Tamil Movie Review Kanaa - Cast & Crew

Aaradhana Sivakarthikeyan is a renowned singer in the Kollywood industry. She was born on 22 October 2013 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She is currently pursuing school in her hometown. She is the first child of renowned actor Sivakarthikeyan of the Kollywood industry and Aarthi Sivakarthikeyan, his wife. Aaradhana got blessed with a younger brother on 12 July 2021. She began her career with the song Vaayadi Petha Pulla from the movie Kanaa (2018), produced by Sivakarthikeyan and directed by Arunraja Kamaraj, which emerged as a chartbuster. Also sang Tamil Thai Valthu at the closing ceremony of the 44 Chess Olympiad, which was held in Chennai, India, from 28 July to 10 August 2022. She got Music Labels from Sony Music India and Sony Music South VEVO.

Niranjana Ramanan is an Indian-Singer. She primarily works in the Telugu Film Industry. She had worked in Agnyaathavaasi directed by Trivikram Srinivas which released on 10 January 2018.

Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, is a singer and a musician, specialized in playing a rare and a beautiful instrument, Gayatri Veena. She was born on 7th of October, 1981, with visual impairment. Gifted with a beautiful voice, but she was deprived of the pleasure of seeing the world. And that hasn't stopped her ever from reaching high and chasing her dreams. She won special jury mention for her very first song Katte Katte for the movie Celluloid. She learned about 100 ragas in just a year, all by herself from listening to them, and started making her compositions. Though all the great musicians of all times have said music requires having training from a knowledgeable teacher. But this lady, surprised everyone with her talent and lust for learning, all by herself by getting better and better. With...

Pallavi Singh is a famous actress and model who has appeared in TV shows, films, web series, and various ads on various platforms such as Star Plus, ott ect. The actress appeared in a web series titled Dabangai. Pallavi is also a digital content creator and has her own YouTube channel where she shares various vlogs about beauty, fashion, acting, and comedy sketches. Her filmography includes Kabhi kabhi itefaaq se, Katha Ankahee, Muskurane ki wajah tum ho, Choti Sardarni, Pandya store, Namak ishq ka, Siddhivinayk, Nayi Soch.

Aishwarya Rajesh, commonly known as Iyshwarya, is an Indian actress who works in the Tamil film industry. She was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on 10th of January, 1990. She was born into a family that was famous and had its mark in the film industry for three generations.

Her father is a very well-known actor in Telugu movies, and his name is Rajesh. Aishwarya did her education in the field of commerce by completing her graduation from Ethiraj College for Women and received a degree of B.Com from there. She is a wonderful dancer and had participated in a dance reality show that airs in Kalaignar TV named Maanada Mayilada. Aishwarya not only participated in the third season of the show but also managed to outshine all other contestants and was declared the winner.

Her v...

Arunraja Kamaraj known as a singer, actor, and director was born in Peru, near Kulithalia town in Tamil Nadu. He did his schooling from Government Boys Higher Secondary School and Higher Secondary schooling from Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School.

He has done his graduation from J.J. College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy. Some of his famous works as a lyricist are included in films like, "Theri," "Pencil," and "Kabali." He started his career as a lyricist; he is a great songwriter and a singer too.

Arunraja has written, and sung Ding Dong for 2014, Tamil Comedy Drama movie, named, "Jigarthanda." Arunraja's work in the film was very appreciated. He also sang for Rajnikanth’s superhit film "Kabali." Kamaraj also sang in "Oru Mexican Aparatha,"...

Dinesh is a cinematographer who started his career as an assistant to the renowned cinematographer “R Rathinavelu.” He debuted as an assistant cameraman in the Suriya Sivakumar starrer, Vaaranam Aayiram, directed by Gautham Menon. In 2010, he worked as an associate cinematographer in “Enthiran” featuring “Rajinikanth” and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, directed by “S Shankar.” In 2011, he worked in a telefilm, Fifty Fifty.

