Tamil Movie Review Anjaan - Cast & Crew

It is sometimes fascinating to read about how film stars, especially in the South, get into the industry from totally diverse fields, and with no conscious intentions to be in movies. Andrea Jeremiah’s career seems to fit into this category. Her childhood ambition was to go for higher studies and get to become a psychiatrist. But music was always in the background, as she started learning classical Western piano when she was just eight, and she quickly showed her prowess when she formed her own troupe called Young Stars which also was a precursor for her later singing and music composing career.

However, entry into acting came to her via the theatre route, as it was hard to refuse offers from Girish Karnad, in whose “Nagamandala” she performed first, and then went on to perform all over the country, during whi...

Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer. Brinda dedicated all her life to choreographing and assisting various notable actors.

According to Brinda, she was not a good student in school and had an inclination towards extra-curricular activities like acting in plays and dance. She is not a highly educated person and has studied till class 12th only. Brinda listed English as her favourite subject in school and her interest in dancing started because of her ...

Actors are important for flicks, serials, and commercials. It is not enough if they are just present, but it is important for them to make their presence felt. They must influence and attract the audience. To make them look like how they should be, fashion designers, costume designers, and makeup artists play a very crucial role. Deepali Noor comes under such category, where she received major accolades, not just nationally, but also internationally.

Deepali Noor was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her mother is Madhu Dhawan and her profession is teaching in New Delhi. Her father is a well-known mechanical engineer. She went to St. Anthony School in Mumbai. Later, she attended Sophia College to do her plus two. Then, she did Hotel Management at Asan Memorial DHMCT, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She married Sa...

Born on April 28 1987 Samantha is a model and actress, who has acted in Telugu and Tamil films. Samantha was brought up in Chennai and she was involved in modeling in her teens. The Telugu film Ye Maya Chesave was her first film and she was instantly successful; she got the Filmfare award for Best Debut. She also has a Nandi award to her credit, for this film.

The Year 2013 was a happening year for this southern beauty; she got the Filmfare award for Best Actress in both Telugu and Tamil. This feat was accomplished only by actress Revathi earlier. Samantha got the award for her performances in the films Neethane En Pon Vasantham and Eega. The Telugu films Attarintiki Daredi and Manam also gained her awards. Samantha did her schooling in Chennai and holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce. Samantha once admitted that, she pursued m...

Maryam Zakaria is an actress and dancer in Bollywood of Swedish origin. She found fame and recognition in the Hindi film industry by playing the role of ‘Farah Faqesh’ in the 2012 release ‘Agent Vinod’ starring Saif Ali Khan. Maryam was born on 27th September in the year 1984. She was born to a Swedish-Iranian mixed cultural family in the city of Tehran in Iran. Maryam was greatly exposed to Bollywood films and songs from a very young age and that had planted the seeds of desire to be a dancer in her. Maryam had fallen in love with dance after being mesmerized by the colorful and energetic Bollywood dance numbers she used to watch regularly.

Maryam spent her childhood being trained in dance and also did modeling while she was in Sweden. Her love f...

Lingusamy is the well known Indian film director, who is popular for his family scripts. He was born on November 14, 1967. Lakshmipuram in Tamilnadu is Lingusamy’s native. He worked as the assistant to “A Venkatesh” and “Vikraman.” His career as a director started in the year 2001, through the “Mammootty” starrer, “Anandham.” His first movie got him the Best Film Award at Filmfare by Cinema Express. He got consecutive success through “R Madhavan” starrer, “Run” and Vishal Reddy flick “Sandakozhi.” Lingusamy also owns a production house along with his brother Subash Chandra Bose, called, “Thirrupathi Brothers.” He has produced nearly 16 films with his production house. “Deepavali” was the first m...

Sadiq Khan is a budding director in Kollywood who had worked with directors like AR Murugadoss and Lingusamy. Sadiq has worked with Murugadoss in movie Ghajini. He became an independent film director for Thollaikkatchi' produced by Raja Bala Senthil. Sadid Khan impressed the Bollywood actor Aamir Khan too while making Hindi version of ‘Ghajini’.

