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Thanuja Puttaswamy is an Indian film and television actress known for her works in Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil languages. Thanuja Puttaswamy, aka Thanuja Gowda, was born to Puttaswamy and Savithri on 5th March 1997 in Bangalore. Thanuja is the second child among three daughters. Her elder sister Anuja is an advocate, and her younger sister Pooja is an engineer. Thanuja completed her schooling in Bangalore and went to Bangalore University for her higher studies. Thanuja Puttaswamy started her career as an actress in 2013 with the Kannada horror film 6-5=2. The film revolves around six individuals who go for a trek in the Western Ghats and the mysterious incidents during their stay there. ThanujaPuttaswamy played the role of Deepa in the movie.

She was born in Kakinada, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. She was grown up in the same city. Her father passed away when she was just one year old. She was not associated with acting until her adolescence.

She luckily got spotted when she participated in a talent hunt show hosted by anchor Jhansi in her home town Kakinada. Once she was approached by a TV associate Gunnam Gangaraju (Serial Advertiser) and she got an opportunity to work in a TV serial ‘Laya’.

She was married to Narasimha a Television actor and later she transformed as an anchor. She took up anchoring by the virtue that, acting needs different characters but anchoring can be bestowed by her own personality. Presently she was one of the best anchors on Telugu Television screen. She also started hosting different functions and Audio releases. 

Shyamala is often spotted in a TV show “Maa Voori Vanta”, on MAA TV, a cooking show which was hosted by her, she travelled all over the state of Andhra Pradesh to host the show in all the places, in the participants own house itself. She is hosting the show for more than four years.

She also hosted a show named “Pattukunte Pattucheera”, on Gemini TV a live game show awarding Silk sarees to the lucky dailers. 

She also acted in various TV serials like ‘Vivaha Bandham’ on Gemini Tv, ‘Abhishekam’ on ETV, ‘Happy Days’ on ZEE Telugu. Acting in these small screen projects gave a kick start to her career. She was presently living in Hyderabad and she took up modelling too.

She also started acting in movies. She started her career with a small role in the movie ‘Gundello Godaari’ and later she acted in 'Intinta Annamayya’ under the direction Raghavendra Rao.

Recently she played a major role in the movie ‘Loukyam’, which was a grand success. She was busy with both silver screen and small screen projects.

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.

An actor, model, and dancer, Nidhhi Agerwal was born on August 17, 1993, in the city of Bengaluru in Karnataka. Her mother is Indu Agerwal and her father, Rajesh Agerwal is a champion of Karate. She did her schooling from Vidyashilp Academy and Vidya Niketan School.

Avika Gor is an Indian Television Actress who was born on June 30, 1997 in Bombay, India. Her father is Sameer Gor, an insurance agent and her mother is Chetna Gor, a Homemaker. She studied at Ryan International School located in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was first seen in the Indian drama soap, “Balika Vadhu” – Kachchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishte as Anandi Jagdish Singh when she was still studying. She earned fame and received many praises and awards for her appearance in this serial.

Sunandha Mala Setti is a famous and popular Telegu TV Actress. She was born in Vizag, Ahmadabad, India. She did her schooling from MVR, also graduated from MVR University. She lives in Hyderabad. She is an actress at Zee Telegu, also at ETV Telegu.

Lavanya Tripathi is a Hindi TV serial actress as well as a well known model. She was born on 15 December 1990 in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her father is a Lawyer and her mother is a retired teacher. She was brought to Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India where she grew up with her brother and sister.

She completed her schooling in Dehradun and after that she moved to Mumbai for further study. She became an economics graduate from Rishi Dayaram National College. She always wants to become an actress in Indian Television but due to her father advice she first completed her study.

She first started her carrier as a model and done some ad film. In 2006, Lavanya got selected as Miss Uttarakhand and after that she got various offers from different producer.

In the same year 2006, she played a role in the horror serial Ssshhhh...Koi Hai. After that she became a participant in the show Get Gorgeous. She also worked with Pyaar Ka Bandhan in a role named as Mishti Das, which was broadcasted in 2009 and 2010.

Lavanya, with her performace made a position in both Telugu and Tamil film Industry. She played a role in her first debut film Andala Rakshasi which was released in 2012. Her performance as Midhuna was fabulous and was awarded as best debutant by Maa TV. In 2013, she again played a role for the film Doosukeltha.

