Anna Katharina Valayil
Divya Menon
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Sri Divya
Parvathy Thiruvothu
Sriranjani
Actress Rekha
Raai Laxmi
Paris Laxmi
Saranya Ponvannan
Prasad V Potluri
Madhan Karky
Viveka
Karthik
Sachin Warrier
Vijay Yesudas
T Udhaya Kumar
Marthand K Venkatesh
Arya
Bobby Simha
Rana Daggubati
Pattimandram Raja
Prakash Raj
Sajid Yahiya
Sijoy Varghese
M.S.Bhaskar
Gopi Sundar
Bommarillu Bhaskar
Palani Bharathi
K V Guhan
Amir Riaz K Ahmed
1. Anna Katharina Valayil
Anna Katharina Valayil who was born in Kottayam is a musician from India who has sung many songs in Tamil and Malayalam films. She became popular after her first hit single named Appangalembadum for the movie named Ustad Hotel which is a Malayalam movie and also won a National Award.
Her father‘s name is Valayil Joseph Varghese and her mother’s name is Mini Varghese. She also has a younger brother named “Becky Mary Valayil.” Her father worked in Nigeria in chemical company Drury Industries as Administrating Manager. So, she spent her initial days of young age at Nigeria till her father resigned his job. Anna’s father is from “Pakalomattam.” She completed her higher studies from Choice School situated in Tripunithara. Then she wen...
2. Divya Menon
Divya finished her fashion designing course at NIFT, Kolkata. She joined Sabyasachi Mukherjee after her course as an assistant designer. She even used to do modelling for him sometimes. Her first debut movie in the industry was " Detective Byomkesh Bakshy". She was offered the movie by director-producer Dibakar Banerjee through Sabyasachi Mukherjee. When she walked in for the interview, she had negative thoughts about the results and thought that she lost the role, but she was soon shortlisted and selected to play the role of Satyavati, wife of Byomkesh Bakshi. Her co-actors in the movie were Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari and Swastika Mukherjee.
The movie was based on fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The movie did we...
3. 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.
The Year 2013 was a happening year for this southern beauty; she got the Filmfare award for Best Actress in both Telugu and Tamil. This feat was accomplished only by actress Revathi earlier. Samantha got the award for her performances in the films Neethane En Pon Vasantham and Eega. The Telugu films Attarintiki Daredi and Manam also gained her awards. Samantha did her schooling in Chennai and holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce. Samantha once admitted that, she pursued m...
4. Sri Divya
She was born on 25 May 1991 in Hyderabad, Telangana. She pursued her secondary school education in Kendriya Vidyalaya. She attended school very rarely and was busy with shooting as a child artist. She has an elder sister Sri Ramya, who is also an actress. She started her career at the age of three as a child artist. She appeared in films like ‘Hanuman Junction,’ ‘Yuvaraju (starring Mahesh Babu),’ and ‘Veede (starring mass hero Ravi Teja).’ She acted in about ten movies as a child artist. She also acted in many small screen soaps and shows. She acted in the serial ‘Ruthuragalu,’ a daily mega hit serial on Doordarshan as a child artist.
She debuted as Heroine in 2010 through a movie named ‘Manasara’ directed by Ravi Babu. Her first commercial su...
5. 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 ‘Double Barrel’.
She had to work a lot for this film as ...
6. Sriranjani
Sriranjani is an Indian actress known for her work in the Tamil film industry. She started her career in television series directed by K. Balachander in 2000. She later took the role Madhavan's sister-in-law when she was offered the role in Alaipayuthey by Mani Ratnam. She has also played the role of Nandini's mother in the film Anniyan by S. Shankar and produced by V. Ravichandran. In 2006, she appeared as Srimathy’s mother in Thimiru. In 2012, Sriranjani appeared in the Bollywood film “Ek Deewana Tha” which was produced and directed by Gautam Menon.
Apart from this, she has appeared in Neethane En Ponvasantham and Kadhali Sodhappu Yeppadi's Telugu versions too. Later in 2013, Sriranjani played the character of Dhanlakshmi in Var...
7. Actress Rekha
Rekha is a popular South Indian actress, who was born in the year 1970 in Kerala. Her birth name is Josephine and she changed her name to Rekha as the stage name. She completed her education in Ooty. She was introduced to the cinema industry through the veteran Tamil film director Bharathiraja. Kadalora Kavithaigal was her debut movie in the year 1986 and she performed as a teacher in that movie quite naturally. She was accompanied by Sathyaraj and Raja in that movie. It was a hit movie and Rekha was popularly called as Kadalora Kavithaigal Rekha. In the next year, she was called upon by the legendary director Balachandar to appear as a guest in his movie. She immediately nodded her head to him and that movie is Punnagai Mannan, in which she did opposite Kamal Hassan.
