1. Lipsika
Lipsika is a playback singer by profession in the Indian film industry who works predominantly in the Telugu film industry. Her record labels include Aditya Music, Puri Sangeet, Silly Monks Music, Mango Music, Lahari Music, and Saregama. She has worked in many movies such as Chalo, Express Raja, Hyper, Brand Babu, Sailaja Reddy’s Son-in-Law, MaraaTelupana Priya, KothaKothagaVunnadi, Ye MantramVesave, NaannaNenuNaa Boyfriends, Kotha Janta, Nee Jathaleka, Hyderabad Love Story, Premikudu, Lava Kusa, Vajralu Kavala Nayana, Jyothi Lakshmi, Padesave, Romance With Finance, Jagannayakudu, Kulfi, RenduRelluAaru, Madhura Swapna, Andamaina Maya, Gulf, PadamatiSandhyaraga…, Ayyo Rama, Biskett, NRI, First Love, NuvvuNenuOseyOsey, Rajmahal, Aloukika, and Band Baaja.
Some of her music albums include Ring Tone, Ko...
2. Nanditha Raj
Nanditha Raj is a South Indian actress; mainly works in Telugu Film Industry. She was born on 30th August 1994 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her father is an army officer holding Colonel post. She did her schooling from Army schools and took her degree in Hyderabad from Francis College. Nanditha grabbed the role in the film ‘Naaku Naaku Dash Dash’ (2012) by beating 70,000 aspirants from the auditions taken place all over the state; Teja was the director of the film.
She was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actress- Telugu for her second film ‘Prema Katha Chithram’. She did her first film in Malayalam in 2014, named, ‘London Bridge’ starring Prithviraj Sukumaran.
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3. R Chandru
R Chandru is an Indian Film Writer, Producer, and Director. He works in the Kannada Film Industry. He was born in Keshavavara Sidlagatta Thaluk, Karnataka. His parents were farmers.
Chandru also worked as a part-time farmer for a while. Chandru started his career as a Director with the Kannada film “Taj Mahal” in 2008. He then directed the Kannada films Prem Kahaani (2009), Mylari (2010), Ko Ko (2012), Charminar (2013), Brahma (2014), Lakshmana (2016), Kanaka (2018), and I Love You (2019).
Chandru made his debut as a producer with the film “Charminar” (2013). He later produced the films Male (2015), Kanaka (2018), and I Love You (2019). He made his debut in Telugu Film Industry with the remake of his film Charminar (2013). The name of the film is Krishnamma kalipindiiddarini (2015) which starred ...
4. Hari
Hari is a Tamil director and was born in Katchana vilai near Nazareth in Tuticorin District. His father, Gopal Nadar, is a vessel merchant. Later for his schooling and graduation they moved to Chennai. Once he plunged into the filming, he began as an assistant director with K Natraj in the movie ‘Valli’ and some more projects like ‘Parthen Rasithen’, ‘Amarkalam’ with the director Saran.
Then he worked with the legendary director K Balachander in a movie ‘Kalki’. After that, he was married to an Actor’s daughter Preetha Vijayakumar and now they have three sons. Director Hari is always into action-oriented commercial movies.
Some of his works include ‘Singam’ (I II & III), ‘Saamy’, ‘Kovil’, ‘Arul’, ‘Ayya&r...
5. Nakul Abhyankar
Nakul Abhyankar is a playback singer who works in the South Indian film industry. He was born on the 25th of May 1990 at Belthangady, Karnataka. He completed his graduation from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Karnataka in Mechanical Engineering. He is a trained Carnatic musician. Nakul sings songs in various languages such as Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Tulu. He made his debut in the year 2013 with the song called Usiragu Baare from a Kannada movie named Janma.
Some of his recognized work includes CEO in the house from Sarkar (Tamil movie), Kelambitale Vijayalakshmi from Kaatrin Mozhi (Tamil movie), Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Da Ni, Party Anthem, and Kaurava from the Kannada film named Happy New Year, and Thelike Nalike from a Tulu movie called Ice cream.
