Tamil Movie Review Mankatha - Cast & Crew

Vasuki Bhaskar is a popular actress and fashion designer who has appeared in various character roles in Tamil films, Tamil television serials, and ad commercials and has worked as fashion and costume designer in many Tamil reality shows, television serials and films. Born on September 18 in Chennai, Tamilnadu, Vasuki belongs from an elite and eminent family which is associated with the Tamil entertainment industry for years now. She is the daughter of famous Tamil film personality Shri R.D.Bhaskar. Her uncle is the legendary composer Illayaraja. She completed her studies from the Loyola College, Chennai, Tamilnadu. During her college days, she was offered by a leading producer who was also a good friend of her father to design costumes for one of his upcoming productions Kangalal Kaidhu Sei to which she happily agreed. This was the ste...

Born on 4th May, 1983 in Palakkad by Krishnan and Uma Krishnan as her parents. Before starting her carrer in modelling and acting, she did her schooling from Sacred Heart Matriculation school in Church Park and then BBA from Ethiraj College for Women (Chennai). She entered into film industry after making a mark as a model and winning several beauty pageants like Miss Salem and Miss Madras in the same year. In 2001, she won Miss India Pageant “Beautiful Smile” award. She got her first acting break in Tamil film Jodie. After that, she got her first lead role in Mounam Pesiyadhe (2002) opposite Surya and won critical acclaim.

Then, she continued to work in number of successful films like Saamy (2003), Ghilli (2004), Varsham (2004)and Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (...

Kainaat Arora is a model who eventually turned as an actress in Bollywood. She is a cousin of actress Divya Bharti who is no more alive. She was born in 1986, on 2nd December. She did modeling for Lux, Maruti and Cadbury etc. At one point she was paid the highest as a model in Delhi. While attending a show as a judge of Miss Kerala competition, she met few celebrities of Bollywood. This is when her debut into Bollywood has started. Kainaat has stepped into modeling as first step. Then she slowly started looking out for offers in films. She always wanted to start her career with a comedy themed film as she explained in an interview. She is one of the two hundred girls who gave auditions for lead role in Grand Masti movie. This is a comedy themed movie that was released in 2013. Grand Masti boasts of many promising stars in it including ...

It is sometimes fascinating to read about how film stars, especially in the South, get into the industry from totally diverse fields, and with no conscious intentions to be in movies. Andrea Jeremiah’s career seems to fit into this category. Her childhood ambition was to go for higher studies and get to become a psychiatrist. But music was always in the background, as she started learning classical Western piano when she was just eight, and she quickly showed her prowess when she formed her own troupe called Young Stars which also was a precursor for her later singing and music composing career.

However, entry into acting came to her via the theatre route, as it was hard to refuse offers from Girish Karnad, in whose “Nagamandala” she performed first, and then went on to perform all over the country, during whi...

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 Telu...

Raai Laxmi or Lakshmi Rai is a famous South Indian actress and model. She was born on 5 May, 1989, in Bangalore, Karnataka. She did many ad-films before entering films. She worked as model for Fair & Lovely, Bru Coffee, Sarvana stores, etc., A director saw her talent and gave her a chance to act in a Tamil film. Hence, Raai Laxmi debuted with a Tamil film called Karka Kasadara. After the film she got many film chances and acted in numerous Tamil films. She acted in various genre movies like comedy, drama, and action, simultaneously. She played a comedy role in her next film, Kundakka Mandakka, and her other important films in Kollywood are Dharmapuri, and Nenjal Thodu. Her role as a lawyer in the movie, Dhaam Dhoom, directed by Jeeva, gained her critics appreciation. She won a Filmfare for the same film.

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Venkat Prabhu is a multifaceted and multitalented and multidimensional personality in the Tamil Film and Television Industry. He is an actor, director and singer who acts and directs Tamil television shows and movies. Venkat Prabhu, commonly known as Venky among his friends and colleagues, has also rendered his voice as a playback singer and also has several independent singing assignments and albums in his kitty. Before venturing into the glamour industry Venkat Parbhu was an active member of a popular young Music Band that was quite popular across the South India. Venkat Prabhu has also worked on few Malayali projects also. Born on November 7, 1975, to an affluent Tamil family in Chennai and UK, Venkat Prabhu belongs from a family with rich lineage and the legendary music director Illyaraja is his own uncle.  Is father, brother,...

Dhayanidhi Azhagiri is a Tamil cinema producer and distributor, who is the grandson of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, ‘Karunanidhi’ and son of former Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, M. K. Alagiri. His friends and relatives also call him by other names like Dhaya and Durai. He is the owner of the Tamil film production and distribution company, Cloud Nine Movies. It was established in 2008 and is co-owned with Vivek Rathinavel and has its headquarters in Chennai. Dhayanidhi also has 50 % of the shares in a cable MSO-JAK Communications that provides its services to the districts of Thiruvallur and Chennai. Dhayanidhi did his education from The College of Engineering in Guindy. In 2010, he got married to Anusha, who pursues advocacy in Chennai. His works usually are based from Cloud N...

