Guneet Monga
Geetha Madhuri
Anushka Shetty
Gabriella Demetriades
Nora Fatehi
Shriya Saran
Jayasudha
Tamannaah Bhatia
Suchitra
Vamsi Paidipally
Prasad V Potluri
Madhan Karky
Anirudh Ravichander
Karthik
Ranjith K Govind
Shankar Mahadevan
Vijay Prakash
Sunil Babu
Raju Sundaram
Ravi Varma
Karthik Sivakumar
Adivi Sesh
Prakash Raj
Vivek
Gopi Sundar
K L Praveen
Akkineni Nagarjuna
P S Vinod
Raju Murugan
Ali Basha
Haricharan Seshadri
Sashikumar Subramani
1. Guneet Monga
Guneet Monga is a film and line producer; she mainly works in Hindi Film Industry, Bollywood. She is CEO of Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt Ltd (AKFPL). She was born on 21st November 1983 in New Delhi. Presently, she lives in Mumbai. She did her schooling from Bluebells School International, Delhi. She graduated from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi in Mass Communications.
In 2003, she started working as a production coordinator in Delhi for international productions as Vic Sarin’s production ‘Partition’. In 2006, she moved to Mumbai, where her work in films started with the 2007 release ‘Say Salaam India’. Later she worked in the films as ‘Rasiya’ (2008), ‘Dasvidaniya’ (2008) and ‘Once Upon a Time in M...
2. Geetha Madhuri
Geetha Madhuri is a well-known playback singer and is best known for her works in films like ‘Nachavule’ and ‘Golimaar’ for singing the songs like, ‘Ninne Ninne’ and ‘Magaallu.' She was born in August on 24th in the year 1989. She was born to parents Lakshmi and Prabhakar, in the Palakol area in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Her father, Mr. Prabhakar, was an official of the SBH and Geetha Madhuri was her parent’s one and only child. She did her higher secondary education from a school named Loyola in the area of Vanasthalipuram in the city of Hyderabad.
During her childhood, Geetha was given training in music and singing by her parents and was given the opportunity to train under great musicians of that time. For h...
3. Anushka Shetty
Anushka Shetty is the popular South Indian star who is very famous for her work in Arundhati, a Telugu movie. This film was dubbed in Tamil and made her more popular among the Tamil audience. Her first Tamil movie was Rendu with R. Madhavan. Anushka Shetty was not well known during the time of Rendu. It is only through Arundhati, she entered the hearts of the people. She masters all the roles given to her. She has paired with almost all the top stars of South Indian film industry right from Rajini Kanth. She paired Super Star in the film Linga and got a decent role in that film.
Her appearance in Thaandavam with Vikram was praised by many people, as she did a good role, leaving the heart hard at the end in the movie. She acted with Vikram in Deivathirumagal as an Advocat...
4. Gabriella Demetriades
Gabriella Demetriades is a South African model. By profession, she is a model as well as fashion designer and also running a company “ Deme by Gabriella,” which is ready to wear women’s wear label, established in 2012. Initially, she was doing styling in Cape town, and as per photographer’s wish, she gave a test. In a Cape Town restaurant, a top booker spotted her and sent her to India for her first overseas contract. The popularity of India and her experience in India allowed her to be more globally central. She got selected for 100 sexiest women in the world for FHM and was also Miss “ IPL” in 2009 in Bollywood. She is currently active in Bollywood advertisements. Her recent advertisement is of “ Micromax Mobiles”.
She ha...
5. Nora Fatehi
Nora Fatehi is yet another foreigner to get a break in the Bollywood and she is of Moroccan origin. She debuted in Bollywood through the movie ‘Roar – Tigers of the Sundarbans’ which was directed by Kamal Sadanah. She played the character of a commando who is on a mission to find and kill a man-killer tigress. The superhot model was already famous for her killer looks and the movie gave her a huge boost.
After her first movie in 2013, she became so popular and bagged the lead role in director Prakash Jha’s movie ‘Crazy Cukkad Family’ and also did a special appearance role in one of the songs in the Emraan Hashmi starrer ‘Mr.X’. Sh...
6. Shriya Saran
Shriya Saran, the timeless beauty, is a much loved actor of the South Indian film industry who’s been reigning the world of cinema from nearly a decade. She’s acted in nearly 70 films in the languages of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English and Hindi and won a host of prestigious awards in all of her career.
