Jyothika Saravanan
Chinmayi Sripaada
Poornima Ramasamy
Ammu Abhirami
Nikhila Vimal
Sowcar Janaki
Karthik Sivakumar
Sathyaraj
Jeethu Joseph
SA Baskaran
Sameer Arora
Karthik Netha
Vivek Velmurugan
Suresh Peters
Justin Jose
Prem Navas
Prasanna Sujit
Johnson
Stunt Silva
Anson Paul
Bala
Bala Singh
Ilavarasu
Mahanadhi Shankar
Nedumudi Venu
Ramesh Thilak
Sudheesh Ramachandran
Suraj Sadanah
Govind Vasantha
1. Jyothika Saravanan
Jyothika is a highly famous Indian cinema artist. Though she belonged to Tamil Industry, her skill and talent have gone viral to Bollywood and Telugu movie industry as well at one point. She is a winner of one award from Filmfare and three awards from Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She has also received Kalaimamani award.
Jyothika started her career in Tamil industry with a movie called ‘Vaali’ in 1999. However, she got her first hit as a leading heroin through the movie ‘Kushi’. After this film, she had successful hits in a row. ‘Mugavaree’, ‘Dumm Dumm Dumm’ and ‘Snegithiye’ are few in that series. In most of her movies, she was never an arm candy who would just show up in songs, next to the hero. Her movies are all carefully chosen where her role is i...
2. Chinmayi Sripaada
3. Poornima Ramasamy
Poornima Ramasamy hails from a Tamil family of garment workers. She does not consider herself as a full-fledged fashion designer but admits to having passion toward clothes and weaving since childhood. She understood clothes, especially earthly clothes which give the organic touch. Poornima is married and belongs to the clothing giant Naidu Hall family in Chennai. She used to live a normal life being a mother. All this changed when she came in contact with Tamil filmmaker ‘Bala’.
Poornima, who is a part of the retail store Naidu Hall, used to design for her clients and kept it low key. She did not study fashion design in any reputed institutes as she confesses to being not so good in drawing but her connection with fabrics was inseparable. She considers director Bala to be her close family and a bro...
4. Ammu Abhirami
Ammu Abhirami is an Indian actress who has been a part of both Tamil and Telugu movies. She made her acting debut in 2017 with Vijay and Keerthy Suresh as her medical students in the Tamil movie Bairava. She is known to play a central role in Raatchasan (2018) and Asuran (2019). Her first releases of Ammu Abhirami were En Aaloda Seruppa Kaanom (2017) and Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017), where she impersonated a supporting character. She starred in Yaar Ivargal by Balaji Sakthivel. She then portrayed a high school girl struggling in Razzasan and later played the same role in the Telugu remake of the film, Lakshasdu (2019), along with Veraconda Srinivas and Anupama Parameswaran. Ammu starred in Thuppakki Munai (2018), playing the murdered innocent girl. In 2019, she starred in the Vetrimaaran drama Asuran (2019), where she starred with D...
5. Nikhila Vimal
Nikhila Vimal is a Malayalam actress, and a classical dancer hails from Kannur. Nikhila is the daughter of Kalamandalam Vimala Devi, who is an acclaimed classical dancer and her father Pavithran who works in a statistics department. Nikhila started learning dance at a very young age and was an active participant in the youth festival circuit. She is a trained dancer in Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, mono-acting, and Keralanadanam. Nikhila, a dancer, never dreamed of pursuing acting in her career. She did her graduation Sir Sayyed College in Botany. Currently, she is staying in Taliparamba in Kannur. Nikhila in her plus two was offered the role in ‘Bhagyadevatha’ by the director Sathyan Anthikad. She played the active role of sister of ‘Jayaram’s character in the movie. After the film, she took a...
