Chinmayi Sripaada
Sadhana Sargam
Shreya Ghoshal
Tanvi Shah
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Shriya Sharma
Devadarshini Chetan
Shweta Mohan
Manoj Bharathiraja
Atlee Kumar
Hansraj Saxena
Dinesh Nair
Madhan Karky
Sujatha Rangarajan
R Rathnavelu
Pa Vijay
Vairamuthu
Kaz Boyle
Yogi B
Benny Dayal
Hariharan
Javed Ali
Pradeep Kumar Vijayakumar
Pravin Mani
Vijay Prakash
Amrit Pritam Dutta
Resul Pookutty
Alex Ullrich
Richard Owens
Arun Rama Varma
Mark Lanza
Kunal Rajan
Pramod Thomas
Tom Marks
Nayeem Mohammed
Sabu Cyril
Santosh Kotkar
Suresh Selvarajan
Raju Sundaram
Shobi Paulraj
Jayesh Pradhan
Mary E Vogt
TS Suresh
Peter Hein
Alex Martin
Jean Charles Rousseau
Yannick Ben
Kamal Haasan
Shah Rukh Khan
Frankie Chung
Andrew Shibi
Rajinikanth
Chaams
Cochin Haneefa
Danny Denzongpa
Delhi Kumar
Kalabhavan Mani
Karunas
Dinesh Kumar
A. R. Rahman
Prabhu Deva
S Shankar
Santhanam
S P Balasubrahmanyam
Kalanithi Maran
Yuen Woo Ping
Vishnuvardhan Kulasekaran
Jack Rajasekar
1. Chinmayi Sripaada
She is an Indian who also do playback singing and she does her singing mainly for the south Indian movies. And she also does many other things like she also has been radio jockey and has also done acting in the TV serials. She is also having a company known as blue elephant. Her second name is Chinmayee/lndai. She has done singing for the movie namely“kannathi Muthamittal”in which she sang the song ”Oru Dheivam Thantha Ooovae” for which she got awarded. She is also from a great musical family and her mother herself taught her singing. She taught Chinmayi Hindustani classical music as well as Carnatic music. She took birth in Mumbai and lived for few years out there and after that she shifted to Chennai. She does her schooling from the Hindu...
Age:
39
Gender:
Female
2. Sadhana Sargam
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 I...
Age:
50
Gender:
Female
3. Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Ben...
Age:
40
Gender:
Female
4. Tanvi Shah
A versatile singer, Tanvi Shah is a playback singer who has sung songs in languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Portuguese, Arabic, and Latin. She made her debut in playback singing with the song 'Fanaa' for the movie Yuva, which released in 2004. Ever since then, she has had a collaboration with the Oscar-winning singer A.R Rahman, and she has sung several songs for him. Amit Trivedi, Yuvan Shankar Raja and other leading music directors invited Tanvi after her success with A.R Rahman reached the public eye. She wrote the Spanish lyrics for the ever popular song of Slumdog Millionaire - Jai Ho. At the 52nd Grammy Awards, she won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written For Visual Media, which she shared wi...
Age:
38
Gender:
Female
5. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a popular Indian actress and is a high-profile celebrity in India. She was born on November 1, 1973 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India to Krishnaraj, an Army Biologist and Brinda, a homemaker. She has one brother named Aditya Rai, an engineer-turned-producer, who produced her film Dil Ka Rishta in 2003. Her family shifted to Mumbai and she studied at Arya Vidya Mandir High School during her early years. She later attended Jai Hindi College and moved to DG Ruparel College in Matunga, where she scored 90% in the Higher Secondary School Certificate. During her teenage years, she trained in classical dance and music for 5-years. Initially, she planned to pursue a career in medicine, but it didn’t ...
