1. Andrea Jeremiah
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...
2. Shamna Kasim
Shamna Kasim is a well known Indian film actress and model. She is popularly known by her stage name ‘Poorna.' She was born in Kannur to a Muslim-Malayalee couple Kasim and Ramla. She has done her schooling from St. Teresas Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School in Kannur after shifting from Ursuline Senior Secondary School. She shifted her school to concentrate more on her dancing skills.
Since childhood, she started learning different forms of classical dance. The different classical dance forms she knows are Kathak, Bharata natyam, Mohiniyattam. She represented her school in various competitions. In school, she also secured Kalathilakam of Kannur for four years. She completed her Bachelor of Arts from correspondence.
She won third place in a reality show named Super Dancer on Amrita TV. Super...
3. Mysskin
Mysskin was born on 20 September 1971. His language of education was in Tamil. His insatiable predilection for books and novels inspired him to change his name to Mysskin. He was motivated to keep this name from a novel by Dostoevsky called The Idiot. Mysskin’s accidental acting career commenced when he met a director named Kathir in the book store that he worked in. he agreed to befriend him and stayed with him for eight months but didn’t work in any films. He is a Tamil director, an actor, a singer, producer and a screenwriter. Then he began his acting career as a result of accepting a movie offer by Vincent Selva and worked in two subsequent movies called Youth and Jithan.
He established his career by releasing his first directed movie in the year of 2006. The movie was unconfined by the name of ‘Chithiram ...
4. Karthik Raja
The famous south Indian film composer, singer, music director, musician, a mesmerizing keyboard and piano artist and many more was born in Tamil Nadu, India on January 29, 1973. He has now settled down in Chennai, the great peak city of Tamil Nadu. He is known to have made a debut film as a composer in his very own movie in the year 1996 called 'Alexander'. This film is known to have touched the peak of popularity and has won hearts of many music lovers, and it was one of the critically as well commercially acclaimed films.
EARLY LIFE
Karthik Raja was born in a great musical family and is known to acquired the best of all the music skills. His father being a great renowned, respected...
5. Kabilan
Kabilan was born on 16th May 1977 in Pondicherry, India. He is an Indian lyricist in film and television industry, actor, and poet. Kabilan currently resides in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. He acted in the movie Dasavathaaram and enacted as Assistant to Vincent Poovaragavan in the year 2008. He wrote scripts for different television shows like starting in the year 2003 in Sorgam. In the year 2004, he did for Kanavarukkaga.
Then in the year 2005, Kabilan wrote for Nimmathi. Later in the next two years in 2006 and 2007, he wrote for Kasthuri Akka and Thangai. In the year 2009, he worked for Mahalakshmi. He worked in more than fifty films as a lyricist like Dhill, Narasimha, Alli Thandha Vaanam, Thavasi, Pammal K. Sambandam, Aahaa Ethanai Azhagu, Eera Nilam, Boys, Success, Alai, Thathi Thavadhu Manasu, Anbe UN Vasam, M. Kumaran S/O ...
6. Tapas Nayak
Tapas Nayak is a well-known sound designer of India. He was born on 12-12-1950. He is famous in both Bollywood and Tollywood for his great work. He started his career in the year 2000, and he completed his 18 years in the industry.
During the struggle, he chose Mr. H. Sridhar as a Mentor. He started a career with H. Sridhar (Renowned sound engineer in India) when he went to Chennai to meet Mr. H. Sridhar and decided to assist him with his Projects. While he was working as a sound assistant with H. Sridhar, He got his first career BREAKTHROUGH with the movie of LAGAAN, release in 2001 with an Aamir Khan starring movie it was the biggest movie of that year.
A movie also receives OSCAR nomination for best foreign Language movie. After these tapas, Nayak got hundred of offers by Filmmaker in both Bollywood ...
7. Vijay Sethupathi
Vijaya Gurunatha Sethupathi was not born with silver spoon. Neither did he have a family background that had deep roots in cinema field. He was rejected even for the role of a junior artist. But it was his hard work and continuous struggle, that made him a star that he is today.
He was born in Rajapalayam but moved to Chennai where he had studied and even had his graduation from a reputed college in Chennai. He did all kinds of odd jobs that came to him (salesperson, cashier, telephone booth operator or account assistant) to lead his life normally.
Later on, he moved to Dubai as he had to take care of three siblings. During his stay in Dubai, he fell in love with Jessie, whom he married later. He returned to Chennai again and had take...
8. Santhosh Prathap
Santhosh Prathap is an actor who works in the Tamil film industry. He was born on 2nd June, 1987. He resides in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Santhosh worked as a model after completing his MBA. He is also an athlete, swimmer, scuba driver and a rock climber.
He made his debut with the movie Kathai Thiraikkathai Vasanam Iyakkam released in 2014 and directed by R. Parthiban. He portrayed the role of a struggling director who wants to achieve success and recognition in the film industry.
The movie was a hit. Santhosh’s role has been praised by the critics as well as the audience. Santhosh is very good looking and handsome and has won the hearts of many women. After two years of doing this movie, Santhosh acted in the film Dhayam released in 2017. It was a thriller movie and the complete movie was done in a single room...