Andrea Jeremiah
Chinmayi Sripaada
Ramya NSK
Remya Nambeesan
Neha Hinge
Shubra Aiyappa
Devayani
Naveen Krishna
Karthik Raja
Na. Muthukumar
Viveka
Karthik
Senthil Dass
Vijay Prakash
Raju Sundaram
Shobi Paulraj
Rocky Rajesh
Shanmuga Pandian
Vijayakanth
Bose Venkat
Power Star Srinivasan
Thalaivasal Vijay
Silambarasan
Ranjith
LK Sudhish
Suresh
Jagan
Kecha Khamphakdee
Singampuli
Surendran
1. Andrea Jeremiah
It is sometimes fascinating to read about how film stars, especially in the South, get into the industry from totally diverse fields, and with no conscious intentions to be in movies. Andrea Jeremiah’s career seems to fit into this category. Her childhood ambition was to go for higher studies and get to become a psychiatrist. But music was always in the background, as she started learning classical Western piano when she was just eight, and she quickly showed her prowess when she formed her own troupe called Young Stars which also was a precursor for her later singing and music composing career.
...2. Chinmayi Sripaada
3. Ramya NSK
Ramya NSK, the versatile awarded playback singer of ‘Kollywood’ is a name known to almost everyone interested in the said entertainment industry. The granddaughter of incredible Tamil identities ‘N.S. Krishnan’ and ‘K.R. Ramasamy’, Ramya has lived up to her family name in every song she has sung till date. While Krishnan is Ramya’s paternal grandfather, Ramasamy is from her maternal side. Ramya was conceived and raised in Chennai and is a trained Carnatic singer. After having completed her training in Carnatic, she ventured into western music domain too and success has been her ally since then.
...4. Remya Nambeesan
Remya Nambeesan is a chirpy young Indian actress, whose primary focus is Mollywood. Born on January 1, 1986, Remya Nambeesan was introduced into the film industry with the 2000 Malayalam flick Sayahnam. R Sarath helmed direction for this flick. After that, she went on to work in various Malayalam films as a child artiste. Then she was seen in insignificant supporting roles including Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka, Gramophone, etc. She had worked under the direction of Sarath for three times. Eventually, she got lead roles since the year 2006.
...5. Neha Hinge
Neha Hinge is an Indian actress and also a model. She was born in Shrirampur, Dewas. She did her schooling from St. Mary Covent School Dewas. She completed her junior college years from BCM Higher Secondary School Dewas. In 2010, Neha participated in the Femina Miss India International and was the winner there; the subtitles she received were Miss Fresh Face, Miss Bollywood Diva and Miss Professional. She was also the semifinalist in the same year in Miss International competition.
...6. Shubra Aiyappa
The young Bangalorean, who first stepped into modeling before acting in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada films. While modeling, she received offers to appear in several commercials before having signed on to her first film which was in Telugu, 'Rey'.
...7. Devayani
Devayani, born as Sushma Jayadev on June 22, 1974, is one of the leading television actresses in Tamil small screen now. She has acted in more than 75 films alongside stars like Vijay, Surya, Kamal Haasan, etc. She is currently settled in Mumbai with her husband, Rajakumaran. She has won two Tamil Nadu state film awards for her brilliant portrayal of characters in the late 90’s movies: ‘Surya Vamsam’ in 1997 and ‘Kaadhal Kottai’ in 1996. She says her life changed after ‘Kaadhal Kottai’ opposite Ajith Kumar. The movie also earned her a title ‘the homely heroine’. She has also played small cameos in hit movies like Panchathanthiram alongside Kamal Haasan and also pulling off comedy easily in ‘Thenali’ where she played opposite Jayaram. She also received many accolades for her lead roles in movies like Friends, Appu, Bharathi (for which she won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress), Aanandham, etc.
...9. Karthik Raja
The famous south Indian film composer, singer, music director, musician, a mesmerizing keyboard and piano artist and many more was born in Tamil Nadu, India on January 29, 1973. He has now settled down in Chennai, the great peak city of Tamil Nadu. He is known to have made a debut film as a composer in his very own movie in the year 1996 called 'Alexander'. This film is known to have touched the peak of popularity and has won hearts of many music lovers, and it was one of the critically as well commercially acclaimed films.
