Tamil Movie Review Are You Ok Baby? - Cast & Crew

The shift from acting to direction is becoming more popular today – with actresses jumping the fence at an increasing rate. Lakshmy Ramakrishna’s first attempt as a director was noticed in ‘Aarohanam’ in 2012 which was lauded by audiences as well as by the critics. The apparent ease with which actor becomes directors is not very popular amongst actresses. Hence, she caught the media attention in India and her second film "Ammini" was based on a 79-year-old woman rag-picker, whom she met in a TV show. When she got this idea, she did not waste her time and narrated the story to producer Ven Govind and felt that the rag-picker woman will remain as a theme of her film. In this film, she also plays a very important role.

Kalai Rani is an actress among the most experienced artists in Tamil film industry. She had initial fears about acting in films owing to a lack of self-confidence. The veteran actor Nasser, who was a dear friend of hers, was the person who recommended her to try theatre acting. She joined the ‘Koothu-P-Pattarai’ which is a very popular and prestigious theatre group in Chennai.

She debuted in a play titled ‘Kattiyakaran’, which was later selected for the coveted ‘South Zone Festival’. Later, she took part in various drama brought out by the same theatre house such as ‘Guruvamma’ and ‘Vellai Vattam’. After a fine spell of acting in theatre, she got opportunities to act in films. She had wanted to act in films befo...

Vinodhini Vaidyanathan is a prominent theatre and film actress in Kollywood. He graduated B. Sc. At Ethiraj College for Women in Chennai and did her masters in Human Resources Management at XIME, Bangalore. Vaidyanathan holds her 2nd master's degree in Psychology at the University of Madras and she also attended Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram where she had her PG Diploma in Yoga Therapy. She started her theatre journey in 2003 and has collaborated with different theatre groups before she became a full-time actress in Koothu-p-Pattarai, a popular theatre troupe in Chennai.

And then, she started freelancing with several theatre groups in 2010. She made her first film appearance in the Tamil drama film, Kanchivaram in 2009 after she was spotted by director Priyadarshan during a performance with Koothu-P-Pattarai. But although t...

Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with symphonic orchestration.

He was also the first Asian to organize a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and became the first Indian to compose a complete symphony. He has won three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background score. He had also received the Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.

Date of Birth: 02-06-1943

Age: 80

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Skills: Music Director

Biography About Ilaiyaraaja

Biography About Ilaiyaraaja

Date of Birth: 02-06-1943

Age: 80

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Skills: Music Director

Ashok Kumar Balakrishnan, popularly known as Ashok, has come a long way and worked his way up to the top echelons of the South Indian film scene. He boasts of everything one might look for in an actor: Good looks, great acting and dancing pedigree and the athleticism and nuance to perform dangerous stunts. Born to R. Balakrishnan and Rohini Balakrishnan on 12th December and belonging to a humble background, he was born in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu. However, he was raised in Mumbai. He attended Fatima High School in Vidyavihar and Vani Vidhyalaya in Mulund and completed his SSC in 1997 from the latter. He graduated from Mumbai’s highly reputed St. Xavier’s College, with majors in sociology, psychology, and Hindi Literature. He has an elder brother, Aroon. Learning to perform Bharatnatyam from T.S Kadhirvelu P...

Aadukalam Naren was born in Chennai the heartland of Tamil cinema, in a family which took keen interest in movies. He was interested in acting and was also encouraged by his family members, and so he decided to go through formal training before he could enter the industry.

In fact he was originally christened Narayan, but as was the prevailing practice he abbreviated it to Naren, and that was the name by which he came to be well known. He received his formal training in acting an...

T. Krishnan is a renowned actor who is popularly known as Kavithalaya Krishnan, due to his affiliation with Kavithalayaa Productions, owned by Tamil producer-director K. Balachandar who has produced many successful Tamil films and television serials. Krishnan is well-known for his superb acting in numerous supporting roles in TV serials and films here.

He was studying at the College of Engineering of Guindy, where he became friends with a classmate Mohan Rangachari, who later came to be known as Crazy Mohan – a famous Tamil comedy actor cum writer of plays and scripts. Mohan inspired his friend to start acting in the plays written by him, to be staged for Arts Society of Engineering College and both of them won several awards in college for their talents. But this was not the first chance that Krishnan won award for acting, beca...

Mysskin was born on 20 September 1971. His language of education was in Tamil. His insatiable predilection for books and novels inspired him to change his name to Mysskin. He was motivated to keep this name from a novel by Dostoevsky called The Idiot. Mysskin’s accidental acting career commenced when he met a director named Kathir in the book store that he worked in. he agreed to befriend him and stayed with him for eight months but didn’t work in any films. He is a Tamil director, an actor, a singer, producer and a screenwriter. Then he began his acting career as a result of accepting a movie offer by Vincent Selva and worked in two subsequent movies called Youth and Jithan.

He established his career by releasing his first directed movie in the year of 2006. The movie was unconfined by the name of ‘Chithiram ...

Robo Shankar is an upcoming comedian artiste in the Tamil cinema who was noticed as a mimicry artist in ‘’Rowtrhiram’’, that released in 2011. But while editing the movie, his role was cut fully, and the actor could not get any recognition. 

As a comedian, he works very hard on the scripts and found that needed updating with the trending talks of today’s youth has become very necessary to understand the pulse of the audience to pull them to the screen. In order to be a successful comedian, he feels, one artist has to update himself with trending talks of youths witnessed in college and even schools. 

The actor feels that today’s audiences are smart enough and it is harder to make them laugh in theatre. Basically, the actor analyses what whatever today’...

Uday Mahesh’s full name is Udhayabhanu Maheswaran. He is a Tamil film actor as well as director. Naalai 2006 and Chakkara Viyugam 2008 are the two films directed by him. He is well known for his depiction of Vishwanathan in Tamil series Office that was aired on Star Vijay. Uday made his directorial debut with the Tamil film Naalai with Richard Rishi and Madhumitha in the lead characters.

This film introduced Natarajan Subramaniam as an actor. A film was released in 2006 named A Gangster, which gave an average collection. Uday again tried his direction for the movie Chakkara Viyugam 2008 which was a crime thriller shoot around Kolkata. Crew complained about the actress Daisy Bopanna and the Natrajan’s camera operator assignment was the reason for the brief del...

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