Iswarya Menon
Gowthami Vembunathan
Sujatha Sivakumar
Hiphop Tamizha Adhi
Arivu
Kabilan Vairamuthu
Dhivagar Santhosh
Gana Vinoth
Kaushik Krish
Rajan Chelliah
Sanjith Hegde
Arun S Mani
PC Vishnu
Sreejith Sarang
Johnson
Badava Gopi
K S Ravikumar
Ravi Mariya
Shah Ra
Raana
Vanchinathan Murugesan
Raju Albert
Kali Premkumar
1. Iswarya Menon
Iswarya Menon is an Indian actress. She acted in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. Her ancestral origin is from Kerala but her parents got settled in Tamil Nadu. Ishwarya Menon was born in Erode in the year 1992. She has an elder brother, called Sanjeet Kumar. Sanjeet Kumar is an employee of ‘Tech Mahindra’, which is being operated in ‘Hyderabad’. Iswarya Menon completed her schooling in ‘Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan’ in Erode. In 2009, she joined ‘SRM University’, Chennai for her higher studies. She completed her ‘B. Tech in 2013’. Iswarya’s debut into movies happened with the Tamil comedy film, ’Kadhalil Sodhapuvadhu Eppadi’., She starred with Siddharth and Amala Paul in that movie.
...2. Gowthami Vembunathan
Gowthami Vembunathan is an Indian actress from the Tamil industry. She was born on 12th September 1967 in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. Gowthami started her career as an actress in 2004. She made her debut in the Tamil television world with ‘Ahalya’, which starred Shyam Ganesh and was directed by K.Rajeev Prasad. She has also been a part of other serials, including Thyagam, Vidya, Ponnujal, Thiru Mangalyam, to name a few. Gowthami has even worked in multiple films like Amara, Tamil Selvi, Innoruvan, Anbudan Kushi, Naan Sirithal, Jambulingam 3D, etc. She was highly appreciated for her performance in the movie ‘Vindhai’ which turned out to be one of the best movies released in 2015. She has shared the screen with notable personalities of the Tamil industry like Sanjeev, Ajay Rathnam, Erode Mahesh, Nithya Menen, Anjali Rao, and Ilavarasan. Gowthami has been awarded the Best Villi Award by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2009.
...3. Sujatha Sivakumar
Sujatha Sivakumar born on 27 September, 1973 at Madurai, Tamil nadu. Sujatha is a famous Tamil Actress. She is a one of the greatest Actress in Tamil film industry. She started her Career with movie "Paruthiveeran” which gave her huge fame. She has played both lead roles and the Supporting roles in Tamil movies. Sujatha is famous for her versatile acting in industry. She has played all types of roles in her career. She made her debut in "Virumaandi”. She got Breakthrough with her Performance in "Paruthiveeran”. She became a great Actress with this movie. After this movie, Sujatha was on the top. All Film makers opened doors for her. She has also worked with famous Director" Pandiraj ".
...4. Hiphop Tamizha Adhi
Hiphop Tamizha is an Indian Hiphop duo based in Chennai and composed of Adhithya Ramachandran Venkatapathy and Jeeva R. Primarily remained nameless, but gained acknowledgement after release of their track “Club le Mabbu le” which successfully attained 2 million views in a short span of two weeks in 2011. After listening to the track, the international hiphop brand Remy Martin, declared Hiphop Tamizha as an endorsed brand in the world of music. It was in 2012, that Hiphop Tamizha released their first official album, Hiphop Tamiizhan which became India’s first Tamil Hip Hop Album. The release of this album became the milestone for the destiny of their band. Apart from releasing their own music tracks, the duo has also composed music for various movies Kathakali, Thani Oruvan, Indru Netru Naalai and Aambala. Their contribution to the world of music wasn’t limited upto this only, they also launched a clothing brand name Tamizhanda Clothing.
Coming to the foundation of this hiphop brand, one if its founder named Adhithya was born on 20th February,to a middle class family. Only when his neighbour made him listen to the tunes of Michael Jackson, Adhi developed the intrest in the field of rapping. To break the stereotypical tradition of rap, he decided to compose raps in Tamil instead of English. He faced serious oppossition by his parents for pursuing the career of his interest.
He made his first Youtube Account with an image of Tamil poet Subramaniam Bharathi, due to the fear of getting caught. Adhi did his schooling at Chavara Vidya Bhavan and completed his electrical engineering at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology. He also did his Masters of Business Adminstration from University of Madras and completed his Doctorate from Bharathiar University, where his father works. The Second constituent of the duo is Jeeva R., who was born on 29th June, 1991 and did a course in Visual Communication from the prestigious Loyola College, Chennai. They both first met each other through a social netwroking website, Orkut. They were invited by the Tamil Nadu Election Commission to compose the anthem of election campaign.
