Anjali
Magizhini Manimaaran
Deepali Noor
Lakshmi Menon
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Jangiri Madhumitha
Balaji Sakthivel
Kunal Rawal
N Subash Chandrabose
Gopi Amarnath
RK Vijay Murugan
Balaji Tharaneetharan
Anal Arasu
Leo John Paul
Gana Bala
Yugabharathi
N Lingusamy
Shobi Paulraj
Karthik Subbaraj
D Imman
Vijay
Dinesh Ravi
Ayyappan
Santhanam
Muthuraman
1. Anjali
Indian top model and Telugu and Tamil star Anjali was born in Andhara Pardesh in 1986. Acting was her passion so she started her career from short films. Small projects like short films and modeling assignments lead her to the silver screen. Director Siva Nageswara Rao recognized her talent and offered her the role of “Swapna” in Telugu Thriller “Photo” in 2006. Start of her career was from low budget and low profile Telugu films.
In 2007 a new comer writer and director Ram offered her a lead role in a Tamil movie which proved a blockbuster on Tamil and Telugu screen. Her best performance in the role of “Anandhi” awarded her with “Filmfare award for best female debut” and “South Vijay award for best debut actress”. This was the start of a long list of successful films. She has worked in more than 20 Telu...
2. Magizhini Manimaaran
Magizhini Manimaaran is an Indian playback singer, popular amongst the regional audience for her work on the soundtracks of movies like S/O Satyamurthy (2015), Veeram (2014), Kumki (2012), etc. Mostly known for her major involvement in Tamil TV shows, short films, and Kollywood movies, she has regularly been praised by the critics for her vocal depth and transitions, the two qualities which are very crucial to the efficiency of a playback singer. In 2012, Magizhini made her first notable contribution on the silver screen with the film Kumki, directed by Prabu Solomon, starring Vikram Prabhu, Lakshmi Menon, and Thambi Ramayya. Since then, we haven’t really seen much from her.
...3. Deepali Noor
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...
4. Lakshmi Menon
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...
5. Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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...
6. Jangiri Madhumitha
Madhumitha or Jangiri Madhumitha is a Tamil Serial and Film actress who was born on January 1, 1986 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She was first seen in the comedy series, Lollu Sabha on STAR Vijay. Later, she acted in a few films and television serials. She was first featured in the Tamil romantic-comedy film, Oru Kal Oru Kannadi under the direction of M. Rajesh. She was paired with actor, Santhanam and played the role of Jangiri. Her performance in this film received appreciation by the viewers and made her popular. She even got the Vikatan Award for Best Actress in Comedy Role in 2012.
She also did the romantic film, Mirattal followed by a special appearance in the romantic-comedy film, Attakathi. In 2013, she played the role of Nimmi in Kan Pesum Vaarthaigal. In the same year, she did Sonna ...
7. Balaji Sakthivel
Balaji Sakthivel is an extrusive director and writer of the Tamil film industry. He is famous for his movie Vazhakku Enn 18/9, for which he has won awards. He was born in 1964 in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. He is known for Samurai (2002), Kalloori (2007) and, Ra Ra Rajasekhar (2018). Balaji Sakthivel started his career as an assistant director under Shankar Shanmugam.
The first movie directed by him was Samurai, released in 2002, although it was not a big hit regardless of receiving firm reviews. He took a break of two years and came up with Kaadhal under Shankar Shanmugam’s production house, S Pictures Banner. Balaji Sakthivel always promotes new actors in his movies. His latest movie Yaar Ivargal has a chunk of new artists.
Many newcomers such as Bharat, Sandhya, Ajay, and Kishore made their debut and prompt appr...
8. Kunal Rawal
Kunal Rawal is a fashion designer from India who mainly designs clothes and suits for men. His mother name is Neeta Rawal, and father name is Ravi Rawal. Kunal is well-known as a fashion designer for men. He specializes in men’s fashion. Kunal Rawal has completed the course of fashion designing from LCF (London College of Fashion). He also has a specialization in merchandising. He has achieved a lot of success in his life.
In the year 2006, Kunal Rawal establishes his trademark named “D. Stress” in which he added a creative “Aged look” which make it more attractive. Kunal Rawal became successful at a very young age. He made his debut at Lakme Indian Fashion week. He is the youngest designer to do so.
Kuna...
9. N Subash Chandrabose
N Subash Chandra Bose is an Indian producer who works particularly in Tamil cinema. He has a produced a lot of films and has also won several Filmfare, national and south Indian international movie awards. Subash who is currently residing in Tamil Nadu started a production house along with his brother N Lingusamy in 2006 titled Thirupathi brothers. It is a production company under motion pictures and has its headquarters located in Tamil Nadu, India. Between the two brothers, Subash is a producer and Lingusamy is the director. Subash started his career in the industry under this production house with the film Deepawali. Deepawali is a romantic movie starring Jayaram and Bhavana in lead roles. Released on 9th February 2007 and directed by Ezhil; the film is a tragic love story about a girl who forgets her boyfriend after post-traumatic ...