Age:
50
Gender:
Female
6. Shriya Sharma
Shriya Sharma is a child actress and model who is loved for her peppy and cute gestures. This pretty little princess was first seen in Zee TV’s ‘Kanhaiya’. Here, she acted in the lead role and this role brought her overnight success. After that, we saw her in ‘Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate’ where she played the role of herself. In 2004, Shriya was seen in the popular tele-serial ‘Kasautii Zindagii Kay’ where she played the role of Sneha. This cute and bubbly role of Sneha also fetched her many awards in the long run. Throughout her commendable acting career, Shriya had been seen in quite a number of Tamil, Telugu, Oriya and Hindi Flicks. She has worked with the Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh kha...
Age:
27
Gender:
Female
7. Devadarshini Chetan
Devadarshini is a Tamil TV serial actor who first made her debut in the year 1998 and is now married to fellow serial actor Chetan with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter, Niyati. She has played several supporting roles in more than 50 films and has appeared in around 20 TV serials. She got her first break through the series ‘Marmadesam’ where she acted along with Chetan. She has also played several pivotal roles in cult serials like Annamalai, Kolangal, Athi Pookkal, Poovilangu among many others. She is widely known for her comedy and sentimental roles in several movies in the first decade of the 21st century.
Her first movie was Kaakha Kaak...
Age:
47
Gender:
Female
8. 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&rsqu...
Age:
37
Gender:
Female
9. Manoj Bharathiraja
Manoj Bharathiraja also known as Manoj K. Bharathi is a Tamil film actor who is the son of the National Award winning director P. Bharathiraja. He was born on 11th September 1976 in the city of Theni in Tamil Nadu. Born to P. Bharathiraja and Chandraleela, Manoj was sure that he wanted to enter his father’s field of work. After completing basic schooling, he was sent to the University of South Florida to undergo a course in Theatre Arts. Before starring in films, he worked as an assistant director for several years under great directors.
Even after starring in movies, Manoj continued to assist many directors. Manoj assisted his father in ‘Bommalattam' starr...
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
10. Atlee Kumar
Atlee Kumar is a movie director and screenwriter from India, focusing mainly on Tamil feature films. He is a graduate of Sathyabama University and holds a degree in Visual Communication. He started off his media career by making short films, one of the most notable being Mugaputhagam with Sivakarthikeyan of Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam fame. He then became an assistant director to director Shankar, assisting him during the production of Enthiran and Nanban. It is to be noted that Nanban is a remake of Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots. Born in Madurai and raised in Chennai, Atlee cites the Mani Ratnam film Thalapathi as his inspiration to enter the cine field. Atlee’s maiden directorial venture was the ...
Age:
37
Gender:
Male
11. Hansraj Saxena
Hansraj Saxena is known for holding the Sun Pictures productions which had produced many films and most of them are box office hits. Hansraj born in India and is known by Indian nationality. His occupation is to manage media and entertainment to maintain their productivities and income. Hansraj started his career in this field in the year 1983. Hansraj is working as deputy managing director for Sun pictures. He even holds the name producer, because he produced few films in which some of those were out of box hits and those pictures tend him to recognize widely. Hansraj heads in Sun group for film production and distribution which is a subdivision of Sun TV network. Hansraj completed his graduation at Loyola College in Chennai and he got ...
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Male
12. Dinesh Nair
Dinesh Nair is an Indian casting director and production manager who introduced the world to Andria D’Souza in the English erotic drama “Kamasutra 3D” (2013). Screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, it is the only Indian movie with five songs to be nominated for an Oscar for the Original Song category.
It was also nominated for the Best Motion Picture and the Original Score titles at the 86th Academy Awards of 2013. Dinesh initially owned a car resale business in Mumbai, Maharashtra, where he would often meet renowned celebrities (including megastar Rajinikanth) who required ostentatious cars for their movies.
Thereon, he gradually shifted his focus on casting and production in films. His first undert...
Gender:
Male
13. Madhan Karky
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, ...
