Charmy Kaur
Bhumika Chawla
Genelia DSouza
Sonia Deepti
Jaya Prada
Singer - Nanditha
Sujatha Mohan
Shweta Mohan
Parvathy Thiruvothu
Jyothika Saravanan
Tamannaah Bhatia
Sadhana Sargam
Asin Thottumkal
Meera Jasmine
Lakshmi Gopalaswamy
Nayanthara
Srikanth
Sivakumar
Sekhar Kammula
Srinu Vaitla
Puri Jagannadh
Venkatesh Daggubati
Allu Arjun
Jagapati Babu
Prem Rakshith
K V Anand
Thota Tharani
Harris Jayaraj
Vanamali
K M Radha Krishnan
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Rajendra Prasad Tanikella
Babu Thiruvalla
Madhu Balakrishnan
Mano Murthy
Radha Mohan
Vetrimaaran
Ouseppachan
Anil Panachooran
Ameer
V. Manohar
K M Chaitanya
Pa Vijay
S P Balasubrahmanyam
Saikumar
Prabhu Deva
Mohanlal
Puneeth Rajkumar
Karthik Sivakumar
Vijay
Sathyaraj
S Shankar
Sonu Nigam
Ajith Kumar
Sharath Lohitashwa
S. S. Rajamouli
1. Charmy Kaur
2. Bhumika Chawla
Bhumika Chawla or Rachna Chawla is an Indian actress born on 21 August 1978 in New Delhi. Bhumika was born in a Punjabi family, and her father was in the army. Bhumika did her schooling from New Delhi and later moved to Mumbai with her family in 1997. She made her debut in the South film industry with Yuvakudu in 2000 where she played the role of Sindhu. Before her debut in the Telugu film industry, she used to do Ads and video albums. Bhumika won Filmfare Award for Best Actress- Telugu for her role as Madhumitha in Khushi (2001). Meanwhile, Bhumika also made her debut in the Tamil film industry with the movie Badri as the role of Janaki opposite actor Vijay. One of her films Okkadu in 2003 was one of the highest grosser of the year and made her popular among the film industry. After a numerous super hits i...
3. Genelia DSouza
Genelia Dsouza is a popular Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu cinema industries. She has also worked for television industry as a host.
Genelia Dsouza is a Bollywood actress who started her career as a model. She worked with Amitabh Bachchan for the Parker Pen commercial for which she gained wide recognition. She started her acting career with the movie Tujhe Meri Kasam opposite Ritesh Deshmukh. This movie was released in 2003. In the same year, she also appeared in a lead role in a Tamil movie Boys. After that, she worked for various Telugu movies including the romantic movie Bommarillu in 2006 for which she received her first Filmfare award.
She returned to Bollywood with movie Masti which was released in 2004. In 2008, she again appeared in the Bo...
4. Sonia Deepti
Sonia Deepti is an Indian movie actress known for appearance in Telugu films. She was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. She had a good and careful upbringing. Sonia endorsed her career as a software engineer in an IT firm for three years after receiving a degree in Computer Applications. She did her debut performance in the year 2007.
She was highly praised for her critically acclaimed performance as Shravs (Shravanthi) in the Telugu blockbuster “Happy Days” which was directed by Sekhar Kammula.
The film won six awards at the 2008 Filmfare Awards South, thereby conferring the Award for the best-supporting actress on Sonia. In 2008, she embarked on her second venture called “Vinayakudu” which was also a grand s...
5. Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada is a renowned Indian actress and politician. She was born as Lalita Rani on April 3, 1958, in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh to Krishna Rao, a financier of Telugu films and Neelaveni. She enrolled in a dance and music classes at her tender age by her mother.
Jaya acted in several Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi films. From the year 2004 to 2014, she has been a part of the Member of Parliament from Rampur. At 14, she made a dance number during the annual function at her school. She was spotted by the director of the Telugu film, Bhoomi Kosam and offered her to do a 3-minute dance number in the movie. Initiall...
6. Singer - Nanditha
Nanditha, being born on 28th February 1978 is an Indian singer by profession. She plays instruments like Veena and Vocals and belongs from Channarayapatna, Karnataka, India. Languages known by her are Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil. Nanditha, best notable for Kannada playback singing, began her career from a film ‘Habba’ written and directed by D. Rajendra Babu. Long since then she holds many awards and has received Filmfare awards for playback singing. This south Indian playback singer has completed her BE from Bangalore’s RV College of Engineering and was a software engineer in an American Multinational: Cisco Systems, Inc (known as Cisco).