A trained and expert traditional dancer, Shriya Saran was noticed in one of her dance videos and for the beauty that she was, movie offers came her way. Ishtam, the telugu film produced by Ramoji Rao was the first that she acted in and although the film didn’t really fare all that well, she was noticed. She was paired with bigger heroes like Nagarjuna and Tarun right after that when she acted in films like Santosham (with Nag) and Nuvve nuvve (first directorial of Trivikram Srinivas along side Tarun...
7. Jayasudha
Born on 17 December 1958 Jayasudha is predominantly a Telugu actress, though she has worked in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada films too. She was born in Chennai, but her mother tongue is Telugu. Her aunt, Vijaya Nirmala has acted in Telugu films and she is a director too.
Jayasudha entered into films during the age of 12; she acted in a Telugu film named Pandanti Kapuram. Later, she did a minute role in K Balachander’s Arangetram. She worked with K Balachander in several films. Her original name is Sujatha and she changed it to Jayasudha. The Telugu film industry welcomed her and she worked in many good films there. The greatest credit to her acting prowess...
8. Tamannaah Bhatia
Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil and Telugu film industry with lots of fan following. Chand Sa Roshan Chehra was her first Hindi movie, in the year 2005. Her Telugu debut was Sri and the Tamil debut was Kedi. In Kedi, she did a negative role and the movie did not go well. It was also the debut movie for Ileana, the South Indian popular actress. Tamannaah Bhatia acted in Vyapari with director S.J.Suryah; but she did not get a good recognition. After she performed in Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori, she became notable. Her performance in that film was appreciated by everyone. Similarly, her Telugu film Happy Days was also a super hit and got her good name. Tamannaah Bhatia steadied her market by choosing good films.
9. Suchitra
Suchitra is a renowned singer, who has sung popular songs in the Tamil films. She was born as Suchitra Ramadurai in the year 1979 in Chennai. After completing her schooling in Chennai, she completed her graduation in Trivandrum from Mar Ivanios College. She did her MBA in PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore. She joined in Sify, after her graduation.
After she noticed the advertisement for the post of Radio Jockey in the popular FM, Radio Mirchi, she applied. She got the job and popularly known to the FM listeners as Mirchi Suchi. She hosted the program Hello Chennai and with her unique voice, she got fame within a short duration. Then she entered the cinema industry as a dubbing artist and gave the voiceover. She has appeared as a guest in Jay Jay, Aayutha Ezhuthu and Bale Pandiya. She has rendered her voice for the popular...
10. Vamsi Paidipally
Vamsi Paidipally also called as Vamshi, is a Telugu and Tamil movie director and screenwriter who has been in the industry for eight years. His directorial debut was Munna, a Telugu film in the year 2007, which is about a college student and his struggle to kill Don Kakha. The movie fared well at the box office, and its soundtrack was a huge success.
Vamsi’s first movie Munna in 2007 proved to be a disaster at the box office.
Vamsi is most known for directing the films, Brindavanam (2010), which was a decent hit. This movie is from the rom-com genre which starred N.T Rama Rao Jr., Samantha and Kajal Aggarwal in lead roles. His next film, Yevadu, which released in 2014, was one of the top grossing movies that ye...
11. Prasad V Potluri
Prasad V Potluri was born on September 8, 1970, in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India to Raghavendra Rao and Mangatara Devi. He did his higher secondary from NSM Public School, Vijayawada and completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Nagarjuna University. Popularly known as PVP, Prasad is a Philanthropist, Educationalist, and Serial Entrepreneur. He is married to Jhansi Sureddi and has two children, one son (Param) and one daughter (Pearl). He is the Co-Owner of Kerala Blasters F.C. (One of the teams in the Indian Super League), Owner of Hyderabad HotShots (Indian Badminton League) and PVP Cinemas, Strategic Investor in Maven Corp and Karvy Consultants,
Founding investor of CBay Systems, and chief patron of Prasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technolog...
12. 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...
