Tamil Awards Vijay Awards 2015 - Cast & Crew

Nikhaar Dhawan is an Indian Costume designer based in the capital, Delhi. She graduated from NIFT and has made aher name in Bollywood and Tollywood. Dhawan has designed costumes for theatre plays as well. Her notable works include creating costume movies like 'Singham 2' and 'Once Upon a Warrior'. She was also the costume designer for the film, 'Guru'. 

Nikhaar Dhawan was the mind behind responsible for Karthi’s various looks in the highly popular South Indian movie 'Kaashmora'. She also gave Sridivya a changeover in the movie. Some other Tamil films she has designed costumes for includehe had worked in many Tamil movies like 'Guru', 'Maattrraan', 'Aadhavan', '7 am Arivu', 'Lingaa', 'Singam 2', 'Anaganaga O Dheerudu', and 'Bal...

Dheekshitha Venkadeshan was born on 26th June 1998 in Sydney, Australia. She is of age 19 at present. She is a very popular Playback singer. She began her career in the year 2013. She sang many famous songs in Tamil. Singing is what she loves a lot.

She is a popular Indian singer who was born in Australia. People also call her by the name Dhee. Her step father’s name is Santhosh Narayanan and he has worked on many music albums. Dheekshitha has done many songs of her step father’s albums.

She also got nominated for her singing at Filmfare awards. The audience like her songs a lot. Her mother’s name is Meenakshi Iyer and she is an Indian Classical singer and she got married to Santhosh Narayanan. Meenakshi Iyer’s marriage with Santhosh Narayanan was her second marriage.

Sudheekshanan is Dhe...

Shivada Nair is an actress that hails from the southern part of India. Nair performs in movies that are in the Malayalam Language. Shiva made her debut into the entertainment milieu in 2009.She demonstrates splendor in her acting. She is a superstar, who thrills the audience with her performance. Shivawas born at Srilekha in Tamil Nadu. Her father is Vijayarajan, who ensures she is comfortable, and happy. Kumari (Shiva’s mother) plays an indispensable role in the superstar’s life. Shiva’s family relocates to Angamaly, which is in Kerala.

She enrolls at a public institution in Angamaly, where she continued her 6th Standard. Shivada Nair completed 12th Standard at Viswajyothi CMI, which is a school in Kerala. She later pursued a degree in...

Actors are important for flicks, serials, and commercials. It is not enough if they are just present, but it is important for them to make their presence felt. They must influence and attract the audience. To make them look like how they should be, fashion designers, costume designers, and makeup artists play a very crucial role. Deepali Noor comes under such category, where she received major accolades, not just nationally, but also internationally.

Deepali Noor was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her mother is Madhu Dhawan and her profession is teaching in New Delhi. Her father is a well-known mechanical engineer. She went to St. Anthony School in Mumbai. Later, she attended Sophia College to do her plus two. Then, she did Hotel Management at Asan Memorial DHMCT, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She married Sa...

If you are a teacher's daughter or son, it is not a compulsion that you will be the next teacher or professor. You can be anything, may be an actor, singer, or a novelist. Of course, there is nothing wrong in being one either. The same concept holds true for any of the professionals, and their offsprings. This is what happened to a Tamil director and his daughter. He is a very well-known director, and his daughter raised to the heights of becoming one of the leading costume designers in the Tamil film industry. She is Niranjani Agathiyan, who received critical accolades from the audience and critics as well.

Niranjani Agathiyan is the daughter of the famous Tamil director, ‘Agathiyan’. Agathiyan is a National Award winning director who directed blockbusters like ‘Vaanmathi’. He has t...

Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer. Brinda dedicated all her life to choreographing and assisting various notable actors.

According to Brinda, she was not a good student in school and had an inclination towards extra-curricular activities like acting in plays and dance. She is not a highly educated person and has studied till class 12th only. Brinda listed English as her favourite subject in school and her interest in dancing started because of her ...

Riythvika is a film actress, who predominantly appears in supporting roles in the Tamil Cinema. She is an alumnus of Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College, Teynampet. Riythvika says, she has consistently dreamt of acting in films and that she used to mimic different actors right from childhood. In college she got the opportunity to act in numerous short plays. Sometimes she also used to send her pictures to producers for getting an entry into the Tamil Movie World.

The director Bala was looking for good actors for his upcoming project, Paradesi, the story of the condition of tea Plantation workers during the British R...

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.

She made her singing debut with the film Taxi 4777. She is a part of the band "Off the Record” which got formed in May 2009. She began her career as a playback singer after she won the SS Music Voice Hunt title in 2008. She sang for films l...

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...

