Chinmayi Sripaada
Raina Rao
Jayasudha
Ritu Varma
N T Rama Rao Jr
Mikhail Gandhi
C V Mohan
Y Ravi Shankar
A S Prakash
Navin Nooli
Mickey J Meyer
Nani
Mohanlal
Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
Raju Sundaram
Kalyan Krishna
Srinivas Avasarala
Vandemataram Srinivas
Koratala Siva
Naveen Yerneni
Ravikanth Perepu
Dil Raju
Sameer Reddy
Ramajogayya Sastry
Aadhi Pinisetty
Saptagiri
Satish Vegesna
1. Chinmayi Sripaada
2. Raina Rao
Raina Rao is a child Artist who works in southern industry. She was born on 26th December in the year 2005 in Hyderabad, India. She is popular for the films like Vismayam which is a Malayalam movie and Manamantha (a Telugu movie) released in the year 2016. In the movie named “Manamantha,” she acted the role of “Mahitha” in the film.
...3. Jayasudha
Born on 17 December 1958 Jayasudha is predominantly a Telugu actress, though she has worked in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada films too. She was born in Chennai, but her mother tongue is Telugu. Her aunt, Vijaya Nirmala has acted in Telugu films and she is a director too.
Jayasudha entered into films during the age of 12; she acted in a Telugu film named Pandanti Kapuram. Later, she did a minute role in K Balachander’s Arangetram. She worked with K Balachander in several films. Her original name is Sujatha and she changed it to Jayasudha. The Telugu film industry welcomed her and she worked in many good films there. The greatest credit to her acting prowess is that, she was compared with yesteryear legend Savithri. Her roles were powerful and they had variety in them. As a fitting tribute to her natural acting Jayasudha is named “Sahaja Nati”
When she grew up Jayasudha entered the Telugu film industry with the film Lakshmana Rekha. This showcased that there is an actress named Jaya Sudha in the Telugu film industry. But it is only her role in “Jyothi” which helped her in climbing the ladder of success.
Jayasudha’s popularity soared with the film “Adavi Ramudu”, which was a huge success. Jayasudha has worked in more than 200 films and would you believe that in a year 24 films of her released. A notable point is that, she would deliver her dialogues in a good manner, though she is quite alien to Telugu. Jayasudha was seen in many films of renowned filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao. She became a great actress of Telugu cinema by 1982 that Dasari Narayana Rao titled a film “Jayasudha”.
Jayasudha has won many Filmfare awards. She is a good friend of another actress Jayapradha with whom she worked in Meghasandesam and Adavi Ramudu. Jayasudha tried her luck in politics, but she was not successful.
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4. Ritu Varma
Ritu Varma is a model-turned-actress in Telugu film industry. After her studies, she had participated in a contest organized by Dabur Gulabari, the country's leading rose-based beauty brand at the grand finale for its mega model hunt and she was the first runner-up. She was born and was raised up in Hyderabad. After proving her eligibility in the beauty contest she grabbed the opportunity to work in a short film ‘Anukokunda’. She won the best female actress award, and even the film received many awards and applause from many film festivals.
5. N T Rama Rao Jr
Jr Ntr is a proven actor from his childhood itself. He is a very famous Tollywood actor who is known for his variations in performance. In addition to being an actor, he is also a skilled dancer in Kuchipudi.
...6. Mikhail Gandhi
Mikhail Gandhi is an Indian child artist from Mumbai. He was born on July 10, 2010. He resides in Juhu, Mumbai with his parents, Mr. Shiraz Gandhi and Mrs. Yasmeen Gandhi, and his elder brother, Farhad Gandhi. He is a student of Maneckji Cooper Education Trust School. Mikhail began his career as a child artist with commercial advertising.
...7. C V Mohan
CV Mohan is an Indian film Producer. He predominantly worked for the Telugu movie industry. He has worked in Uppena, Gangleader, etc. One of the recent releases is Uppena in the year 2021. This movie is a love story. He is also well known for his films like Amar Akbar Anthony(2018), Janatha Garage(2016), and Srimanthudu(2015). Apart from producing CV Mohan, also does acting and is indeed a skilled actor.
...8. Y Ravi Shankar
Yalamanchili Ravi Shankar is an Indian producer who works majorly in Tollywood, the Telugu film industry. He founded the Mythri Movie Makers with Naveen Yerneni and Mohan Cherukuri in 2015. The first production of the house was Koratala Siva’s blockbuster action-drama “Srimanthudu” (2015), starring Shruti Haasan and Mahesh Babu.
...9. A S Prakash
A S Prakash is a popular art director. He has worked in more than 30 Telugu films. He set foot on the film industry in 2003, and his first film was Oka Raju Oka Rani. It was directed by Yogie. Ravi Teja, Namitha, Ali, and Banerji starred in the film. It was released on June 19, 2003. Then he had a short break.
