Tamil Awards Vikatan Awards 2022 - Cast & Crew

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a popular Indian actress and is a high-profile celebrity in India. She was born on November 1, 1973 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India to Krishnaraj, an Army Biologist and Brinda, a homemaker. She has one brother named Aditya Rai, an engineer-turned-producer, who produced her film Dil Ka Rishta in 2003. Her family shifted to Mumbai and she studied at Arya Vidya Mandir High School during her early years. She later attended Jai Hindi College and moved to DG Ruparel College in Matunga, where she scored 90% in the Higher Secondary School Certificate. During her teenage years, she trained in classical dance and music for 5-years. Initially, she planned to pursue a career in medicine, but it didn’t work out. She then took an architecture course at the Raheja College of Arts, but she decided to pursue a modeling career and so gave up on her studies.

Hiya Davey is an Indian child actress and model known for her role in The Trip (2016) as little Ananya. The Trip is a story about four friends who go on a road trip in Thailand as part of the bride's bachelorette party, but the journey turns into an emotional roller coaster. Hiya has also starred in several commercials for brands such as Colgate, Apatha, Dove, and Bio Kid. She has also walked the International National Fashion Show's runway. She has accomplished a great deal at such a young age, and we wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors and hope to see her in next major projects.

Aditi Shankar is a character in a Viruman Tamil drama directed by Muthaiah. Aditi is the youngest daughter of the director, Shankar. He has two brothers named Arjith Shankar and Aishwarya Shankar. His mother's name was Esar. Shankar is best known for his films such as Indian, Gentleman, Sivaji, Anniyan, Enthiran, 2.0, and more. Aditi co-stars with Karthi in the Viruman film as the female lead.

Eka Lakhani is a costume designer in Kollywood and Bollywood from Patiala, Punjab. She chose an exciting career designing costumes for many major films. Her costume design takes a focus on the actors’ appearance. Her costume design often lies at the heart of the stories of the actors in movies who want to show and tell the audiences how they look in the particular movie.

The woman who lit up every man’s heart during the movie Premam (2015), they were heart beats that batted in sync with the batting of her eyelashes, her smile that plastered smiles on every viewer’s face, the dance moves that surprised everybody, her husky voice, every single aspect about her during the movie made everyone, be it man or woman, sit glued to their seats. This Tamilnadu ponnu, born and brought up in Coimbatore, who played a mallu in the film ‘Premam’, who courageously appeared on screen with her pink pimples since Alphonse felt that it would be natural and also give the rest of the girls confidence about themselves, took Pallavi by surprise since she overcame her inferiority complex about her pimples as well.

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In days of 1960’s and 1970’s set designs had played an important role in film making. Not a single film would miss setting up a huge set. Take the film ‘’Sholay’’ for instance, which had designed a huge village in Ramgarh (Karnataka). Even in Mani Ratnam’s ’’Nayakan’’ or ‘’Thalapathi’’, richness in set designs could bring out some of the memorable scenes in films. Thotta Tharani’s sets for Mani Ratnam films have been always lauded and his craftsmanship in thinking and designing the sets had really changed the face of art direction in Tamil cinema. Whether he created a slums of Dharavi for Nayagan, or a chilled atmosphere sets of Kashmir for Roja, every scenes were shot in Chennai studio only.

Vikram Gaikwad is an Indian makeup artist. He has worked in several movies like including Bollywood as well as other regional cinemas. He has won the National Film Award for best makeup artist twice for the Bengali film Moner Manush in 2010, also for his work and creativity in the Marathi film Balghandharva.

Manikandan is a film actor, who was born on 29th November, 1980. He is a Tamil film actor. He has completed his graduation in visual communication. He was a member of Kala’s dance troupe and used to perform live stage shows on various parts of country. He gave Audition for movie ‘Boys’ which was directed by Shankar and was his coming- of- age film. Shankar was impressed by Manikandan’s audition and he offered him the role.

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.

