1. Malgudi Subha
Malgudi Subha was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She is a play-back singer and a pop singer by profession. She has worked majorly in South Indian Film Industry and her voice is considered to be distinct and unique. It has been more than 20 years (2 decades) that she has been singing songs in movies and lending her voice to various actresses. She has sung in more than 2000 films. She considers Usha Uthup as her role mode and somewhat resembles her in appearance. She is also a great follower of Kishore Kumar whom she has grown up listening to.
Priyamani, a National Award Winning South Indian Actress, is her niece. Apart from all the types of South Indian languages like Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, etc.She has also sung Hindi songs in the Bollywo...
2. Laila Mehdin
3. Trisha Krishnan
Born on 4th May, 1983 in Palakkad by Krishnan and Uma Krishnan as her parents. Before starting her carrer in modelling and acting, she did her schooling from Sacred Heart Matriculation school in Church Park and then BBA from Ethiraj College for Women (Chennai). She entered into film industry after making a mark as a model and winning several beauty pageants like Miss Salem and Miss Madras in the same year. In 2001, she won Miss India Pageant “Beautiful Smile” award. She got her first acting break in Tamil film Jodie. After that, she got her first lead role in Mounam Pesiyadhe (2002) opposite Surya and won critical acclaim.
Then, she continued to work in number of successful films like Saamy (2003), Ghilli (2004), Varsham (2004)and Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (...
4. Yuvan Shankar Raja
5. Vaali
Born on 29th of October in 1931 is our lyricist Vaali, who has proven his skills as an outstanding lyricist in Tamil. He is popularly known as the Indian Tamil poet and has earned a lot of followers, fans and well-wishers. He was initially named as T.S.Rangarajan by his parents and later got his nickname as Vaali. Born in Srirangam, Madras Presidency, India, he had given a shot in every field he could work with. He has been a poet, lyricist, writer, artist and an actor. Among everything he has been a wonderful poet and a writer. He had worked for the Tamil Cinema industry for over five decades and has written around fifteen thousand songs which have inspired his followers. He enacted scenes behind the lens of 'Sathya', 'Hey Ram', 'Paarthale Paravasam' and 'Poikkal Kudhirai'. These movies have been a hit ...
6. Hariharan
Hariharan is a renowned Indian singer, who sings mainly for Hindi and Tamil films. Born in 1955, he is a well-known Ghazal singer. He was also instrumental in bringing fusion music to India.
Colonial Cousins is the name given to Hariharan’s band, wherein he collaborated with Lesle Lewis. This band was featured in many private albums. Not only this, they have also composed music for a few movies in Hindi and Tamil.
Hariharan is born and brought up in Mumbai and he is well-versed in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Hindi. Hariharan is the o...
7. Karthik
8. Manicka Vinayagam
Manicka Vinayagam is a Tamil actor and a playback singer. He is the son of famous dancer Vazhuvoor B. Ramaiah Pillai. He was born on 10th December 1943 his mother’s name is Gnanasundaram Ammal. His music guru was all time famous singer Jayaraman. He has sung for many South Indian films and has acted in several Tamil movies. He got married to a woman named Umayaal and had three kids, namely, Senthil Kumar, Gayathri and Venkata Subramanian. In Tamil film, Dhill, he debuted as a playback singer with the famous song ‘kannukulla gilathi. Vidyasagar is the composer of this song. He has sung around 15 thousand and more folk and devotional songs. Not just music, Vinayagam made his way into acting as well. His acting debut was for the movie ‘Thiruda Thirudi’ in which he played the character o...
9. 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...
10. Kalyan
Kalyan Master is an Indian choreographer who had contributed in various Tamil and Telugu films. He is one of the renowned choreographers in the today's industry. Kalyan Master also choreographed many songs for Hindi, Kannada, and Malayalam films. He has been the part of over 200 songs in total for various films released in India. He is also the part of many TV reality dance shows like Jodi number one and for the show starred on Vijay TV named Kings of Dance. Kalyan was born in Chennai, India and started his career as a dancer in the film industry under his great-aunt Puliyur Saroja. He performed as a dancer in a movie called Per Sollum Pillai in the year 1987.
Then after his first debut film, he started working as an assistant choreographer and worked in many top-knotted movies during the 80s. During the same era, he appear...
11. 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.
...12. Stunt Shiva
Stun Shiva or S. G. Sivaprakash is an action choreographer and actor in the Indian film industry. He works in the Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, and French film industries of India.
His career started as a fighter, and assistant to stunt masters. In 2014, he debuted as a director for the movie ‘Karate Karan’ with the production by & Star Universal Entertainment. ‘Karate Karan’ is a remake of the 1984 film ‘The Karate Kid.’ In 2000, he was awarded the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator.
In 2008, he was awarded the IIFA Award for Best Action. His first film as a Stunt director was Love Today(1997). He has worked in over 60 films as an action choreographer. His first appearance in a movie was in Anbu Kattalai(1989) as a Henchman, and since then he has made many...
13. Suriya Sivakumar
Suriya Sivakumar is undoubtedly the biggest star in contemporary Tamil film yet most critics would agree that he is truly a ‘real and spontaneous’ actor who can match any character that he plays in screen. His rise in Kollywood cinema came at a time when commercial Tamil films tended to shy away from the dark themes and ambivalent morality associated with film and style. The popularity of Ghajini proved that the level of negativity that the audiences could bear. When A.R Murugadoss selected Suriya to don the role in Ghajini, he knew how it would work with mainstream audiences and was almost right. Truly, this actor had overcome his father’s shadow and moved to be one of the most talented actor, whose films got inspired by even Aamir Khan and even Ajay Devgan. Aamir Khan had showered him praise for his performance in G...
14. Nandha Durairaj
Nandha Durairaj is a Tamil, film actor. He was born as Govind Sendrampalayam Durairaj in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in India to Rani and Durairaj. Nandha is a grandson of a former minister and politician, M. Kannappan. He has a brother named Karthik. They both studied at P.S.G. College, where he took B.Sc. in Computer Science. However, due to his strong passion for acting, he was unable to complete his graduation. He is married to Vidyaroopa. He started his acting career when Kalaippuli S. Dhaanu, a film producer, spotted him in a family event.
The producer asked him if he’s interested in acting and he gave his nod. He then shifted to Madras and took an acting course in a Film Institute in Chennai, with the help of the producer. After a year, he earned his diploma and ...
15. S P Balasubrahmanyam
S P Balasubrahmanyam is still considered to be one among the best musicians in the past three decades, in spite of the surge of various new comers. This legendary singer is reputed for his intense voice, profound knowledge of music, and a style of singing which is appreciated even today. SPB, as he is fondly called, has given his voice for more than 30000 songs. His name is recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records for singing several songs in a short span of time. He has sung the most in Telugu, the next being Tamil. He has also given his beautiful voice for Sanskrit slokas.
Other than Telugu and Tamil SPB has sung in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada too. SPB also tried his luck a...