Sri Priyanka
Andrea Jeremiah
Shashaa Tirupati
Shweta Mohan
Brinda
Amritha Ram
S Thaman
Antony L Ruben
Yazin Nizar
Sachin Sudhakaran
Balakesavan Shanmugam
Mounam Ravi
Ravi Varma
Hareesh Peradi
Radha Ravi
Soori
Vela Ramamoorthy
Vikram
Deepak Subramaniam
Hari Haran
V Mayapandi
1. Sri Priyanka
Sri Priyanka is a budding Tamil movie actress. She was born and brought up in Pondicherry. Kangaroo is her debut movie. Sri Priyanka is passionate in acting from her young age. By seeing the lovable performance by the popular Indian star actress Sridevi, Sri Priyanka got interested in acting. Sri got the cinema chance through her manager Harish. Harish introduced her to director Sami, who was about to direct a brother and sister sentiment story. As the story was impressive, Sri Priyanka accepted the role. She says that the director encouraged her well.
2. 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...
3. Shashaa Tirupati
Shashaa Tirupati is a Indian playback singer and was born on 21st December 1987. She is also a lyricist and gives her voice. Her first song as an individual singer is “Vaada Vaada” from the Tamil movie Kochadaiiyaan, under the musical direction of AR Rahman, starring Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone But, this song did not get her talent noticed the song “Aye Mr Minor” from Kaaviya Thalaivan, starring Siddharth and Vedika gained her immediate fame. With her second song, she was nominated for theprestigious Big Music Awards: Tamil 2015. OK Kanmani is one of her recent albums. She has been singing since the age of six. She presented her first stage show when she was only eight.
With a keen interest in music, she started learning Hindustani Classical music fromthe age of ten . Coming to her formal education,...
4. Shweta Mohan
Shweta Mohan is a female playback singer in Indian cinema who is also the daughter of playback singer Sujatha Mohan. Like her mother, she also had sung in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born on 19 November 1985 in Chennai. In fact, earlier she was a bit hesitant to take up singing as her career. But as she sung, she enjoyed singing very much. Had not she been in singing, she could have opted for doing MBA and got settled other way.
Shweta grew up watching her mother sing and eventually looked her as a role model for her life. She has always aspired to be like her. Taking inspiration from her mother’s versatile career in Indian cinema, she eventually made her ground too in film music. She is well...
5. Brinda
Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer. Brinda dedicated all her life to choreographing and assisting various notable actors.
According to Brinda, she was not a good student in school and had an inclination towards extra-curricular activities like acting in plays and dance. She is not a highly educated person and has studied till class 12th only. Brinda listed English as her favourite subject in school and her interest in dancing started because of her ...
6. Amritha Ram
Amritha Ram is a well-known fashion designer in India who is popular for designing costumes in the film like Vada Chennai which is Tamil gangster Drama starring Dhanush. In this film, the costume of the actors was the main thing that made a difference. Costumes played the vital role in this film which was by Amritha Ram. The film was directed by Vetrimaaran. The plot of the film was the underworld politics in the year 1977 to 2007 followed in North Chennai.
Amritha completed her degree of Fashion Designing from Fashion Institute of Technology which is situated in New York. She told about her experience in “Vada Chennai” that the director of the film used to brief her about the costumes which were to be designed for the actors. Amritha was told that if anyone ...
7. S Thaman
Ghantasala Sai Srinivas Thaman Siva Kumar, also known as S.Thaman. He is an Indian film composer, who also works in Tamil and Telugu industry. He is famous for giving his best. He started his career in the film Boys. He then became famous for his passion towards music director. His debut film as music director for Tamil was Sindhanai Sei and for Telugu was Kick. S.Thaman was born on 16th November 1983 in Andhra Pradesh. He is the grandchild of Ghantasala Balaramaya, who is known for producing the Telugu film Seetarama Jananam. Thaman, a 28-year-old hails from a family of musicians from Pottepalam. His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a Drummer; mother Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer and his aunt P.Vasantha is also singer. Thaman married Vardhini, who is a playback singer.
8. Antony L Ruben
Antony Ruben or Livingston Antony Ruben (by birth), is a film editor in the Tamil film industry. He acquired a degree in Visual Communication from the Loyola College in Chennai. Gautham Menon advised him to visit Anthony for further help. Ruben had visited Anthony earlier as well. He approached ace director, Gautham Menon, to become his assistant, but the latter redirects him to director Anthony, to work as his assistant editor. Under Anthony’s mentorship, he worked on the film Vettaiyadu Vilaiyaadu, which was a hit. He was given a bright chance to work on film trailers, which ultimately helped him work on films like Thoranai, Avan Ivan and Vedi. His debut as a full-fledged editor was in the film, Kandaen in 2011.
His work in Elred Kumar's Muppozhudhum Un Karpa...
9. Yazin Nizar
Yazin Nizar is a prominent name in the South Indian Music industry. He is an excellent Playback singer singing in various language movies which include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies.
He is known for his melodious voice and specializes in various genres such as Classical, Sufi, Ghazal, Rock, Pop and many others. This talented singer was born on 9 February 1990 in the beautiful city of Kollam in Kerala. His passion and interest for music were spotted by his father, and he quickly enrolled his son for Indian classical music lessons. He age was eight at that time.
He slowly emerged as a talented and good singer winning music competitions at school and various events. After completing his schooling, he completed his MBA in Fi...
