Tamil Movie Review Lisaa - Cast & Crew

Indian top model and Telugu and Tamil star Anjali was born in Andhara Pardesh in 1986. Acting was her passion so she started her career from short films. Small projects like short films and modeling assignments lead her to the silver screen. Director Siva Nageswara Rao recognized her talent and offered her the role of “Swapna” in Telugu Thriller “Photo” in 2006. Start of her career was from low budget and low profile Telugu films.

In 2007 a new comer writer and director Ram offered her a lead role in a Tamil movie which proved a blockbuster on Tamil and Telugu screen. Her best performance in the role of “Anandhi” awarded her with “Filmfare award for best female debut” and “South Vijay award for best debut actress”. This was the start of a long list of successful films. She has worked in more than 20 Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films.

She won her first “Filmfare award for best actress” and “Tamil Vijay award for best actress” in 2010 for the movie “Angadi Theru”. But this wasn’t the end. She got one more “Filmfare award of best actress” in 2011 for “Engaeyum Eppothum”. These consecutive awards made her a superstar of South Cinema. Her journey towards fame is continued yet. Many of her films are hitting the screen this year that can bring more success to her career.

Ala B Bala is a well-known Singer from the Malayalam Film Industry.  She worked in the music Department in the film Soorarai Pottru (2020), directed by Sudha Kongara with the stars Suriya, Paresh Rawal, and Aparna Balamurali, written by Sudha Kongara, Shalini Ushadevi, and Vijay Kumar. She worked as a Playback Singer and Sound Tracker in the movie Radio Madhav (2019), directed by Sanil Kalathil with the stars Jayaram, Vijay Sethupathi, and Athmeeya Rajan, written by Bhashyasree, Sanil Kalathil, and Rajish Mithila. Her famous soundtracks are Arkali, Enakku Ennachi, Raththa Vettai - Thaandavam, Enakku Ennachi - Chill Trap, Enakku Ennachi - Lofi, Thotte, Namba, Uthamarayavar, Enna Parayanna and many more. 

Deepthi Suresh is an Indian musical artist. She contested in a singing competition named, "Airtel Super Singer" premiered in Vijay Television. Sometimes, music speaks more than words and only a very few people are gifted with such talents, and without any doubt, she is one of them. She participated in the Airtel Super Singer season 4, a show which hunts for the best voice of Tamil Nadu. She, being a naughty and active girl attracted everyone in the set right from day one. Songs are supposed to be sung with a feeling, and her cute expressions nailed it.

Swagatha S Krishnan is an Indian playback singer. She was born in Madurai, Tai Nadu, and India. She mainly works in the Tamil Industry. Her sister name Maya S. Krishnan. Maya is also an Indian film actor, model, gymnast, clown doctor, Improviser, Storyteller, Sportsperson and singer, who mainly work in the Tamil Industry. She has started her singing career from Tamil songs. Her sister Maya is also a child gymnast and had placed at the 6th position under the Nationals. She was born in He has the Indian Nationality. Swagatha is available on YouTube, Gaana, JioSaavn, and Hungama. Swagatha did the number of songs in her career. Her list of songs includes as Yeththara Yeththra, Kannanin Leelai in the year 2018, Sandaala in the year 2018, GST, Jo Lali Jo from Kanam in the year 2018, Neethane En Thoovanam in the year 2018, Yea Pa Yeppappa from Iravukku Aayiram Kangal in the year 2018, Aalaliloo from Diya in the year 2018.

Kalyani Natarajan is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil cinema. She is a Tamilian based in Mumbai where she had enacted as many as 15 Tamil plays on stage. She relocated to Kollywood in order to pursue her passion of acting in films. Before making her debut in movies, she handled many modeling assignments as well. After which she had begun her film journey. She was auditioned for Sathyaraj’s wife in director Vijay’s ‘Thalaivaa’, but she could not make it. Hence, the first film that came in her lap was ‘Settai’( Tamil) that released in 2013. ‘Settai’ was a remake of Hindi movie Delhi Belly where she appeared in a cameo role. In the same year, she appeared as Imran Khan’s sister-in-law in Dharma Productions 'Gori Tere Pyaar Mein’. Sooner, she followed up doing many supporting roles in various Tamil movies. In 2014, she was seen in a movie ‘Saivam’ (a remake of Telugu film ‘Dagudumootha Dandako,' where she appeared as Nassar's daughter Meenakshi and got noticed. But she met with her biggest success in Mysskin’s Pisaasu where she essayed the role of a mother in the form of Janaki Soundarrajan. It seems that when she came to Chennai for the release function of ‘Saivam’, she met the film director Mysskin and enquired if he was looking for someone to play a character in his film. Later, the director auditioned her for the role. The actress also is doing a small cameo in ‘Atlee’s Vijay 59,’ where she will play the role of a doctor.