6. Sowcar Janaki
Sankaramanchi Janaki is an Indian actress hailing from South India, who has always enthralled the audience by her mesmerizing performances. She proved her mettle in acting and also produced quite a few films. Acting in over 385 films (Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam), performing in 300 stage shows, being a radio artist at the age of 11, she has very well proven her prowess. Janaki is the elder daughter of T. Venkoji Rao, a paper technologist (England) and Sachi Devi. Janaki completed her Matriculation from Gauhati University in Assam and had received honorary Doctorate from the University of Arizona. She is married to Sankamaranchi Srinivasa Rao, since 1947, has two daughters and a son, four grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.
Sowcar commenced her acting...
7. Karthik Sivakumar
Karthik Sivakumar, or popularly known as Karthi, is a prominent film actor, who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He was born on May 25, 1977, in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, to Tamil actor, Sivakumar and Lakshmi. He studied at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, and later attended St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. He obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Crescent Engineering College in Chennai. Post graduation, he started working as an Engineering Consultant in the city and pursued higher education abroad. During those times, Karthi was earning 5000 every month, until he thought that he wanted to do something more. He had his scholarship in the USA and studied at Binghamton University in New York, where he took Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. While doing hi...
8. Sathyaraj
Sathyaraj is one of the greatest actors of Tamil film industry. He has good comic sense, good height, and good performance, and is still active in the industry. Rangaraj is the real name of Sathyaraj. Born on October 3, 1954 Sathyaraj forayed into the Tamil film industry as a villain. He depicted the suave villain perfectly and he was accepted by the audience. His dialogue Thagudu Thagudu from the film Kaaki Chattai is still famous now. In fact, it is no exaggeration to tell that he gave a complete transformation to the notion we have about villain. His oratory adeptness in villainous roles is indeed exemplary.
Sathyaraj has worked in around 200 flicks. He also worked in Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi film...
9. Jeethu Joseph
Jeethu Joseph is a Malayalam film screenwriter and director. He was born on 10th November 1972 in a politically based family where his father was an MLA of’ Muvattupuzha’. He always wanted to be in entertainment, but his father forced him to become an engineer. He later joined Nirmala College in Muvattupuzha to study economics. Jeethu began his career under the director ‘Jayaraj’ as an assistant. He worked under him for the Malayalam film ‘Bheebhatsam’.
Later he individually started directing a film but eventually it did not work out, and he was back on the starting line. In the meantime he urbanized single line plot of ‘Detective’ but he couldn’t find any producer, so his mother sponsored him with th...
10. SA Baskaran
Sa Baskaran is a popular SouthIndian scriptwriter, and co-director, he has worked in various SouthIndian blockbusters such as the 2019 film Thambi, starring Karthi, Jyotika Sadana, etc. Sa Baskaran made his directorial debut with the film titled Mei. The film was scripted on true events and brought into light the hidden and corrupted medical world. The film portrays Aishwarya Rajesh as a strong independent woman, fighting her way to the top in the patriarchal and male-dominated professional world.
She is a successful doctor who unveils the malpractices happening in the medical field along with the actors Nicky Sundaram and Kishore, who play prominent roles in the film. Baskaran's directorial debut has been selected in the 17th Chennai Film Festival and was screened at the Russian Culture Center in Chennai.
...11. Sameer Arora
Sameer Arora is a writer who has predominantly worked in Indian Film industry. The talented screenplay writer was born in Bangalore, where he completed his schooling. He used to love reading since his childhood. As a kid, he grew a keen interest in books and novels. He dreamed of writing stories when he was young. His creative thinking always grabbed him prizes in debate competitions.
Sameer Arora used to write stories for comics, newspapers, and local magazines. He used to participate in narrating competitions held at his school and won many prizes in those competitions. As he completed his schooling, he decided to do his graduation in English literature. While he was in college, he joined writer’s club. He used to write stories for short movies, and his narrations have won many awards in college functions.
While...