6. Sunil Kashyap
Sunil Kashyap is a music composer and singer in Tollywood, and his rise has been a real phenomenon . After getting super acclaim for the Tamil and Telugu version of the song from ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, which was composed by A. R. Rahman, the viewers kept asking for more such melody numbers from him. Interestingly, before getting a break in A. R. Rahman’s musical masterpiece film ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, Sunil was a participant in a singing reality TV show, ‘Oh Laa Laa’, where A. R. Rahman was the judge. Fascinated by his voice, Rahman gave the talented singer his first chance. It is said that even Sunil’s brother, Anil Kashyap, and sister, Gayathri, are now singers.
Since 2009, he has been giving music to the Telugu film industry, but his latest album from the movie ‘Oka Ma...
7. Sudheer Babu
Sudheer Babu is an Indian actor working in the Telugu film industry. He is the brother-in-law of Mahesh Babu, Telugu actor. Sudheer had his career in the sports as a professional badminton player. After some time, he made the transition to Telugu film industry. Sudheer first debuted in Telugu film industry with the film SMS, the short form of 'Siva Manasulo Sruthi'. He has also played the supporting role in the 2010's Romantic-Drama movie 'Ye Maaya Chesave'.
Sudheer's the second film, Directed by J. Prabhakar was 'Prem Katha,' was very well perceived by the audience. In 2013, he played the role of 'Siddhu' in 'Aadu Magaadra Bujji'. Siddhu falls in love with Indu played by Asmita Sood. Indu being the sister of Ranadheer, who...
8. Mahesh Babu
Born on 9 August 1975 in Chennai, Mahesh Ghattamaneni is a South-Indian actor and philanthropist. He was born and brought up in Chennai. His father is Krishna Ghattamaneni, a yesteryear superstar of the Telugu film industry. Mahesh Babu completed his schooling at St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School and graduated from Loyola College with a bachelor’s degree in commerce. He further underwent training in acting from director L. Satyanand. Mahesh first faced the cameras when he was just four. His debut was in ‘Needa’ and did nine films in total as a child artist. In 1999, he debuted opposite Preity Zinta in ‘Rajakumarudu,’ a rom-com Telugu film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film got him his first Nandi award as well. He is best known for hi...
9. Giri Babu
Giri Babu is an Indian actor, producer and director. He was born as Seshagiri Rao Yerra on June 8, 1943 in Ravinuthala, Prakasam District in Andhra Pradesh. He has acted in more than 550 films in the span of 39 years. Giri is the father of the Telugu comedian actor, Raghu Babu and the aspiring actor, Bose Babu. He got married at the age of 20 to Sridevi and aside from Raghu and Bose, they also have a daughter named Madhavi. Giri made his debut in the year 1973 through the movie Jagame Maya, with his best friend, Murali Mohan. In an interview in year 2012, Giri stated that he is actually the one who launched the Jayabheri Art Pictures, a production company founded by Mohan and his brother Jayabheri Kishore Duggirala. He adds that he and Mohan intended to make movies thro...
10. Posani Krishna Murali
Posani Krishna Murali is a Telugu celebrity actor, who was born in the year 1958 in Secunderabad. He is well known to the Andhra people as a director, producer, writer and an actor. Almost all the films in his directions were commercially hit and he retains the title as a successful director. He has been the story writer for more than 100 films and succeeded in that too. Posani Krishna Murali was the elder brother in their family with two sisters and a brother. He got his Master of Arts degree from the Acharya Nagarjuna University.
After the death of his father, the entire burden of his family fell with Murali. He managed with his chit fund job, somehow. As he did not get satisfaction from the job, he resigned it and went to Chennai in search of work. He found Paruchuri Gopala Krishna and joined as his assistant. He compl...
