Tamil Awards Vijay Comedy Awards 2018 - Cast & Crew

A three-year-old kid can also feel the essence of music. Luksimi Sivaneswaralingam is an example of such a kid. She was born on 26 September 1993 in Toronto, Canada. Apart from music knowledge, she is also a trained classical dancer. Luksimi Sivaneswaralingam obtained her graduation degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music with a Bachelor of Music. She also completed her post-graduation at Wilfrid Laurier University for curriculum-based music programs in 2017. Additionally, she has also finished off Carnatic Vocal training from Annamalai University's Canada Campus.

She began her career in the Tamil industry in the year 2017. Her first song was Senthoora for the movie Bogan. In 2018 she put on her voice for the Telugu version of Tik Tik Tik, and the song was Kannaya. Later she also sang songs for the ...

Aditi Balan is a kollywood actress who gained popularity with her recent flick ‘Aruvi’ (Flowing Water), directed by the debut director Arun Prabhu Purusothaman. She is originally a lawyer by profession but she grabbed everyone’s attention with her performance through Aruvi for which she was also nominated for 2016 National Awards.

Aruvi is about a gentle girl born and brought up in an undeveloped village, who finds it difficult to fit in the city. She decides to take it hard on the people. What she does next is the rest of the story. She generally speaks about the social anguish of a girl.

Aditi Balan is a kollywood actress who gained popularity with her recent flick ‘Aruvi’ (Flowing Water), directed by the debut director Arun Prabhu Purusothaman. She is originally a lawyer by profession but she grabbed everyone’s attention with her performance through Aruvi for which she was also nominated for 2016 National Awards.

Aruvi is about a gentle girl born and brought up in an undeveloped village, who finds it difficult to fit in the city. She decides to take it hard on the people. What she does next is the rest of the story. She generally speaks about the social anguish of a girl.

Date of Birth: 21-09-1990

Age: 33

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Female

Language: Tamil

Skills: Movie Actress

Biography About Aditi Balan

Biography About Aditi Balan

Date of Birth: 21-09-1990

Age: 33

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Female

Language: Tamil

Skills: Movie Actress

Pushkar-Gayathri are directors. They are a film director pair in Tamil. They are married couples. They have directed four movies. Their first movie was Oram Po. It was released on November 30, 2007, and it was a comedy film. The lead roles were played by Arya and Pooja. The music director was G.V. Prakash Kumar. The story of the film revolves around auto rickshaw race. The film was later translated to Telugu in the name Nenu Autovani. The film was first titled as Auto and later changed to Oram Po. The film released a year after production. The movie was a box office hit.

After the release of their first movie they di...

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 ...

Keerthy is the daughter of yesteryear actress Menaka and producer 'R Suresh Kumar' who made her debut with Priyadarshan’s ‘’Geetanjali’’. Naturally, she had dreamt always to become an actress. And then she also had the support of her parents who wanted Keerthy to grow up as an actor. She never had any second thoughts about her career and she had always wanted to become an actor only. Although she is from a family where acting is the only passion, she had naturally gotten to the skin of many characters and had left a mark with each character that she had played.

Keerthy is the daughter of yesteryear actress Menaka and producer 'R Suresh Kumar' who made her debut with Priyadarshan’s ‘’Geetanjali’’. Naturally, she had dreamt always to become an actress. And then she also had the support of her parents who wanted Keerthy to grow up as an actor. She never had any second thoughts about her career and she had always wanted to become an actor only. Although she is from a family where acting is the only passion, she had naturally gotten to the skin of many characters and had left a mark with each character that she had played.

Date of Birth: 17-10-1991

Age: 32

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Female

Language: Tamil

Skills: Movie Actress

Biography About Keerthy Suresh

Biography About Keerthy Suresh

Date of Birth: 17-10-1991

Age: 32

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Female

Language: Tamil

Skills: Movie Actress

Dhansika is a Tamil actress who went to get acclaim and recognition for supporting roles. Known for her performances in films such as ‘Aravaan’ and ‘Paradesi’, she is now in the news for playing superstar Rajinikanth's daughter in his 159th film ‘Kabali’. Dhaniska was recently signed in a project for playing Rajinikanth's daughter. Director Pa. Ranjith is expected to shoot the film in three foreign locations such as in Malaysia, Bangkok and Hong Kong with the multi-star cast very soon. In this film, the superstar Rajinikanth will be portraying the character of Don. Much awaited film ‘Kabali’, is expected to take her career graph in the right direction. At the start of her career, she took up some odd roles including ‘Thirudi’ and ‘Manathodu Mazhaikalam’. 

