Aarthi Ganeshkar
Manorama
Rohini
Muktha
Nadhiya
Bhavatharini
Roshini
B Bharathi Reddy
Priyan
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Na. Muthukumar
Hariharan
Krishnakumar Kunnath
Naveen Madhav
Ranjith K Govind
Vijay Yesudas
Bonda Mani
Chaams
Ganja Karuppu
Nassar Abdulla
Nizhalgal Ravi
Sampath Raj
V. T. Vijayan
Hari
Vishal Reddy
Vijayakumar
Prabhu
1. Aarthi Ganeshkar
Aarthi Ganeshkar is a Tamil comedian and actress who began her acting career as a child artist back in the 1990s with a film called "Sathriyan". She has been involved in many films, projects and television appearances since 2004.
She has done almost 65 films across different languages which include Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. She has been playing mostly supporting roles in movies. On TV, she has mostly done comedy and also appeared as a judge on the show named "Asatha Povathu Yaaru", which is a Tamil stand-up comedy show broadcasted on Sun TV. She got married in 2009 with her comedy show co-artist Ganeshkar. She always aspired to become an Indian Civil Servant since her childhood days and wanted to pursue a career in the same, but...
2. Manorama
Being called as Aachi, Manorama is strongly seeded in the hearts of Tamil audiences. This talented lady has crossed many hurdles in her life and achieved a great success to retain her name and place in the cinema industry. She has appeared in almost all the Indian language films and gained goodwill too. Born as Gopishantha, she was renamed as Manorama to appear in theatres. She has crossed several stage dramas and films and has got a guiness record of acting in more than 1000 films. This wonderful lady has started her cinema career in Maalyitta Mangai. The only film she played as a heroine is Konjum Kumari in the year 1963. She was suggested for the role by Kavi Arasu Kannadasan.
Aachi Manorama is not only a talented actress; she is a wonderful dancer and a great singer ...
3. Rohini
Rohini is a multi-talented South Indian actress, director, and lyricist. She mainly appears in Tamil and Malayalam movies. She started her acting career at the age of 5. Rohini came into the film industry because of her father's keen interest in cinema. Her father Apparao Naidu wanted to become an actor and he approached the director of Yashoda Krishna movie, but the director needed a child artist for doing the role of Krishna. Finally, his eyes fell on the small 5-year-old girl, and she became Krishna. The little Rohini didn’t like the film sets she liked to go to school and continue her education. But her father told her that she is destined to be an actor and could continue the studies privately.
Later Little Rohini, who once hated the film sets, was flying from one set to another. Her career as an...
4. Muktha
Muktha (also known as Elsa George) is an actress of south Indian cinema. She began her career as a child artiste. She came to prominence after playing the role of Lisamma in Lal Jose's Achanurangatha Veedu that released in 2005. This film garnered her critical acclaim, and she won even hearts of audiences. She began her career as a child artist and later opted to act in television serials such as 'Swaram’ and then forayed into the film industry. This actress is a classical dancer and been a successful entrepreneur.
In 2008, she appeared in a Telugu film’ Photo’, along with Geetanjali and Anjali. Later, she opted to act in a Tamil cinema ‘Thaamirabharani’ opposite Vishal. Even after selecting Tamil cinema she concentrated in Malayalam...
5. Nadhiya
Zareena is the original name of the south Indian actress Nadhiya. She was born in the year 1966 in Mumbai to the Muslim father, Moidu and the Hindu mother, Lalitha. Nadhiya has a younger sister called Haseena. In 1984, she entered the film industry through the Malayalam movie ‘Nokketha Doorathu
6. Bhavatharini
Bhavatharini is a Tamil singer and music composer. She is the daughter of famous music composer of south Indian cinema, Ilaiyaraaja. Noted music composers, Karthik Raja and Yuvan Shankar Raja are her brothers. Bhavatharini has won a National Award for Best Playback Singer Female for the film Bharathi in 2001. The song was “Mayil Pola Ponnu Onnu”, composed by her father, Ilaiyaraaja. She always sings under the direction of her father or brothers.