12. Karthik Netha
Karthik Netha is an Indian writer, lyricist, and poet. He mostly works in Tamil film industry. He is best known for his work in movies Thirumanam Enum Nikkah, 96, Monster and many more. He was born in Salem district of Tamil Nadu, India. He is currently living in Chennai, India. He started his career by working as an assistant song-writer of Na. Muthukumar. He then worked for many movies including ‘Thotti Jaya’ in 2005, ‘Vaagai Sooda Va’ in 2011 and ‘Dear Comrade’ in 2019. Some of the famous songs he has written are ‘Theera Kadhal’, ‘Anithimalai neram’, ‘Adikadi Mudi’, ‘Pada Pada’, etc.
...13. Vivek Velmurugan
Vivek Velmurugan is an Indian lyricist predominantly working in the Tamil Music Industry. He has also worked in other languages such as Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam. He made his debut as lyricist in 2015 in Tamil films. He later received critical acclaim for his writing in 36 Vayadhinile (2015) and Jil Jung Juk (2016). Vivek was born in 1985 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He later moved to Chennai, India at a very young age. He completed his higher secondary education from Vidya Mandir Higher Secondary School. Then he studied engineering at Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology in Chennai.
However, his passion was writing poems and short stories since childhood. Vivek’s primary influence was the famous poet, Vairamuthu. He started song writing after the completion of his Engineering degree. Vivek created his portfolio an...
14. Suresh Peters
No doubt he stays behind the scenes, but for music his contribution is far from unseeable. Suresh Peters is a kind of person who finds himself crazy for music since his childhood. He recalls his first live concert at the age of 4years, which was broadcasted on radio and since then the process begins – of the formation of veteran music director. A. R. Rahman and Shivamani are the childhood friends of Suresh Peters. Suresh Peters is a renowned music director and playback rapper/singer for the movies in India. His notable and renowned songs include “Chikku Bukku Rayile" from Gentleman and "Style" from the movie Sivaji: The Boss. Peters first worked in a Malayalam movie “Punjabi House” being the music director.
This was his first break in his career. In this movie, he composed both melody and ...
15. Justin Jose
Justin Jose is a sound engineer and sound mixer of Indian origin. He has worked in films of different regional languages like Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam. Justin Jose was born on 11th October,1980 in Thrissur, Kerala. He started working in the industry in the year 2003 and is still very active with his work. Justin did his graduation in Economics from St.Thomas College, Thrissur. After that, he received Diploma in Audio Recording from Chetna Sound Studio. He also received 4th-grade electronic keyboard from Trinity College of Music. He moved to Mumbai in 2003 and started working under Deepan Chatterjee.
The name of the company was QLabs as ADR Recordist. He became a premix engineer for feature films and became an independent re-recording mixer in the year 2008.He has been active since then. He has done r...
17. Prasanna Sujit
Prasanna Sujit is one of the most talented choreographers working in the film industry. Born in a family of dancers, Prasanna is the youngest generation of dancer in his family. His famous family members include Brinda master, Kala Master and Raghu Master. Prasanna was a shy child growing up, he was an introvert. In fact he was such a low-key person that no one in his school knew that he dance in his bloodline, and he himself was such a gifted dancer. During school days, it was one of Sujit’s friends who suggested Prasanna to start competing in dance competitions.
On his first try, Prasanna won the first prize in his school dance competition. It was then when people took a note of his talents. Soon after school, Prasanna started assisting his uncle and aunts in choreography on movie sets. Prasanna’s first job as the...
18. 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.
The editor and reporter of Dinamalar was working on producing a movie in 1989. He insisted Johnson to take its PR. With this, in 1989, with t...
19. Stunt Silva
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.
20. Anson Paul
Anson Paul was born on 15 July in the year 1988. He was born in Thrissur, Kerala, India. He presently resides in Ernakulam in Kerala. He is an actor. He does most of his films in the South Indian Film Industry in the Malayalam language. He has made his debut in this Industry recently in 2013. The name of his debut film was KQ. It was in the Malayalam language. B. Johnson directed this film. The name of the role that he played on the screen in the movie KQ was Roshan. In 2016, he added three movies to his illustrious career. All were successful. The first one was Su Su Sudhi Valmeekam.