She made her debut in Tamil film industry with Brahman. Her performance in this movie was also very powerful and she played the role Gayathri, a journalist. Her second film Naanum Rowdydhaan is in pre-production phase and she has many expectations from this film.

Shriya Saran, the timeless beauty, is a much loved actor of the South Indian film industry who’s been reigning the world of cinema from nearly a decade. She’s acted in nearly 70 films in the languages of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English and Hindi and won a host of prestigious awards in all of her career.

A trained and expert traditional dancer, Shriya Saran was noticed in one of her dance videos and for the beauty that she was, movie offers came her way. Ishtam, the telugu film produced by Ramoji Rao was the first that she acted in and although the film didn’t really fare all that well, she was noticed. She was paired with bigger heroes like Nagarjuna and Tarun right after that when she acted in films like Santosham (with Nag) and Nuvve nuvve (first directorial of Trivikram Srinivas along side Tarun). Ever since that, she’s had no looking back. She acted in a lot of south Indian films after that, Tagore (starring Chiranjeevi), Balu (the Pawan Kalyan starrer), Chatrapathi (along side Prabhas), Sivaji (with Rajinikanth) being some of them.

Southscope award, Filmfare award, CineMaa award, Stardust award and Vijay award were won by Shriya Saran in her career, over and over again. Nearly ten years after Shriya Saran debuted, she still continues to compete with fresh talent bagging as many important roles and looking as beautiful as she did when she set foot in the industry.

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. 

Badri, Idiot, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Pokiri, Desamuduru, Golimaar, Sivamani, Iddarammayilatho, Businessman, Temper and Heart Attack are some of his box office successes. Born on 28 September 1966 in Pithapuram, Andhrawala, Jagannadh pursued his studies at St. Theresa R.C.M. High school. He initially tested waters as an assistant director to ace director Ram Gopal Varma and worked under him in many Telugu flicks. His first directorial venture, Badri, was a commercial success. This film had Pawan Kalyan in the main role and the film led way to Jagannadh to direct more films. Telugu actor Ravi Teja and Jagannadh share a good rapport and they have worked together in Idiot, Itlu Sravani Subramanyam and Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi. Jagannadh helmed direction for the debut venture of Chiranjeevi’s son Ram Charan Teja. 

Jagannadh received the Nandi Award for his flick Pokiri. This film also fetched him the Best Director Filmfare Award during the year 2006. This film ran for over 500 days, which is indeed a great feat. It was remade into Tamil and Hindi too, and it was successful in these languages. Jagannadh also tried his luck in Kannada film industry and the flicks that he directed here include, Yuvaruvaraja and Appu. Jagannadh had also succumbed to depression once, but later he took it in his stride and emerged a wise person.

Ravi is an anchor and Voice jokey (VJ) who was born on the 19th of September in Hyderabad, India. During his school days, Ravi used to anchor, After he completed schooling Ravi joined the Army to survey the county close to Pune. After six of training with the Army, Ravi left to pursue his tertiary education and attained a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Before he kicked off his career as an anchor, Ravi used to work as a choreographer. He has hosted various shows as an anchor some of which include 'Dhee juniors,' 'family circus,' and 'one show.' He is famous for hosting 'something special' with fellow anchor co-host Lasya Manjunath. Apart from anchoring shows Ravi also appeared in the 2017 movie ‘Idi Maa Prema Katha.

Sudigali Sudheer is a very well-known name to the Telugu television viewers. He came into limelight with the most famous Telugu show Jabardast. But his life before Jabardast is not much known. He was born on May 19, 1987, in Vijayawada and also pursued his studies, which was till twelfth, in Vijayawada itself. He discontinued his studies owing to his interest in pursuing his pursuing a career in acting. Even his parents were also very supportive and always encouraged him. His mother had a strong resolution to see her son on silver screen, and his father had been his constant guide. When he was in twelfth standard, he participated in a Maa TV event named “Santoor Star and One Chance” which aimed at hunting young talent. He had been a finalist in the contest and ended as a Runner-up. But this contest couldn’t fetch him movie offers. Instead, it made him miss his twelfth class board exams. He then came back home and started planning to appear for exams next year. But unfortunately, his father met with an accident and had to stay in bed for quite some time. Being the eldest son of the family he had to take the family responsibilities on his shoulders. He came to Hyderabad and started working at Ramoji film city as a street magician entertaining people who visit Film City, through this he used to make eight thousand rupees per month.