77. Duniya Soori
Duniya Soori is and Indian director who works in mainly Kannada movies. He was born and brought up in Banglore, Karnataka. In his early childhood, he started his own signboard business in paintings, artifacts, etc. Soori has done bachelors in Visual Arts. He got married and has a son named Pruthv.
Duniya Soori is popularly known as the Raw Director. Right from his youth, he had a great interest in filming and cinematography. At college, he was extremely good at his assignments and works. The probable reason for this is his passion for the same. Before beginning his career in movies, Soori has done some works for Tv, documentaries, and advertisements. His debut movie “Duniya” was a hit. All other works, whether successful at the box office or not, were critica...
78. Martin Prakkat
Martin Prakkat is a movie director who works in the Malayalam movie industry. He is also a producer, writer, and photographer. Martin went to Changanassery SB College. It was here at Changanassery that he started doing theater. He won the Best Actor Award several times in his college dramatics fest. After college, Martin took up photography and worked with the Vanitha Publications, a sister publication of the magazine Manorama, for ten years. He got into photography as a means to enter the films. After his stint at photography, he started writing scripts with Byju Chandran, his college friend. He was spotted by South superstar Mammootty, with whom Martin did his first film. He has directed three movies in a short span of time. Martin made his directorial debut with the movieBest Actor, which released in 2010. The movie...
79. Madhan Karky
Madhan Karky Vairamuthu was born on March 10, 1980. He lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his education from College of Engineering, Guindy and University of Queensland. He is an Indian lyricist, software engineer, a professor, research associate, and a film dialogue writer. His parents are Vairamuthu and Ponmani; his father is a poet and a lyricist.
He is their eldest son. In 2001 at the college of engineering, Guindy he completed his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Further in the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia he completed his Post Graduation and Ph.D. in information technology in 2004. In 2010 he became a lyricist for the science fiction film Enthiran. For this film, he wrote the song "Irumbile Oru Irudhaiyam." He also assisted the director S. Shankar in w...
80. M Manikandan
M Manikandan was born in a small town named Usilampatti in Madurai District, Tamil Nadu in India. He is a screenwriter, cinematographer and film director. His career began in Tamil Film Industry as an assistant cinematographer. He was born in a police family. Due to his father’s transfer, he (did his schooling in different towns). He graduated with a diploma degree in automobile engineering. He was fond of photography, and he worked as a wedding photographer. He was a different personality, and (he also did odd jobs such as) created identity cards for college and school children. Later he confessed that he did these jobs to earn money to study a course at Mindscreen Film Institute in digital photography. The film institute was run by Rajiv Menon, popular director, and cinematographer.
Manikandan started w...
81. Najim Arshad
Born on 8th June, 1986 to parents Thirumala Shahul and Rehma in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Najim Arshad is a famous Indian playback singer working in Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil film industries. His father is a retired administrative officer from Vigilance Department while his mother is a music teacher. He has two brothers one is a doctor, and the other is an engineer. He feels proud to say that both of them are musicians too. He has been undergoing training in Carnatic music vocal under Gurunathan Sri H. Raja in S.S.T College of Music since 1995 and in violin by Sri Rathinam and Sri Kadanad Haridas.
Najim rose to fame after winning the 2nd season of Idea Star Singer 2007. He debuted as a playback singer in 2007 in Mission 90 Days which is a Malayalam film. He is known for his collaboration with all music ...
82. Tovino Thomas
Tovino Thomas is a well-known face in the Malayalam Film Industry. He is an eminent model and actor in Mollywood. He has a huge female fan following owing to his muscular physique and smart personality. He was voted as the most desirable man in the newspaper Kochi Times, a subset of the Times of India. He was born into a Roman Catholic family in Irinjalakuda, Kerala. His father, Ellikal Thomas, is an advocate, and he has an elder brother, Tingston, and a sister, Dhanya. Tovino studied in Irinjalakuda at the Don Bosco High School and then moved to Coimbatore to finish his college. He obtained his graduation degree in engineering, majoring in the field of electronics in Coimbatore from the Tamil Nadu College of Engineering. After finishing college, he started working as a software engineer at...
