1. Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
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. With...
3. Justin Prabhakaran
Justin Prabhakaran is a Tamil soundtrack composer and film score. He is also a forthcoming music director. He marked his debut with Tamil film, Pannaiyarum Padminiyum in 2014. Although, he shot to fame with the film Kunjiramayanam, which was in Malayali. The songs included Ayyayyo Ayyayyo, Salsa, Paavaada and Thumba Poove Sundari. He is also a composer and has penned some songs. In his debut, he also sang the song also debuting as a playback singer. Justin belongs to Madurai and has a resident over there. In his childhood, he was addicted to music and became a keyboard player for his church choir. He had also participated in Television reality show and won the show as a composer for his composing tunes. He also knows hoe to play guitar.
He did his graduation from Madurai's American College in Zoology. In his these college d...
4. Vikranth
Vikranth is an Indian actor in Kollywood. Being a relative (cousin) to superstar Vijay, his debut looked a bit promising. Unlike his cousin Vijay, Vikranth failed to make a mark in Kollywood as an actor. Every film that he had acted only pushed him into the black hole of ‘flop’ dom. However, his first release ‘Karka Kasadara’ in 2005 set many eyes on him as a promising actor but the film flopped, and he failed to make any mark in Kollywood.
His movies like Mudhal Kanave (2007), Nenjathai Killathe (2008), Engal Aasan (2009), Goripalayam (2010), Muthukku Muthaaga (2010) and Sattapadi Kutram (2011) almost ended his career as an actor. Since 2005, he had, at least, one release in every year (except 2006). Only in the year 2010, he had two subsequent r...
5. R Manikandan
R Manikandan is an Indian artist working in the Tamil Film Industry. He received his higher degrees in interior design and later turned his profession into VFX. He has been a known VFX artist since 2010. R Manikandan, also known as Manikandan Rajendran, worked on the making of films and commercials. He worked on the making of films like Mosadi, Thondan, Ini Avane, and Kuttikalundu Sookshikkuka. In all these films, Manikandan worked as a VFX lead. He also worked as the VFX lead for Old (2021). R Manikandan is skilled in animations and other related computer languages. He often posts those animations and images on his profiles including YouTube, and Instagram.
...6. 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...
7. Yugabharathi
Yugabharathi is an Indian lyricist and poet. He specializes in writing Tamil poems and Tamil songs. He was born in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu. Yugabharathi’s real name is Prem Kumar, but he changed it to Yugabharathi as it was his pen name for his poems. Yugabharathi completed his Matriculation from Maxwell Matriculation Higher Secondary School. He also has a Diploma in Engineering from Government Polytechnic College. He started his career as a poet in early 90’s and wrote poems for various Tamil magazines. He changed his name to Yugabharathi to honor his idol Subramanya Bharathi. He started his career as a lyricist with the movie Aanandham. He wrote lyrics for Pallankuzhiyin in the movie. After that, he wrote lyrics for many songs. His first work as a successful lyricist came out in t...
8. Dhivagar Santhosh
On twenty-six January 1990, a legendary singer was born and named Dhivagar Santhosh. Also called as Diwakar, this playback Indian singer gained his popularity by winning the season 4 of Airtel super singer in the category of Tamil musical television reality show. Dhivagar Santhosh comes from a middle-class family who worked hard to create his successful image in the Tollywood industry. His parents are Santhosh and Ragini Kumar. He is the third brother of the family and has two elder brothers named Murali and Ravikumar. Dhivagar Santhosh was born and brought up in Chennai, he studied at the GWAT boys higher secondary school found in Vadagarai, Red Hills of Chennai. After school, he decided to pursue his higher education at the JHA Agarsen College at Madhavaram.
Since a child, Dhivagar Santhosh was dedicated to his dream of being...
