Simran
Trisha Krishnan
Malavika Mohanan
Niharika Khan
Megha Akash
Karthik Subbaraj
Kalanithi Maran
Rajinikanth
Vijay Sethupathi
M Sasikumar
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Bobby Simha
Anirudh Ravichander
Tirru
Vivek Harshan
Yogi Babu
J Mahendran
Guru Somasundaram
Sananth Reddy
Aadukalam Naren
Munishkanth Ramdoss
Vivek Prasanna
Ramachandran Durairaj
Shabeer Kallarakkal
Deepak Paramesh
Manikandan R Achari
Srinivasan Elangovan
Charukesh Sekar
Kaarthekeyen Santhanam
D Ramesh Kuchirayar
Dhanush
KU Karthik
Vivek Velmurugan
Anthony Daasan
Inno Genga
Nakash Aziz
Sarwar Khan
Kunal Rajan
Suresh Selvarajan
Baba Bhaskar
Sheriff Moideen
Praveen Raja
Peter Hein
Sartaz Khan Barna
1. Simran
Simran was born on 4th April’1976 in Mumbai. Her original name is Rishibala Naval. Her father’s name is Ashok Naval and her mother’s name is Sharda. She has one brother and two sisters named, Sumith, Jyothi and Monal. She married Deepak Bagga in 2003 and she has two children named Aadit and Adheep. She has done her schooling at St.Antony’s High School, Versova and she has finished B.Com from Mumbai. She has done modeling along with her graduation. She is a Salsa dancer and a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. Simran can speak Punjabi, English, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil languages. ...
2. 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 (...
3. Malavika Mohanan
Malavika Mohanan was born in Payyannur, located in Kannur District. Her father is K.U.Mohanan. Her father is a Cinematographer. Though she was born in Kannur, during her childhood she moved to Mumbai with her parents and started her life there. In 2013, she began her Cinematic career with a debut for the play Pattam Pole. The role she plays is a village girl named Riya who was brought up at Alappuzha which is a village as well as a modern town. The script writer of the movie was Girish Kumar.
The Cinematographer and director of the talkie are the well known as Alagappan. Pattam Pole was his debuted celluloid that he directed. There are also several another artists who played their roles in this videotape which includes Lalu Alex, Archana Kavi, Jaya Praka...
4. Niharika Khan
Niharika Khan was born on November 21, 1996, in Jamshedpur, in the Indian state of Jharkhand. She did the bachelor degree in public relation and completed her HR from Seattle US. Her present residence is Mumbai. She has done costume designing in Bollywood. First, she started her work in a corporate set-up, and she hated it and also she did not attend classes of
jewellery designs but worked as design head in Tanishq in Banglore. And she started her career as a costume designer with the movie Khoya Khoya Chand (2007) and continued her works with many movies.
She got great fame for the movie Rock On. Then Yash Raj Films' Band Baaja Baaraat (2010) got her fame. She won the National award for the best costume designer for the movie Dir...
5. Megha Akash
6. Karthik Subbaraj
Karthik Subbaraj is a Tamil director. He lives in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Karthik has completed his matriculation and higher education from SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Madurai. He was a very discipline student during his school days with excellent academic records. Karthik has also attended Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai-15 to complete his engineering degree. He has specialised in mechatronics. He started his career with Infosys Bangalore working as a software engineer. His tenure of working in Infosys was five years out of which he has spent two years in the US. While he was working in Bangalore, his interest in film making developed. During weekends, he used to make short films. He attended a one day workshop called as Film Camp of Sanjay Nambiar. In this workshop, he learned the basics ...
7. Kalanithi Maran
Kalanithi Maran is a famous tycoon in the world of Indian media. He was born on July 24th,1964 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Maran is the son of former Union Minister of Commerce, Murasoli Maran, and the grand nephew of former Tamil Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi. He is the owner of various newspapers, radio stations, movie production house, DTH services, and weeklies. He was also an investor in Spice Jet, which is an Indian airline during the period from 2010 to 2015. Maran started off with his career in 1990 by launching a video magazine in the Tamil language which was for giving news in various fields. It started with the name Poomalaai. But due to several issues, it came to an end two years later in 1992.
In 1993, with a huge amount of investment from a bank loan, he found...
8. Rajinikanth
'Rajinikanth' is the name that is known in every nook and corner of India. He is a popular Indian cinema star who has fans worldwide. Born as Shivajirao Gaekwad, this simple-human started his career as a bus conductor. He made his film debut in 1975 in ‘Apoorva Raagangal’, starred by Kamal Haasan and Srividya. Though he appeared in a small role in that film, he was noted for his style.