83. RS Vimal
R.S. Vimal is a filmmaker of Malayalam cinema by profession. He is new to the entertainment industry and has made the debut of his career with the 2015 romantic thriller Ennu Ninte Moideen in which he played the direction part. The movie got the declaration of a blockbuster hit at the box-office. The film was based on the real-life tragic love story of a Muslim boy Moideen and a Hindu girl Kanchanamala. This story took place in the era of 1960s and 70s in Mukkam town of Kerela.
Before making his directorial venture for this film he got involved in making the same subject documentary titled as Mukkam. His second movie Karnan is in Malayalam language and his directorial venture is set to be released in 2016. It is based on Mahabharata, an epic from the his...
84. Salim Ahamed
A multi-tasker who has mastered the roles of a director, screenwriter and producer. Born with the zeal to be a director, decided to become a travel consultant since he believed that being a director someday would be worse than impossible. However, unable to rid away with his passion for filmmaking, he decided to pursue courses in the School of Drama, Thrissur, Kerala. After having nurtured and moulded himself, he went on to work as a Creative Director and a Scriptwriter for Surya TV. His show Rasikaraja No:1 gained a great amount of TRP, thereby labelling it a hit in his career.
After this, he caught himself a break as an assistant director for the film, Saphalyam. Having worked as a scriptwriter for both TV shows and certain films, he saved every penny he could pocket to bring about the biggest break he couldn’t fathom. ...
85. Anup Rubens
Anup Rubens is a music composer in Telugu movies. He began his career with the film ‘Jai’ which released in 2004, and it was dubbed in Tamil too as ‘Jairam’. This film's music was a hit; songs like ‘Desam Manade’ went on to become chartbusters. His next film ‘Gowtam SSC’ had released in 2005. Though, in between 2005 to 2010, he has composed music for films like ‘Drona’, ‘Hosefull’, Veedhi’, ‘Naa Style A Veru’, etc., the songs did not create much impact. Later, he was associated with many movies of Puri Jagannadh and inched a carve for himself as an established music director.
Anup Ruben’s first association with Puri Jagannadh was for film ‘Nenu Naa Rakshasi’ (2011). The audio of the ...
86. M. Jayachandran
M Jayachandran is an Indian musician, music composer, and singer; he works in Malayalam Film Industry. Jayachandran was born on 5th April 1971 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His parents are Madhusudhanan Nair and Sukumari Amma. He took his Electrical Engineering degree from TKM College of Engineering. On 12th November 1995, he got married to Priya. At the age of 5, he started his training in the Carnatic music from Attingal Harihara Iyer and then under Perumbavoor G Raveendranath.
Then for 18 years he studied the music under Neyyattinkara Mohanchandran. He has won the Carnatic vocal competition for four consecutive years from 1987 at the Kerala University Youth Festival. He made his debut as a playback singer in the movie ‘Vasudha’ released i...
87. V Harikrishna
V. Harikrishna is an Indian movie background score and soundtrack author, playback vocalist and also a movie producer. He has primarily produced background score for many Kannada movies. After his job as a software engineer and associate music artist, he made his entrance as a free music director in the movie Jothe Jotheyali, which starred the famous actor Darshan and was released in the year 2006. From that point onwards, he has been making music for many of Darshan's movies.
Harikrishna also owns a music company "D-Beats" which was established in the year 2013. And the first film to be produced by the company was the movie Bulbul, which was released in the year 2013. He has won three back to back Filmfare Awards for Best Music for his music producti...
88. Jeethu Joseph
Jeethu Joseph is a Malayalam film screenwriter and director. He was born on 10th November 1972 in a politically based family where his father was an MLA of’ Muvattupuzha’. He always wanted to be in entertainment, but his father forced him to become an engineer. He later joined Nirmala College in Muvattupuzha to study economics. Jeethu began his career under the director ‘Jayaraj’ as an assistant. He worked under him for the Malayalam film ‘Bheebhatsam’.
Later he individually started directing a film but eventually it did not work out, and he was back on the starting line. In the meantime he urbanized single line plot of ‘Detective’ but he couldn’t find any producer, so his mother sponsored him with th...
