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Chithra Arun is a Malayalam singer. She was born in Kerela and sang for numerous Mollywood movies and audio albums. Arun made her debut with the song Uyirin Varamaayi for the movie ‘Housefull.’ Nin Neermizhi for ‘Pakida,’ Violin Song for ‘Romeo & Juliets,’ Oru Makara Nilaavaay for ‘Rani Padmini,’ and Nee Swapnamaayi for ‘Sarvaadhipan’ are her some notable works. Arun was born to the Late ‘Mundoor Anupurath Bharatha Pisharody’ and ‘Meleettil Pisharath Malathi Pisharasiar.’  She has two children with ‘Pottayil Pisharath Arun.’

 She has worked with eminent singers like ‘Vinod Menon,’ ‘Vidhu Prathap,’ ‘Sam Shiva,’ ‘ P Jayachandran,’ ‘Arun Gopan,’ &ls...

Anuradha Bhat is a playback singer. She was born on 23rd of July in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. She was the daughter of Mrs. Gayathri Srikrishna, and Mr. Srikrishna Bhat. Her parents loved music. She has a sister, Anupama Bhat. She is a famous TV actor cum anchor. Coming to her studies, she completed her education from St Ann’s Girls High School, and Carmel English School.

She did her college from Canara College and joined MSNM Institute of PG Studies. She did MBA and B. Sc. Then, she placed in a renowned company in Bengaluru. However, she quit the job of MNC and tried to work on her music. She builds her knowledge on music. Apart from this, she had to train from Mrs. Kamala on Bharatanatyam. She did the course completely. She had training in singing, the vocal improvement from Late M Srinath Marathe.

In her chil...

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.

Hebah became a known face in Kollywood, after acting in the movie Thirumanam Enum Nikkah that released in the year 2014. She played the role of a Muslim girl named Naseema, which was a vital character in the movie. The movie had high expectations but failed to impress the audience. Patel then stepped into Tollywood, by making her debut through the movie, Ala Ela. She played a ...

Inchara Rao was born in a small town in Malenadu, Shimoga, India. She is an Indian singer. Inchara preferably works for the Kannada film industry as a playback singer. She started singing at a very young age. She stepped into the singing world through the reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Kannada season 1. She didn’t win the show but has been in the top three contestants of the show.

Nanna Stylu Berene was the first song, which has been sung by her in the movie Geleya. She has sung Ayomaya from the movie Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu. Inchara’s best work was in the song Kareyole from the film Rangitaranga. From this song, she got lots of awards like Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer in Kannada and SIIMA.

Leela Samson is an Indian classical dancer, author, actor, and a choreographer. She was born on May 6, 1951 at Coonoor taluk in Tamil Nadu.She is the daughter of Laila Samson and Vice-Admiral (Retd.) Benjamin Abraham Samson.

Leela's father was a Pune native and belonged to the community of Jewish Bene-Israelite while her mother's hometown was Ahmedabad. In 1939, Royal Indian Navy inducted Benjamin as the unit's lieutenant. Within twenty years, they promoted him to the post of the National Defence Academy's commandant.

Benjamin's sister Annie served as the Anjum-e-Islam Muslim school's principal for more than thirty years. When Leela turned nine, Benjamin admitted her to Rukmini Devi Arundale's traditional dance institution named Kalakshetra.

She pursued her graduate degree from Sophia...

Sixteen- year-old Kharesma is an Indian playback singer. She was born on 8th May, 2000 in London UK. She spent her early years in London. Since her childhood, she has had a keen interest in music and hence she honed her skills which ultimately opened the gates of Tamil music, industry in India . In British Heart Foundation she appeared for the first time. She sang we are one a song from the lion king musical. Her performance gained her much appreciation back in London, where she spent her childhood. Kharesma is a professionally trained singer. In 2011 Kharesma moved to India to learn Hindustani and karnataka music. In India, she learned the roots of Indian music and its essence. Indian classical music, which is known worldwide fascinated young Kharesma to endeavor her singing dream.

In 2014, she made her debut through a Tamil s...

