1. Vadivukkarasi
Vadivukkarasi is a Tamil actress who predominantly appears in negative roles in Tamil movies and serials. She is a veteran actress whose acting career spans over 3 decades. She is also a relative of director A.P.Nagarajan.
Vadivukkarasi made her debut in Bharathiraja’s thriller ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’ starring Kamal Hassan. Her first movie was a blockbuster and got her into the limelight. She acted in lead roles in many movies. But her fortune was short lived on account of her dark complexion. She had to do supporting roles after more than a decade of acting in lead roles. Yet she surpassed many women in the industry in the number of movies in hand through her fabulous performances. Her negative role ...
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Female
2. Meera Krishnan
Meera Krishnan… she is the beautiful Tamil actress, who started her career as a program announcer in Doordarshan. Then she turned into a news reader on DD. After the satellite channel Sun TV entered the media, Meera joined there as a news reader. She is popular for her excellent pronunciations and the right interpretations. After few years, she started to act in TV serials and then she was called upon by the popular directors to act in the cinema. Meera was very much interested in music and she completed her M.A in Music from the Madras University. Her family is a musical family and Meera has also an excellent talent in vocal and Veena. She is married to her long time friend Krishna, who is a musician too. He is a guitarist. Meera’s debut i...
Age:
56
Gender:
Female
3. V Thashi
V Thashi is an Indian music director, popular amongst the regional audience for his work on the soundtracks of movies like Aburvaa Mahan (2015), Nanaga Naanillai (2015), Kathalai Unarnden (2014), etc. Mostly known for his supreme involvement in the music albums of Tamil short films, documentaries, and Kollywood movies, Thashi has been a prominent part of the South Indian film and music industry for more than five years now.
Over the years, he has been admired by the local critics and spectators on numerous occasions for his exceptional performances and albums as a music director. The year 2014 was a crucial one for Thashi as he made her first portentous contribution on the silver screen with the film Kathalai Unarden (2014). Sinc...
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Male
4. Suresh Urs
Suresh Urs is an Indian movie editor, who works mainly in the South Indian cinema. He has worked in over 700 movies and 40 documentaries and TV shows. Suresh is mostly known for his collaboration with directors like Mani Ratnam, Girish Ratnad, Shankar Nag, T. S. Nagabharana, P. Vasu, Bala, Girish Kasarvalli, Saran and Baraguru Ramachandrappa. Suresh got the National Film Award for Best Editing work in movie Bombay (1995).
He received many state awards which include several Karnataka State Film Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. Suresh also honored to win the Karnataka State Rajyotsava Prashasti, which is a Lifetime Achievement Vishnuvardhan Award from Karnataka Government in 2014....
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Male
5. Thalaivasal Vijay
Vijay ( Vijaykumar) got the title Thalaivasal as he acted in the movie called Thaliavasal. He is an Ace actor who has acted in more than 200 movies in various languages viz Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada. Though he comes in small roles in most of the movies, he makes an impact in the hearts of the audience in whatever role he performs. He is such a good actor.
He was born on 4th August 1962 as first son in a humble middle class family. His father was a railway employee working in Bhilai. Vijay stayed with his grandmother in Chennai and did his schooling. His debut into film was through a serial called Neela Mala after it happened after a long struggle. During his younger days his dream was to become a doctor, which didn’t ha...
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
6. Ajay Rathnam
Ajay Rathnam is a Tamil cine actor who also appears in TV serials and movies. He is known for his supportive and negative roles and has acted in over 300 movies.
Ajay Rathnam first starred in the movie ‘Nalaya Manithan’ in 1989. His role was appreciated in that movie and he started appearing in negative roles mostly. Owing to his height and his physique, he got roles of a cop in many movies.
Ajay’s roles in ‘Indian’ and ‘ Kuruthipunal’ were widely appreciated and the movies too did well at the box office. He also starred in a few Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada movies in such roles. He was even cast as the hero in the Kannada movie ‘KA-99 B-333’ which wa...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
7. Bonda Mani
Bonda Mani, is one among the popular comedians in Tamil cinema. His real name is ‘Kedeeshwaran’. He changed his name to ‘Bonda Mani’ for the stage performance. He is a Sri Lankan based person. During his schooling, he has acted in various dramas.With huge support and inspiration from his friends, he started looking out for chances in feature films. Inspite of his great efforts to act in Tamil Movies in Sri Lanka, he did not succeed. Later on, he went to Singapore for work. During 1981, when the Tamil actors’ troupe visited Singapore, for a cultural program, Bonda Mani got a chance to meet them. He was introduced to director ‘K. Bhagyaraj’ then . He explained his passion for actin...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
8. Delhi Ganesh
Delhi Ganesh is one of the veteran Tamil actors, born on August 1, 1944. He worked in Food Corporation of India (FCI) between 1964 and 1974. Because of his interest towards films, he dropped his job. He is a Delhi drama group member of Dakshina Bharata Nataka Sabha (DBNS) and the reason why he is called as, Delhi Ganesh. He was presented by Mr. K. Balachander (1976- Pattana Pravesham). In a span of three decades, he completed more than 400 films. Mostly he portrays supporting roles like, father or comedian and a notable villain thing in the film Apporva Sagodharargal.
He has a son named, Shyam Ganesh. Delhi Ganesh appeared in more than 400 movies and 16 TV serials. His notable serial includes, Marmadesam, a thriller-drama TV series...