Bhavatharini has studied in Rosary Metric School in Chennai and she was the classmate of the famous singer Bhargavi. She made her debut as a singer in 1995 with the film Raasaiyya. The song she sang was a big hit. Bhavatharini usually sings for the family, but she has even lent her voice for compositions of Deva and Sirpy’s songs....
8. B Bharathi Reddy
B Bharathi Reddy is an Indian film producer who works in the Tamil industry. She is the partner with his husband of Vijaya Production, which is founded by his husband. Her husband’s name is B Venkata Rama Reddy. They had one son and two daughters. Her husband was died on 12 May 2019due to prolonged illness at the age of 75.SheSupported every decisionin her husband. She misses her husband a lot. She produced many hit films like Bhairvaa, Thamizan and Veeram, Padikkathavan.
Her previous film to hit in the theatre was Sangathamizhanafter his husband's death in the year 2019. She respects her father-in-law. She is fluent in English, Tamil, and Telugu languages. She is handling her production house after her husband dies. In real life, she is very humble and also a good financial advisor. She is an example for the producer...
9. Priyan
Born in the year of 1964, he was an Indian director who has worked on Tamil flicks. Starting his profession as a subordinate to Balu Mahendra, Priyan began his job as an autonomous operator in the 1990s before he commenced as a leading cinematographer in the Tamil movie production in the 2000s.His notable works are with filmmaker Hari. He died due to heart seizure in his home on 9th November 2017. Priyan was born and brought up in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu. While he was doing a course in polytechnics, the cinematographer spent his time with his uncle Ganesan during a vacation in Chennai. Having observed his interest in movies, his uncle familiarized him to his acquaintance K. Balaji, an actor and a producer in the Tamil industry. Priyan consequently started operating in K. Balaji's behind the screening crew and worked for the produc...
10. Yuvan Shankar Raja
11. Na. Muthukumar
Na. Muthukumar is a poet, lyricist, writer and novelist, who writes in Tamil. He is famous for writing scripts and songs for Tamil films. Na. Muthukumar was born on 12 July 1975 in a small village named ‘Tirur’ near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. His Father, Mr Nagaraj was a Tamil teacher.Mr Nagaraj always maintained a collection of 5000 books throughout his life, and after he had passed away, this collection was preserved by his son in his office. Also, his mother passed away when he was merely four years old. Muthukumar reminisces that he acquired most of the knowledge of his life from his father’s book collection. Also, to help others he has plans to open a library where everybody could access those books. Na. Muthukumar began his career with a dream to be a director. So, he started working...
12. Hariharan
Hariharan is a renowned Indian singer, who sings mainly for Hindi and Tamil films. Born in 1955, he is a well-known Ghazal singer. He was also instrumental in bringing fusion music to India.
Colonial Cousins is the name given to Hariharan’s band, wherein he collaborated with Lesle Lewis. This band was featured in many private albums. Not only this, they have also composed music for a few movies in Hindi and Tamil.
Hariharan is born and brought up in Mumbai and he is well-versed in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Hindi. Hariharan is the o...
13. Krishnakumar Kunnath
Krishnakumar Kunnath is an Indian playback singer of Malayalam region. He was born and brought up in Delhi. Krishna was born to C.S. Menon and Kanakavalli, both his parents are Malayali. He has sung a song in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayali languages. His other names are K.K. or Kay Kay. He has completed his schooling from Mount St. Mary’s school, Delhi. Krishna graduated from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University from the commerce background. During his school days, he won many singing competitions. Even before joining singing as his profession he was the lead vocalist for different college bands. KK was very much influenced by singer Kishore Kumar and music director R.D. Burman. No training was taken up by him in this field. After completing his graduation, he moved to Mumbai with dreams to become a s...
