1. Nikita Gandhi
Nikita fell in love with Chennai. While pursuing dentistry, her friends advised her to look for opportunities and competitions in the music industry. She soon decided to join KM Music Conservatory (KMMC), to do a short course. KMMC is established by the Oscar winner A.R. Rahman in 2008. He is the head principal their while Fathima Rafiq is the Executive Director. She met Rahman when she was one of the choir members in an Indo-German exchange orchestra. A.R. Rahman was impressed by her and auditioned her for his upcoming project Qyuki in 2015 with Shekhar Kapur.
She heard that an IIT was hosting an event Saarang. She decided to take the opportunity and performed there. She won many prizes which gave her the courage to take a step ahead. Nikita soon started devoting all he...
2. Shweta Mohan
Shweta Mohan is a female playback singer in Indian cinema who is also the daughter of playback singer Sujatha Mohan. Like her mother, she also had sung in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born on 19 November 1985 in Chennai. In fact, earlier she was a bit hesitant to take up singing as her career. But as she sung, she enjoyed singing very much. Had not she been in singing, she could have opted for doing MBA and got settled other way.
Shweta grew up watching her mother sing and eventually looked her as a role model for her life. She has always aspired to be like her. Taking inspiration from her mother’s versatile career in Indian cinema, she eventually made her ground too in film music. She is well...
3. Amy Jackson
Amy Jackson is the popular actress in India, who is a British by her nationality. Her full name is Amy Louise Jackson and she was born in the year 1992 to Alan and Marguerita Jackson. Amy Jackson’s father is working as a producer on the BBC. Amy chose to study English literature, philosophy, and ethics. At the age of 16, she started her career as a model.
She was the winner of Miss Teen World 2009 and Miss Liverpool in 2010. She was brought to India to act in the films by A.L. Vijay, the director of Madrasapattinam, who introduced her in that film. After her successful entry in the Indian film, she got many offers from various languages. Among those offers, she filtered a few and started to act. Her first debut in Hindi is Ekk Deewana Tha. Yevadu is her first Telugu movie, opposite Ram Charan Teja.
4. Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Born on April 28 1987 Samantha is a model and actress, who has acted in Telugu and Tamil films. Samantha was brought up in Chennai and she was involved in modeling in her teens. The Telugu film Ye Maya Chesave was her first film and she was instantly successful; she got the Filmfare award for Best Debut. She also has a Nandi award to her credit, for this film.
The Year 2013 was a happening year for this southern beauty; she got the Filmfare award for Best Actress in both Telugu and Tamil. This feat was accomplished only by actress Revathi earlier. Samantha got the award for her performances in the films Neethane En Pon Vasantham and Eega. The Telugu films Attarintiki Daredi and Manam also gained her awards. Samantha did her schooling in Chennai and holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce. Samantha once admitted that, she pursued m...
5. Radhika Sarathkumar
Radhika is a famous actress in multiple of languages like Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi. She did her education in different places like Sri Lanka, India, and the United Kingdom. She was born in India. Her father is a famous Tamil comedian actor, M. R. Radha, and her mother is Geetha Radha. She has married with Sarathkumar at Chennai. She has a son and a daughter.
After a successful stint on the big screen for about 15 year, in which she acted as the leading actress, Radhika started working on her small screen career as a producer. In 1994, she started a TV film production under her own banner, Radaan Mediaworks, in which she produced several TV serials hits, and also played a leading role in those serials. Her first TV serial was “Chitti”, which has 467 episodes. For her performance a...
6. Seetha
Seetha was born on 13th July’1964 in Saurashtra. Her father’s name is Mohan Babu. He is yester year’s Tamil actor. Her mother’s name is Chandravathi. She has two brothers named Dudhyanth and Pandu. Seetha fell in love with Tamil actor Parthiban and married him in 1990. They gave birth to two daughters and a son named Keerthana, Abhinava and Raakhi. Seetha took divorce from Parthiban in 2001 and married TV and film actor Satish in 2010.
Seetha is a film and TV actress and producer. She has started acting from 1985 and continued up to 1990 and took a break from acting for some time and started acting agai...
7. Dhanush
This lanky superstar Dhanush is an actor from Tamil cinema but has appeared in two Hindi films too. He credits R Balki and Anand L Rai for making him consider acting in Hindi films (‘Shamitaabh’ and ‘Raanjhana’). In the year 2011-12, his song “Why This Kolaveri Di’’ continued to rise on the charts and gain millions of viewers on YouTube. Dhanush happens to be the youngest actor to receive the national film award for his performance in “Aadukalam”.
This actor had carved a place for himself in the world of cinema by his acting prowess. He has so far featured in 25 movies. Dhanush has ventured into production with his company Wunderbar Films. He is married to southern superstar Rajinikanth's daughter...
8. A Kumaran
A Kumaran is a cinematographer by profession in the Indian film industry. He works predominantly into the Tamil film industry. He was born in Chennai which is in Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his schooling from St. Johns Higher Secondary School in Tamil Nadu. He pursued the degree of B. Tech. in the field of Information Technology from the college named SreeSastha Institute of Engineering and Technology.
During the early stages of his career, he started working with a cinematographer named Vaidhy. He worked at the post of an assistant cinematographer in many Tamil movies as well as in several Malayalam and Kannada films. Some of his films as an assistant cinematographer include Maruthamalai of 2007, Kacheri Arambam of 2011, and Vaadamalli of 2011. Later, he made his debut as a director of photography into the South Indian cin...
