Tamil Awards Vikatan Awards 2015 - Cast & Crew

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 song “Aye Mr Minor” from Kaaviya Thalaivan, starring Siddharth and Vedika gained her immediate fame. With her second song, she was nominated for theprestigious Big Music Awards: Tamil 2015. OK Kanmani is one of her recent albums. She has been singing since the age of six. She presented her first stage show when she was only eight.

With a keen interest in music, she started learning Hindustani Classical music fromthe age of ten . Coming to her formal education,...

Being a part of the film fraternity is nothing short of a dream but very few people get a chance to live that life. Prashanti Tipimeni is one of them. A Hyderabad based girl who was busy handling her father’s business would have never thought of getting a break in the Tamil Film industry as a costume designer. It all started in 2010 for her when she was asked to design costumes for the cast of movie ‘Vedam.’ Vedam was the debut film of Prasad Divineni and Shobu Yarlagadda as producers, and they approached Prashanti to take this responsibility for their debut flick. Prashanti had always dreamt of this, and she didn’t miss a single second to accept this offer, and this was just a start for her.

She designed the costumes for actors like Manoj Manchu, Allu Arjun and Anushka Shetty in Vedam. In no time she be...

Rajamouli, the famous director known for his astonishing and astounding work in the movie Bahubali. He knew his wife Rama for a long time since Rama was music manager for M. M. Keeravani’s (Rajamouli’s cousin) wife Sreevalli’s sister. Rama was already wedded when the couple first met, and she even had a kid. Sometime around the year 2000, Rama and her then-spouse filed for a split-up, which led to an unpleasant conclusion but appreciatively left her as the solitary guardian of her lad. During this rough period of her life, Rajamouli remained by her side. During the passage of time, he realized that the circumstances were developing positively for him to make an offer to Rama. S.S. Rajamouli lastly proposed to Rama around 2001.

The Rama Rajamouli wedding was a simple court matrimonial the same year, which was o...

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...

Deepa Sannidhi’s actual name is Rahasya. Born in the year 1990 in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, she is Kannada actress. Her father, a coffee estate owner and mother a homemaker. She was in her first year of Architecture, when she was offered a role in the movie. She dropped out of college to pursue her interests in acting. The year was 2011.

Saarathi was the debut movie of Sannidhi. This movie is a romantic action starring Darshan. She has played the role of Rukmini in this movie, which received good reviews and was a blockbuster. Her next movie was Paramathma, directed by Yogaraj Bhat. She is cast opposite Puneeth Rajkumar where she plays the role of Deepa aka Thithi Vade. This movie too did very well in the box-office. 2012, saw Deepa in Jaanu, where she is cast opposite Yash. Sakkare saw her in the year 2013 opposite Ganesh...

Asha Sarath, famous for her role in 'Kumkumapoovu', is a Malayalam serial actress hails from Perumbavoor, Ernakulam. She was born in Perumbavoor as a daughter of famous classical dancer Smt. Kalamandalam Sumathy. At a very young age, Asha was bought into the field of classical dance by her parents. She got trained in all forms of classical dance including: Mohiniyattam, Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam as well. In college days, Asha always used to get prizes for her performances on classical dance. In 1992, she got first prize in All India Dance Fete held in Benares. She is married to Sarath a business entrepreneur in Dubai.

Asha Sarath acted in Tele-Serial 'Nizhalum Nilavum Parayunnathu' and bagged Kerala State Television Award for second best actress. She came to fame-dome on her role with &#...

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...

Ramya Krishnan is a South Indian movie and TV actress who has acted in more than 200 films. She has acted in the 5 big languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. She is a pro in the likes of classic dances, Bharathanatiyam and Kuchipudi, and has performed worldwide as well. She was born in Chennai to Telugu parents, who speak fluent Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She is the niece of Cho Ramasamy, an actor and a leading politician. She is married to Krishna Vemsi, a Telugu director, and has a son named Ritwik.

Ramya Krishnan started to act in movies in a lead role when she was only 13. She starred opposite Y. G. Mahendran in ‘Vellai Manasu’. Since then, Ramya Krishnan started acting her best in every character possible. Her pinnacle was the Rajnikanth starrer, ‘Padaiyappa’, ...

