Shirin Kanchwala
Shruthi Thilak
Uma Devi K
Chinmayi Sripaada
KS Chithra
Riythvika
Sanam Shetty
Yamini Chander
Sibiraj
A Rasamathi
Arun Bharathi
Arivumathi
Mano
Naresh Iyer
Sathya Prakash
Vandana Srinivasan
AR Mohan
Suresh Chandra
Abhishek Vinod
Bava Chelladurai
Charle
Natarajan Subramaniam
Muthazhagan
Dharma Prakash
1. Shirin Kanchwala
An Indian model and actress, Shirin Kanchwala has worked predominantly in the South Indian Film Industry.
She was born on 20 March 1995, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her parents are Sajjauddin Kanchwala and Zarina Kanchwala. She has one sister, Insiya Laxmidhar, and two brothers, Abdeali Kanchwala and Firoz Kanchwala.
Sherin completed her schooling from Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai. She obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training, Mumbai. Sherin worked with Jet Airways as an Air Hostess for 3 years. However, she left her job to focus on her modeling and acting career.
She stepped foot into the industry through a Kannada film, Viraaj, in 2018, which received the Best Film of the Year award. The critics and the audience appreciated her acting skills. In the s...
2. Shruthi Thilak
Shruthi Tilak is a Tamil producer who is a well-known producer in the South Indian industry. Her home town is Salem, which is a city located in Tamil Nadu, and currently, she's living in Chennai Tamil Nadu. She completed her high school from Shri Saradhn Matriculation School in the year 1996.
She completed her undergraduate from the Vysya College, Salem. From Vysyas Institute of Management and Studies, she completed her post-graduate program. She's married to Prabhu Thilaak since 24 October 2007. She produced a South Indiana film Walter on 13th March 2020. The movie is a Tamil action, crime, thriller film written by U. Anbarasan.
...3. Uma Devi K
Uma Devi K is a lyricist predominantly working in the Tamil Film Industry.She hails from Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. Uma belongs to a family of street-theatre artists, and her brother is a poet as well. She holds a Ph.D. in Tamil from the Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai. She is currently working as an assistant professor at Ethiraj College of Women. Uma Devi debuted as a lyricist in the 2014 drama film “Madras.” She penned lyrics for the song, “Naan Nee” which became highly popular.
Since then, she has worked in numerous movies, all of which have had chart-busting music.Some of her famous albums are Kabali(2016), Magalir Mattum(2017), Aramm(2017), Kaala(2018), 96(2018), NGK(2019), and Walter(2020). Uma Devi resides in Chennai and juggles between teaching and writing lyrics for movies.
...4. Chinmayi Sripaada
5. KS Chithra
Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...
6. Riythvika
Riythvika is a film actress, who predominantly appears in supporting roles in the Tamil Cinema. She is an alumnus of Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College, Teynampet. Riythvika says, she has consistently dreamt of acting in films and that she used to mimic different actors right from childhood. In college she got the opportunity to act in numerous short plays. Sometimes she also used to send her pictures to producers for getting an entry into the Tamil Movie World.
The director Bala was looking for good actors for his upcoming project, Paradesi, the story of the condition of tea Plantation workers during the British R...
7. Sanam Shetty
This Indian beauty belongs to Bengaluru, Karnataka. Her date of birth is still a mystery to be solved in the industry. Sanam is a qualified Software Engineer and used to work for a software company in the UK. Sanam had done modeling in her college days and continued with it even while working in the UK. She got many offers for movies while working in the UK, but she didn't accept any; instead returned to India, taking a break from her job to give acting a shot. She started with her auditions and was soon selected. Sanam's debut movie was "Ambuli" with actor and director R. Parthiepan.
She enacted the role of Poongavanam in the film. It was the first stereoscopic and an experimental movie in Tamil industry. Later she appeared as Deepika in "Cinema C...
8. Yamini Chander
9. Sibiraj
When the son gets into his father’s shoes, he’s taken to be an adult. And for Sibiraj, the son of industry veteran Sathyaraj, the shoes were huge enough. Following the legacy of his father Sathyaraj, who is known for his powerful performances as he made a turn from being the protagonist to portraying the antagonist, Sibiraj made his debut in movie titled Student No 1 which hit the theaters in 2003.
The movie, though was supposed to mark a warm welcome for then newbie, went cold on the box office. Post a not-so-happening movie debut, Sibiraj did 4 of his next movies under his father Sathyaraj’s severe guidance. Sathyaraj was backing his son all the way in his next four movies- Jore,Mannin Maindhan, Vetrivel Sakthivel and Kovai Brothers. So...
10. A Rasamathi
A Rasamathi is one of the most talented and popular cinematographers working in the Tollywood film industry. Born in Tamil Nadu, Rasamathi started his career as a photographer. He had a passion for photography since early in his life and he gradually came in the film industry.