10. Sachin Sudhakaran
Sachin Sudhakaran was born in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. He went to the Indian School in Muscat, Oman. Then pursued a Bachelor of Tectechnology from Model Engineering College, Kochi, India, and then he completed a Diploma in Sound Engineering from the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in Chennai, India.
He is a co-founder of Sync Cinema.
Sachin Sudhakaran is a well-known professional sound engineer with good work experience and has worked with many movies in his music career. He deals with all the sounds and music as a project manager involved in the research and development of enhancing audio, alongside monitoring, recording, mixing, and mastering sound and all sorts of music creativity so that the audience can feel the story.
11. Balakesavan Shanmugam
Balakesavan Shanmugam is a sound effects editor predominantly working in the Tamil and Telugu Film Industries. He hails from Erode, Tamil Nadu. Balakesavan was inclined towards cinema from a very young age. He debuted as a sound editor in the 2016 horror-comedy “Jackson Durai.” Dharani Dharan directed the motion-picture. Sibiraj, Bindu Madhavi, and Sathyaraj played prominent roles in the flick. The movie released on 16th June 2016 to average reviews from critics and audiences alike. Balakesavan has served as a sound designer for several films that have been critically acclaimed and commercially successful. Some of his prominent works include Vikram Vedha (2017), Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017), Taxiwaala (2018), Nota (2018), Yatra (2019) and Mafia (2020). Balakesavan resides in Chennai.
...12. Mounam Ravi
Mounam Ravi is a Public Relation Officer for the Tamil (Kollywood) industry. He's been a part of many blockbuster movies and had worked with many dignitaries. His work involves; understand and support his clients in matters related to how to portray their image in public and what steps should bring their client reputation, through using all forms of media and communication, reputable. He was born in the southern part of India and did his schooling from there. He started his career as a Public Relation Officer pretty soon in life, and today he is a well-heeled PRO. Being a PRO is not an easy job.
It needed a lot of Hard work and determination and can sometimes become very tedious. He's a Public Relations officer for at least 21 movies and has done a tremendous job there. He is associated with some of the movies, and thos...
13. Ravi Varma
He was born in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. At the age of two, their family moved to Hyderabad, so he was grown up in Hyderabad.
He learnt Kathak (Indian classical dance) while he was studying 3rd class. Afterwards he learnt Bangra (dance originating from the Punjab region) extensively for eight years. He was even familiar with mime (imitation without use of speech) and gave many performances. He used to participate in lot of cultural activities mainly dance competitions.
He completed his engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Later on he went to USA and pursued Masters in Computers. He even joined in a job at Rediff. At the same time he joined a three month course in NYFA (New York Film Academy), which helped him a lot for his acting career. Meanwhile he also worked...
14. Hareesh Peradi
Hareesh Peradi, a sublime actor who blends so well with the roles portrayed by him, is from Chalappuram, Kerala. Hareesh is the son of Govindan Nair and Savithri Nair. As a teenage boy, he was engaged and interested in dramas and had received several prizes as well. He is wedded to Bindu, who is a dance teacher. They have a son, Vishnu, and a daughter, Vaidhi. Hareesh has studied in Zamorin’s College.
He began as a drama artist of Akashavani at the age of 19. Hareesh has strong roots from the theater and has learned the dramatic arts under Jayaprakash Kuloor. As a theater artist, Hareesh has performed on almost 3500 stages in India. He is a famous figure of Malayalam Television and Cinema industry. He has also made an appearance in several religious albums. In one ...
15. Radha Ravi
Radha Ravi is a populous actor cum producer in the Tamil cinema industry. He has come from a cinema background family, where his father, brother, and sisters were the actors. He is the son of the popular actor M R Radha, who is well known for his villainy and character roles in the early 50s and 60s. Radha Ravi was born in the year 1952. He did his graduation in the New College in Chennai. He has a brother called M.R.R.Vasu and three sisters namely Rashya, Rani and Radhikala. Radhika and Nirosha are his half-sisters.
16. Soori
Soori is a South Indian actor in Kollywood. His nickname is “Parotta Soori’ which has been derived from his Tamil movie that he had acted. In 2009, he acted in a film ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’(2009) where a scene was shot with a crew of actors, who sit together and eat Parotta by keeping a challenge who eats more Parotta’s. In this scene, Parotta Soori performed his best, so people coined his name as Parotta Soori. Basically, he appeared as a comedian in many Tamil movies. After the film became a blockbuster, he never looked back. He is doing five to six films in a year. Today, this dusky lad with the moustache look has placed him in line with other comedians like Vadivelu, Santhanam and Goundamani. He is in peak of his career today playing comedian roles and doing a nu...
17. Vela Ramamoorthy
Vela Ramamoorthy is an Indian actor and writer who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry. He was born in Perunali, Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu in India. He has done his schooling from KHN High School, Perunali and he is also a Pre University Course graduate. He served in Indian army for 5 long years and also in a post office before starting his acting career. He got married to Kaliammal on 11th March 1976. He won Best Villain Award presented by Vikatan Magazine for his outstanding portrayal of an antagonist in the movie “Kidaari.”
He is acknowledged as one of the famous Tamil writers of his time. He is the author of the critically appreciated and best-selling Tamil novels like Kuruthi Aattam, Pattathu Yaanai, and Kutraparambarai, etc. He has also written the book “Vela Ramamoorthy Kathaikal” which i...