Padmalatha Ramanand
Rukmini Ashok Kumar
Sharanya Gopinath
Andrea Jeremiah
Pooja Kumar
Parvathy Thiruvothu
Parvathy Nair
Urvashi
Gautami Tadimalla
Ramesh Aravind
Rajesh M Selva
Kamal Haasan
N Lingusamy
Shyam Dutt
Viveka
Anitha Karthikeyan
Yazin Nizar
Lalgudi Ilayaraja
Mohan B Kere
T Ramesh
Anant Mahadevan
Shanmugarajan
Nassar
Ranjith K Govind
TS Ayyappan
K. Balachander
M Ghibran
Subbu Arumugam
Jayaram
Kasinadhuni Viswanath
M.S.Bhaskar
Chithra Lakshmanan
1. Padmalatha Ramanand
Padmalatha Ramanand is a South Indian playback singer. She was born on 15th of August in the southern metropolitan city, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has sung over 500 songs for more than 150 films that include her work in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, and Tulu. Apart from the songs, Padmalatha also takes interest in gingles, devotionals, and albums.
Her talent has fetched her many awards including President’s gold medal in All India Radio Music Competition. Some of her songs were also remarked by, BBC Asian network, in its top songs list. Padmalatha was born and brought up in Chennai. She did her schooling from GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya and later graduated from University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Her first ...
Gender:
Female
2. Rukmini Ashok Kumar
Rukmini Ashok Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who makes it big after singing the song Iraniyan Naadagam in Kamal Haasan’s 2015 Tamil drama-metafilm, Uttama Villain. Her journey started when she met music director Ghibran. She told him that she is a singer and wanted to work with him. Ghibran asked her to submit her demo CD and her journey starts from there. Through Uttama Villain, Kumar has sung her first released film song in Tamil. Kamal Haasan even sent his blessing letter to Kumar after singing for his film.
She also bagged the Best Song of the Year Award at the L.A. International Film Festival. Later, she also sang for music director Deva&rs...
Gender:
Female
3. Sharanya Gopinath
Sharanya Gopinath is a Tamilian vocalist. Sharanya Gopinath is a playback singer by profession. She is a musician who knows jazz, blues, pop, rock and funk music. Sharanya Gopinath was born on 19th December.She is originally from Kozhikode, Kerala, India. She has done her early education from CSI Bain School in Chennai, India. She has done her further education from National Institute of Fashion Technology. She was a Fashion Journalist at Myntra.
She was Senior Manager in Artists and Marketing Department at Amaranta Entertainment in Chennai, India. She also has the experience of working as a music and theater creativity trainer for children as well as actr...
Gender:
Female
4. Andrea Jeremiah
It is sometimes fascinating to read about how film stars, especially in the South, get into the industry from totally diverse fields, and with no conscious intentions to be in movies. Andrea Jeremiah’s career seems to fit into this category. Her childhood ambition was to go for higher studies and get to become a psychiatrist. But music was always in the background, as she started learning classical Western piano when she was just eight, and she quickly showed her prowess when she formed her own troupe called Young Stars which also was a precursor for her later singing and music composing career.
However, entry into acting came to her via the theatre route, as it was hard to refuse offers from Girish Karnad, in whose “...
Age:
43
Gender:
Female
5. Pooja Kumar
Pooja Kumar, is a renowned American actress,who is also a producer, model and a television presenter. She was born on February 4, 1977 at ‘St. Louis, Missouri, United States’ into a Mathur family. Her parents are immigrant from India. She has graduated with degrees in ‘Political Science and Finance’ from ‘Washington University’. She is also well trained in Indian Classical dance forms like ‘Bharatnatyam’, ‘Kuchipudi’ and ‘Kathak’.
One of the greatest achievements of Pooja Kumar was that, she was crowned as “Miss India USA”. She also worked as a newsreader on the show ‘Namaste America’. Pooja has been a VJ for channel V.
