Kovai Sarala
Renuka - Tamil
Vidya Pradeep
Surya Prakash
T Sivakumar
Na. Muthukumar
Viveka
Abhay Jodhpurkar
Harihara Sudhan
MK Balaji
Bava Lakshmanan
Mohan Raman
Nandha Durairaj
Rajendran
Richard Rishi
Sangili Murugan
Singamuthu
Vaiyapuri
Madhan Bob
Ranjith
Vikram Selva
Jeevan
Thambi Ramaiah
Samuthirakani
Gana Bala
Saravana Subbiah
1. Kovai Sarala
Kovai Sarala is an actress who acted in more than 750 films in her career spanning for over 25 years. She has acted in Tamil (even Telugu films) and had joined films as she was the sole bread earner in the family. Many feel that she filled the void left by Manorma and she is the only actress who had stepped in her( Manorama) shoes. In this film industry, Sarala could carry scenes on her own merits. There was a time; she would be seen in every successful movie (just as Manorama) during 1980-90s. Looking back at her career, she played a 55-year old character in Chinna Veedu( her second film) when she was just a teenager. Everyone had wondered how she played that role....
Age:
62
Gender:
Female
2. Renuka - Tamil
Renuka or we can say Renuka Chouhan was born in the year 1983. Renuka is a Tamil television actress a film actress and a playback singer too. She came into lame light by playing the lead role 'Premi' in K. Balachander's tele-serial. She has also acted in some Hindi and Malayalam films in her entire career.
As per the interview given by her to 'The Hindu' her family hailed from the town of Srirangam. Renuka is the eldest daughter, she has two younger brothers. Her husband is Mr. K. Kumaran who is a Chairman and Managing Director of Aloha India.
Due to the early death of her father, she came to Chennai at an early age in search of work and in very short period of time, she got a job as the drama artist with Komal Swaminathan's troupe. S...
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
3. Vidya Pradeep
Vidya Pradeep completed her M.Tech. Her love of research lured her to pursue her education one step further. Now she is in her final year of Ph.D.
Did Vidya Pradeep know that her pursuit of films would land her a flurry of roles in a short span? The model turned actress, who is foraying into Mollywood is yet to come to terms with the fact that she has shared the screen with some actors whom she always followed. A stem biologist by profession, it was her penchant for acting, which prompted her to test the showbiz water. Vidya Pradeep is an Indian Actress, Who works in South Indian Films and a Research Scientist at the reputed Hospital And Research Center in...
Age:
28
Gender:
Female
4. Surya Prakash
Surya Prakash is a director of Tamil and Telugu movies. He made his directorial debut with the 1996 film Manikkam (1996) which starred Rajkiran. After this, he made two films in the action genre: 2001’s Maayi and 2003’s Diwan. Both these films had Sarath Kumar as the lead. His 2002 Telugu venture Bharata Simha Reddy was unable to impress at the box office. After the negative reviews that Bharta Simha Reddy garnered, Surya did not get offers to work on films that had a big budget.
Surya Prakash worked on Varusanadu in the early 2010s, but it got delayed and eventually released in 2015. This movie gained attention because Surya claimed that it was a real-li...
Age:
56
Gender:
Male
5. T Sivakumar
He is married to Lakshmi Kumari and has three children - two sons and a daughter. His sons Surya Sivakumar and Karthik Sivakumar are actors. Also, his elder daughter-in-law Jyotika is a famous Kollywood actress. T Sivakumar is a devotee of Lord Sri Murugan. He is ambidextrous which means he can use both his left and right hand equally well.
He entered into the industry in 1965 as a supporting actor. But in the late 1960s, he performed as the lead hero in a few Tamil movies namely Kandan Karunai, Uyarndha Manidhan and Thunivae Thozhan. Till 1974, he was seen as a supporting actor in films with M.G. Ramachandran, Gemini Ganesan, Shivaji Ganesan and R. Muthuraman in the leading roles.
He also performed supporting roles in 7 ...