...10. Na. Muthukumar
Na. Muthukumar is a poet, lyricist, writer and novelist, who writes in Tamil. He is famous for writing scripts and songs for Tamil films. Na. Muthukumar was born on 12 July 1975 in a small village named ‘Tirur’ near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. His Father, Mr Nagaraj was a Tamil teacher.Mr Nagaraj always maintained a collection of 5000 books throughout his life, and after he had passed away, this collection was preserved by his son in his office. Also, his mother passed away when he was merely four years old. Muthukumar reminisces that he acquired most of the knowledge of his life from his father’s book collection. Also, to help others he has plans to open a library where everybody could access those books. Na. Muthukumar began his career with a dream to be a director. So, he started working under director Balu Mahendra for about four years as assistant director. But due to turn of events, he landed into being a lyricist. He began with writing the lyrics for the Tamil movie ‘Veera Nadai’ which was directed by Seeman.
...11. Viveka
Viveka is a lyricist, who works in the Tamil film industry of South India. Viveka started as a lyricist in the year 2015. Viveka was born in 1985, and currently resides in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. Before venturing into the film industry, Viveka studied engineering and then law. Inspired by the work of Vairamuthu, a famous lyricist of the Tamil industry, he also began penning down poems. In the year 2015, he received his first breakthrough movie, “Enakkul Oruvan”, for which he wrote the lyrics of the songs “Poo Avizhum Pozhudhil”, and “Yaar”. After that, there was no looking back for this star lyricist. In the same year, he wrote lyrics for movies like “36 Vayadhinile”, "Indru Netru Naalai", “Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam”, and “144”. These included songs such as “Happy”, “Pogiren”, “Vaadi Raasathi”, “Kadhale Kadhale”, “Ennodu”, ” Mokka Piece”, “Mora Saiyyo”, and “Sarakka”. In the year of 2016, he has worked on four films, namely: “Kathakali”, “Irudhi Suttru”, “Aranmanai 2”, and “Jil Jung Juk”. He is working on the upcoming film, “Oru Naal Koothu”. These five in total include around ten songs that are being written by Viveka.
...12. Karthik
13. Senthil Dass
Senthil Dass is an Indian film industry playback singer who has predominantly worked in the Tamil film industry. He started recording his own songs in 2000 and published them on social media platforms and websites. The artist was acknowledged for his work and got the chance to work at different sound label companies. Senthil has done several live shows, events, music festivals and stage performances all over the country.
...14. 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.
...15. Raju Sundaram
Raju Sundaram is an Indian choreographer, actor, and director. Raju was born on 7th March 1968. His father Mugur Sundar is a prominent choreographer. Raju is the eldest among the three brothers; all the three brothers are choreographers. One is the famous Prabhu Deva and other is Nagendra Prasad. He is married and his wife name is Vasanthi. In his youth he was forcefully taken to film sets by his father to assist him. Raju invented interest in films and choreography after that. Raju started his career being a dancer in films like ‘Roja’, ‘Aasai’ and playing cameo appearances in songs with his brother Prabhu Deva in the films ‘Gentleman’, ‘Kadhalan’.
...16. Shobi Paulraj
He is an ace choreographer in the Tollywood industry. Founder of IBO Dance Studio, he has also choreographed in Bollywood movie, Holiday, starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha.
...17. Rocky Rajesh
Rocky Rajesh is a stunt director, actor, and choreographer by profession. He was born Tamil Nadu and India. Rocky is also a stunt coordinator. He mainly works with the Tamil film industry. He has Indian Nationality. He did stunts in different genres of project. He did the best direction in terms of stunt. He is active in the Tamil Cinema from the year 1984. Apart from the Tamil industry, he did stunts in some other languages too. He has worked with several stunt artists. He is famous as a stunt master among Film fraternity. His son's name is Thamizh. Thamizh is also an actor as his father. He has made his debut in acting from the project Aimbulan. He has also associated with the veteran actor Vijayakanth. He did stunts in hundred movies approx. His recent venture is En Sangathu Aala Adichavan Evanda in the year 2018, and Ottradal in the year 2019.