Pooja has also done Tamil films such as ‘Kaadhal Rojavae’ in 2000 as Pooja, Vishwaroopam in 2013 as Dr. ‘Nirupama Wasim’...
Age:
47
Gender:
Female
6. Parvathy Thiruvothu
Parvathi is an Indian actress and dubbing artist. Mainly, she is a Malayalam actress and has done a lot of Malayalam movies. She began her career as a Radio Programme Producer. She made her debut in the film industry with the movie, ‘Out Of Syllabus’. It was directed by renowned director Vishwanathan. He has given many great hits to the film industry. For many years, before she stepped in the film industry, she did a show on the radio where many celebrities were frequently interviewed. She is an actor, model, and an anchor as well. After doing the movie ‘Out Of Syllabus’, she did an ad film. After that, she was approached by Director Lijo Jose Pellissery for his next venture &lsqu...
Age:
36
Gender:
Female
Age:
36
Gender:
Female
7. Parvathy Nair
A confident girl, who knew ever since she performed in a college play that she wanted to be an actress- Parvathy was born in a Malayali family in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is an Indian model and actor. She completed her secondary education in Abu Dhabi and resumed senior secondary education in Kerala, India. Parvathy graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Software Engineering and worked for a brief period before committing to the silver screen. Before taking onto acting as a full-time job, Parvathy ventured into modelling and bagged the titles of “Miss Karnataka” in 2009 and “Miss Navy Queen” in 2010.
She became the face of Mysore Sandal Soap and appeared in many commercials. Nair began her acting career with a ...
Age:
31
Gender:
Female
8. Urvashi
Urvashi is the stage name of Kavitha Ranjini, a producer, film actress, TV anchor and a script writer from India. She was born on 1970 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Her father is Chavara V. P. Nair and her mother is Vijayalakshmi. Her siblings are actress and classical dancer, Kalaranjini, Malayalam actress and comedian, Kalpana Priyadarshini, Kamal Roy and Prince who is also a Malayalam actor. Urvashi has been married twice. Her first marriage was held on October 11, 2000 with actor Manoj K. Jayan but they got separated in year 2008 because of some differences. They have been divorced in Chennai and later separated by an order from the court. Urvashi’s daughter, Tejalakshmi or better known as Kunjatta now...
Age:
55
Gender:
Female
9. Gautami Tadimalla
Gautami Tadimalla is an actress who had a lot of competitors like Amala, Revathi, Shobana, or Khushboo, but yet this actress made her identity of her own in Tamil cinema. She was born in West Godavari (Andhra Pradesh) on 2nd July 1968. She was not beautiful or pretty in the traditional way, but she was indeed cute in many of her roles that she played with innocent looks. She had a good chemistry with all superstars of Tamil cinema like Kamal Hassan and Rajinikanth.
She was very much content to do all glamour roles mostly with Kamal Haasan. But she was equally at ease when she was paired with Sarath Kumar, Sathyaraj or Prabhu. She...
Age:
55
Gender:
Female
10. Ramesh Aravind
Ramesh Aravind [born 1964] is an Indian writer, actor, director and producer .He has also acted in few Tamil movies. He did his Mechanical Engineering from UVCE College, Bangalore. His movies are decent, wholesome family films with no vulgarities and crudities but always sensible entertainers.After success in Tamil films, Kannada film producers started noticing him. His performances in America America, Nammoora Mandara Hoove and Ulta Palta gathered him huge fame. Over the years, Ramesh has starred in several hit memorable Tamil movies like “Duet”, “Keladi Kanmani” and “Rhythm”. Ramesh Aravind decided to work full time in Kannada film industry 14 years ago even while his career in Tamil cinema had just started....
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
11. Rajesh M Selva
Rajesh Selva is the man who had the privilege of directing the Universal Star Dr. Kamal Haasan. Rajesh is a young and vibrant Filmmaker and a screenplay writer in Kollywood. Even as a kid, Rajesh was active in extracurricular activities, especially in Music. He did his schooling in Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School at Chetpet. There he started a band called as Shenanigans, in the year 1999 along with his friends. He completed a degree in Visual Communication from the popular Loyola College, Chennai, in the year 2005.
