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1. Kharesma Ravichandran


k/h/a/r/e/s/kharesma-ravichandran.png 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...
Date of Birth: 08-05-2000
Age: 24
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 08-05-2000
Age: 24
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil

2. Vaikom Vijayalakshmi


vaikom-vijayalakshmi.png 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...
Date of Birth: 07-10-1981
Age: 43
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-10-1981
Age: 43
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer

3. Shakthisree Gopalan


shakthisree-gopalan.png Date of Birth: 25th October 1988 Shakthisree Gopalan is an Indian singer. She is also a lyricist and performer. Her genres are Soft Rock, Jazz, Western Classical Music and Pop. She was born and raised in Kochi, Kerala. She completed her schooling from Rajagiri Public School, Kalamassery. She completed her graduation in Architecture at the Anna University's School of Architecture...
Date of Birth: 25-10-1988
Age: 36
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 25-10-1988
Age: 36
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Singer

4. Indu Nagaraj


09-12-2016/indu-nagaraj.png 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...
Date of Birth: 22-04
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 22-04
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Kannada
Skills: Playback Singer

5. Inchara Rao


i/n/c/h/a/r/inchara-rao.png 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...
Gender: Female
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Gender: Female
Language: Kannada
Skills: Playback Singer

6. Ramya Behara


r/a/m/y/a/0/ramya-behara.png Ramya Behara who was born on 1 February in the year 1994 is a singer in Telugu industry. She was born in Narasaraopet, Guntur District, and Andhra Pradesh. She has sung for many Hindi films and mainly sings in regional films. One of the most popular sung by her was “Main Tujhse Pyaar Nahi Karti” in one of the most...
Date of Birth: 01-02-1994
Age: 30
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-02-1994
Age: 30
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Playback Singer

7. Priya Himesh


23-10-2019/priya-himesh.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 10-02-1985
Age: 39
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-02-1985
Age: 39
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Playback Singer

8. Satya Yamini


17-08-2022/satya-yamini.jpg Satya Yamini is a singer from Telangana, Hyderabad. Yamini works for Telugu movie Industry. She has also worked in the Hit Movie Bimbisara. Yamini had also worked in the famous Tollywood Movie Bahubali-The beginning. She has been honored as a Best playback singer and received the IIFA Utsavam Award. Some of her songs are Tum-Tum from Enemy, Jai Balayya from...
Date of Birth: 15-02-1995
Age: 29
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-02-1995
Age: 29
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Singer

9. Shashaa Tirupati


01-04-2019/shashaa-tirupati.png Shashaa Tirupati is a Indian playback singer and was born on 21st December 1987. She is also a lyricist and gives her voice. Her first song as an individual singer is “Vaada Vaada” from the Tamil movie Kochadaiiyaan, under the musical direction of AR Rahman, starring Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone But, this song did not get her talent noticed the...
Date of Birth: 21-12-1987
Age: 36
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-12-1987
Age: 36
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Playback Singer

10. Neeti Mohan


Neeti-Mohan.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 18-11-1979
Age: 45
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-11-1979
Age: 45
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: TV Actress

11. Shreya Ghoshal


s/h/r/e/y/a/shreya-ghoshal.png 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...
Date of Birth: 12-03-1984
Age: 40
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-03-1984
Age: 40
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

12. Shweta Mohan


shweta-mohan.png 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...
Date of Birth: 19-11-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-11-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer

13. S. Janaki


s.-janaki.png As popularly known, The Nightingale of South, S. Janaki was born as Sishtla Sreeramamurthy on 23rd April 1938 in Repalle, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Her childhood love for music turned out to be her talent, and she started performing at a tender age of three. Her voice is compared to Lata Mangeshkar, and Janaki has a large fan following because of...
Date of Birth: 23-04-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-04-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Singer

14. Apoorva Sridhar


17-01-2022/apoorva-sridhar.jpg Bio coming soon......
Gender: Female
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Gender: Female
Language: Kannada
Skills: Singer

15. RS Vimal


rs-vimal.jpg 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...
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

16. K V Anand


K-V-Anand.jpg K. V. Anand is a director in South Indian Film Industry. He was born to Anasuya Venkatesan and Venkatesan in 1966. He grew up to study his Masters in Visual Communications in a very famous college called Loyola College, Chennai. As a Master's degree holder in Visual communication, he began his career as a cinematographer. He was a photojournalist for a short...
Date of Birth: 30-10-1966
Date of Death: 30-04-2021
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-10-1966
Date of Death: 30-04-2021
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Cinematographer

17. Alphonse Puthren


alphonse-putharen.png 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....
Date of Birth: 10-02-1984
Age: 40
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-02-1984
Age: 40
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

18. Lal Jose


lal-jose.png Best known in Malayalam cinema, Lal Jose is a film director and producer. He was born on 11th January 1966, in Thrissur district of Kerala. Lal started his career in the film industry as an assistant director to Kamal. In 1998, he made his directorial debut with the film titled Oru Maravathoor Kanavu. His other notable works include Classmates, Immanuel,...
Date of Birth: 11-01-1966
Age: 58
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-01-1966
Age: 58
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director, Producer

19. Pawan Wadeyar


24-06-2017/pawan-wadeyar.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 10-12-1987
Age: 36
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-12-1987
Age: 36
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

20. Duniya Soori


duniya-suri.png 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....
Date of Birth: 04-04-1975
Age: 49
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-04-1975
Age: 49
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

21. Chandrashekar Bandiyappa


c/h/a/n/d/r/chandrashekar-bandiyappa.png Chandrashekhar Bandiyappa is an Indian Film Director. He worked in the Kannada Film Industry. His nicknamed are Chandru, CSB, and Shekhar. He was born in Mandya, Karnataka. He is currently living in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He is married to Pooja A. V. They have a daughter whose name is Bhoomi. B. Gowda. Chandrashekhar started his career as a Director with the...