He is a good example for how to succeed in life with hard work and confidence. He did villainy roles in the beginning. He was applauded for his role in 16 Vayathinile, with Kamal and Sridevi. This trio has done many successful films together. Rajinikanth and Kamal were very close and they started to act in many films together. As per the advice of Kamal, Rajinikanth started to act as a solo hero. He became ver...
9. Vijay Sethupathi
Vijaya Gurunatha Sethupathi was not born with silver spoon. Neither did he have a family background that had deep roots in cinema field. He was rejected even for the role of a junior artist. But it was his hard work and continuous struggle, that made him a star that he is today.
He was born in Rajapalayam but moved to Chennai where he had studied and even had his graduation from a reputed college in Chennai. He did all kinds of odd jobs that came to him (salesperson, cashier, telephone booth operator or account assistant) to lead his life normally.
Later on, he moved to Dubai as he had to take care of three siblings. During his stay in Dubai, he fell in love with Jessie, whom he married later. He returned to Chennai again and had take...
10. M Sasikumar
M.Sasikumar is a versatile cine artist. He juggles between direction, production, and acting. He made his debut in Kollywood as a Director through the original, suburban film Subramaniapuram (2008). The movie was rendered on a small budget and made heads turn because of the new script. Sasikumar graduated from Vellaichamy Nadar College, Madurai, majoring in Business Administration. His uncle A. Kandaswamy, the producer of the film Sethu, made him the Assistant Director for the movie, under the prominent Director Bala.
In the sets of Sethu, he became a friend of Ameer, who was also an Assistant Director. Sasikumar then worked as the Assistant Director under Ameer, in the movies Mounam Pesiyadhe (2005) and Raam (2002). In the year 2008, his debut film Subramaniapuram was released and received rave reviews. T...
11. Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born in Budhana in Muzaffarpur district of Western UP on May 19, 1974. He grew up with seven brothers and two sisters in his native village. He is a science graduate from Gurukul Kangri University Haridwar and after completion of his graduation, he worked as a chemist in a factory for a short while. He did not like the job and hence leaving it proceeded to Delhi to find some other job which might interest him. As he could not find a suitable job in Delhi, he even worked as a watchman for his survival. Within a short while, he watched theatres and felt interested in it. He joined a theatre group and started studying the art of acting. He graduated in acting from National School of Drama in 1996 and relocated to Mumbai to pursue his career in acting.
On arrival in Mumbai, sustenance and survival became...
12. 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...
13. Anirudh Ravichander
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...
14. Tirru
Tirru is a famous Indian Cinematographer, who has won many awards for his work. He is especially known for his work in the Krrish 3. Tirru was born on 28th March 1968 in Thirunavukarasu district of Tamil Nadu. Apart from being a cinematographer, Tirru is also a screenplay writer. He has worked mainly on Hindi and Tamil movies. He started his career as an assistant to a veteran cinematographer. He worked under P. C. Sriram. He completed his Bachelor in Science when he was twenty-one years old. After completing his graduation, he got interested in photography. He also helped his brother who was a dentist. He worked as an assistant to his brother. He started his job in the field of cinematography with a Tamil movie named Magalirmattum in 1994. The movie didn’t give Tirru any recognition. Though for his e...
15. Vivek Harshan
Vivek Harshan, born on 28 May, 1981 in Kochi , India, is an Indian film editor with a national award to his name for editing film 'Jigarthanda' in 2014. Harshan developed his interest for movies and editing in his college days where he met equally movie enthusiast friends, and it is then that he started taking things seriously. He learned to edit professionally through a course in Chennai and later assisted renowned editor exact==Anthony to whom he also dedicated his national award. He gives credit to his work to Anthony and says whatever knowledge he has of editing is what Anthony gave him.
In an interview with a national daily, he recounts his early days and hard work, where he pulled all-nighters or would have to travel to Kerala and come back daily while editing two movies together Oru Kal Oru Kanna...