Vani Harikrishna is Kannada playback singer, Vani won few awards from South Indian Film Industry for her works. Vani born in Bangalore. Harikrishna narrated several songs and had sung them. Vani composed songs before starting her career as a singer. Vani received a state reward from Kannada for singing the song Madhuvana Karedare from the cinema Inthi Nina Preethiya. Vani created a fame as screenplay director through the movie Loosegalu released in the year 2013. Vani started her career as a singer and composer in the year 2008 and active till now by releasing her albums in songs or cinemas. Vani belongs to a family of musicians. Harikrishna grandfather was a famous singer in Kannada Industry and even known as a composer.

Vani grandfather name is G.K.Venkatesh. About her personal life, Vani married to a musical composer V.Harik...

Mohana Bhogaraju is an Indian Playback Singer. She works in the Tollywood, Kollywood, and Sandalwood Film Industries. Mohana was born in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. Her family moved to Hyderabad after she was born. Mohana spent her childhood in Hyderabad. Mohana pursued her Bachelor’s degree from Bhojreddy Engineering College. She later pursued her Master of Business Administration Degree from Osmania University. Mohana was always fascinated with singing and music. She started learning music at a very young age of six. Her mother recognized her talent and encouraged her. She participated in many competitions in school.

She then got a chance to perform in Ravindra Bharati and Thyagaraja Ghana Sabha at a very young age. Mohana started her career as a Playback Singer in the Telugu Film Industry with the film Jai Sri Ram (2013), w...

Sukrithi was Born on 5 July, 1993, in Delhi. She is a South Indian Film Actress and made her debut in the movie into Tollywood Industry, Kerintha in 2015. Being a Telugu girl, Sukrithi Ambati was brought up in Delhi. She did her theater during her College days while pursuing her B.Tech in 3rd year from Banastahli University, Rajasthan. She did her schooling from Kulachi Hansraj school, Delhi. She was participating in the youth festival where theater called her up.

She got selected during a star hunt conducted by Sri Venkateswara Creations and was selected after auditioned at Hyderabad before cast into “Kerintha” which released in 2015. According to her, she was unaware about the precepts of the industry, being from a non-filmy background. She now fe...

Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, is a singer and a musician, specialized in playing a rare and a beautiful instrument, Gayatri Veena. She was born on 7th of October, 1981, with visual impairment. Gifted with a beautiful voice, but she was deprived of the pleasure of seeing the world. And that hasn't stopped her ever from reaching high and chasing her dreams. She won special jury mention for her very first song Katte Katte for the movie Celluloid. She learned about 100 ragas in just a year, all by herself from listening to them, and started making her compositions. Though all the great musicians of all times have said music requires having training from a knowledgeable teacher. But this lady, surprised everyone with her talent and lust for learning, all by herself by getting better and better. With...

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...

Nabha Natesh is a film actress from India. She predominantly acts in Kannada movies. Nabha was born in 1995 in Sringeri, situated in Karnataka. Nabha has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science from Mangalore, Karnataka. After finishing her studies, she started working as an IT Engineer. Later she went on to pursue her interest in acting and modelling. Nabha was among the top 11 contestants to make it to the Femina Miss India Bangalore in the year 2013.Before debuting in Sandalwood, Nabha had done theatre acting as well. She has taken formal acting lessons in Abhinaya Taranga. Her interest in acting and theatre led her to work closely with Prakash Belawadi. Due her dedication and passion for acting, she even went on to assist him in some plays. While being at the backstage of the plays, she ...

Kranthi Madhav is a film director who works in the Telugu film industry. In the initial days, Kranthi was not interested in making films. But during his Mass Communication’s Masters Course in Manipal University, he learned about the art of filmmaking. His professor A.F. Mathews taught him the art of filmmaking. After completing his studies, Kranthi left for Hyderabad. On reaching, he started trials but never worked under any other director. He was associated with 3-4 production houses, though. After narrating storylines to various actors, he thought of directing a film of his own.

This was when Onamalu occurred. Kranthi gets his inspiration from Guru Dutt, T.Krishna, and Balachander. He once said, ”Look around, the majority of the people fall in love, but not everybody enters wedlock with the person...

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. 

During her childhood, Geetha was given training in music and singing by her parents and was given the opportunity to train under great musicians of that time. For h...