10. Gopi Amarnath
Cinematographers are those who work hard behind the cameras without having expectations for getting credited for their work. Gopi Amarnath, born in Vandavasi, Tamil Nadu, India is also a Cinematographer, and as of now, he has worked in eleven Tamil language films. He is active in the Tamil industry since 2011. His first movie as a cinematographer was Potta Potti which released in the year 2011. The film was of comedy type and the theme revolved around sports. The director Yuvaraj Dhayalan was making his entry into the industry through this movie, and so he gave an opportunity to new actors and cinematographers.
The film had good responses from the audience after its release in August. In the year 2012, he worked in the movie ‘Malaai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey’, a Tamil romantic movie starring ‘Aa...
11. RK Vijay Murugan
R K Vijaimurugan, otherwise called R.K. Vijaimurugan, or Vijay Murugan, is an actor and director from India. R. K. Vijaimurugan was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Up until this point R. K. Vijaimurugan has worked in the Kollywood media outlet and his fine art has been delivered in Tamil language motion pictures. His nationality is Indian, his religion is Hinduism, and his food diet is non-vegetarian. RKVijay Murugan is known for Naane Varuven, released in 2021, Sangathalaivan, released in 2020, and Charlie Chaplin 2, released in 2019. R. K. Vijaimurugan has also been awarded the Vijay Award for Best Art Director in the year 2012 for the film Aravaan.
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12. Balaji Tharaneetharan
Balaji Tharaneetharan is a Chennai boy and started his career in cinema by making short films, editing corporate films and documentaries and also worked as a dialogue writer before becoming a full -time director. He believes that scripting is the key to making a film. Balaji has gained his inspiration from film makers like Mahendhren, Balu Mahendra, Mani Ratnam and Bharathiraja but Bhagyaraj, and his film “Antha Ezhu Naatkal” is his all-time favourite. Balaji is one of the very talented directors from the Tamil film industry who proved himself in his first directorial debut with his comedy film “ Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom”. The movie was released on 30 November 2012 all over the state featuring one of the most talented and genuine actors in Kollywood industry, Vijay Sethupathi.
13. Anal Arasu
Anal Arasu is a heat amidst the stunt coordinators in the cine industry. He is known to us as the fight master or the action master who performs various stunts in the movies of Indian languages like Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and much more. This simple man was born in Chennai and has dedicated his entire life, literally and figuratively in performing stunts as a coordinator in the movies. His initial times were quite hard. He stepped in as an extra fighter and then became assistant to stunt masters like Kanal Kannan, Stun Shiva, and Peter Hein. His source of inspiration to become a stunt master is his father C.M. Arasu, who has also performed in numerous movies in the 1980s. He made his debut in the film “Chathrapathy.’ He then worked with Prabhu Deva for the action films like Vedi (2011) and Rowdy Rathore (2012).
He yiel...
14. Leo John Paul
Leo John Paul is a film technician in the field of editing and has over a decade of experience. This film editor of Tamil Film industry has earlier been associated with the making of the “Kolaveri-D song” as a video editor. Since then he has never looked back and has grabbed the attention of cinemagoers of editing many Kollywood movies one after another. Now, he is an independent film editor and has worked in every CV Kumar’s film productions till date.
After getting a visual communication degree, the editor was involved in making of short films and documentaries. In the year 2007, he worked as spot editor in Gautam Menon’s movie ‘Vaaranam Aayiram ‘ and had got to learn editing aspect by working with a high-caliber editorAnthony Gonsalvez. Although Leo John was interested in every aspect of f...
15. Gana Bala
Gana Bala, a famous singer and lyricist of Kollywood, was born as Bala Murugan, but he adopted the name Gana Bala himself as a stage name. Sometimes, he is also known as Anathai Bala, 'Gana Kuyil King' Bala. He was born to V. S. Mani and M. Punniyam. Bala studied law at Presidency College in Chennai after studying Botany. After being graduated, his chance at fame began when he participated in a reality TV show called Gana Kuyil Pattu. The show was aired on Kalaignar TV, and he won it. In the singing field, he has specific expertise in the Gaana genre in the Tamil industry. In fact, he is given a lot of credit for reviving the genre back in the industry. He gained a lot of success and fame after Aadi Pona Aavani, and Nadukadalula Kappala came out as a part of the soundtrack of Attakathi. He also rece...
16. Yugabharathi
Yugabharathi is an Indian lyricist and poet. He specializes in writing Tamil poems and Tamil songs. He was born in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu. Yugabharathi’s real name is Prem Kumar, but he changed it to Yugabharathi as it was his pen name for his poems. Yugabharathi completed his Matriculation from Maxwell Matriculation Higher Secondary School. He also has a Diploma in Engineering from Government Polytechnic College. He started his career as a poet in early 90’s and wrote poems for various Tamil magazines. He changed his name to Yugabharathi to honor his idol Subramanya Bharathi. He started his career as a lyricist with the movie Aanandham. He wrote lyrics for Pallankuzhiyin in the movie. After that, he wrote lyrics for many songs. His first work as a successful lyricist came out in t...
