Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
Nayanthara
Shakeela
Vijayalakshmi - Kannada
Shweta Mohan
Sakthi Saravanan
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Karthik
Sathyan Mahalingam
Vijay Prakash
Vijay Yesudas
Vivek Harshan
Arya
Jiiva
Ashvin Raja
Rajendran
Rajesh
Na. Muthukumar
Santhanam
Chithra Lakshmanan
Subbu Panchu
Haricharan Seshadri
KS Srinivasan
1. Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
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.
2. Nayanthara
Nayantara also called as Nayanthara Kurian, is a renowned Indian actress from Kerala. She was born on 18th November in the year 1984 in Bangalore that is situated in Indian province Karnataka. Her actual name is ‘Diana Mariam Kurian’ the daughter of ‘Omana Kurian’ and ‘Kurian Kodiyatto’. Due to her father’s service, she stayed in several places of India. She joined in “Mar Thoma College” for attending her B.A in English Literature. Besides study she also initiated her modeling career.
As she was indifferent towards building her career in the film industry she denied her first offer, but at last she agreed to do the film ‘Manassinakkare’ where she was casted opposite Jayaram. This was a financially successf...
3. Shakeela
Shakeela is a South porn actress, who has done more than one hundred and ten movies in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada. She was also seen in Bigg Boss Kannada 2. She is famous for B-Grade movies and Softcore. Shakeela’s pornographic movies even get dubbed in Nepalese, Chinese, Sinhala, English, etc. She is the new Silk Smita of South India. She began her career at the age of 20. She has also directed two movies (Neelakurinji Poothu and Romantic Target in 2013 and 2015 respectively) in Malayalam. She has even done comic roles in Tollywood. She started doing comic roles in 2003.
Shakeela is a member of the Indian National Congress. Shakeela made her debut in the hardcore porn film Playgirls (1995). The 2000 Malayalam porn film KinnaraThumbikal became a sensation in Kerala with its re...
4. Vijayalakshmi - Kannada
Vijayalakshmi is a South Indian actress; she mainly acts in Kannada films and has also worked in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil Film and Television Industry. She was born in Chennai and took her education in Karnataka. She lives in Bangalore. She made her debut in films with the Kannada film ‘Nagamandala’ directed by T S Nagabharana, the film starred Prakash Raj. Later she did the Kannada films like ‘Jodi Hakki’ (1997), ‘Arunodaya’ (1999), ‘Kanakambari’ (2005) and many more films; she did around 25 Kannada films.
Vijayalakshmi acted in Tamil hits like ‘Soori’ and ‘Friends’. She also did Tamil TV serials like ‘Muthaaram’, ‘Savitri’ and a few more. Her noticeable work in Telugu films is seen in the film ‘Hanuman Junction’. She...
5. Shweta Mohan
Shweta Mohan is a female playback singer in Indian cinema who is also the daughter of playback singer Sujatha Mohan. Like her mother, she also had sung in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born on 19 November 1985 in Chennai. In fact, earlier she was a bit hesitant to take up singing as her career. But as she sung, she enjoyed singing very much. Had not she been in singing, she could have opted for doing MBA and got settled other way.
Shweta grew up watching her mother sing and eventually looked her as a role model for her life. She has always aspired to be like her. Taking inspiration from her mother’s versatile career in Indian cinema, she eventually made her ground too in film music. She is well...
6. Sakthi Saravanan
Sakthi Saravanan is a talented, hard-working, vibrant Indian Tamil and Malayalam film director. The particular contributions of the talented director and writer came in the Tamil movies. He is born in the year on 20 November 1969 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu of the country India. He is an Indian Film Screen Writer and director. He has worked dominantly in Tamil Film industry and keeps coming up with some gratifying work. He is the father of one of the most famous producers of Tamil and Hindi movies, namely Venkat Prabhu and M. Rajesh Directorials, which were his directorial debut.
He is an Indian film director and actor with more than seven years work experience in film writing, film direction, television fiction writing, event direction, reality show direction, creative management, novel writing, cinematic teaching,...