...11. Mickey J Meyer
Mickey J Meyer is an Indian origin talented persona. He took birth in Hyderabad and is on the voyage of Carnatic music since then. He contributed mainly to Telugu and Kannada cinema. He completed his degree in music at Trinity College of music and studied at St. Mary’s College. Meyer’s sense of music stands different and is a harmonious mixture of western as well as traditional Indian. Mickey got his music inspiration from A.R Rahman. His music dream came into light after passing out from Trinity College of Music. His career as music director began from the movie Pothe Poni, which was followed by 10th Class. After this, he gave music in Notebook. Success came to his life while working with Sekhar Kammula for Happy Days. Happy Days received a phenomenal response and Mickey got appreciated for his work. He also turned to music composer for the above- mentioned movie and fetched many famous awards. He grabbed Flimfare Awards South as well as Nandi Award for Happy Days.
...12. Nani
Actor Nani (Naveen Babu Ghanta) is an adorable hero in Tollywood who had a dream to become a film director. He was born on 24 February 1984 in Hyderabad (Telangana). During his college days, he was a movie-buff and was addicted watcher of movies. Hence, he found inspiration from Mani Ratnam’s movies and even became a clap director to Bapu for the film ‘Radha Gopalam.' Later, of course, he worked as an assistant director to Srinu Vaitla and also with great Bapu. After taking a long sabbatical from studios, he worked as a radio jockey for a World Space Satellite.
...13. Mohanlal
Mohan Lal is the Super Star of the Malayalam film industry. He is the Son in Law of a famous producer cum veteran actor Balaji. Mohan Lal is married to Suchithra, the elder daughter of Balaji. Mohan Lal was born in the year 1960 in Elanthoor in Kerala. He is very popular for his natural acting and simplicity. The first movie, he committed was Thiranottam, but the first to release was Manjil Virinja Pookal. This movie had Poornima Jayaram as his pair and that is the debut movie in Malayalam for her too. Rajavinte Makan was the movie that made him to reach super heights. Mohan Lal is not choosey in particular character; but he acts in all types of film that give him a good performance scope.
...14. Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
Chandra Sekhar Yeleti was born in Tuni in Andhra Pradesh. He is an Indian Film director working for the Telugu Film Industry. He is currently living in Hyderabad, Telangana. He is famous for his authentic and inspiring concepts in his movies. He started his career by shooting ‘Janmabhoomi’ ads for Government of Andhra Pradesh. He made this in collaboration with K. Raghavendra Rao, a screenwriter. Gangaraju Gunnam is Chandra Sekhar’s Cousin.
...15. Raju Sundaram
Raju Sundaram is an Indian choreographer, actor, and director. Raju was born on 7th March 1968. His father Mugur Sundar is a prominent choreographer. Raju is the eldest among the three brothers; all the three brothers are choreographers. One is the famous Prabhu Deva and other is Nagendra Prasad. He is married and his wife name is Vasanthi. In his youth he was forcefully taken to film sets by his father to assist him. Raju invented interest in films and choreography after that. Raju started his career being a dancer in films like ‘Roja’, ‘Aasai’ and playing cameo appearances in songs with his brother Prabhu Deva in the films ‘Gentleman’, ‘Kadhalan’.
...16. Kalyan Krishna
Kalyan Krishna is an Indian Telugu director who had contributed his debut film in the Tollywood industry. Some critics and audiences highly appreciated his work. He is working towards creating more beautiful movies for the industry. Kalyan Krishna was born in a small district in Andhra Pradesh, India called Guntur. He brought up there and did his graduation from Andhra University. After completing his graduation, Kalyan worked as an assistant director under some remarkable directors to gain and enhance his experience in directing. He loved doing his work and is very clear where to pursue his career. In 2016 he directed his debut motion picture called Soggade Chinni Nayana which has been held in high regard by audiences and critics during the release.
...17. Srinivas Avasarala
Srinivas Avasarala is a Telugu film celebrity, who was born to Satya Narayana Murthy and Nagamani Avasarala. He is a popular director, actor, screenplay writer as well as dialogue writer. Being impressed to screenplay writing, he attended a course in Screen writing in California. He also learnt acting from the Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institute. He has also worked as a theater artist in New York and also worked as an assistant director in the film Blind Ambition. Working at Universal Studios is really amazing and this opportunity was given to Srinivas Avasarala and he did perfectly, as a script screener. Though he is a post graduate in Mechanical Engineering and worked in Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, his interest was in the cinema industry. Ashta Chasma was his first Telugu movie, which is released in the year 2008. He has acted in Orange, Chammak Challo, Sukumarudu, Aravind 2, Adda, Jill and few more films. In the film Golconda High School, he wrote the dialogues and rendered his voice too. In the film Oohalu Gusagusalade, he became a director and the film was a box office hit. He also appeared in the film in the role Udaya Bhaskar. Hailed from Hyderabad, Srinivas Avasarala went around the world for his career setup.