11. Sapthagiri
Sapthagiri is a Telugu comedian who hails from Punganur, Chittoor District. His actual name is “Prabhu Prasad”. But, as per the numerology, he changed it to ''Saptagiri” for the acting field. Saptagiri started his acting career with Bhaskar's film Parugu. Before pursuing acting, he worked as an assistant director. Sapthagiri earned the name as Brahmanandam for his fame in low budget comedy movies. Sapthagiri is a Tollywood film actor, who works in Telugu movies. Saptagiri is famous for his film Parugu, that released in the year 2008. He has acted in more than eight movies in that year alone, and all of the movies brought great success at the box office.
This string of successful movies got him recognition in the Telugu Cinema Industry. In th...
12. M S Narayana
M.S. Narayana was a film Telugu actor in South India. He was born on 16 April 1951 at Nidamarru, Andhra Pradesh. He has acted in more than 750 films. He was born to Mailavarapu Bapi Raju and Venkata Subbamma.
His debut as an actor came up with the movie Pedarayudu in 1995. He is a writer and director too. He was primarily known for his comedy roles, that he did in movies. He best played drunkard role and was very famous for that. And he had played this drunkard role in more than 200 movies. He had got a unique talent of making everyone laugh at his dialogues. His comedy timing was perfect, and he was very enjoyable to watch. He had married M.V. Kala Prapoorna and had two children with her.
His direction debut came whe...
13. Vedala Hemachandra
Hemachandra is a music director and a playback singer of Telugu Industry. He is from Hyderabad. He became famous since he stood 2nd runner-up in the singing competition at the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge in the year 2005. He took training in Carnatic music. He was trained by Vedala Sasikala Swamy, his mother. He was also trained at the Hyderabad's Government Music College at the Hindustani music. He completed his schooling in Hyderabad at the All Saints High School, and he completed his graduation in Animation and Multimedia. He is the cousin of a popular playback singer, N.C. Karunya. He was married to Sravana Bhargavi, a South Indian playback singer, who has recorded several Telugu songs. They got engaged on 9th December 2012 and were married to each other on 14th February 2013. Niluvave song from the movie' Lakshyam' was hi...
14. K S Chandrasekhar
KS Chandrasekhar, a notable Kannada cinematographer, pursued his cinematography course before taking up film cinematography. Later, he was associated with an advertisement agency. 7 0 clock was his debut movie. He was a successful cinematographer of his time. Gunavantha, Mylari, and Taj Mahal are some of his notable works. KS Chandrasekhar worked as a cameraman for every movie directed by R Chandru.
...15. Haricharan Seshadri
Haricharan Seshadri is an eminent Carnatic singer who gives his vocal in many Malayalam, Tamil, and other regional movies. He made his debut through the Tamil flick ‘Kadal’, in which he got the chance to sing two solo songs "Unakkena Iruppaen" and the title song "Kaadhal". In the same movie, he also had sung a duet song ‘Thottu Thottu’ with Harini Shankar.
Haricharan was born on March 20, 1987, in Chennai. His early generation proves that they were a typical Palakkad Iyer family, and his father was a B-grade artist in AIR and even a bank employee. Haricharan had taken Carnatic classical musical training since age 7 and then had privileged to learn musical lessons from stalwarts like K. V. Narayanaswamy, T.M.P...
16. Lagadapati Sridhar
Lagadapati Shridhar is a Gemini person born on 14th June 1968 in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh to Mr. Rama Naidu and Mrs. Rama Lakshmamma. He did his secondary schooling at Loyola Public School in Guntur and continued his higher education in Siddharth Arts College, Vijayawada. He graduated in Engineering from Siddaganga Institute Of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka, India. Later, he went to the US to complete his Masters in Construction Management. He is married to Sirisha. He is youngest among the siblings, Padma Garlapati, Rajagopal, and Madhusudhan.
In around 1995, Sridhar joined Lanco Infratech Limited as the Joint Managing Director. Sridhar continued to take his steps forward by first being the company's Managing Director and continued to be its Vice-Chairman. Sirinus En...