Tamil Awards SIIMA Awards 2019 - Cast & Crew

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

Sithara Krishnakumar, or as we call her Sithara, is a splendid playback singer. She started off her career in 2007 with her first song ‘PammiPammi’. She got a kick to her profession after winning several musical talent shows like AsianetSapthaSwarangal (2004), Kairali TVGandharvaSangeetham and Jeevan TV Voice. She has now given her voice to over fifty film songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Her forte is folk and fusion genres of music. Sithara is on a musical roller-costar with a specialty in various styles including Hindustani classical, Carnatic and Gazals. Born in Kozhikode, Kerala, this lady started to sing at the age of as early as four. She was born and brought in the music world as the family was already inclined towards classical art.

Prarthana Indrajith is a talented playback singer of Indian origin. She was born on October 29, 2004, in Ernakulam, Kerala, India. She is best known for her work in the Malayalam film industry, although she has also lent her voice to Tamil and Hindi films. Prarthana comes from a family of actors. She is the eldest daughter of Indrajith Sukumaran and Poornima Indrajith. Her grandfather, Sukumaran, and grandmother, Mallika Sukumaran, were also actors, and her uncle, Prithviraj Sukumaran, is an actor as well. Prarthana's debut performance was in the song Ko Ko Kozhi from the Malayalam film The Great Father.

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

Anne Amie is an Indian-Singer. She is born and brought up in Kerala, India. Her career started by singing the beautiful song, named as ‘Ethu Meghamari’ of the movie Kocchavva Paulo Ayyappa Coelo. In the year 2019, she gets the award for the Best Playback Singer Female, and the award is named as the 'Movie Street Award'. In the year 2019, she gets the award for the Best Duet, and the award is named as ‘Mazhavil Mango Music Award’. In the year 2019, she gets the award for the Best Duet, and the award is named as Red FM Music Awards. In the year 2020,

Palak Muchhal's birth date is on 30th March 1992 into a Maheshwari Marwari family in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. She comes from middle-class family. She started singing since the age of four. In 1999, she spent a week singing door-to-door to collect funds for Kargil war soldiers. She has been performing shows since March 2000 and donated the amount for the hospitalization expense of children suffering from heart diseases.

Airaa Udupi is a singer, who has mostly performed for Kannada filmmakers. Airaa played a prominent part as a singer in the film KGF, which was a box office hit in India. She is a second PU student at MGM College in Udupi, where she is attending her university. Her parents are Chetana Acharya and Vajanath Acharya, both Carnatic musicians. For the track "Jhoke Nanu Balliya Minchu" from the film KGF, she becomes an instantaneous superstar. She stated that she has sung the solo album 'Jhoke...' in all major languages, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam, with Malayalam proving to be the most challenging. She did, nevertheless, appreciate providing her voice to all of the dialects. She says she fell in love with Hindustani music while attending the radio show "Old Space." Pandit Vittaldas Pai is her teacher.

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 and Planning after she moved to Chennai. In 2008, she won SS Music's Voice Hunt – second season. She was auditioned in November 2008.

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. 

It is sometimes fascinating to read about how film stars, especially in the South, get into the industry from totally diverse fields, and with no conscious intentions to be in movies. Andrea Jeremiah’s career seems to fit into this category. Her childhood ambition was to go for higher studies and get to become a psychiatrist. But music was always in the background, as she started learning classical Western piano when she was just eight, and she quickly showed her prowess when she formed her own troupe called Young Stars which also was a precursor for her later singing and music composing career.

She was born on May 10, 1978 in Guntur city of Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu Brahmin family. Her original name was Sunitha Upadrashta.

She started training at an age of 3 in Carnatic vocal and light music. She learnt music for eight years. At the age of fifteen she won national award for All India Radio. She began her career as playback singer in 1995 for the movie Gulabi (a musical hit Telugu cinema).

She worked as playback singer, anchor and dubbing artist. She got married very early at an age of 19, her husband Kiran also works for media. Couple got two children, son and a daughter.

She gave voice to famous heroines like Jyothika (wife of actor surya), Anushka Shetty (famous south Indian actress), Bhoomika(famous heroine in south Indian films), Charmi kaur (predominant telugu heroine), Laila, Meera Jasmine (national award winning actress), Soundarya (versatie actress), Sonali Bendre (Indian actress, television personality and model, also appeared in Bollywood), Shreya Sharan (south Indian actress from Dehradun), Genelia dsouza (Indian actress and wife of Ritesh Deshmuk), Sneha (Telugu born beauty),  Katrina Kaif (leading Bollywood heroine), Tamannah (milk beauty from Punjab), Trisha Krishnan (an established leading actress), Kamlini Mukherji (famous for her homely appearence), Nayanatara (Diana Mariam Kurian, a kerala beauty and leading actress) etc. All the above mentioned heroines acted with top actresses and have blockbusters in their career; many of them are still seen on screen. She had a record of dubbing sixty movies in a single year. She dubbed almost 750 films, also received four Nandi awards from AP government as best dubbing artist.