18. Vandemataram Srinivas
Vandemataram Srinivas is a well-known Indian music director from the Telugu film industry. Vandemataram Srinivas is his stage name, and his real-life name is Kanneboyina Srinivasa Rao. He was born on 6th January 1964 in a village near Khammam, a district in Telangana in Andhra Pradesh. He is an award-winning, multi-talented south Indian artist. He has entertained people by serving roles in the Telugu film industry. He is a music composer, music director, playback singer, actor, and film director. He has worked in more than fifty films as a music composer.
...19. Koratala Siva
Koratala Siva is a screenwriter and film director from India. He works mainly in Tollywood. Koratala Siva has penned many scripts for films like Munna, Brindavanam, Oosaravelli, Okkadunadu and Bhadra. Apart from writing skills, Siva is also popular for his directorial skills. In 2013, he directed the action drama movie Mirchi in Telugu, and later in 2015, he directed the movie, Srimanthudu. Both fared well at the box office. For his movie Mirchi, the acclaimed singer, Kailash Kher won the Telugu Filmfare Award for the best playback Singer. Before his directorial debut in Mirchi, Koratala Siva pursued his graduation in engineering and often worked as an assistant to one of his relative, Posani Krishna Murali, who also happens to be a director.
...21. Ravikanth Perepu
Ravikanth Perepu is a South Indian director who works in the Telugu film industry. He was born on 11th March 1991 in Vizag, also known as Vishakapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh. He is known for the Tollywood flick Kshanam.
...22. Dil Raju
Dil Raju was bon in Narsingpally, Nizamabad District, Andhra Pradesh, India (Now Telangana). He lives in Hyderabad (Telangana, India). Dil Raju is a Producer and Distributer. Dil Raju is considered as a Man with Midas Touch in the Tollywood film industry. At the beginning of his career, he failed as a distributor but, got his best shot with hits like Arya and Bommarillu.
...23. Sameer Reddy
Sameer Reddy is a cinematographer; he mainly works in South Indian Film Industry and also Hindi Film Industry. He was born in Hyderabad and brought up in Rajahmundry. As his family is in Leather Industry; so he was sent to take a degree in Leather Technology in Chennai. He joined the Institute in Guindy, Chennai. During the workshop he saw the guys and girls sitting on the floor and stitching chappals, he never returned again to the Institute as he was too scared watching that.
...24. Ramajogayya Sastry
Ramajogayya Sastry was born on August 24, 1970 in the small village called Arepalli Muppalla, Ipur Mandal which is near Narasaraopet of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh to parents Suryaprakasa Rao and Saraswatamma in an agricultural family. His father was a priest and an agriculturist by profession. His mother is a home-maker. He was the only child of his parents. He is a Computer Science Engineer who persuaded his B.Tech from NIT Warangal and his Master’s degree in M.Tech at IIT Kharagpur.
...25. Aadhi Pinisetty
Aadhi is an Indian film actor born on 14 December 1982 mostly worked in Tamil films. His name is Sai Pradeep Pinisetty by birth. He is the youngest son of director Raja Ravi Pinisetty. He did his schooling at Don Bosco. Later he completed computer science engineering at Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering. Aadhi applied for Pilot training, since because he was interested in travelling around the world. Meanwhile he enrolled in silambam classes under Pandian master where actor Surya and actor Karthi used to come. A big day came for actor Aadhi when he met director Saamy in the silambam classes, when the director came to meet actor Surya. One day the director came to Aadhi’s home to give the script for the film Mirugam. Aadhi immediately accepted the offer as he was in great need for the film offer. Due to his interest in acting he enrolled in Satyanand Institute of Acting in Vishakapatnam and became a trained actor. His favorite actors are Vikram and Surya.
...26. Saptagiri
Saptagiri is an Indian film actor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Angel (2017), Where is Vidya Balan (2015), Soggade Chinni Nayana (2016), etc. Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Tollywood movies, dramas and TV shows in the Telegu language, he has often been praised for huis versatility and on-screen timing as an actor.
...27. Satish Vegesna
Satish Vegesna is a Telugu film screenwriter and director, known for his contributions in the Telugu film industry. Satish was born in Tanuku town of the West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, India. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Arts. Vegesna is known for his popular Telugu film Sathamanam Bhavati, which gained him immense popularity and earned him multitudes of awards and credits. He has gained the Golden Lotus Award for best popular movie providing wholesome entertainment, at the 64th Annual National Film Awards. The team garnered immense appreciation for establishing a mood of jubilation in an unexplored and unique manner while respecting family values. The movie also garnered accolades like the state Nandi Awards, in the category of Best Direction, as well as Best Home Viewing Feature Movie.
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