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1. Amy Jackson

Amy Jackson is the popular actress in India, who is a British by her nationality. Her full name is Amy Louise Jackson and she was born in the year 1992 to Alan and Marguerita Jackson. Amy Jackson’s father is working as a producer on the BBC. Amy chose to study English literature, philosophy, and ethics. At the age of 16, she started her career as a model.

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Date of Birth: 31-01-1992

Age: 32

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Female

Skills: Model, Movie Actress

Biography About Amy Jackson

Date of Birth: 31-01-1992

Age: 32

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Female

Skills: Model, Movie Actress

2. Chiyaan Vikram

Vikram is from the Tamil family. His father is Christian and his mother is Hindu who lives in madras, Tamil Nadu. He was born on 17th April 1966. His father also ran from his home in the hope of becoming an actor but he does not get succeed so he trained his son and make him learn classically and cinema dance form so that he could become a good actor. He is known for doing acting in the Tamil movies. He has done plenty of the Tamil movies and he also got the award for many of them. He has got many awards like ‘national film award', ‘honorary award’ and he also got the award from the people’s university of Milan. His first film in which he has done the acting was “kadhai kanmani” in the year 1990. It was a small budget Tamil movie. And the film which got popular and got loved by the people is “set” which got release in 1990 and because of this movie” Vikram” got started his career in as an actor.He has also done many of the great films which also got famous and been loved by the people they are ‘Dhool’ , ‘Saamy’ and these of the movies become venture. He has also done the diverse role in many of the movies as he has also done the role of a blind villager in the movie “kasi” and also done the role of Robin Hood in the movies “Saurai”. He has also got national film award for acting in the movie “Pithamagan” and has done the role of gravedigger. He has also done a great role as a lawyer in the movie “Anniyan” and also got a critical acclaim. He has also done a great role of a bodybuilder in the series of many movies and also got great reviews from the critics for this reason. He has also done a many of the social works in his life as he is also a brand ambassador of the school for the special kids and also the ‘Sanjeevani’ trust.

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Date of Birth: 17-04-1966

Age: 58

Star Sign: Aries

Gender: Male

Skills: Actor

Biography About Chiyaan Vikram

Date of Birth: 17-04-1966

Age: 58

Star Sign: Aries

Gender: Male

Skills: Actor

3. Santhanam

Santhanam is a Tamil movie actor who is famous for his timing-rhyming comedies and counters. He, prior to entering the cine industry, acted for some comedy programs for Win TV, but it was Vijay TV’s ‘LolluSabha’ - a program that spoofs movies, gave his major breakthrough. It was his astounding performance in that program that gained him an entry into the silverscreen when STR spotted him and gave him a role of a college student in his crime-thriller movie ‘Manmathan’. Santhanam has established himself as one of the most contemporary comedians in the Tamil cine industry by acting with almost all heroes. There was a period when heroes were waiting for his callsheet, and all movies that had his comedies featured were hit, regardless of the main plot.

Unlike comedians of his previous era, he prefers to perform together with the antagonist and thus adding to a flavour of comedy throughout the movie. He has 5 bagged consecutive Vijay awards for the ‘The Best Comedian’ right from 2009 till 2013, the Edison award and the SIIMA award for the same category in 2013 and 2011 respectively. Santhanam during a show in Vijay TV mentioned that it will be always his alma mater, no matter how much heights he scales.

Santhanam has got into several controversies as well through his dialogs that sound funny when watching, but tend to hurt people’s feelings. Several protests were also held against his dialogs, which led to the censor of such dialogs. He was also accused of trying to imitate the legendary comedian Koundamani who makes fun of everyone, in every way possible. However, he rejected that claim stating that he doesn’t imitate anyone.

Santhanam’s biggest blockbusters were those with director M.Rajesh’s comedy trilogy – ‘Siva ManasulaSakthi(SMS)’ , ‘Boss EngiraBaskaran’ and ‘OruKalOruKannadi(OK OK)’ and ‘Siruthai’ in which he starred alongside Karthi for the first time. He also owns a production company called Handmade films that produced his story ‘Kanna Laddu Thinga Aasaya’ and also ‘Vallavanuku Pullum Aayudham’. He was the single lead hero in the latter and it won him good reviews for his all-round performance. He acted and also served as the assistant director of the Tamil remake of Delhi Belly which was directed by R.Kannan. So far, he has acted in about 75 movies and has produced 2 of them.

