Tamil Movie Review Aranmanai 4 - Cast & Crew

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.

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. She even played the unforgettable character of Palani as Kamal Haasan’s wife in Balu Mahendra’s Sathi Leelavathi. Both Kamal and Balu Mahendra too had complimented her for this role and it is her best role till date. 

Then she was seen as a lover of Sathyaraj in couple of films which were declared hit (Karagattakaran, Kaalam Maari Pochu, Periya Manushan). The greatest asset in her performance was that, she never told any vulgar lines in her comedy dialogues. At least she preferred not to do this kind of comedy at all in any of her film. Although she is a Malayalee by birth, she gained popularity in Tamil film industry only. Recently, she had acted in two successful movies such as ‘Kanchana-2’ and ‘Komban’, which was a box-office winner and people had watched her antics and appreciated her comedy. This versatile actress had learnt acting through theater participation in Coimbatore before she made her break in movies. For her family’s sake, she remained unwedded to anybody, but yet she faced many struggles with her relatives who cheated and even have emptied her bank accounts. 

Currently, she is choosy with her films and five films are under stage of production. She will be remembered for her comedy performance in South Indian cinema. She is an evergreen actress who will continue to please every generation.

Deva Nandha is an Indian child actress from Kerala who appears in the Malayalam Cinema industry. She is best known for portraying Kallu in Malikappuram (2022), Sarah in Thottappan (2019), Anna Theresa in My Santa (2019), Catherine in Simon Daniel (2022), and Cloudin in Neymar (2023). She started acting in the role of childhood of Sarah in the movie Thottappan in 2019.

Khushboo or also called Kushboo’s original name is Nakhat Khan. She was born on 29th September’1970 in Mumabai. She completed her schooling at Swami Muktananda High School, Mumbai. Khushboo has 3 brothers. She had a live-in relationship with Tamil actor Prabhu for 4 years and then she married Sundar C. She has two daughters named Avanthika and Ananditha.  Khushboo speaks Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English and Marathi languages.

Khushboo is a film and TV actress, TV hostess, producer and a politician. She is mainly known with her acting in south Indian films. She started her acting career in 1976 as child artist in the Kannada film Raja Nanna Raja. She has acted in some Hindi films as child artist. She was introduced as heroine to south with the Telugu film Kaliyuga Pandavulu in 1986. Venkatesh was hero in this film. This film was directed by K.Raghavendra Rao and produced by D.Rama Nayudu. Then she has acted in over 100 films in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalayam languages with leading south Indian actors like Kamal Haasan, Prabhu, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna, Vishnu Vardhan, Mohanlal, Mammootty etc. She became south India superstar. Some of her Telugu films include- Kirai Dada, Shanti Kranti, Chinnodu Poddedu, Pekata Paparao, Stalin, Yama Donga etc. She received 2 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Best Actress.

Khushboo has acted in some Tamil serials like Sondhame Endrallum, Kalki, Rudra etc. The serial Rudra was dubbed into Telugu language as Rudra. She did anchoring for some Tamil shows like Jackpot, Koteshwari. She did anchoring for the Telugu show Get Ready for ETV Telugu. 

Khushboo started a production house after her daughters name and produced some Tamil films like Rendu, Giri, Kalakalappu etc. 

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Santhosh Prathap is an actor who works in the Tamil film industry. He was born on 2nd June, 1987. He resides in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Santhosh worked as a model after completing his MBA. He is also an athlete, swimmer, scuba driver and a rock climber.

Ramachandra Raju is a producer cum actor in the Kannada and Tamil entertainment industries. He majorly works as a villain, and supporting actor. He was born in Karnataka, India. The year since he has been active in the industry is 2018. He got major popularity through the movie K.G.F Ch 1, which has released in 2018. It was also the movie through which he made his acting debut. The role he played in the movie was of a villain named Garuda. The movie was released in several languages, including Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. He was also cast for the same role in the sequel of the movie K.G.F Ch 2. His other movie, which was a mega-hit, was Sulthan, where he played Jayaseelan. It is a Tamil film that released in 2021. His other movies are Jana Gana Mana (Tamil), Bumper (Kannada), Kodiyil Oruvan (Tamil), and Karma (Tamil).