Sabbita Roi is an Indian actress. Sabbita Roi was brought into the world on October 25, 1985, in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Sabbita Roi hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, where religion has a place, being Hindu and nationality, Indian.

She was born on October 31 in Vijayawada, new Capital city of present Andhra Pradesh state. She was grown up in the same city and her education was also completed in the same city. Her father was a business man. She studied up to intermediate.

During her school age she was always excited to participate in cultural activities and it’s the driven force for her present life. She was always busy participating in cultural activities everywhere.

Once she was spotted and an opportunity knocked her door, when she was in 8th class she was offered a chance in local TV channel in Vijayawada for anchoring children shows. She got popular along the city. She felt thrilled being an anchor; afterwards she put a halt to her studies and took up anchoring as the profession.

She fell in love with her colleague at the same TV channel, she later married him. Her husband was ‘Shivaji’ who also later became a famous artist in Telugu film industry. She was married at very young age. Couple were blessed with a cute daughter.

Later on she got opportunities to act in movies. She acted in about 60 Telugu movies. Her first movie was ‘Seenugadu Chiranjeevi Fan (movie based on hero Chiranjeevi follower)’. She was charming and beautiful for which she got many opportunities for good roles and acted in supporting roles and also a comedian in few films. Her big projects include ‘Ye Maaya Chesave (a Gautham Menon film)’, ‘Bhadra’, ‘Oye, ‘Baadshah’, ‘Bommarillu’ all the movies are blockbusters.

Surekha Vani anchored shows like ‘Maa Talkies’ and ‘Heart beat’ along with her husband on MAA TV.  She also appeared in a show ‘Moguds Pellams’ which was directed by her husband. All the above shows are related to couples.

She was presently busy with Telugu movies. She recently acted in big projects like ‘Power (starring mass hero Ravi Teja)’.

Raju Viswanath is an Indian-Director. He primarily works in the Tamil Film Industry. He directed Lisaa which released on 24^th May 2019. The movie has Anjali, Sam Jones, Makarand Deshpande, Brahmanandam, Surekha Vani, Kalyani Natarajan, Saleema, Yogi Babu, Mime Gopi, and Sabbita Roi.

Mani Amudhavan is a popular singer and lyricist. He writes and sings for movies as well as albums. His some of the popular works in the music department as a lyricist are Samignai, Goli Soda, Urumeen, Goli soda 2, Pudhiya Mugam, and many more. He was a lyricist of an action-drama-thriller ‘Yaanum Theeyavan’ released in 2017. His well-known works in the soundtrack department are Bakrid, Kee, Thaanaa Serndha Koottam, 10, Iraivi, among others.

Suresh was born as Seshaiah Suresh Babu. Suresh is a homebound film actor and is famous for his films primarily in Telugu and Tamil. Suresh made his acting debut in the movie Panneer Pushpangal in the year 1981. The movie happens to be a Tamil film. His debut movie was a blockbuster hit on the silver screen, and soon he became the prominent face of the Tamil Film Industry, through the 80’s era. By the end of 2012, Suresh had done about 274 motion films. Suresh was born and brought up in Chennai. He was cultured at the Oxford English High School. Soon after this, he went to Shrine Vailankanni English School, where he completed his education. Suresh got married to Rajashree Bishit but after a long time, both got divorced.

Makarand Deshpande is an Indian actor and director who makes films predominantly in Hindi and Marathi. He is popular for playing pivotal supportive roles in many movies like Jungle, Sarfarosh, etc. He has directed more than five films and written 35 full-length plays and owns a theatre company in the name of ‘Ansh’.

Mime Gopi’s original name is K.Gopinathan. When he was young, his father passed away and he was taken care of by his sister and brother. He did schooling at a government school and was not very good at academics but he had interest in extra-curricular activity. He always had respect for his teachers and liked two teachers the most, his Tamil teacher Veeraiya and Nagamuthu, because they were a great source of motivation for him. When he was studying in school, he had the opportunity to participate in a fancy dress competition and enacted the role of a mentally challenged person who he had seen on his way, back to home. He had been influenced by the person and replicated the acting on the stage, which rewarded him with a first place in the competition. He was highly appreciated by his teacher Nagamuthu and that’s one reason for his liking towards teacher.