Due to her deep love towards music, she quit the IT profession and has now kept music as her priority. Nanditha married Rakesh, a software engineer by profession in 2004 who ...
7. Sujatha Mohan
Sujatha Mohan (Sujatha or Baby Sujatha) is one of the most prolific singers after S. Janaki, P. Susheela, and K.S. Chitra. She has sung nearly 10,000 songs in many Indian languages and has performed over 5000 live concerts in her career. She came to spotlight while singing songs with K.J. Yesudas in musical concerts. This fetched her recognition, and she got her first break as a playback singer when she was in the sixth standard.
Sujatha’s debut was in the year 1975 when she sang for a Malayalam movie ‘Tourist Bungalow.' She then sang for two other movies ‘Kamam Krodham Moham’ (music composer Shyam) and ‘Aparadhi’ (music composer Salil Chowdhury ). During this time, she also sang non-filmi songs. In 1998, she...
8. Shweta Mohan
Shweta Mohan is a female playback singer in Indian cinema who is also the daughter of playback singer Sujatha Mohan. Like her mother, she also had sung in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born on 19 November 1985 in Chennai. In fact, earlier she was a bit hesitant to take up singing as her career. But as she sung, she enjoyed singing very much. Had not she been in singing, she could have opted for doing MBA and got settled other way.
Shweta grew up watching her mother sing and eventually looked her as a role model for her life. She has always aspired to be like her. Taking inspiration from her mother’s versatile career in Indian cinema, she eventually made her ground too in film music. She is well...
9. Parvathy Thiruvothu
Parvathi is an Indian actress and dubbing artist. Mainly, she is a Malayalam actress and has done a lot of Malayalam movies. She began her career as a Radio Programme Producer. She made her debut in the film industry with the movie, ‘Out Of Syllabus’. It was directed by renowned director Vishwanathan. He has given many great hits to the film industry. For many years, before she stepped in the film industry, she did a show on the radio where many celebrities were frequently interviewed. She is an actor, model, and an anchor as well. After doing the movie ‘Out Of Syllabus’, she did an ad film. After that, she was approached by Director Lijo Jose Pellissery for his next venture ‘Double Barrel’.
She had to work a lot for this film as ...
10. Jyothika Saravanan
Jyothika is a highly famous Indian cinema artist. Though she belonged to Tamil Industry, her skill and talent have gone viral to Bollywood and Telugu movie industry as well at one point. She is a winner of one award from Filmfare and three awards from Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She has also received Kalaimamani award.
Jyothika started her career in Tamil industry with a movie called ‘Vaali’ in 1999. However, she got her first hit as a leading heroin through the movie ‘Kushi’. After this film, she had successful hits in a row. ‘Mugavaree’, ‘Dumm Dumm Dumm’ and ‘Snegithiye’ are few in that series. In most of her movies, she was never an arm candy who would just show up in songs, next to the hero. Her movies are all carefully chosen where her role is i...
11. Tamannaah Bhatia
Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil and Telugu film industry with lots of fan following. Chand Sa Roshan Chehra was her first Hindi movie, in the year 2005. Her Telugu debut was Sri and the Tamil debut was Kedi. In Kedi, she did a negative role and the movie did not go well. It was also the debut movie for Ileana, the South Indian popular actress. Tamannaah Bhatia acted in Vyapari with director S.J.Suryah; but she did not get a good recognition. After she performed in Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori, she became notable. Her performance in that film was appreciated by everyone. Similarly, her Telugu film Happy Days was also a super hit and got her good name. Tamannaah Bhatia steadied her market by choosing good films.
12. Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974, she changed her name to Sadhana Sargam on advice given by Kalyanji Anandji, who had promoted her singing career.
Before starting her first playback chance in Tamil film, she had the privilege of singing along with other playback singers such as Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal, and Kavita Krishnamurthy. Sadhana has sung in many Indian languages for films, TV series and music albums. She is the only Indian playback singer who ha...