16. Yogi Babu
Yogi Babu is one of the famous actors in Indian films. His appearance is there in only Tamil movies. At present, he is a regular comedy actor in Tamil films. Babu was born in Chennai, Tamilnadu. His acting career started from 2009 onwards. He was famous for his outstanding movie called Maan Karate (2014); a fantasy oriented Tamil film under the direction of Thirukumaran. There are some prominent stars in this movie namely Sathish, Vamsi Krishna, Soori, Hansika Motwani and Sivakarthikeyan. Famous writer Murugadoss wrote the entire script for this movie and went on to screens under the production of Escape Artists Motion Pictures. Anirudh Ravichander gave an outstanding music for this movie. Mr. Babu was also notable for his famous film Yaamirukka Bayamey (2014), a comedy horror movie under the direction of debutant Deekay. It was under ...
17. J Mahendran
18. 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 ...
19. Sananth Reddy
An actor by profession, Sananth Reddy was born on 6th of September 1991. He was born in Chennai situated in Tamil Nadu. He is active since 2014 in the Tamil film industry. He is an actor based in India and predominantly working in Tamil film industries. The 24 years old actor did his first venture and came in front of the audience in 2014 with Madhu. It was a short film and a Rathnakumar’s directorial venture. Critic world and audiences gave him clearly appreciating verdict for his performance. The short movie was also selected to be the part of Bench Talkies. After this huge success, the actor in no time made way to every director’s favorite list.
20. Aadukalam Naren
Aadukalam Naren was born in Chennai the heartland of Tamil cinema, in a family which took keen interest in movies. He was interested in acting and was also encouraged by his family members, and so he decided to go through formal training before he could enter the industry.
In fact he was originally christened Narayan, but as was the prevailing practice he abbreviated it to Naren, and that was the name by which he came to be well known. He received his formal training in acting an...
21. Munishkanth Ramdoss
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.
22. Vivek Prasanna
Vivek Prasanna, who was born in the year 1986, belongs to Salem. He is from a non-cinema background. After completing his schooling in Salem, Vivek Prasanna took a train to Chennai. He completed his degree in Viscom in Chennai.
As he is much interested in cinematography, Vivek Prasanna joined as an assistant cinematographer to the popular cinematographer Siddharth. While his career was going smoothly, his friend Rathna Kumar invited him to play in a pilot film. It was his acting debut.
He had acted in various short films and telefilms. Later, Vivek Prasanna made his silver screen debut in “Sethupathi” with Vijay Sethupathi, directed by Arunkumar in 2016. In the same year, the actor ...
23. Ramachandran Durairaj
Ramachandran Durairaj is an Indian film actor who has predominantly worked in Tamil movies. He is also known as Rams. He was born in Chennai, into a middle-class family. He started his career in the film industry in 2008 as a cinematographer. He completed his schooling at his hometown. While he was in his school, he used to be more into his studies. He was also very fond of watching movies. Ramachandran Durairaj was a part of his school’s drama team. While he was a kid, he used to go to fares and look at Nukkad-Natak. He always forced his father to buy him a ticket to these shows. He also used to take part in Debate competitions in his school. While he was in his school, he won various awards for his acting and speaking skills. He was also a sports enthusiast; he used to take part in sports and games as well.
His favorite...
24. Shabeer Kallarakkal
Shabeer Kallarakkal is an actor predominantly working in the Tamil Film Industry. He hails from Chennai. Shabeer has acted in several plays and movies. He was an active theatre actor before transitioning to films. Shabeer debuted as an actor in the 2014 drama film “Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe.” Lakshmy Ramakrishnan directed the movie. AV Anoop produced the film. Shabeer starred in the flick alongside Piaa Bajpai, Shruthi Hariharan, and Viji Chandrasekhar. The movie was critically acclaimed and was praised for its engaging screenplay and the performances of the lead actors.
Shabeer went on to star in the 2016 thriller-film “54321.” Raghavendra Prasad wrote and directed the movie. GR Kannan produced the film. Joshua Sridhar composed music and background score for the picture.The motion picture received an ave...
25. Deepak Paramesh
Deepak Paramesh is a Tamil actor, whose Hometown is Chennai. Before his entry to the silver screen, Deepak has worked in the short films and many of his works are directed with Karthik Subbaraj. Deepak made his cinema debut in the year 2014 with “Burma” that also features Michael Thangadurai and Reshmi Menon. In 2015, he played in an anthology movie, The First Bench by Bench Talkies of Karthik Subbaraj. He played the lead role in Unakkenna Venum Sollu directed by Srinath Ramalingam. In 2016, he performed once again in an anthology film, “Aviyal.” He played in the Kalam segment directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj. Karthik Subbaraj produces the anthology film. In 2018, Karthik Subbaraj once again called him for his silent picture, “Mercury,” which released in multiple languages. Prabhu Deva played the lead ro...
