Chaitra H G
Divya Raghavan
Indu Nagaraj
Sravana Bhargavi
Sunitha Upadrashta
Kodi Ramakrishna
Dhaval Gada
Sajid Qureshi
Santosh Nayak
Kailash Kher
Nakash Aziz
Shankar Mahadevan
Vijay Prakash
Imran Sardhariya
Stunt Director Ravi Varma
Thriller Manju
Vishnuvardhan
Darshan Thoogudeepa
Mukul Dev
Rajesh Vivek
Rangayana Raghu
Ravi Kale
Sadhu Kokila
Rajeev Tamil
1. Chaitra H G
Chaitra H G was born on June 18, 1984 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Chaitra’s father 'H S Gopinath' is an eminent tabla player and Indian Classical singer. Chaitra H G is a well-known playback singer and has provided vocals to over 500 songs in different languages like Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil. She attended Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore where she pursued her graduate studies in Information Science and Engineering.
She is also proficient in gymnastics and Olympic fencing. Chaitra also participated in state level championships and has won gold medals in state level championship in both the sports. She was the state level winner for three consecutive years. When she was eight years old, she was given a chance to lend her voice...
2. Divya Raghavan
Divya Raghavan, is also known as The Nightingale of Sugam Sangeeth, is a renowned playback singer of the Sandalwood industry. This melodious singer is working in the Kannada film industry for two decades.
From her school days in Sacred Heart Convent in Hubli, Divya never failed to mesmerize people with her melodious voice. Inspired by her aunt and singer Vijaya Vasudev, Divya began taking Carnatic music classes at 5. Manjula Gururaj and G.V. Atri trained this budding singer. After which, she moved to Bangalore and enrolled herself in Sri Kumaran’s school.
Divya gave her first stage performance in 1994 at Kuvempu Kalakshetra, after which there was no looking back. She became the runner-up of the music reality show Sa Re Ga Ma in the year 1999. This versatile and euphonious Sandalwood singer has sung seve...
3. Indu Nagaraj
Indu Nagaraj is a Kannada playback singer who primarily works in the Kanada film industry. She has a successful singing career and had achieved a Filmfare Award for the song "Pyarge Aagbittaite" from the film Govindaya Namaha in 2012. She was born into a musical family at Chilkunda village in Mysore, Karnataka. She was trained in Carnatic classical music and Sugama Sangeetha music under her father since her childhood. In 2005, she performed and participated together in the singing reality show Ede Thumbi Haaduvenu hosted and judged by acclaimed singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. Both of the sisters together performed at various events and were recognized in the name "Chilkunda Sisters”.
She got her first offer to act in a Television series Minchu , which was directed by T. N. Seetharam. By seeing her singing sk...
4. Sravana Bhargavi
Sravana Bhargavi is an Indian-Telugu Playback singer and recorded numerous songs in Telugu. Apart from singing, she has also dubbed for several films. As a graduate, Bhargavi holds bachelor's of Technology degree from Vignan Institute of Technology and Science, Hyderabad. She is presently pursuing Masters of Business Administration studies. Shravana first debuted in the area of playback singing with the Telugu song “Simhamanti Chinnode" from the film 'Simha' in the year 2010. She also sang the song "Ale Bale" for the movie 'Theenmaar' and "Bhoom Shakenaka" for the film 'Khaleja.' After having a successful career as a singer, she finally married to singer Vedala Hemachandra on February 14, 2013. Bhargavi has also hosted a show on 92.7 Big FM in Hyderabad, India.
She also...
5. Sunitha Upadrashta
She was born on May 10, 1978 in Guntur city of Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu Brahmin family. Her original name was Sunitha Upadrashta.
She started training at an age of 3 in Carnatic vocal and light music. She learnt music for eight years. At the age of fifteen she won national award for All India Radio. She began her career as playback singer in 1995 for the movie Gulabi (a musical hit Telugu cinema).