Sayesha Saigal is a gorgeous and beautiful girl who is the grand niece of Bollywood sensation Saira Banu and living legend Dilip Kumar. She is the daughter of Shaheen Banu and Sumeet Saigal. She was born on 12th August 1997. She is pursuing her study in the second year from Junior College in Bombay. She is single. Sayesha has made her debut with the Telugu movie Akhil: The Power of Jua, in which she shares screen space with Akkineni Akhil, the son of Akkineni Nagarjuna.

The flick was released on November 11, 2015, and had got mixed reviews. The film is directed by W Vinayak and produced by Sudhakar Reddy and Nithin. It was Shivaay (details mentioned below) which seemed to be the debut flick of Sayesha but since the shooting got delayed this gorgeous actress debuted ...

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...

Actress Radha was born as a Malayali, but is mainly seen in Tamil films. Her birth place is Trivandrum, Kerala. She was introduced by veteran director, Bharathi Raja, in his film, Alaigal Oivadhillai. This film has one more popular debutant, Karthik Muthuraman. Both these debutantes had a great time in their career; earned more name and fame by their excellent performances. Radha’s performance in Mudhal Mariyadhai, the Bharathi Raja film, was awesome. If she had dubbed for herself, she might have gotten the National Award. But Radha got the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, for the film, Mudhal Mariyadhai. She also acted in Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. She was the top heroine in the 1980s and 1990s. For more than a decade, she ruled the Tamil cinema.

After marriage, Radha settled down with h...

Dhivyadharshini is a Tamil TV show host and compere. She is well known throughout Tamil Nadu as ‘DD’. Many newspapers praise her as the most successful compere in the history of Tamil TV industry. She came into this field under the compulsion to make her elder sister and brother study and to meet her family’s ends.

Dhivyadharshini was born in Chennai to Tamil Brahmin parents. She lost her dad at an early age and she entered the TV industry when she was 14. She acquired the chance to host Vijay TV’s ‘UngalTheerpu’. The bubbly actress was loved by everyone on the sets who predicted a history behind her. She was never let go from her alma mater Vijay TV though she had acted in serials in other channels too. 

K.Balachander made he...

Revathi is a popular south Indian actress, who has appeared in Hindi films too. Born as Asha Kutty, she changed her name to Revathi, for the stage. Right from the beginning of her career, she did not lose her popularity, because of her excellent performances. Mann Vasanai, directed by Bharathi Raja is her first movie. Pudhumai Penn was the movie that showed her in a different angle and she was praised for her performance. Pagal Nilavu is one of her top snatched films and in Aan Pavam she acted as a dumb girl, who lost her voice in an accident. In this film, she paired with Pandiya Rajan and the movie was a super hit. Kai Kodukkum Kai is the only film, she paired Rajini Kanth. She has acted with Kamal Hassan in a number of films, among which Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, Magalir Mattum, Thevar Magan and Punnagai Mannan are memorable. In Magalir ...

Vivek Prasanna, who was born in the year 1986, belongs to Salem. He is from a non-cinema background. After completing his schooling in Salem, Vivek Prasanna took a train to Chennai. He completed his degree in Viscom in Chennai.

As he is much interested in cinematography, Vivek Prasanna joined as an assistant cinematographer to the popular cinematographer Siddharth. While his career was going smoothly, his friend Rathna Kumar invited him to play in a pilot film. It was his acting debut.

He had acted in various short films and telefilms. Later, Vivek Prasanna made his silver screen debut in “Sethupathi” with Vijay Sethupathi, directed by Arunkumar in 2016. In the same year, the actor ...

