1. Sanghavi
Sanghavi is a model turned actress who is still active in the film and media industry. She was born in the Mysore district of Karnataka. Her father was a professor at one of the medical colleges in Mysore and during her childhood, she had aspired to pursue such a career herself, before getting attracted to modeling after which she turned to movies. Her film career started in about 1993 with her first Tamil film being ‘Amaravathi’ released in 1993 in which she played the female lead, opposite to the famous actor Ajith Kumar.
Her birth name was Kavya Ramesh, but she changed it to Sanghavi upon the request of Chola Ponurangam, who was the producer of her first film. She did her schooling from Marimalappa School and after her schooling decided to...
2. Nirosha Radha
Nirosha is an Indian actress; works in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada Film Industries. She was born on 30th January 1971 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her father M R Radha was a Tamil actor and comedian. Nirosha is the youngest among the four children to her parents; her elder sister Radhika is also an actress.
Both played lead roles in the 90s. After having affair with actor Ramki for several years, she got married to him in 1995. Presently she lives in Chennai. Nirosha made her debut in Mani Ratnam’s flick ‘Agni Natchathiram’ in the year 1988; the film was a blockbuster. She did more than 100 films in South Indian languages and also some in Hindi. She was active in the industry till her marriage in 1995, after which she took a break until 2003 when she...
3. Rambha
Having worked in over 100 films in Indian cinema, Rambha was active in the film industry for over two decades, after which she got married. Born on June 5, 1976 in Vijayawada Rambha’s original name is Vijaya Lakshmi. Her native language is Telugu.
Rambha had tested the water in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Bhojpuri and Bengali. She was quite popular in Bollywood (though not popular like Sridevi and Rekha), which is indeed a remarkable feat by South Indian stars, and has worked with Salman Khan in two films, namely Judwaa and Bandhan. These two films were success at the box office. Rambha has squint eyes, but that only a...
4. Laila Mehdin
5. Malavika
Malavika was born on 19th July 1979 in Bangalore. Malavika’s original name was Shweta Konnur Menon. She was later called Malavika. She is an actress of various Tamil movies. Fond of acting since childhood, her career started in the year 1999 with the film Unnai Thedi. It was a Tamil film. She played the role Malavika in the picture, and people started recognizing her by this name. The movie was not that hit, but people appreciated her acting and hard work. Sundar C was the director who gave her the break in the industry.
The same year she did various other films as well. These included Anandha Poongatre in which she played the innocent character Divya, Rojavanam in which she played the role of bold Sindhu, Chora Chittha Chora(a Kannada movie), and came in Pooparika Varugirom as Priya. Few were succes...
6. Meena Durairaj
7. Nadhiya
Zareena is the original name of the south Indian actress Nadhiya. She was born in the year 1966 in Mumbai to the Muslim father, Moidu and the Hindu mother, Lalitha. Nadhiya has a younger sister called Haseena. In 1984, she entered the film industry through the Malayalam movie ‘Nokketha Doorathu
8. Anuradha Sriram
9. Khushbu Sundar
Khushboo or also called Kushboo’s original name is Nakhat Khan. She was born on 29th September’1970 in Mumabai. She completed her schooling at Swami Muktananda High School, Mumbai. Khushboo has 3 brothers. She had a live-in relationship with Tamil actor Prabhu for 4 years and then she married Sundar C. She has two daughters named Avanthika and Ananditha. Khushboo speaks Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English and Marathi languages.
Khushboo is a film and TV actress, TV hostess, producer and a politician. She is mainly known with her acting in south Indian films. She started her acting career in 1976 as child artist in the Kannada film Raja Nanna Raja. She has acted in some Hindi films as child artist. She was introduced as heroine to south with the Telugu film Kaliyuga Pandavulu in 1986. Ve...
10. Chaya Singh
Chaya Singh was born on 16th May’1981 in Bangalore. Her parents belong to Uttar Pradesh. Before her birth, they migrated to Karnataka. Chaya Singh belongs to Raiput family. She spent her childhood in Bangalore. She has completed her schooling in Lourdes School, Bangalore. She did her Plus Two in Bangalore.
Chaya Singh is a film and TV actress who has started her film career with Kannada films and has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Telugu and Oriya films. Her debut film was the Kannada film Munnudi in the year 2000. Some of her Kannada films are- Haseena directed by the Kannada director Girish Kasaravelli, Thuntata which is a hit film, Chitte directed by Dinesh Babu and Rowdy Aliya directed by Sai Prakash. She has acted in the Kannada film Chitte which has received the National Film Award for Best Film f...
11. Nalini Nair
Nalini or Rani in real life is a South Indian actress, comedian and producer who became popular during the 80’s. She was born on June 24, 1962 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Nalini got married to Tamil film actor, Ramarajan in year 1987, but they got divorced later in the year 2000. They have twin children, namely Aruna and Arun who were born in year 1988.
After her divorce with Ramarajan, she became active in doing Tamil television serials. She acted as a mother-in-law in popular serials like Idhayam and Kolangal which was aired on Sun TV. Her daughter Aruna got married to Ramesh Subramanian in 2013 while her son Arun got married to Pavithra in 2014. Rani mostly acted in Tamil and Malayalam industries and worked with stars like Mammootty, Mohan, Mohanlal and Vijayakanth. But it was her pair with Mohan who becam...
12. Maheshwari
Maheswari is a popular South Indian film actress, who was born on and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on August 26. Maheswari studied at Adarsh Vidyalaya, T. Nagar. She acted in many Telugu and Tamil films and she is the cousin of Sridevi, a popular South Indian film actress. She got married to Jayakrishnan, a Software Engineer who owns Digital Securities Company from Hyderabad on September 18, 2008 at Thirupathi. Some of the popular artists who attended their wedding ceremony were Bony Kapoor, Meena, Sridevi, Ram Gopal Varma, SV Krishna Reddy, Arun Kumar, Sangeetha and a lot more.
Maheswari started her career in the film industry in year 1994 through the Hindi action crime film, Krantiveer. Then she did the Tamil film, Karuththamma on the...
13. Sangeetha Krish
When contemplating a serial TV star, one cannot possibly shot the eyes against an outstanding actress in person of Sangeetha, one of India’s TV actresss who was born into the family of Mr. Balan in Chennai in India. Suffice to say, Sangeetha’s grandfather originally was into film production and he was well very famous in this field, Mr. K. R. Balan must have inspired the screen goddess Sangeetha to have keen interest in acting in his hay days. It is on record that Sangeetha’s grandfather had successfully produced a total of about twenty Tamil films. Also her interest in acting led her to vie into a kind of Indian dance choreography called and popularly referred to as Bhanumathy. The filming activities and productions definitely runs in her family as information have it that her ...
14. Urvashi
Urvashi is the stage name of Kavitha Ranjini, a producer, film actress, TV anchor and a script writer from India. She was born on 1970 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Her father is Chavara V. P. Nair and her mother is Vijayalakshmi. Her siblings are actress and classical dancer, Kalaranjini, Malayalam actress and comedian, Kalpana Priyadarshini, Kamal Roy and Prince who is also a Malayalam actor. Urvashi has been married twice. Her first marriage was held on October 11, 2000 with actor Manoj K. Jayan but they got separated in year 2008 because of some differences. They have been divorced in Chennai and later separated by an order from the court. Urvashi’s daughter, Tejalakshmi or better known as Kunjatta now lives with his father Manoj. Then Urvashi was married again to a Civil Engineer in November 2013. U...
15. Gopinath
Gopinath Chandran popularly called as Gopinath is an Indian television artist. He was a popular television anchor, well acclaimed radio jockey, a vociferous news reader, a voracious reporter, a gifted writer and an illustrated anchor. He was born on July 16th 1975 at Aranthangi, in Tamil Nadu to Chandran and Kumudham Chandran. He had his education in Tamil Nadu. Even in his school days, he was a notable figure.
Gopinath began his vocation in 2002 with Raj Television Network.
He also parallely worked as reporter for Jaya TV. He got national attention while working with medias NDTV and CNBC-TV-18. One of his notable performance during that time was the Vijay TV debate programme “ Makkal Yaar Pakkam. It was widely acknowledged for the seriousness and relevance of the topics it handled. Other notable p...
16. Suresh
Suresh was born as Seshaiah Suresh Babu. Suresh is a homebound film actor and is famous for his films primarily in Telugu and Tamil. Suresh made his acting debut in the movie Panneer Pushpangal in the year 1981. The movie happens to be a Tamil film. His debut movie was a blockbuster hit on the silver screen, and soon he became the prominent face of the Tamil Film Industry, through the 80’s era. By the end of 2012, Suresh had done about 274 motion films. Suresh was born and brought up in Chennai. He was cultured at the Oxford English High School. Soon after this, he went to Shrine Vailankanni English School, where he completed his education. Suresh got married to Rajashree Bishit but after a long time, both got divorced.
They have a single son named Nikhil. The very...
17. Pandiarajan
Pandiarajan is a comedian and has done many movies as a leading actor in Tamil Films. He is a multi-talented person and has directed many films and given music to many movies as a music director. He is a screenwriter as well. Pandiarajan was born on 2 October 1959 in Saidapet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to Sulochana and Rathnam. He went to Thamizisai College in 1977 and got his diploma as “Isai Selvam”. Pandiarajan married Vasuki and has three sons Pallavarajan, Prithvirajan and Premrajan.
Pandiarajan has introduced many artists and directors to the industry over the years. Some of them include Nithya (Camera Person), Srikanth Deva (Music Director), Debashree Roy (Actress), Mayilsamy (Actor), Seetha (Actress) and Kollangudi Karuppayee (Folk Singer and Dancer).
He commenced his career as an as...
18. Mansoor Ali Khan
Mansoor Ali Khan was born in the small village called Pallapatti in Tamilnadu. He is the popular villainy actor in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies. Mansoor made his debut to the cinema industry through the movie Captain Prabhakaran in the year 1991. He acted as an antagonist in the movie opposite Vijayakanth. This movie gave him a good name and he got opportunities frequently. Rudra is his next movie with Bhagyaraj, Gouthami and Lakshmi.
In the year 1992, he took a hero Avatar through the film, Rajadhi Raja Raja Kulothunga Raja Marthanda Raja Gambeera Kathavaraya Krishna Kamarajan. This movie was directed by Balu An...
19. Chinni Jayanth
Chinni Jayanth is a veteran artist and a quite a famous name in the Tamil cinema and TV world. Chinni Jayanth was born in July 26, 1960 in Chennai Tamil Nadu. He is a seasoned actor, comedian, director and producer. He has hosted some very popular Television Programs like Kalakkapovathu Yaar, Asathatpovathu Yarru and Sagalai vs Ragalai. He debuted in his three decade long film & Television career in the movie ‘Kai Kodukkum Kai’ in 1984. Attempting to fit into a villainous role in his first movie he ultimately found his love in a comedy and mimicry. He has more than 400 movies to his credit. Some of his performances, like the one in Chinna Pulla were critically acclaimed because of his immense acting depth, in the portrayal as a mentally challenged man. He made his director...