Rajesh was not aware of his Filmmaking talent and wanted to make it big in the field of Music. His love for Music made him start a company for recording albums, called as Design Selva, in the year 2005...
Age:
43
Gender:
Male
12. Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan is the most versatile actor that India had ever witnessed. His innovative performances have been acclaimed worldwide. He is known for his passion for dance forms, action, and his enthusiasm for new concepts in movies. He is one of the most unforgettable actors in India. Born in 1954, Kamal Haasan has a never ending passion for Indian Cinema. He is still acting in movies. Though he belongs to Kollywood Industry his movies are much appreciated in Bollywood and Tollywood as well.
Just like any other actor, Kamal had to struggle for that one Break-through too. His first hit was through drama ‘Apoorva Raagangal’, in 1975. Haasan was appreciated across states for his exemplary performance in &l...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
13. N Lingusamy
Lingusamy is the well known Indian film director, who is popular for his family scripts. He was born on November 14, 1967. Lakshmipuram in Tamilnadu is Lingusamy’s native. He worked as the assistant to “A Venkatesh” and “Vikraman.” His career as a director started in the year 2001, through the “Mammootty” starrer, “Anandham.” His first movie got him the Best Film Award at Filmfare by Cinema Express. He got consecutive success through “R Madhavan” starrer, “Run” and Vishal Reddy flick “Sandakozhi.” Lingusamy also owns a production house along with his brother Subash Chandra Bose, called, “Thirrupathi Brothers.&rdquo...
Age:
56
Gender:
Male
14. Shyam Dutt
Shyam Dutt is an Indian Cinematographer who has predominantly worked in Indian Film Industry. He hails from Punalur, Kerala and was born in a middle-class family. Shyam Dutt grew up in Punalur with his parents and two siblings, one sister and one brother. He completed his schooling at Govt. Boys School, Punalur. He was always more into sports and drama rather than his studies. Although, he used to score good marks. He used to be an athlete at his school and presented his school at various school level competitions and won many of them. He has also reached the national level at the inter-school sports meet. He also used to do acting while he was in his school. Shyam Dutt used to be the part of his school’s drama team. He has played ...
Gender:
Male
15. Viveka
Viveka is a lyricist, who works in the Tamil film industry of South India. Viveka started as a lyricist in the year 2015. Viveka was born in 1985, and currently resides in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. Before venturing into the film industry, Viveka studied engineering and then law. Inspired by the work of Vairamuthu, a famous lyricist of the Tamil industry, he also began penning down poems. In the year 2015, he received his first breakthrough movie, “Enakkul Oruvan”, for which he wrote the lyrics of the songs “Poo Avizhum Pozhudhil”, and “Yaar”. After that, there was no looking back for this star lyricist. In the same year, he wrote lyrics for movies like “36 Vayadhinile”, &q...
16. Anitha Karthikeyan
Born on December 13, Anitha Karthikeyan is a Tamil playback vocalist. She is the daughter of Mr. K. Venkatanarsimhan and Dr. V. Mathuram. She comes from a family of artists. She completed BSc Computer Science from Ethiraj College and got her post graduate degree from M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women. She likewise got prepared in classical, western under the direction of Augustin Paul from Trinity College of London and Hindustani music from Mrs. Megna Dandekar. In 2007, she made her debut in the movie Marudhamalai by D. Imman, the music director. Under his compositions, she got the chance to explore various genres.
The melody 'Shokku Sundari' from movie Aindhaam Pad...
Gender:
Male
17. Yazin Nizar
Yazin Nizar is a prominent name in the South Indian Music industry. He is an excellent Playback singer singing in various language movies which include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies.