Aishwarya Rajesh, commonly known as Iyshwarya, is an Indian actress who works in the Tamil film industry. She was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on 10th of January, 1990. She was born into a family that was famous and had its mark in the film industry for three generations.

Her father is a very well-known actor in Telugu movies, and his name is Rajesh. Aishwarya did her education in the field of commerce by completing her graduation from Ethiraj College for Women and received a degree of B.Com from there. She is a wonderful dancer and had participated in a dance reality show that airs in Kalaignar TV named Maanada Mayilada. Aishwarya not only participated in the third season of the show but also managed to outshine all other contestants and was declared the winner.

Her v...

Shanvi Shrivastava, who recently turned 23 on 8th December, is an Indian actress and model. She started her career in South Indian films, and most of her works are in Tollywood. Entered film industry in just 2012, Shanvi has made her name in the industry already. She is considered as a ‘big asset’ for the movies. Even though she was just doing her graduation, she got a role in a movie in 2012 and later on continued with movies and did her studies side by side. Most of her works are in Tollywood. Personal Life: Shanvi is from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Her family includes her brother and sister, and she is the youngest one. Her elder sister, Vidisha Srivastava also belongs to the film industry and is a part of The South films. She has completed her graduation (B.Com) from Thakur College of Science ...

A confident girl, who knew ever since she performed in a college play that she wanted to be an actress- Parvathy was born in a Malayali family in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is an Indian model and actor. She completed her secondary education in Abu Dhabi and resumed senior secondary education in Kerala, India. Parvathy graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Software Engineering and worked for a brief period before committing to the silver screen. Before taking onto acting as a full-time job, Parvathy ventured into modelling and bagged the titles of “Miss Karnataka” in 2009 and “Miss Navy Queen” in 2010.

She became the face of Mysore Sandal Soap and appeared in many commercials. Nair began her acting career with a debut in V.K. Prakash’s Poppins in 2012. Ever since then there has been no going back for this...

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 ...

Model-turned- actor Kriti Kharbanda is a popular actress in Sandalwood and Tollywood, who was born in New Delhi and brought up in Bangalore. She took active part in dramas and other cultural activities when she was in college, which gave her space in acting and even modeling. Even in her college days, she did take up assignments in advertisements. Her much popular advertisement in Fair & lovely caught the attention of an NRI director. Director Raj Pippala was in Chennai in search of a new face for his film “Boni”( Telugu film in 2009) and happened to see her face on the billboard. He contacted her through a mediator in Bengaluru and she had to go to an audition for the film. As many as 150 new faces had to contest for the heroine role, but luckily she was select...

Born on April 8, 1988 Nithya Menen is indeed a star to reckon with. She has worked in South Indian films, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Hailing from Calicut, she was brought up in Bangalore. Before joining films, she passed Journalism from Manipal Institute of Communication. Though, she wanted to do a course in Cinematography things didn’t fructify. After working as a child artiste in the film Hanuman, she did a film with Mohanlal during the year 2008. This got her many accolades and she was nominated in the category of Best Supporting actress.

During one of her entrance exams Nithya met director Nandini, who was instrumental in making Nithya ...

This effervescent beauty, who has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, is indeed a name to reckon with. This is not only due to her acting prowess, but also for her determination in battling cancer. Only recently, she opened up that she is very much alive in the industry; she is currently working in the flick Two Countries. 

Born on 14 November 1984, Mamta grew up in Bahrain. After doing her schooling in Bahrain she did her degree in Bangalore. Mamta tested waters in modeling before entering into the film industry. She got herself associated with print ads for big names. The 2005 Malayalam flick Mayookham by Hariharan was her first film....

Amala Paul is the super talented star of South Indian film industry. She is the promising actress that had been critically acclaimed of her work. The south Indian beauty had many ups and downs in her career, but a star shines bright after midnight. She started off with a low budget film ‘Neelathamara’ in 2009 in which she played just a minimal role.

Later she signed a movie ‘Sindhu Samaveli’ in which her role became controversial and was criticized but this criticism was silenced by her next debut film ‘Mynaa’ a romantic film that made her realize as a promising actress in industry. The gorgeous actress made her way in the right direction and got acclamation.

