Andrea Jeremiah
Keerthana Vaidyanathan
Usha Rajendar
Vaibhavi Shandilya
Papri Ghosh
Sanjana Singh
VTV Ganesh
Ramesh Kumar
Abinandhan Ramanujam
Karunakaran B
Madhan Karky
Vairamuthu
Vignesh Shivan
Anirudh Ravichander
Leon James
T Rajendar
Vasudev Krishna
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Umesh J Kumar
Raju Sundaram
Sathish Krishnan
Diamond Babu
Kanal Kannan
Dinesh Kumar
Sridhar
Aryan Srinivasan
Daniel Annie Pope
Narayan Lucky
Power Star Srinivasan
Robo Shankar
Sampath Raj
Sethu
Sharath Lohitashwa
Vivek
G.L Sethuraman
Rajkumar
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.
However, entry into acting came to her via the theatre route, as it was hard to refuse offers from Girish Karnad, in whose “Nagamandala” she performed first, and then went on to perform all over the country, during whi...
2. Keerthana Vaidyanathan
Keerthana Vaidyanathan is an Indian classical and playback singer. Keerthana Vaidyanathan was born on 8 December 1990 in Kerala, India. She spent her childhood in Chennai. Born in a family with a musical background, Keerthana started learning music from a tender age. She was initially trained by her parents, father, Mridangam Vidwan Trivandrum R. Vaidyanathan, and mother, Meena Vaidyanathan. Today, she is a well-known vocalist. She made her name in playback singing with some hit movies like Kolaigaran(2019) and Ivanukku Engaiyo Macham Iruku. She became immensely popular with her shows and collaborations with different companies in stage shows.
She has been under the tutelage of Bombay Jayashri since 2001. She has accompanied Jayashri in several concerts, including the Carnatic concert movie 'Maargazhi Ragam.' This made ...
3. Usha Rajendar
Usha Rajendar is a producer and an actress, known for working in films like Oru Thalai Raagam and Idhu Namma Aalu. She has also produced the movie, Uyirullavarai Usha. She is married to the Tamil director, Thesingu Rajendar, who is also an actor, a cinematographer, a singer, a producer and now a politician. They have one daughter, Ilakiya and two sons, Kuralarasan and Silambarasan. Uyirullavarai Usha is a Tamil film of 1983, and it stars Saritha, Vijaya T. Rajendar, Nalini and Ganga in main roles. It has musical score given by Vijaya T. Rajendar. The movie was dubbed into the Telugu language as Prema Sagaram and remade in the Kannada language as Premigala Saval. The story of Oru Thalai Raagam is based on the love life of Raja and Subhadra, played by Shankar and Roopa. Both are classmates, and their colleagu...
4. Vaibhavi Shandilya
Vaibhavi Shandilya is an Indian by nationality. She is a professional actress. She mainly acts in Marathi and Tamil films. She is very young. The Marathi film Janiva, which was released in the year 2015, marked the debut of Vaibhavi in Marathi films. This film had a social message embedded in it. The film also marked another actor’s debut. The name of the actor is Satya, who also happens to be M. Manjrekar’s son.
She started 2016 with a Marathi film named Lord of Shingnapur. For this film, she was honored with critical acclaim. The film was based on mythology. Her first film Janiva was not successful at the box office and could not get much positive reviews.
The bad luck continued and Vaibhavi’s second film also coul...
5. Papri Ghosh
Papri Ghosh is a beautiful Indian Actress who has done films in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Telugu. She lives in Chennai, and her Facebook page is – paprighoshofficial, from where you can keep a constant update of her life. Papri started her career in 2009 with the Bengali film ‘Kaalbela’, directed by Goutam Ghose. Since then, she has never looked back and has starred in many movies and has many upcoming films to release.
She did ‘Krodh’ directed by Shankar Roy, released on December 25, 2009, as “Diya”. Later, she acted in the flick named “Touring Talkies” alongside the ace director S. A. Chandrasekhar, the renowned actor ‘Manobala’, and Robo Shankar, as the main cast. This film released on January 30, 2015.