26. Manikandan R Achari
Manikandan R Achari who was born in Thoppil, Tripunithura is an actor who has made his acting debut with a film named ‘Kammatti Paadam’ in which he played the role of Balan Chettan directed by Rajeev Ravi. ‘Kammatti Paadam’ was released in the year 2016. Manikandan R Achari is also a theater artist and has worked with theater groups like Lokadharmi and Bhasabheri.
He was born in a poor family. Udukku is a musical instrument. His father used to play Udukku and used to sing. Most of the members in his family are artists because of which he was having an interest in theater from the starting. He is a VI class dropout and has worked in theater at the age of 11. He did many street plays and has learned theater from “Theater Lab”.
27. Srinivasan Elangovan
Srinivasan Elangovan is an Indian-origin actor, writer, and assistant director. On 28th September 1982, he was born in India. He has been an assistant director in many films like Mahaan, Shadow of Water, Jagame Thandhiram, etc. In 2019, he worked as a writer in the movie Shadow of Water. Sanal Kumar Sasidharan directed the film, and Srinivasan and K.V. Manikanandan wrote the storyline for the film. Joju George produced the film. And it starred Joju George, Nimisha Sajayan, Jolly Chirayath, Reeba George, Abhijith, Vaiga Christy, Mohammed, Arundev Sreekumar, Anwar, and Jeswin Jose. Ajith Acharya managed the cinematography department, and Basil C J and Sergey Cheremisinov composed the music for the film.
Sanal Kumar Sasidharan edited the film, and Dileep Daz managed the art direction. Sonith Chandran, Sujith Koyickal, Nived Mohand...
28. Charukesh Sekar
Charukesh Sekar is a Chennai-based filmmaker with over four years of experience in writing lyrics, direction, and production of mainstream and independent films. He has also done short films like 'Puzhu,' 'Life and Death of a Rebel, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, etc.
Also, he also has focused his talent in the production of TVC and commercial films too, and they include his commendable works like 'Black & While Salon'(TVC), a corporate film on 'Primex Scans Labs’ and a corporate video on 'Ford Figo,’ etc.
Although Chandrasekhar is known for his film 'Bench Talkies - The First Bench' in which he was one of the directors along with Karthik Subbaraj, Anil Krishnan, and others. This director is even known for his lyrical works in Tamil movies.
Charukesh Sekar directed a part ...
29. Kaarthekeyen Santhanam
Karthikeyan Santhanam is an Indian film producer, who is connected to the Tamil industry. He was born in Chennai. He is associated with films like Marcury(2017), Meyadha(2018), Maan(2019), Penguin(2020). He has worked in the IT industry for eight years. He is an engineer. He became a producer in 2014 at the suggestion of his friends. He produced five films and introduced five new directors into the industry.
He has 600 followers on twitter. He is passionate about his work. He is the youngest producer in the Telugu industry. He has also worked as the CEO of Stone Bentch Pvt. Ltd., where he got to learn a lot. He has seven years of experience in banking. He has many years of experience in trading, accounting, finance, and filmmaking.
He has worked on large posts in many big companies. He has contributed to making many fil...
30. D Ramesh Kuchirayar
D Ramesh Kuchirayar is a South India producer, controller and manager in the Tamil film industry. He is one of the famous producers in the Tamil industry. He is skilled in executive, assistant, and line production. He has contributed to many favourite Tamil hits. Ramesh was the executive producer of an Indian Tamil language romantic comedy-drama Thiruchitrambalam directed and written by Mithran R. Jawahar and released under the production of Kalanidhi Maran of Sun Pictures in 2022. He was the production executive in Annathhe, directed by Siva, produced by Kalanithi Maran of Sun Pictures, and in Petta, directed by Karthik Subbraraj and produced by Kalanithi Maran of Sun Pictures. The leading role of both the above films starred Rajinikanth. Ramesh was also the executive producer of Velai ill Parttathari, directed and written by Velraj, ...
31. Dhanush
This lanky superstar Dhanush is an actor from Tamil cinema but has appeared in two Hindi films too. He credits R Balki and Anand L Rai for making him consider acting in Hindi films (‘Shamitaabh’ and ‘Raanjhana’). In the year 2011-12, his song “Why This Kolaveri Di’’ continued to rise on the charts and gain millions of viewers on YouTube. Dhanush happens to be the youngest actor to receive the national film award for his performance in “Aadukalam”.