He...
8. Raai Laxmi
Raai Laxmi or Lakshmi Rai is a famous South Indian actress and model. She was born on 5 May, 1989, in Bangalore, Karnataka. She did many ad-films before entering films. She worked as model for Fair & Lovely, Bru Coffee, Sarvana stores, etc., A director saw her talent and gave her a chance to act in a Tamil film. Hence, Raai Laxmi debuted with a Tamil film called Karka Kasadara. After the film she got many film chances and acted in numerous Tamil films. She acted in various genre movies like comedy, drama, and action, simultaneously. She played a comedy role in her next film, Kundakka Mandakka, and her other important films in Kollywood are Dharmapuri, and Nenjal Thodu. Her role as a lawyer in the movie, Dhaam Dhoom, directed by Jeeva, gained her critics appreciation. She won a Filmfare for the same film.
Sh...
9. Paris Laxmi
A French citizen but Indian from heart Paris Laxmi is one of the most renowned Bharat Natyam dancers who steals our heart not only from her dance but also from her grace and diligence. Paris was born in France on July 16, 1991. Her birth name was Myriam Sophia Lakshmi Quinio. It is said that true talent can never be acquired but it is born and Laxmi is a living example of this fact. She belongs to a family, where the passion of art runs in the blood. Her father Mr. Yves Quinino is a popular poet and drama artist.
Her mother Mrs. Patricia Quinio is a renowned sculptor. Her brother Q.Narayan plays drums of different styles which includes jazz and classical orchestra but this young gentleman is not restricted to foreign styles but plays tabla and mridangam with Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam, the Mridangam Maestro. Th...
10. Saranya Ponvannan
Saranya Ponvannan is one of the best actresses in the last three decades of the Tamil film and TV industry has seen. She first made her entry into the industry by playing the lead role alongside Kamal Haasan in the blockbuster movie ‘ Nayakan’ directed by Mani Ratnam. She played a res-cued sex worker and pulled off the role with panache. She is the daughter of Malayalam director A.B Raj and is married to a fellow actor Ponvannan with whom she has two daughters.
Post her marriage she took an eight-year hiatus after essaying lead roles until the beginning of the 90’s. After eight years she started accepting meaty roles that had powerful characters in movies and serials. She is so versatile that she can pull off comedy, emotional and dark ...
11. Prasad V Potluri
Prasad V Potluri was born on September 8, 1970, in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India to Raghavendra Rao and Mangatara Devi. He did his higher secondary from NSM Public School, Vijayawada and completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Nagarjuna University. Popularly known as PVP, Prasad is a Philanthropist, Educationalist, and Serial Entrepreneur. He is married to Jhansi Sureddi and has two children, one son (Param) and one daughter (Pearl). He is the Co-Owner of Kerala Blasters F.C. (One of the teams in the Indian Super League), Owner of Hyderabad HotShots (Indian Badminton League) and PVP Cinemas, Strategic Investor in Maven Corp and Karvy Consultants,
Founding investor of CBay Systems, and chief patron of Prasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technolog...
12. Madhan Karky
Madhan Karky Vairamuthu was born on March 10, 1980. He lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his education from College of Engineering, Guindy and University of Queensland. He is an Indian lyricist, software engineer, a professor, research associate, and a film dialogue writer. His parents are Vairamuthu and Ponmani; his father is a poet and a lyricist.
He is their eldest son. In 2001 at the college of engineering, Guindy he completed his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Further in the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia he completed his Post Graduation and Ph.D. in information technology in 2004. In 2010 he became a lyricist for the science fiction film Enthiran. For this film, he wrote the song "Irumbile Oru Irudhaiyam." He also assisted the director S. Shankar in w...
13. 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”, "Indru Netru Naalai", “Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam”, and “144”. These i...
14. Karthik
15. Sachin Warrier
Sachin Warrier is an Indian composer and playback singer in the Malayalam film industry. He comes from Kerala. He became famous with the track Muthuchippi Poloru from the movie Thattathin Marayathu. Sachin started his career with the film Malarvaadi Arts Club. He had worked as a software engineer in TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) in Kochi. Later, he left the job to focus more on music. He recently worked as a music composer for the film Aanandam.
Sachin took birth in Calicut, and brought up in Kottakkal, in Malappuram district. Sachin completed his graduation in engineering at FISAT, Kerala. He started his career in playback singing when he was studying in college, in the year 2010, for the film Malarvaadi Arts Club. He later joined TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) and continued for three years.
During this period, Sach...
16. Vijay Yesudas
Vijay Yesudas (Born: 23rd March, 1979) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer from Chennai. He is known for his work predominantly in the south Indian film Industry, especially Malayalam, and Tamil films as well as in other Indian Languages such as Telegu, Kannada, and Hindi.