13. Asin Thottumkal
Asin Thottumkal more famously known as Asin, is a Bollywood actress and trained dancer. Starting her career in South Indian Film Industry she is now a Bollywood actress after starting opposite Aamir Khan in Ghajini. Born in Kerala on 26th October 1985 she attended Naval Public School and went on to obtain her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature.
Asin started off her career in advertisements appearing for an ad for a mobile company. At the age of 15, she appeared in her first film, Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka, which was a Malayalam film about a man who goes back to his village to claim his father’s property and the trouble he faces. She got her breakthrough in Ghajini playing Kalpana and won a Tamil Filmfare Award for Best Actress. The film was later re-created in Hindi in 2008 starring Aamir Kh...
14. Meera Jasmine
Born on 15th February 1982, Meera Jasmine belongs to Kerala. She did B.sc. In zoology from Assumption College, Changanassery. She is a bright name in the Malayalam film industry, very well known for her role in ‘Soothradharan’ released in the year 2001. Later she worked in films like ‘Gramaphone’, directed by Kamal and commercial hits and critically acclaimed projects like ‘Swapnakkoodu,' ‘Kasthoorima’ etc. She received film fare for the movie as well.
The actress possesses the title of best actress given by National Film Award (2004) along with Kerala film award twice and Kalaimamani award from the government of Tamil Nadu.
Meera considers lohithadas, her debut director, as her god father and a fatherly figure. She gives all the credit of her success ...
15. Lakshmi Gopalaswamy
Lakshmi Gopalaswamy is a South Indian actress and a classical dancer, qualified in Bharatanatyam. She was born on November 7 1970 in Bangalore, to Dr.Uma Gopalaswamy and M.K Gopalaswamy. She did Master’s Degree in Women’s studies. Her Mother Dr.Uma Gopalaswamy is a Scholar of music who lead Lakshmi to train and take Bharatanatyam as career. Lakshmi received the eminent Kerala State Film Award for the second best actress for her roles in 'Thaniye' in 2007, directed by Babu Thiruvalla. She even appeared in P. T. Kunju Mohammed direction movie 'Paradesi'. She was cast as a dancer possessed by an evil spirit in a dream role in 'Aptharakshaka' directed by P. Vasu, opposite Super Star Dr.Vishnuvardhan, an Indian superstar of more than 200 films in five different languages. For her magnificent performance in ‘Aptharakshaka’, she has b...
16. Nayanthara
Nayantara also called as Nayanthara Kurian, is a renowned Indian actress from Kerala. She was born on 18th November in the year 1984 in Bangalore that is situated in Indian province Karnataka. Her actual name is ‘Diana Mariam Kurian’ the daughter of ‘Omana Kurian’ and ‘Kurian Kodiyatto’. Due to her father’s service, she stayed in several places of India. She joined in “Mar Thoma College” for attending her B.A in English Literature. Besides study she also initiated her modeling career.
As she was indifferent towards building her career in the film industry she denied her first offer, but at last she agreed to do the film ‘Manassinakkare’ where she was casted opposite Jayaram. This was a financially successf...
17. Srikanth
Srikanth is an Indian cinema actor. He has mainly worked in Tamil industry. He was born on February 28, 1978, to Jayanthi and Krishnamachari. His brother, Sudhir is working in the USA as a software engineer. He is married to Vandana in November 2007. They have two children together, a daughter Ahana and a son Aahil. Srikanth's nickname is Sree. Srikanth completed his schooling from SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai. Also, he did his graduation from Hindustan College of Arts and Science. It is located in Chennai too. In his college days, he participated in a fashion show organised by Madras College in the year 1997. This experience of his led him to stages shows and then to becoming an actor.
He did an advertisement which led him to act in movies...
18. Sivakumar
Sivakumar (born Palanichamy) is one of the most versatile actors of current Tamil cinema. He has the pride of acting in various characters, both lead and supporting for a period spanning over four decades. A perfect teetotaller and a vegetarian, Sivakumar debuted in 1965 in the SS.Rajedran starrer ‘KaakumKarangal’ by production giants AVM. He now lives in Chennai with his wife and sons 'Suriya Sivakumar' and 'Karthik Sivakumar' who are actors as well.
Though being introduced as a supporting actor, Sivakumar was able to grasp the skills of acting quite easily. His dedication to acting is well known from his notable movies like ‘KandanKarunai’ and ‘ThunivaeThozhan’. He has more classic movies to his tally that include ‘RosapooRavikkaikaari’ ,...