Dinesh made his debut as an independent cinematographer with the film Soodhu Kavvum directed by Nalan Kumarasamy, featuring Vijay Sethupathi and Sanchita Shetty. In 2014, he cinematographed for “Thegidi” directed by Ramesh, featuring Ashok Selvan, and “Kappal” directed by “Karthik G Krish” featuring Vaibhav Reddy. In 2015, he wo...

Dhibu Ninan Thomas is an Indian film music composer and producer who was born on 27 February 1984 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dhibu does most of his works for Tamil cinema.

Dhibu Ninan Thomas was enthusiastic in music since childhood and would participate at any chance he got. In 2017 Dhibu Thomas made his music director debut in a Tamil film titled Maragadha Naanayam after that he composed music for the 2018 movie Kaana.

In his films, Dhibu has worked with various instruments like the keyboard, piano, vocals, and Percussions and he has worked in Film score, Classical music, and Indian folk music among other genres.

Mohan Rajan is an Indian Lyricist. He works in the Tamil Film Industry. Mohan was born in the year 1984. He was born in Valayapatti, Tamil Nadu. He pursued his Master’s Degree from Loyola Degree College in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in Tamil Literature and Media arts specializations. Mohan started his career as a lyricist with the film Easan (2010) where he penned the song Jilla Veettu.

He later penned more songs like Kondaadum Manasu from Sundarapandian (2012), All songs of the film David (2013) except Iravinil Ulavavaa, Ka Ka Ka Po from Kadhalum Kadandhu Pogum (2016), Yaanji Yaanji from Vikram Vedha (2017), Savaal, and Oonjala Oonjala from Kanaa (2018), and many more songs.

The Malaysian Hip Hop and Rap based Indian singer Charles John MacCallum or Charley Georgetown is well known as Rabbit Mac. He was born on 7th August 1983 in Penang, Georgetown, Malaysia.He is functional in the Malaysian musical industry. He did over 50 albums with many other artists and became famous in Asian regions such as Singapore, India, Canada and Sri Lanka.

Rabbit Mac started his professional music career by making the mix of both English and Tamil songs and made underground music from them.His passion for music career was so evident in his works that some of the owners of the leading lounges and pubs observed him and offered him shows like hip-hop shows and Gigs in Penang. With Mista West and D.J. Bluezi he teamed up and composed his first studio album in 2005 a...

The name Anirudh does not need any introduction down South among the music lovers. With his boy next door looks, he can really amaze you by his skills when it comes to composing and singing. This music Rockstar will rule our playlists whenever his new album is released. He can make you go 'Gaga' right from the first time you hear his songs. His recent movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' has took the town by storm. This is not the first time he has done this. He did the same on his debut movie '3' (Three). He evolved as a star overnight after the music release of '3' and became the talk of the town. Indeed Kolaveri made him get famous worldwide and it got him more fans.  

Anirudh is always good with experimental aspects in music. His movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' is the fir...

Indian-American playback singer and music producer Sid Sriram was born 19 May 1990 in Chennai. He spent his childhood in Fremont, California. Sid graduated from Mission San Jose High School. After that, he admitted in the Berklee College of Music and completed his graduation in Music Production and Engineering. He is famous for his musical collaboration with A. R. Rehman and Bharata Natyam dancer, Pallavi Sriram (sister).

He started playback singing with the song ‘Adiye' for the movie Kadal (2013). He gained popularity with this song in India. He sang beautiful songs including Thalli Pogathey, Maru Vaarthai Pesathe, Undiporaadhey, Adiga Adiga, Inkem Inkem Inkem Kaavaale, High On Love. He named Filmfare award for Best Playback singer for music track Ennodu Nee Irunthaal for the film I (2015). 