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. Karthik
15. Ranjith K Govind
Ranjith is a very famous and versatile south Indian singer. He has a vibrant personality and can make the crowd tap their feet with his energetic songs, can make them emotional with his soothing voice and is a mass entertainer. He was born on February 21, 1977. He is a very well-known playback singer and has worked for many films. He is mainly working for the Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Ranjith was born in a Malayali family, in Chennai. His family belongs to a small town, Kalluvazhi, Kerala. Ranjith grew up listening to various types of music he stayed in a society where social-programmes were a trend. The localities used to participate in these programmes. Once, a family friend suggested training Ranjith for classical music.
He is trained in Hindustani music and Carnatic music by Vidwan Cuddalore S...
16. Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...
17. 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.
He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam movies. He has also hosted the renowned reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kannada and has also performed in shows with the great Indian percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain. Prakash is one of the four singers of the song ‘Jai Ho’, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The song also won a Grammy Award in the category ‘Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Medi...
18. Sunil Babu
Sunil Babu is one of the best art directors and production designers of Bollywood. He has presented his art in numerous hit films, including Aim in 2004, Ghajini in 2008, Chota Mumbai in 2007, Notebook in 2006, Ugramm in 2014, Panjaa in 2011, etc. Being the production designer, Sunil has produced 'In the name of Buddha' in 2002, 'Tahaan' in 2008, 'Ramaiya Vastavaiya' in 2013, 'Singh is Bliing' in 2015, 'Tutak Tutak Tutiya' in 2016, etc.
Apart from being the production designer and art director, he has also produced the film 'I.D.' in 2012. Sunil has also worked as an art department in the TV series 'The Amazing Race' in 2001. Moreover, he has contributed as an assistant art director in the films, including 'Pirate's Blood' in 2008, 'Tahalka' in 1992, ...
19. 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 ...
20. 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...
21. Karthik Sivakumar
Karthik Sivakumar, or popularly known as Karthi, is a prominent film actor, who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He was born on May 25, 1977, in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, to Tamil actor, Sivakumar and Lakshmi. He studied at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, and later attended St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. He obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Crescent Engineering College in Chennai. Post graduation, he started working as an Engineering Consultant in the city and pursued higher education abroad. During those times, Karthi was earning 5000 every month, until he thought that he wanted to do something more. He had his scholarship in the USA and studied at Binghamton University in New York, where he took Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. While doing hi...
22. Adivi Sesh
Adivi Sesh Sunny Chandra is the full name of Adivi Sesh. He is a director and actor in the South Indian Film Industry. He was born on 17 Dec 1985. Sesh is from the family of Tollywood director Sai Kiran Adivi and writer Adivi Bapiraju. At the San Francisco State University, he studied film direction. He also won Mr. India Waves and Mr. India San Francisco titles. He started acting with Sontham movie in Telugu in 2002. Later in 2010, he directed the movie Karma: Do you believe? in the Telugu language. He is also the writer of the film and played the role of Dev. It was the first Telugu film that was shot entirely in the USA with all American crew. In Panjaa movie, Sesh played the role of Munna as a villain opposite Pawan Kalyan.
His performance in this film was widely appreciated. He directed an...
23. Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004....
24. 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 ...
25. Gopi Sundar
The precious icon of the Indian music industry, Gopi Sundar has composed his soulful music for more than fifty movies to date. In 2014, he composed the songs & background score for the Malayalam movie "1983" and was awarded the National Award.the movie got a good critic rating of 3.5 out of 5.abrid shine, the debut director of the movie was awarded the Kerala State Awards in the category of the best debut director. Alongside the film bagged two more awards for the category of best & second best actor in the same award ceremony of 2014. He was born in Kochi & opted for joining the music industry for his career. Gopi has a good knowledge of instruments like Tabla & keyboard & has worked as a keyboard programmer in some of Bollywood hit films.
26. K L Praveen
K L Praveen whose full name is Kuchipudi Latha Praveen is a famous Indian film editor who has worked with many notable directors. Praveen mainly works in the Kollywood industry and has showcased his editing skills in many popular movies and has received accolades for the same. The Andhra Pradesh born editor wanted to pursue a degree in Bio-Technology when he was 17 but unfortunately the number of seats was already full for the course. He had an entire year on his hand and didn't wish to waste that time without doing anything productive. As a result, he started learning to edit in some studios. Most of his family members including his father used to work in the movie industry, but he had a lack of interest to work there.
