Tamil Tv Serial Mahabharatham - Sun TV - Cast & Crew

Pavithra Janani, also known as Pavi, was born on 4 December 1992 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She is an actress and a model working in the Tamil film and serial Industry. Pavi did her schooling in Chennai. She completed her graduation and post-graduation from Alpha Arts & Science College, University of Madras, Chennai. Her father’s name is Ganesh. She likes cooking, dancing and singing. Pavi started her acting career with minor roles in the TV series: Office (2013) aired on Star Vijay, Saravanan Meenatchi Seasons 2 and 3 (2013) and Season 1 of Raja Rani (2017). She impressed the audience with her roles and got recognition from directors.

Archana Gaikwad is an Indian film and TV actress who has worked predominately in the Kannadian film industry. In the year 2013, Archana started her career as an actress from the TV show Mahabharatam. It streamed on the television from 2013, to 2016 in the Sun TV channel. It had 150 plus episodes and had received a lot of love from the audience. Then in the year 2018, she was in the cast of the crime-thriller film Uddishya. It was released on 31st August 2018 and was directed by Heman.

Minnal Deepa is an Indian TV actress who was born on 20th January 1985. She was born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in the Hindu family. Her hobbies are entertaining. She is one of the prominent actresses of the Tamil TV industry. Apart from being the TV actress, she is also the movie actress. Talking about her love life, she is married to Ramesh. She made her debut in the film industry from the Tamil film ‘Maayi,’ which released on 21st August 2000.

Aishwarya Prabhakar is also called as Aishwarya, was born in Chennai Tamilnadu. She currently resides in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Aishwarya is an Indian television anchor and actress as well. She made her first debut ever in Chandralekha, a Tamil serial. Aishwarya is also well known for various shows on Sun TV.

Pavitra Lokesh is an Indian television and movie actress who was born in 1979. She appears primarily in Telugu and Kannada films playing supporting roles. Pavitra Lokesh was born in Mysore. After securing an 80 percent score in the matriculation examination, she went on to pursue her bachelor's degree in commerce in Mysore SBRR Mahajana First Grade College.

Shamili Sukumar is an Indian Model and Actress who works in Tamil Television and Film Industry. She was Born on 10 May 1991 and Brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She did her schoolings in Chennai and completed B.Sc. ISM at Madras University. She began her job at 20 years of age and made her acting in the Tamil Television Serial Thendral with Shruthi Raj on Sun TV. She moreover appeared in remarkable Tamil TV serials Includes Uthiripookkal, Saravanan Meenatchi, Pasamalar, Bhairavi Aavigalukku Priyamanaval, Valli and Vani Rani. She made film debut with Tamil Movie Jeeva (2014) and played in GV Prakash's Pencil (2016).

Sharanya Turadi Sundaraj is an Indian actress, who was born on October 22nd, 1987 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has done a post-graduation (M.A. Broadcast Communication) from MOP Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai. Sharanya Turadi is a News Personality and Actress, who mainly works in the Tamil movie and TV industry. She did anchor for Raj TV, Kalaignar TV, Puthiya Thalaimurai, Zee Tamil, and News 18. Sharanya started her acting career with the Tamil movie Mahabharatham alongside Vallab, which was directed Sasikumar and produced by Sunil Mehta.

She is an Indian Film and Television Actress, born on 5 November, 1975, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in India. She is popularly known as Yuvasri and Uvesri Janardhanan, her full name is Yuvasree.She has done her higher school education from Rosary Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Chennai. She was a Stage-play Artist, later became an Actress. Her debut movie was a Tamil movie named Marupakkam opposite Sivakumar and produced by Indira Parthasarathy and directed by K.S. Sethu Madhavan in 1991. She worked with many famous Tamil actors namely Vicky Krish, Jegathish, Feroz Khan, Y.G. Mahendra, and Prabhu. She has worked predominantly in Tamil Television Industry and gave great appearance in famous movies like Vandicholai Chinraasu, Pon Vilangu, Airport, and Moondravadhu Kann.