Balu Thankachan is a Malayalam sound mixer and a playback singer. He founded 20dB Soundstudios and serves as its founder, audio mixing/mastering engineer, and music designer. He attended Vadavucode's Rajarshi Memorial High School and attended St. Alberts College. He is from Kochi, India, and resides in Chennai. He is married to Neethu George, and the two are parents to a boy. Vikram Vedha (2017), Enai Noki Paayum Thota (2019), and Dear Comrade are works by Balu Thankachan (2019)He won the Radio mirchi award for music mixing engineer of the decade for "Parayuvaan" and the Radio mirchi award for "Kizhakkupookkum" (Anwar), "Appangalembadum" (Ustad Hotel), and "Yaanji" (Vikram Vedha). He performed mix engineering duties for the Malayalam film Minnal Murali (2021).

Sathish Krishnan has worked in the Tamil Industry and is an Indian Choreographer and actor. He is the instructor of Flyerz dance company for more than 10 years and is also seen in many Television serials like Aattam Paatam and Dance Machi Dance, Maanada Mayilada (won the title on Best Dancer), Jodi Number One Season Four and many such shows.

He made his debut as a choreographer in the movie ‘Neethane En Ponvasantham’ and has worked in several hit movies like ‘Yennai Arindhaal’, ‘Sutta Kadhai’, ‘Vaalu, Madras’ etc.

 He was seen acting in the film Unnale Unnale in 2007. He then got a lead role by Gautham Menon in the movie Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikaalam and by Srikanth in the film Mudivilla Punnagai. His other big hits include Endrendrum and Uppu...

Suresh Chandra is a renowned Public Relations Officer, working primarily in the Tamil film industry and for some movies in the Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada film industry. He celebrates his birthday on 10 May. He is credited as the P.R.O. for a whopping 190 movies. He is the publicist of famed actor Ajith Kumar. Suresh started his career as a P.R.O. in the Ajith Kumar starrer, Mankatha (2011). This Tamil action thriller follows the story of a suspended cop who gets caught up in a gangster’s world. Directed and written by VenkatPrabhu, this movie garnered positive reviews and got nominated for several awards.

Suresh then worked as a publicist for all the versions of the comedy-horror flick, TutakTutakTutiya (2016), which is the Hindi version of the Tamil film, Devi(L) (2016), and Telugu version, Abhinetri (2016). S...

Darshan is an Indian film Actor, who has worked predominantly in the Tamil movie industry. Darshan always wanted to be an actor since childhood. He went to Bangalore after completing his education. He stayed there for three years. But he eventually came to Chennai to pursue his acting. He has served in famous movies like Thumbaa and Kanaa. His previous film to hit the theatres was Thumbaa within the year 2019. After showcasing his acting skills in Arunraja Kamaraj’s Kanaa, he signed many other projects. His next work was supposed to be with Harish Ram LH’s adventure comic kid’s film. After finishing the shoot of Kanaa, Darshan’s co-producer introduced him to director Harish. They exchanged the word, and after reading the script, Darshan started with the shoot of his film.

The song composer for the flick ...

Sankaranaryanan is a radio jockey by profession. He is popularly known as Blade Shankar. He was born on 23 March 1982. He lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He is radio jockey, comedian, and also an actor. Blade Shankar did chemical engineering from Satyabama University in 2003 before becoming a radio jockey. He gained primary education from Spic Nagar Higher Secondary School in Tuticorin. He has a great love for playing a musical instrument and mimicking various artists. Shankar worked as an actor in many movies. He is popularly known for two movies Saguni (2012) and Sonna Puriyathu (2013).

The movies in which he acted include Ula (2018), Saguni (2012), Sonna Puriyathu (2013), Maragadha Naanayam (2017), Kanaa (2018), and Chitharam Pesuthadi 2 (2019). Blade hosts the morning shows, Blade No. 1 and Chinna Tham...

Ilavarasu is the cinematographer turned actor in Tamil cinema. He was born in the year 1964 in Melur in Madurai. His original name was Ilavarasan and his cinema friends called him Ilavarasu and the name stayed with him, till now. He was popular as a cinematographer in the year 1996, with the film Panchalankurichi with Prabhu and Madhubala in the lead. In 1997, he was offered with another Prabhu movie named Periya Thambi, which was directed by Chithra Lakshmanan, who is the popular producer and character artist now.