Age:
44
Gender:
Male
14. Sujatha Rangarajan
Sujatha Rangarajan is an author, screenwriter, novelist, and engineer born on 3rd May, 1935, and passed out on 27th February, 2008. His birthplace is Srirangam (British India) and he died in Chennai. His evergreen works are ten stage performances, more than 250 short stories along with composing works of almost a hundred novels, and a small set of poems. He was considered as a famous personality in Tamil literature. He has fame as a pleasant reader and he briefly edited and worked for Kumudam magazine. He composed a few screenplays and narrated dialogues for Tamil movies.
In 1993, Sujatha was honored by an award from the National Council for Science and Technology because of his authorized works in science, throu...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
15. R Rathnavelu
Randy Rathnavelu is a cinematographer who was born on 24th February 1971 in Chennai, India and is actively working in the Tollywood industry since 1997. He is a well known cinematographer in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. He has also been critically acclaimed for his works in certain movies.
He has also been a student of Science and holds a Bachelor degree in Physics. Apart from the primary education, he is also well versed professionally and also has a diploma in Film Technology and Cinematography from the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu. He is married to Hema Rathnavelu.
He is an ardent fan of the southern icon 'Rajinikanth'. His body of work boast of some acclaimed movies such as "Nandha"...
Age:
53
Gender:
Male
16. Pa Vijay
P Vijay (Pa Vijay) is a Tamil poet and film lyricist, who wrote the award-winning lyrics for the song’’ Ovvoru Pookalume’’ in Cheran's Autograph in Kollywood film industry. This lyricist had an extensive impact on Tamil cinema and was considered to be a gem writer of many songs that had featured in many movies. This poet and lyricist-writer were born in a middle-class family where his mother was a school teacher, and his father worked as a spinning master in a textile mill in Coimbatore. The actor was born in Coimbatore on 20 October 1974 and did his MA Literature in Tamil from Annamalai University. This poet was a discovery of director K Bhagyaraj, who was his family friend. He was associated with K. Bha...
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
17. Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu is a very famous Tamil writer, poet, and lyricist. His full name is Vairamuthu Ramasamy. He was born on 13th July 1953. He was born in a middle-class family to Ramasamythevar and Angammal in Mettur. His family moved to Vadugapatti, Theni in Tamil Nadu when he was four years old. He is famous by the pen name Kaviyarasu or Kaviperarasu. He got married to Ponmani Vairamuthu and had two children, Madhan Karky Vairamuthu, and Kabilan Vairamuthu. He got inspiration from the Tamil and Rationalist movements in the 1960s that enthused him to pursue a career as a writer. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. As a speaker and a poet, he was highly praised as the best in his ...
Age:
70
Gender:
Male
18. Kaz Boyle
Kaz Boyle is an American music composer, music conductor, an orchestra and a music arranger also. He was born on 27th September 1976 in Oak Park Illinois in Chicago, USA. The full name of Kaz is Kazimir Boyle now living in Los Angeles, California. This legend is also a composer of video games and concert music. He composes for both the Film world and the Television world as well. He has created music for more than 15 movies and 12 Television shows. As a music arranger, he has arranged music concerts in more than 20 cities of different countries. As a composer, he has also worked for an American studio, Media Ventures. He has also composed many jingles for several advertisements. He has a score of supporting and editing of music. In his c...
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
19. Yogi B
Yogi B is an Indian playback singer, popular amongst the regional audience for his work on the soundtracks of movies like Ezhumin (2018), Aadukalam (2011), Enthiran (2010), Bodhai Yeri Budhi Maari (2019), Kuruvi (2008), etc. Mostly known for her major involvement in the music albums of Tamil short films, documentaries, TV shows, reality shows, daily soaps, and Kollywood movies, Yogi has been a prominent part of the South Indian film and music industry for more than ten years now. Over the years, Yogi has often been admired and applauded by numerous critics and local spectators for the exceptional skills he possesses as a playback singer, especially his vocal depth and versatility.