Nisha Krishan is an Indian television film actress. She has appeared in some Tamil films as well as a few serials. She made her breakthrough by playing the role of Draupadi in a TV series called Mahabharatam. She has hosted some shows such as Surya Vanakkam on Sun TV. Nisha has also appeared in some feature films as supporting actors. She acted in the movie Ivan Veramathiri which was released in the year 2013 and Naan Sigappu Manithan which was released in the year 2014.

Kavitha Gowda is a newbie in Sandalwood Industry. She is popular for her role in the Kannada serial Lakshmi Baramma that is aired on ETV Kannada since 2013. She plays the interesting dual lead role of Lakshmi aka Lachi, who escapes from her ever-torturing family and faces various struggles in her life and how she overcomes all of it and then in the later part portrays herself as Chinnu.

Roopika is a South Indian actress. Her debut film was the Kannada flick Cheluvina Chilipilli. The director who gave her this break was S. Narayan. It was a romance film in which she starred against Pankaj, who was her love interest. The movie came to the commercial market in 2009. Even though it has been about eight years in the industry, Roopika is yet to find a strong foothold for herself in Sandalwood.

Bhavya Kala is a Tamil actress, best known for her appearances in the Television Series ‘Thendral’. She has been widely acclaimed for her sting bee like portrayal of Sudha, who quite frequently quarrels with her mother-in-law. Started in December 2007, the series ‘Thendral’ has been credited with the longest running Tamil TV series, completing over 1000 episodes by November 2013. She shares a bitter relationship with her mother-in-law and is being praised for her performance all over.

Pooja Lokesh is a popular and famous, young, upcoming, and talented Indian actress who mostly works in Tamil television. Pooja Lokesh is also dubbed and acts as a dubbing artist for the lead roles in the national serials, which are dubbed in Tamil for airing in the Tamil entertainment television channels. Born to popular Kannada cine star Late Lokesh, Pooja Lokesh harbored a dream of becoming an actress and a famous cine personality since her childhood. The opportunity came knocking at her door during her college days. One of the leading television production companies noticed her and called for an audition for their upcoming projects. Pooja Lokesh gladly accepted this opportunity and decided to give it a try. His brother also works in films. Pooja Lokesh has had a successful stint in the Kannada film and television industry as an item song dancer in many films and a lead serial actress. But, it was by acting in Tamil television serials and films she gained popularity. Initially, Pooja Lokesh was criticized for being overweight, but later she lost oodles of weight to attain a glamorous figure by following a strict diet and exercise regime. Pooja Lokesh became famous by acting in the hit and popular family drama Tamil serial Selvi which aired on Sun TV in 2006. The serial became immensely popular and dubbed Telugu, where Pooja Lokesh dubbed for her character in Telugu. After that, she was seen acting in many Tamil serials and character roles in few Tamil movies. Pooja Lokesh also appeared as a guest artist in Sun TV’s celebrity chat show Nathchathiram. Pooja also played the role of the main antagonist in another Sun TV’s popular Tamil serial Kungumam. Presently she is seen acting in Sun TV’s Mahabharatham essaying the role of Ambai- the eldest Kashi Princess.

Pavithra Lokesh is a popular South Indian Actress born on 19th February. She is the daughter of yesteryear actor Mysore Lokesh, who has acted in about 300 Kannada movies. She also has a brother named Adi Lokesh who has acted in several Kannada movies. She got married in 2008 to Suchendra Prasad.

Neelima is a decently prestigious Tamil Actress. Neelima began her acting career in “Oru Pennin Kathai” when she was in school. In her late spring excursions, she likewise did gimmick movies like Thevar Magan, Virumbugiren and Pandavar Bhoomi. When she was 15 she performed the lead part in “Acham Madam Naanam”.

Devi Priya made her debut appearance in the series Sakthi in which she worked with Bhanu Priya. She shot to fame with this serial, and she got many offers pouring in her way. She is best known for her appearance in the serial ‘Bharathiraja,’ in which she plays the character of a cop. She felt quite excited about playing the role of a cop. Since her childhood, she had wanted to become a cop, as she says this role has fulfilled her desire to live the life of a cop.