Rasamathi made his debut as a cinematographer in 2014 on M Jayapradeep directed Ner Ethir. Then his second movie came out two years after in 2016 which was Mr. Mommaga. Rasamathi has so far worked in over 8 movies and his latest movie was Walter released in 2020.
...11. Arun Bharathi
Arun Bharathi is a South Indian lyricist. He is an upcoming artist, and he has worked in some movies in the Tamil and Telugu film industry. Arun Bharathi has worked as a lyricist for about four Tamil films and a Telugu movie. His debut song as a lyricist was for the film named Paravai which is a Tamil drama movie directed by film director Rajesh Vijay and starring actors Anjana Chandran and Rajesh Vijay in important roles. This movie got released in the year 2013. Arun Bharathi was born in a small town called Uthamapaalayam near Kambam Pallathaaku in Theni district. He was born as a son to farmers who did coolie work for their daily bread. His father ran the bullock carts, and his mother maintained all the animals. Arun Bharathi lived in his village for 18 years which became the root of inspiration for his poems and lyrics.
He ...
12. Arivumathi
Born in Vriddhachalam, Tamil Nadu, Arivumathi is a lyricist and singer in Tamil film Industry. In the wake of finishing his Post Graduation, he studied Archeology and Epigraphy in Chennai and was instrumental in uncovering poet and literature Thirikooda rasappa Kavirayar's palm compositions that gave knowledge into the Kuravanji verse, a form of Tamil poetry. He found the palm compositions in the artist's genealogical home and gave them over to the office. It made the big news. Writer Meera spotted him first and took him to Abdul Rahman, the prestigious Tamil poet from whom he learned the craft of composing Haiku, a small poem. Arivumathi was additionally acquainted with writer Leelavathi who had deciphered Japanese Haiku lyrics in Tamil. Arivumathi entered movies to broaden his compass.
Meeting executi...
13. Mano
Mano (Real name- Nagoor Babu) is a famous South Indian playback singer. He was not only a great singer but also a voice-over artist, an actor, a producer, a television anchor and a music composer. He was born to Father Rasool (Musician in All India Radio) and Mother Shaheeda (stage actress) on 26th October 1963 in Satterapalli, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, he joined the stage theater and had role played as many historical characters. As he had said in an interview “I have always been impressed by my dear mother’s talent and she has always been and will always be my inspiration.”
In the year 1984, he recorded his debut original for the Tamil movie “Karpoora Deepam”. Impressed by his singing skills and his magical voice he was approached...
14. Naresh Iyer
Naresh Iyer is once again a popular face, but mainly due to his singing talent. This 34 year old singer hails from Mumbai. There is no end the number of hit songs he has produced over the years. Likewise, he owns a series of awards that have been rightfully given to him. His contribution to Bollywood has been tremendous.
In spite of having a degree in Commerce, Iyer decided to study Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music. His career has just looked forward from then on.
He got recognition from A.R. Rahman in the reality talent show which was called Channel V’s Super Singer. His beautiful rendition of Roobaroo, which was an A.R.Rahman composition for the movie, Rang De Basanti, won his a lot of accolade. He went on to win the national award for the Best Male Playback.
15. Sathya Prakash
Sathya Prakash is a popular south Indian villain actor, who hailed from Odisha. His father was a government staff and Sathya got a place in the government school and he completed his schooling. Sambalpur, Burgad and Burhampur are the places, where Sathya completed his graduation and post graduation. Sathya did his MBA in Kolkata. He was a bank employee for a few years.
After a few years, he got placed on the defense. Almost he was in Odisha till his thirty years. But he was interested in acting and so, he resigned his job and travelled Chennai. He says, being born in a poor family, it was through the god’s blessings, he is in his current position. Sathya Prakash is a very big fan of Amitabh Bachchan. Sathya doesn’t know any...
16. Vandana Srinivasan
Vandana Srinivasan is a budding Carnatic singer. The background singer works for the Tamil Film Industry and delivers her melodious voice in South Indian songs. The independent singer became much loved by the audience in the South. She took birth in Qatar, the Middle East on 22nd May 1988.
Her career involves hit songs in over fifteen Tamil movies such as Thodari, Rummy, Thandavam, Tubelight, etc. A girl born and brought up outside India has developed Hindustani music skills which are loved by the audience. Vandana Srinivasan’s music takes modern Hindustani music to another level. As a child, she received training in Carnatic music from her guru Mrs. Seetha Krishnan in Qatar. After getting training in Carnatic music, she moved to Madras, India in 2006.
She did an undergraduate course in psychology from the Univers...