She worked with almost more than twenty music directors, she sang more than 3000 songs in films itself. She is even associated with Tamil and Kannada. She had given many stage shows abroad as singer. She won a film fare award as best female playback singer. She won many Nandi awards as playback singer for both movies and TV serials.

She won many gold medals in her childhood itself and she won more than 25 other awards as best female singer. She was internationally recognized.

She participated in many TV shows also. She gave more than 500 programmes on AIR, Doordarshan, ETV, Gemini TV, and MAA TV.

She hosted many TV shows related to music, ‘Navaragam’ on Gemini TV, ‘Jhunmmandi Naadam’, ‘Saptasvaralu’, ‘Paaduta Teeyaga’ on ETV, ‘Saregamapa’ on ZEE Telugu. She was taking part in ‘Super Singer (reality-based Indian singing competition)’ series on MAA TV from 4th series as participant, mentor and judge. She bagged ‘Super Singer-7’ title recently.

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 the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

Pearle Maaney is one of the most famous personalities in South India, especially Cochin with her versatile professions like television anchor,actress,VJ, and Model. She was born in Aluva, Kerala in a joint family to Dr. Paul Maaney and Molly Maaney. She had a joint family and therefore always enjoyed her childhood. She had 13 members in her family, which made her childhood ever entertaining and never had any dull moments. Her unique name was given to her by her aunt Pearly, which actually means heaven gates. She did her school in Kerala and later she completed graduation from Christ University in Media Studies. She has amazed masses with her Afro, Kohl-rimmed eyes, stunning smile and her bold attitude.

Anupama Gowda is a Kannada actress and is one of the participants of the famous reality show, Bigg Boss Kannada 5. She was born in a poor family, with her father working as an associate in the film industry and her mother, as a tailor. She also has a sister named, Tejaswini.

Suma is a familiar person in south Indian film industry. She is from Kerala but she settled in Hyderabad because of her father’s job purpose. Her father name is P.N. Kutty and her mother’s name is Vimala and who were settled in secunderabad. Her father was a railway employee. She is the only daughter to her parents. She started acting on Doordharshan period onwards. In the year of 1990, she started her career in serials and she acted in serials like Megalaya, Mandhakini, Samatha, etc.

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M. M. Manasi – The versatile playback singer, who started her singing career in the movies at the age of 9. She was born on 8th January 1993 and her native place is Chennai. She was trained for 15 years in Hindustani vocal. Though her hometown was Chennai, she was brought up in Mumbai. She started to learn the music at the age of 2. Her first performances were during the festivals such as Navaratri and Ganapathi Chaturthi. Her family encouraged her a lot, and good encouragement can go a long way. Manasi has mentioned her t parents' encouragement in a lot of interviews and stages. Her inspiration was K. Pop and Ilayaraja. She is not only a playback singer but she is also a dubbing artist. She finished her studies in the D. g. Vaishnav College in Management.

Ananya Bhat is a Playback singer who hails from Mysore and currently, lives at Bangalore. She graduated from the Mahajana First Grade College at Mysore. She sings predominantly in Kannada movies and has now sung more than 30 songs. Some of her songs include Hogabaarade Jeeva from Rocket, Karuvinil Ennai from KGF (Tamil), Baa Neene Nodu from Naanu Nammudgi Karchgond Mafia, Kanna Reppe from Mombathi, Usure from Karuppan (Tamil), etc.

Rahul Ramakrishna is an Indian Telugu lyricist who gave meanings to the songs for many marvelous Telugu movies. He is known for his beautiful style and he mostly writes lyrics for the Tollywood ndustry. He also won many music awards for his splendid work. At the age of eight, he started writing short stories and essays. He got good recognition for it. He loved writing short stories wrote poems splendidly during his earlier days. During the starting of his career, he started looking for a job of a lyricist and got a chance in a Tamil movie. Afterward, he scribbled more songs, and people started recognizing him. Mr. Rahul Ramakrishna once told in an interview that he never sit down with an intention to write instead, what he does is that he always enjoy his life and make songs related to it.

Priyadarshi Pulikonda is an Indian figure who has contributed some of his works to the film industry and has won several hearts with his performance in the movie PelliChoopulu.Priyadarshi’s family moved to Hyderabad nearly three decades ago and had been staying in Hyderabad ever since. At present, they live in Chandanagar. His father is a Professor, and his mother is well qualified too. The artiste, who is nearly 28 years old, is from a middle-class family.