According to the director, 'his debut film 'Thollaikatchi’, is an upcoming Tamil romantic comedy film which has screenplay and script writing too by him.  He came to notice for assisting his mentor like Murugadoss and Lingusamy for Hindi Ghajini with Aamir Khan and Anjaan with Suriya.

The debutante director Sadiq approached Ashwin to play the lead role who earlier had worked with ‘Mankatha’, ‘Megha’ and ‘Itharkutha...

N Subash Chandra Bose is an Indian producer who works particularly in Tamil cinema. He has a produced a lot of films and has also won several Filmfare, national and south Indian international movie awards. Subash who is currently residing in Tamil Nadu started a production house along with his brother N Lingusamy in 2006 titled Thirupathi brothers. It is a production company under motion pictures and has its headquarters located in Tamil Nadu, India. Between the two brothers, Subash is a producer and Lingusamy is the director. Subash started his career in the industry under this production house with the film Deepawali. Deepawali is a romantic movie starring Jayaram and Bhavana in lead roles. Released on 9th February 2007 and directed by Ezhil; the film is a tragic love story about a girl who forgets her boyfriend after post-traumatic ...

Siddharth Roy Kapur is an Indian businessman, film producer and managing director of Disney India. He hails from a film background; his mother was a film choreographer and his brothers being well known film actors. His father was a Punjabi and mother, Salome Roy Kapur, was a Jew and former Miss India. He is a two time divorcee and is currently married to actress Vidya Balan. He finished his Bachelors in Commerce from the Sydenham College in Mumbai and got his MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), where he was a part of the hallowed Placement Committee.

 He joined UTV in 2005 as a senior vice president and headed the Marketing and Communications divisions. He let marketing programs for many cult classics and successful projects such as Rang De Basanti, Khosla Ka Ghosla and &ls...

Born on May 14, 1965 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, G. Dhananjayan, otherwise called GD is an Indian Columnist, producer, Two Times National Award Winner and author. He is also the Founder-Dean of "BOFTA Film Institute" established in Chennai.

He delivered various movies in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu dialects. Dhananjayan has an MBA graduate degree from (SIMSREE) Sydenham Institute of Management at University of Mumbai. He worked in Vodafone, Asian Paints, Bharti Airtel, Kansai Nerolac Paints and Saregama for over 15 years before working for Moser Baer Entertainment in 2006.

Dhananjayan became Chief Operating Officer of Home Video Business in the firm and after that turned into CEO of the Film Industry.He was one of the two establishing individuals from Moser Baer Entertainment that was set up in April of 200...

Brindha Sarathy was born in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu. He started his film career by working as an associate director and dialogue writer for N. Linguswamy in his debut film Aanandham. However, he didn't work with Linguswamy again in the latter's subsequent films but became an independent director. He remade the 2001 Telugu film Manasantha Nuvve into his directional Tamil debut Thithikudhe (2003). The film starred Jiiva and Sridevi Vijaykumar in the prominent lead roles, with Shrutika in a primary supporting role. It was a moderate success at the box office. He then had planned to shoot his next film after, again featuring Jiiva in the lead, which, however, got shelved for unknown reasons and didn't take off again. After a long hiatus, he again joined Linguswamy as a dialogue writer for the romantic-action film Paiyaa in 2010....

Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is a film director, producer, and cinematographer, of the Indian cinema. Santosh is an FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) graduate and has so far has done 41 documentaries and 45 feature films. Not only is he a founding associate of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), but also is the bigger of the highest number of Director of Photography (DOP) award in India. Sivan is the first ever Cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific area to achieve an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) fellowship.

He has as many as five National Film Awards for cinematography to his name, four of which are for Best Feature Film Cinematography. Till date, he has achieved 11 National Film Awards for his outstanding work in Indian cinema. ...