17. N Lingusamy
Lingusamy is the well known Indian film director, who is popular for his family scripts. He was born on November 14, 1967. Lakshmipuram in Tamilnadu is Lingusamy’s native. He worked as the assistant to “A Venkatesh” and “Vikraman.” His career as a director started in the year 2001, through the “Mammootty” starrer, “Anandham.” His first movie got him the Best Film Award at Filmfare by Cinema Express. He got consecutive success through “R Madhavan” starrer, “Run” and Vishal Reddy flick “Sandakozhi.” Lingusamy also owns a production house along with his brother Subash Chandra Bose, called, “Thirrupathi Brothers.” He has produced nearly 16 films with his production house. “Deepavali” was the first m...
18. Shobi Paulraj
He is an ace choreographer in the Tollywood industry. Founder of IBO Dance Studio, he has also choreographed in Bollywood movie, Holiday, starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha.
He made Tamil superstars like Kamal Haasan, Ajith, Vijay groove to his tunes in movies like Uttama Villain, Mankatha, and Thupakki; and now, after a break, choreographer Shobi Paulraj is returning to Mollywood.
The veteran dance master is all set to make Unni Mukundan dance to his tunes in his upcoming flick 'Style'. Shobi will be helping the young actor groove to a romantic number crooned by singer Karthik. Currently, he is the Director of Cine and TV Dance Director’s Association.
...19. Karthik Subbaraj
Karthik Subbaraj is a Tamil director. He lives in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Karthik has completed his matriculation and higher education from SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Madurai. He was a very discipline student during his school days with excellent academic records. Karthik has also attended Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai-15 to complete his engineering degree. He has specialised in mechatronics. He started his career with Infosys Bangalore working as a software engineer. His tenure of working in Infosys was five years out of which he has spent two years in the US. While he was working in Bangalore, his interest in film making developed. During weekends, he used to make short films. He attended a one day workshop called as Film Camp of Sanjay Nambiar. In this workshop, he learned the basics ...
20. D Imman
Immanuel Vasanth Dinakaran, acknowledged as D. Imman, is an Indian big screen musician and songster mainly for Tollywood. Imman was in Chennai in Sothern parts of India on 24 January 1983. He did his schooling Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai and completed his graduation in Pachaiyappa's College. He did his Master's from Madras University. Immanuel got married on 24th April 2008 to Monica Richard, and the couple is blessed with two adorable daughters.
...21. Vijay
As they always say, "it runs in the blood", the same has been proven in Vijay Joseph's life. His dad is a very famous Tamil movie director, S. A. Chandrasekhar. Vijay's mother is a famous playback singer. He began his acting journey as a child artist in a film called "Vetri". He acted in many movies as a child artist supporting veteran heroes like Vijayakanth and Ajith Kumar. His career started as a leading hero with the movie, "Naalaiya Theerpu", in 1992. He won the "Cinema Express Award for New Face" for this movie.
He then acted in many movies in the Tamil field, which has gained mixed responses from the audience and critics alike. During 2003, he signed a film by name of ‘Thirumalai’, where his co-star was Jyothika. This movie had shown him in a di...
22. Dinesh Ravi
Dinesh Ravi is popularly known as Attakathi Dinesh is an actor who hailed from Chennai. He has a passion in cinema from his early age. He appeared in small roles in E, starred by Jiiva, Aadukalam by Dhanush and Mouna Guru by Arulnithi. He made is heroic debut through Attakatthi, which yield him a fame. After the success of the film, he appeared in cameo roles in Pannaiyaarum Padminiyum, starred by Vijay Sethupathi and Ethir Neechal by Sivakarthikeyan.
He performed as a blind person in Cuckoo, which made him to get lots of appreciation from the critics. Many critics positively appreciated him and also compared him with Kamal Haasan. Kamal perfectly performed as a visually challenged person in Raja Parvai, which gave him huge applause from the audience and the critics. After the hit of cuckoo, he got Thirudan Police, which is a c...
23. Ayyappan
Ayyapan is well known as a Director. He is also actor in Kannada films, and Tamil serials. He has acted in Kana Kanum Kalangal, Meera and other serials. He plays the role of Mohan in Thendral. He has been a Director with VistaraH Trans Media Pvt Ltd from October 2012 for more than 2 years. He had also been Director Actor for Shankar Productions from March 2011 to December 2012. He has directed Varadanayaka. He has acted in Gharshane as a villain. "I play a corrupt police officer in Gharshane. I have done guest appearances in the past, but this is the first time that I will do a full-fledged role," says Ayyappan, who was happy to learn the nuances of acting from the film's director Dayal Padmanabhan. "As a director, I have taught others to act. In this film, I was pl...
24. Santhanam