19. Sekhar Kammula
Sekhar Kammula or Kumar Sekhar Kammula is a director by profession in the Indian film industry. He works as a screenwriter and producer as well. He works predominantly in the Telugu film industry. He is married to Sri Vidya Kammula and has two children named Vandana Kammula and VibhavKammula. He completed his graduation in the field of Mechanical Engineering from the Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT) and M.S. degree in the line of Computer Science from the U.S. After that; he worked for about three years in the IT sector.
he pursued his degree of Master of Fine Arts from the university named Howard University situated in Washington D.C. While his study period in the field of films, he worked in many short films and featured films of U.S. He made his debut as a director into the Telugu film indus...
20. Srinu Vaitla
Shrinu Vaitla is an Indian film director predominantly working in Telugu film industry. The 43year old director is from Kandulapalem, East Godavari District. His first venture movie called ‘Nee Kosam’ having in lead Ravi Teja and Maheshwari, produced by Ghanta Srinivas in 1999 did not do well in box offices. But this movie made a path to the heart of critics and received applauds from the critic world. His next venture ‘Anandam’ in 2001 helped him marked his place in comedy stream. The Ace director is appreciated and credited for introducing parabolic narrative in Telugu in cinemas, and that is seen in most of his feature films like ‘Venky’, ‘Dhee’, ‘ubai Seenu’ and ‘Ready’.
He was seen doing the cam...
21. Puri Jagannadh
Puri Jagannadh wears many feathers to his cap including production, direction and screenplay writing. His main area of interest is Telugu films. He has received Nandi awards thrice in his career spanning more than a decade.
During the year 2004, Jagannadh ventured into Bollywood with the flick, Shart: The Challenge. This film bombed at the box office. Bbuddah..Hoga Terra Baap is his directorial venture of 2011 and it has the credit of being recorded in Oscar library. Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies and Vaisho Academy are his production ventures. Puri Sangeet is the music company organized by Jagannadh.
22. Venkatesh Daggubati
One of the most talented face in Telugu film industry, his latest flick ’ Drushyam’ proves that age does not matter to be a successful hero in the industry. In his career spanning 27 years, the actor still has huge fanfare and he is the evergreen hero of Telugu cinema.
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was born to a veteran filmmaker, Ramanaidu Daggubati; hence getting an entry in filmdom was not a tough. His elder brother was Suresh Babu Daggubati, who too owned Suresh Productions. Hence he had always wanted to make his mark in the film production, but destiny had some other things in store for him. Thus, he got his first break as leading hero in K...
23. Allu Arjun
The actor was born to producer Allu Arvind and Nirmala on April 8, 1983. H Hence, it makes sense to say that acting bug ran in him too. Allu Arjun is related to some pretty big-time Tollywood heroes (Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan are maternal uncles) and has kept their flame burning on the silver screen. Considering big heroes like Chiranjeevi, Pawan and Charan as famous actors in Indian screen could have earned him passage to Tollywood royalty. Allu Arjun still realizes that he needs his space in Indian screen. Today, he is undoubtedly a popular name in Telugu cinema. He is also the paternal grandson of comedian Allu Rama Lingaiah. As a two-year-old boy then, the actor had begun his journey in a Chiranjeevi’s film ‘Vijetha’ and appeared in two scenes as actress Subha's son. La...
24. Jagapati Babu
25. Prem Rakshith
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.
Pr...
26. K V Anand
K. V. Anand is a director in South Indian Film Industry. He was born to Anasuya Venkatesan and Venkatesan in 1966. He grew up to study his Masters in Visual Communications in a very famous college called Loyola College, Chennai. As a Master's degree holder in Visual communication, he began his career as a cinematographer. He was a photojournalist for a short while. He started cinematography in the 1990s. He worked for more than 15 movies in both south and Bollywood film industries. He had won a National Film Award for Best Cinematography with his very first movie Thenmavin Kombath. When he entered the direction for movies, he wanted to do unique films. His debut movie as a director Kana Kandaen (2005) got appreciations even from the critics. He made his image clear and loudly felt in the industry with his second movie Aya...