The name of his role in the film was Sudhir Babu. He acted very well in the movie and the movie received good ratings. It was houseful week after week. This movie was filmed under the direction of R. Sankher, a popular and talented South Indian di...
21. Bala
22. Bala Singh
Bala Singh is an Indian Tamil actor. He is very famous for his roles as villain and character artist. He is also a theater artist. He made his debut with the 1995 movie Avatharam directed by Nassar. Since his debut, he has been seen in more than 100 movies to date. He is a very active actor in Tamil industry. He was also a successful stage artist before heading to film cinema. He graduated from the famous National School of Drama, New Delhi. After completing his graduation from NSD he moved from theater to film career. He was a very active theater artist in his college days at Chennai. He played alongside Nassar and Revathi in his debut film, Avatharam, where he played the role of antagonist. The movie was written and directed by Nassar. The movie won critic's appreciation but failed to collect box offi...
23. Ilavarasu
Ilavarasu is the cinematographer turned actor in Tamil cinema. He was born in the year 1964 in Melur in Madurai. His original name was Ilavarasan and his cinema friends called him Ilavarasu and the name stayed with him, till now. He was popular as a cinematographer in the year 1996, with the film Panchalankurichi with Prabhu and Madhubala in the lead. In 1997, he was offered with another Prabhu movie named Periya Thambi, which was directed by Chithra Lakshmanan, who is the popular producer and character artist now.
In 1998, Ilavarasu cinematographed two movies named Iniyavalae and Ninaithen Vandhai. The two movies, which he did in the year 1999, bagged him with the awards as a Best Cinematographer and the awards are given by the Tamilnadu Governme...
24. Mahanadhi Shankar
Mahanadhi Shankar, formerly known as Shankar, is a Tollywood actor. He is mostly known for his villainous characters. He played the role of a wicked jail warden Thulukanam who created problems for Kamal Hassan in his debut movie Mahanadi. After such a brilliant performance, he got to be known as Mahanadhi Shankar in the industry. Since then he has been doing many villainous roles as well as comic roles in various movies.
His filmography includes Mahanadi (1994), Dheena (2001), Asathal (2001), Kusthi (2006), Aarumugam (2009), Brahma Deva (2009), Vedappan (2009), Tamil Padam (2010), Kaadhal Alla Adhaiyum Thaandi (2011), Parkkalam Pazhagalam (2011), Naam Oruvar (2011), Guindy (2011), Alaiyodu Vilaiyaadu (2012), Vibunan (2012) Oru Kal Oru Kannadi (2012), Eli (2015), Vindhai (2015) and an upcoming film Sokku Sundaram in 2017.
<...25. Nedumudi Venu
Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is commonly known as Kesavan Venu Gopal. His parents are PK Kesavan Nair and Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi Alappuzha in Kerala. He had four siblings, all brothers. His father was a schoolmaster. Nedumudi completed his primary education at NSS Higher Secondary School and St Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam. During school days, he was interested in music and arts.
He graduated from Sanatana Dharma College in Alappuzha. After graduation, he started his career as a journalist and also worked as a teacher in a tutorial institute. While staying in Trivandrum, he became friends with Padmarajan, Bharath Gopi, Aravindan which made him expose his talent and enter into the domain of movies. In his married life with TR Sushil...
26. Ramesh Thilak
Ramesh Thilak is a radio jockey and actor; he works in Tamil and Malayalam Film Industries. Ramesh Thilak was born on 3rd May 1985 in Tamil Nadu. Ramesh started his career as a radio jockey. He was a radio jockey at Suryan FM 93.5. Due to his attitude while on the air, he got the tag ‘Thillu Mullu’ by the radio station.
Ramesh made his acting debut from the TV serial ‘Kana Kaanum Kaalangal’, he play...