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,...

Mano (Real name- Nagoor Babu) is a famous South Indian playback singer. He was not only a great singer but also a voice-over artist, an actor, a producer, a television anchor and a music composer. He was born to Father Rasool (Musician in All India Radio) and Mother Shaheeda (stage actress) on 26th October 1963 in Satterapalli, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, he joined the stage theater and had role played as many historical characters. As he had said in an interview “I have always been impressed by my dear mother’s talent and she has always been and will always be my inspiration.”

In the year 1984, he recorded his debut original for the Tamil movie “Karpoora Deepam”. Impressed by his singing skills and his magical voice he was approached...

A native of Chennai, Premgi Amaren is a multi-talented artist. He was born on February 25, 1979. In about a decade-long career, he has been sailing the boat as a playback singer, a film composer, a songwriter as well as an actor, commendably. Hailing from a culture enriched family background, Premgi is the son of renowned music composer and singer Gangai Amaran and younger brother of film director and actor Venkat Prabhu. He is famous as a comedian in Tamil films. Maestro Ilaiyaraja is his uncle.

Premgi initially wanted to be a music composer and to follow his dreams; he commenced his career as an assistant to Yuvan Shankar Raja, his cousin, who is a renowned film music composer. The journey he started never ceased, as soon after, he became a playback singer. He is signi...

Ranjith is a very famous and versatile south Indian singer. He has a vibrant personality and can make the crowd tap their feet with his energetic songs, can make them emotional with his soothing voice and is a mass entertainer. He was born on February 21, 1977. He is a very well-known playback singer and has worked for many films. He is mainly working for the Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Ranjith was born in a Malayali family, in Chennai. His family belongs to a small town, Kalluvazhi, Kerala. Ranjith grew up listening to various types of music he stayed in a society where social-programmes were a trend. The localities used to participate in these programmes. Once, a family friend suggested training Ranjith for classical music.

He is trained in Hindustani music and Carnatic music by Vidwan Cuddalore S...

Tippu is a playback singer of Indian cinema. He has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages. He has lent his voice to over 4000 songs in the four south Indian languages. His voice for Puneeth Rajkumar went well with the audience. Shiva Shiva Hoguthidde, Hey Hey Paaru, etc are some of his hit songs. His association with music director V Harikrishna is very famous. Tippu has sung for Tamil music composers A R Rahman, Imman, Harris Jayaraj, and Joshua Sridhar.

He has sung the hit Tamil songs Venmathi Venmathi, O Mama from Minnale. The movie had Madhavan in the lead role. Tippu is married to the famous Indian playback singer Harini. Tippu began singing when he was at the age of 19. He received the Karnataka State Film Award and the Kalaimamani Award by Tamilnadu Government for his playback singing.

Videsh is an Art director who works predominantly in the Kollywood Industry. He has worked in about nine movies as of now. His first art direction was in the film titled Saroja directed by Venkat Prabhu, which released in the year 2008. From there on, he worked with director Venkat Prabhu for three of his other movies.

Those films include Goa starring Jai and Piaa Bajpai, Ajith starrer Mankatha and Chennai 600028 II starring Aravind Akash, Jai, Premgi Amaren, Shiva Sundaram, etc. Videsh’s work as an art director was in movies like Oru Naal Koothu starring Nivetha Pethuraj and Dinesh, Ippadai Vellum, Madura Veeran directed by PG Muthiah, etc.

He has also worked in Amala Paul starrer Aadai and in its Telugu version called Aame. Videsh has also worked in a Telugu film called Ninnu Veedani Needanu Nene directed by Caa...

Kalyan Master is an Indian choreographer who had contributed in various Tamil and Telugu films. He is one of the renowned choreographers in the today's industry. Kalyan Master also choreographed many songs for Hindi, Kannada, and Malayalam films. He has been the part of over 200 songs in total for various films released in India. He is also the part of many TV reality dance shows like Jodi number one and for the show starred on Vijay TV named Kings of Dance. Kalyan was born in Chennai, India and started his career as a dancer in the film industry under his great-aunt Puliyur Saroja. He performed as a dancer in a movie called Per Sollum Pillai in the year 1987.

Then after his first debut film, he started working as an assistant choreographer and worked in many top-knotted movies during the 80s. During the same era, he appear...

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 Dance Director’s Association.

Stunt Silva was born in Tuticorin, TamilNadu. He started his career as a male nurse after getting trained in Stanley Medical College. Silva worked as a Ward boy in Tuticorin hospital. Later he joined in Vijaya Health Center in Chennai by the year 1990. To maintain his family’s financial status, he worked in several sectors such as Peon in offices and dabbled in transport sector business offices. He then joined in the background dancer of the film under the guidance and advice of the Dance

Choreographer. He then took his dance lessons from Paul Raj's School.