Tamil Movie Review Rocky The Revenge - Cast & Crew

Eshanya Maheshwari is an Indian actress who is a newbie in the Indian cinema. She started her career by acting in TV advertisements. Some of her well-known ads include Hiraj Fashion, Nalli Silks, Pothys in which she is portrayed beautifully wearing all kinds of saris and other accessories. She appeared in so many good looking advertisements that it earned her an entry ticket into the Cine field.

Ajmal Khan is a blogger, social media influencer, model, and actor. He was born on 2nd May 1992 in Kerala, India. He is living in Dubai. He has a huge fan following on every social media platform. He began modeling in 2010. After this, he came on social media in 2012. He is also famous on Facebook. He is famous for his looks and personality. He founded a fashion brand name "AK." He is married to a style blogger, Jumana Khan, who is also a TikTok star, style blogger, and social media influencer. He was also featured in Zubair Sarookh's video.

Bappi Lahiri is a famous Music Composer of India. Born on 27 November 1952 in a Hindu Bengali background, at Kolkata, Bappi Lahiri was instrumental in the popularization of Disco music in Indian films. Namak Halaal, Disco Dancer, and Sharaabi are the songs of the 1980s that made him popular. Both the parents of Bappi were working in the music industry. Bappi fostered the intention to become an international name in his childhood. He was just three years old when he played Tabla. His parents trained him in singing. The 1972 Bengali flick “Daadu” was the first movie for which Bappi composed music. At that time, Bappi was just 19. 

Charan Arjun is a Telugu music director, Lyricist, and singer, who has done many songs in Tollywood. He has studied piano and vocals from Trinity College London. His birthplace is Nalgonda and presently lives in Hyderabad. He has completed his schooling from Rao’s high school. Earlier he has worked at Musician’s Friend as a sound engineer.

A R P Jayaram is a well-known director, lyricist, and dialogue writer. He predominantly works in Tamil film industry. He belongs to Chennai, India. He did his graduation from C. I. T Chennai/ Chennai Institute of Technology. He worked as a lyricist for the song Pidichirukku sung by R Jeyadev and Janaki Iyer. The cast included Kajal Agarwal & Ram Charan Teja. The song produced under Sony Music Entertainment and released on 18 January 2011. He also worked as a lyricist for Pesavey Pesatha sung by Manicka Vinayagam, R Jeyadev & Janki Iyer. It was directed by S.S. Rajamouli, produced by Allu Aravind Babu under Sony Music Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

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 offspring of famous Carnatic vocalists H.A.S. Mani and Shrimati Alamelu. Hariharan inherited the music skills from his mother. Hindustani music was made known to him in his youth. Hariharan indeed, took great efforts to reach the position that he is in today; he used to practice singing for 13 hours. 

During the initial stages of his career Hariharan used to sing for television serials. After winning a prize in a competition at all India level Hariharan was offered to sing in the film “Gaman” by late music composer Jaidev. The song “Ajeeb Sa Neha Mujh Par Guzar Gaya Yaaron" from the film earned him recognition that he rightly deserved. 

The song “Thamizha Thamizha” from the movie Roja was an instant hit and Hariharan, who sung it was awarded the “Best Male Playback Singer” in the Tamil Nadu State Government Film Awards. 

Hariharan was introduced into the Tamil film industry by A R Rahman, who was also a newbie at that time. Since then, the duo created magic with soul stirring songs in films, including Minsara Kanavu, Jeans, Indian, Muthu, Taal, Mudhalvan, Iruvar, Indira, Rangeela, Alaipayuthey, Kannathil MuthamIttal, Sivaji etc. Hariharan is credited with the Padma Shri Award and has received National awards for a couple of times. Hariharan is the proud singer of around 700 songs. He had also sung in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi.

Prakash Jha, a director, film producer and screenwriter, was born on 27th of February 1952. ‘Prakash Jha Productions’ is his production venture. Hailing from Bihar, Prakash Jha went on to study B.Sc Honors in Ramjas College. Eventually he stopped studies and came to Mumbai, wanting to be a painter. As he was preparing for entrance exam for a course in painting, Prakash Jha watched the movie Dharma, and thus developed a passion for film making. The year 1973 saw him joining the Film And Television Institute of India, Pune, in order to study editing. But unfortunately the studio was shut down and thus Prakash returned to Mumbai and earned his living. Initially Prakash Jha was working on documentaries. 