27. Thota Tharani
In days of 1960’s and 1970’s set designs had played an important role in film making. Not a single film would miss setting up a huge set. Take the film ‘’Sholay’’ for instance, which had designed a huge village in Ramgarh (Karnataka). Even in Mani Ratnam’s ’’Nayakan’’ or ‘’Thalapathi’’, richness in set designs could bring out some of the memorable scenes in films. Thotta Tharani’s sets for Mani Ratnam films have been always lauded and his craftsmanship in thinking and designing the sets had really changed the face of art direction in Tamil cinema. Whether he created a slums of Dharavi for Nayagan, or a chilled atmosphere sets of Kashmir for Roja, every scenes were shot in Chennai studio only.
The splendor and opulence of his sets in ...
28. Harris Jayaraj
Harris Jayaraj is a veteran music composer, predominantly having worked in Tamil film industry. He is currently one of the most sought-after composers, having garnered commercial and critical success to most of his works. Right from his first work in Minnale (2001), Harris made the entire industry take notice.
He had also composed for its Bollywood remake Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, which was also a huge success. Coming from a music background, Harris’s climb to popularity was very gradual. From excelling in his music school in London to working under music maestros like AR Rahman and then making popular ad jingles like Coca-Cola, Harris has done everything to prove his position in the Tamil music industry.
Harris consistently de...
29. Vanamali
Vanamali is a famous Hyderabad based Telugu lyricist and poet. His proper name is Mani Gopal, famously recognized by his pen name Vanamali. He was born on 20th May 1967 in Railway Kodur; a municipality in Kadapa district in Andhra Pradesh and his mother tongue is Tamil. His very first composition as a lyricist was for a programme in Doordarshan which was sung by Vijaylakshmi Sarma. After this, his first project in Tollywood was for the movie Pithamagan directed by Bala in 2004. In 2007, he received the Nandi Awards as well as the Filmfare Awards for Best Lyricist in Telugu for his compositions, “Oh my Friend” and “Aerey” respectively in the movie Happy Days. In 2008, he worked with the director Anish Kuruvilla in the movie Avakai Biryani.
In 2009, he wrote the lyrics of the song “Karige Loga”...
30. K M Radha Krishnan
K M Radha Krishnan is an Indian film industry music composer, playback singer and a lyricist. He is known for the work he has done in movies Anand, Chandamama, and Godavari. He is trained in Carnatic music by Vengamamba. He got the Nandi award by the state government of Andhra Pradesh in 2006 and was a jury member for Nandi award in 2010.
He was born in Gadwal, Telangana. Radha Krishnan’s father KV Mohan, who worked at All India Radio always inspired him to pursue music as a career. KV Mohan was a theatre actor and has done almost 500 stage shows. Radha Krishnan wanted to be a singer in his childhood, but soon he realized that he is better in music composing.
He completed a diploma from Hyderabad Music College after learning classical music for some years. He completed his training for being a music teacher i...
31. Yuvan Shankar Raja
32. Rajendra Prasad Tanikella
Rajendra Prasad Tanikella is an Indian cinematographer who primarily works in the Telugu film industry. He belongs from the city of Hyderabad and currently lives there. He had completed his high school from Govt. Boys High School, Sultan Bazar in Hyderabad. He completed his schooling in the year 1983.
Afterward, he completed his under graduation from Bhavan's New Science College, Narayanaguda in Hyderabad. His first movie as a cinematographer was Mithunam. The movie was released in the year 2012. His next movie was in the year 2013. This was a Telugu movie called Mantra 2. Tanikella, in this movie, worked as a cinematographer too.
...33. Babu Thiruvalla
Babu Thiruvalla is an Indian director, film producer, and scriptwriter who predominantly works in Malayalam films. The films produced by him, most of them have won State awards or National Awards in some category. His first movie ‘Thaniyae’ has won more than 20 Awards including, State Award and Indian Panorama. It also includes Padmarajan Award for best film, ALA Award, Ujala-Asianet film award for best script-writer (shared with Nedumudi Venu).
The movie ‘Thanichalla Njan’ (2012) directed by him has won the National Film Award for the best feature film on national integration. He has been the part of the jury for selecting Indian movie for the Oscar award 2016. His directional venture in the film industry with Crossroad (2017) has been amazing. He has been the jury member of the International Film Festi...