Her life took a turn when she pl...
6. Sanjana Singh
Born on February 23, 1986, Sanjana was raised in Mumbai as a child. She then turned out to be an Indian actress featuring in Tamil films. Sanjana was the face of the 2009 critically acclaimed film, ‘Renigunta’. This film was directed by Paneerselvam. She was heartily praised for her brilliant performance and was one actress from Mumbai, who stood out of the glamour and showbiz. One of the leading newspaper stated that the performance delivered by Singh was worth watching for where she played the role of a sex worker. Her perfection in timing, dialogue delivery with the Telugu actor was successful.
She was also seen in a special role in the film ‘Ko’ alongside many in the song ‘Aaga Naga’. She has a pretty strong filmography. In 2010, she signed up for item numbers in many films. The one in &l...
7. 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 ...
8. Ramesh Kumar
Born on July 9, in Pondicherry, Ramesh Kumar is an Indian Actor, who is working in Tamil film and Tv business. He made his acting introduction in the Tamil TV sequential "Office" alongside Shruthi Raj, coordinated by Ram Vinayak and delivered by KJ Ganesh. Ramesh additionally acted with well-known on-screen characters such as Nagashree, Madhumila, Ammu Ramachandran, Rekha Suresh, and Jaya Lakshmi.
He showed up in some notable movies, for example, Vayakkattu Mapillai and Vedhapuri. Ramesh, as of now doing the supporting role in Tamil show Kadavul Murugan alongside Priya Prince on Vijay TV.
...9. Abinandhan Ramanujam
Abinandhan Ramanujam is an Indian cinematographer working in Malayalam and Hindi movies. Abinandhan was born in Chennai. He is graduated from L.V. Prasad Film and TV Academy and is a gold medalist from there. He later did a course in visual communication from GRD College, in Coimbatore. Since childhood Abinandhan was interested in photography. His father Ramanujam was a bank officer, who always encouraged him in his work. His father owned an old Yashica camera; he would practice his photography skills, and his father would monitor it as well give guidance on his photography. In school and college days, Abinandhan was very active and had participated in many filmmaking competitions. He used to keep himself busy with some or the other work which was related to filming.
The Postman is one of such film by Abin...
10. Karunakaran B
B Karunakaran is an Indian Film Lyricist. He worked in the Tamil Film Industry. He had his debut as a Lyricist in the Film Industry with the Tamil Film Alex Pandian. The film released on the 11th of January in the year 2013. The story of this film revolves around Alex, a small-time thief. He receives a contract to kidnap Divya, Chief Minister’s daughter for three days. Divya reveals the real reason behind her kidnap. Then Alex decides to help Divya. Suraj is the Director of this film. Devi Sri Prasad scored some peppy musical numbers for this film. Karthi, Anushka Shetty, Nikita Thukral, Santhanam, Sanusha, Suman, and Milind Soman played main roles in this film. Karunakaran later worked as a lyricist for the films such as Damaal Dumeel (2014), Kadavul Paathi Mirugam Paathi (2015), Sakka Podu Podu Raja (2017), and Peranbu (20...
11. Madhan Karky
Madhan Karky Vairamuthu was born on March 10, 1980. He lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his education from College of Engineering, Guindy and University of Queensland. He is an Indian lyricist, software engineer, a professor, research associate, and a film dialogue writer. His parents are Vairamuthu and Ponmani; his father is a poet and a lyricist.
He is their eldest son. In 2001 at the college of engineering, Guindy he completed his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Further in the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia he completed his Post Graduation and Ph.D. in information technology in 2004. In 2010 he became a lyricist for the science fiction film Enthiran. For this film, he wrote the song "Irumbile Oru Irudhaiyam." He also assisted the director S. Shankar in w...
12. 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...