22. Koratala Siva


k/o/r/a/t/a/koratala-siva.png 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...
Date of Birth: 15-06-1975
Age: 49
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-06-1975
Age: 49
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director, Screenplay

23. Salim Ahamed


salim-ahamed.png 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,...
Date of Birth: 01-10-1970
Age: 54
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-10-1970
Age: 54
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

24. Mani Ratnam


17-06-2017/mani-ratnam.png 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...
Date of Birth: 02-07-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-07-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

25. Martin Prakkat


martin-prakkat.png 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...
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

26. Vignesh Shivan


v/i/g/n/e/s/vignesh-shivan.png 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...
Date of Birth: 18-09-1985
Age: 39
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-09-1985
Age: 39
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

27. Joju George


joju-george.jpg Joju George was born on 22nd October in 1977. He was born in Mala, Trichur, in Kerala. He was originally named Joseph George but is known in the industry by the name Joju George. He is a Malayalam actor who made his debut in the year 2003. Early Life George was born in Mala, a village in Kerala. He was...
Date of Birth: 22-10-1977
Age: 47
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 22-10-1977
Age: 47
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

28. Shebin Backer


08-08-2022/shebin-backer.png Shebin Backer is a famous Malayalam producer, an entertainment investor, and a Dubai – based businessman. His large volume of investment is based on real estate and LED lighting. He was born on 17th September 1976 in Kerala. His father’s name is Aboobacker, and his mother’s name is Subaida. His father was a driving instructor, and his mother was a...
Date of Birth: 17-09-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-09-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Producer

29. Ashiq Usman


ashiq-usman.png Ashiq Usman is a Malayalam producer and acted in a couple of movies during his childhood. He was born on 17th April 1986. He started his career in the film industry very recently. He has done his schooling at Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School in 1999. He has done his high schooling at Sacred Heart Thevara. He graduated from...
Date of Birth: 17-04-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-04-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Producer

30. Shyju Khalid


shyju-khalid.png This 38-year-old cinematographer turned director had a great philosophy behind his frames. Right from his childhood onwards, Shyju Khalid always had an affinity for art. V.P.Khalid, his father was once a theater artist -and he played short roles in many films. He has done his schooling in Santa Cruz High School at Kochi. He took admission at St. Albert's College...
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:

31. Sameer Thahir


sameer-thahir.png Sameer C. Thahir is an Indian writer, cinematographer, and director recognized for his performance in Malayalam cinema. Thahir made his appearance with Big B, the first movie directed by cinematographer Amal Neerad, in the year 2007. Later, he made his writing and directorial debut with the movie Chaappa Kurishu in the year 2011. His second fiction movie, Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna...
Date of Birth: 07-11-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-11-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

32. Gunasekhar


gunasekhar.jpg Gunasekhar is a literature enthusiast, a theatre artist and now an Indian film Director and Screenwriter. He was born on 2nd June 1964 in Narsipatnam, Visakhapatnam. Since he was a child he had an interest in literature and he also wrote short stories. As he developed an interest for theatre, he started taking part in different plays and writing plays....
Date of Birth: 02-06-1978
Age: 46
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-06-1978
Age: 46
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

33. Prasad Devineni


10-04-2017/prasad-devineni.jpg Prasad Devineni is a film producer in the South Indian Film Industry. He mainly produces Telugu films. Prasad is also one of the Board Members of the Production Company named Arka Media Works. He has produced many Telugu films like ‘Once Upon a Warrior’, ‘Panjaa’, ‘MaryanaRamanna’, ‘Vedam’ and manymore. His biggest production was the 2015 blockbuster film Bahubaali. He is...
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Producer

34. Shobu Yarlagadda


s/h/o/b/u/0/shobu-yarlagadda.jpg Shobu Yarlagadda was born in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is an Indian film producer. Shobu is the relative (son-in-law) of director K. Raghavendra Rao. Prakash Kovelamudi has been in brother-in-law in relation. Shobu preferably works in the Telugu film industry. He did his both primary and secondary studies at his hometown. Shobu is a graduation degree holder in Civil...
Date of Birth: 19-03-1971
Age: 53
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-03-1971
Age: 53
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Producer

35. Panchu Arunachalam


panchu-arunachalam.png Panchu Arunachalam is an Indian producer and writer. He has given his contribution to the Tamil film industry. He owned the production house P. A. Arts. Most of his pictures were released under the banner of his production house. He worked in more than 100 movies as a writer and had written songs for more than 200 movies. He was...
Date of Birth: 18-06-1941
Date of Death: 09-08-2016
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-06-1941
Date of Death: 09-08-2016
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Writer, Producer

36. S. S. Rajamouli


04-01-2020/s.-s.-rajamouli.jpg A film director and a screenwriter S.S. Rajamouli was born as Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli in Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana. He is well known for his hit films like Magadheera, Eega and Baahubali: The Beginning. He started off directing daily soaps in Telegu for Eenadu Television working under K. Raghavendra Rao. His debut as Film director was Student no.1 in...
Date of Birth: 10-10-1973
Age: 51
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-10-1973
Age: 51
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu