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Smruthi Venkat is an Indian model and actress who has starred in many advertisements and short films. Smruthi comes from Kerala, and she is currently residing in Chennai. As a model, Venkat has endorsed many brands that are popular like Kalyan Jewellers, Subhaalaya Silks, Olee Olee, and many more.

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 Sathi Leelavathi. Both Kamal and Balu Mahendra too had complimented her for this role and it is her best role till date. 

Born on July 5th, 1986, in Chennai, A. Santhosh Kumar is an Indian Tamil Choreographer in Tamil Film Industry. He is the son of S. Anbuselvan, a resigned police inspector and A. Thilagavathy. Sandy has two siblings, brother named A. Tamilmani, who is likewise a police auditor and sister namedPriyadarshini. He finished his schooling from St. Gabriel's higher optional school and college from Sir Thiagarajan college in Chennai. He started dancing at the age of three. Being from the family of police background with no support from them, he began his career as an artist in local shows. He is trained and nurtured by Kala master and Brindha master. Sandy is skilled in dances like Western, folk, classical, salsa, jazz and Chennai folk.

Soundararajan is an Indian Cinematographer. He was born on 29 August, 1976. He predominantly works in Tamilian, Malayalam and Telugu movie industries. He was born in Uthiramerur, Tamil Nadu to Saranathan and Chandra. He was brought up in Kancheepuram. He attended Loyola College, Chennai and did his bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications. He got married to Anusha on 11 December, in the year 2005. They are parent to two, Nikita and Advaith born in 2006 and 2008, respectively. Soundararajan then approached P.C. Sreeram for learning and building work experience. Sreeram referred him to K.V. Anand who accepted him as an assistant.

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.

Suresh Kamatchi is a Tamil film producer cum director. He is the producer of the Tamil films Amaithi Padai 2 and Kangaroo. At present, he is taking serious efforts to direct a film. Suresh Kamatchi belongs to Paramakudi. He came to Chennai and worked as an assistant director. He worked in Pankaj Productions. After few years, he went abroad and returned India in 2007. He then searched for chances to enter the cinema. At that time, actor cum director, Seeman gave him a chance to produce the film directed by Manivannan. It became successful and that film is Amaithi Padai 2. Then he got a link with the director Sami. Sami told him a story and he liked it very much and decided to produce the movie Kangaroo.

T.G. Thyagarajan is an Indian Film producer. He mainly produces Tamil Movies. Thyagarajan is a son of Late T. Govindarajan who was also a film producer. He is the owner of Sathya Jyothi Films which is a production house and film Distribution Company. This company got established in the 1980s in collaboration with G. Saravanan and T.G. Thyagarajan. T.G. did M.B.A. from the United States. He used to work for Satya Movies, a production company of his Father-in-Law earlier. Later on, he established his own production house.

Director KS Ravikumar(KSR), started his career in Tamil cinema as an assistant director to Bharathiraja for sometime before becoming an independent director. He has made 40 movies, out of which six films are re-makes. 

Director P Bharathiraja is a popular person, who ruled the Tamil cinema industry once. He is one among the super directors of Indian film industry, who produced many talented actors to the Film industry. He has given many super heroes and heroines to the Tamil film industry including R. Radha, Karthik Muthuraman, Radhika Sarathkumar, K Bhagyaraja, Rathi Agnihothri, Revathi, Ranjitha and many more. He has directed Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. His son Manoj was introduced by him in the film Tajmahal alongside Riya Sen. But he did not shine well in the film industry. Right from his debut movie 16 Vayathinile, starred by Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Sridevi, till his latest venture Annakodi, he has made different stories and scripts that had a lot of acting scope to the performers.

Cheran was born on December 12, 1970, in Pazhaiyurpatty, Melur. His father Pandian was a Projector Operator in Vellalur touring theater and his mother Kamala was a primary school teacher. He has two sisters. He is a Tamil, film Director.

Comedy is the forte of Manobala (Manobala Mahadevan), who is also a director. He was born on 4th June 1953 and acts in supporting roles too. His primary region of interest is Tamil. He has over 40 movies and 16 television serials to his credit. Having worked in 3 telefilms too, he has over 200 movies to his credit. He has worked under director Bharathiraja. 

Radhakrishnan Parthiepan is a renowned actor, cinema producer, and director of Tamil origin. Born in a moderate family in Chennai, Parthiepan’s journey to success wasn’t an easy one. Reportedly, he was even rejected for films early due to his non-hero looks. He worked in many odd jobs, including a dubbing artist for which he used to get 6000 rupees per month.