In 1998, Ilavarasu cinematographed two movies named Iniyavalae and Ninaithen Vandhai. The two movies, which he did in the year 1999, bagged him with the awards as a Best Cinematographer and the awards are given by the Tamilnadu Governme...

Sathyaraj is one of the greatest actors of Tamil film industry. He has good comic sense, good height, and good performance, and is still active in the industry. Rangaraj is the real name of Sathyaraj. Born on October 3, 1954 Sathyaraj forayed into the Tamil film industry as a villain. He depicted the suave villain perfectly and he was accepted by the audience. His dialogue Thagudu Thagudu from the film Kaaki Chattai is still famous now. In fact, it is no exaggeration to tell that he gave a complete transformation to the notion we have about villain. His oratory adeptness in villainous roles is indeed exemplary. 

Sathyaraj has worked in around 200 flicks. He also worked in Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi film...

Antony Bhagyaraj is an actor, director, and writer. He was born in Pallavaram, Tamil Nadu. He is also known as Bhagyaraj and Bhakky. He completed his higher studies from Loyola College, Chennai. He has worked in Kollywood and Tollywood film industries. He started his career in 2018 with the movie "Gajnikanth." In this movie, he appeared in a supporting role. He played the role of "Accident Person No. 2" in that movie. In his consecutive movie "Kanaa," also he was caught in a supporting role. He played the character "Tendulkar" in that movie. In the 2019 movie "Hero," he is seen playing the role of "Sakthi's friend," the main character.

He earned love and appreciation from his audience with his acting skills. He debuted as a writer in the film "Viswasam," ...

Sivakarthikeyan is a stand-up comedian, actor, and an anchor born on 17th February 1985 in Singampunari, Tamil Nadu. He was born to an Engineer father and has a sister who is a doctor. He was in Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School in his school years and graduated from JJ College of Engineering and Technology and holds a degree in B.E. Later. he went on to do MBA from Indian Institute of Planning and Management Chennai. He was participative in his college in theatre and stand-up comedy. It was the gap he had between his engineering and MBA he participated in a Star Vijay reality show, Kalakku Povathu Yaaru after he was forced by his friends and eventually won the show.

He made an appearance in a dance reality show with Aishwarya Prabhakar as his partner in Jodi Number One Season 3 followed by Boys vs. ...

Antony Ruben or Livingston Antony Ruben (by birth), is a film editor in the Tamil film industry. He acquired a degree in Visual Communication from the Loyola College in Chennai. Gautham Menon advised him to visit Anthony for further help. Ruben had visited Anthony earlier as well. He approached ace director, Gautham Menon, to become his assistant, but the latter redirects him to director Anthony, to work as his assistant editor. Under Anthony’s mentorship, he worked on the film Vettaiyadu Vilaiyaadu, which was a hit. He was given a bright chance to work on film trailers, which ultimately helped him work on films like Thoranai, Avan Ivan and Vedi. His debut as a full-fledged editor was in the film, Kandaen in 2011.

His work in Elred Kumar's Muppozhudhum Un Karpa...

Munishkanth’s Original name is Ramdoss. He has worked as a Goldsmith for two years. With aspiration of entering into the film industry, Ramdoss came to Chennai in the year 2002. He has worked as a junior artist in many film projects. His first movie was Ethan which released in the year 2011. In the year 2013, Munishkanth got a chance to play a role Masilamani in the feature film Kadal directed by Mani Ratnam.

He was given a role play in the famous hit movie Soodhu Kavvum directed by Nalan Kumarasamy. The mystical film Villa 2 had Ramdoss playing his bit part in it. Ramdoss acted in the project Mundasupatti in the year 2014. Making Mundasupatti, a comedy film was made easy by this man's performance. He is now known more as Muniskanth more than Ramdoss.