Suresh Sangaiah is a Tamil film industry director. His latest movie is ‘Oru Kidayin Karunai Manu’ in 2017. This is a comedy-drama starring Vidharth, Raveena Ravi, Jayraj and K.G. Mohan. It was directed and written by Suresh Sangaiah, and produced by Eros International. ‘Oru Kidayin Karunai Manu’ received Vijay Award for Best Dialogue.

This movie has received many positive responses and was a success debut of director Suresh Sangaiah. His home town is Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu. He has studied at Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Arts and Science in Krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu. He has also worked as an assistant of director Manikandan.

Vasanth Ravi or Vasanth Kumar Ravi is a South Indian actor. The doctor turned actor works in the Tamil Cinema. He made his debut in 2015, but he already is a superstar to his fans. He was born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He came into the limelight in 2017 with his debut film Taramani.

He played the lead role and won an award at 10th Vijay Awards for Best Debut Actor. He also won the best debutant at the 65th South Filmfare Award. Ravi’s first performance made him a much-loved personality in South India. His good looks and acting talent became the reason for his instant success. As a student, he took up the medical field and enrolled for an MBBS degree in Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai. He aspired to be an actor, but his family was against the idea.

His friends in College encouraged him to give a s...

Philomin Raj is an Indian industry film editor who has predominantly worked in Tamil cinema. Raj is recognized as one of the most professional workers in the industry and has a reputed image within the top stars of the Kollywood industry. He has been active in Kollywood cinema for more than ten years and frequently collaborates with Lokesh Kanagaraj.

He got recognized in the Kollywood industry in 2016 from the independent Anthology film called “Aviyal,” directed by Alphonse Puthren. Philomin Raj edited a segment in Aviyal.

Raj is best known for his work in the 2017 film named “Maanagaram,” directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj. The movie was a Tamil language action-thriller project starring Sundeep Kishan and Sri in the lead. The creativity seen in the film edit was unique and very well-acknowledged ...

Anirudh Balaji is an Indian actor who is a fresh talent in the Kannada television industry. He was born in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in commerce (Marketing Management) from the University of Canberra in Canberra, Australia. After graduation, he joined Brandsystems as a marketing consultant. Bored of his job, he quit it and returned to India to pursue a career in acting, a skill he had nurtured over several years. His break on the small screen came with the Kannada soap opera “Eradu Kanasu” (2017), in which he plays the lead role. The Times of India named him as one of the hottest Kannada actors of 2018. 

Born on July 30, in Munnar, Kerala, Sam C. S. is an Indian film singer, music composer, songwriter and producer. He prevalently works in Tamil cinema. He hails from Chennai. He comes from a Christian family. A music lover from his initial youth days, Sam was effectively engaged with music and took part in competitions.

He completed his schooling at LFGHS in Munnar and St.AloysiusHr.Sec.School in Dharapuram. He holds the degree in Master of Business Administration and Master of Computer Applications from St. Joseph's College in Tiruchirappalli in 2006.

After his graduation, he joined a software organization. His energy and skills to make music drove him to leave his place of employment and work for other music makers on programming and background score for movies. In 2012, he gave music to Sci-fi thriller period film...

Lokesh is a famous writer and director in Tamil Film Industry. He joined the industry in 2014. He is an alumnus of PSG College of Arts and Science. The director did his graduation from Anna University. He has done his schooling from PMHS. Before coming to tinsel town, he was a bank employee for almost 4-5 years at a private company. Mr. Kangaraj made a short film for his company’s cultural event, fetched him the first prize. Kalam is his entry to Kollywood. He idealizes Karthik Subbaraj as his mentor, as he helped and encouraged him in his journey.

Lokesh lives in Chennai but belongs to Coimbatore. He has three brothers, namely Aravind Gnanasambandam, Ashwin Venkatesh, and Prashanth Gnanasambandham. On September 15, 2011, he got engaged to Aishwarya Lokes...

