Keerthana
Shreya Ghoshal
Surabhi Sravani
Jayasudha
Sudha
Nayanthara
Shweta Mohan
Roja Selvamani
KS Chithra
K.R. Vijaya
Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
Ilaiyaraaja
Tippu
Shadab Rayeen
Adel Adili
Nandamuri Balakrishna
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam
Brahmanandam
Meka Srikanth
Murali Mohan
Raghunatha Reddy
Sameer
Vindu Dara Singh
S P Balasubrahmanyam
Mannava Balayya
Yalamanchili Sai Babu
GG Krishna Rao
1. Keerthana
Keerthana is a film and television actress, who has done lead and supporting roles during the 90s. She has acted in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. She also worked in Tamil television serials.
In 1992, Keerthana debuted in the Tamil film, Naalaiya Theerpu, alongside Vijay in the lead role. This film marked Vijay’s debut. This was followed by K. S. Ravikumar’s Suriyan Chandiran, where she acted with Anand Babu and Saravanan in the lead roles. In the year 1994, Keerthana played as Seetha Lakshmi in the Tamil action film, Pathavi Pramanam. After this, she went on to appear in several Tamil films including Pavithra in 1994; Thai Thangai Paasam and Mannai Thottu Kumbidanum in 1995 (where she acted opposite Selva); Maanbumigu Maanavan in 1996; in 1996 he acted w...
2. Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became ...
3. Surabhi Sravani
Surabhi Sravani is a devotional singer. She has sung many single songs. He has also released many music videos. The names of some of her music albums are Sri Rama Rajyam (2011), Jai Shri Ram (2023), Waiting For You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019), Kaala Bhairava Ashtakam (2023), and Sri Saileela Gaana Lahari (2009). She is also called to perform in many live shows. The names of some of her famous songs are Dandakam (2011), Krishna, Jai Shri Ram (2023), Ugadi, Manasila Nemmadiga (2019), Thalape Korina (2019), Kaala Bhairava Ashtakam (2023), Yemo Yemo, and Dayaamayaa (2009). She also won many awards for her singing. She has acted in films including Raani (2021)- directed by Raghavendra Kathare, and Ee Dooram (2021)- directed and written by Chandu Satya.
...4. Jayasudha
Born on 17 December 1958 Jayasudha is predominantly a Telugu actress, though she has worked in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada films too. She was born in Chennai, but her mother tongue is Telugu. Her aunt, Vijaya Nirmala has acted in Telugu films and she is a director too.
Jayasudha entered into films during the age of 12; she acted in a Telugu film named Pandanti Kapuram. Later, she did a minute role in K Balachander’s Arangetram. She worked with K Balachander in several films. Her original name is Sujatha and she changed it to Jayasudha. The Telugu film industry welcomed her and she worked in many good films there. The greatest credit to her acting prowess...
5. Sudha
Sudha is a well-known Telugu cum Tamil mother role artist. She is popular in the Tamil industry for her role in Duet with Prabhu and Ramesh Aravind. Sudha usually performed in character roles when she was young. She has acted as the sister of almost all the top heroes and has acted as their mother after a few years. Sudha was seen in the film Guru Sishyan as the sister of Rajini and Prabhu. Later she acted as Prabhu’s stepmother in the movie Duet, directed by Balachander. From the late '80s till now, Sudha has performed many roles that expose her acting talent. She has also acted as a mother goddess in Raghavendra Mahatmyam.
Whatever character she undertakes, Sudha holds on to that role tightly and lives as the character in a natural way. She has done hundreds of movies as the mother of the Heroes and Heroines, and he...
6. Nayanthara
Nayantara also called as Nayanthara Kurian, is a renowned Indian actress from Kerala. She was born on 18th November in the year 1984 in Bangalore that is situated in Indian province Karnataka. Her actual name is ‘Diana Mariam Kurian’ the daughter of ‘Omana Kurian’ and ‘Kurian Kodiyatto’. Due to her father’s service, she stayed in several places of India. She joined in “Mar Thoma College” for attending her B.A in English Literature. Besides study she also initiated her modeling career.
