Pragathi Guruprasad
Shweta Pandit
Vadivukkarasi
Vasundhara Kashyap
Tamannaah Bhatia
Udhayanidhi Stalin
Soori
Seenu Ramasamy
Mathichiyam Bala
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Vairamuthu
Sooraj Santhosh
Yazin Nizar
Ambani Shankar
Goundamani
Guru Somasundaram
Ramesh Khanna
Theepetti Ganesan
VTV Ganesh
Shaji
Anandaraj
R K Suresh
1. Pragathi Guruprasad
Pragathi Guruprasad was born in the year 1997 in Singapore to Guru Prasad and Kanaga. She learnt Carnatic music from the age of 5 through her father. Their family relocated to California and there she learnt the vocal Carnatic from Sangeetha Swaminathan. Sangeetha was the student of the popular Carnatic vocalist Sudha Ragunathan. Due to her passion in music, her father took her to Chennai to participate in Airtel Super Singer, which was organized by Star Vijay TV. Pragathi’s talent was really enjoyed by the judges as well as the voice trainer Ananth Padmanabhan. As Pragathi is well versed in Carnatic music, she was able to move up to the next level in the competition easily. She was one among the competitors in the final of the Airtel Super Singer junior Season 3 held on 2012. She has won the hearts of the viewers as well as the ...
2. Shweta Pandit
Shweta Pandit was born and brought in Mumbai. She is a playback singer, song lyrics, and composers by profession and has also acted in various movies. The journey of this versatile, talented Shweta started when she was four years old with composer “Ilayaraja” of a national award winning movie “Anjali”. The movie is remade in Bollywood, and she dubbed for the protagonist. She got her first breakthrough in Bollywood under Yash Raj banner with Aditya Chopra's film “Mohabbatein” in 2000.
She was only 12 years old when she recorded five songs as the playback singer for the flick. Her debut reflects about the immense talent of Shweta as she got selected for the movie from about 500 vocalists. “Main Zindagi Hoon” her debut album released when she was 16 years old. Th...
3. Vadivukkarasi
4. Vasundhara Kashyap
Vasundhara Kashyap is an Indian Movie Actress and a Model. Her real name is Adhisaya, which she later changed in 2008. She made her first appearance in 2006, in a Tamil movie named Vattaram. After that, she appeared in movie Unnale Unnale (2007), in a cameo role. In 2008, she featured in Kaalai Pani and Jayamkondaan. Till 2011, she did only Tamil movies. Peranmai (2009), Thenmerku Paruvakaatru (2010), Poraali (2011). She won few awards for Poraali (2011). After this, she acted in her first Telugu movie Tuneega Tuneega (2012). In the year 2013, she featured in Sonna Puriyathu and Chithirayil Nilachoru.
Movies aren't the only thing from which she became famous. Around New Years Eve of 2015, some explicit images of her, with her b...
5. Tamannaah Bhatia
Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil and Telugu film industry with lots of fan following. Chand Sa Roshan Chehra was her first Hindi movie, in the year 2005. Her Telugu debut was Sri and the Tamil debut was Kedi. In Kedi, she did a negative role and the movie did not go well. It was also the debut movie for Ileana, the South Indian popular actress. Tamannaah Bhatia acted in Vyapari with director S.J.Suryah; but she did not get a good recognition. After she performed in Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori, she became notable. Her performance in that film was appreciated by everyone. Similarly, her Telugu film Happy Days was also a super hit and got her good name. Tamannaah Bhatia steadied her market by choosing good films.
6. Udhayanidhi Stalin
Udhayanidhi Stalin is considered to be a mammoth figure in the Tamil film and television industry and he is considered to be one of the powerhouse controller in the Tamil Entertainment Industry. Udyanithu Stalin has a rich family lineage along with his envious filmography and television stints. His father is the famous M.K.Stalin and he is also the grandson of Tamilnadu’s ex-chief minister Shri Karunanidhi. He was born on November 27, 1977. He is currently active in the industry as an actor, producer and distributor. Presently, he owns his own company with the name of Red Giant Movies Banner. Some of his hit and award winning movies as an actor includes Oru Kal Oru Kannadi, Aadhavan, etc. As a producer and distributor some of his successful movie ventures in Tamil includes- Kuruvu, Nellparavai, Idhayam Murali, etc. Udyanithi Stal...