The year 2008 was a critical one for Yogi as he m...
Gender:
Male
20. Benny Dayal
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 ...
Age:
39
Gender:
Male
21. Hariharan
Hariharan is a renowned Indian singer, who sings mainly for Hindi and Tamil films. Born in 1955, he is a well-known Ghazal singer. He was also instrumental in bringing fusion music to India. Colonial Cousins is the name given to Hariharan’s band, wherein he collaborated with Lesle Lewis. This band was featured in many private albums. Not only this, they have also composed music for a few movies in Hindi and Tamil. Hariharan is born and b...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
22. Javed Ali
Javed Ali (Javed Hussain) was born in Delhi in 1982. He has been working as an Indian playback singer since 2000. Ali started his singing journey at a very early age with his father, who is a popular Qawwali singer named, Ustad Hamid Hussain. He is also a playback singer in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, and Tamil. He has been singing since 2000, but his song “Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein” from the film Naqaab (2007) made him famous in Bollywood. After that, he sang hit song like Jashn-E-Bahaara from the Movie Jodha Akba...
23. Pradeep Kumar Vijayakumar
Pradeep Vijay is a Tamil and Telegu playback singer. He sang many Indian hit songs and the audience liked them. He also sang three songs which hit the top charts in the southern part of India. Pradeep Vijay also got the opportunity to sing for one of the Rajnikanth's movie. Not only that, from his childhood days he had a keen interest in singing and decided to pursue his career in the industry. Moreover, his dedication and efforts have been a key for his success in the music industry. Pradeep Vijay started singing at a very early age and also performed stage shows during his initial days.
In 2012 a Tamil film was released called Pizza, one of its famous song was sung by him. It was his first biggest break, an...
Age:
37
Gender:
Male
Age:
37
Gender:
Male
24. Pravin Mani
He is a Music composer as well as a singer in the film industry. His works are mainly associated with Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam as well as English films in the industry.
He is also famous for his music direction and as a record producer. He was born in Chennai and completed his graduation as an engineer and started working as an audio engineer whose task was to deal with all the technical stuff.
Then he went to Australia and, in 1998, moved Canada where he currently lives. For a long time, he has worked with A.R. Rahman in collaborations for Enthiran, also worked with him in films including Mudhalvan and Alaipayuthey.
He has worked in many films like little john, dancer, parasuram, ottran, udhaya, sukran, thoothuku...
Gender:
Male
25. 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 Gramm...
Age:
48
Gender:
Male
26. Amrit Pritam Dutta
Amrit Pritam Dutta is a famous Indian sound designer. He pursued his Physics degree from JB College, Jorhat. He has also been chosen as Oscan Governing body’s member. Having born in Jorhat, he has contributed to several movies as sound designer. Kaabil Kick, PK, Beautiful Lives, Highway, Jazbaa, Ghajini are some of his latest works. Amrit Pritam got the Best Sound Editing award along with Resul Pookutty for Roar:
Tigers of the Sunderbans in the 63rd Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards. His association with Resul Pookutty can be seen in movies including Slumdog Millionaire, Saawariya etc. Keralavarma Pazhasiraja, a Malayalam movie, earned him National Award. Shah Rukh Khan starrer Kal Ho Naa Ho was the film that gave him the much...
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48
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Male
27. Resul Pookutty
Resul Pookutty has climbed up the ladder with a lot of hard work. Born in Kerala on 30th May, 1971, Resul completed his schooling in kerosene lamps because his village did not have electricity. He completed his Bachelors in Physics and went on to pursue a degree in Law by his father’s wish. He left the Law program in the middle to graduate from FTII, Pune. He later finished his Law degree to fulfil his father’s wish.
Resul is an Indian Film sound designer, sound editor, and mixer and recently decided to become a director/producer as well. He kicked of his career as a sound engineer for a film in 1997. In 2005 his work for “Musafir” and “Black” was widely recognized and appreciated. Since then, he has done several films including Traffic S...