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
9. Nellai Siva
Nellai Siva is a famous comedian and a supporting actor who predominantly works in Kollywood cinemas. He works mostly in comedy scenes. One of the outstanding comedy scenes with comedian Vadivelu is in the movie Kannum Kannum. In 2000 he played in Vetri Kodi Kattu as a tea shop owner. After this movie, he slowly progressed by acting in big movies like Saamy, which had actor Vikram in the lead, Anbe Sivam with Kamal Haasan in the lead, Thirupaachi with Vijay and Kireedam with actor Ajith Kumar in the lead.
His way of speaking in the movies is complete of Nellai slang, which shows him unique from other supporting actors. He played the role of mechanic in the movie Padikkathavan, which had actor Dhanush in the lead. He played the ro...
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
10. Pandu
Pandu is a Tamil comedy actor who has been in the cine field since 1970. His brother Idichapuli Selvaraj is also a famous person in the cinema field. After schooling, Pandu developed his interests by joining the arts and science college in Chennai. His debut film was Maanavan. He has appeared in almost fifty-five films. Apart from movies, Pandu has a great interest in art. He exhibited his artworks few years back, along with his son Prabhu Panju.
Pandu's mainstream business was aluminum and brass metal crafting, named as 'Prapanj unlimited’. Panju is in charge of his family business. Most of his works were based on typography. He designed them using his fingers, to maintain a bond w...
11. Power Star Srinivasan
Srinivasan was born in 1962 in Simmakal, Madurai. He completed his degree at Madurai Kamraj University. He first worked as a medical practitioner, then moved on to business by setting a finance firm Baba Trading Company. Having seen failure in both of his occupation, he then landed in Cinema Industry. Due to his interest towards films, he moved from Madurai to Chennai. He directed and acted in a film Lathika that was running for 220 days.
This move brought publicity to him and soon he had several online fan clubs, which affected in Srinivasan rechristening his name as 'Powerstar' Srinivasan. With this success, he started producing and acting in mov...
12. Prem Kumar
Prem Kumar is an Indian actor working in Kannada films. He made his debut in the year 2004 with the film ‘Praana’ but got his fame with the 2005 hit film ‘Nenapirali’. Prem even won a Filmfare Best Actor Award for this movie. He was born on 18 April 1975 in Karnataka to a weaver.
Prem did his schooling from Kalyani School and after that got a job in Indian Telephone Industries Limited. He became a weaver just like his father and continued his work for 13 years. Prem was an ardent movie lover and spent half of his earnings in watching movies in the theatres. He used to watch 3-4 movies per week and used to buy film related magazines and papers.
On his friend’s...
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
13. Scissor Manohar
Scissor Manohar is an Indian-Actor. Along with being an actor, he is also a comedian. From the time he has become an actor, he acted in more than 240 films. In the movie named as Puthiya Vaarpugal, which gets released in the year 1990, he worked as a production assistant. The movies in which he has worked include En Rasavin Manasile, Ellame En Rasathan, Deesiya Geetham, Kallazhagar, Suyamvaram, Malabar Police, Mudhalvan, Mugavaare, Ennavale, Love Channel, 12B, Shahjahan, Style, Bala, Ghilli, Attahasam, Aai, Aadhikkam, Selvan, Oru Naal Oru Kanavu, Sivakasi, Veerana, Varalaru, E, Pokkiri, Muni, Kasu Irukkanum, Thiru Ranga, Thee Nagar, 18 Vayasu Puyale, Kelvikuri, Iyakkam, Kannukulle, Aarvam, Padagaalai, Agam Puram, Singam ...
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Male
14. Vinu Chakravarthy
Vinu Chakravarthy, the popular character actor, who is well known for his role Nallasivam in Guru Sishyan with Superstar “Rajinikanth” and “Prabhu” was born on 15th December 1945 in Usilampatti to Adimoola Thevar and Manjuvani Ammal. He had been a good scriptwriter and a director too. Vinu Chakravarthy has played in more than a thousand movies as a villain, comedian and a character artist. Raghava Lawrence and “Rajkiran” starrer “Muni” is his 1000th movie.
Vinu Chakravarthy completed his schooling in Wesley School, Royapettah, Chennai and he is a Commerce Graduate. Vinu Chakravarthy had worked as an SI in Chennai Ice House Police Station for six months and then as a Southern Railway...
Age:
78
Gender:
Male
15. Suman
He was born on August 28, 1959 in the city Mangalore in Karnataka. His full name is Suman Talwar. Later, his family moved to Chennai, where he completed his schooling from The Besant Theosophical High School. He pursued Bachelor of Arts in English literature. He also learnt Music and Sanskrit.He married Sirisha, granddaughter of an old Telugu writer, and couple have a daughter.He started his career as a Karate master. He made his acting debut through a Tamil movie ‘Neechal kulam’ in 1977; he did the role of Police officer in the film. Later on he acted in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and English language films.In more than 30 years of his cine career, he acted in about 150 films as Hero. Suman acted as mythol...
Age:
64
Gender:
Male
16. M.S.Bhaskar
M. S. Bhaskar is an Indian actor, born on Jan 19, 1952, and hailed from Muthupettai, Tiruvavur District, Tamil Nadu, India. He used to be a theater artist and performed as a comedian in Tamil TV series and films. His method of acting is simple and is getting professional by the day. He became famous for playing as Pattabi in the TV serial, Chinna Papa Periya Papa and Selvi; and as Vakkeel Venky in the 2005 Tamil film, Sivakasi; and as Gnanaprakasam in Mozhi. Besides acting, he was also a dubbing artist and a playback singer.