7. Soori
Soori is a South Indian actor in Kollywood. His nickname is “Parotta Soori’ which has been derived from his Tamil movie that he had acted. In 2009, he acted in a film ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’(2009) where a scene was shot with a crew of actors, who sit together and eat Parotta by keeping a challenge who eats more Parotta’s. In this scene, Parotta Soori performed his best, so people coined his name as Parotta Soori. Basically, he appeared as a comedian in many Tamil movies. After the film became a blockbuster, he never looked back. He is doing five to six films in a year. Today, this dusky lad with the moustache look has placed him in line with other comedians like Vadivelu, Santhanam and Goundamani. He is in peak of his career today playing comedian roles and doing a nu...
8. Seenu Ramasamy
Seenu Ramaswamy better known as Seen in the Tamil Film Industry is a talented actor of Indian Film Industry. He comes from the camp of famous cinematographer as well as director of Tamil film industry Balu Mahendra. The actor entered into Tamil Industry with the movie Koodal Nagar which starred popular actor Bharat as a lead actor; Bhavana and pretty Sandhya was also seen in the movie. He marked his second movie as Thenmerku Paruvakaatru.
This movie got high acclaims and won as many as three National awards. Other than these two he has also worked in Neerparavai, which had a great casts like Vishnu, Sunaina, and Nandita Das. His upcoming movies are Idam Porul Yaeval and Dharma Durai. Both the movies are in their pre-production stage.
...9. Mathichiyam Bala
Mathichiyam Bala is an Indian-Playback Singer and lyricist. He mainly works in the Tamil Film Industry. Some of the movies in which he has worked include Kanne Kalaimane, which released in the year 2019 Dharmadurai, which released in the year 2016 and Kanne Kalaimane, which released in the year 2019.
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Mathichiyam Bala is also known as Mathichiyam, is a Playback Singer from India. He is born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. So far Mathichiyam Bala has worked in the Kollywood entertainment industry and his artwork has been released in Tamil language movies. Mathichiyam Bala is an Indian Playback Singer and lyricist. He mainly works in the Tamil Film Industry. Movies he starred in include Kanne Kalaimane released in 2019, Dharma Durai released in 2016, and Kanne Kalaimane rele...
10. Yuvan Shankar Raja
11. Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu is a very famous Tamil writer, poet, and lyricist. His full name is Vairamuthu Ramasamy. He was born on 13th July 1953. He was born in a middle-class family to Ramasamythevar and Angammal in Mettur. His family moved to Vadugapatti, Theni in Tamil Nadu when he was four years old. He is famous by the pen name Kaviyarasu or Kaviperarasu. He got married to Ponmani Vairamuthu and had two children, Madhan Karky Vairamuthu, and Kabilan Vairamuthu. He got inspiration from the Tamil and Rationalist movements in the 1960s that enthused him to pursue a career as a writer. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. As a speaker and a poet, he was highly praised as the best in his college.
His first publication was an initial anthology Vaigara...
12. Sooraj Santhosh
Sooraj Santhosh is a multilingual versatile playback singer who has made a noteworthy contribution in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Badaga music. The singer is well known in the Bollywood and Tollywood as well. He was born on 19th September 1987 at the Kollam village in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is well known for his polyglot and fluent knowledge about various types of music and has achieved overwhelming success in the same. Sooraj's father, Santhosh Kumar worked in forest department and his mother, Jayakumari is a high school teacher. He has a younger brother who presently works at IBM as an engineer.
He lived with his small and sweet family in Thiruvananthapuram and completed his schooling there itself at the Government Model Boys Higher Secondary school. Further, he took a Bachelor...
13. Yazin Nizar
Yazin Nizar is a prominent name in the South Indian Music industry. He is an excellent Playback singer singing in various language movies which include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies.
He is known for his melodious voice and specializes in various genres such as Classical, Sufi, Ghazal, Rock, Pop and many others. This talented singer was born on 9 February 1990 in the beautiful city of Kollam in Kerala. His passion and interest for music were spotted by his father, and he quickly enrolled his son for Indian classical music lessons. He age was eight at that time.
He slowly emerged as a talented and good singer winning music competitions at school and various events. After completing his schooling, he completed his MBA in Fi...