34. Madhu Balakrishnan
Madhu Balakrishnan is an Indian playback singer. He sings in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Tulu languages. Madhu Balakrishnan was born on 24th June, in the year 1974. The singer does playback singing for south Indian films. Balakrishnan began his singing career in the year 1999 and since then, sung in several films. He has also been a judge on Malayalam singing reality shows. Apart from doing playback singing, Madhu Balakrishnan has also released a few solo albums.
His sung spiritual songs in the 2012 album Greatest Verses Of Bhagavad Gita. In his long career, he has received several awards and nominations. The greatest honors received by the singer include Kerala State Film Award in the year 2002 for the 2001film ‘Vaalkannadi’, Tamil Nadu State Film Award in the year 2006, Tamil Nadu State government’s Kalaima...
35. Mano Murthy
Mano Murthy was born in Bangalore in Karnataka, India. He is a leading composer, music director, instrumentalist and network engineer. He works in the Kannada film industry. Murthy developed an interest in music from his childhood. When he was an undergraduate student at the UVCE in Bangalore Institute pursuing electrical engineering, he played drums.
For his higher studies and graduation, he went to the USA at Davis University, Stanford University and the University of California. Mano Murthy was an entrepreneur in California who co-founded three firms. He was also a programmer in the famous company Microsoft. His career in films started in the year 1995. He composed music for the movie America! America! Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar directed the film. The songs in this f...
36. Radha Mohan
Radha Mohan is an Indian Film Director and Writer. He worked in the Tamil and Telugu Film Industries. Radha was born on the 20th of November in the year 1965. He was born in Trivandrum, Kerala. He later moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu after establishing a career in the Kollywood Film Industry. Radha made his debut as a Writer and Director in the Tamil Film Industry with the film Azhagiya Theeye (2004). He later directed more Tamil films such as Ponniyin Selvan (2005), Mozhi (2007), Abhiyum Naanum (2008), Payanam (2011), Gouravam (2013), Uppu Karuvaadu (2015), Brindavanam (2017), 60 Vayadu Maaniram (2018), and Kaatrin Mozhi (2018).
His film Payanam was bilingual. It released in the Telugu language with the name Gaganam. His other film Gouravam was shot simultaneously in both Telugu and Tamil. Radha won the Second Prize of Tamil Nad...
37. Vetrimaaran
Vetrimaaran is an Indian director and screenwriter in Tamil Film Industry. Born in Cuddalore, Vetrimaaran is from Ranipet, Vellore District, Tamilnadu. He was born to Dr. V. Chitravel who was a veterinary scientist and Megala Chitravel who was a well known Novelist. Vetrimaaran studied till his tenth grade in Ranipet. Later in 1994 he moved to Chennai to pursue English Literature from Loyola College. Vetrimaaran discontinued his Master's degree and showed interest in making a career in the film industry. The Loyola department of visual communications offered him an elective course known as Television presentation. As Vetrimaaran completed this course, he started developing an interest in filmmaking. Vetrimaaran started his career as an assistant director to Balu Mahendra for Kadai Neram for Sun TV.
38. Ouseppachan
Ouseppachan is well-known music composer in the Indian film industry, who is mainly seen to be doing background scores as well as the music for Malayalam films as well as for few of the Hindi films. Mechery Louis Oseppachan was born on 13th September 1955, in Thrissur. Ouseppachan had been interested in music and had a flair for it from his early days itself. The inborn talent in him came out as melodious songs played on his violin. This great musician started his journey with this simple string instrument. He had joined certain troops and bands after his formal education was over. He was seen to play the violin in the troop “Voice of Thrissur”, which is popular music troop of the time. Ouseppachan’s violinist skills were greater than ever. From doing music for troops, he ...
39. Anil Panachooran
Anil Panachooran is an eminent film lyricist in Malayalam cinema. He is a lawyer by profession but even lives on the income from his lyrical and poetic work in cinema. Many of his songs have romantic themes and are liked by audiences.
Anil was born in Kayakulam on 20 November 1965. The singer completed his studies from Kerala Law Academy Law College in Thiruvananthapuram and Kakatiya University in Warangal. He shot to popularity with film ‘Arabikkatha’ which was directed by Lal Jose in the year 2007. This was his first assignment in his career. He wrote some prominent lines in the lyrics of the song ‘Chora Veena Mannil Ninnum’ which established him in cine world. His next assignment was the film ‘Kadha Parayumbol’ by M. Mohanan. He wrote lines...