Yogi Babu is one of the famous actors in Indian films. His appearance is there in only Tamil movies. At present, he is a regular comedy actor in Tamil films. Babu was born in Chennai, Tamilnadu. His acting career started from 2009 onwards. He was famous for his outstanding movie called Maan Karate (2014); a fantasy oriented Tamil film under the direction of Thirukumaran. There are some prominent stars in this movie namely Sathish, Vamsi Krishna, Soori, Hansika Motwani and Sivakarthikeyan. Famous writer Murugadoss wrote the entire script for this movie and went on to screens under the production of Escape Artists Motion Pictures. Anirudh Ravichander gave an outstanding music for this movie. Mr. Babu was also notable for his famous film Yaamirukka Bayamey (2014), a comedy horror movie under the direction of debutant Deekay. It was under the production of Elred Kumar with casting by Anaswara Kumar, Oviya, Kreshna and Rupa Manjari.

Director KS Ravikumar(KSR), started his career in Tamil cinema as an assistant director to Bharathiraja for sometime before becoming an independent director. He has made 40 movies, out of which six films are re-makes. 

KSR has made the most number of movies with actor Sarath Kumar (10) and actresses Simran and Ramya Krishnan. Interestingly enough to know that his stunt choreographer Kanal Kannan had collaborated with KSR in 16 films so far. 

His first project in Tamil film world was in the year 1990, when he made a genre-breaking film Puriyaadha Pudhir which was a re-make of the Kannada movie Tarka. The Kannada versions was itself an adaptation of an Agastha Christie novel called ‘The Unexpected Guest’. After success of Puriyaadha Pudhir, he had never looked back. 

He has directed Rajinikanth and Sivaji Ganesan too in his career. He also had directed Sanjay Dutt in Police Giri (2014) with Prachi Desai and Lingaa(2014) with Rajinikanth, Anushka Shetty and Sonakshi Sinha. Both the films did not fare well in the box office. He also has appeared in a small role in the movies he directs which added to his popularity, as a cameo actor(21 films). 

He is well known for bringing Rajinikanth and Sivaji Ganesan in Padayappa (1999), the film was a success in box-office. He also directed Kamal Haasan in Avvai Shanmugi (1996), which was a straight adaptation of the American comedy film, Mrs. Doubtfire. Kamal Haasan’s performance in the film was truly appreciated and the film was made in Hindi too as Chachi 420(1997) by Kamal Haasan ( director and producer). Although both the Hindi and Tamil versions are considered to be Indian remake of Mrs. Doubtfire, there are many plot differences between the original and the Indian version. 

Many of his assistant directors went to make a big name for themselves in Tamil cinema in their own right, one example is Director Cheran. The latest is director Gaurav to join the feat. 

KSR will be remembered for his punctuality and dedication to his works, he used to concentrate a lot on the budget of his movie and tried to complete the film as early as possible.

VTV Ganesh is a renowned Tamil film actor, comedian, and producer. He was born as Ganesh Janardhanan in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India. He became popular for his hoarse voice. Ganesh has appeared in many of Silambarasan’s films. He was debuted in Gautham Menon’s Tamil musical romantic drama film, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010). His performance as a cinematographer, who assisted Silambarasan in connecting with Trisha Krishnan’s character in the film, earned him a nomination at the Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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 in Tamil and Veettukku Veedu Lootty. He also appeared in advertisements for TVS 50, the Popular Appalam and Roobini Oil and also appeared in a supporting character in Chennai Express.
He got the Tamil Nadu State Government Best Actor award for his performance in PASI in 1979. He also received various state awards like Kalaimamani award given by Minister J. Jeyalalitha.
He also established his skill as dubbing artist for Vishnuvardhan (Mazhalai Pattalam) and Chiranjeevi (47 Naatkal) films.
Delhi Ganesh also appeared in TV serials Kasthuri from Sun TV, Porantha Veeda Pugantha Veeda, Pallankuzhi, Vasantham, Manaivi, Enge Brahmanan, Chellamae, Ippadikku Thendral, Thirupaavai, Manithargal, Dinesh Ganesh, Aahaa, Thennilavu, and Sondha Bandham.
Some of his notable film appearances are from Sindhu Bhairavi, Nayagan, Michael Madana Kama Rajan, Aahaa, and Dus.

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. 

Singampuli is a well known actor in Kollywood industry for his performance. He was born in Theni and he completed his graduation in Engineering from Bangalore and came to Chennai to look a career in Cine field. 