Swarupu also known as Karthik Shankar is an actor who works in the Tamil film industry. He belongs to Tamil Nadu, India. He also had an uncle named AG Baby, who was a famous actor, director, scriptwriter worked in the Malayalam film industry. Swarupu also received his graduation degree in acting at Irish film institute. He also received a special appreciation award at the Dublin International Film and Music Festival. He also worked in several films, such as “Man of the Match,” which focuses on the life of a Christian priest who decided to contribute to raising two orphan children named Raju and Jimmy on his own.

Kannan is an Indian film actor. He worked for the Tamil film industry. He is a very talented actor and worked with many popular South Indian celebrities. Kannan worked as an actor in the movie Karagattakkari, which is a drama movie. Bharathi Kannan served as the director of the movie, which hit the theatres on January 2005. The film has some famous cast as Kannan and Vilasini. Ilayaraja worked as music director, Mu. Metha worked as a lyricist in the movie and Lavanya was the playback singer. 

Gururaj Jaggesh is an Indian actor, producer, and writer based in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He was born in 1987 and is predominantly associated with the Kannada film industry. He got married to Katie Pyle in 2015 and has a son named Arjun. Gururaj made his debut as a film story writer for a film called Makeup which was released in 2002. It was directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and it was about a police officer named Jaggesh, who disguises himself as an old woman, but during his investigation, he himself falls in love with a woman.

Sajan Prasad is an Indian actor who has worked in the Tamil film industry. Sajan started working as a child actor in the industry. In the year 2013, Sajan made his debut in the popular TV show Mahabharatham. It got streamed from 2013-2016. Sajan was seen playing the role of the young Krishna in the show.

Vetri Velan also is known as Vetrivel, is a Tamil film and TV actor. He was born on 9 April 1986 at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu. Vetri received his primary education from Mount Saint Joseph Academy School, Flourtown. He later went to Loyola College in Chennai where Velan did M.Sc. in Bio-Technology. He started his acting career in movies through Tamil cinema. His first film was Nenjai Thodu, directed by Rajkannan and produced by M. Sivakumaran. Vetri got chance to work with Neelima Rani, Vani Bhojan, Nisha Krishnan, Santhoshi, Nithya Das, and Sindhu Shyam. His performance got appreciated in a series called Mahabharatham.

Pasanga Sivakumar is a supporting actor in Tamil movies. To tell about the actor’s profile, one can briefly update with movies like ‘Thiruttu Rail'’, "Thirappuvizha", and ‘’ Kokkirakulam".  He also appeared on a cookery TV show titled "Sakthi Masala Sema Taste" which was telecast on Zee Tamil TV.

Suresh Krissna is a South Indian movie director; he has directed many Tamil, Telugu movies and has also worked in Bollywood. Suresh Krissna was born on 29th June 1959 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is a director with a total number of 36 movies. In 1989 he won the Nandi Award for Best Director for his movie Prema. Suresh Krissna was born in Mumbai and is the son of R. Krishan and K. Sharada.

O.A.K. Sundar is a Tamil film actor and the son of the late villain, O.A.K. Thevar. He is the second husband of actress, Anju Prabhakar, of Rukmini fame. In 2004, he essayed the role of Kottaisamy in Kamal Haasan’s action drama film, Virumaandi. In the same year, he played as Jayam Ravi’s coach in M. Raja’s family-drama film, M. Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi. In 2005, O.A.K. also appeared in Durai’s action drama film, Thotti Jaya. He played as Rekha’s (played by Malavika) brother in the 2007 Tamil romantic thriller film, Naan Avan Illai. In 2009, he was seen as Kathirvel in K.

Deva was born on 20th November 1950 in the state of Tamilnadu, India. His full name is Devanesan Chokkalingam, and he is a very prominent and promising music director of the Kollywood film industry. He has also sung songs that were huge hits indeed. He got huge fan followers for his music composition and singing. The instruments that he use includes Keyboards, Guitar, Piano, and Harmonium. He is quite active in the cinema field right from the year 1988 until the present.