His father worked for a Telugu Satellite Channel named ETV and Praveen did a four month ...
27. Akkineni Nagarjuna
Akkineni Nagarjuna is a veteran Indian actor, TV presenter, and producer, who predominantly worked in the Telugu film and television industry. He was born on August 29, 1959, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India. He has acted in over 90 films as a lead and supporting actor and has done cameo roles in both Bollywood and Tamil films. The brilliant actor won a total of 2 National Film Awards, 9 State Nandi Awards, and 3 Filmfare Awards. He is also an acclaimed actor in historical and biographical films.
Akkineni is the son of the prominent actor Nageswara Rao Akkineni, and his mother is Annapoorna Akkineni. When his family moved to Hyderabad, he studied at Hyderabad Public Sch...
28. P S Vinod
P.S. Vinod is an Indian born in Andhra Pradesh. He is a well-known cinematographer as well as director. He is one of the top 20 cinematographers in Tamil. P.S. Vinod has completed his graduation in Tamil Nadu from Television Institute. As soon as he completed his graduation, he started assisting well- experienced cinematographer Santosh Sivan. After that, director Vasanth signed him for his two coming movies Rhythm and Appu.These two films have become the success to P.S. Vinod and his team. Later P.S. Vinod did few films in Bollywood and which has become well -known movies in Hindi. P.S. Vinod second film in Hindi was Musafir, and he has also won the nomination for film awards for Zee, for Musafir movie. Some of his movie lists include Anima and Persona, Appu, Celluloid Man, David, Kadhal 2 Kalyanam, Musafi...
29. Raju Murugan
Raju Murugan was a writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He then turned to become a film director. He started his directing work in the year 2014, with the movie Cuckoo. In the year 2016, Thozha was the film, in which he didn’t direct but was the writer. Then in the same year, he did another movie named Joker, which was both directed and scripted by Raju.In the year 2019, he got two films named Gypsy and Mehandi Circus, which was written by Raju, but only the Gypsy has been directed by him. The cinema named Joker has honored by the Filmfare award for the best film. It also got the national film award for the best feature film in Tamil.
...30. Ali Basha
Ali is a Telugu actor and also worked in Bollywood movies. He was born in a financially weak family but always had a passion for acting. Irrespective of his financial condition, he kept on developing his passion for acting and got his first role as a child artist in Director Bhagyaraj’s film Seethkoka Chiluka. He performed a great job as a child artist in different movies. Afterward he faced many difficulties for a “Grown up actor’s” role, and his struggle got a life when he got to play a comic role in director S.V Krishna Reddy’s films.
He is also the brand ambassador of an anti-itching medicine company. Currently, he is an actor in Puri Jagannadh’s movies. Ali got married to Zebeda Sultana Begum in 1994 and had three children’s. He also has a brother i.e., actor Khayy...
31. Haricharan Seshadri
Haricharan Seshadri is an eminent Carnatic singer who gives his vocal in many Malayalam, Tamil, and other regional movies. He made his debut through the Tamil flick ‘Kadal’, in which he got the chance to sing two solo songs "Unakkena Iruppaen" and the title song "Kaadhal". In the same movie, he also had sung a duet song ‘Thottu Thottu’ with Harini Shankar.
Haricharan was born on March 20, 1987, in Chennai. His early generation proves that they were a typical Palakkad Iyer family, and his father was a B-grade artist in AIR and even a bank employee. Haricharan had taken Carnatic classical musical training since age 7 and then had privileged to learn musical lessons from stalwarts like K. V. Narayanaswamy, T.M.P...
32. Sashikumar Subramani
Sashikumar Subramani is a well known south Indian film actor, mainly working in the Tamil cine industry. Hailing from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu he was interested in acting since his childhood. He completed his engineering in Mechanical before joining the industry. He started his career from the small screen, i.e., in the Television industry. He also worked as an editor for Jaya TV.
Later with the help of cinematographer Sakthi Saravanan and director Raja Pandit, he managed to get minor roles. He acted in the famous serial Chitthi starring Radhika Sarath Kumar. As for films he has worked in more than 25 movies playing supporting roles. One of his roles of the suicide bomber in the movie Kannathil Muthamittal became famous, thus gaining more popularity.
...