13. Vignesh Shivan
People say that everybody is talented, but most of the people never actually open up their package. But what if a person does not limit himself in one package? What if he has many packages to offer? Yes, you all heard that right. Vignesh Shivan is a very young lad to achieve such huge milestones that most of could have only dreamt about. Shivan is a film director, -but the list of his talent is endless. He is a versatile actor, songwriter, a music composer,and a scriptwriter as well. I know it is very hard to believe, but this multi-talented kid has taken it all, beginning with the love from his audition to an unquestionable pool of talent.
Vignesh was born on 18 September 1985 in Tamil Nadu, Chennai. Vignesh was brought up as a child of two respected police officers of their town. His father is no more, but he served as a supe...
14. 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...
15. Leon James
Leon James was born on December first, 1991 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is a music composer and also a singer, who is a true master of playing the Organ and the guitar, which he started learning at the age of three. His interest in music was fuelled by his father Noel James, who was then working as the manager of the legendary musician A.R.Rahman. During his college days, he was lucky enough to befriend another legend in the industry- Anirudh Rravichander, with whom he performed in the college band- ‘Zinx’. Together, they even bagged the envied Oooh La LA Award for best keyboardists in 2009.Apart from several awards that the band received in various performances, it was these performances that gave him the courage to create his own music which was well received by the few listeners...
16. T Rajendar
17. Vasudev Krishna
Vasudev Krishna is a son of popular singer Unnikrishnan, a Tamil singer. The duo often collaborates to make a featured song. The father also collaborates with the daughter and Vasudev’s sister, Uthara. He entered the Kollywood Film Industry as a playback singer. The youngster recorded the song for EP KO 306. The film was focused on the issues that the NEET students were facing. Vasudev was then having his higher education and was pursuing automobile engineering. When he began singing, he started getting comments that he sang or sounded just like his father. His sister Uthara also collaborates with the father, Unnikrishnan, and the pair won an award for their debut song. Vasudev also sang another featured song of his career, Haira Haira, released in 2022.
...18. Yuvan Shankar Raja
19. Umesh J Kumar
Umesh J Kumar was born in the house of a bank officer and a housewife. He was a middle child of the parents. He has done his schooling from the Don Bosco School and he has done his under graduation and MBA from LIBA Loyola institute of business management. He began his career as the art director in 2013.
He has done many advertisements, tele serials, feature films in Tamil and designed several stage shows. He is an Indian art director in the south film industry more predominantly in Tamil movies. He has done many movies like Bruce lee, AAA and ticket, etc.
...20. 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’.
Then he went on to do a few Kannada films as a lead choreographer. Then he ...
21. Sathish Krishnan
Sathish Krishnan has worked in the Tamil Industry and is an Indian Choreographer and actor. He is the instructor of Flyerz dance company for more than 10 years and is also seen in many Television serials like Aattam Paatam and Dance Machi Dance, Maanada Mayilada (won the title on Best Dancer), Jodi Number One Season Four and many such shows.
He made his debut as a choreographer in the movie ‘Neethane En Ponvasantham’ and has worked in several hit movies like ‘Yennai Arindhaal’, ‘Sutta Kadhai’, ‘Vaalu, Madras’ etc.
He was seen acting in the film Unnale Unnale in 2007. He then got a lead role by Gautham Menon in the movie Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikaalam and by Srikanth in the film Mudivilla Punnagai. His other big hits include Endrendrum and Uppu...
22. Diamond Babu
Diamond Babu is an Indian media consultant and film public relations officer who works predominately in Tamil cinema. Babu was born on 16 June 1960 in Madras which is now called Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Babu's father, Film News Anandan, was one of the founding journalist, chroniclers, and managers of Tamil cinema, and he wanted his son to join the film industry.
Even though Babu was well educated and working in a bank in Delhi, he decided to live his job to satisfy his father's wishes. After he left the bank, Babu started his film club called 'Diamond' where he screened films for a close group at Sathyam, Subham and Devi Bala theatres in the early '80s.
