Tamil Movie Review Azhagi - Cast & Crew

Malgudi Subha was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She is a play-back singer and a pop singer by profession. She has worked majorly in South Indian Film Industry and her voice is considered to be distinct and unique. It has been more than 20 years (2 decades) that she has been singing songs in movies and lending her voice to various actresses. She has sung in more than 2000 films. She considers Usha Uthup as her role mode and somewhat resembles her in appearance. She is also a great follower of Kishore Kumar whom she has grown up listening to.

Priyamani, a National Award Winning South Indian Actress, is her niece. Apart from all the types of South Indian languages like Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, etc.She has also sung Hindi songs in the Bollywo...

Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974, she changed her name to Sadhana Sargam on advice given by Kalyanji Anandji, who had promoted her singing career. 

Before starting her first playback chance in Tamil film, she had the privilege of singing along with other playback singers such as Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal, and Kavita Krishnamurthy. Sadhana has sung in many Indian languages for films, TV series and music albums. She is the only Indian playback singer who ha...

Nandita Das is an actress and director extremely popular in art cinema differentiating from the escapist Bollywood cinema that dominated the Bollywood for long. Her screen persona in films like Bawander, Earth 1947, Fire caught regional filmmakers eyes, and she acted even in English, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Oriya and Kannada languages too. The success of these films in Bollywood has paved the way for the development of the specialized cinema( the art- house cinema) in international film festivals that helped her to get audiences in the large cities and metro towns. She also acted in a Pakistani film, Khuda Kay Liye. This actress had never acted in films that produced a galaxy of commercial film stars. Hence, she was closely associated with Mrinal Sen, Deepa Mehta and Mani Ratnam.

Devayani, born as Sushma Jayadev on June 22, 1974, is one of the leading television actresses in Tamil small screen now. She has acted in more than 75 films alongside stars like Vijay, Surya, Kamal Haasan, etc. She is currently settled in Mumbai with her husband, Rajakumaran. She has won two Tamil Nadu state film awards for her brilliant portrayal of characters in the late 90’s movies: ‘Surya Vamsam’ in 1997 and ‘Kaadhal Kottai’ in 1996. She says her life changed after ‘Kaadhal Kottai’ opposite Ajith Kumar. The movie also earned her a title ‘the homely heroine’. She has also played small cameos in hit movies like Panchathanthiram alongside Kamal Haasan and also pulling off comedy easily in ‘Thenali’ where she played opposite Jayaram. She also received ma...

Swarnalatha was a popular playback singer who hailed from Kerala. She has sung nearly 7000 songs as a playback singer. Her father was a harmonium player and her mother was also associated with the music field. Due to her passion for music, she travelled from Chittur, Kerala to Chennai, Tamilnadu to meet the music legend M.S. Viswanathan. Her first entry to the playback singing is through Neethikku Thandanai, a Tamil film. The music is scored by Chinnanchirukiliye Kannamma is the first song, sung by her along with K.J.Yesudas, the vocal legend. She has worked with almost all the popular music directors including Ilaiyaraaja and A.R. Rahman.

She has sung in various languages such as Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and many more. Most of her performances were in Tamil. She got the Nati...

Thangar Bachan was born on 1962 in the Pathirakottai district of Tamil Nadu. Inspired by literary legends of and philosophers of his motherland, Thangar Bachan, who was named as Thangarajan on birth; was deeply inspired to pursue knowledge about literary art forms and methods of expression. His quest transformed him into a prominent writer and novelist. He soon realizes that his expressions would find a wider audience if his mode of communication were more wider. Thus, Thangar Bachan decides to step into the film industry. Before he began to write novels, however, he was a cinematographer for Tamil movies, which was a contributing factor to his wish of directing his movies.

‘Malai Charal’ was the first film that he Cinematographed for, and it was released in ...

Palani is a Tamil poet and lyricist. He belongs to a popular literary family. His father, Sami Palaniappan & mother, Kamala. His father was a great poet who was the follower of Poet Bharathidasan. The Hindu commented years back upon the poetic work of Sami that he could be the succcesor of Bharathidasa when it came to poetry.

Palani Bharathi is a good successor of his father. He is among the youngest lyricist. During 1991, he had his footsteps for the first time in the Cine-World. He dragged the attention of the Cinema World and the rest of the public with his lyrics. He had worked along with a lot of successful music directors namely- Isai Gnani Ilayaraja, Karthik Raja, Vidyasagar, Deva, S.A. Rajkumar, Sirpy, Bharathwaj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Harris Jayaraj, A.R Rahma...

P. Unnikrishnan, the playback singer, needs no introduction to music lovers. His voice is equally suitable for classical music, film music, devotional music and even light music. The actor has sung many devotional songs of Lord Ganesha, Lord Ayyappan, Lord Venkateswara, and Devi among others. This singer is a disciple of Dr. S. Ramanathan.  

Unnikrishnan has balanced both classical music and light music well and never allowed him to get carried away for just compulsion of cinematic glamor. Unnikrishnan had the capacity to reach higher levels, provided he did not get lost in star value. That is why many bring comparison with famous K J Yesudas. 