Vijay is the son of prominent singer K.J. Yesudas and the grandson of stage singer Augustine Joseph. His mother’s name is Prabha, and he is the second son of the family. He studied in Chennai until the 9th grade and moved to the US for further studies. He graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A in Music.
Vijay Yesudas started learning Carnatic music in early 2000. He is popular for his songs with composer Yuvan S...
17. T Udhaya Kumar
T Udhaya Kumar is a sound designer, predominantly working in Tamil film industry. He has worked in movies including Vivegam, Ulkuthu, Kodiveeran, Podhuvaga En Manasu Thangam, Dora, Kuttram 23, Chennai 600028 II, Kidari, Miruthan etc.
...18. Marthand K Venkatesh
Marthand K Venkatesh is a well known professional film editor who is mainly recognized for his works in Telugu cinema or Tollywood. He was born as the son of the famous K. M. Marthand, the most renowned film editor in the Telugu film industry and as the nephew of B. A. Subba Rao, a legendary director in the Tollywood film industry. As a young boy, he used to visit his father’s office where he saw him work. After a certain period, his father, K. M. Marthand had become an alcohol addict and his health quickly declined due to increased consumption of alcohol. Due to this, young Venkatesh had offered to assist his father with his editing, all while he was still doing his higher secondary education.
Marthand made his debut into the field of film editing after he had an honest conversation with filmmaker, K. Raghavendra Rao. D...
19. Arya
Joining the ranks of Malayalaee born actors who have chosen Tamil filmdom was Jamshed Cethirakath. He even changed his name as per the prevailing custom, to ‘Arya’, encouraged his brother Sathya to follow suit, and made him join Tamil cinema too. However, earlier in life when selecting a course of studies he may not have been very clear about the future course of his life, making him choose an engineering course in Computer Science in Chennai, rather than selecting any of the other options in Chennai relating to the performing arts. As he grew up, his family’s links with Chennai grew stronger, and his father currently owns one of the favourite Arabian food joints in the upmarket Anna Nagar locality of Chennai.
20. Bobby Simha
The transformation of Bobby Jayasimha of remote Kodaikanal to Bobby Simha of the Chennai film industry has not been without the inevitable twists and turns that normally affect those striving to enter films from humbler backgrounds.
While still in college he was duped by some people who offered him roles in TV serials only to find that it was a hoax. While this was a setback of sorts, it did help him complete his studies in college and also strengthened his resolve to join films. Even after moving to Chennai, however, he had to wait for his dreams to come true, working in the meantime on various odd jobs to meet both end meet. His search ended when he met a couple of short film makers, who detecting the potential in Simha, took him on board and ended up with two fine short fil...
21. Rana Daggubati
Rana Daggubati is a famous Indian actor. He was born on 14 December, 1984 in Chennai. Rana is the grandson of legendary producer Daggubati Rama Naidu and son of the producer, D.Suresh Babu. He is the nephew of Venkatesh.. Rana has completed his entire childhood and schooling in Chennai. Rana has also done Photography course in Konica institute of Imaging and Technology. Before acting, Rana was an entrepreneur and his company name is Spirit Media. He was a successful Digital Post entrepreneur. His company has won Nandi award for special effects for the movie Sainikudu. Born with silver spoon in his mouth, Rana has not struggled a lot for movie chances.
He has the responsibility to continue his family legacy as a good actor. He made his debut with the Telugu film, Leader in 2010 directed by Sekhar Kammula. He act...
22. Pattimandram Raja
Pattimandram Raja is a Tamil movie actor and debate speaker, who rose to fame as a speaker on Sun TV’s debate talk show, Pattimandram. He was born as Simson Raja on May 1, 1959, in Keezhamathur, Thuvariman. He took a Bachelor of Commerce at the American College in Madurai and an M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication at the Madurai Kamaraj University. Subsequently, he got employed at the United Bank of India in Madurai. He traveled for 15 years with Solomon Pappaiah, a renowned Indian scholar, and TV icon, who is also the moderator of the show, Pattimandram.
Raja entered the film industry as an actor in the year 2007 through S. Shankar’s Tamil masala film, Sivaji. He appeared in a fatherly role in films like Guru En Aalu (2009), Mappillai (2011), Ko (2011)...
23. Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004....
24. Sajid Yahiya
Sajid Yahiya is a new generation star in Mollywood who is bitten by the acting bug. He came to limelight for his performance in movies like 'Bangalore Days" and "Friday", and now is placing high hopes in direction too. Sajid is making his directorial debut with his film ‘Inspector Dawood Ibrahim’. The film is co-written by Arouz Irfan, who is the actor’s cousin. The film marks the directorial debut of both Arouz Irfan and Sajid Yahiya. Interestingly, the duo has also penned the script and dialogues of the movie. The film poster has already been released in the industry circle. The shooting had commenced from March 2015 onwards.