9. Anirudh Ravichander
The name Anirudh does not need any introduction down South among the music lovers. With his boy next door looks, he can really amaze you by his skills when it comes to composing and singing. This music Rockstar will rule our playlists whenever his new album is released. He can make you go 'Gaga' right from the first time you hear his songs. His recent movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' has took the town by storm. This is not the first time he has done this. He did the same on his debut movie '3' (Three). He evolved as a star overnight after the music release of '3' and became the talk of the town. Indeed Kolaveri made him get famous worldwide and it got him more fans.
Anirudh is always good with experimental aspects in music. His movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' is the fir...
10. MV Rajesh Kumar
MV Rajesh Kumar is a Tamil film editor. Kumar was born and bred up in Chennai, India. He graduated from Anna University which is a technical university based in Guindy, Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Every year, Kumar celebrates his birthday on June, 30. His Star Sign is Cancer.
He has edited films for well-known actors and directors such as Dhanush, N.V. Nirmal Kumar, Rajendran and few more. He has worked in more than five pictures and has numerous projects lined up in his kitty. He was born to father MV Raghavan and has two brothers and a sister. Kumar was fond of watching films in his childhood. He started his career in 2014 with the project 'Velaiilli Pattathari' as a debutant in film editing department. Very few people are honored to work with the prominent actor of...
11. Adith Arun
Adith Arun is an Indian film actor. He has appeared in Tamil and Telugu language films. Presently, he is focused mainly on Tamil and Telugu film industry. Adith was born on 8th of June, In Chennai, India. He is the only child of his parents. He did his schooling from Visakhapatnam (nicknamed Vizag), the city of Andhra Pradesh. Later, he went to pursue a degree in journalism, from Madras Cristian College in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He worked on a few shows for Madras Players and Board-walkers. At a young age too, he was fond of acting and showcased his acting skills in various short films.
Arun debuted his film career through ‘Katha’, which was a Telugu language film. He starred opposite Genelia DSouza in this film.This Telugu thriller was a critical acclaim, but Arun earned only some go...
12. V Jayaprakash
V Jayaprakash is a Tamil film actor and producer, known for his production of “Gopala Gopala,” “Porkkaalam,” “Thavasi,” “April Maadhathil,” and “Julie Ganapathi,” among many others. Jayaprakash has also featured in more than 50 movies, including Tamil and Malayalam. Jayaprakash started off with productions of various films right from the beginning of the millennium decade, and is the owner of the production house, “GJ Banner.” 2007 saw Jayaprakash cast in the Tamil director, Cheran’s “Maya Kannadi,” which saw the inception of his career as an actor. Consequently, Jayaprakash featured in various movies in memorable supporting roles such as in Pandiraj’s “Pasanga,” and other films such as “Moodar ...
13. Sathish
Sathish is a talented and veteran Tamil actor who is mostly known for his ventures in Tamil television serials mainly in strong supporting character roles with a comic touch. Actor Sathish has been born and brought up in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India and started off his acting career with acting in theatres. Till today, Sathish continues to act in theatres and owns his own Tamil theatre troupe. Sathish is also a trained dancer and has also worked as a choreographer for a brief period of time in the Tamil film and television industry before becoming a dedicated Tamil tele serial comic actor. Sathish also undertook several modeling assignments and appeared in many television and commercials of reputed brands. He has acted in over 20 Tamil television serials till date and his latest venture is the hit Tamil serial Thendral wh...
14. M.S.Bhaskar
M. S. Bhaskar is an Indian actor, born on Jan 19, 1952, and hailed from Muthupettai, Tiruvavur District, Tamil Nadu, India. He used to be a theater artist and performed as a comedian in Tamil TV series and films. His method of acting is simple and is getting professional by the day. He became famous for playing as Pattabi in the TV serial, Chinna Papa Periya Papa and Selvi; and as Vakkeel Venky in the 2005 Tamil film, Sivakasi; and as Gnanaprakasam in Mozhi. Besides acting, he was also a dubbing artist and a playback singer.
15. K S Ravikumar
Director KS Ravikumar(KSR), started his career in Tamil cinema as an assistant director to Bharathiraja for sometime before becoming an independent director. He has made 40 movies, out of which six films are re-makes.
KSR has made the most number of movies with actor Sarath Kumar (10) and actresses Simran and Ramya Krishnan. Interestingly enough to know that his stunt choreographer Kanal Kannan had collaborated with KSR in 16 films so far.
His first project in Tamil film world was in the year 1990, when he made a genre-breaking film Puriyaadha...
16. Velraj
The movies which we see on the screen look so great because of not only the ones in front of the camera but also the ones behind it, and here Nettv4u brings you another biography of an Indian cinematographer who has given his life to the Bollywood film industry and never expected anything in return. Velrajan, also known by the name R. Velraj, was born on 21st October 1969 under the Libra star sign in Thirunagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. For schooling, he went to PKN Boys Higher Secondary School, Thirunagar. After completing his schooling, Velraj went to Madurai Sourashtra College, Madurai for completing his graduation.
He had the spark to be a photographer from his childhood, and during college days he got the opportunity to make enough connections, and he started working as an assistant to the cinematographer, Tirru and ass...