1. Chinnaponnu
Chinnaponnu was born in Suranam in Sivagangai District in Tamil Nadu, India. As a child of thirteen years old, she actively participated in several temple festivals and churches. After that, she started to sing in the troupe of Artist Kottaisamy as a professional singer. She used to say him as her mentor. Later she was noticed by Gunasekar, who is a member of the Communist party. As he searched for folk songs and folk artists, he helped her explore herself in several parts of the state. By 2004, she made her first entry into the Tamil cinemas as a playback singer for the movie Chandramuki song Valthuren Valthuren.
After these performances, she appeared in several television shows and was also approached by several directors. By 2008, she made her next major hit Nakku Mukka which appeared in the movie Kadhalil Vilunthen. She rec...
2. Karunya Ram
Karunya Ram has been in the entertainment industry for nearly seven years. She is one actress who thinks that an actor should aspire big. She doesn’t believe on complacency and being content with small laurels. She has once revealed that one has to have high goals to move ahead in the industry.
When she entered the film industry the actress signed all the movies that she came across in Sandalwood. But after Matttondu Madhuvena she got offers from Tamil film industry and hence she shifted her attention there. She did a couple of movies in Kollywood including Kannakol and Pongadi Neengalum Unga Kaadhalum. At that time she wanted to return to Sandalwood. While she was thinking of doing another Tamil venture Vajrakaya happened. She shared screenspace with Shivaraj...
3. Muthu Vijayan
Muthu Vijayan was one of the famous lyricists of the Kollywood industry. His home town is Manathanallur in Tiruchirappalli, a city in Tamil Nadu. However, he spent most of his lifetime in Chennai. This talented lyricist was also a director and dialogue writer. He worked as an assistant director under the Padma Shri awardee Bharathiraja, who is well known for his movies likeNamma Veetu Pillai, Kennedy club, Kurangu Bommai,and many more.
As a lyricist, he holds a record of writing more than 500 songs. His prominent works are Meghamai Vandhu Pogiren (Thulladha Manamun Thullum), Kannukulle Unnai Vaithen Kannama (Penin Manathai Thottu), Anbe en Anbe (Nenjinele), Amul Baby, Roja Vanna Roja (Vanjinathan) and many more.
His recent works include Ganesha Meendum Santhipom (2019), Kalari (2018), and Karaiyorum (2016). He was marri...
4. 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...
5. Velmurugan
Velmurgan is a Play Back Singer in Tamil Film Industry. He was born on 5 March 1980 in Viruthachalam, Tamil Nadu. Velmurgan is a singer, actor, musician, and lyricist. He entered the Tamil film industry in the year 2007. He had sung many folk songs, which include Madura in Subramaniapuram and the Otha Sollala in Aadukalam.
In 2019 he made his place in World Guinness Record; he also got American University Award, best playback singer award (2019, 2018, 2014)Tamil Nadu Government award, and Mirchi award(2020). The list of songs sung by Velmurgan is very long and some of them are Atha Ponnu, Sandalle and Onnam Classile. Velmurgan considers James Vasanthan as one of the turning points in his life.
...6. 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...
7. Suresh Urs
Suresh Urs is an Indian movie editor, who works mainly in the South Indian cinema. He has worked in over 700 movies and 40 documentaries and TV shows. Suresh is mostly known for his collaboration with directors like Mani Ratnam, Girish Ratnad, Shankar Nag, T. S. Nagabharana, P. Vasu, Bala, Girish Kasarvalli, Saran and Baraguru Ramachandrappa. Suresh got the National Film Award for Best Editing work in movie Bombay (1995).
He received many state awards which include several Karnataka State Film Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. Suresh also honored to win the Karnataka State Rajyotsava Prashasti, which is a Lifetime Achievement Vishnuvardhan Award from Karnataka Government in 2014.
...8. Bharani
Bharani is a Tamil movie composer and director. He made his directorial debut with the movie Ondikatta. Bharani has composed music for over 40 movies. His aspiration was always to become a director. Director SA Chandrasekar introduced him to the film industry as a music composer in 1999. Bharani was brought up in Thanjavur. His famous films with regard to music composing are Parvai Ondre Pothume, Sundara Travels, Charlie Chaplin etc
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10. Ilavarasu
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...
11. Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor was a renowned actor, director, and producer of Bollywood cinema. He was given the title of “The Showman” as his film attracted a huge number of audiences from Asia and Europe. He was honored with the Padma Bhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to Indian cinema.
The Indian Film Industry gave him the title of Clarke Gable of India. His parents Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni Kapoor named him as Ranbir Raj Kapoor. He was born on December 14, 1924, in Peshawar province of Pakistan. He studied in Colonel Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun and then finished his graduation from St Xavier’s Collegiate School.
In 1935 at the age of 10 he made his debut with the movie ‘Inquilab’. He reached the pinnacle of success with his film ‘Neel Kamal’ in...
12. Singamuthu
“Laughing kills diseases,” is a famous line that everyone knows about, and Singamuthu is the person who makes us primarily obey the above statement in an indirect fashion. Though it’s obvious from the introduction, it’s not a muck to mention that, Singamuthu is a South Indian comedian, Tamil being his most fluent language. Comedy is the most entertaining thing that induces every one of its prey in a jovial manner. Singamuthu had his feet on this world on Monday, 8th December 1958, Monday.
Ever since his childhood, he has been very keen on performing hilarious acts. This is, in fact, a DNA- related matter, as his father was in the same field. However, he succeeded in doing such things. These happenings allowed him to step into different types of pl...
13. Theepetti Ganesan
Theepetti Ganesan is a Tamil actor working in the film industry and his work is well recognized by Indian audiences and critics. He was active for quite a few years and during that he got appreciation for his work. He did many movies and tried to develop as an artist. After completing his studies, Mr. Treepetti Ganesan directly went into the industry to try his luck as an actor. He got offers from the directors and producers out there. He is very hard working , determined and considers himself as a workaholic. He loved to keep himself busy in some work or the other. I He said that he had gained a lot of experience from the movies he did in past years. He mainly did his debut films as a supporting actor, but his acting was well appreciated by the audiences.
He received stardom from Renigunta. Then, he started working as supporti...