89. Pawan Wadeyar
Sachet Engineer is a young exemplary artist. He is an upcoming actor from Bollywood. Sachet’s native place is Bhubaneshwar, in Odisha state and he is presently living in Mumbai. He is also actively involved in swimming and is born to a family of sports people. His grandfather, Ishwar Girdharlal Engineer, is a champion in the game of water polo. From a very young age, Sachet has been practicing swimming and has won several prizes for it as well. He has been an active member of the Otters Club, a top ranking institution, located in Bandra, Mumbai, which is exclusively for sports. This champion got his first victory in this sport at the age of five. Since then there has been no turning back for him. He participated in the Amateur Aquatic Association Championship in the year 2009, which was organized by t...
90. Mohan Raja
Mohan Raja is an Indian movie director. He has fundamentally worked and is known for his work in the Tamil movie industry. Starting in the year 2015, he has coordinated with eight movies. In those movies, only one was a remake. After marking his entrance into the Telugu movie industry with the movie Hanuman Junction, in the year 2001, he went ahead to remake a few fruitful Telugu movies into Tamil. He started with the movie ‘Jayam’, in the year 2003, which likewise dispatched his sibling, Ravi, as the main performing actor.
Raja then worked together with Ravi for three back to back financially effective movies. The movies were M. Kumaran in the year 2004, the movie, Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum, which was released in 2006, and the movie Santosh Subr...
91. K M Chaitanya
K.M. Chaitanya is a theater actor, director and documentary maker in Kannada languages. He made his debut as a director with the movie, Aa Dinagalu. Aa Dinagalu received many awards at different functions including Best Feature Film and Best Director Award at Filmfare Awards South in the year 2007. His next movies as a director include Suryakanthi, which was released in 2009 and Paraari, released in 2013. He also has a degree in Journalism. Also, he has worked on CNN's show CNN dot com as a Bangalore correspondent.
He worked as an Associate Director of Girish Karnad. His debut movie, Aa Dinagalu was released in 2007 in the Kannada language that marked his splendid debut. The film starred Girish Karnard, Veda Sastry, Chethan Kumar, Vinaya Prasad, Ashish Vidyarthi, Atul Kulkarni and Sharath. The movie was written by Agni Srid...
92. Gopi Sundar
The precious icon of the Indian music industry, Gopi Sundar has composed his soulful music for more than fifty movies to date. In 2014, he composed the songs & background score for the Malayalam movie "1983" and was awarded the National Award.the movie got a good critic rating of 3.5 out of 5.abrid shine, the debut director of the movie was awarded the Kerala State Awards in the category of the best debut director. Alongside the film bagged two more awards for the category of best & second best actor in the same award ceremony of 2014. He was born in Kochi & opted for joining the music industry for his career. Gopi has a good knowledge of instruments like Tabla & keyboard & has worked as a keyboard programmer in some of Bollywood hit films.
93. Anup Bhandari
Anup is one of the most talented people that we can count in the Kannada cinema. He has commendable skills in almost all branches and processes of filmmaking. Apart from writing and direction of music, Anup is also a lyricist and a singer. Not just this, he is also a wonderful film director.
Anup was born in the city of Mangaluru. He moved out of his birthplace and gained his education in the city of Mysore. Anup was initially interested in doing Software Engineering. During his education at the college, he kept making short films for the various competitions that were held in the college and outside of it.
Before Anup stepped into real-time filmmaking he also had some work experience in the United States of America. Anup ...
94. Mani Ratnam
Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker deeply rooted to mainstream Indian cinema. His all films have garnered commercial success. This great filmmaker successfully combined features of both art and commercial cinema, an early example of this was ‘Roja’( a love story that gets lost in country’s terrorism issues), which was both a commercial and critical success. It paved the way for a new wave in Indian cinema too. Man Ratnam became thus one of India’s most successful filmmakers, who also reflected the changing middle-class-ethos (Alaipayuthey).
He also built plots on revenge attitude in Thalapathi movie or even matched a suitable tale of a gangster lord in the slums of Bombay( Nayakan). Though he got noticed from ‘Mouna Rag...