Sajid Yahiya made his debut in a small role in ‘Collector’ that released in 2011 and the movie was declared a hit. Late...
25. Sijoy Varghese
Sijoy Varghese is a versatile performer in Malayalam cinema. He has been an indefatigable creative force for the past two decades whether it is shooting a commercial advertisement for television or associating himself as an actor or screenwriter thus keeping impact in several celluloid films at one go. Back to his creativity, he has taken his first three chapters of film – acting, assistant scriptwriter, and assistant director in his kitty and grew up as the founder of leading advertising agencies, marketers & brands in TV commercials in Mumbai.
He set up in the year 2005 his own advertisement agency in Mumbai as a managing director of ‘TVC Factory’ which is a leading advertisement film production house that has offices in Dubai, Kochi, and Mumbai. He made his acting debut in the year 2013...
26. 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.
27. Gopi Sundar
The precious icon of the Indian music industry, Gopi Sundar has composed his soulful music for more than fifty movies to date. In 2014, he composed the songs & background score for the Malayalam movie "1983" and was awarded the National Award.the movie got a good critic rating of 3.5 out of 5.abrid shine, the debut director of the movie was awarded the Kerala State Awards in the category of the best debut director. Alongside the film bagged two more awards for the category of best & second best actor in the same award ceremony of 2014. He was born in Kochi & opted for joining the music industry for his career. Gopi has a good knowledge of instruments like Tabla & keyboard & has worked as a keyboard programmer in some of Bollywood hit films.
28. Bommarillu Bhaskar
Bhaskar is well-known for his movie Bommarillu. The movie became a box-office hit. Critics lauded Bhaskar for his efforts as director after watching the movie. Bhaskar took one and a half years to come out with a wonderful plot for the movie Bommarillu.
Bhaskar hails from Vellore and is particular that his stories are sensational and turn box-office hits. Bhaskar received many accolades, but it has never gone to his head. Following the success of Telugu movie Bommarillu, Bhaskar tonsured his head as gratitude to Lord Venkatesa Perumal at Tirupati, India.
Bhaskar received his training in Chennai Film Institute. It is noteworthy that Bhaskar joined hands with Dil Raju in his hit productions. Director Bhaskar dreams of direct...
29. Palani Bharathi
Palani is a Tamil poet and lyricist. He belongs to a popular literary family. His father, Sami Palaniappan & mother, Kamala. His father was a great poet who was the follower of Poet Bharathidasan. The Hindu commented years back upon the poetic work of Sami that he could be the succcesor of Bharathidasa when it came to poetry.
Palani Bharathi is a good successor of his father. He is among the youngest lyricist. During 1991, he had his footsteps for the first time in the Cine-World. He dragged the attention of the Cinema World and the rest of the public with his lyrics. He had worked along with a lot of successful music directors namely- Isai Gnani Ilayaraja, Karthik Raja, Vidyasagar, Deva, S.A. Rajkumar, Sirpy, Bharathwaj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Harris Jayaraj, A.R Rahma...
30. K V Guhan
K V Guhan is a Cinematographer and Director in Tamil and Telugu Film Industry. He was born and brought up in Chennai. He is the youngest of his parents’ four children. His elder brother Saran is notable Producer and Director in the Industry. Their fathers’ name is T. Kulandaivelayudam. K V Guhan did his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.
K V Guhan started his career in the editing department of Bala Chander, where he worked for 3-4 years. Then he started to assist the famous Cinematographer P.C. Sree Ram. He did his first film Kushi (Hindi Film) in the year 2003. In the same year, he also did his first Telugu film ‘Naani’, starring Mahesh Babu. In the following next year, he got the opportunity to shoot the film in his mother tongue, Tamil. The fi...
31. Amir Riaz K Ahmed
Riaz K. Ahmed is a leading publicist, talent manager, journalist of Kollywood. He has worked as a public relations officer for superstars like Rajnikant, Dhanush, Ilayathalapathy Vijay and even for Anirudh Ravichander.
He was born on February 11th, 1963, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India. He completed his High school from Muslim Higher Secondary School, Chennai (Madras) in 1978 and senior secondary school from Madrasa-e-Azam in 1980.
It all started with Kazhugu Rajini Rasigar Mandram, an association from Triplicane area. In 1984 he was promoted to Joint Secretary for Madras District. His job was to manage large crowds of people who came to meet Rajnikant.
Riaz himself is a big Rajni fan since early days, and the journey has continued since. Riaz entered into the Tamil Film Industry in the year 1986 with “Maa...