As she was indifferent towards building her career in the film industry she denied her first offer, but at last she agreed to do the film ‘Manassinakkare’ where she was casted opposite Jayaram. This was a financially successf...
7. Shweta Mohan
Shweta Mohan is a female playback singer in Indian cinema who is also the daughter of playback singer Sujatha Mohan. Like her mother, she also had sung in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born on 19 November 1985 in Chennai. In fact, earlier she was a bit hesitant to take up singing as her career. But as she sung, she enjoyed singing very much. Had not she been in singing, she could have opted for doing MBA and got settled other way.
Shweta grew up watching her mother sing and eventually looked her as a role model for her life. She has always aspired to be like her. Taking inspiration from her mother’s versatile career in Indian cinema, she eventually made her ground too in film music. She is well...
8. Roja Selvamani
She has completed her degree in ‘Political Science’ and she has also learnt, Kuchipudi. She was a dancerwho later moved to the film industry. Roja started her career with Telugu movies; her first experience in films was with the movie ‘Prema Thapassu’, the movie was completely sh...
9. KS Chithra
Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...
10. K.R. Vijaya
K.R Vijaya is a famous south Indian actress. Vijaya was born in the year 1948 in Kerala. She was brought up in Tamil Nadu and her parents were theatre artists. Vijaya’s original name was Devyani. Her parents faced serious financial woes as they struggled to make the end meet. Vijaya was a gifted dancer and she started stage performances at a very young age. One of the leading directors noticed her performance and offered her a break in movies. Vijaya who started her acting career more than 50 years back had a dream run studded with success and glorious achievements. Her debut movie was Karpagam. Later she completed more than four hundred movies in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi. Vijaya married a famous businessman, Velayudhan and she has a daughter named Hema Latha.
This extremely beautiful and gra...
11. Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
Mullapudi Venkata Ramana (June 28, 1931-February 24, 2011) was a Telugu Story & Screenplay Writer. Critics regard him as one of the best Storywriters of contemporary Telugu Film Industry. He was primarily known for his humorous style of writing. He also created a popular cartoon character named Budugu. He was versatile storywriter & could etch both heart-warming & hilarious dialogues with the same ease. He created many memorable characters in the film industry like Radha, Gopalam (Muthyala Muggu) & Tutti (Mister Pellam). Mullapudi Venkata Ramana was born in a middle-class family in a rural area called Dhowleshwaram near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. Ramana had two siblings to take care, one elder sister & one younger brother when his father passed away. Ramana was just nine years old when...
12. Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with symphonic orchestration.
He was also the first Asian to organize a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and became the first Indian to compose a complete symphony. He has won three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background score. He had also received the Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.
13. Tippu
Tippu is a playback singer of Indian cinema. He has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages. He has lent his voice to over 4000 songs in the four south Indian languages. His voice for Puneeth Rajkumar went well with the audience. Shiva Shiva Hoguthidde, Hey Hey Paaru, etc are some of his hit songs. His association with music director V Harikrishna is very famous. Tippu has sung for Tamil music composers A R Rahman, Imman, Harris Jayaraj, and Joshua Sridhar.
He has sung the hit Tamil songs Venmathi Venmathi, O Mama from Minnale. The movie had Madhavan in the lead role. Tippu is married to the famous Indian playback singer Harini. Tippu began singing when he was at the age of 19. He received the Karnataka State Film Award and the Kalaimamani Award by Tamilnadu Government for his playback singing.
...14. Shadab Rayeen
Shadab Rayeen was born on 6th June 1980 in Patna, Bihar, India. He did his schooling at St. Anne’s High School. Now lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is currently working as a Sound Engineer working in the Indian Film Industry, predominantly in Bollywood. He became famous for the mix he did for ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ and received an award at the International Indian Film Academy Awards. Some of his great works are- ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ released in 2013, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ in 2008, ‘Master’ it is to be released in 2021, ‘Kabir Singh’ in 2019, “Jodhaa Akbar’ in 2008, ‘Aisha’ in 2008, ‘English Vinglish’ in 2012, ‘Bang Bang!’ in 2014, ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ in 2020 and many more. He is active on ...
