Sharanya Gopinath
Sunidhi Chauhan
Brinda
Andrea Jeremiah
Anupama Kumar
Snigdha Chandra
M. Saravanan
D Imman
Viveka
Ranjith K Govind
S Raja Mohan
Mohaideen Subarak
Nikkil Murugan
Jai
Aaran Chaudhary
Bala Saravanan
Azhagam Perumal
Na. Muthukumar
Stun Siva
M L R Karthikeyan
Papon
Dinesh Krishnan
KN Sampath
2. Sunidhi Chauhan
3. 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 ...
4. 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...
5. Anupama Kumar
6. Snigdha Chandra
Snigdha Chandra is an Indian playback singer and lyricist who has worked mainly in Tamil film industry. Mudinja Ivana Pudi, Kotigobba 2, Sigaram Thodu, Indumathi, Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga, Jilla etc. are the films that she worked.
...7. M. Saravanan
M Saravanan is a budding Director in the field of Cinema. Saravanan grew up in the district of Namakkal, Tamil Nadu. He started his career in Kollywood by stepping into the shoes of Assistant Director under the remarkable Director A.R. Murugadoss.
He debuted as a Director through the Telugu Film "Ganesh". The flick had Actor Ram in the lead and was, unfortunately, a flop movie. He then got an opportunity to direct a Tamil movie. He made Engeyum Eppodhum, which was an outstanding movie. Jai, Ananya, Anjali, and Sharvanand played the lead roles in the film. The movie was produced under Saravanan’s mentor A.R. Murugadoss in alliance with Fox Star Studios. The film had a powerful message and was taken exceptionally well. Slowly, word of mouth spread and ...
8. D Imman
Immanuel Vasanth Dinakaran, acknowledged as D. Imman, is an Indian big screen musician and songster mainly for Tollywood. Imman was in Chennai in Sothern parts of India on 24 January 1983. He did his schooling Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai and completed his graduation in Pachaiyappa's College. He did his Master's from Madras University. Immanuel got married on 24th April 2008 to Monica Richard, and the couple is blessed with two adorable daughters.
...9. 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 i...
10. 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...
11. S Raja Mohan
S. Raja Mohan is an art director and production designer of Tamil cinema. Raja Mohan is from Chennai. His schooling is from I.G.M.M. (Indira Gandhi Memorial Matriculation) Higher Secondary School in Thirunagar, Madurai. He has done his Bachelors in Engineering in Electrical, Electronics and Communications in the year 2007. Next, he joined the famous Loyola College for post graduation. He completed his post graduation in filmmaking in 2010. He entered the Tamil film industry in April 2011. He always wanted to be a production designer. From childhood, he was attracted to the colors and making designs out of them. Raja Mohan has won various competitions and awards in stage setting, painting and concept designing. That inspired him to enter the business of art. When in High school, he won an International award...
12. Mohaideen Subarak
Mohaideen Subarakis an editor, writer, director, and filmmaker from India.He has done his schooling at SMSS Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Shencottah, Tamil Nadu, India.After that, he went to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu for his further studies.He currently lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.He also worked at NDTV. Now he is working in the film industry.
His recent project is “Production No 1”, which he wrote and directed by himself.MohaideenSubarakisknown for Raangi(2022), Nooru Kodi Vaanavli(2022), Chakravyuha(2016), Valiyavan(2015), Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu (2013).
...13. Nikkil Murugan
Nikkil Murugan is one of the leading PROs in the Tamil film industry. He has been the PRO for legends including Rajinikanth and Kamal haasan. He was acclaimed as the best communication man by India Today. Nikil, as he is also called, has also taken the role of media manager of Kamal Haasan for several years. The wide coverage of Kollywood movies throughout the world is done by him. He is also closely associated with music director A R Rahman. Nikkil Murugan is regarded as very media friendly. He believes in the efficient application of technology for his PR communications. He has been associated with more than 200 movies. Born on 1967, Nikkil Murugan also had close association with ace directors Shankar and Maniratnam. He can communicate in over 5 languages.
...14. Jai
Jai is an Indian Tamil actor. He was born on 6th April 1984. His birthplace is Chennai in Tamil Nadu. His parents are Sambath and Latha. He has one elder and a younger sister. He is the nephew of famous music director Deva, who worked in all south Indian languages (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, and Malayalam). As his family is full of musicians, Jai also has an interest in music. For learning keyboard, he went to London and joined Trinity College of London. In his early career in Tamil film industry, he worked as Keyboardist with his Uncle Deva for many movies. His favorite music director is Yuvan Shankar Raja.
In 2002, he made his acting debut in the Tamil film titled Bagavathi. This film turned out to be a commercial hit in the Tamil Industry. Jai played a lead role for the first time in film Chennai 600028 in 2007. In this m...