17. AR Mohan
A.R.Mohan is a Kollywood / Tamil art director known for “Kadamban (2017),” an action adventure, and drama directed by N.Ragavan, and “Junga (2018),” an action, drama, directed by Gokul. He served as an art director for first in 2014, for the film “Vaayai Moodi Pesavum,” a comedy, romance, drama, directed by Balaji Mohan, under the banner of Radiance Media Y Not Studios. The movie was released in Malayalam “Samsaaram Aarogyathinu Haanikaram,” in the same year. In 2015, he served for the movies “Innimey Ippadithan,” a romantic comedy, directed by Muruganand,
under the banner of Handmade Films, and Bhooloham,” an action, romance, sports, drama, directed by N Kalyana Krishnan, under Aascar Films. Later in 2019, he worked for a drama, thriller film “Sindhubaadh,...
18. Suresh Chandra
Suresh Chandra is a renowned Public Relations Officer, working primarily in the Tamil film industry and for some movies in the Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada film industry. He celebrates his birthday on 10 May. He is credited as the P.R.O. for a whopping 190 movies. He is the publicist of famed actor Ajith Kumar. Suresh started his career as a P.R.O. in the Ajith Kumar starrer, Mankatha (2011). This Tamil action thriller follows the story of a suspended cop who gets caught up in a gangster’s world. Directed and written by VenkatPrabhu, this movie garnered positive reviews and got nominated for several awards.
Suresh then worked as a publicist for all the versions of the comedy-horror flick, TutakTutakTutiya (2016), which is the Hindi version of the Tamil film, Devi(L) (2016), and Telugu version, Abhinetri (2016). S...
19. Abhishek Vinod
Abhishek Vinod is an Indian film actor who appeared in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. His film career got stronger after he became a model. Due to his excellent look and personality, the actor worked as a model after he completed his BBA degree from Madras University. After his graduation, he opted for a modeling career. His modeling career shot up after he was seen in many advertisements in 2004 in Chennai. After his short stint in modeling, the actor was cast in a Malayalam movie 'Casanovva' which was directed by Rosshan Andrrews.
In this movie, he shared screen presence with Malayalam superstar Mohanlal who portrayed the title role 'Casanova,' and Abhishek Vinod had played a mean...
20. Bava Chelladurai
Bava Chelladurai is an Indian actor, writer, and storyteller who was born on 22 April 1962 in Thiruvannamalai Tamil Nadu. He's also an activist and in the jury that is against the murder of Dalits. Chelladurai also takes part in many social topics. He also spoke up against the construction of drainage pipe in the Sonagiri Forest in Tiruvannamalai. With the attendance of 60 people, he began to recite his book aloud in Tiruvannamalai.
After the event grown to have about 500 people in listening to his storytelling, his son Vamsi, uploaded the video on YouTube of him telling stories. He helped in assigning an essay contest that took place in Coimbatore and nearby places. His acting career started in 2016, and from here, he acted in various movies in South Indian film. In 2016, he played a comical character in the movie named Jo...
21. Charle
Charle was born in Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu, India and his real name was Manohar Velmurugan Thangasamy. He is an Indian actor who has worked in almost 600 Tamil movies. Charle finished his graduation in chemistry from G. V. N. College situated in Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu. From his college days, he had the habit to mimic and imitate the Tamil actors like Sivaji, Nagesh. He was a stage artist and a complete entertainer from his college times. He first worked as a Staff Artist actor in the song and drama division of the Information and Broadcasting ministry and performed in around 10000 dramas. He debuted in the movie "Poikal Kuthirai" in 1982.
The movie was directed by PadmaSri Dr. K. Balachandar who also changed his name to Charle. He is a versatile actor and worked...
22. Natarajan Subramaniam
Natarajan Subramaniam is a cinematographer turned actor of the Kollywood. At the beginning, of his career, he even worked as a marriage photographer and a videographer. Natarajan decided to quit his school at the age of 18 and neither did he go to college.
He wanted to pursue his interest in photography. It took a long period for him to make a break in the film industry, but he worked as an assistant cinematographer under Vijayalakshmi. Anyways, he decided to stick with documentaries before doing any bigger projects.
23. Muthazhagan
Muthazhagan is a young Indian actor, who was born to R Sivasubramanian and S Manimekalai on 11th January 1992 in Tittagudi, Cuddalore district. He completed his primary classes at Indian Matriculation School in Tittagudi and received secondary education from SRV School, Rasipuram. He has taken MZ as his screen name. He is an Engineering graduate who completed his graduation from KCG College of Technology. Due to his passion for acting, he shifted his base and currently, the actor resides in Chennai. He is also a student of Koothu Pattarai. He had been into the films from 2014.
His first breakthrough came with the movie directed by Thani Oruvan director Mohan Raja and yes, MZ got an opportunity to play a small role in “Velaikkaran” alongside “Sivakarthikeyan” and “Nayanthara.” He pl...