Manohar is a Tamil serial actor, who was born in Salem. He has four sisters and three brothers and he is the last child in his family. After his graduation, he left Salem and reached Chennai. He joined in YGP Academy to learn acting. Later, he joined in Kala’s Kalalaya to learn dance. He worked as a dance master for two years. He was also searching for acting chances, while working in Kalalaya. During that time, veteran Tamil director, Balu Mahendra was searching for new faces to act in his Telefilm. On hearing this, Manohar went for the audition and got selected in that. The telefilm is Kadhai Neram, which was telecasted in Sun TV.

P Vijay (Pa Vijay) is a Tamil poet and film lyricist, who wrote the award-winning lyrics for the song’’ Ovvoru Pookalume’’ in Cheran's Autograph in Kollywood film industry. This lyricist had an extensive impact on Tamil cinema and was considered to be a gem writer of many songs that had featured in many movies. This poet and lyricist-writer were born in a middle-class family where his mother was a school teacher, and his father worked as a spinning master in a textile mill in Coimbatore. The actor was born in Coimbatore on 20 October 1974 and did his MA Literature in Tamil from Annamalai University. This poet was a discovery of director K Bhagyaraj, who was his family friend. He was associated with K. Bhagyaraj in the magazine ‘Bhagya’ and even got a chance to pen his lyrics for the film Gnanapazham, which had music by K. Bhagyaraj himself. But it was in 2004 when the film ‘Autograph’ was released, his song ’Ovvoru Pookalume"’ became an instant hit. Dr. Karunanidhi had given him the title’ Vithaga Kavignar’ and he came to be known as one of the best poets in Tamil Literature. Even poet Vali felt that Pa Vijay was part of him and claimed that he alone can be his successor in the field of cinema lyrics. Pa Vijay is still humble despite he has contributions to the literary field by writing many books. He considered Kannadasan and Vairamuthu as his role model. He also acted in lead roles in films like ‘Gnabagangal’, ‘Ilaignan ‘and ‘Thagadu Thagadu’.

Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 April 2012 which is a thing of pride. Shankar has always considered himself as a restless student wanting to learn more every time. He says he’s thirsty and want to learn every time and experiment with something new. He wants to be a perfectionist. Shanker also feels that Karnatak music is the most powerful form of music and he himself started with Karnataka classic which he says is the best to create a prominent base for music. Music is the thing which excites Shanker the most, and he would always be attached to it. Personal Life: Shanker Mahadevan was born in Chennai to a Tamil family but was later brought to Mumbai and was raised there. Being born into a Tamil family and later raised in Mumbai, he knows both Hindi and Tamil language but is not well versed with Tamil and Malayalam. He finished his schooling from OLPS High School in Chembur and his engineering in computer science from R.A.I.T (D Y Patil, Navi Mumbai). His wife, Sangeeta is Maharashtrian and oldest son Siddharth Mahadevan. Also, a singer, made his debut on the 2013 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’s song, Zinda. Shankar’s youngest son, Shivam Mahadevan, also a singer made his debut in 2013 in the movie Dhoom 3’s song, Bande Hain Hum Uske. Mahadevan is fluent in Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu and English.

Ramesh Pandit is a professional Indian actor. He has acted in many South Indian films especially in Kannada and Telugu and also in Tamil. Ramesh Pandit has also appeared in many television serials. Ramesh Pandit was born on 22nd of July in Karnataka. He is currently living and working from Bengaluru, Karnataka. He is also known as Ramesh Pandith or Ramesh Pundit. Ramesh Pandit made his debut in the media industry with the Kannada film named Nigooda Rahasya which was directed by film director Perala, produced by Jagadish Malnad and acted along actress Geetha. This movie was released in the year 1990. Other films in which Ramesh Pandit has performed are Banadi which hit the big screens in the year 2018, Stunt Master, Choo Baana, Ulta Palta in the year 1997, Ayya, Andaman which got released in the year 1998 and many more.