This Carnatic vocalist was born on July 9, 1964, in Palakkad, Kerala. He, however, did his schooling and college studies in Chennai. He even worke...

P. Kuppusamy was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He is a professional lyricist, music composer, vocalist, songwriter and a playback singer in the Tamil Film Industry. He is a very famous Tamil Folk Artist. He has sung in hundreds of stage shows and Tamil films.

He is famous mainly for his effort to bring back a lost form of Tamil folk music namely Naatapura Paatu. The name of his wife is Ankitha Kappusamy. His wife played a major role in his success. Without her support, he would have never reached the level of success that he has achieved till now.

Along with her wife, he has sung folk songs in hundreds of concerts all over the world and has popularized this form of song. He is also a famous playback singer. Both he and his wife worked together to release some audio albums on folk music and sell millions of copies of them.<...

Vadivelu… everyone in Tamilnadu knows this name very well. Vadivelu is the popular comedian, who filled the space after Koundamani and Sendhil, left the field. He was born in Madurai and started his career in the photo frame shop. He strived hard to run his family, when he was in Madurai. After, he entered the cinema industry, his lifestyle has changed completely. He was introduced by Rajkiran in En Rasavin Manasile. Though it was a small role, Vadivelu did it with his humorous sense. He also appeared in Chinna Kounder, a Vijay Kanth movie. His breakthrough movie was Kadhalan, in which he appeared as Prabhu Deva’s friend. He and Prabhu Deva worked together in many films and the duo got success and popular too. In the initial stages, Vadivelu did comedy scenes with Vivek too. After a certain stage of his success, he started to act as a ...

Vivekanandan is the birth name of the versatile comedian Vivek. He is introduced by the legendary director Balachander through the film Manadhil Urudhi Vendum. It is the film in which Ramesh Arvind was also introduced. They both acted as brothers of Suhasini in that film. He got famous through Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal, as his dialogue Innaikku Seththa Naalaikku Paal reached the viewers well. He acted with top actors and reached fame within a short span. He performed with Rajini in Uzhaippali, Veera and Sivaji. His role in Kadhal Mannan, an Ajith starter, was loved by many people. Vivek acted with Vijay in Kushi and Priyamanavale. He performed with Vadivelu in few films and the notable one is Middle Class Madhavan, a Prabhu movie. Both Vadivel and Vivek performed humorously in that film. After the invasion of many comedians like Santhanam ...

B. Lenin (Bhimsingh Lenin) is primarily a Tamil film editor who has also worked as a writer and film maker. Apart from Tamil movies, he has worked in Malayalam and Hindi films. His career as an assistant editor started in 1979 with Uthiripookkal by director J. Mahendran. He worked as assistant editor with his father in many films before he debuted as an independent editor. He has also worked as a lab technician and he is an experienced sound engineer. During the decades of 1980s and 1990s, he partnered with his old assistant V. T. Vijayan and worked with him in over 100 Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu films, including Geethanjali, Nayakan, and Anjali and Kadhalan, for which they were honoured with the National Award for best editing.

Lenin has won five Nation...

V.T. Vijayan is a renowned editor in the Tollywood film industry and has also worked on a few Hindi Films. His nephews are also associated with the industry, one is a movie director, and another is an actor. 

Vijayan has to his credit around a hundred Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi films. He has also worked on one English movie named Ele, My Friend. His most known works are Anniyan, Hindustani, Velayudham and Nayak: The Real Hero. He has won a National Film Award for Best Editing for the film Kadhalan in 1995. 
 

Radhakrishnan Parthiepan is a renowned actor, cinema producer, and director of Tamil origin. Born in a moderate family in Chennai, Parthiepan’s journey to success wasn’t an easy one. Reportedly, he was even rejected for films early due to his non-hero looks. He worked in many odd jobs, including a dubbing artist for which he used to get 6000 rupees per month.

Parthiepan finally managed to assist the talented director K. Bhagayraj, following which he ventured into the South Indian Film industry with his directorial project Pudhiya Padhai, where he also played the lead. The film was a critical and as well as a commercial success. Following this, he went to star and direct many films. Major ones being Pondatti Thevai, Thalattu Padava, Tata Birla...

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

V. Natarajan is also known as Pyramid Natarajan is a well-known Tamil film actor cum producer who has been working in the Tamil show business industry for four decades now as an actor, producer, content creator, and film distributor. He has acted in over ten movies and has been the member of the Government Body formed to deal with Film Industry and has also been an Advisory Committee Member on Film Taxation as well as been the Examining Committee Member of Central Board of Film Certification for the full tenure of 3 years during the 90s.

V. Natarajan born in a village named Valoothoor near Papanasam, in Tamil Nadu. Natrajan did his preliminary schooling from Shaukathul Islam Balya Muslim Sangam Higher Elementary School and then made his journey to Madras as a young boy to conquer his dreams of becoming an actor.

For a s...