Atlee Kumar is a movie director and screenwriter from India, focusing mainly on Tamil feature films. He is a graduate of Sathyabama University and holds a degree in Visual Communication. He started off his media career by making short films, one of the most notable being Mugaputhagam with Sivakarthikeyan of Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam fame. He then became an assistant director to director Shankar, assisting him during the production of Enthiran and Nanban. It is to be noted that Nanban is a remake of Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots. Born in Madurai and raised in Chennai, Atlee cites the Mani Ratnam film Thalapathi as his inspiration to enter the cine field. Atlee’s maiden directorial venture was the movie Raja Rani, a love story featuring the ensemble cast of Arya, Nayantara, Nazriya, Jai, and Sath...

Ravi was born in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. By profession, he is a cinematographer. Also, he penned the script and directed one movie. He has got some nominations and awards for his brilliant works. With a connection to the South Indian movie industry, he also has worked in Bollywood, and his work won acclamation. His great zeal for literature helped him to create a magazine (online) named Yavarum Kelir. His interest in photography is linked to the death of his mother, who he lost at a very young age.

He grew up watching movies, but he never thought that he will make his career in the film industry. Ravi has been a part of various languages movies like Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English. He has done some TV commercials, albums and short films.

For the movie ‘Barfi’, he got four awards and one for...

Ma Ka Pa Anand is a famous, entertaining Television Host. He is known fondly as Ma Ka Pa. Anand was born in Pondicherry. His life revolved around Pondicherry. He did his schooling; under graduation as well as Post Graduation is his home place. Anand graduated with MBA in the field of International Management. He then shifted to Dubai and worked as a Radio Jockey, in the popular station, Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM. After working in Dubai for six years,

Anand moved to Coimbatore and continued his stint as a Radio Jockey in Radio Mirchi station for a year. Later, he was signed up as the Video Jockey for Vijay Television to anchor the show Cinema karam Kaapi. The show became a hit because of the witty host and the entertaining content. This show shot him to fame. Anand has the tal...

Harish Kalyan is an Indian film and a television actor. He is also passionate about singing. He predominantly appeared in many Tamil movies. Some his notable works in the Tamil Film Industry include his performance in the movie Vil Ambu and Poriyaalan. Kalyan was born on 29th June in the year 1990. He was born and raised in Chennai, India. He was cast for the movie Sindhu Samaveli by the famous Tamil movie director named Samy in the year 2010. The movie was Tamil drama movie. The movie was a controversial film and after a lot, a lot of struggle received an A certificate.

Kalyan played the role Ambu, the girl’s husband in the movie. The movie did not do good business at the box office and also received some poor reviews fr...

Selvaraj Justin Surya was born in Vasdevanallur, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. He pursued his graduation from Chennai. He is a renowned Actor, Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer and a Music Composer in the Kollywood. He is known as Suryah.

Career:

He started his career in films at an early age of 20. In 1988, he acted in the movie ‘Nethaidi’. After that, in 1993, he made a cameo appearance in ‘Kizhakku Cheemayile’. The music of the movie was composed by legendary A.R Rehman, and this film was later remade in Telugu. He did numerous small guest appearance and cameo roles. He played an auto driver in ‘Asai’(1995). The movie was honored with the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for best director, music direct...

Vijaya Gurunatha Sethupathi was not born with silver spoon. Neither did he have a family background that had deep roots in cinema field. He was rejected even for the role of a junior artist. But it was his hard work and continuous struggle, that made him a star that he is today.

He was born in Rajapalayam but moved to Chennai where he had studied and even had his graduation from a reputed college in Chennai. He did all kinds of odd jobs that came to him (salesperson, cashier, telephone booth operator or account assistant) to lead his life normally.

Later on, he moved to Dubai as he had to take care of three siblings. During his stay in Dubai, he fell in love with Jessie, whom he married later. He returned to Chennai again and had take...

Yugi Sethu is a multi-talented man. He is an actor, screenwriter, director, writer, producer and a show host. So many qualities in one person are rare to find. He was born on 28th January in Chennai. He belongs to Oothukaadu, which is a small town near Kumbakonam. He has done his graduation in Commerce and his masters in Political Science. Though he studied two subjects, his interest was more towards fine arts, but he could not pursue that. Well! None of the three subjects could give him the success and fame that he has today. He is married to Amritha Kalyani and has two children with her. As an actor, he has done only a few films. He has played the lead roles as well as supporting roles. He is mainly a screenwriter. He applied his diversified skills in the less known Tamil movie ‘Maathangal Aezhu&rsq...