15. Adel Adili
Adel Adili is the VFX Creative Director at the Makuta VFX. Adel completed his education with a Bachelor of Arts & eventually in Fine Arts. After that, Adel Adili chose CG (Computer Graphics) as his field of expertise, passion & profession. Adel Adili has worked prosperously in the Film Industry for over seven years. Some of the great projects/films that Adel Adili has worked on include Enthiran (2010), Bahubali : The Beginning (2015), and the marvelous movie that won & been nominated in the exclusive award shows, The Oscars(2023 ) & The Golden Globe Awards(2023) : RRR (2022). According to Adel Adili's past interviews, one of his most challenging works was while working on both the Bahubali projects.
...16. Nandamuri Balakrishna
Nandamuri Balakrishna usually called as Nata Simham is a veteran Telugu actor and son of Telugu legendary actor,Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Sr.Ntr. He was born on 10 June 1960 in Chennai. He completed his schooling and early life in Chennai. He married Vasundhara and he is the father of Nara Brahmini, Tejaswini and MokshagnaTeja. Brahmini is the daughter-in-law of Andhra Chief Minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu.
With his father as the Telugu matinee idol Sr.NTR it has become Bala Krishna’s duty to continue his father’s legacy as Telugu hero. He has been successful in doing it so. Though he acted as child artist in few films he debuted as full-time hero with Sahasame Vupiri. He acted in brother’s role for his father in few films like Dana Veera Sura Karna, Srimadvirataparvam. He turn...
17. Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Akkineni Nageswara Rao is undoubtedly the ‘Bhisma Pitamah’ of Telugu cinema. Even after few decades not any actor have reached the status that he had achieved. He was also a naturalistic actor who inherited theatrical approach in acting and perhaps of his such approach; he could deliver the high-drama scenes that were indeed Telugu cinema’s landmark films even.
Nageswara Rao bagged the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest honorary award for achievement in Indian cinema. The reason he is considered ‘Bhisma Peetamah’ is because he was instrumental in locating Telugu cinema to Hyderabad. He not only shifted his residence from Madras to Hyderabad but even shifted the idea of the shooting of Telugu films in Hyderabad even that gave a fi...
18. Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam
Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam is a renowned Telugu actor, who was born in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh. He was born to Veera Raghavayya and Shiva Kameshwary in the year 1957. He entered the Telugu film industry through the film Mister Pellam, in the year 1993. He was introduced by the popular director Bapu. His entry with the comedy role made him to reach the audience well and he was supported well by the audience in many more comedy roles. Madam, Yamaleela, Allari premikudu, Super Police, Vajram, Vinodham, Aavida Ma Aavide, Raja, Pardesi, Yuvaraju, Chithram, Indra, Gangotri, The Rite, a Passion, King and Pavithra are some of his films. He also directed films and produced some too. He has also produced films such as Ori Ni Prema Bangaaram Kanu and uncle. Ori Ni Prema Bangaaram Kanu has one more specialty and yes, it is directed by...
19. Brahmanandam
Brahmanandam was born on 1st February 1956. He was the seventh son to Kanneganti Nagalingachari and Kannaganti Lakshmi Narsamma. He completed his high schooling from a high school at Sattenapalle. He later pursued his intermediate and graduation from D.N.R College, Bhimavaram. He completed his post graduation in Telugu literature from Andhra University. Before becoming an actor, Brahmanandam had worked as a lecturer in Atthilli for nine years.
Brahmanandam is considered as one of the most versatile Indian comic actors, noted particularly for his comic expressions. He has gone ahead to receive many accolades in the world. In the year 2007, he was in the Guinness World Record for appearing in the highest number of films...
20. Meka Srikanth
Meka Srikanth, born in Gangavathi, Karnataka (23 March 1968), currently placed at Hyderabad, is an Indian film Telugu actor. He did his graduation (B.Com.) from CSI College Of Commerce Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka and even got a diploma from the film institute. He is married to Ooha and has two sons and a daughter.