40. Ameer
Ameer is an Indian Cinema producer, director, and actor. He works prominently in Tamil cinema. Till date, he has directed four films, out of which three have been successful. Ameer's full name is Ameer Sultan. He was born in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu on December 5, 1966. He has studied economics while worked as an entrepreneur. Later, he worked in the film, Sethu as an assistant director as his debut in the industry. Sethu won many awards for its release in the year 1999.
In 2002, he directed his first movie, Mounam Pesiyadhe, which is a romantic comedy film. This film is also Trisha Krishnan's first film in the lead role. This movie also had cast Suriya in its lead. Also, in 2002, he started Teamwork Production House, his production company...
41. V. Manohar
V. Manohar is a multi-talented personality in Kannada films industry.
Apart from handling direction and lyrics, he has also acted in a few films where he composed his music. He has composed music for a great number of Tulu and Kannada films and has also received various awards for the same, like the prestigious Karnataka State Award. He has penned lyrics for over thousand numbers in Sandalwood.
Manohar belongs to Vitla village in the state of Karnataka. He started off as a cartoonist for magazines and leading national dailies. He is closely associated with Upendra and Kashinath, who are now well known Kannada movie directors. He made his debut as a music director with the film Tharle Nan Maga in 1992 which was directed by ...
42. K M Chaitanya
K.M. Chaitanya is a theater actor, director and documentary maker in Kannada languages. He made his debut as a director with the movie, Aa Dinagalu. Aa Dinagalu received many awards at different functions including Best Feature Film and Best Director Award at Filmfare Awards South in the year 2007. His next movies as a director include Suryakanthi, which was released in 2009 and Paraari, released in 2013. He also has a degree in Journalism. Also, he has worked on CNN's show CNN dot com as a Bangalore correspondent.
He worked as an Associate Director of Girish Karnad. His debut movie, Aa Dinagalu was released in 2007 in the Kannada language that marked his splendid debut. The film starred Girish Karnard, Veda Sastry, Chethan Kumar, Vinaya Prasad, Ashish Vidyarthi, Atul Kulkarni and Sharath. The movie was written by Agni Srid...
43. Pa Vijay
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 Gna...
44. S P Balasubrahmanyam
S P Balasubrahmanyam is still considered to be one among the best musicians in the past three decades, in spite of the surge of various new comers. This legendary singer is reputed for his intense voice, profound knowledge of music, and a style of singing which is appreciated even today. SPB, as he is fondly called, has given his voice for more than 30000 songs. His name is recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records for singing several songs in a short span of time. He has sung the most in Telugu, the next being Tamil. He has also given his beautiful voice for Sanskrit slokas.
Other than Telugu and Tamil SPB has sung in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada too. SPB also tried his luck a...
45. Saikumar
Saikumar is a renowned Malayalam actor born in Kollam district of Kerala. Born to actor father Kottakaram Sreedharan Nair, he married Prasanna Kumari in the year 1988. After ten years long marriage he divorced her, making Actress Bindu Panicker his wife in the year 2009. However, his previous marriage did not end on good terms facing a lot of legal difficulties. He also had a daughter, Vaishnavi with Prasanna Kumari. His ex- wife had also blamed actress Bindu on worsening their marriage.
This personal drama has indeed inked his career, but his films are still being acknowledged. SaiKumar has popularly played serious roles and villain characters in Malayalam films. Primarily commencing his film journey with a few comedy characters, he made a gradual ...
46. Prabhu Deva
Prabhu Deva is one among the populous cinema person in India. He was born in the year 1973 in Mysore to Sundaram. Sundaram is a popular dance master in South India. Prabhu Deva entered the film industry at the early age. He has assisted his father in the film Vetri Vizha, in which Kamal Hassan and Prabhu did the lead roles. He appeared in Raja song along with Karthik Muthuraman, in the film Agni Natchathiram, a Mani Ratnam movie. He started his career in the film industry as a dancer and choreographer and later, developed himself as an actor. He made his debut as a hero through, Kadhalan, a Shankar movie. This movie was a super hit with the super songs by A. R. Rahman.