...18. Shanmuga Pandian
Shanmuga Pandian was born in Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. He is currently residing at Chennai’s Kannapiran Colony in Saligiramam. He is an alumnus of the Loyola College in Chennai. He did his graduation in Visual Communications from Loyola. He is the son of "Vijayakanth," a famous Tamil actor and a leading politician in South India and Premalatha Vijayakanth . He has an elder brother, Vijaya Prabhakaran. His father is also known as the ‘Captain’ of the Tamil film industry. Pandian made his debut in the Tamil cinema in the movie Sagaptham in 2015. This is an action thriller film by the famous Tamil director, Surendran. The film has three stars in the leading role- former Miss India Neha Hinge, Shubra Aiyappa, and Shanmugu Pandian.
...19. Vijayakanth
Born as Vijayaraj, he was known well as Vijayakanth, in the stage. His career started with Inikkum Ilamai. It was not a successful film. His movies failed to reach the public, till he committed with Sattam Oru Iruttarai by S. A. Chandrasekar. After the hit, he got many opportunities to shine in the Tamil film industry. He used all the opportunities that were available for him and gave many successful films. His notable films are Vaidehi Kathirunthal alongside Revathi, Pulan Visaranai and Captain Prabhakaran with Roopini, Senthoora Poove with Sripriya, Chinna Gounder with Suganya, Sathriyan with Bhanupriya and Revathi and Vanathai Pola and Sethupathi IPS with Meena. Oomai Vizhigal with Saritha was one among his notable films, which was a crime thriller.
...20. Bose Venkat
Bose Venkat Commonly Known as Venkat, is an Indian Tamil Film and Television Actor who often plays supporting roles. He was born on May 15, 1975 in Madras, Tamil Nadu. He is married to Malayalam film actress, Sonia on September 5, 2003. They have two sons named Rudraksh Venkat and Tejaswin Venkat and a daughter Bavatharani. When he was 17 years old, he came to Chennai and wished to be successful in films. But, he was unlucky at the start of his career, so he worked as auto rickshaw driver while doing some auditions.
...21. Power Star Srinivasan
Srinivasan was born in 1962 in Simmakal, Madurai. He completed his degree at Madurai Kamraj University. He first worked as a medical practitioner, then moved on to business by setting a finance firm Baba Trading Company. Having seen failure in both of his occupation, he then landed in Cinema Industry. Due to his interest towards films, he moved from Madurai to Chennai. He directed and acted in a film Lathika that was running for 220 days.
...22. Thalaivasal Vijay
23. Silambarasan
He was born in 1983 in Chennai, Tamilnadu. He is a Director as well as Actor, Screenwriter, Playback Singer, Voice Actor and Lyricist. His father name is T. Rajendar. His mother name is Usha Rajendar. He completed his study at the Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School. He completed his Matriculation from Shrine Vailankanni Matriculation Higher Secondary School. He also studied at St. John’s International Residential School as well as Santhome Higher Secondary School in Chennai. After these all, he was going to The Ashram School for study in Chennai. By playing roles as a child artist, he started his career. Films directed by his father. In Kadhal Azhivathillai, he played a lead role. His father was director of this film, and his mother was the producer of this movie.
...24. Ranjith
Ranjith is a popular and veteran character role artiste who appears in Tamil serials and movies and also in Malayalam serials and movies. He is famous for his character roles which usually bears a slight touch of humor and comic sense. His real name is Shivaji Rao but has taken the screen name of Ranjith as according to the actor it suits with an actor’s image. He originally hails from Kerala born to a Tamil family, joined an acting course after completing his studies and made her acting debut in the year 1993 with Tamil film Pon Vilangu in a small character role. After his debut, Ranjith went on to appear in many Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies before shifting his base towards the Tamil television serials. He went on to appear in more than 25 Tamil television serials in mostly comical roles and in some, he also appeared as an antagonist playing out and out villainous roles. Ranjith has won many awards and accolades for the roles he portrayed in movies and serials.