This actor had carved a place for himself in the world of cinema by his acting prowess. He has so far featured in 25 movies. Dhanush has ventured into production with his company Wunderbar Films. He is married to southern superstar Rajinikanth's daughter...
32. KU Karthik
Karthick K U is an Indian film lyricist, who works predominantly in Tamil movie industry. He made his debut in the film industry just a few years ago and had carved a niche for himself; He has worked in movies that included music composers like P.C. Shivan, Dhina, Amara CV, but he may not have any track with them.
His lyrics 'Daavuya Novuaa No Vaenaamyyaa' was sung by Santhosh Narayanan which was from the movie ‘Remo.’ Anirudh Ravichander composed the music. His another prominent lyric for the song ' Ra Ra Ra,' which was composed by Vivek Mervin. The song of 'Dora' had youthful flavor, and it was considered a peppy number.
The song was fast, and lyrics set the mood of the beautiful composition. This song is a huge shift from the usual melodies with an instantly likable tempo complimen...
33. Vivek Velmurugan
Vivek Velmurugan is an Indian lyricist predominantly working in the Tamil Music Industry. He has also worked in other languages such as Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam. He made his debut as lyricist in 2015 in Tamil films. He later received critical acclaim for his writing in 36 Vayadhinile (2015) and Jil Jung Juk (2016). Vivek was born in 1985 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He later moved to Chennai, India at a very young age. He completed his higher secondary education from Vidya Mandir Higher Secondary School. Then he studied engineering at Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology in Chennai.
However, his passion was writing poems and short stories since childhood. Vivek’s primary influence was the famous poet, Vairamuthu. He started song writing after the completion of his Engineering degree. Vivek created his portfolio an...
34. Anthony Daasan
Anthony Daasan is an Indian singer, traditional Tamil folk musician, lyricist and an artist hailing from Reddiyarpalayam, Puducherry,Tamil Nadu. He currently lives in Chennai, India. He was born on 26th April 1977. He completed his education from the Government High School of Tanjore. Music is an associated and ever-lasting part of his life. He connected to music from a very young age. His vision and dreams lead to him celebrating the flavor of folk music internationally.
His deep roots, love, and passion are exploring a variety of traditional forms of art. When he moved to Chennai, he joined Sangamam and later got in touch with the industry because of his hard work, commitment and sheer passion for music. His debut song was Dindugal Sarathy. With that, he has worked with famous people like ‘Anirudh&rsquo...
35. Inno Genga
Inno Genga was born on 8th November, 1993, as Innogen Gengatharan. His parents Rajagopal and Chandrika Gengatharan and are the immigrants from Sri Lanka. He got his education from Tiffin school in Southern London. Then to learn mathematics with finance he moved to the University of Southampton.
During college, he got an interest in music and started participating in competitions. In 2014, he won the “Raise Your Voice” Event organized by TSI and LSE Tamil Society. He also started making YouTube covers of RnB and Tamil songs under the stage name of Inno Genga.
He made a debut in the Tamil Nadu film industry with the song “Kannamma” in the album for Ko 2 by Leon James. Anirudh Ravichander got so impressed by his work that he invited him to be a part of his world tour as an opening artist. Later...
36. Nakash Aziz
Nakash Aziz, is an Indian playback singer and music composer in Bollywood industry. He was born on 24 February, 1985. Basically Nakash Aziz comes from a petit town Moodbidri, near Mangalore, Karnataka. He is well known for his hit songs like “Sari Ke Fall Sa” and “Gandi Baat”, both songs came from the movie ‘R… Rajkumar’ (2013) and another song ‘Dhating Nach’ from a film ‘Phata Poster Nikla Hero’ (2013). All these songs are picturised on ‘Shahid Kapoor’. Nakash has also assisted a very famous and “The Living Legend Composer and singer” Mr. A. R. Rehman on Hindi films such as ‘Delhi 6’,’I’, ‘Rockstar’, ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Highway’. Before becoming a playback singer he worked as music compos...
37. Sarwar Khan
Sarwar Khan is a sensational singing artist from Rajasthan, India. He was born in Barna village, Jaisalmer. Sarwar's father, who has a deep passion, and respect for music started his son's music career at a very young age. He also learned music from his maternal grandfather. He began his tutelage at the age of 3. Sarwar has participated in various stage performances in his childhood. But, it was his debut in Dangal that brought him immense fame and recognition. Dangal is a movie which focuses on Geeta and Babita Phogat's journey to become world recognized wrestlers. Sarwar's famous song, "bapu sehat ke liye tu to hanikarak hai" is written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, and composed by Pritam Chakraborty. Sarwar Khan and Sartaj Khan gave their spellbinding voices to the song.
