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1. Heeba Patel


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Hebah Patel is a young and gorgeous actress, who was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra. This Mumbai-wala is a budding artiste in the South Indian Film Industry. At a young age of twenty-two, she has acted in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil films. Hebah made her debut when she was a twenty-year-old, through the Kannada movie, titled Adhyaksha. The film is the official remake of the Tamil blockbuster movie, Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam.

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Date of Birth: 06-01-1994
Age: 30
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actress
Date of Birth: 06-01-1994
Age: 30
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actress

2. Geetha Madhuri


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Geetha Madhuri is a well-known playback singer and is best known for her works in films like ‘Nachavule’ and ‘Golimaar’ for singing the songs like, ‘Ninne Ninne’ and ‘Magaallu.' She was born in August on 24th in the year 1989. She was born to parents Lakshmi and Prabhakar, in the Palakol area in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Her father, Mr. Prabhakar, was an official of the SBH and Geetha Madhuri was her parent’s one and only child. She did her higher secondary education from a school named Loyola in the area of Vanasthalipuram in the city of Hyderabad. 

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Date of Birth: 24-08-1989
Age: 34
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Singer
Date of Birth: 24-08-1989
Age: 34
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Singer

3. Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry


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Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry is an Indian Lyricist and Poet. He works in the Telugu Film Industry as a Lyricist. His actual name is Chembolu Seetharama Sastry. Sastry was born on the 20th of May in the year 1955. He was born in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh. He is currently staying in Hyderabad, Telangana. Seetharama Sastry had his debut with writing songs for the legendary director K. Vishwanath.

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Date of Birth: 20-05-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Lyricist
Date of Birth: 20-05-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Lyricist

4. Rajendra Prasad


07-03-2017/rajendra-prasad.jpg Rajendra Prasad is a famous actor in Telugu. He is known for his comic roles. He was born on 19 July, 1956 in Nimmakuru. He was born to Venkata Narayana and Manikyamba. He completed diploma in Ceramic Engineering before entering film industry. He was awarded honorary degree by Andhra University. He came to film industry inspired by Sr.NTR. We can see Sr.NTR adoptions in many of Rajendra Prasad’s films. It is known that ex-Prime Minister, P.V.Narasimha Rao is huge fan of Rajendra Prasad. He is usually called as Nata Kiriti, Comedy king, Divine Comedian, etc., Rajendra Prasad started his film career with the movie Sneham directed by Bapu but he came to lime light with the film Ladies’ Tailor. He is known for his comic timing in his movies. He mainly did comic roles in his films. He has done 200 films nearly in 1980’s and 90’s. Among his films Ahana pellanta was a block buster. He did a lot of films with directors such as E.V.V.Sathyanarayana, Jandhyala, Narasimha Rao. They are known as hit combinations. He did nearly 32 films with the director Narasimha Rao which is a record in Tollywood. In early 2000’s he stopped his heroic roles and restarted his career as a character artist. He mainly acted in father, uncle roles in his second innings. His role in AA Naluguru bought him state Nandi award. His acting as middle class father bound to values has gained him critics’ appreciation. He won another state Nandi award for Yerra Mandaram movie. His performance in Quick Gun Murugan brought him an honour to walk on green carpet at IIFA film festival. He became talk of the town once again with MAA (movie artists’ association) elections in2015. He competed with JayaSudha and has won 237 votes of 394 polled votes.

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Date of Birth: 19-07-1954
Age: 69
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 19-07-1954
Age: 69
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor

5. Prabhas


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Prabhas is one of the favorite heroes of the Andhra people. His original name is Prabhas Raju Uppalapati and he was born in Chennai. His parents are Suryanarayana Raju and Siva Kumari. He has a brother Prabodh and a sister Pragati. His debut movie was Eshwar in 2002 and his costar was Sridevi Vijayakumar. Varsham is one of his biggest hits and in this film, he is paired with Trisha. Varsham was later remade in Tamil as Mazhai with Jayam Ravi and Shriya Saran. His film Chathrapathi also went on well with 100 days in theatres. In the film Pournami, he acted with Trisha and Charmi. The climax song with a fight was praised by all. Charmi was applauded for the wonderful dance. He also acted in an action comedy movie Bujjigadu and it got a good success. Later on he acted in Billa, a remake of Tamil movie Billa. Rebel, directed by choreographer cum actor cum director Raghavendra Lawrence was also a hit movie for Prabhas. He gave a cameo appearance for a song in Action Jackson, dancing with Sonakshi Sinha. His latest film is Baahubali, with Anushka Shetty, Tamannah and Ramya Krishnan. It is a bilingual movie, which is shot in Tamil and Telugu simultaneously.