...25. LK Sudhish
L.K Sudhish is one of the renowned Tamil producers. He is well-known for the works that he has done in the film industry. Sudhish has cemented his place as one of the better producers in Tamil. His carefree attitude stood as one of the advantages for him to get him such a position in the industry. Though he did only a few of the movies, he is known for what he has done. He has had high exposure to the movies. So, he can easily estimate the content in the movie. He is one of the producers who like to encourage the new talent. He started his film career with a film called “Vallarasu” in the year 2000.
...26. Suresh
Suresh was born as Seshaiah Suresh Babu. Suresh is a homebound film actor and is famous for his films primarily in Telugu and Tamil. Suresh made his acting debut in the movie Panneer Pushpangal in the year 1981. The movie happens to be a Tamil film. His debut movie was a blockbuster hit on the silver screen, and soon he became the prominent face of the Tamil Film Industry, through the 80’s era. By the end of 2012, Suresh had done about 274 motion films. Suresh was born and brought up in Chennai. He was cultured at the Oxford English High School. Soon after this, he went to Shrine Vailankanni English School, where he completed his education. Suresh got married to Rajashree Bishit but after a long time, both got divorced.
...27. Jagan
Jagan Purushottam is an Indian actor. He acted in supporting roles in Tamil movies. His birthplace is Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was born on 1st January in 1982. He is 5 feet 6 inches tall.
...28. Kecha Khamphakdee
Kecha Khamphakdee is an English Stunt director. He mainly works with the Kannada, Malayalam Hindi, Tamil, English, and Telugu film Industry. Kecha did several projects as a stunt director as Sagaptham in the year 2015, Asian Connection in the year 2016, Baaghi 2 in the year 2018. His film Sagaptham released on April 2 and in the year 2015. It's running process is for two hours and thirty-five minutes. It has a genre action, drama, and romance. Its cast and crew includes as Devayani, Karthik, Ranjith, Vijayakanth, Thalaivasal Vijay, Bose Venkat, Silambarasan, Vijay Prakash, Jagan, Singapuli, Andrea Jeremiah, Chinmayi Sripaada, Remya Nambeesan, Power Star Srinivasan, Raju Sundaram, Subhra Aiyappa, Suresh, Karthik Raja, Neha Hinge, Naveen Krishna and many more. LK Sudhish is the producer. Raju Sundaram and Shobi Paulrakj did the choreography. Karthik Raja is the music director.
...29. Singampuli
Singampuli is a well known actor in Kollywood industry for his performance. He was born in Theni and he completed his graduation in Engineering from Bangalore and came to Chennai to look a career in Cine field.
He made his entry into the Kollywood industry as an assistant director for director Sundar. C. Later he got a chance to direct a film ‘Red’, with actor Ajith in the lead. Next, he made his acting debut through the film Naan Kadavul and was seen in the role of a beggar named Kuyyan which was directed by Bala. In this film he even got the chance as a co-director. His next movie was Mayandi Kudumbathar, which was a big break for him. He felt happy for doing the character Mayandi Virumandi in the movie Mayandi Kudumbathar by seeing the audience responses.
Singampuli has even written dialogues for the movies Kannan Varuvan, Perazhagan and Renigunta. He is the director, who must be applauded for changing actor Ajith into an action hero with the movie ‘Red’. From the movie ‘Mayavi’ (which had Surya and Jyothika in the lead), he proved as a good script writer. His career started to shine more from the year 2012 as he started to do comedy roles and he was seen noted in all the movies he acted. He has a different body language to attract the audiences by doing comic roles. As of now he is concentrating more on acting field and he has no plans for directing a film.
Another Version
Though Singampuli started his film career as an assistant director, he is mainly known for his stint with acting. Singampuli was brought up and born in Theni district, Periyakulam and then after doing B.Tech in Bangalore college, he went to Chennai seeking for an opportunity as a career option in films.
When Singampuli was working as an assistant director for Sundar C, he narrated the story of Unnaithedi.
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