Santhanam expressed his desire to direct Tamil movies with a comedy-sentiment genre and claimed that he would tend to explore some areas that covered India’s vast heritage. He encourages fresh young minds into the industry and is a hard worker. It is only his hard work and hilarious thoughts that has brought him to the top positions of Tamil cinema. ‘Santhanam memes’ are very popular in social networking websites and they mostly comprise of “My reaction when…” type.

Serials acted: Super Comedies (Win TV, 2001) Tea KadaiBench(Win TV, 2002), LolluSabha(Vijay TV, 2001-2004)

DOB: 21 January, 1980

Movies acted: Over 75 movies and filming.

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Date of Birth: 21-01-1980

Age: 44

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor, Comedian

Biography About Santhanam

Date of Birth: 21-01-1980

Age: 44

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor, Comedian

4. Suresh Gopi

Malayali by birth, Suresh Gopinath, also known as Suresh Gopi, is a homebound film actor and also shows keen in music, and is a singer by profession too. Suresh was born into a Hindu Nair family. He was born in Kollam to Gopinathan Pillai and Gnanalakshmi Amma. Suresh has featured in about 200 Malayalam Films. The movie Kaliyattam in the year 1997 had got him the National Film Award for the best actor category. Later on, he became the host of the show named Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran, which was aired on Asianet.

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Date of Birth: 26-06-1958

Age: 65

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor

Biography About Suresh Gopi

Date of Birth: 26-06-1958

Age: 65

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor

5. S Shankar

S Shankar is one among the populous directors who direct high budgeted movies in India. S Shankar started his career as an assistant director to S.A. Chandrasekaran, father of actor Vijay. After working as assistant director in few films, he made his directorial debut in Gentleman with Action King Arjun and Madhubala. It was a blockbuster hit, even Shankar would not have even thought about it. His second movie is Kadhalan with Prabhu Deva. Nagma was introduced in this film by Shankar and the film is a super hit. The songs went very well with A.R. Rahman in the music composing side. After Kadhalan, S Shankar’s market picked up very well and he directed Indian, a patriotic film with Kamal Haasan. Unlike other directors, Shankar never thought to rush up in committing films. He deeply discusses the story and then commits in each and every film. He screwed up the market of Prashanth through Jeans. Jeans was the second film of Aishwarya Rai in which she paired Prashanth. In Jeans, Prashanth and Nassar had dual roles and this film is also a good rhythmic film by Rahman. Mudhalvan also hit the theatres for more than 100 successful days and Arjun and Raghuvaran were applauded for their roles. He introduced many young faces to the film industry through Boys. The film has Siddharth, Nakul, Bharath, Genelia and Thaman. Sivaji with Rajini was said to be the high budget film, which was produced under AVM banner. After the success of Sivaji, he did one more film with Rajini, called Enthiran. That was also a hit movie with Aishwarya Rai alongside Rajini. It was a science fiction movie and went on well for robot Rajini. S Shankar’s latest venture is I with Vikram and Amy Jackson, which hit the theatres with successful shows.

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Date of Birth: 17-08-1963

Age: 60

Star Sign: Leo

Gender: Male

Skills: Director

Biography About S Shankar

Date of Birth: 17-08-1963

Age: 60

Star Sign: Leo

Gender: Male

Skills: Director

6. Subha - Suresh

D Suresh and A N Balakrishnan are together known as Subha. They write screenplay in Tamil. They also pen stories and detective novels. Both of them commenced co-authoring stories when they were studying in college. Ko, Yatchan, Ayan, and Thani Oruvan are the films for which they have written the story.

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Gender: Male

Skills: Story Writer

Biography About Subha - Suresh

Gender: Male

Skills: Story Writer

7. A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud. Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once upon a time in India.

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Date of Birth: 06-01-1967

Age: 57

Star Sign: Capricorn

Gender: Male

Skills: Composer, Singer, Musician, Music Director

Biography About A. R. Rahman

Date of Birth: 06-01-1967

Age: 57

Star Sign: Capricorn

Gender: Male

Skills: Composer, Singer, Musician, Music Director