Age:
52
Gender:
Male
28. Alex Ullrich
Alex Ullrich is an American foley artist who works for Hollywood. He is from Los Angeles, California. He is known for his work in the sound department of movies like The Hurt Locker(2008), San Andreas(2015), television series like Four Weddings and a Funeral(2019), The Walking Dead(2013), Pretty Little Liars(2013), and children’s television series like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse(2011), Jake and the Neverland Pirates(2011-13) so on. These are just a few of the many movies and shows he has worked for. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and two Daytime Emmys. He won three golden reel awards and was nominated for several others.
He completed his Bachelor of Science degree from Saint Joseph’s College. From the year 2000, he...
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Male
29. Richard Owens
Richard Saturnino Owens a renowned fashion designer and popularly known for his furniture line was a young boy when he left with a dream of becoming a fashion designer. Being from a conservative household, he had his hardships to get into the fashion line. He was born on 18 November 1962 in Porterville, California. There was cultural fusion in his family as his mother was Mexican and his father was American which reflects in his work of art.
From his household, he moved to Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. After being dropped out of Otis, he did pattern cutting class at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College. During the period when fashion business was taking a turn, and people were losing their jobs,...
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61
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Male
30. Arun Rama Varma
Arun Rama Varma is an Indian sound effects editor who works primarily in the Tamil film industry. Arun was born in Trippunithura and completed his schooling from Chinmaya Vidyalaya from his hometown itself. He then studied in Film and Television Institute of India in Pune and further did the Bachelor of Science in Electronics from the College of Applied Sciences in Puthuppally. He also did different courses from Thames Valley University and MG University. Later he did masters in sound engineering. After completing his studies, Arun started to work as a freelance sound engineer for location sound recording, sound effects editing, and music recording in the Indian film Industry from December 2000 to October 2005. He further worked as a lec...
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Male
31. Mark Lanza
Mark Lanza is an American sound effects editor, popular amongst the international audience for his work in movies like Independence Day (1996), Natural Born Killers (1994), Homeland (2011), and Searching (2018). Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Hollywood movies and TV shows, this veteran professional has been working in the film industry for more than thirty years now.
Commonly referred to as ‘Mario,’ Mark has served for the executive board of the Motion Picture Sound Editors as a secretary and the vice president. He has also featured in Jeff Wolman’s film Shteps (2002) as an actor. But most of the success that he has seen in his career has been as a sound effects artist....
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Male
32. Kunal Rajan
Kunal Rajan is a sound designer who has worked with a few Hollywood projects and two south Indian movies like ' Uttama Villain' and 'Vishwaroopam.’ Rajan when he was just starting work on Tamil musical drama 'Uttama Villain,’ had asked Oscar-winning sound mixer, Craig Mann, if he was interested to be part of an India movie. And thus Craig was part of ‘Uttama Villain.’ Kunal has since completed a hundred movies as a Supervising Sound Editor as of 2016.
Kunal Rajan moved to Los Angeles, California to explore a career in Hollywood after having worked on feature films in India. Some of the Indian projects he had handled include 'Thoongavanam,’ 'Enthirian,' and ‘Vis...
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Male
33. Pramod Thomas
Pramod Thomas is a renowned Malayali sound engineer from South India. As a teenager, he had a deep fascination for music and musicians. Initially, he wanted to become a singer, but it didn't work out. Thus, Pramod decided to enhance the works of the musicians. He has worked in numerous film industries, including Malayalam, Bollywood and so on.
As a sound engineer, Pramod identifies the problems in the sounds, and edit the sound-tracks using different audio effects. Thomas is an eminent personality in the field of the music department. His official entry into the movie industry is marked by 2004 Bollywood Drama film, "Raincoat."
The music and songs of the motion picture received much critical notice and were ...
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Male
34. Tom Marks
Tom Marks is one of the most noted re-recording mixers in Hollywood. He has a profound track record as a music mixer for both TV series and movies.