9. Sean Roldan
Sean Roldan is an upcoming Tamil musician and his birth name is Raghavendra Raja Rao. Raghavendra is the son of well-known Mridangam player Srimushnam V Raja Rao and the Padma, the daughter of novelist Sandilyan. His birthplace is Chennai Raghavendra chose his stage name as Sean Roldan to get rid of the Carnatic image he had and to drift towards something new. Raghavendra has worked on Carnatic, independent and film soundtracks for the Tamil Industry.
He came into light for his work in Balaji Mohan’s bilingual ‘Vaayi Moodi Pesavum|Samsaaran Arogyathinu Haanikaaram (2014). After working as an independent musician for few years Raghavendra decided to start a band along with his friends and there came into existence the band ‘Sean Roldan and Friends’. Raghavendra played lead vocalist a...
10. T Udhaya Kumar
T Udhaya Kumar is a sound designer, predominantly working in Tamil film industry. He has worked in movies including Vivegam, Ulkuthu, Kodiveeran, Podhuvaga En Manasu Thangam, Dora, Kuttram 23, Chennai 600028 II, Kidari, Miruthan etc.Â
...11. Balu Thankachan
Balu Thankachan is a Malayalam sound mixer and a playback singer. He founded 20dB Soundstudios and serves as its founder, audio mixing/mastering engineer, and music designer. He attended Vadavucode's Rajarshi Memorial High School and attended St. Alberts College. He is from Kochi, India, and resides in Chennai. He is married to Neethu George, and the two are parents to a boy. Vikram Vedha (2017), Enai Noki Paayum Thota (2019), and Dear Comrade are works by Balu Thankachan (2019)He won the Radio mirchi award for music mixing engineer of the decade for "Parayuvaan" and the Radio mirchi award for "Kizhakkupookkum" (Anwar), "Appangalembadum" (Ustad Hotel), and "Yaanji" (Vikram Vedha). He performed mix engineering duties for the Malayalam film Minnal Murali (2021).
...12. Ganja Karuppu
13. Soori
Soori is a South Indian actor in Kollywood. His nickname is “Parotta Soori’ which has been derived from his Tamil movie that he had acted. In 2009, he acted in a film ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’(2009) where a scene was shot with a crew of actors, who sit together and eat Parotta by keeping a challenge who eats more Parotta’s. In this scene, Parotta Soori performed his best, so people coined his name as Parotta Soori. Basically, he appeared as a comedian in many Tamil movies. After the film became a blockbuster, he never looked back. He is doing five to six films in a year. Today, this dusky lad with the moustache look has placed him in line with other comedians like Vadivelu, Santhanam and Goundamani. He is in peak of his career today playing comedian roles and doing a nu...
14. Pradeep Kumar Vijayakumar
Pradeep Vijay is a Tamil and Telegu playback singer. He sang many Indian hit songs and the audience liked them. He also sang three songs which hit the top charts in the southern part of India. Pradeep Vijay also got the opportunity to sing for one of the Rajnikanth's movie. Not only that, from his childhood days he had a keen interest in singing and decided to pursue his career in the industry. Moreover, his dedication and efforts have been a key for his success in the music industry. Pradeep Vijay started singing at a very early age and also performed stage shows during his initial days.
In 2012 a Tamil film was released called Pizza, one of its famous song was sung by him. It was his first biggest break, and he also composed and sang Mogathirai song.The film Pizza was so unexpectedly upon supernatural hor...
15. Nikkil Murugan
Nikkil Murugan is one of the leading PROs in the Tamil film industry. He has been the PRO for legends including Rajinikanth and Kamal haasan. He was acclaimed as the best communication man by India Today. Nikil, as he is also called, has also taken the role of media manager of Kamal Haasan for several years. The wide coverage of Kollywood movies throughout the world is done by him. He is also closely associated with music director A R Rahman. Nikkil Murugan is regarded as very media friendly. He believes in the efficient application of technology for his PR communications. He has been associated with more than 200 movies. Born on 1967, Nikkil Murugan also had close association with ace directors Shankar and Maniratnam. He can communicate in over 5 languages.
...