7. Yuvan Shankar Raja
8. Karthik
9. Sathyan Mahalingam
Sathyan Mahalingam or Sathyan as he’s popularly known as is an Indian singer from Chennai ( Tamil Nadu , India). Born on 31st May 1980 in Chennai . His present age is 36 years. His parents are Mr. Mahalingam and Mrs. Mariammal . Sathyan grew up with a different name and was known by the name Needhi Mohan during high school and college years. He later changed his name to M. Sathyan where the M stood for Mahalingam. Since the year 1996, Sathyan has been singing for a number of light music orchestras. He has performed for many leading light music orchestras in Tamil Nadu. He has worked for nearly 2500 stage shows as a singer for light music orchestras. Mahalingam entered the Tamil film industry in the year 2004.
He debuted as a playback singer with the movie Vasool Raja MBBS with the song Kalakka Povadh...
10. Vijay Prakash
Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force.
He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam movies. He has also hosted the renowned reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kannada and has also performed in shows with the great Indian percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain. Prakash is one of the four singers of the song ‘Jai Ho’, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The song also won a Grammy Award in the category ‘Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Medi...
11. Vijay Yesudas
Vijay Yesudas (Born: 23rd March, 1979) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer from Chennai. He is known for his work predominantly in the south Indian film Industry, especially Malayalam, and Tamil films as well as in other Indian Languages such as Telegu, Kannada, and Hindi.
Vijay is the son of prominent singer K.J. Yesudas and the grandson of stage singer Augustine Joseph. His mother’s name is Prabha, and he is the second son of the family. He studied in Chennai until the 9th grade and moved to the US for further studies. He graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A in Music.
Vijay Yesudas started learning Carnatic music in early 2000. He is popular for his songs with composer Yuvan S...
12. Vivek Harshan
Vivek Harshan, born on 28 May, 1981 in Kochi , India, is an Indian film editor with a national award to his name for editing film 'Jigarthanda' in 2014. Harshan developed his interest for movies and editing in his college days where he met equally movie enthusiast friends, and it is then that he started taking things seriously. He learned to edit professionally through a course in Chennai and later assisted renowned editor exact==Anthony to whom he also dedicated his national award. He gives credit to his work to Anthony and says whatever knowledge he has of editing is what Anthony gave him.
In an interview with a national daily, he recounts his early days and hard work, where he pulled all-nighters or would have to travel to Kerala and come back daily while editing two movies together Oru Kal Oru Kanna...
13. Arya
Joining the ranks of Malayalaee born actors who have chosen Tamil filmdom was Jamshed Cethirakath. He even changed his name as per the prevailing custom, to ‘Arya’, encouraged his brother Sathya to follow suit, and made him join Tamil cinema too. However, earlier in life when selecting a course of studies he may not have been very clear about the future course of his life, making him choose an engineering course in Computer Science in Chennai, rather than selecting any of the other options in Chennai relating to the performing arts. As he grew up, his family’s links with Chennai grew stronger, and his father currently owns one of the favourite Arabian food joints in the upmarket Anna Nagar locality of Chennai.
14. Jiiva
Born on 4th January 1982 Jiiva is one of the young talents in Tamil industry. He is the son of noted producer R B Choudary. Jiiva’s original name is Amar B Choudary and Hindi is his mother tongue. Quite expectedly Jiiva was introduced into films as a child actor by his father. It was in 2003 that he was the main lead in the film Aasai Aasaiyai. Later, Ram directed by Ameer happened which is a milestone in his career; he received the best actor award in the Cyprus International Film Festival.
Jiiva has tried different roles and his films Dishyum, E, Katradhu Tamizh, Ko are examples of this. He has also acted in a Malayalam film named Keerthi Chakra and it was dubbe...
15. Ashvin Raja
Ashvin Raja is an actor in the Tamil movie industry. He plays comedy roles and character roles. This multitalented star was born on 21st November 1989 in Choolaimedu, Chennai. He began his career in director Rajesh’s movie, ‘Boss Engira Bhaskaran’ (2010). His character of ‘Paalpandi’, son of the money lender from whom the lead borrows money, became a sensation and offers began to rain for this star. The scenes where he shows the knife and eats apples in the tutorial and laughs at the lead when he comes to borrow money became quite famous.