He made his entry into the Kollywood industry as an assistant director for director Sundar. C. Later he got a chance to direct a film ‘Red’, with actor Ajith in the lead. Next, he made his acting debut through the film Naan Kadavul and was seen in the role of a beggar named Kuyyan which was directed by Bala. In this film he even got the chance as a co-director. His next movie was Mayandi Kudumbathar, which was a big break for him. He felt happy for doing the character Mayandi Virumandi in the movie Mayandi Kudumbathar by seeing the audience responses. 

Singampuli has even written dialogues for the movies Kannan Varuvan, Perazhagan and Renigunta. He is the director, who must be applauded for changing actor Ajith into an action hero with the movie ‘Red’. From the movie ‘Mayavi’ (which had Surya and Jyothika in the lead), he proved as a good script writer. His career started to shine more from the year 2012 as he started to do comedy roles and he was seen noted in all the movies he acted. He has a different body language to attract the audiences by doing comic roles. As of now he is concentrating more on acting field and he has no plans for directing a film.

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Though Singampuli started his film career as an assistant director, he is mainly known for his stint with acting. Singampuli was brought up and born in Theni district, Periyakulam and then after doing B.Tech in Bangalore college, he went to Chennai seeking for an opportunity as a career option in films. 

When Singampuli was working as an assistant director for Sundar C, he narrated the story of Unnaithedi. 

Vichu Viswanath is an actor. He featured in the film Aranmanai in the year 2014 and in Aambala (2015), which included Hansika Motwani and Vishal in the lead roles.

Fenny Olivier is an Indian Film Editor. He mainly works for Tamil Industry. He is best known for his Nanban Oruvan Vandha Piragu in the year 2021, Naanga Romba Busy in 2020 and Nenjamundu Nermaiyundu Odu Raja in 2019. He was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He was born in April 1993. He lives in Chennai. His upcoming work is Oomai Vizhigal (2021).

Hiphop Tamizha is an Indian Hiphop duo based in Chennai and composed of Adhithya Ramachandran Venkatapathy and Jeeva R. Primarily remained nameless, but gained acknowledgement after release of their track “Club le Mabbu le” which successfully attained 2 million views in a short span of two weeks in 2011. After listening to the track, the international hiphop brand Remy Martin, declared Hiphop Tamizha as an endorsed brand in the world of music. It was in 2012, that Hiphop Tamizha released their first official album, Hiphop Tamiizhan which became India’s first Tamil Hip Hop Album. The release of this album became the milestone for the destiny of their band. Apart from releasing their own music tracks, the duo has also composed music for various movies Kathakali, Thani Oruvan, Indru Netru Naalai and Aambala. Their contribution to the world of music wasn’t limited upto this only, they also launched a clothing brand name Tamizhanda Clothing.

Coming to the foundation of this hiphop brand, one if its founder named Adhithya was born on 20th February,to a middle class family. Only when his neighbour made him listen to the tunes of Michael Jackson, Adhi developed the intrest in the field of rapping. To break the stereotypical tradition of rap, he decided to compose raps in Tamil instead of English. He faced serious oppossition by his parents for pursuing the career of his interest.

He made his first Youtube Account with an image of Tamil poet Subramaniam Bharathi, due to the fear of getting caught. Adhi did his schooling at Chavara Vidya Bhavan and completed his electrical engineering at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology. He also did his Masters of Business Adminstration from University of Madras and completed his Doctorate from Bharathiar University, where his father works. The Second constituent of the duo is Jeeva R., who was born on 29th June, 1991 and did a course in Visual Communication from the prestigious Loyola College, Chennai. They both first met each other through a social netwroking website, Orkut. They were invited by the Tamil Nadu Election Commission to compose the anthem of election campaign.

Hiphop Tamizha’s single ‘Ezhuvoam Vaa’ was selected as election anthem for tamil nadu’s 2011 election. However, their hit track ‘Club le Mabbu le’, faced immense criticism due its depiction of women. Despite the controversies, “Club le Mabbu le” became a huge hit.

His latest Movie where he acted : Hip Hop Tamizha hero entry : Meesaya Murukku

Venkat Raghavan is a Tamil director who has directed the venture Muthina Kathirikai. Before becoming a director, he was the assistant director of several Sundar C’s films. Muthina Kathirikai has Sundar C in the lead role. Poona Bajwa shares screenspace with Sundar C in the film.

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