Tamil Movie Review Theri - Cast & Crew

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.

Intro: Neeti Mohan appeared on Hindi television while performing as a competitive singer and soon she won the hearts of millions with her performances. Now she is a celebrity singer with huge success.

A beautiful diva with a golden voice is how one can introduce Neeti Mohan, the dazzling young star. She first appeared with her golden voice on television for the musical programme Popstars which was aired on Channel V in the year 2003. She won the show and along with other winners, created a musical group Asma. Under the auspicious guidance of Shankar Mahadevan, she also represented the team of Shankar’s Rockstars on the musical competitive show Music Ka Maha Muqabala. This show was aired on Star One in the year 2009. Since then, she is a regular member of A.R. Rehman live shows performing all over the world.

After winning the hearts of Indian television viewers and specially of those who love to see talented voice compete with each others on musical competitive shows on television this beautiful girl also acted in a Bollywood movie. Her debuted Bollywood movie was Socha Na Tha which was a project of Dharmendra Production. In this movie, she played a supporting role against her co-star Abhay Deol.

In the year 2012, she performed for MTV Unplugged and recently, she appeared on the comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma as a celebrity. She is now a successful playback singer for various Bollywood projects. There is a long list of popular music numbers under her belt and she has won a number of awards including the Filmfare RD Burman Award as best singer in the year 2013.

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.

Sunaina is the beautiful south Indian film actress. She was born in the year 1989 in Nagpur. This beautiful actress had lots of dreams to act in the cinema and she made her dream come true through the Telugu movie Something Special. This movie got released in the year 2006. While she was acting in her next movie 10th class in Telugu, she got the offer to act in a Malayalam movie called, Best Friends. She was given the opportunity to act in the Tamil film Sivaji, with Rajini. But the scenes were deleted; if not, it would have been her Tamil debut movie.

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.

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’. Sooner, she followed up doing many supporting roles in various Tamil movies. In 2014, she was seen in a movie ‘Saivam’ (a remake of Telugu film ‘Dagudumootha Dandako,' where she appeared as Nassar's daughter Meenakshi and got noticed. But she met with her biggest success in Mysskin’s Pisaasu where she essayed the role of a mother in the form of Janaki Soundarrajan. It seems that when she came to Chennai for the release function of ‘Saivam’, she met the film director Mysskin and enquired if he was looking for someone to play a character in his film. Later, the director auditioned her for the role. The actress also is doing a small cameo in ‘Atlee’s Vijay 59,’ where she will play the role of a doctor.

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. 

Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, is a singer and a musician, specialized in playing a rare and a beautiful instrument, Gayatri Veena. She was born on 7th of October, 1981, with visual impairment. Gifted with a beautiful voice, but she was deprived of the pleasure of seeing the world. And that hasn't stopped her ever from reaching high and chasing her dreams. She won special jury mention for her very first song Katte Katte for the movie Celluloid. She learned about 100 ragas in just a year, all by herself from listening to them, and started making her compositions. Though all the great musicians of all times have said music requires having training from a knowledgeable teacher. But this lady, surprised everyone with her talent and lust for learning, all by herself by getting better and better. Within ten years, she had performed over 400 stages in Chennai, Madurai, Tanjore, Coimbatore and many major cities all over the country. She also played and sung in many temple festivals. But that wasn't enough to get her going, so she started her career in movies. She has sung in over 20 movies and has grabbed a handful of awards for them. She even acted and appeared in a movie called Ezhu Deshangalkkum Akale. And not just Malayalam, she even sang in some Tamil movies as well. Her wish is to be able to see at least once in her lifetime. She's been looking for ways to have operated and installed with Bionic Eyes. After that, she hopes to live a peaceful and settled life.

Jayashri Ramnath or Bombay Jayashri, as she is known, is an Indian Carnatic musician, composer, and singer. Born in Kolkata, Jayashri belonged to a family of musical cognoscenti. Her parents, N. Subramaniam, and Seeta encouraged her to pursue the art of Carnatic music right from the tender age of four. Later on, Jayashri continued her education in music under T. R. Balamani for nearly a decade. She completed her scholastic education from St. Anthony’s High School in Chembur and graduated from the R.A.Poddar College in Mumbai. Jayashri also pursued a Diploma from the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in New Delhi. Her thirst for music led her to Hindustani music greats Shri. Mahavir Jaipurvale, and Pandit Ajay Pohankar, with whom she spent more than six years acquiring the skill of Hindustani vocals. Jayashri also trained under the careful tutelage of the Padmashree Lalgudi Jayaraman, in Chennai, and learned to play the instrument Veena from G.Dhandapani Iyer. Her inception to concerts occurred in the year 1982, and ever since, Jayashri has graced stages all over the country such as the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, India International Centre, and cultural events such as Vishnu Digambar Festival, Bhakti Utsav, all in New Delhi. Besides, Jayashri has also performed at the Kuthira Malika and Surya festivals, in Trivandrum, the Saptak in Ahmedabad, and also in the metropolitan city events such as at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata, Shanmukhananda Sabha in Mumbai, and the Chowdia Memorial Hall in Bengaluru.

"Meena" needs no introduction in the Southern film industry. She is a terrific performer and had acted in some good films in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada. Her performances in films including Bharathi Kannama, Avvai Shanmugi, Drishyam, Swathi Muthu, Rhythm, Porkkaalam, Rajeshwari Kalyanam, Sethupathi IPS, etc. were commendable. And now her child Nainika, who was born on 1st January 2011, is debuting with the "Vijay" starrer "Theri". It should be noted that Meena also debuted in the film industry as a child artist with the 1982 flick Nenjangal when she was six years old.

Actors are important for flicks, serials, and commercials. It is not enough if they are just present, but it is important for them to make their presence felt. They must influence and attract the audience. To make them look like how they should be, fashion designers, costume designers, and makeup artists play a very crucial role. Deepali Noor comes under such category, where she received major accolades, not just nationally, but also internationally.

Saindhavi is the female Tamil singer who sings for movies, TV serial, and albums. She was born on 3rd January, 1989. She excels both in light music as well as classical music. She started singing at the young age of 3. She is excellent in Carnatic music. From very young age, she has been performing in various temples as well as concerts. Till now she has performed in over 1500 concerts worldwide. She had her primary education from Chettinad Vidyashram School in RA Puram, in Chennai, India studied Sociology and Psychology. Saindhavi married her schoolmate and music director G V Prakash Kumar on 27th of June 2013 in Chennai, India. During her school days she decided to concentrate on her music career along with her education. She excelled in Carnatic music, Western music, and classical music. She also participated and won a music reality show on Vijay TV.

Indian playback singer and album artist Sonu Kakkar was born in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. Neha Kakkar, and Tony Kakkar are the siblings of Sonu kakkar. She started singing jaguars when she was five years old. She was the contestant of the V channel shows Indian Pop Star. Music director Sandeep Chowta gave her first song Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo, and this is the most famous song in her career.

Swaminathan is a talented and popular Tamil actor. He is a person with multidimensional talent. Swaminathan is an eminent Tamil movie and television actor and also an immensely talented stand-up comedian. His full name is Sabha Swaminathan also fondly known within the industry as Lollu. He’s been in the Tamil film and television circuit since the year 1997. He got his nickname after he appeared as Sabha Lollu in leading Tamil entertainment channel Vijay TV’s comedy satirical show Lollu Sabha.

A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud.  Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once upon a time in India.