14. Ambani Shankar
Ambani Shankar is a South Indian comedy actor who works in the Tamil film industry. His birth name is K. Sankarnarayanan. He was born on 17th May 1988 in Thirumangalam in Madurai in Tamil Nadu. He is known for his role in Tamil feature films like Ambasundaram Ambani and Pattathaari. The boyishly charming comedian tied the knot with Monica Nandhini in 2012. Inspired by comedy actor Vadivelu, Shankar moved from Madurai to Chennai in order to pursue a profession in acting in 2004. Unable to land a role, Shankar worked as a clerk at director K. Bhagyaraj’s office, where he first encountered the director N. Linguswamy. N. Linguswamy recruited Shankar in his Tamil action movie Ji in a small comedic role as a road-side mechanic, marking Shankar’s entry into the Kollywood film industry. The film hit the screens on 11th February 200...
15. Goundamani
It is difficult to make one laugh and in this regard the comedians should be appreciated. Here, then, Goundamani is one such actor, who never fails to tickle your humour bones through his comedy. His onscreen presence with Senthil is outstanding and they made the perfect comic duo.
Born in 25th May 1939 Goundamani ‘s real name is Subramani. His strong base in theater helped him in entering the Tamil film industry. Though Goundamani has played the male lead in certain films, he rose to fame only with his comic roles. Goundamani and Senthil were fondly called as the “Laurel and Hardy of Tamil Cinema”. This duo has worked on slapsti...
16. Guru Somasundaram
Guru Somasundaram is a growing actor in Tamil cinema. He never intended to become an actor and considers his entry as something great. In 2002 he got introduced to the acting workshop and that’s how he got interested in films.
Guru Somasundaram is born and brought up in Madurai. He had a humble background. He lived in Tanjore district for some time. He pursued his Dipoma in Mechanical Engineering and later worked in TVS as junior executive. Then he was at crossroads in his career. He was ...
17. Ramesh Khanna
Ramesh Khanna is Tamil Film director and actor. Ramesh was born on 30th November 1955 in Coimbatore. He is the third child to his parents. He lives in Chennai. He is married and has two children. Ramesh is into acting since the age of 5. In ‘Nadaga Kavalar’ drama troupe of R S Manohar, Ramesh did around 1000 dramas till the age of 10.
He was praised by then President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan. Ramesh started a...
18. 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...
19. VTV Ganesh
VTV Ganesh is a renowned Tamil film actor, comedian, and producer. He was born as Ganesh Janardhanan in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India. He became popular for his hoarse voice. Ganesh has appeared in many of Silambarasan’s films. He was debuted in Gautham Menon’s Tamil musical romantic drama film, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010). His performance as a cinematographer, who assisted Silambarasan in connecting with Trisha Krishnan’s character in the film, earned him a nomination at the Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actor.
This is also the time when he decided to change his name to VTV, which he got from the film’s initials. Ganesh was also one of the producers of this film and Gautham Menon asked him to play the role of Simbu’s ...
20. Shaji
Shaji, a multi- talented personality, belongs to South India and is a trilingual writer, i.e., he can write in three different languages which include Tamil, Malayalam, and English. Chennai Shaji is also his name and because of his impressive writings, Writer Shaji. Shaji lives in Chennai, South India with wife Jessy and daughter Geeta Salila. Before settling in Chennai, Shaji spent seven years in different states including Gujarat, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. He worked as the manager of a western music band in Hyderabad and used to sing occasionally. He is also famous for bringing out unknown facets of the musician. Though he has also appeared in films, writing is his cup of tea. He's also a music critic. He also writes for various newspapers. He has a different philosophy; he doesn't judge a so...
21. Anandaraj
'Anandaraj' was born in the Pondicherry district of Tamil Nadu. He was the second son among his eight siblings and his parents had big hopes for him right from his childhood. Anandaraj’s father was a business man and wanted his son to become a police officer.
However, when Anandaraj began to show an interest in acting, his parents wholeheartedly supported his decision and permitted him to join a course at the...
22. R K Suresh
R K Suresh was born on May 19, 1980, in Chennai. He is a well-known film producer as well as an actor. He completed his Business Administration and worked in hotel industries, realtors, media, etc. His experience in the field of import and export as well as his previous exposure to media and entertainment especially film distribution, re-authoring cinema production, etc., helped him develop his business into diversified business verticals. He got married during 2009. He is a strong follower of his ethics, who helped the organization to adopt a working culture of international standard where the sense of frolics and enjoyments has a strong presence.
He has a knowledge of leadership and management principles as they relate to non-profit organization and also has a good ide...