Narasimha Raju is a famous Tollywood actor born on 26 December 1951. He is known for the various roles that he has portrayed in Telugu movies. He is also referred to as ‘Andhra Kamal Hasan’ due to the talent that he possesses in acting. He made his debut with the movie ‘Needa Leni Aadadi’ in 1974 and then there has been no looking back. The Heroine of this movie was also a new debutant named Prabha. The movie was a big success and ran for about 100 days and he started getting various offers to act for other banners as well. 

He also acted in 20 other movies in the late 70’s (i.e, 1976 – 1980). The movies include Athavarillu, Thoorpu Padamara, Kanya Kumari, Rambha Urvasi Menaka, Ammayilu Jagratta, Ammayilu Jagratta, Jayasudha, Anukunnadhi Sadhista, Jaganmohini, Prayanam Lo Padanisalu, Anthu Ledi Vintha Katha, Kaliyuga Mahabharatam, Lakshmi Pooja, Punadhirallu, Gandharvya Kanya, Punnami Naagu, Punnami Naagu, Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Prameswari Mahatyam, Tirloka Sundhari and Venkateswara Vratha Mahatyam. Further has also acted in various other movies till the late 80’s and 90’s and his recent movie was Brindavanam lo Gopika which released in 2013.

One of his earlier movies Jaganmohini which was released in 1978 was a blockbuster hit which was directed by B. Vittalacharya. Further to this, Narasimha Raju and B. Vittalacharya also worked on other projects such as Gandhrava Kanya, Mantradandam, Mohini Sapatham together. Apart from these movies, the actor has also worked with other directors  and he has acted in about a 100 films in 2 decades.

Talking about his personal life, he is married and has a son and a daughter who are married too. He also has grand children and is leading a happy life.

Saakshi Siva is one of the most leading actors in Tamil and Telugu series industry. He is well-known for his character in “Anandham” in which he has portrayed the role as an “Asst. Commissioner”. This role has earned him great fame and honour. The roles that he portrays create a lot of impression in the hearts of the audience, and hence his works are well appreciated by them.

Bharath Kalyan is a Tamil Television actor who has 13 years of a long journey to his credit. He is the son of Mr. Kalyan Kumar, the famous actor of Kannada Film industry of 1960s-70s. He is a common household name in the Tamil entertainment industry. He has worked in Kannada movies as a child artist, and he has also done a few Tamil movies.

One of the finest artists in Tamil series is “Ilavarasan”. Ilavarasan made his debut as an actor in Tamil cinemas, a long-time ago; but he did not succeed well on the big screen, although his impact as a series artist on the small screen was perfect enough. The roles that he played on a small screen so far were totally amazing and his works were well appreciated by the Tamil audience.

Bharat Kumar is a very famous and popular name in the Indian industry, who earned the fame in a very shorter period of time. His native is Indore. When he was living in the Indore, he worked much in the theatre. He is a finalist of the Zee Television program named as Cine Stars Ki Khoj. After getting this success, he started getting popularity day by day. In the movies, 'Jodha Akbar', ' Mr. & Mrs. Khiadi and Gawa', his acting skills were outstanding. After the success of such films, he become more popular to the public and earned a great name.

Poovilangu Mohan is one of the veterans in Tamil television industry and has acted in several serials and has many film roles to his name. His nickname Poovilangu Mohan stuck to him because of the impressive role he played in the movie, “Poovilangu’. He has played in more than 100 movies in supporting roles. His first film was ‘Thaneer Thaneer’, but was recognized by the industry only after his role in ‘Poovilangu’ after which he was thought to go places. But he says, he has not performed to his potential and has not been getting opportunities to play strong, powerful roles.

Bose Venkat Commonly Known as Venkat, is an Indian Tamil Film and Television Actor who often plays supporting roles. He was born on May 15, 1975 in Madras, Tamil Nadu. He is married to Malayalam film actress, Sonia on September 5, 2003. They have two sons named Rudraksh Venkat and Tejaswin Venkat and a daughter Bavatharani. When he was 17 years old, he came to Chennai and wished to be successful in films. But, he was unlucky at the start of his career, so he worked as auto rickshaw driver while doing some auditions.

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