He is known for his melodious voice and specializes in various genres such as Classical, Sufi, Ghazal, Rock, Pop and many others. This talented singer was born on 9 February 1990 in the beautiful city of Kollam in Kerala. His passion and interest for music were spotted by his father, and he quickly enrolled his son for Indian classical music lessons. He age was eight at that time.
He slowly emerged as a talented and good singer winning music c...
Age:
34
Gender:
Male
18. Lalgudi Ilayaraja
Lalagudi N Ilayaraja is an Art Director from Lalagudi, a town in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. He did his schooling from Government Higher Secondary School situated in Lalagudi. He completed his degree from the Government College of Fine Arts, Kumbakonam which was affiliated to the Bharathithasan University at that time. Hehas worked on several projects including Yuvan Yuvathi and Veattai Manam. He also worked with some of the most prominent actors,directors and producers of the Indian, Tamil and Telugu film industry.
He worked as an Art Director in the films UttamaVillan (2015) and Vishwaroopam(2013), which hadone of the best actors of Telugu film industry, Kamal Hassan. During his contribution to the film Kaththi (2014), he ...
Gender:
Male
19. Mohan B Kere
Mohan B Kere works in the Indian film industry as an Art Director. He mainly works in the Kannada Film Industry. Mohan was born on 25th May and currently lives in Bangalore, Karnataka. Mohan B Kere is married to Rekha and is the father of two children. He started his career from the film titled Krishna, which released in 2007, produced by Ramesh Yadav and directed by M. D. Sridhar. Mohan has also created the 3D painting in the field. Mohan has contributed his production designing skills in Kannada Film Industry for more than a hundred movies and still showing up in many more movies....
Gender:
Male
20. T Ramesh
T. Ramesh is a Tamil Stunt Director who has worked in several films in the TamilNadu Film industry. He has been staying in Chennai and has been moving around the country for his work, but is mainly based in Chennai. He is considered as an expert in his work and is known for his stunts in the Mandira Bedi starrer Manmadhan Ambu, which was released in 2010, for R. Parthiepan starrer Ambuli, which was released in the year 2012, for Charmy Kaur starrer Mantra 2, which was released in 2013 and for Bobby Simha starrer Aaaah, which was released in the year 2014.
He also worked as the Stunt Coordinator for the India-leg shooting of the Rajnikanth starrer Lingaa (2014). He worked a...
Gender:
Male
21. Anant Mahadevan
Anant Mahadaven is one of the oldest and most experienced Television and movie actors in the industry. He started his three decade long career way back in 1980’s and has been very active since then in both movies and on television. Anant Mahadevan was born and bought up in Kerala, India. Anant started his career playing small time roles in movies where his acting was much appreciated every time he shared a space on silver screen. Just after spending some time in the industry he made a very good name for himself and was rated one of the best supporting actors of his era.
His parts in the blockbuster movies such as 'Akele Hum Akele Tum', and 'Ishq', made Anant a household face. Over the years Anant Mahadaven w...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
22. Shanmugarajan
He is an Indian supporting actor in the film industry. He has mostly worked in the Tamil film industry. He was born on 24th October 1974. He is an alumnus of The American College in Madurai and the National School of Drama. In 2004, he was introduced in the industry by Kamal Hasan in the action movie Virumaandi; after that, he worked in Madhurey in the same year.
Besides this, he also worked in Sivappathigaram (2006), Sandakozhi (2005), Anniyan (2005). In 2007 he worked with Rajinikanth in Sivaji, also featured in Mariyadhai (2009), Quick Gun Murugun (2009), etc. He came in the limelight in 2015 after working in Maari followed by Bairavaa in 2017. He is still working as an actor in the Tamil industry....
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
23. Nassar
Nassar is one of the multi talented actors in the Indian cinema industry. He has achieved various awards for his acting performance. He is not only an actor, but a producer and a good director too. Mehaboob Nassar is his full name and Nassar remained as his stage name. He is married to Kameela and has three children. His debut was through Kalyana Agathigal, a Balachander movie. He has acted in various films with different roles. Most of his roles depict him as a villain. After few years of his successful villain roles, he jumped to character roles that yielded him fame. He did a good role in Roja as a good Police Officer. His role in Thevar Magan made him to get a good name. He made his debut as a director through Avatha...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
24. 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...