She worked as playback singer, anchor and dubbing artist. She got married very early at an age of 19, her husband Kiran also works for media. Couple got two children, son and a daughter.
She gave voice to famous heroines like Jyothika (wife of actor surya), Anushka Shetty (famous south Indian actress), Bhoomika(famous heroine in south Indian films), Charmi kaur (predominant telugu heroine), Laila, Meera Jas...
6. Kodi Ramakrishna
7. Dhaval Gada
Dhaval Jayantilal Gada, popularly known as DG, is an Indian film and TV producer. He is a young businessperson who is quickly turning into a power figure within the Hindi film industry and the television industry. Born to Hansa Gada and Hindi film maker Jayantilal Gada, Dhaval is an acclaimed producer and establisher of the famous PEN India Ltd, which is a movie production banner. He has a sister and a brother. He was born in Mumbai. He did his education from Pinewood International (Panchgani) and then finished his further studies in Mumbai.
As enthusiastic as he is about film making, Dhaval is also interested in Formula 1 and has pursued it since he was very young. He sought after his enthusiasm for auto racing and kept on making his imprint in the sector by winning many laurels. When he was 12 years old, he won...
8. Sajid Qureshi
Sajid Qureshi is an Indian film director, and writer and producer. He was born on 1 January 1970. He started his career as a film producer by producing a Kannada movie Nagarahavu(2016).
Prominent actors such as Diganth, Mukul Dev, and Ravi Kale played pivotal roles. He has worked predominantly in Telegu film Industry. He started his career in Bollywood by producing the movie Nanu Ki Janu which was a horror-comedy released in 2018 and directed by FarazHaider.
He has directed movies such as Bullet Rani, Pusthakam Lo Konni Pagelu Missing, Bad Boy, Fry Day starring Govinda.
...9. Santosh Nayak
Santosh Nayak is an Indian screenwriter and lyricist, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Govindaaya Namaha (2012). Mostly known for his major involvement in Kannada TV series, short films, and Sandalwood movies, Santosh has been a prominent part of the Indian film industry for more than ten years now.
The year 2012 was a crucial one for Santosh as he made his first decisive contribution on the silver screen with the film Govindaaya Namaha. Since then, he has often been admired and applauded by numerous critics and spectators for the remarkable creativity he showcases as a lyricist and screenwriter.
...10. Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from his childhood. He left his home at the age of 14, for learning music and took proper lessons from his guru.
After many attempts, he didn’t get the right teacher. He began to learn music, by listening to the classical music of Indian singers like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kumar Gaurav, Pandit Gokulotsa...
11. Nakash Aziz
Nakash Aziz, is an Indian playback singer and music composer in Bollywood industry. He was born on 24 February, 1985. Basically Nakash Aziz comes from a petit town Moodbidri, near Mangalore, Karnataka. He is well known for his hit songs like “Sari Ke Fall Sa” and “Gandi Baat”, both songs came from the movie ‘R… Rajkumar’ (2013) and another song ‘Dhating Nach’ from a film ‘Phata Poster Nikla Hero’ (2013). All these songs are picturised on ‘Shahid Kapoor’. Nakash has also assisted a very famous and “The Living Legend Composer and singer” Mr. A. R. Rehman on Hindi films such as ‘Delhi 6’,’I’, ‘Rockstar’, ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Highway’. Before becoming a playback singer he worked as music compos...
12. Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...
13. Vijay Prakash
Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force.
He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam movies. He has also hosted the renowned reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kannada and has also performed in shows with the great Indian percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain. Prakash is one of the four singers of the song ‘Jai Ho’, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The song also won a Grammy Award in the category ‘Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Medi...
14. Imran Sardhariya
Imran’s story is that of heart melting, emotional and romantic drama. Overcoming the obstacle of parental and societal opposition he eloped as a teenager. Before leaving, he promised his ladylove that he would return only after making something of himself. Well, he didn’t let her down. Born on 28th December 1979 to late Haji Ayub, Imran Sardhariya is a well-known choreographer and a film director of the Telugu and Kannada cinema. His wife Saniya is a costume designer. His shot to fame has been with the famous song ‘Stylo Stylo’. To add to his list of accomplishments, he has about 250 songs accredited to him and also the choreography of two Telugu movies – Josh and Chalaaki.