His documentary, 'Face After Storm' received the 'Best Non Feature Film National Award'. Prakash’s debut commercial film, Hip Hip Hurray was released in 1984. This film was written by Gulzar and had Deepti Naval starring in it. Then came Damul in the same year and its stupendous success made Prakash a filmmaker to reckon with. The film gained both the National Award and Filmfare Award. His flick Parinati was released during the year 1986. This film had the talented Nandita Das amongst others sharing screen space. The year 2010 saw Prakash directing the political thriller Rajneeti. The film took up the story of Mahabharat in today’s world. Ranbir Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Katrina Kaif, Arjun Rampal, Ajay Devgan, Nasureedin Shah and Manoj Bajpai acted in this film. Then Aarakshan was released which had Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone and Saif Ali Khan sharing screen space. 

During 2012 Prakash’s film Chakravyuh, starring Abhay Deol, Kabir Bedi and Arjun Rampal, amongst others was released. Prakash Jha also had a brief stint in politics but it didn’t work out. He is greatly involved in social activism; he is committed to a NGO named Anubhooti. Prakash Jha also did quite some TV serials. On his personal front, Prakash Jha was wedded to Deepti Naval but later divorced. This couple had adopted a girl.

Srikkanth Krishnamachari is the man behind the Indian Cricket Team’s perfection then and even now. He is the former captain of the Indian Cricket Team born on the 21st of December in the year 1951. He is also the former chairman of the selection committee of the Indian Cricket Team. He has been an active part of the Indian Domestic Circuit representing Tamil Nadu. He had started his inspirational career in the year 1981 where he made his debut in the One Day International in Ahmedabad against the powerful team of England and then after a span of two days the man is seen debuting in his Test Series against England in Mumbai then Bombay at the spring age of 21. He was known for his blaster batting skills with full aggression becoming an inspiration to others. He had partnered with Sunil Gavaskar for the opening of the innings. Srikkanth Krishnamachari was a part in winning the Prudential World Cup in the year 1983, the matches had 60 overs per team, and the number of teams participated was 8.

Brahmanandam was born on 1st February 1956. He was the seventh son to Kanneganti Nagalingachari and Kannaganti Lakshmi Narsamma. He completed his high schooling from a high school at Sattenapalle. He later pursued his intermediate and graduation from D.N.R College, Bhimavaram. He completed his post graduation in Telugu literature from Andhra University. Before becoming an actor, Brahmanandam had worked as a lecturer in Atthilli for nine years.

Brahmanandam is considered as one of the most versatile Indian comic actors, noted particularly for his comic expressions. He has gone ahead to receive many accolades in the world. In the year 2007, he was in the Guinness World Record for appearing in the highest number of films that is over 1000 movies. The government of India honored him with Padma Shri Award in the year 2009. Brahmanandam was awarded the Best Actor in a comic role in the year 2011 at The Hyderabad Times Film Awards.

In the year 2012 in Dookudu, he was voted the Best Comedian in the Cinemaa Awards. The same year he was also awarded the Best Comedian in the SIIMA Awards. He went ahead to clinch the Best Actor in a Comic Role Award in the TOIFA awards ceremony. Surely Brahmanandam deserves all this because of his natural talent and hard work in the acting industry. Brahmanandam is married to Lakshmi Kanneganti, and he is blessed with two children, namely; Raja Goutham and Siddharth.

Brahmanadam Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Karate Raja is a popular villain and character artist in Tamil movies. He has acted with actors like Rajinikanth, Vijay, Kamal Haasan, Ajith, Suriya, Vikram, etc. He is known for movies like’Virumaandi’ where he played actor Kamal Haasan’s friend. This movie was produced, written and directed by Kamal Hassan himself. In the same year, he appeared in another Tamil movie ‘Ghilli’ where he played actor Prakash Raj’s henchman. The movie had Trisha and Vijay in lead roles, and the movie was a box office success. In the same year 2004, he also acted with Kamal Haasan in an another movie 'Vasool Raja MBBS' which was a remake of Hindi movie 'Munnabhai MBBS'. In this movie, he played the role of Margabandhu/Mark. Thus, Karate Raja was a lucky co-star who had acted in most popular Tamil films which had an excellent opening at the box office and even won the praise from critics. He also acted in a Telugu movie ‘Bangaram’.

B. Lenin (Bhimsingh Lenin) is primarily a Tamil film editor who has also worked as a writer and film maker. Apart from Tamil movies, he has worked in Malayalam and Hindi films. His career as an assistant editor started in 1979 with Uthiripookkal by director J. Mahendran. He worked as assistant editor with his father in many films before he debuted as an independent editor. He has also worked as a lab technician and he is an experienced sound engineer. During the decades of 1980s and 1990s, he partnered with his old assistant V. T. Vijayan and worked with him in over 100 Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu films, including Geethanjali, Nayakan, and Anjali and Kadhalan, for which they were honoured with the National Award for best editing.