15. Ranjith K Govind
Ranjith is a very famous and versatile south Indian singer. He has a vibrant personality and can make the crowd tap their feet with his energetic songs, can make them emotional with his soothing voice and is a mass entertainer. He was born on February 21, 1977. He is a very well-known playback singer and has worked for many films. He is mainly working for the Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Ranjith was born in a Malayali family, in Chennai. His family belongs to a small town, Kalluvazhi, Kerala. Ranjith grew up listening to various types of music he stayed in a society where social-programmes were a trend. The localities used to participate in these programmes. Once, a family friend suggested training Ranjith for classical music.
He is trained in Hindustani music and Carnatic music by Vidwan Cuddalore S...
16. Vijay Yesudas
Vijay Yesudas (Born: 23rd March, 1979) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer from Chennai. He is known for his work predominantly in the south Indian film Industry, especially Malayalam, and Tamil films as well as in other Indian Languages such as Telegu, Kannada, and Hindi.
Vijay is the son of prominent singer K.J. Yesudas and the grandson of stage singer Augustine Joseph. His mother’s name is Prabha, and he is the second son of the family. He studied in Chennai until the 9th grade and moved to the US for further studies. He graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A in Music.
Vijay Yesudas started learning Carnatic music in early 2000. He is popular for his songs with composer Yuvan S...
17. Bonda Mani
Bonda Mani, is one among the popular comedians in Tamil cinema. His real name is ‘Kedeeshwaran’. He changed his name to ‘Bonda Mani’ for the stage performance. He is a Sri Lankan based person. During his schooling, he has acted in various dramas.With huge support and inspiration from his friends, he started looking out for chances in feature films. Inspite of his great efforts to act in Tamil Movies in Sri Lanka, he did not succeed. Later on, he went to Singapore for work. During 1981, when the Tamil actors’ troupe visited Singapore, for a cultural program, Bonda Mani got a chance to meet them. He was introduced to director ‘K. Bhagyaraj’ then . He explained his passion for acting and also told him about the efforts that he took to get through the industry. Later he visited Ind...
18. Chaams
Chaams is a Tamil actor who regularly appears in a supporting role in many movies. He is an actor who began his career by doing small roles but later bagged meaningful roles and had received mass appreciation for his performances. Right from the beginning he started a new style of comedy that people loved and then he followed it with every film. He used his natural tone and local Tamilian style to deliver dialogues with perfect timing and incredible sense of humor.
19. Ganja Karuppu
20. Nassar Abdulla
Nassar Abdulla is the star of the big screen who is apparently a model turned actor. His way to the Bollywood Industry stated with Page 3 by Romesh Thapar at 1st January, 1959. Later, he was seen in many movies like Dil Aashna Hai, Swabhiman, Mitr, Ssssssh?, 36 China Town and many more remarkable films. The latest one is “Gandhi to Hitler” where is played the role of Albert Speer; though this film could not make the cut at box office, yet it is always appreciated for the performance of the star cast as well as the thought and hard work that they had used for making the movie.
There are many facts about Nassar Abdulla which are left to be untold; one of them is his desire to play a comic role at the big screen. Confessed almost two years back, Nassar apparently wanted to play a comic role that pars the standar...
21. Nizhalgal Ravi
Nizhalgal Ravi is a veteran actor in TV serials and films and has acted in hundreds of movies alongside the greatest of actors in the industry. Born on April 16, 1956, he first started out under legendary director Bharathiraja in ‘Nizhalgal’ which later stuck on to his name because of the instant hit with people. He has played many impressive roles in blockbuster movies like Vedam Puthithu, Nayakan, Chinna Thambi Periya Thambi, etc. His versatility has won him praises from all over the industry and from people. He has acted in over 20 movies in Malayalam in the 80s before moving into mainstream Tamil movies.
He completed his Bachelor of Arts majoring in economics from PSG Arts College. He then acted in K Balachander’s telefilm ‘Rail Sneham’ in the late 80s and 90s. He became popula...