Later he gave many hit movies and became one among the top actors in Tamil films. All of a sudden, he b...
47. 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.
Till now he did not show him as a Super Star. His humbleness is r...
48. Puneeth Rajkumar
Puneeth was born on 17th March 1975 in Madras, Tamilnadu. He entered the industry when he was six months old. Although he hails from Madras, he was brought up in Bengalaru. He left his studies in order to work in the cinema but later achieved a diploma in computer science privately. He has a family background where all his brothers, as well as his father, are involved in the same industry. As a child artist, Puneeth worked in movies like ‘Geetha and Bhagyavantha’. He was applauded for his performance as a child and received national film award for best child artist.
In 2002, Puneeth was seen playing the lead role for the first time in ‘Appu’. He received a national award for his movie ‘Butada hoovu’. Puneeth is trained in dancing, fighting and martial arts. He w...
49. Karthik Sivakumar
Karthik Sivakumar, or popularly known as Karthi, is a prominent film actor, who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He was born on May 25, 1977, in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, to Tamil actor, Sivakumar and Lakshmi. He studied at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, and later attended St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. He obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Crescent Engineering College in Chennai. Post graduation, he started working as an Engineering Consultant in the city and pursued higher education abroad. During those times, Karthi was earning 5000 every month, until he thought that he wanted to do something more. He had his scholarship in the USA and studied at Binghamton University in New York, where he took Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. While doing hi...
50. Vijay
As they always say, "it runs in the blood", the same has been proven in Vijay Joseph's life. His dad is a very famous Tamil movie director, S. A. Chandrasekhar. Vijay's mother is a famous playback singer. He began his acting journey as a child artist in a film called "Vetri". He acted in many movies as a child artist supporting veteran heroes like Vijayakanth and Ajith Kumar. His career started as a leading hero with the movie, "Naalaiya Theerpu", in 1992. He won the "Cinema Express Award for New Face" for this movie.
He then acted in many movies in the Tamil field, which has gained mixed responses from the audience and critics alike. During 2003, he signed a film by name of ‘Thirumalai’, where his co-star was Jyothika. This movie had shown him in a di...
51. Sathyaraj
Sathyaraj is one of the greatest actors of Tamil film industry. He has good comic sense, good height, and good performance, and is still active in the industry. Rangaraj is the real name of Sathyaraj. Born on October 3, 1954 Sathyaraj forayed into the Tamil film industry as a villain. He depicted the suave villain perfectly and he was accepted by the audience. His dialogue Thagudu Thagudu from the film Kaaki Chattai is still famous now. In fact, it is no exaggeration to tell that he gave a complete transformation to the notion we have about villain. His oratory adeptness in villainous roles is indeed exemplary.
Sathyaraj has worked in around 200 flicks. He also worked in Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi film...
52. S Shankar
53. Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record l...
54. Ajith Kumar
Ajith Kumar is a prominent Tamil film actor, model, racing driver and philanthropist. He was born on May 1, 1971, in Hyderabad. In 1986, he studied at Asan Memorial Senior Secondary School but dropped out before finishing higher secondary. He worked as a 2-wheeler auto mechanic and got a license so he can satisfy his fondness of bike and car racing. When he turned 18, he took a job to support his racing career. Occasionally, Ajith also did ads and television commercials.
Ajith was forced to decide on whether he would do films or continue racing. He focused on doing films. In 1990, Ajith debuted in a small role in the Tamil romantic film, ‘En Veedu En Kanavar’. At 21, he started his film career in a low-budget Telugu romance film entitled ‘Prema Pusthaka...
56. S. S. Rajamouli
A film director and a screenwriter S.S. Rajamouli was born as Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli in Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana. He is well known for his hit films like Magadheera, Eega and Baahubali: The Beginning. He started off directing daily soaps in Telegu for Eenadu Television working under K. Raghavendra Rao. His debut as Film director was Student no.1 in 2001 which turned out to be a blockbuster. His next venture was after a long gap of two years, Simhadri, which also received rave reviews. His third flick Sye was based on a game of rugby and for this, he joined hands with K.K. Senthil Kumar. This film received appreciation from all over and was a hit. His next movie was Chatrapathi, which again touched the audience’s heart with the music by M.M. Keeravani and screenplay by Senthil Kumar. He ...