Srinu Nalla is a Telugu Makeup Artist whose name is known to many not only inside India but also outside India. Srinu’s immaculate talent as a makeup artist is evident from the fact that he has been the makeup artist for one of India’s highest-grossing films both in India and worldwide, and the movie then went on to win large numbers of awards. Srinu Nalla is popularly known for his makeup artists skills in the movie “Bãhubali 2: The Conclusion” released in 2017, “Eega” released in 2012, “Rise Roar Revolt” released in 2022, “Sitaramaraju” released in 1999. Srinu Nalla won the Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards in the category of Best Makeup Artist for his makeup artist skills in the record-breaking movie “Bãhubali 2: The Conclusion” in 2018.

Other p...

Larnell Stovall Jr. was born on 22nd October 1976 in the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Since childhood, Larnell was an ardent “Falcons” fan and supported them to a big win in NFL 2017.

Larnell Stovall moved to Los Angeles, California in February 2001 to pursue his career in the movie industry. For the former world and international champion with expertise in fighting, weapons, and forms (kata), the industry landed him a job as an “Action choreographer”.

Larnell Stovall describes his professional during an interview with an Indian newspaper as below. He points out that the job of an action choreographer is not just to choreograph the action. But, the action choreographer should have known about the shot composition and the types of the lens being used during the action sequence.

He further ...

Anand Annamalai is a screenwriter working in the Tamil film fraternity. He is best known for the movie, ‘Kuttrame Thandanai’ and 'Kaaka Muttai.' 'Kuttrame Thandanai’ was released in 2016. It is a Tamil language neo-noir psychological crime thriller.

Annamalai has done a commendable job in co-writing this movie with director M. Manikandan. The plot of 'Kuttrame Thandanai’ revolves around a man who is slowly losing his eyes because of tunnel vision but does not have the money to fix his eyes.

When he witnesses the murder of a young woman, he is approached by the suspects, offering him large sums of hush money to not reveal their identities. He inadvertently gets stuck in a fix between the two parties. The dialogues are brilliantly well-written and the critics received them well.

J Vignesh is an Indian child artist who worked in the Tamil industry. He was born on 2nd November 2004 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Vignesh is famous for his work in the film Kaaka Muttai which was very liked by the audience. Kaaka Muttai released on 5th June 2015 in which he played the role. He is currently working on his upcoming movies in which he will be playing the role of a child artist.

Sai Rajkumar is an Indian actor and film director. He works in the Tamil film industry. He is known for Kuttram Kadithal (2015), Rajavukku Check (2020). Sai Rajkumar directed Rajavukku Check, starring Cheran, and Srushti Dange in the lead. It was an action thriller movie. It got mixed reviews from the audience. Bramma G directed Kuttram Kadithal (2015), starring Radhika Prasidhha, Ajay.

It is a drama movie, a story of twenty- four of a young female teacher, who married against the wish of her family. He tries to start a new life with his beloved engineer. A teacher gets into trouble, after which she faces a crisis of faith. It was average at the box office. It was a national winning film.

R Ravikumar is an upcoming Indian director known for his Tamil sci-fi outing Indru Netru Naalai. He was born on 13th May. He is a Tirupur native. Ravikumar was not fond of watching movies. However, he confessed that he only considered cinema as a career option when his Dubai-based friend gifted him a rudimental video camera. As he was unaware of its configurations and controls, he toyed with the equipment by exploring each feature of the device. However, he quickly learned to operate a rudimentary camera and started making videos in 2004. For six years, he had 5-6 short clips to his name.

Ravikumar confessed that his attempts were sloppy but also emphasized the need for a rough patch which helps everyone to understand problems. But, Ravikumar got his chance when his shor...

Kishore TE was born on 24th March 1978 in Valavanur, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India and died on 6th March 2015 at the age of 36 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He was an Indian film editor and worked in Telugu, Kannada and Tamil films. He received the National Film Award for Best Editing for the movie Adukalam (2011). As an assistant editor, he joined two film editors named B. Lenin and V.T. Vijayan and worked in more than 70 Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. While editing Vettrimaran film, he suddenly swooned and was rushed to the hospital.

He was diagnosed with a blood clot. After reaching the hospital, he was undergone surgery but he never regained his consciousness, and he died. He got 3 awards for best editing and 1 nomination. He was Awarded in various award functions t...

Baba Bhaskar is a popular Indian movie director as well as a Choreographer, who mainly works in the South Indian movie industry. He mostly features in Tamil movies, but he also works in other language industries such as Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu films as well. He started his career with the movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam, which is a Telugu movie as a Choreographer. Later, Baba worked in the Tamil film Kedi which got him great recognition. Presently, he is taking part in one of the famous TV reality show Bigg Boss Telugu Season 3, which is hosted by Akkineni Nagarjuna.