Like many people, Tom Marks was awestruck with Hollywood and always wanted to settle down there. Tom grew up in a music family where he learned singing, playing guitar.
His love for music and tunes made him even more determined to start his career in Los Angeles. From childhood, Tom always did experiments with sounds and music while mixing various tunes in his audio mixer equipment. Because of his skills and talent Tom Marks when he was fifteen got a chance to prove his adeptness at a TV sta...
35. Nayeem Mohammed
Nayeem Mohammed is a logo animator, video editor, and graphic designer from Hyderabad, Telangana. Nayeem went to All Saints High School, then went to St. Mary’s Junior College to study commerce, economics, and civics. He went on ahead to pursue a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in Painting from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.
He worked as an Animator, a Mocap supervisor, Senior model maker, an assistant animation supervisor, and then went on to start his own studio to provide services regarding logo/brand animations, video editing, graphic designing, and photoshop works, since 2013.
He also writes a blog about logo intros, video editing, and video creation works. He claims his passion for dr...
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Male
36. Sabu Cyril
Sabu Cyril was born on January 27th in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.
He is a production designer in the Indian movie industry. Earlier, production designers were called as art directors.
He resides in Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai.
He was brought up in Kerala itself. He did his schooling from the same place and then went to Chennai to do his graduation in the Government College of Fine Arts, which was earlier known as Government School of Arts and Crafts. He did his Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from 1980 to 1985.
He worked part time as a graphic designer for names like Taj Hotels Group, Madura Coats and Welcome Hotels, in the period 1982 to 1988.
His caree...
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62
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Male
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62
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Male
37. Santosh Kotkar
Santosh Kotkar is an Indian art director, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Tezz (2012), Tees Maar Khan(2010), Khatta Meetha (2010), Aladin (2009), Mere Baap Pehle Aap (2008), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in Tamil and Hindi TV series, short films, and Bollywood movies, Santosh has been a prominent part of the Indian film industry for more than ten years now.
Over the years, Santosh has worked for renowned personalities like Akshay Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan, etc. Apart from that, he has often been admired and applauded by numerous critics and spectators for the remarkable creativity he showcases as an art director. ...
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Male
38. Suresh Selvarajan
Suresh Selvarajan is a renowned artist born on October 13, 1982. With great interest in painting and with an aim to make people see, feel and walk through his paintings he started giving life to the visions of his mind. With all his goals accomplished, he was first recognized for his paintings at the age of 19 with a state award. He was passionate towards watercolors from his childhood with an overwhelming emotion towards nature and its inexpressible beauty, which molded him into an art director and a good production manager. He completed his graduation in fine arts (painting), from Bharathiar Palkalai Koodam under the University of Pondicherry in 2003.
He assisted renowned production designer Sabu Cyril for 9 ye...
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41
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Male
39. Raju Sundaram
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’.
Age:
56
Gender:
Male
Age:
56
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Male
40. Shobi Paulraj
He is an ace choreographer in the Tollywood industry. Founder of IBO Dance Studio, he has also choreographed in Bollywood movie, Holiday, starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha.
He made Tamil superstars like Kamal Haasan, Ajith, Vijay groove to his tunes in movies like Uttama Villain, Mankatha, and Thupakki; and now, after a break, choreographer Shobi Paulraj is returning to Mollywood.
The veteran dance master is all set to make Unni Mukundan dance to his tunes in his upcoming flick 'Style'. Shobi will be helping the young actor groove to a romantic number crooned by singer Karthik. Currently, he is the Director of Cine and TV...