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Date of Birth: 23-10-1979
Age: 44
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Actor
Date of Birth: 23-10-1979
Age: 44
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Actor

6. Anil Ravipudi


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Anil Ravipudi is a director and a screenwriter for many Indian films. He mostly works in Telugu film industry. His first film as a director was released in the year 2015 titled Pataas. He also worked as a dialogue screen writer for many films like Masala, Sankham, Kandireega and Souryam and many others.

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Date of Birth: 23-11-1982
Age: 41
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer, Director
Date of Birth: 23-11-1982
Age: 41
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer, Director

7. Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao


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Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao- The most wanted editor for the directors of Indian Cinema. He was born in David in Krishna district which is located in Andhra Pradesh. Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao is a film editor in Telugu cinema industry. He is not only an editor but he also produces a lot of films. He started his career in the year 1977. He lived in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. And he served as the president of Andhra Pradesh film federation along with his younger brother Kotagiri Gopal Rao. He had been in that post for almost six years. He married Sujatha and he has two daughters namely Padmaja and Neeraja.

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8. Rana Daggubati


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Rana Daggubati is a famous Indian actor. He was born on 14 December, 1984 in Chennai. Rana is the grandson of legendary producer Daggubati Rama Naidu and son of the producer, D.Suresh Babu. He is the nephew of Venkatesh.. Rana has completed his entire childhood and schooling in Chennai. Rana has also done Photography course in Konica institute of Imaging and Technology. Before acting, Rana was an entrepreneur and his company name is Spirit Media. He was a successful Digital Post entrepreneur. His company has won Nandi award for special effects for the movie Sainikudu. Born with silver spoon in his mouth, Rana has not struggled a lot for movie chances.

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Date of Birth: 14-12-1984
Age: 39
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor, Villain
Date of Birth: 14-12-1984
Age: 39
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actor, Villain

9. Prasad Devineni


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Prasad Devineni is a film producer in the South Indian Film Industry. He mainly produces Telugu films. Prasad is also one of the Board Members of the Production Company named Arka Media Works. He has produced many Telugu films like ‘Once Upon a Warrior’, ‘Panjaa’, ‘MaryanaRamanna’, ‘Vedam’ and manymore. His biggest production was the 2015 blockbuster film Bahubaali. He is also the producer of the second edition of the film which released this year alongside Karan Johar. Bahubaali is the most successful and highest earning movie till date. It has already earned over a billion and is still running strong.

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Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Producer
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Producer

10. Shobu Yarlagadda


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Shobu Yarlagadda was born in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is an Indian film producer. Shobu is the relative (son-in-law) of director K. Raghavendra Rao. Prakash Kovelamudi has been in brother-in-law in relation. Shobu preferably works in the Telugu film industry. He did his both primary and secondary studies at his hometown. Shobu is a graduation degree holder in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, in the year 1992. In the year 1995, he got admission into Texas A&M University in the field, Agricultural Engineering.

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Date of Birth: 19-03-1971
Age: 53
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Producer
Date of Birth: 19-03-1971
Age: 53
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Producer

11. Prem Rakshith


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Prem Rakshith is a famous and leading Indian Choreographer. He was born on 14 December 1977 in Chennai. He started his career from the year 1993 and is working even nowFrom the year 1993, he commenced working in Tamil and Telugu film industry with several other choreographers. In his career, he took various dance classes which provided him an edge above other choreographers. In the year 2006, Prem got his first break when RB Choudry hired him for his film to do choreography in his movie. In the consecutive year 2007, he got an opportunity to work with Raj Mouli in his film Yamadonga. Yamadonga was a blockbuster hit. His style of choreography is unique and as well as entertaining in the film, and he got very much appreciation for that. He choreographed two songs in it.

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Date of Birth: 14-12-1977
Age: 46
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Choreographer
Date of Birth: 14-12-1977
Age: 46
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Choreographer

12. Devi Sri Prasad


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After the success of "Dhinka Chika" song for Salman Khan, starrer "Ready", South Indian composer Devi Sri Prasad, has been getting numerous offers in Bollywood. Devi Sri Prasad liked the evergreen film ‘Sholay’ so much in his youth days, that he has seen the movie many times in his young days, and had then made his thoughts to make his journey to the film world. 

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Date of Birth: 02-08-1979
Age: 44
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Music Director
Date of Birth: 02-08-1979
Age: 44
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Music Director

13. Koratala Siva


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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. 

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Date of Birth: 15-06-1975
Age: 48
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director, Screenplay
Date of Birth: 15-06-1975
Age: 48
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director, Screenplay