Sabu Cyril was born on January 27th in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.

He is a production designer in the Indian movie industry. Earlier, production designers were called as art directors.

He resides in Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai.

He was brought up in Kerala itself. He did his schooling from the same place and then went to Chennai to do his graduation in the Government College of Fine Arts, which was earlier known as Government School of Arts and Crafts. He did his Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from 1980 to 1985.

He worked part time as a graphic designer for names like Taj Hotels Group, Madura Coats and Welcome Hotels, in the period 1982 to 1988.

His career in art direction began in the year 1988. Sabu has worked in commercial films in the Hindi, Tamil, ...

Miracle Michael is one of the finest stunt directors in the Indian film industry. He has worked predominantly in the Tamil industry throughout his career. He is popularly known for his work as a stunt coordinator, stunt master, and action director in movies like Echcharikkai Idhu Manidhargal Nadamaadum Idam (2018), Kurangu Bommai (2017), Ezra (2017), Boologam (2015), Peraanmai (2009), E (2006), and more.

In 2018, Michael had performed stunts in Tik Tik Tik, a science fiction thriller movie. It is India’s first space film directed by Shakti Soundar Rajan. From choreographing zero-gravity scenes to doing stunts on par with Hollywood standards, he is fantastic at his work. He has also received The Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Co-ordinator for Peraanmai.

Srinivas Mohan is an India based visual effect designer and supervisor. He has worked in the almost various type of film industry whether it is Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada or Malayalam. He is the leader in the field of visual effects and has been hired by some of the highest budget film productions houses across the country. Born as Vadlamudi Srinivas Murali Mohan to a Telugu family, he was raised and brought up in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. After completing his schooling and graduation, he started working as a software programmer. He saw a colleague of his working on an animated logo, and it inspired him to work on it. From there his animation career started, and he began working on advertisement and television projects which finally landed him in films. He says that it took him ten years to change his ...

Anand Kumaresan is a Tamil screenwriter, story writer, and film director. His debut feature film, Vasanthakumaran, was shelved due to a fall out between the lead actor, Vijay Sethupathi and RK Suresh, the producer of the film under Studio 9 production house. Later, when the two have settled their dilemma, Anand thought that they could finally restart Vasanthakumaran.

However, he was not informed that instead of resuming his film, Vijay and RK had started the film, Dharmadurai. Anand also penned and directed the Tamil short film, Colour White, with Shubash Vetrri, in the lead role. In 2015, he, along with Anand Annamalai, won the Vikatan Award for Best Dialogues for their outstanding work in the very successful Tamil comedy-drama film, Kaaka Muttai.

M Manikandan was born in a small town named Usilampatti in Madurai District, Tamil Nadu in India. He is a screenwriter, cinematographer and film director. His career began in Tamil Film Industry as an assistant cinematographer. He was born in a police family. Due to his father’s transfer, he (did his schooling in different towns). He graduated with a diploma degree in automobile engineering. He was fond of photography, and he worked as a wedding photographer. He was a different personality, and (he also did odd jobs such as) created identity cards for college and school children. Later he confessed that he did these jobs to earn money to study a course at Mindscreen Film Institute in digital photography. The film institute was run by Rajiv Menon, popular director, and cinematographer.

Manikandan started w...

Ameen Rehman is the child off well-known Indian industry singer A.R. Rehman, who is a double Oscar winner. He is the young singer in the Indian film industry. He has sung a group song “Nana” from the movie "Couple's Retreat.” His mother’s name is Saira Banu, and he was born in 2002. Now he is 12 years old.

He has two siblings named - Khatija and Rahima. “Khatija”, who is a sibling of A.R. Rameen has also worked as a singer for song "Pudhiya Manidha" from the movie Enthiran. -Rashid Rehman is his uncle, and younger sister of Rehman-Fathima is his aunt. Rameen’s father is very caring, and he wants him to concentrate on study for the time being, although a lot of film producers are expecting Ameen to act.

He has also sung in Telugu movie of film producer Mani Rat...