Soori is a South Indian actor in Kollywood. His nickname is “Parotta Soori’ which has been derived from his Tamil movie that he had acted. In 2009, he acted in a film ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’(2009) where a scene was shot with a crew of actors, who sit together and eat Parotta by keeping a challenge who eats more Parotta’s. In this scene, Parotta Soori performed his best, so people coined his name as Parotta Soori. Basically, he appeared as a comedian in many Tamil movies. After the film became a blockbuster, he never looked back. He is doing five to six films in a year. Today, this dusky lad with the moustache look has placed him in line with other comedians like Vadivelu, Santhanam and Goundamani. He is in peak of his career today playing comedian roles and doing a nu...

This lanky superstar Dhanush is an actor from Tamil cinema but has appeared in two Hindi films too. He credits R Balki and Anand L Rai for making him consider acting in Hindi films (‘Shamitaabh’ and ‘Raanjhana’). In the year 2011-12, his song  “Why This Kolaveri Di’’ continued to rise on the charts and gain millions of viewers on YouTube. Dhanush happens to be the youngest actor to receive the national film award for his performance in “Aadukalam”. 

This actor had carved a place for himself in the world of cinema by his acting prowess. He has so far featured in 25 movies. Dhanush has ventured into production with his company Wunderbar Films. He is married to southern superstar Rajinikanth's daughter...

Director KS Ravikumar(KSR), started his career in Tamil cinema as an assistant director to Bharathiraja for sometime before becoming an independent director. He has made 40 movies, out of which six films are re-makes. 

KSR has made the most number of movies with actor Sarath Kumar (10) and actresses Simran and Ramya Krishnan. Interestingly enough to know that his stunt choreographer Kanal Kannan had collaborated with KSR in 16 films so far. 

His first project in Tamil film world was in the year 1990, when he made a genre-breaking film Puriyaadha...

K Bhagyaraj is the name well known to all the film interested people of 1980s and 1990s. He is a multi talented person, who is well versed in script writing, acting, directing as well as music composing. He is married to Poornima Jayaram, who is also a popular actress. He married Poornima, after the death of his first wife, actress Praveena. He has two children, Saranya and Shanthanu. Saranya acted in the film Parijatham, opposite Prithviraj. Shanthanu has also acted in few films and got married to TV host Keerthi. K Bhagyaraj started his career as the assistant of the popular director Barathi Raja, who ruled the Tamil film industry, once upon a time.

K Bhagyaraj is a good script writer and hence, he had lots of successful films. He has recently written dialogues for the Tamil version of the Telugu movie Magadheera. His films a...

Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has established himself in Bollywood as a prominent director, producer, and screenwriter while even giving acting a try.  A born and raised Uttar Pradeshi, Kashyap had keen interest in science and aimed to become a scientist. In an interview Anurag said that he had no dreams of going into the film industry and had all hopes of pursuing Zoology. He went on to say, this all changed in 1993 after he watched Bicycle Thieves, an Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film inspired him enough to give us becoming a scientist and move to Dehli to become a filmmaker.    

Anurag got his first chance in the industry as a screenwriter for Auto Narayan when the initial script by Subramaniam was not working and Anurag was given a chance to rewrite it. He then wrote the sc...

A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud.  Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once upon a time in India.

He is known to be the Redefining Contempora...

Sivakumar (born Palanichamy) is one of the most versatile actors of current Tamil cinema. He has the pride of acting in various characters, both lead and supporting for a period spanning over four decades. A perfect teetotaller and a vegetarian, Sivakumar debuted in 1965 in the SS.Rajedran starrer ‘KaakumKarangal’ by production giants AVM. He now lives in Chennai with his wife and sons 'Suriya Sivakumar' and 'Karthik Sivakumar' who are actors as well.

Though being introduced as a supporting actor, Sivakumar was able to grasp the skills of acting quite easily. His dedication to acting is well known from his notable movies like ‘KandanKarunai’ and ‘ThunivaeThozhan’. He has more classic movies to his tally that include ‘RosapooRavikkaikaari’ ,...