Babu noticed that Tamil films had some censorship hiccups; it was for this reason that Diamond Babu decided to be a public relations officer (PRO)...
23. Kanal Kannan
Kanal Kannan is an Indian actor, screenwriter, stunt director and a stunt choreographer in Kollywood, Malayalam cinema etc. He was born in Tamil Nadu. Kanal Kannan is one of the highly respected and senior stunt directors in south India. Kannan, as a stunt master is believed to beequalling Jackie Chan and is poised to become Tamil version of the same. He has choreographed many breath taking stunt sequences featuring the likes of Vikram, Kamal Haasan, Nagarjuna, Vijay, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Suriya and Ajith. Apart from some lead roles, he has also done cameos in many of his films. We can call him as a boisterously funny, action star who has worked his way up from stuntman.
He has done the lead role in 'Satrumun Kidaitha Thagaval', directed by Thakkali C. Srinivasan opposite Bharathi, 'Ammuvagiya ...
24. Dinesh Kumar
Dinesh Kumar is a popular choreographer in the Tamil Film Industry who is active in the field from the year 2001 to till day (as of 2016).He has choreographed for more than 138 films in this period. Dinesh had his schooling in Nandanam Arts College in Chennai. He was initially in the team of the Famous Dance brothers Prabhu Deva, Raju Sundaram and Nagendra Prasad. He won the Best Dance Choreographer award from “Filmfare Awards South” in the year 2009 for the Tamil Movie “Ayan” to his work in the song “Pala Palakkura Pagala Nee...” which was a big hit in that year. He won the Best Choreographer award from “Vijay Awards” in the year 2007 for his choreography in the hit song “ Vasantha Mullai Poley vandhu...” in the Tamil Movie “Pokiri” starring the Famous Actor &ldqu...
25. Sridhar
Sridhar is an individual to inspire those persons who do not believe in dance. Sridhar is a multi-talented man to grow up the intensity of interest in a psychological manner. Though he is an engineer, he has faith in dance and performances and fulfills his dream to involve the Kannada cinema. Professionally he is a model, dancer, choreographer, and actor. He had the passion for a classical dance that he gets married with the girl Anuradha, who is also a Bharatnatyam performer. Actually, They were the partners in a dance academy, thereafter they get married. Both of them are now the directors of their own Bharatnatyam dance academy and gain the best institute award also. Sridhar was born on 22 November, 1960. He was a dancing boy from his childhood that came earlier in Kannada film industry.
He had won the best young dancer awar...
26. Aryan Srinivasan
Aryan Srinivasan is a Tamil film actor. He was born and brought up in Vellore. After his graduation, he visited Chennai. For getting the right chance, he has roamed here and there in Chennai. He got introduced to director Kasthuri Raja, the father of Dhanush. Aryan Srinivasan made his debut in the movie Dreams with Dhanush. It was directed by Kasthuri Raja. The movie was not up to the expectation. Then, he acted as a villain Pan Parag Ravi in Perarasu movie, Thiruppachi. He has also acted with Ajith in Alwar, with Jiiva in E and with Surya in Aaru. He felt little bored in doing monotonous roles. After a few years, he acted in Kannada films. Aryan Srinivasan has also acted as a second hero in the Kannada films. He did nearly five movies there, including Radhan Ganda. Later he did negative ro...
27. Daniel Annie Pope
Daniel Annie Pope is a Tamil actor and has contributed in Tamil (Kollywood) industry. His work is highly commendable. From 2013 onwards he worked in three Tamil Films namely Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara in 2013, Yaamirukka Bayamey in 2014, and Mass in 2015. He was always into acting and drama since his childhood days but, he never got an opportunity to work for theater club at school. He said that in his school only meritorious students have the chance to work in drama and acting club. So he waited for his education to finish and during the time of graduation, he started participating in theater shows.
Also, he did street play to further enhance his skills in acting. Not only that, he held a Guinness world record for performing the longest theater play and no one has been able to break it yet. For gettin...