Hiphop Tamizha’s single ‘Ezhuvoam Vaa’ was selected as election anthem for tamil nadu’s 2011 election. However, their hit track ‘Club le Mabbu le’, faced immense criticism due its depiction of women. Despite the controversies, “Club le Mabbu le” became a huge hit.
His latest Movie where he acted : Hip Hop Tamizha hero entry : Meesaya Murukku
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5. Arivu
Music is taken into account as a revolutionary force and may mean many things to many folks. For the Tamil musician Arivu, aside from being a tool of power to express his emotions, thoughts, opinions, and everything in between. Popularly known as ARIVU, whose real name is Arivarasu Kalainesan, is a lyricist and playback singer who works in Tamil language films. He is legendary for the song "Vaathi Raid" from the film “Master” alongside Anirudh and for his single song "Enjoy Enjaami".
He grew up in Arakkonam, a town that may be regarded a massively controversial place in today’s India, as it was conjointly a Muslim neighborhood, with a beef slaughterhouse around. However, he recollects his life there as a cheerful celebration. His parents – Kalainesan and Thenmozhi, were a professor in a government college and a government school teacher respectively and provided their children an intellectual atmosphere.
6. Kabilan Vairamuthu
He is a multitalented writer belonging to the Southern India. He had given a new word to the English language ‘Lifotainment’ which means the entertainment through short stories or novels. He firmly believes that anything that is written should either influence oneself or the others in the society. He firmly believes that writings have the capability to bring about a change in one’s life or even the other’s life. He had different kinds of writings. He had written novels, dialogues and also poems. After completing his graduation, he went to Australia to study in the School of Journalism. He had served for three long years in the Tamil TV industry, and he is now involved completely in writing the stories for the Tamil movies. He had written the dialogues for the India’s foremost talkie-motion poster. He was born on 29th of May in the year 1982 in Chennai and is now 33 years old.
...7. Dhivagar Santhosh
On twenty-six January 1990, a legendary singer was born and named Dhivagar Santhosh. Also called as Diwakar, this playback Indian singer gained his popularity by winning the season 4 of Airtel super singer in the category of Tamil musical television reality show. Dhivagar Santhosh comes from a middle-class family who worked hard to create his successful image in the Tollywood industry. His parents are Santhosh and Ragini Kumar. He is the third brother of the family and has two elder brothers named Murali and Ravikumar. Dhivagar Santhosh was born and brought up in Chennai, he studied at the GWAT boys higher secondary school found in Vadagarai, Red Hills of Chennai. After school, he decided to pursue his higher education at the JHA Agarsen College at Madhavaram.
...8. Gana Vinoth
Gana Vinoth, a talented young singer, was born in Perambur, Tamil Nadu. He is very hardworking, melodious, inspiring and young singer. He got his early education from Hyder Garden Matriculation School Perambur, Tamil Nadu. He later went on to study in McCain High School, Tamil Nadu. During his college and school education, he never left music and continued to sing at school and college level. He being a famous Tamil singer has sung many songs. He sang the Tamil song ‘Gilli Bambaram’ from the album ‘Atti,’ released in 2016. In this album, he sang along with Senthil Das which released on 14th February 2016. He also sang a beautiful song named ‘Lolipop Cofeebytu’. This song was also from the album ‘Atti’. It was a Tamil song and released on 14th February 2016. He also sang in a movie starring actors like Yuan Balaji, Yogi Babu, Bala Saravanan, Dikshita Manikam and others.
...9. Kaushik Krish
Kaushik Krish is an Indian playback singer. He is also a music director by profession. He mainly works for Tamil film industry. Kaushik's previous film island the hit to the theatres was OdavumMudiyathu OliyavumMudiyathu in the year 2018. The movie is in the Tamil language. The genre of the movie is the comedy. The movie releases in June and, in the year 2018.
...10. Rajan Chelliah
Rajan Chelliah is a Music Composer and Playback Singer. He works in the Tamil Film Industry. He was born on 21st January 1986. His songs like Pudichiruka Illa Pudikalaya, Vaadi Vaadi, and I Love Ghibran are popular among fans. He has also worked as a Composer in movies like His Period and Music Therapy. He lives in South India. His music is available on various music streaming platforms.