He was only 12 years old when he ...
38. Kunal Rajan
Kunal Rajan is a sound designer who has worked with a few Hollywood projects and two south Indian movies like ' Uttama Villain' and 'Vishwaroopam.’ Rajan when he was just starting work on Tamil musical drama 'Uttama Villain,’ had asked Oscar-winning sound mixer, Craig Mann, if he was interested to be part of an India movie. And thus Craig was part of ‘Uttama Villain.’ Kunal has since completed a hundred movies as a Supervising Sound Editor as of 2016.
Kunal Rajan moved to Los Angeles, California to explore a career in Hollywood after having worked on feature films in India. Some of the Indian projects he had handled include 'Thoongavanam,’ 'Enthirian,' and ‘Vishwaroppam.’
He worked with Sound Dogs, one of the world’s largest sound effect c...
39. Suresh Selvarajan
Suresh Selvarajan is a renowned artist born on October 13, 1982. With great interest in painting and with an aim to make people see, feel and walk through his paintings he started giving life to the visions of his mind. With all his goals accomplished, he was first recognized for his paintings at the age of 19 with a state award. He was passionate towards watercolors from his childhood with an overwhelming emotion towards nature and its inexpressible beauty, which molded him into an art director and a good production manager. He completed his graduation in fine arts (painting), from Bharathiar Palkalai Koodam under the University of Pondicherry in 2003.
He assisted renowned production designer Sabu Cyril for 9 years, gaining a sound experience in designing and construction of challenging theatrical sets, miniat...
40. Baba Bhaskar
Baba Bhaskar is a popular Indian movie director as well as a Choreographer, who mainly works in the South Indian movie industry. He mostly features in Tamil movies, but he also works in other language industries such as Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu films as well. He started his career with the movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam, which is a Telugu movie as a Choreographer. Later, Baba worked in the Tamil film Kedi which got him great recognition. Presently, he is taking part in one of the famous TV reality show Bigg Boss Telugu Season 3, which is hosted by Akkineni Nagarjuna.
...41. Sheriff Moideen
Sherif is a talented and a well-known Tamil Choreographer in India. He is a self-confessed hyperactive individual with a curious soul, who loves to experiment. At almost 35 years of age now, he has achieved new heights in the Kollywood industry. In 2009, he won the Dance Reality Show “Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhu Deva” and has become the first preference of many known Tamil Movie Directors. With the immense amount of pressure to meet deadlines in the Kollywood industry, he takes guidance from his Dance Reality Show experience to handle the pressure.
He faced tremendous pressure during his stint in the reality show. He had most of the competing artists as his students and at some point he was on the br...
42. Praveen Raja
Praveen Raja, born on May 5, 1992, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, is an actor and costume designer who predominantly works in the Tamil film and television industry. He starred in the movies Chennai Palani Mars (2019), an adventure comedy-drama directed by Biju Viswanath, starring Rajesh Giriprasad Anbirkiniyal (2021), a thriller drama directed by Gokul, starring Keerthi Pandian and Sila Nerangalil Sila Manidhargal (2022), directed by Vishal Venkat, starring Ashok Selvan. He has worked on several movies as a costume designer, namely Maanagaram (2017), an action thriller directed by Lokesh Kangaraj, Meyaadha Maan (2017), a romance comedy directed by Rathna Kumar, Nenjil Thunivirundhal (2017), An action drama directed by Suseenthiran, Vanjagar Ulagam (2018), an action crime drama directed by Manoj Beedha, Mercu...
43. Peter Hein
A Chennai boy born in Karaikal to the immigrants of Vietnam is famous for his stunt sequences and action director and choreography. He was born and brought up in Chennai itself. He belongs to Tamil Chettiar community. He started off as an extra stunt fighter in many regional films. His first venture as a full-time action director is Murari. Earlier he has worked with pioneers like Kanal Kannan, Ram Gopal Verma, Vijayan, etc. he has done quite a plenty of films in Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam. He earned critical appreciation and fame through his work in films such as Varsham, Anniyan, Athadu, etc. Ram Gopal Verma, impressed by Hein offered him to work for James and thus it was his ticket to Bollywood. His next Bollywood venture was Mani Ratnam’s Raavan.
He had also ...