Srikanth’s first ever movie was Madhura Nagarilo, opposite Nirosha, in 1991. His first hit movie Taj Mahal was released in 1995, produced by Dr. D. Ramanaidu and directed by Muppalaneni Siva. His other hits include Varasudu, Maa Nannaki Pelli (1997 Tollywood film), Khadgam, Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. (remake of Bollywood film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.), etc.
He has played many minor plays and is seen in more than 100 Telugu films, few of them being President Gari Pellam (lead actors Me...
21. Murali Mohan
22. Raghunatha Reddy
Raghunatha Reddy was born in Vijayawada. His full name is Kalakota Raghunatha Reddy. His father’s name is Krishna Reddy and his mother’s name is Samrajyamma. His wife’s name is Annapurna. He has three children named Sudha Laxmi, Aruna and Sudhakar Reddy. His mother tongue is Telugu and he knows Hindi and English languages. He studied PUC. Reading books is his hobby.
Raghunatha Reddy is a Telugu film and TV actor. He is known for his acting in the Telugu films- Sainikudu, Premincukundam Raa, Orey Rickshaw Chimala Dandu and Sri Rama Rajyam.
Raghunatha Reddy has stage experience from 1966 to 1996. He has acted in 370 films. He has acted in supporting roles in most of his films. He has entered the film industry with the Telugu film Sarpayagam in the year 1991. This film was directed...
23. Sameer
Sameer is an Indian Lyricist. He writes songs for the Hindi Cinema. His real name is Shitala Pandey. However, he is fondly called Rajan. He was born on 24th February in 1958 in a small town near Banaras, Uttar Pradesh. He completed his studies from Banaras Hindu University which is situated in Varanasi. He earned a post-graduation degree in Master of Commerce. Following his post-graduation, he started working for Central Bank of India as a Bank Officer. Although, after only a few days, he left his job because he didn’t have a knack for banking. In the year 1980, he moved to Mumbai to pursue his career as a lyricist. He started his journey as a lyricist in the year 1983 with the flick Bekhabar. The first film song written and recorded by him was Maar Ke Kataaree Mar Jaibe.
The Bhojpuri song was from the movie Bairi Saawan ...
24. Vindu Dara Singh
Normally it is the trend of a son to go to his father’s profession. He tries to follow the footprint of his father. Vindu Dara Singh, has tried to emulate his father Dara Singh, who a wrestler and transformed into an actor. Vindu Dara Singh is a television and film actor was born on 6th May,1964 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He followed his father in acting, but not in the field of Wrestling. In 1994 he began his film career with his debut film ‘Karan’. And next he performed in a Punjabi film, directed by his father Dara Singh. The title of the film ‘Rab Dian Rakhan ’was released in 1996. Thereafter he played many roles in different films,but mostly played supportive roles.
He is a powerful actor and has played different types of role in varied mo...
25. S P Balasubrahmanyam
S P Balasubrahmanyam is still considered to be one among the best musicians in the past three decades, in spite of the surge of various new comers. This legendary singer is reputed for his intense voice, profound knowledge of music, and a style of singing which is appreciated even today. SPB, as he is fondly called, has given his voice for more than 30000 songs. His name is recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records for singing several songs in a short span of time. He has sung the most in Telugu, the next being Tamil. He has also given his beautiful voice for Sanskrit slokas.
Other than Telugu and Tamil SPB has sung in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada too. SPB also tried his luck a...
27. Yalamanchili Sai Babu
Yalamanchili Sai Babu has not only contributed to the Indian cinema, but he is a visionary who has participated in voluntary works to help many people. He has educated children and had also produced films for the Tollywood film industry. Yalamanchili Sai Babu has also created jobs for the under privileged.
Yalamanchili Sai Babu was born in Andhra Pradesh in the Kanumuru Krishna district. His parents are Smt.Vijayalakshmi and Sri.YMG Nageswara Rao (S/0 Surah Yalamanchilli). He pursued his post-graduate level in Commerce at the Kanpur Christ College. Since his youth, he was very clear on what he wanted to do. He wanted to help the under the ladder citizen. Yalamanchili Sai Babu has also shown an interest in different kind of business fields.