...11. Sanjith Hegde
Born on 3rd October 1997, Sanjith Hegde is an Indian playback singer. Hegde belongs to “Kannadiga” family in Bangalore and he finished his college studies from CMR National PU College situated in Bangalore. Then he went on to complete his engineering from JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore.
...12. Arun S Mani
Arun S. Mani is an Indian Sound Designer, Mix Engineer, and Foley editor. He predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil film Industry. Arun is famous for his work in Velayudham (2011), Pizza (2013), Inam, Left Right Left and 1 by two. Arun was born on 1984 in Kaapil, a beautiful rural area in Thiruvananthapuram, Tamil Nadu. He spent most of his childhood in Nedumangad in Tamil Nadu. His parents Mani and Padma both are teachers. His brother Prem kumar RL works in the advertising world. Arun was passionate about films from a young age.
...13. PC Vishnu
PC Vishnu has a versatile personality. He is highly experienced and striving in the film industry as a Sound Designer, Sound Recording Mixer, and Sound Editor for over 14 years. He completed his education from Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan (1990-2001) and later from Laidlaw Memorial School & Junior College, Tamil Nadu (2001-2003).
...14. Sreejith Sarang
Sreejith Sarang was born on 11th February 1983 in Thrissur district in Kerala, India. He is the son of K R Sarang, who was once a drawing teacher and brother to Sujith Sarang. One of the most successful Indian film editors and a colorist, he is known for his amazing edits in Telugu, Malayalam, and Tamil Cinema Industries.
...15. Johnson
Johnson is a PRO, a Public Relations Officer in the Tamil industry. He has handled the PR of various Tamil movies. Johnson is from Nagercoil, a city in Tamil Nadu. His mother is Johannal, and his father, KGA John, is an ex-naval officer. He has six siblings. He married to H.J. Mano in 1994. Johnson always dreamt of being a filmmaker. He aspired to assist the Indian actor R. Parthiban. He left his city, Nagercoil, and moved to Chennai to fulfill his dream. He met the editor of the magazine Kungumam, Paavai Chandran. Paavai brought him into the world of magazines. There, he started to write snippets about Tamil films. The films he wrote about were handled by Nellai Sundarjan as a PRO.
...16. Badava Gopi
Badava Gopi is a stand up comedian who gained popularity by his very popular show ‘Kadi TV’. As a seasoned artist and television comedian, he has made a name for himself in the Tamil entertainment world. His regular acts on Kaun Banega Crorepati and its Tamil version were acclaimed by viewers a lot, which made him a household name in Tamil TV world. Gopi made his debut with the film ‘Poi’ in which he got an opportunity to work with K. Balachander.
...17. K S Ravikumar
Director KS Ravikumar(KSR), started his career in Tamil cinema as an assistant director to Bharathiraja for sometime before becoming an independent director. He has made 40 movies, out of which six films are re-makes.
KSR has made the most number of movies with actor Sarath Kumar (10) and actresses Simran and Ramya Krishnan. Interestingly enough to know that his stunt choreographer Kanal Kannan had collaborated with KSR in 16 films so far.
His first project in Tamil film world was in the year 1990, when he made a genre-breaking film Puriyaadha Pudhir which was a re-make of the Kannada movie Tarka. The Kannada versions was itself an adaptation of an Agastha Christie novel called ‘The Unexpected Guest’. After success of Puriyaadha Pudhir, he had never looked back.
He has directed Rajinikanth and Sivaji Ganesan too in his career. He also had directed Sanjay Dutt in Police Giri (2014) with Prachi Desai and Lingaa(2014) with Rajinikanth, Anushka Shetty and Sonakshi Sinha. Both the films did not fare well in the box office. He also has appeared in a small role in the movies he directs which added to his popularity, as a cameo actor(21 films).
He is well known for bringing Rajinikanth and Sivaji Ganesan in Padayappa (1999), the film was a success in box-office. He also directed Kamal Haasan in Avvai Shanmugi (1996), which was a straight adaptation of the American comedy film, Mrs. Doubtfire. Kamal Haasan’s performance in the film was truly appreciated and the film was made in Hindi too as Chachi 420(1997) by Kamal Haasan ( director and producer). Although both the Hindi and Tamil versions are considered to be Indian remake of Mrs. Doubtfire, there are many plot differences between the original and the Indian version.
Many of his assistant directors went to make a big name for themselves in Tamil cinema in their own right, one example is Director Cheran. The latest is director Gaurav to join the feat.
KSR will be remembered for his punctuality and dedication to his works, he used to concentrate a lot on the budget of his movie and tried to complete the film as early as possible.
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