15. Aaran Chaudhary
Aaran Chaudhary is a model and an actor by profession in the Indian film industry who works mainly in Bollywood. He is the winner of the “Mr. India Manhunt International” of 2010 as well as “Mr. Gladrags Manhunt” that occurred later in the same year. He is known for several Hindi films including Ek Tha Tiger, Valiyavan, Singh Id Bling, and Roar. In “Ek Tha Tiger,” he worked with the director Kabir Khan and the producer Aditya Chopra.
This film gave him the opportunity to work with one of the top Bollywood stars, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif who were in the lead roles. Other stars in the film were Ranvir Shorey and Girish Karnad. It received mixed reviews from its audience. In the 2014 film titled “Roar: Tigers of the Sundarbans,” he worked under the direction of Kamal Sadanah and ...
16. Bala Saravanan
Bala Saravanan is an Indian Tamil cinema actor. He has appeared mostly in films with Tamil languages. He made his debut with Kalli Kaatu Pallikoodam; a school drama serial aired on Vijay Tv. He came into notice with another serial that was a college drama, Kana Kaanum Kaalangal Kalloriyin Kadhai, which too was aired on Vijay Tv.
After this, he got promoted to do comedy roles in movies. His firs onscreen debut was with the film, Ego. He gained the eyes of audiences with the character of Pappu in the movie, Kuttipuli. He also received praises for his performance in the films, Thirudan Police, and Darling.
Bala Saravanan also came into limelight in 2013, when he was arrested about a car accident; he was thought to be driving ...
17. Azhagam Perumal
Azhagam Perumal is associated with the Tamil film industry as an actor and a director. He belongs to Kulasekharapuram village of Tamil Nadu. Azhagam’s parents wished their son to become an engineer. Azhagam applied for the Adhyar Fillm Institute, situated in Chennai. His family opposed his decision. He made his parents proud by winning the Gold Medal from the Institute when he passed out in 1991. Azhagam started to work with the Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, Mr. Mani Ratnam, as an assistant in 1991. His first movie was the Tamil Crime drama Thalapathi that was released in 1991. He worked as an assistant to Mani Ratnam till 1997, for the movie Iruvar. Azhagam also happened to debut his career in acting with Mani Ratnam’s movie Alaipayuthey that was released in 2000.
...18. 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...
19. Stun Siva
Stunt Siva is an Indian fight master or action choreographer, actor, director and producer who has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi film industries. He was born as S. G. Sivaprakash, but later after his occupation, he is known as Andrew, Stunt Siva or Rambo Siva. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and later married Lany Hau.
They have two children, Kevin Kumar, and Steven Kumar. In 2011, Stun Siva changed his name to Andrew officially. Stun Siva entered this field with the help of stunt masters including Kanak Kannan and Rambo Rajkumar as a fighter and assistant. After he became a stunt master himself, masters including Anal Arasu, Silva, Anbarivu, and K. Ganesh Kumar worked as assistants and stuntmen to him. Siva has been performing since 1989 in this industry from a young age of 19.
20. M L R Karthikeyan
MLR Karthikeyan is no longer a budding singer in South Indian movies. He started his journey at the age of 14 by singing in school competitions and went on to become a part of many inter-school competitions. He also completed his BSC degree in Mathematics and Masters of Computer Application from Madras University.
He is the discovery of music composer Devi Sri Prasad (DSP) who gave him first break in the film ‘Aaru’ for the peppy number ‘Freeya Vudu’ which was a group song sung by other singers too - Mukesh, Karthikeyan, Vadivelu, Jassie Gift, Grace Karunas.
After this song, he had no looking back. He started off pretty early as a singer in his life and he is still going so strong. To be able to do that retaining his individuality as singers and ensuri...
21. Papon
Angarag Mahanta, better known as Papon, was born on 24th November 1975 in Guwahati district of Assam. He is deeply engaged in various forms of music in which lies his entire career and dreams. Angarag formed his own music band known as the ‘Papon and The East India Company.' It was due to the huge popularity of the band that he came to be known as Papon (which happens to be his nickname) rather than his real name. His parents were Assamese folk singers Khagen Mahenta and Archana Mahanta.
Papon was taught various forms of music at a very young age itself, because of the background in music that his parents shared. Apart from singing, Papon is an expert in playing various musical instruments such as the Guitar, Harmonium, Tabla, and Kho...
22. Dinesh Krishnan
Dinesh Krishnan is one of the famous cinematographers of the Tamil film industry. He is also working as director of photography in the Telugu industry. He is one such ambitious person who has brought a change in the perspective of the audience with his skills and cinematography. He has made a big mark at a young age. His artistic and technical decisions have impressed film crew and have made him so popular. He developed an interest in this field at a very young age.
He completed a three-year course in cinematography from the M.G.R Film and Television Institute, Chennai. He also enhanced his experience by working as a student photographer. He initially worked as an assistant for cinematographer Randy Rathnavelu. Dinesh worked along with him on films such as Vaaranam Aayiram, Enthiran, Haridas, David and few sche...