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
25. TS Ayyappan
T S Ayyappan is a playback singer and Carnatic vocalist from Kerala. He has sung not only in the Malayalam Film industry as well as in Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu film industries. He has released many albums of Carnatic music, which were of great success. Ayyappan has also won the prestigious Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award in his career till now. T.S Ayyappan was born in Kerala and presently resides in Kerala. Ayyappan had a keen interest in Carnatic music, and he had been learning Carnatic music from T.K Gopalakrishnan since childhood.
Later, he started learning from S. Ramanathan and R.K Srikantan. Ayyapan made his breakthrough in the year 2013 by making his debut in the Malayalam film Ayyanin Sabari Natham as a playback ...
Gender:
Male
26. K. Balachander
Kailasam Balachander or most popularly known as K. Balachander is a legendary film producer, director and screenwriter who dedicate his life in the film industry for almost half of his life. He was born on July 9, 1930 in a Tamil family in the Tanjore District of Nannilam, Madras Presidency, British India. He stated that, since his eight year, he’s been seeing cinema and as he recalls, he remembers that his interest and passion towards the cinema grew after he watched the films of the renowned Tamil actor and producer, M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. At 12, he has done theatre and drama, which subsequently helped him in developing his passion for writing, acting and directing. He studied Zoology...
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
27. M Ghibran
Ghibran is a Music composer in Indian film industry. As one among his experiences, initially, he worked as the composer for ad-films where he was the main composer for more than 800 television commercial jingles covering various languages. After that, he shifted his career towards music composing in Indian Films. From Trinity College London he completed his Grade 8 in Music Theory and Piano. From LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore he obtained the degree in Classical music composition and film scoring under the guidance of Lindsay Vickery from Australia. He has his studio situated at Chennai. Ghibran was born in Coimbatore. He cultivated his interests in music at the age of ten by seeing the performance of...
Age:
43
Gender:
Male
28. Subbu Arumugam
Born in 1928, in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, Subbu Arumugam is the South Indian musician and lyricist. He finished his studies from St. Xavier School of Palayamkottai and Tirunelveli Mantra Murthy High school. After that, he put in three years learning "Madurai Tamil Sangam" in Tamil dialect. The writer received testaments, degrees, grants, and awards from school age. He gained from a CD containing points of interest of these subtle elements. He completed a lot of work on Tamil radio and TV and is by a wide range the most unmistakable defender of Villupattu. His work becomes out of the "society" execution type, Villupattu. The artist composed the book "Kumaran Paattu" at sixteen years old. He trained in the Vil...
29. Jayaram
Born on December 10 1965, Jayaram’s main region of interest is the Malayalam film industry, though he had acted in some Tamil films too. Jayaram entered the Malayalam film industry with “Aparan” which was directed by Padma Rajan. They both worked together in two more films. Jayaram was known for his films Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal, Georgootty C/O Georgootty, Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam and Thoovalsparsham.
During the 90s his films with Rajasenan turned to be commercially successful. The family ...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
30. Kasinadhuni Viswanath
Kasinadhuni Viswanath is a famous south Indian film actor, writer, director. He is from Repalle, Andhra Pradesh. Kasinathuni Viswanath’s father’s name was Subrahmanyam and mother’s name was saraswathamma. He married Jaya lakshmi and he has 3 children and their names are Ravindhranath, Nagendhranath and Padhmavathi. And he has 4 grand children: pranav, hema, swarna, and naren. His mother tongue is Telugu and he can speak Telugu, Tamil, and English. He is having 57 years of working experience in film industry. He got many awards like Nandi awards, National-film awards, Filmfare awards, etc. He did many hit films like shankara baranam, sagara sangamam, etc. He had done many bollywood films like sargam, san...
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
31. 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.