Kabilan was born on 16th May 1977 in Pondicherry, India. He is an Indian lyricist in film and television industry, actor, and poet. Kabilan currently resides in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. He acted in the movie Dasavathaaram and enacted as Assistant to Vincent Poovaragavan in the year 2008. He wrote scripts for different television shows like starting in the year 2003 in Sorgam. In the year 2004, he did for Kanavarukkaga.

Then in the year 2005, Kabilan wrote for Nimmathi. Later in the next two years in 2006 and 2007, he wrote for Kasthuri Akka and Thangai. In the year 2009, he worked for Mahalakshmi. He worked in more than fifty films as a lyricist like Dhill, Narasimha, Alli Thandha Vaanam, Thavasi, Pammal K. Sambandam, Aahaa Ethanai Azhagu, Eera Nilam, Boys, Success, Alai, Thathi Thavadhu Manasu, Anbe UN Vasam, M. Kumaran S/O ...

Madhan Karky Vairamuthu was born on March 10, 1980. He lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his education from College of Engineering, Guindy and University of Queensland. He is an Indian lyricist, software engineer, a professor, research associate, and a film dialogue writer. His parents are Vairamuthu and Ponmani; his father is a poet and a lyricist.

He is their eldest son. In 2001 at the college of engineering, Guindy he completed his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Further in the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia he completed his Post Graduation and Ph.D. in information technology in 2004. In 2010 he became a lyricist for the science fiction film Enthiran. For this film, he wrote the song "Irumbile Oru Irudhaiyam." He also assisted the director S. Shankar in w...

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”, "Indru Netru Naalai", “Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam”, and “144”. These i...

Benny Dayal is an Indian Pop-Singer. Born in Kollam, Kerala, India on May 13, 1984. He was a member of the S5 Pop Band in India. He started as a playback singer and known to have work with various reputable composers.

He finished his studies from Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS) and took Journalism in Madras Christian College. His Indian-Pop-Electro-Rap-Reggae infused songs made him so famous and with unique quality compared to any singers. This made him one of the most loved singers by doing such mix-ups of traditional Indian music to a new-era’s songs. You’ll be so moved in listening to any of his songs.

He worked before as an Event Coordinator for RR Donnelley Printing. He also worked as an HR Executive for a BPO when he received a call and inviting him to audition for ARR Studio. He...

Ranjith is a very famous and versatile south Indian singer. He has a vibrant personality and can make the crowd tap their feet with his energetic songs, can make them emotional with his soothing voice and is a mass entertainer. He was born on February 21, 1977. He is a very well-known playback singer and has worked for many films. He is mainly working for the Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Ranjith was born in a Malayali family, in Chennai. His family belongs to a small town, Kalluvazhi, Kerala. Ranjith grew up listening to various types of music he stayed in a society where social-programmes were a trend. The localities used to participate in these programmes. Once, a family friend suggested training Ranjith for classical music.

He is trained in Hindustani music and Carnatic music by Vidwan Cuddalore S...

Sooraj Santhosh is a multilingual versatile playback singer who has made a noteworthy contribution in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Badaga music. The singer is well known in the Bollywood and Tollywood as well. He was born on 19th September 1987 at the Kollam village in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is well known for his polyglot and fluent knowledge about various types of music and has achieved overwhelming success in the same. Sooraj's father, Santhosh Kumar worked in forest department and his mother, Jayakumari is a high school teacher. He has a younger brother who presently works at IBM as an engineer.

He lived with his small and sweet family in Thiruvananthapuram and completed his schooling there itself at the Government Model Boys Higher Secondary school. Further, he took a Bachelor&#3...