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Male
41. Jayesh Pradhan
Jayesh Pradhan Pradhan is an Indian choreographer and director. He is mainly working with the Bollywood Film industry. He has the Indian Nationality. He has experience of a career over 35 years, he has done projects as an assistant choreographer in several films like Aankhen in the year 2002, Qayamat: City Under Threat in the year 2003, Chameli in the year 2003, Shabd in the year 2005, Bas Ek Pal in the year 2006, and Ankahee in the year 2006. Some of his notable works include 36 China Town in the year 2006, Pyaar Ke Side Effects in the year 2006, Good Boy, Bad Boy in the year 2007, De Taali in the year 2008, Kidnap in the year 2008, and Kal Kissne Dekha in the year 2009.
He has known for Bollywood films like Dhoom in the year 20...
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Male
42. Mary E Vogt
Mary is an American costume designer who began her career at twelve. At a very early age, she started designing clothes for theaters and drama competitions.
She grew up in the Long Island community of Long Beach. The long beach at her time was more of a theatrical center where people only wanted to be actors and actresses out there. She is one of the people who stood for their passion and worked hard to pursue what they like.
After high school, she went to study fashion at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. While studying at FIT, she realized that her interest was not in fashion instead, she used to the story, situations, scenes on which she created costumes.
Therefore she decided to go back to a sc...
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43. TS Suresh
T.S. Suresh is also known as Suresh Sathyanarayan or Tirupattur Sathyanarayan Suresh. He was born on July 1, 1986. He is 30 years old. His birthplace is Vellore located in Tamil Nadu, India. But his current residence is in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India due to his profession. He started his career in the year 2004.
By profession, he is a Film editor who mainly works for South Indian Film Industry. He is famous for working in various languages namely English, Tami, Hindi, Malayalam, etc. and does editing majorly in these languages only. He was quite appreciated for his work with famous and experienced South Indian Filmmaker named Santosh Sivan and is highly acclaimed for that. ...
Age:
37
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Male
44. Peter Hein
A Chennai boy born in Karaikal to the immigrants of Vietnam is famous for his stunt sequences and action director and choreography. He was born and brought up in Chennai itself. He belongs to Tamil Chettiar community. He started off as an extra stunt fighter in many regional films. His first venture as a full-time action director is Murari. Earlier he has worked with pioneers like Kanal Kannan, Ram Gopal Verma, Vijayan, etc. he has done quite a plenty of films in Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam. He earned critical appreciation and fame through his work in films such as Varsham, Anniyan, Athadu, etc. Ram Gopal Verma, impressed by Hein offered him to work for James and thus it was his ticket to Bollywood. His next...
45. Alex Martin
Alex Martin is the son of a French mother and a Martinican father. He has been raised in Central France. His father was a Vietnamese martial-arts instructor, and he taught martial arts to Alex Martin at an early age. Alex won the title of France thrice in Viet Vo Dao in 1997-2000.
At the age of 17, Alex was still practicing his sports, and he also began to practice dance, Parkour (which means the art of displacement) and acrobatics. This combination of martial arts and dance gave him tremendous success in the field of stunts in the film industry. Alex Martin’s talent got him a role in the movie Kiss of the Dragon with Jet Li, but his role was canceled at the last moment.
The cancellation ignited something into him w...
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Male
46. Jean Charles Rousseau
Jean-Charles Rousseau is an American stunt artist, popular amongst the international audience for his action sequences in movies like Mission Impossible Fallout (2018), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Spectre (2015), and Jason Bourne (2016). Mostly known for his pre-dominant involvement in Hollywood movies and TV series in the English language, this legendary stunt artist has more than two hundred major film credits to his name.
The fact that Jean started out with his career as an actor is still unknown to many. In 1983, he made his first significant contribution as an actor through the TV series Medecins de Nuit. Since then, he has acted in many short movies and shows, but most of the success that he has seen in hi...