Afterwards there was no stopping and one...

Peering through her professional looking glasses and with a no frills dress pattern, Aparna Gopinath hardly looks a typical Malayalam film actress. Perhaps her looks reveal her approach to movies and also her background. The main forte of Aparna has been her serious theatre acting and her specialising in western dance forms. Her entry into movies may, however, have happened due to a combination of circumstances. Both her parents were movie buffs, always discussing about films, and were very much infatuated with the screen exploits of the veteran matinee idols of Malayalam cinema like Mammooty and Mohanlal. While this may have indirectly coaxed Aparna into films, the fact that she herself was a theatre artist from her childhood days facilitated and expedited her entry into the world of movies. Being basically from Chenn...

Carrying the acting tradition in the family is nothing uncommon in the film industry, and so it was almost natural for Anate Augustine one of the current crop of promising Malayali actresses to have chosen an acting career following in the footsteps of her father Augustine, who himself had acted in more than 100 films in his lifetime. While entering films, however, she chose to abbreviate her name from Anate to ‘Ann’ and this change may have brought her luck as her current standing in the industry bears out, having been a recipient of so many awards right from her debut film in 2010. Like many others in the current generation of actor and actresses, Ann too comes with a solid educational background, having earlier studied in Calicut and Thiruvananthapuram, and then graduated in psychology from Bangalore. Wh...

Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...

Jonita Gandhi is an exceptionally talented singer from Canada. This Indo-Canadian singer is born in Delhi, brought up in Canada. Like many other singers, Jonita too comes with a family background that supported music from the beginning. Her father is a Musician by his own interest in music and by profession he is an electronics Engineer. Her first performance was much recognized when she performed along with her father in Toranto at an event organized for Christmas. Her music career has come a way long way already. She had sung in Bengali, Malayalam and Hindi film Industry.

She created a sensation with her debut song in Bollywood. She entered Bollywood in 2013, with the blockbuster movie Chennai Express. She performed this feat, along with renowned Indian Singer S.P. Balasubramaniam. Within no time her name is tagged a talented...

Rachita ram is a Kannada film and TV actress who marked her presence in movies like ‘Rangeela and Ambareesha’.

She was born in Karnataka although has the ancestral background in Bhopal. Her mother was a bharat natyam dancer and so is she, a well trained dancer in this particular form of dance. She has also given around 50 live dance performances. 

This actress captured everyone’s attention through her performance in her very first movie ‘Bulbul’.

She rocked the screen in the Kannada soap opera ‘arasi’ that was very much liked by the audience and made Rachita ram, the favourite of thousands.

She opted to head towards the film industry only after working for quite a long time in television and commercials. According to her, working in television gave her confidence and boosted her spirit to ...

Manju Warrier is a South-Indian film actress, born on November 1, 1978, in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, to an accountant father and a homemaker mother. She completed her schooling from Chinmaya Vidyalaya and further from Chovva Higher Secondary School, both situated at Kannur. She graduated from SN College, Kannur. Manju was only seventeen when she made her debut in the film industry with ‘Sakshyam’, a classic Malayalam drama directed by Mohan.At the age of eighteen, she worked in ‘Sallapam’, a love story by Sundar Das. In the first three years of her career, she was awarded for her work in four major films. First is with the film ‘Ee Puzhayum Kadannu’, a drama thriller starring Dileep in the lead role, won her the Kerala State Film Award, Filmfare, and the Scr...

Anushka Shetty is the popular South Indian star who is very famous for her work in Arundhati, a Telugu movie. This film was dubbed in Tamil and made her more popular among the Tamil audience. Her first Tamil movie was Rendu with R. Madhavan. Anushka Shetty was not well known during the time of Rendu. It is only through Arundhati, she entered the hearts of the people. She masters all the roles given to her. She has paired with almost all the top stars of South Indian film industry right from Rajini Kanth. She paired Super Star in the film Linga and got a decent role in that film.

Her appearance in Thaandavam with Vikram was praised by many people, as she did a good role, leaving the heart hard at the end in the movie. She acted with Vikram in Deivathirumagal as an Advocat...

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.