Gender:
Male
6. Na. Muthukumar
Na. Muthukumar is a poet, lyricist, writer and novelist, who writes in Tamil. He is famous for writing scripts and songs for Tamil films. Na. Muthukumar was born on 12 July 1975 in a small village named ‘Tirur’ near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. His Father, Mr Nagaraj was a Tamil teacher.Mr Nagaraj always maintained a collection of 5000 books throughout his life, and after he had passed away, this collection was preserved by his son in his office. Also, his mother passed away when he was merely four years old. Muthukumar reminisces that he acquired most of the knowledge of his life from his father’s book collection. Also, to help others he has plans to open a library where everybody could acces...
Age:
48
Gender:
Male
7. Viveka
Viveka is a lyricist, who works in the Tamil film industry of South India. Viveka started as a lyricist in the year 2015. Viveka was born in 1985, and currently resides in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. Before venturing into the film industry, Viveka studied engineering and then law. Inspired by the work of Vairamuthu, a famous lyricist of the Tamil industry, he also began penning down poems. In the year 2015, he received his first breakthrough movie, “Enakkul Oruvan”, for which he wrote the lyrics of the songs “Poo Avizhum Pozhudhil”, and “Yaar”. After that, there was no looking back for this star lyricist. In the same year, he wrote lyrics for movies like “36 Vayadhinile”, &q...
8. Abhay Jodhpurkar
We have people who switch careers and follow their dreams but there are very few who actually get to make a mark and live by the quantum of the sacrifice made. Abhay Jodhpurkar is one such fellow who has made it big in the entertainment industry because of the interests that he had. A boy from the small town of ‘Sendhwa’ in ‘Madhya Pradesh’ who hails from a family with close relations to the classical music, Abhay always had an interest in art and music but could never make up his mind if he actually wanted to take them up as a career option.
Born in a middle-class family, Abhay’s obvious career choice became being an engineer. He did his Engi...
Age:
32
Gender:
Male
9. Harihara Sudhan
Harihara Sudhan is an Indian-Singer. He mainly works in the Tamil Film Industry. He is thinking of working the other film industries which include the Hindi Film Industry, Telugu Film Industry, Kannada Film Industry, and Malayalam Film Industry.He is a hardworking and dedicated Playback Singer. He works in the Television Industry and the Film Industry. Some of the movies in which he has sung include F2- Fun, and Frustration, which gets released in the year 2019.In the coming years, he has signed some upcoming projects and he has started working on them.
Harihara Sudhan has gained popularity due to his hard work, and efforts....
Gender:
Male
10. MK Balaji
M.K.Balaji is one of the renowned Indian playback singers from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has given his stupendous voice to many blockbusters in South Indian movies. His Tamil and Telugu songs are said to be the most awaited ones. He debuted as a playback singer for a Tamil film “Pandhayam” directed by S.A.Chandrasekhar. Songs like “sexy lady” from “Ninaithale Innikum,” “Vellakari Nee” from the movie “Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singham” and “Engepoveno” from the movie “Angaadi Theru” are said to be a turning point in his career which carried him to the great heights.
His first release in the Telugu cinema world was the song “Dailamo...
Gender:
Male
Gender:
Male
11. Bava Lakshmanan
Bava Lakshmanan is a popular Tamil actor, who hailed from Madurai. His original name is Lakshmanan. His friends used to call him as Bava and the name stayed with him till now. Bava Lakshmanan has seven siblings. He has two sisters and five brothers. When a shooting troupe came to Madurai to shoot in the Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple, the director called Bava Lakshmanan, who was watching the shooting. He asked him whether he is interested to act and Bava nodded yes, after getting the permission from his family.
He was just seven years, when he entered the film industry. When he was doing his 9th standard, Bava was taken to the popular director Bharathiraja, who was searching for a young hero, who is in his teens. When seeing Bava...
Gender:
Male
12. Mohan Raman
Mohan Raman is a Tamil actor who appears mostly in comedy and supportive roles in cinema and as lead negative roles in TV serials. In addition to being an actor, he is also a Management trainer and Philatelist.. He is the son of politician V.P.Raman and the brother of P.S.Raman, a former advocate general of Tamil Nadu. His daughter Vidyullekha Raman is also an actress now.
Born in 1956 as PattabhiVenkat Ram, Mohan Ram attended VidhyaMandir and the MCC School. He is a graduate in Physics and pursued MBA in XLRI, Jamshedpur. He calls himself as the only ‘Entertrainer’ in south India.