Vedhika Kumar is a Kannadiga from the Maharashtra Solapur. She is a South Indian film actress. People have seen her doing roles in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu films. Her debut film, Paradesi which released in 2013 was highly appreciated by the critics and won many nominations for her outstanding performance. She did B.Sc. in graduation and M.Sc. for her post graduation from Cardiff University, United Kingdom. After finishing up her studies, she joined the Kishore Namith Kapoor School to improvise her acting and dancing skills so as to get an entry in the Indian film industry. Initially, she was accepted as a model, and she did many advertisements. Along with Suriya, she got popular with her endorsing a biscuit brand on the television.

She was very promising with her acting talents. Keeping this in consideration, the p...

Actress  Utthara Unni is the daughter of yesteryear actress Urmila Unni. Like her mother who has acted in Malayalam, and Tamil and Hindi movies, Utthara Unni too wants to make an impact in South Indian movies. She is a qualified dancer and heads a dance academy ( Kala Kendra) in Bahrain. The dance academy was set up by her mother and named as ‘Angopanga’ which is located in Bahrain.  

Utthara Unni has so far acted in two regional movies. In between her busy dance schedule, shooting schedules and studies, the actress even had tried her hand in direction. She directed a short horror film titled ‘Randaam Varavu’ and bagged a prestigious award (Drishya award). After watching her directorial abilities, even d...

Sara Arjun is a cute child actress in India. She has acted in hundreds of advertisements since childhood.

She garnered the attention of everyone with her tremendous performance in A.L. Vijay's movie 'Deiva Thirumagal’. Sara hails from Mumbai. While her father is a cine artist, her mother is a dancer. She started appearing in commercials when she was one and half years old. Very soon she became famous.

She was also appreciated for being a fast learner in the field of cinema. She received a huge response for her role in 'Deiva Thirumagal’. She got a good recognition. As for now, she has worked in eight movies. While more and more offers are on its way for Sara, Raj and Sanya - Sara's parents are sure that they will accept the movies in which Sara's role will mean a lot.

Yuvina was first known as a child actress in the AVM Productions television serial Uravukku Kai Koduppom. AVM is the only production company in South India, which has kept promoting only social drama that had a strong message to viewers. She was just two-and-a-half-year-old, when the director K. A. Bhuvanesh, used to flash the camera arc lights upon her face. But the child artiste would deliver any emotion with the good modulation. 

She was totally fantastic as a child who was seen being reborn in the family (as shown in the serial). The director had spotted her in a tour, and he was so impressed with her astuteness that recommended her to A M Saravanan. The producer signed Yuvina for the project, and her electrifying screen presence clicked well with the audience a...

Films came to Lakshmi Menon at an age when she hadn’t started thinking about her career. Impressed by her dance show on TV, Malayalam director Vinayan offered her a role in his film. She got her break in Raghuvinte Swantham Raziya when she was in her eighth class. Soon, she played a lead role with Vineeth in Ideal Couple, directed by Ali Akbar. It was a year later when she got her first break in Tamil movie Kumki (2012) that made her lucky mascot in Kollywod. When she was running high on a success wave with Kumki, her next film, Naan Sigappu Manithan (2012) with Vishal made her as the rising star in Kollywood.  

Today, she is known as the girl with the Midas touch, whose very presence in any film guarantees a hit. At age of 19, she has attained the dizzy heights of stardom a...

Kovai Sarala is an actress who acted in more than 750 films in her career spanning for over 25 years. She has acted in Tamil (even Telugu films) and had joined films as she was the sole bread earner in the family. Many feel that she filled the void left by Manorma and she is the only actress who had stepped in her( Manorama) shoes. In this film industry, Sarala could carry scenes on her own merits. There was a time; she would be seen in every successful movie (just as Manorama) during 1980-90s. Looking back at her career, she played a 55-year old character in Chinna Veedu( her second film) when she was just a teenager. Everyone had wondered how she played that role. She even played the unforgettable character of Palani as Kamal Haasan’s wife in Balu Mahendra’s Sat...

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 ...

Born on April 28 1987 Samantha is a model and actress, who has acted in Telugu and Tamil films. Samantha was brought up in Chennai and she was involved in modeling in her teens. The Telugu film Ye Maya Chesave was her first film and she was instantly successful; she got the Filmfare award for Best Debut. She also has a Nandi award to her credit, for this film.

The Year 2013 was a happening year for this southern beauty; she got the Filmfare award for Best Actress in both Telugu and Tamil. This feat was accomplished only by actress Revathi earlier. Samantha got the award for her performances in the films Neethane En Pon Vasantham and Eega. The Telugu films Attarintiki Daredi and Manam also gained her awards. Samantha did her schooling in Chennai and holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce. Samantha once admitted that, she pursued m...

Catherine Tresa was born in Dubai. She could neither speak any Indian language (except Hindi) but made her impact in south Indian cinema, especially in Kannada, Telugu and even Malayalam cinema. Though born in a Malayalee Christian family, she cannot speak in Malayalam either. Well, she is one of the Kollywood Divas, who experience issues with the language dialect, but even then makes impression on viewers with stunning look and mind blowing performances. 