Trained under national film award-winning choreographer Mr. Jai Borade for five years, Imran...
15. Stunt Director Ravi Varma
Ravivarma is a stunt director of Indian movies. He is mainly a Kannada film action master. He came to limelight after being nominated for best stunt director for the movie “Kempe Gowda” (2011). Apart from that, he notably worked in “Vishnuvardhana”(2011). Verma became popular in Bollywood industry after his debut stunt direction in Salman Khan’s film “ Jai Ho”(2014) directed by Sohail Khan.
He has also worked as stunt master in Ajay Devgan’s Action Jackson(2014) directed by Prabhu Deva and Shahrukh Khan’s Happy New Year(2014) directed by Rohit Shetty. He is reported to have been hired as an action director for SRK’s upcoming movie “ Raees”(2016) too. Undoubtedly, Ravi Varma seems to be one of the very promising stunt directors i...
16. Thriller Manju
Thriller Manju is a person who has left no stone unturned in the field of cinema. A multitalented person, he is a director, a stunt director, an actor and a choreographer. He was born as Manjunatha Kumar in the city of Bengaluru in Karnataka. He has been working in the Kannada Film Industry since the year 1990. Manju entered the film industry through the movie Gejja Nadu in the year 1993. He started out as an actor and did small supporting roles in movies like Jana Nayaka and Shh! a thriller film in the 1990s. After a few stints in acting, he went on to become the captain of the ship that is the director. He ventured into filmmaking in the year 1996 through a cop movie. Thriller Manju, as his name suggests, made a thrilling and racy cop flick titled Police Story. This movie, whose story and screenplay were ...
17. Vishnuvardhan
Vishnuvardhan was born in Mysore. He attended high school and obtained degree at the National College, Bangalore. He adopted the name Vishnuvardhan at the insistence of Puttanna Kanagal, who was like is godfather and mentor, who also directed his maiden film, Naagarahaavu. This gave him the recognition of the ‘angry young man of Kannada cinema. “Ramachaari”, the character Vishnuvardhan played in Nagarahaavu, is still considered as among the best roles that have donned in Kannada cinema to date. Vishnuvardhan did not look back since then and went on to win many state honors and five film fare awards. Vishnuvardhan was popularly called by his fans as Sahasa Simha and Abhinava Bhargava.
Vishnuvardhan, a versatile actor, made his debut into the industry through "Vamshavruksha", directed by Girish Karnad in 1972, ...
18. Darshan Thoogudeepa
Darshan also known as Darshan Thoogudeep is an actor from South India well known for his roles mainly in Kannada movies. He is known to be one of the most famous and credible film stars in the Kannada cinema industry.
He was born on February 16th in the year 1977 in the city of Mysuru (then known as Mysore) in Karnataka. He was born to parents Meena and Thoogudeepa Srinivas (also known as Mysore Srinivas) one of the most well known evergreen actors in the history of Kannada cinema known for his notorious and villainous roles.
After his father had died in the year 1995, Darshan had to struggle a lot before he had found his way to being one of the stars in the cinema industry in Kannada. He had entered the field at a very humble note by...
19. Mukul Dev
Mukul Dev was born in Khatri Punjabi family. His father was a formal police commissioner of Delhi. He is a brother of a famous mode and actor “Rahul Dev” he completed his schooling from “St. Columba’s School, Delhi in 1998. Mukul is trained Pilot from “Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi”. He started his career from small screen television serial named “Mumkin”.
He plays a character named “Vijay Pandey”. His worked is appreciated and he got his first break in silver screen from movies “Dastak”. He played a character of A.C.P Rohit Malhotra were Miss Universe “Susmita sen” is in lead actress. Later he worked in many regional language movies like Punjabi movie- “Hawayein”, Heer and Hero, Telugu Movie -Nippu, Bejawara, Money Money more...
