1. 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.
...2. Anupama Parameshwaran
Born on February 18, 1996, this young flattering face is making her debut in an in a Malayalam Film called Premam. She is an Indian actress born to Parameshwaran and Sunitha Parameshwaran in Irinjalakuda in Kottayam district, Kerala. She is currently pursuing her degree in BA Communicative English at CMS College Kottayam. Anupama does not have any prior experience in the showbiz. In fact, she applied for the auditions for this role through Facebook. She played the role of Mary, The first young crush of the character George in his higher secondary school. Despite the role being small, she won the hearts of her audience through her fresh look and performance. Prenam 2015 is a Malayalam super hit film written, edited, and directed by Alphonse Putharen, produced by Anwar Rasheed while staring superstars such as NivinPauly. The movie, released on 29 May 2015 had a high budget of 4 crores which paid off as the movie is considered as a blockbuster. Anupama believes that she has a lot to thank for, especially as not everyone gets a chance to act side by side a great actor such as Nivin Pauly. She took this opportunity as a great learning experience for her future films and is excited as more work is coming her way.
...3. Trivikram Srinivas
Trivikram Srinivas, a Telugu director and writer, who brought out a need for new marketing strategy for Telugu film makers. He had always presented and structured to carve out the original marketing plan that was required in Tollywood then. His clever promotion strategies than he had planned, for example, for a film like’’ Athadu’’, he made the film in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam languages. Later, the same film was dubbed into Polish language for Poland people. The film’s satellite in Telugu circuit was sold to a whooping sum of $45 million then, and it became the top grosser in 2005. His next flick in 2008 was Jalsa which had released in 1000 theatres and the film grossed $220 million in just 50 days. Later on, he continued with the same formula for Khaleja (2010) which did not meet the same expectation which he had, the film became just an average grosser. This filmmaker had always pitched or his every film project according to his audiences, and then went to define a target audience for his project’s promotional strategy. But why was drawn to such marketing? Because, his first film Nuvve Nuvve’’ was superhit which had new comer Tarun Kumar and Shriya Saran playing the lead. Success of this film really inspired the director to bring a new trend in marketing films. He has directed many stars of Tollywood such as Mahesh Babu, Trisha, Pawan Kalyan, Ileana D'Cruz, Allu Arjun, Upendra, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who were just ultimate superstars. Although he was a dialogue writer he had penned lyrics ( film Oka Raju Oka Rani) and rendered his voice too for his own film “Nuvve Nuvve”.
...4. Nithiin
Nithin Reddy is an actor, playback singer and even producer in Tollywood. After giving three super hits like ‘ Jayam’, ‘Dil’ and ‘Sye’, he almost joined the league of big heroes in Telugu film industry, But after a series of flops, his career entirely sunk below expectations and he tried his hand as producer. For his soft nature and chocolate-hero look, he was liked by female audiences a lot. After Sye, many of his films did not match the expectations of the viewers, and he was pushed out of the big- star-league status of Kollywood heroes list. Nobody knows what actually went wrong with this promising star. Anyway, a film like ‘’Chinnadana Nee Kosam" and ‘Courier Boy Kalyan’ has saved his star-status, and he is still the hottest hunk of Tollywood.
...5. Mickey J Meyer
Mickey J Meyer is an Indian origin talented persona. He took birth in Hyderabad and is on the voyage of Carnatic music since then. He contributed mainly to Telugu and Kannada cinema. He completed his degree in music at Trinity College of music and studied at St. Mary’s College. Meyer’s sense of music stands different and is a harmonious mixture of western as well as traditional Indian. Mickey got his music inspiration from A.R Rahman. His music dream came into light after passing out from Trinity College of Music. His career as music director began from the movie Pothe Poni, which was followed by 10th Class. After this, he gave music in Notebook. Success came to his life while working with Sekhar Kammula for Happy Days. Happy Days received a phenomenal response and Mickey got appreciated for his work. He also turned to music composer for the above- mentioned movie and fetched many famous awards. He grabbed Flimfare Awards South as well as Nandi Award for Happy Days.
...6. Natarajan Subramaniam
Natarajan Subramaniam is a cinematographer turned actor of the Kollywood. At the beginning, of his career, he even worked as a marriage photographer and a videographer. Natarajan decided to quit his school at the age of 18 and neither did he go to college.
...7. Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao- The most wanted editor for the directors of Indian Cinema. He was born in David in Krishna district which is located in Andhra Pradesh. Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao is a film editor in Telugu cinema industry. He is not only an editor but he also produces a lot of films. He started his career in the year 1977. He lived in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. And he served as the president of Andhra Pradesh film federation along with his younger brother Kotagiri Gopal Rao. He had been in that post for almost six years. He married Sujatha and he has two daughters namely Padmaja and Neeraja.
...8. S. Radha Krishna
S Radha Krishna, also known as ‘China Babu’, is a famous film producer known for his immense contribution to Telugu cinema. Born in the town of Tenali, Andhra Pradesh, Radha Krishna used to work in the world of insurance marketing for 25 years. However, it did not stop a cinema enthusiast to try his luck in movie production. So, Radha Krishna decided to venture into production with “Atma Kadha”, helmed by V Madhusudhana Rao in 1988. Cited as a remake of Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt’s “Janam”, the film starred Mohan, Sarath Babu, Khushboo, and Jayasudha. But the film did not live up to expectations and was a box-office flop.
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