Kishen Das is a Video Jockey previously employed with Fully Filmy, where he was a content creator and part of the Social Media Marketing Team. Kishen's mother is a well-known Television Actress. Kishen has been a part of various television commercials for brands like Asian Paints and Vicco.

Dhilip Subbarayan is a stunt choreographer, producer, and actor. He has worked in South Indian film industry. His main of contribution lies in Tamil film industry. After a long time of being a stunt choreographer, he made his debut in Sangu Chakkaram. He was born in Tamil Nadu. His father, Super Subbarayan also has served in the industry as a successful stunt chorographer, for many years. He showed interest in the action and fast lifestyle which is practiced. Like his father, he also dreamed of being in the industry and started working in many movies. He was first noticed in ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ in the year 2011. The movie was a full action phased based on the life of the gangster. The movie was a huge hit and received a world première at the South Asian International Film Festival in the city of New York. He had continued his working with many big and small budget movies in Tamil and Malayalam movies. The movies include Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, Arima Nambi, Puli, and the latest movie Theri. In 2013, he turned himself into a produced and produced Anjala. T

Jani Master was born on 2 July 1982 in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. He married Ayesha. He is famously known as Indian dance choreographer for Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. But however he is popularly known for his Western and Folk Style. Initially, he started his dancing career in TV shows.

Pradeep E Ragav is an Indian film editor who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. He is well known as the editor of India’s first-ever space film Tik Tik Tik, released in the year 2018. His debut as an independent editor was through the film Kathakali, lead by the veteran actor Vishal. Pradeep E Ragav is a Visual communication graduate from Dwaraka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Between 2011 and 2016, he studied film editing with renowned film editor Praveen K. L. in a variety of languages.

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.

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.

Yogi Babu is one of the famous actors in Indian films. His appearance is there in only Tamil movies. At present, he is a regular comedy actor in Tamil films. Babu was born in Chennai, Tamilnadu. His acting career started from 2009 onwards. He was famous for his outstanding movie called Maan Karate (2014); a fantasy oriented Tamil film under the direction of Thirukumaran. There are some prominent stars in this movie namely Sathish, Vamsi Krishna, Soori, Hansika Motwani and Sivakarthikeyan. Famous writer Murugadoss wrote the entire script for this movie and went on to screens under the production of Escape Artists Motion Pictures. Anirudh Ravichander gave an outstanding music for this movie. Mr. Babu was also notable for his famous film Yaamirukka Bayamey (2014), a comedy horror movie under the direction of debutant Deekay. It was under the production of Elred Kumar with casting by Anaswara Kumar, Oviya, Kreshna and Rupa Manjari.

Gautham Ramachandran is an Indian film director, writer, and screenwriter. He was born and brought up in Kerala, India. So far, Gautham Ramachandran has worked in the Mollywood entertainment industry, and his artwork has been released in Tamil and Malayalam language movies. Gautham has worked in popular movies like Gargi, a Tamil drama film starring Sai Pallavi and Kaali Venkat, which will be released in the year 2023; and Richie, an action and crime film released in the year 2017. He also worked as a second unit director on Mugamoodi, a drama and superhero film that was released in 2012. It was nominated for the SIIMA-Tamil award, Best Actor in a Negative Role award, and Best Female Debutant.

Kali Venkat hails from a rural village named Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu from where he came to Chennai to pursue his acting career. From childhood, he had a huge passion and interest for acting, He used to take part in lots of dramas hosted in his school and his locality since he was studying in the eighth standard. Realizing that his village would limit his acting career to the stage and the drama medium alone, He moves to Chennai for further opportunities.

Kamal Haasan is the most versatile actor that India had ever witnessed. His innovative performances have been acclaimed worldwide. He is known for his passion for dance forms, action, and his enthusiasm for new concepts in movies. He is one of the most unforgettable actors in India. Born in 1954, Kamal Haasan has a never ending passion for Indian Cinema. He is still acting in movies. Though he belongs to Kollywood Industry his movies are much appreciated in Bollywood and Tollywood as well.