28. Narayan Lucky
Narayan Lucky is an Indian actor working in Kollywood. He began his career by portraying the lead role in a Tamil Film InidhuInidhu in 2010. He mostly plays supporting roles and not mainstream roles. His hometown and birthplace both are Chennai. Narayan's first film Inidhu Inidhu in 2010 was his first entry into Kollywood, and it was not what everyone would want a debut to be. The film was a box office failure, though it was a remake of the famous, successful and award winning film Happy Days in Telugu in 2007, produced by P. Raj where Narayan Lucky had played a parallel lead role named Arvind (Tyson).
Besides Narayan Lucky, the film also stared other actors like A. Arun, V.S. Kumar, R. Menon, S. Deepti and A. Zaveri. Narayan got fame and recognition as a supporting actor in the film Oru Kal Oru Kannadi in 2012. He has a pr...
29. 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.
This move brought publicity to him and soon he had several online fan clubs, which affected in Srinivasan rechristening his name as 'Powerstar' Srinivasan. With this success, he started producing and acting in movies such as Ananda Thollai, Indrasena, Desiya Nedunchalai. Actor Santhanam gave a breakthrough...
30. Robo Shankar
Robo Shankar is an upcoming comedian artiste in the Tamil cinema who was noticed as a mimicry artist in ‘’Rowtrhiram’’, that released in 2011. But while editing the movie, his role was cut fully, and the actor could not get any recognition.
As a comedian, he works very hard on the scripts and found that needed updating with the trending talks of today’s youth has become very necessary to understand the pulse of the audience to pull them to the screen. In order to be a successful comedian, he feels, one artist has to update himself with trending talks of youths witnessed in college and even schools.
The actor feels that today’s audiences are smart enough and it is harder to make them laugh in theatre. Basically, the actor analyses what whatever today’...
31. Sampath Raj
'Sampath Raj' was born on 25 December 1968 in Chennai. He adopted film field as his profession for more than a decade by acting in a 2004-released film titled ‘Neranja Manasu’ .Though he played only a small role in the film, he gave it his best and had a series of films to his credits almost every year since then. Though born in Chennai, Sampath is not partial about the languages of the movies he acts in, nor is he bothered with the type of role that he gets to play in the films.
He was featured in more than sixty films till date. His impartiality and his wish to accommodate movies from various states in the country has gained him a lot of reputation in the subcontinent. Though Tamil is his mother tongue, he is fluent in various south Indian lang...
32. Sethu
Sethu was born in India. He is an actor by profession and did many roles in TV series also. He acted in Kollywood mostly in Tamil films. Sethu became very popular after his portrayal in “Malli”, it is a daily soap which aired its first episode on 23rd November 2013. A. R. Ramesh directed the show, and it focused on the lives of Shivani and Bala. Bala lost his elder sister, Malli, at a very young age and he mourns when he thinks about her. Shivani belongs to a royal family and never received the love and affection that a child should receive from her parents. Her parents just like many others are blindly running for money and building up their profession.
They have no idea how Shivani feels about them, and there’s a void in her heart that needs to get filled. Shivani receives the love of a brot...
34. Vivek
Vivekanandan is the birth name of the versatile comedian Vivek. He is introduced by the legendary director Balachander through the film Manadhil Urudhi Vendum. It is the film in which Ramesh Arvind was also introduced. They both acted as brothers of Suhasini in that film. He got famous through Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal, as his dialogue Innaikku Seththa Naalaikku Paal reached the viewers well. He acted with top actors and reached fame within a short span. He performed with Rajini in Uzhaippali, Veera and Sivaji. His role in Kadhal Mannan, an Ajith starter, was loved by many people. Vivek acted with Vijay in Kushi and Priyamanavale. He performed with Vadivelu in few films and the notable one is Middle Class Madhavan, a Prabhu movie. Both Vadivel and Vivek performed humorously in that film. After the invasion of many comedians like Santhanam ...
36. Rajkumar