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Male
47. Yannick Ben
Yannick Ben is a stunt performer in the Hollywood film industry. He has predominantly worked in Bollywood and Tollywood movies throughout his lifetime. The talented stunts-man got trained in Aikido, Kick Boxing, Jeet Kune Do, Gymnastics, and Sand. He won the second position in France National Gymnastics Championship in the year 1997. He always had an interest in the sports field and later, he realized his dream of working in the movies. He founded Jumperz Parkour after rigorously practicing Parkour from 2003. He trained under the professionals from the Yamakasi group who are one of the best in the art form. Yannick is a parkour tutor and an actor too. He devoted most of his life to the cinematic world and did more than forty-four films a...
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Male
48. Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan is the most versatile actor that India had ever witnessed. His innovative performances have been acclaimed worldwide. He is known for his passion for dance forms, action, and his enthusiasm for new concepts in movies. He is one of the most unforgettable actors in India. Born in 1954, Kamal Haasan has a never ending passion for Indian Cinema. He is still acting in movies. Though he belongs to Kollywood Industry his movies are much appreciated in Bollywood and Tollywood as well.
Just like any other actor, Kamal had to struggle for that one Break-through too. His first hit was through drama ‘Apoorva Raagangal’, in 1975. Haasan was appreciated across states for his exemplary performance in &l...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
49. Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent Indian film actor, television personality and producer. He was born on November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India. He is often called as the ‘Baadshah of Bollywood’, ‘King Khan’ and ‘King of Bollywood’. The actor has done more than 80 films in Bollywood. He was cited as ‘The World’s Biggest Movie Star’ by the Los Angeles Times. Khan is also one of the wealthiest actors in the world, with over $400–600 million net worth. He also won several accolades including the 14 Filmfare Awards.
Khan went to St. Columba’s School in Delhi where he topped in studies and sports like football and hockey, where he...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
50. Frankie Chung
Frankie Chung is well known visual effects artist, popular amongst the international audience for his work in movies like Chasing the Dragon (2017), Dancing Ninja (2010), Kitaro (2007), The Promise (2005), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in English TV series, short films, and Hollywood movies, Frankie has been involved in the film industry for more than twenty-one years now. In 1998, he came up with his first momentous contribution on the silver screen with the film The Storm Riders, directed by Andrew Lau Wai-Keung, starring Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng. Since then, he has improved a lot as an artist with impressive progress in the transitional effects....
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Male
51. Andrew Shibi
Andrew Shibi is an India-based Visual Effects Artist and Visual Effects Coordinator. He has worked for numerous films since 2000. His work includes films like ‘Pandavas: The Five Warriors’ in 2000; ‘Mrugaraaju’, ‘Murari’, ‘Little John’, ‘Citizen’, ‘Sri Manjunatha’, and ‘Nayak: The Real Hero’ in 2001; ‘Alibaba’ in 2002; ‘Okkadu’, and ‘Son of Alladin’ in 2003; ‘Arjun’, ‘Varsham’, ‘Anji’, ‘Ghilli’, ‘Naani’, ‘Adavi Ramudu’, ‘New’, and ‘Sullan’ in 2004; ‘Balu’, ‘Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana’, ‘Chandramu...
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Male
52. Rajinikanth
'Rajinikanth' is the name that is known in every nook and corner of India. He is a popular Indian cinema star who has fans worldwide. Born as Shivajirao Gaekwad, this simple-human started his career as a bus conductor. He made his film debut in 1975 in ‘Apoorva Raagangal’, starred by Kamal Haasan and Srividya. Though he appeared in a small role in that film, he was noted for his style.
He is a good example for how to succeed in life with hard work and confidence. He did villainy roles in the beginning. He was applauded for his role in 16 Vayathinile, with Kamal and Sridevi. This trio has done many successful films together. Rajinikanth and Kamal were very close and they started to act in many ...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
53. Chaams
Chaams is a Tamil actor who regularly appears in a supporting role in many movies. He is an actor who began his career by doing small roles but later bagged meaningful roles and had received mass appreciation for his performances. Right from the beginning he started a new style of comedy that people loved and then he followed it with every film. He used his natural tone and local Tamilian style to deliver dialogues with perfect timing and incredible sense of humor.