20. Rajesh Vivek
Rajesh Vivek is an Indian actor. He was born on 31st January 1949 in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. His parents are Raj Bahadur Upadhyay and Prem Kumari Upadhyay. He took Masters’ Degree in Ancient History and Archaeology from T D Degree College, Jaunpur. Rajesh started his career doing theater dramas as an actor. Shyam Benegal gave him a chance in his film Junoon, released in 1978, which became his debut film. Further, he acted in more than 40 Hindi films.
He is very much recognized for his role in ‘Lagaan –Once upon a time in India’ as Guran, ‘Swades’ as Postman, and ‘Jodha Akbar’ as Chughtai Khan. Interestingly all these three films are by the filmmaker Ashutosh Gowarikar. He was nominated for his role in Lagaan for Performance...
21. Rangayana Raghu
Rangayana Raghu was born on 30th November, 1963. He acts in Kannada film industry and his genre is comedy. Till date he has appeared over 100 films and most of them have been comic roles.
He began his career in theatre group by name Rangayana in Mysore, way back in 1988. His initial salary was just Rs 800 per month. He was supposed to make his debut with 1995 film Suggi, which was directed by award winning director Hamsalekha. Unfortunately, Suggi was shelved and never released.
His first major release was 2002 film Dhumm, starring Kiccha Sudeep and Rakshita directed by M.S. Ramesh. He went to act in films like Ranga SSLC, Rakshasa, and many more. However his best films till date are 2007 film Duniya and 2013 film Director's Special.
Duniya showcased Rag...
22. Ravi Kale
Ravi Kale is an Indian actor known for acting in Telugu, Kannada, Marathi and Bollywood movies. He rose to fame with movies like Sarkar (where he played Amitabh Bachchan’s right-hand man), Agyaat, Mylari etc. He also starred in AMR Ramesh’s movie Cyanide, where he was the mastermind behind Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination. The film showcased the aftermath of Rajiv Gandhi’s murder. He also played the role of a Naxalite in the movie Red Blood. Due to his acting abilities, he has made his presence known in both Malayalam and Marathi cinema.
As an actor, he does all his roles so well that he leaves his fellow actors awestruck with his acting ability. Recently when Namma Duniya Vijay started using social media to stay in touch with hi...
23. Sadhu Kokila
Sadhu Kokila is a Kannada actor who primarily works on comedy roles. He is also a director and music composer. Rakta Kanneeru, Om and Shhh are some of the movies that he directed and also acted. The Vijay starrer Devru was also directed by him.
Born on 24th March, 1966, Sadhu Kokila, also known as Kokila Sadhu, hails from a family of musically inclined people. His father was a violinist in a music group of Karnataka Police Department. His sister and mother are singers. Layendra, Kokila’s brother, is also an actor. Kokila pursued his schooling at St. Joseph’s Indian High School in Bangalore. Kannada star Upendra provided him with the name Sadhu Kokila.
Kokila kickstarted his career in the film industry as a musician and eventually he was referred to Kasturi Shankar, another m...
24. Rajeev Tamil
Rajeev is a popular Tamil actor, who had been working in Tamil and Malayalam films. He was born in Madurai as Rajashekar to Balasubramanya Mudaliyar and Rajeshwari Ammal. His father was a government employee working in Indian Telephone Industries in Bangalore. Rajeev did his schooling in Bangalore ITI Vidya Mandir. Rajeev was interested in acting during his school days. After graduating, he started to seek opportunities in cinema. In his initial stages, he was rejected by many of the filmmakers.
Frustrated Rajeev worked in Taj Coromandel in Chennai as a waiter. He participated in a dance competition and won the first prize. His colleagues and friends encouraged him to try again in the dream factory, after his victory in the contest. During his job hunt, ...