Sam Jones is an Indian actor who has worked primarily in the Tamil film industry. He has worked in popular films like Nadhi and Dharmaprabhu. His film Nadhi has been one of the most popular out of his works. “It is a film that is inspired by a boy’s life in Madurai. It not only has a sports backdrop to it but also the family sentiment. It is a proper sports and family drama,” he said in an interview. This businessman-cum-actor has always wanted to be an actor. “I developed an interest in acting after watching a lot of Tamil films. Before I gave auditions, I took up acting lessons. I also trained in dance under Jayanthi ma’am and took up stunt lessons from Pandian master,” he said in an interview.

Yogi Babu is one of the famous actors in Indian films. His appearance is there in only Tamil movies. At present, he is a regular comedy actor in Tamil films. Babu was born in Chennai, Tamilnadu. His acting career started from 2009 onwards. He was famous for his outstanding movie called Maan Karate (2014); a fantasy oriented Tamil film under the direction of Thirukumaran. There are some prominent stars in this movie namely Sathish, Vamsi Krishna, Soori, Hansika Motwani and Sivakarthikeyan. Famous writer Murugadoss wrote the entire script for this movie and went on to screens under the production of Escape Artists Motion Pictures. Anirudh Ravichander gave an outstanding music for this movie. Mr. Babu was also notable for his famous film Yaamirukka Bayamey (2014), a comedy horror movie under the direction of debutant Deekay. It was under the production of Elred Kumar with casting by Anaswara Kumar, Oviya, Kreshna and Rupa Manjari.

Sowmya Ramani Mahadevan is a skilled musician based in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India. She is a Carnatic vocalist, playback singer and stage performer with a versatile skillset. Sowmya has completed her early education from Modern Senior Secondary School. She holds a B.Com Degree in Finance and Accounting from Meenakshi College for Women. Later, she pursued her post-graduation from Madras School of Social Work. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Human Resource Management. She started her career as HR at Lister Technologies. After that, she worked as HR in XBash Technologies. She was a participant in Airtel Super Singer in 2006. Some of her notable works as a Playback Singer are Ayogya, Lisaa, Kalam.

Indian-born Varun Paradhaman is a musician and lyricist. He has written some songs in the course of his career. Varun is also passionate about singing, and has a voice that mesmerizes the audience.

Brahmanandam was born on 1st February 1956. He was the seventh son to Kanneganti Nagalingachari and Kannaganti Lakshmi Narsamma. He completed his high schooling from a high school at Sattenapalle. He later pursued his intermediate and graduation from D.N.R College, Bhimavaram. He completed his post graduation in Telugu literature from Andhra University. Before becoming an actor, Brahmanandam had worked as a lecturer in Atthilli for nine years.

Brahmanandam is considered as one of the most versatile Indian comic actors, noted particularly for his comic expressions. He has gone ahead to receive many accolades in the world. In the year 2007, he was in the Guinness World Record for appearing in the highest number of films that is over 1000 movies. The government of India honored him with Padma Shri Award in the year 2009. Brahmanandam was awarded the Best Actor in a comic role in the year 2011 at The Hyderabad Times Film Awards.

In the year 2012 in Dookudu, he was voted the Best Comedian in the Cinemaa Awards. The same year he was also awarded the Best Comedian in the SIIMA Awards. He went ahead to clinch the Best Actor in a Comic Role Award in the TOIFA awards ceremony. Surely Brahmanandam deserves all this because of his natural talent and hard work in the acting industry. Brahmanandam is married to Lakshmi Kanneganti, and he is blessed with two children, namely; Raja Goutham and Siddharth.

Brahmanadam Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Nikkil Murugan is one of the leading PROs in the Tamil film industry. He has been the PRO for legends including Rajinikanth and Kamal haasan. He was acclaimed as the best communication man by India Today. Nikil, as he is also called, has also taken the role of media manager of Kamal Haasan for several years. The wide coverage of Kollywood movies throughout the world is done by him. He is also closely associated with music director A R Rahman. Nikkil Murugan is regarded as very media friendly. He believes in the efficient application of technology for his PR communications. He has been associated with more than 200 movies. Born on 1967, Nikkil Murugan also had close association with ace directors Shankar and Maniratnam. He can communicate in over 5 languages.

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