95. Krish
Krish is an actor and a singer in the Indian film industry. He worked in many Tamil and Telugu movies. He was born on 12 September 1977 in Trichy, Tamil Nadu as Vijay Balakrishnan and later went to New York after his father’s posting. His father was a banker. He got married to Sangeetha who is an Indian actress on 1 February 2009. They married at Annamalaiyar Temple, Tiruvannamalai in a private ceremony.
He has a daughter named Shiviya who was born in December in 2012. In New York, he worked in the films “The Cosby Show” and “National Treasures: Book of Secrets” as an assistant. He did an acting course from New York Film Academy. He also gave a performance at Broadway in Aladdin which is a Walt Disney production. He then returned to Chennai where he took part in many stage shows an...
96. Koratala Siva
Koratala Siva is a screenwriter and film director from India. He works mainly in Tollywood. Koratala Siva has penned many scripts for films like Munna, Brindavanam, Oosaravelli, Okkadunadu and Bhadra. Apart from writing skills, Siva is also popular for his directorial skills. In 2013, he directed the action drama movie Mirchi in Telugu, and later in 2015, he directed the movie, Srimanthudu. Both fared well at the box office. For his movie Mirchi, the acclaimed singer, Kailash Kher won the Telugu Filmfare Award for the best playback Singer. Before his directorial debut in Mirchi, Koratala Siva pursued his graduation in engineering and often worked as an assistant to one of his relative, Posani Krishna Murali, who also happens to be a director.
Siva’s first exp...
97. Bijibal Maniyil
Bijibal Maniyil is an Indian composer and a singer born on 21 May 1973. Bijibal is not only a playback singer but also an expert Keyboardist. Bijibal field of interest includes film scores, classical and dance music. Bijibal is a very renowned composer and has won many prestigious awards including a National Film Award. Bijibal made his debut in the Malayalam film industry as a music director with the film Arabikatha in 2007. The film won him Mullassery Raju Music Award for the best music director in 2007. Some of the remarkable works of Bijibal includes Njaan, Balyakalasakhi, Kaliyachan, Salt N’ Pepper and Arabikatha. Bijibal won the Asiavision Movie Award for the Movie Salt N’ Pepper in 2011. Recently Bijibal is working on some movies My God, Salt Mango Tree, KL. 10 and much m...
98. Chandrabose
Born on 10th May in Andhra Pradesh, Chandrabose is a Tollywood lyricist and singer. He got a degree in Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad.
He started his career as a singer with Doordarshan but with no success after which he switched to being a lyricist. He was introduced to the director of the movie Gharana Alludu, Muppalaneni Shiva by his father’s close friend.
With some help from M.M. Sreelekha, a well- renowned music director, Chandrabose wrote his first movie song Manchu Kondalloni Chandramaa in 1995. He then went on to write music for many other movies such as Pellam Oorelithe (2003), Avunu Valliddaru Ishtapaddaru (2002), Budget Padmanabham (2001), Azaad (2000), Linga Babu Love Story (1...
99. Anirudh Ravichander
The name Anirudh does not need any introduction down South among the music lovers. With his boy next door looks, he can really amaze you by his skills when it comes to composing and singing. This music Rockstar will rule our playlists whenever his new album is released. He can make you go 'Gaga' right from the first time you hear his songs. His recent movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' has took the town by storm. This is not the first time he has done this. He did the same on his debut movie '3' (Three). He evolved as a star overnight after the music release of '3' and became the talk of the town. Indeed Kolaveri made him get famous worldwide and it got him more fans.
Anirudh is always good with experimental aspects in music. His movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' is the fir...
100. Ananta Sriram
Ananta Sriram, also known as Ananta Sriram Chegondi, was born on 8th April 1984 in the Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Sriram is an extremely popular song lyricist who prominently works in the Telugu film industry. He has also written the lyrics for various films which were re-made or re-dubbed into Telugu.
Ananta is the nephew of the famous politician -Chegondi Venkata Harirama Jogaiah. From his childhood, Ananta had a determination to do things the way he wanted them to be done. This included his education also. After his higher studies, like most of his classmates, he picked engineering as his future course of study, But by the third year of his engineering education, he realized that engineering was not what he wanted, and decided to quit studyi...