1. Beena Paul
Born in 1961, Beena Paul is a renowned film editor of the Indian Cinema. She has given her contribution in ‘Malayalam’ films mainly. She was brought up in the city of ‘Delhi’ by her father A P Paul, who is a ‘Malayali’, and her mother, Sharada Paul, who is a ‘Kannada’. She had graduated in the field of ‘Film Editing’ from ‘Film and Television Institute of India’, which is located in ‘Pune’. ‘Venu Isc’, the famous Director, and Cinematographer is her better half. Both of them have won numerous awards for their films.
Beena Paul also holds the position of an Artistic Director at the ‘International Film Festival of Kerala’. She has also been one among...
Gender:
Female
2. Sriya Reddy
Sriya Reddy is an Indian film actress mainly performed in Tamil and Telugu films. She has also worked as an anchor in television serials and previously worked as video Jockey. She made her debut in the film industry after winning the VJ hunt by SS music and later started hosting TV shows like Connect and Phonetastic. She made a maiden debut in the film Appudaappuda but unfortunately the film failed to gain momentum in theatres. However, she appeared in 2004’s Black in which she played the role of village woman completely contrary to her main role in real life.
Sriya Reddy has also played the role of a rich girl in an English film ’19 Revolutions’. Chicago-based Shridhar Reddy directed the film. The film did quite well in U.S. She has made debut in Samur...
Age:
40
Gender:
Female
3. Anjali Rao
Anjali Rao is an Indian actress who acts in Kollywood. She is best known for her role as the ghost in Tamil movie ‘Baby’ that released in 2015. It is believed that this horror movie was drafted for Anjali Rao (Anne), the ghost. Some of the scenes that she displays are really shocking. The great thing is that whenever she performed in a single scene of this film, it gave a lot of scares and goosebumps moments. Director Suresh, who wrote the story and penned the screenplay, had even shot the whole movie under his control.
Anjali had rehearsed for this role of a ghost, and she loved doing it, and even it had every amazing scene with the child actor Shira Gaarg and the whole show was really amazing too. The film released among some big banner releases such as Kam...
Gender:
Female
4. Priyadarshan
Priyadarshan Soman Nair is a famous Director, Producer and screen writer. He is awarded the Padma Shri Award by the government in 2012. He has worked for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi cinema in his career since 1984. Although he began his career from Malayalam movies, he is recognized for his comedy films in Bollywood. He is an extremely versatile director and has films in almost every genre. Priyadarshan was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He graduated from University College in his home town with a M.A in Philosophy.
He was a book worm in his teenage days, and soon he started writing scripts and acts for Akashvani. His first big chance came as an assistant director when his friend Mohanlal got into movies. In 1984, Priyadarshan released his fi...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
5. Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with symphonic orchestration.
He was also the first Asian to organize a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and became the first Indian to compose a complete symphony. He has won three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background score. He had also received the Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
6. Sameer Thahir
Sameer C. Thahir is an Indian writer, cinematographer, and director recognized for his performance in Malayalam cinema. Thahir made his appearance with Big B, the first movie directed by cinematographer Amal Neerad, in the year 2007. Later, he made his writing and directorial debut with the movie Chaappa Kurishu in the year 2011. His second fiction movie, Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi, was out in the year 2013. Sameer Thahir examined in the creative environment of Maharajas College, which is in Eranakulam, and the bonds formed based on creative races during that time are still the driving portion for him in filmmaking.
Sameer's teacher Amal Neerad for whom he managed cinematography in the movie Big B, charismatic director Ashiq Abu, Anwar Rasheed for whom Sa...
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
7. Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004....
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
8. Ashok Selvan
Ashok Selvan is primarily a film actor, who has played major lead roles in Tamil movies like Soodhu Kavvum (2013), Pizza 2 : The Villa and ‘Thegidi’ (2014). A native of Tamil Nadu, Ashok was born on 8 November 1989 in Erode. He graduated in visual communication from Loyola College and gained a lot of movie making experience during his college days. Since his early years, he was immensely attracted to the entertainment world. After getting a degree in the visual communication, he decided to make a foray into the world of entertainment.