She did modeling before making her debut in Kannada cinema while she was in Bengaluru. She walked in many ramp shows in Sandal region and got her first break in Shankar IPS opposite Duniya Vijay I 2010. Soon she grabb...

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...

For one as young as Anandhi, she has already proved her mettle as a fine actress right from her very first film in Telugu. While she has gone on to act in several films after that, including those in Tamil, discerning moviegoers always try to co-relate with her acting in her debut film.“Bus Stop” was shot in 2012, when she was 19, and it did not come to her in any conscious way since Anandhi's entry into movies was not pre-planned. It came to her because of a sudden opportunity, when she was participating in a dance competition.

She caught the attention of the Telugu film director who could immediately spot her potential and decided to cast her in “Bus Stop”, which proved to be a huge success. It had a mature theme and her handling of it won her acclaim for her performance of Seema, a loose natured f...

Zareena is the original name of the south Indian actress Nadhiya. She was born in the year 1966 in Mumbai to the Muslim father, Moidu and the Hindu mother, Lalitha. Nadhiya has a younger sister called Haseena. In 1984, she entered the film industry through the Malayalam movie ‘Nokketha Doorathu

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.

Guru Somasundaram is born and brought up in Madurai. He had a humble background. He lived in Tanjore district for some time.  He pursued his Dipoma in Mechanical Engineering and later worked in TVS as junior executive. Then he was at crossroads in his career. He was ...

V.J. Sabu Joseph is a renowned film editor in the Tamil film industry. Although he started his journey in the year 2002 by working as an associate film editor with veteran film editors- J. N. Harsha, and Anthony- his first project as an independent editor was for the movie ‘‘Aanmai Thavarael’ (2011).

V.J. Sabu hails from an orthodox Christian family, who had nothing to do with cinema, and Sabu Joseph began learning visual communication as he wanted to follow a different path in his career for which he received full support from his family. With his family’s full support he entered the film industry and learned to edit.

It was in the year 2002; he entered the film industry when manual editing was getting translated into the digital platform, Sabu got an opportunity to learn manual editing from Udh...

Naga Sai Prathish is a Chennai born actor and a cinematographer. He works predominantly for the Kollywood film industry. He pursued Diploma in Film Making in the year 2012-2013 from Central Film School, London. Despite being a cinematographer, Naga Sai Prathish has also acted in movies. His role as Siddharth in the debut movie Pisaasuearned him name and fame.

Pisaasu is 2014 superhit movie, based on a horror plot, directed by Mysskin. He is well known as a director in movies like Patch,Sketch, and Clean. Naga’s brother Sathish Ramesh is also an actor who has acted in several movies, including the renowned film, Aadhalal Kadhal Seiver. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Director at B-Studios.

Supreme Sundar is a stunt director based in India. He has worked predominantly in the Tamil film industry. He made his debut with the film Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil in 2018. He also worked on Varathan in the same year. In 2019, he worked on Irupathiyonnaam Noottaandu, Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel, Shubharathri, Love Action Drama, Brother’s Day, Jallikattu, Under World, Jack & Daniel, Ulta, and Driving License. In 2020, he worked on Anjaam Pathiraa, Big Brother, and Ayyappanum Koshiyum. In 2021, he worked on Ole Kanda Naal, and Ajagajantharam. In 2022, he worked on Bheeshma Parvam, Night Drive, Vaaitha, Paappan, and Monster. His upcoming projects include Bruce Lee, Neelavelicham, Ka, Thunivu, Aaravam, Ottakomban, Christopher, Yemaha, and Chaaver.

NJ Sathya is a costume designer turned actor. Before becoming an actor, he was a costume designer. He is well-known for playing supporting roles in Kidaari, and Vetrivel. He has also done many other movies like Adangathey, etc. It was a dream of his dad to see him as a cricketer. In an interview, Sathya revealed that he came into the field of acting just to fulfill his dad’s dream.

His Dad wanted to be a cricketer but couldn’t achieve his target. His Dad wanted his son to be a cricketer. He was not happy with Sathya’s decision of becoming an actor. NJ Sathya thought of coming into films when his dad had a stroke, and to see his dad happy, NJ Sathya decided to do acting because as an actor he could play star cricket tournament which ultimately fulfills his dad’s wish to see him playing cricket.

Born on July 1, 1977, in Krishnagiri region, Tamil Nadu, G Murali is an Indian Cinematographer in Tamil Film Industry. He started his profession as a painter. His folks wanted him to be an Engineer or a Doctor. Be that as it may, his qualities as a craftsman, an attribute he soaked up from his mom, an instructor, rapidly attracted him to cinematography. In the wake of working for almost five years, he finally decided to explore his choices in the film industry. At Kumbakonam, from the Government College of Fine Arts, he took a four-year certification in fine arts from 1998 to 2003. Later at the well known Pune Film Institute, under the guidance and direction of Balu Mahendra, he finished his post-graduate diploma in cinematography.