Vetrimaaran is an Indian director and screenwriter in Tamil Film Industry. Born in Cuddalore, Vetrimaaran is from Ranipet, Vellore District, Tamilnadu. He was born to Dr. V. Chitravel who was a veterinary scientist and Megala Chitravel who was a well known Novelist. Vetrimaaran studied till his tenth grade in Ranipet. Later in 1994 he moved to Chennai to pursue English Literature from Loyola College. Vetrimaaran discontinued his Master's degree and showed interest in making a career in the film industry. The Loyola department of visual communications offered him an elective course known as Television presentation. As Vetrimaaran completed this course, he started developing an interest in filmmaking. Vetrimaaran started his career as an assistant director to Balu Mahendra for Kadai Neram for Sun TV.

Vairamuthu is a very famous Tamil writer, poet, and lyricist. His full name is Vairamuthu Ramasamy. He was born on 13th July 1953. He was born in a middle-class family to Ramasamythevar and Angammal in Mettur. His family moved to Vadugapatti, Theni in Tamil Nadu when he was four years old. He is famous by the pen name Kaviyarasu or Kaviperarasu. He got married to Ponmani Vairamuthu and had two children, Madhan Karky Vairamuthu, and Kabilan Vairamuthu. He got inspiration from the Tamil and Rationalist movements in the 1960s that enthused him to pursue a career as a writer. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. As a speaker and a poet, he was highly praised as the best in his college.

His first publication was an initial anthology Vaigara...

Jeethu Joseph is a Malayalam film screenwriter and director. He was born on 10th November 1972 in a politically based family where his father was an MLA of’ Muvattupuzha’. He always wanted to be in entertainment, but his father forced him to become an engineer. He later joined Nirmala College in Muvattupuzha to study economics. Jeethu began his career under the director ‘Jayaraj’ as an assistant. He worked under him for the Malayalam film ‘Bheebhatsam’.

Later he individually started directing a film but eventually it did not work out, and he was back on the starting line. In the meantime he urbanized single line plot of ‘Detective’ but he couldn’t find any producer, so his mother sponsored him with th...

P C Sreeram is a well-renowned Cinematographer in the Indian Film Industry. He was born on 26 January 1956 in the then Madras, India. He is the third child of the family as he had two elder sisters. He has interest towards film industry since his childhood. He studied at the Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School at Mylapore in Chennai.

He had no interest in studies and was an average student. He somehow managed to pass the examinations. His interest always lied in Fine Arts. He grew an interest in photography and to furnish it more, he joined The Madras Film Institute to gain an expertise in cinematography.

He had associations with most of the present generation stars like ‘Kamal Haasan’, ‘R C Sakthi’, ‘Santhana Bharathi’, ‘Radha Ravi’, and ‘C Ru...

Karunakaran is an Indian movie actor and writer who has worked in Tamil film Industry. He has appeared in various roles. He debuted in the cinema industry in 2012 with Kalakalappu as Kumar. He is known for Soodhu Kavvum (played the role of Arumai Pragasam) which got released in 2013. Other films credited to him are Jigarthanda and Yaamirukka Bayamey. He lived and grew up in New Delhi, India. His father was a RAW agent. After residing in Delhi, he moved to Trichy with his family. He met Nalan Kumarasamy, a friend, who is a short filmmaker. He did his schooling from Sri Akilandeswari Vidyalaya Tiruchirappalli. He did his graduation from Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology& Research Academy (SASTRA) University in chemical engineering.

After the studies had been complete...

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...

Born on September 10, 1980, Jayam Ravi’s original name is Ravi Mohan. He made his debut in the Tamil film “Jayam”. He got the prefix “Jayam” since it was his first film. Most of his films are directed by his brother Raja. Some of the films this duo worked together are “Jayam”, M Kumaran-Son of Mahalakshmi”, “Santhosh Subramaniam” “Mazhai” “Thillalangadi” etc. 

Jayam Ravi entered the Tamil film industry during the year 2003. A fact not known to many is that Ravi made his debut as a child artiste in a Telugu film. This film was under the banner of...

Sathyaraj is one of the greatest actors of Tamil film industry. He has good comic sense, good height, and good performance, and is still active in the industry. Rangaraj is the real name of Sathyaraj. Born on October 3, 1954 Sathyaraj forayed into the Tamil film industry as a villain. He depicted the suave villain perfectly and he was accepted by the audience. His dialogue Thagudu Thagudu from the film Kaaki Chattai is still famous now. In fact, it is no exaggeration to tell that he gave a complete transformation to the notion we have about villain. His oratory adeptness in villainous roles is indeed exemplary. 

Sathyaraj has worked in around 200 flicks. He also worked in Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi film...

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...

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