Raman did several child characters in his young ages. After completing college, he ...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
13. Nandha Durairaj
Nandha Durairaj is a Tamil, film actor. He was born as Govind Sendrampalayam Durairaj in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in India to Rani and Durairaj. Nandha is a grandson of a former minister and politician, M. Kannappan. He has a brother named Karthik. They both studied at P.S.G. College, where he took B.Sc. in Computer Science. However, due to his strong passion for acting, he was unable to complete his graduation. He is married to Vidyaroopa. He started his acting career when Kalaippuli S. Dhaanu, a film producer, spotted him in a family event.
The producer asked him if he’s interested in acting and he gave his nod. He then shifted to Madras and took an acting course in ...
Age:
38
Gender:
Male
14. Rajendran
It's no secret that most celebrities use stunt doubles when filming particularly challenging scenes, but it's not something we always remember when caught up in the energy of an action-packed movie. In Indian film industry, particularly in Kollywood and Bollywood, stunt actors are indeed a must.
Here we bring out a story on Rajendran, who has bonded with many actors as stunt doubles in many films. Having a career graph in over 500 south Indian films as a stunt double in M-town (Malayalam films), he shifted towards Kollywood for getting better opportunities where he could transform him to a seasoned artist. The man with flawless body has come a long way.
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Age:
66
Gender:
Male
15. Richard Rishi
Richard Rishi, born officially as Richard Sharaf Babu is an Indian film actor. He appears in Tamil and Telugu films. His debut movie was Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari in 1990. Richard was born on 20 October 1977 to Babu and Alice in Thiruvalla. Richard attended Loyola Matriculation School till his 12th standard. He has two younger sisters both famous actresses namely, Shamili and Shalini. His father is from Kollam and mother is a from a Malayali family living in Chennai. The sole reason behind his father’s shifting to Madras was to become an actor. But he fulfilled his dream through his children. Actor Ajith Kumar is his brother-in-law. Though his debut was as a child artist, he had...
Age:
46
Gender:
Male
16. Sangili Murugan
Sangili Murugan or Muthuvel Servai Murugan is a Tamil actor, an amazing script writer and an equally amazing producer. Murugan is the founder as well as the owner of the production and distribution company MURUGAN CINE ARTS; one of the well-known production houses of the Tamil film industry.However, the list does not stop here. He has also done the job of a production controller in some movies. Having been born on the first of January in the year 1945 in Pothumbu village of Madurai, this man was known for his negative and supporting roles. The word ‘Sangili’ was actually added to his name after the character he played in his film Oru Kai Osai. Later on, he produced as many as 12 movies.
He is currently married to Kaly...
Gender:
Male
17. Singamuthu
“Laughing kills diseases,” is a famous line that everyone knows about, and Singamuthu is the person who makes us primarily obey the above statement in an indirect fashion. Though it’s obvious from the introduction, it’s not a muck to mention that, Singamuthu is a South Indian comedian, Tamil being his most fluent language. Comedy is the most entertaining thing that induces every one of its prey in a jovial manner. Singamuthu had his feet on this world on Monday, 8th December 1958, Monday.
Ever since his childhood, he has been very keen on performing hilarious acts. This is, in fact, a DNA- related matter, as his father was in the same field. However...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
18. Vaiyapuri
Vaiyapuri is a popular Tamil comedy actor. He was born and brought up in Theni. He came to Chennai in the year 1986 to seek some opportunities to act in the movies. He made his debut through the movie Chellakannu, in which he acted as a barber in an uncredited role. Then he was given a minor role in Ulaga Nayagan Kamal Hassan’s movie Avvai Shanmugi. His career picked up in the year 1997 through the movie Kadhalukku Mariyadhai. He was also appreciated for his role in Kaadhalae Nimmadhi, as a blind person. Gradually his film count got increased and he started to do a dozen films per year.
He has acted in more than 400 movies. He has acted in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films. He pays all his credits to...
Age:
55
Gender:
Male
19. Madhan Bob
S Krishnamoorthy is the original name of Madhan Bob, who is a famous comedian of Tamil film industry. His recurrent laugh in films is sure to irritate you or rather tickle your funny bones, but that is one of his strengths. Madhan Bob ventured into the film industry by donning the role of a musician. Madhan Bob is active in the industry since 1992. Madhan Bob is also associated with Sun TV as one of the judges of the show Asathapovathu Yaaru.