Suriya Sivakumar is undoubtedly the biggest star in contemporary Tamil film yet most critics would agree that he is truly a ‘real and spontaneous’ actor who can match any character that he plays in screen. His rise in Kollywood cinema came at a time when commercial Tamil films tended to shy away from the dark themes and ambivalent morality associated with film and style. The popularity of Ghajini proved that the level of negativity that the audiences could bear. When A.R Murugadoss selected Suriya to don the role in Ghajini, he knew how it would work with mainstream audiences and was almost right. Truly, this actor had overcome his father’s shadow and moved to be one of the most talented actor, whose films got inspired by even Aamir Khan and even Ajay Devgan. Aamir Khan had showered him praise for his performance in G...

Dhanush Nayanar started his career doing an advertisement for Medimix. He was the first child of his parents, Dr. Sunil and Rajani. Dhanish was an average performer in academics. He never knew that one day he would make an excellent career as a sound effects editor and get work for a great movie like Kabali. Firstly, Dhanush Nayanar did BSc. in Visual Communication from Hindustan College, Coimbatore and later finished his studies as Sound Engineer from LV Prasad Film and TV Academy, Chennai. He worked under an efficient sound engineer Mr. Raja Krishnan as a trainee.

Dhanush also worked as an Assistant Sound Editor for many Malayalam and Tamil movies like She-taxi, Oru Second Class Yathara, Amar Akbar Antony, Muthugaw and recently worked as Sound Effects Editor in Kabali, which was a big-budget Tamil movie. Dhanush worked with R...

Raju Sundaram is an Indian choreographer, actor, and director. Raju was born on 7th March 1968. His father Mugur Sundar is a prominent choreographer. Raju is the eldest among the three brothers; all the three brothers are choreographers. One is the famous Prabhu Deva and other is Nagendra Prasad. He is married and his wife name is Vasanthi. In his youth he was forcefully taken to film sets by his father to assist him. Raju invented interest in films and choreography after that. Raju started his career being a dancer in films like ‘Roja’, ‘Aasai’ and playing cameo appearances in songs with his brother Prabhu Deva in the films ‘Gentleman’, ‘Kadhalan’.

Then he went on to do a few Kannada films as a lead choreographer. Then he ...

Sangeeth is a playback singer who chiefly works in the Malayalam movie industry. He was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to Rajagopal and Shantha Rajagopal. He did his secondary education at a school in Panthalam, Pathanamthitta, and Higher Secondary education in Thiruvananthapuram. Later, he joined a Music college in Trivandrum. Sangeeth developed a passion for music from a very young age of three and started learning music under his mother, who herself was a music teacher. He enthusiastically participated in School Kalolsavam, which earned him the title “Kala Pratiba.” Sangeeth is trained well in Classical music, light music, Mappila Pattu, and many more.

Being extremely talented, he had the opportunity to participate in many musical events that gave him the confidence to win the title of “Super Star,&rdq...

Johnson is a PRO, a Public Relations Officer in the Tamil industry. He has handled the PR of various Tamil movies. Johnson is from Nagercoil, a city in Tamil Nadu. His mother is Johannal, and his father, KGA John, is an ex-naval officer. He has six siblings. He married to H.J. Mano in 1994. Johnson always dreamt of being a filmmaker. He aspired to assist the Indian actor R. Parthiban. He left his city, Nagercoil, and moved to Chennai to fulfill his dream. He met the editor of the magazine Kungumam, Paavai Chandran. Paavai brought him into the world of magazines. There, he started to write snippets about Tamil films. The films he wrote about were handled by Nellai Sundarjan as a PRO.

 The editor and reporter of Dinamalar was working on producing a movie in 1989. He insisted Johnson to take its PR. With this, in 1989, with t...

Stunt Silva was born in Tuticorin, TamilNadu. He started his career as a male nurse after getting trained in Stanley Medical College. Silva worked as a Ward boy in Tuticorin hospital. Later he joined in Vijaya Health Center in Chennai by the year 1990. To maintain his family’s financial status, he worked in several sectors such as Peon in offices and dabbled in transport sector business offices. He then joined in the background dancer of the film under the guidance and advice of the Dance

Choreographer. He then took his dance lessons from Paul Raj's School.