22. Sampath Raj
'Sampath Raj' was born on 25 December 1968 in Chennai. He adopted film field as his profession for more than a decade by acting in a 2004-released film titled ‘Neranja Manasu’ .Though he played only a small role in the film, he gave it his best and had a series of films to his credits almost every year since then. Though born in Chennai, Sampath is not partial about the languages of the movies he acts in, nor is he bothered with the type of role that he gets to play in the films.
He was featured in more than sixty films till date. His impartiality and his wish to accommodate movies from various states in the country has gained him a lot of reputation in the subcontinent. Though Tamil is his mother tongue, he is fluent in various south Indian lang...
23. V. T. Vijayan
V.T. Vijayan is a renowned editor in the Tollywood film industry and has also worked on a few Hindi Films. His nephews are also associated with the industry, one is a movie director, and another is an actor.
Vijayan has to his credit around a hundred Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi films. He has also worked on one English movie named Ele, My Friend. His most known works are Anniyan, Hindustani, Velayudham and Nayak: The Real Hero. He has won a National Film Award for Best Editing for the film Kadhalan in 1995.
24. Hari
Hari is a Tamil director and was born in Katchana vilai near Nazareth in Tuticorin District. His father, Gopal Nadar, is a vessel merchant. Later for his schooling and graduation they moved to Chennai. Once he plunged into the filming, he began as an assistant director with K Natraj in the movie ‘Valli’ and some more projects like ‘Parthen Rasithen’, ‘Amarkalam’ with the director Saran.
Then he worked with the legendary director K Balachander in a movie ‘Kalki’. After that, he was married to an Actor’s daughter Preetha Vijayakumar and now they have three sons. Director Hari is always into action-oriented commercial movies.
Some of his works include ‘Singam’ (I II & III), ‘Saamy’, ‘Kovil’, ‘Arul’, ‘Ayya&r...
25. Vishal Reddy
Born as Vishal Krisna Reddy, he is called upon as Vishal as a stage name. Being the son of a producer, Vishal Reddy has enough experience about the film industry. Before making his debut as an actor, he worked as an assistant director of Arjun. Vishal Reddy’s brother Ajay Krishna alias Vikram Krishna is also an actor, who appeared in Poo Parikka Varugirom alongside Malavika.
This film has Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan too. Chellamae is the debut movie of Vishal Krishna as an actor. This film was a hit movie and the victory was shared by Reema Sen, Vivek and Bharath. All the three of them did a notable role in this film. Sanda Kozhi was his next venture and it was a sensational hit in all the places where it was screened. Meera Jasmine and Raj Kiran have important r...
26. Vijayakumar
Vijayakumar is a very famous actor in Tamil films and television serials. He has acted in more than 400 movies in very popular characters, from child roles to hero roles to supporting roles to father roles to grandfather roles. You name any famous artist in Tamil, Vijayakumar would have acted with him or her. That is the reach he had in the Tamil filmdom.
Vijayakumar’s real name was Panchaksharam Ranaswamy. He wanted to act in movies from a very young age and apparently acted in a movie as a child artist. But, not many called him for future films, so he was discouraged and went back to his home town. Later, when he was a young person, he returned to try movies where he got some very good offers. Movies such as Aval Oru Thodarkathai, Ponnukku Th...
27. Prabhu
Prabhu Ganesan or better known as Prabhu is a prominent Indian entrepreneur, producer, comedian and actor who mainly appear in Tamil films. He was born on December 25, 1956 in Chennai, India. His mother is Kamala and his father, Sivaji Ganesan is a stage and film actor during the 20th century. Prabhu is the father of Vikram Prabhu, who is making a name in the Tamil film industry. After his debut in the 1982 film, Sangili, the actor started to play leading and supporting roles, which gained him the Best Actor in Lead Role Award by the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards in after donning a brilliant performance in the Tamil film, Chinna Thambi in 1991.
He studied at Bishop Cotton School in Bangalore and after this he entered film production and worked as an executive producer to his uncle, V. C. Shanmugan. Initially, hi...