1. Kalyani Natarajan
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&rsquo...
2. Kani Kusruti
Kani Kusruti is an Indian model and actress born on 12th September, 1985 in Thiruvananthapuram. Kani lives in Mumbai with her husband, Anand Gandhi who is an activist and a rationalist. Her father’s name is Maitreya Maitreyan and mother’s name is Jayasree AK. Kani Kusruti’s mother Jayasree is a community health specialist, a social activist and a lecturer at Pariyaram Medical College. Kani’s father has worked and led many human rights in Kerala.
Her parents don't use their surname as they want to remove the mentality of the people that they have about the surnames in India. At the age of 15, Kani added the surname Kusruti to her name which means mischievous in Malayalam because the class 10th examination forms fill up demand it.
She worked in the Abhinaya Theatre Research Centre in Thiruvanan...
3. Prayaga Rose Martin
Prayaga Rose Martin is an Indian actress and a native of Kerala. She was born on 18th May 1995 in Kochi, Kerala.
Prayaga likes dancing. She is a trained classical dancer also. Prayaga commenced her career as an actress in the film industry. She appeared in the Malayala Manorama as the cover girl. She made her debut in the Tamil movie ‘Pisaasu,’ which is directed by ‘Mysskin’ in 2014. Her second movie was also a Tamil production in 2015 named ‘Poda! Andavan en Pakkam’. Her next Malayalam movie, with Fahadh Faasil, is going to release. Another movie to be released is ‘Ore Mugham’ in which she shares screen space with Aju Varghese, Dhyan Sreenivasan. The movie is directed by Sajith Jaganathan.
Prayaga is 20 years old, and she has already achieved fame an...
4. Uthara Unnikrishnan
Uthara Unnikrishnan is the daughter of Indian playback singer Unni Krishnan. She came to spotlight for winning National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2015 for her rendition of the song ‘Azhagu’ from Tamil film ‘Saivam’. She is the first Indian playback singer to record a song at the age of just seven and received the award when she was ten. She is thus the young recipient to get such honor in Indian playback singing.Â
Uthara was born on June 11, 2004, to classical singer P. Unni Krishnan and Bharatanatyam dancer Priya Unnikrishnan. Unni too has received multiple awards for his playback in Indian cinema. It is said that it was G. V. Prakash who made her sing her first song ‘Azhagu’ (that was based on Raga Darbari Ka...
5. 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 ...
6. Thamizhachi Thangapandian
Thamizhachi Thangapandian is a Tamil poet, writer, dancer, dramatist and a spokesperson. She is a very successful and versatile woman who has always received appraisal and respect for her work. She was born in a small village called Mallanginaru in the Viruthunagar district of Tamil Nadu. Her real name was Sumathy, which she later changed to Thamizhachi to express her deep love and admiration for the Tamil culture. Her father, V. Thangapandian was a highly educated man who was a teacher by profession.
He later turned to politics and joined the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Party, after which he won the elections and became a member of the legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu. Her mother was also a teacher in the Panchayat School. Her brother, Thangam Thennaras...
7. Arrol Corelli
He is an India based music director and song composer. He works mainly in the Tamil film industry. He is famous for his song named ‘Nathi pogum Koozhangal payaam’ for its soul touching melody and the violins played in the background. He is a newcomer to the film industry but has gained popularity through his songs and received awards for his background score and music. Born as S. Arul Murugan, in a middle-class family of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, he was raised and brought up in the Maraimalainagar town near Chennai. Since childhood, he has this keen interest in music and musical instruments. He started learning classical violin when he was five years old. He started performing in musical concerts throughout the southern part of the country. He won several awards in competitions held at different musi...
8. Naga Sai Prathish
Naga Sai Prathish is a Chennai born actor and a cinematographer. He works predominantly for the Kollywood film industry. He pursued Diploma in Film Making in the year 2012-2013 from Central Film School, London. Despite being a cinematographer, Naga Sai Prathish has also acted in movies. His role as Siddharth in the debut movie Pisaasuearned him name and fame.
Pisaasu is 2014 superhit movie, based on a horror plot, directed by Mysskin. He is well known as a director in movies like Patch,Sketch, and Clean. Naga’s brother Sathish Ramesh is also an actor who has acted in several movies, including the renowned film, Aadhalal Kadhal Seiver. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Director at B-Studios.
...9. Harish Uthaman
Harish initially worked in Paramount Airways in the cabin crew department. Later he got himself associated with British Airways. Then he had a brief stint with an ad company in Chennai. Then Thaa happened which received good reviews. He worked hard for the film by growing a beard and darkening his skin. Surya Prabhakar was the director of this film. The film was not a commercial success but Harish received good critical acclaim. This flick was shown in the Tamil Film Festival in Norway. Harish fetched the Best Newcomer Award for this film. In the Festival, Harish got himself acquainted with Rad...
10. Radha Ravi
Radha Ravi is a populous actor cum producer in the Tamil cinema industry. He has come from a cinema background family, where his father, brother, and sisters were the actors. He is the son of the popular actor M R Radha, who is well known for his villainy and character roles in the early 50s and 60s. Radha Ravi was born in the year 1952. He did his graduation in the New College in Chennai. He has a brother called M.R.R.Vasu and three sisters namely Rashya, Rani and Radhikala. Radhika and Nirosha are his half-sisters.
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12. Ravi Roy
Ravi Roy is a Tamil Nadu-based cinematographer who has worked in both the Kollywood and Tollywood (Telugu) film industries. His work has appeared in films in the Tamil and Telugu languages. Before entering the movie industry as a cinematographer, Ravi Roy was a photojournalist.
Today he is best known for his work in the movie Pisasu, a 2014 Tamil gothic horror film written and directed by Mysskin, starring Naga, Radharavi, Rajkumar Pitchumani, Ashvatt, Kalyani Natarajan, and Prayaga Martin in lead roles. He is also well known for his cinematography in the documentary Passage to Real Immunity in 2018.
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