In his second film ‘Kumki’(2012) he plays ‘Undiyal’ where he has character present throughout the movie and plays the role of a companion to the main lead along with that of a comic ...
16. 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.
He has a major break in Vijay 59, where the stunt artist has develop...
17. Rajesh
Director Rajesh is one among the popular young directors in Tamil cinema. Rajesh was born in the year 1985 in Nagercoil. He completed his engineering in National Engineering College in Kovilpatti. He got job in IT industry and was working as a software engineer in Mumbai.
Due to his interest in cinema, he resigned his job and came to Chennai. He joined as an assistant to the popular directors to gain knowledge in directing the films. His aim was to do comedy films that are loved by the audience. So,he prepared himself to do the comedy tracked movies. His first movie as an assistant director was with Ameer in Mounam Pesiyathey. He has assisted veteran director Chandrasekar in nearly 4 films. Before committing in his fir...
18. 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 access those books. Na. Muthukumar began his career with a dream to be a director. So, he started working...
19. Santhanam
20. Chithra Lakshmanan
Chithra Laksmanan was born on January 22, 1948. He is a journalist-turned actor, producer and director. When his friend, P. Bharathiraja became a director, Chithra has the chance to work with him as an associate director. He worked in over 25 Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. His very first project as a film producer is from the 1983 Tamil film, Mann Vasanai under the direction of P. Bharathiraja. Later, he produced many films with several actors, producers and directors like Kamal Hasaan, Karthik, Prabhu, Sathyaraj and many more. Then in year 1987, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. G. Ramachandran governed the 100th day function of the Tamil crime film, Jallikattu which he produced along with Chitra Ramu, under the direction of Manivannan. He was also the producer of the films, Vaazhkai and Chinnappadass.
He ...
21. Subbu Panchu
Subbu Panchu is the son of the very popular producer and writer Panchu Arunachalam who has become a talented actor on his era. He was born in year 1969. Subbu’s first appearance as a child artist was from the Malayalam film, Daisy. After this, Subbu worked in the production department on the P. A. Art Productions of his father for a certain period of time. Then, he returned to acting with his first television serial, Arasi and he gained popularity because of his talented acting in the serial. He also acted in the big screen in 2010 where he did a comedic role in the Tamil film, Boss Engira Bhaskaran and became very popular. He worked occasionally as a dubbing artist and he also choreographed in some movies including K. Balachander’s Vidukathai. Subbu Panchu had lent his voice for the Tamil version of The Amazing Spider-Ma...
22. Haricharan Seshadri
Haricharan Seshadri is an eminent Carnatic singer who gives his vocal in many Malayalam, Tamil, and other regional movies. He made his debut through the Tamil flick ‘Kadal’, in which he got the chance to sing two solo songs "Unakkena Iruppaen" and the title song "Kaadhal". In the same movie, he also had sung a duet song ‘Thottu Thottu’ with Harini Shankar.
Haricharan was born on March 20, 1987, in Chennai. His early generation proves that they were a typical Palakkad Iyer family, and his father was a B-grade artist in AIR and even a bank employee. Haricharan had taken Carnatic classical musical training since age 7 and then had privileged to learn musical lessons from stalwarts like K. V. Narayanaswamy, T.M.P...
23. KS Srinivasan
K S Srinivasan is a Tamil film producer. Srinivasan has done films such as Nimirndhu Nil, released in 2015. Janda Pai Kapiraju is the Telugu edition of the same movie, and it was dubbed into Lion - The King in Hindi. He produced the award-winning film " Naan Kadavul " in 2009. The film is based on Jeyamohan's Tamil novel Yezhaam Ulagam. Arya and Pooja played the leads.
"Odi Odi Uzhaikanum," another movie he produced, is still unreleased. K. S. Manikandan directed the comedy film. The prominent actors in the film are Santhanam and Amyra Dastur. Oru Pakka Kathai (2020) was his most recent film; he created under the banner of Vasan's Visual Ventures.
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