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Nivetha Pethuraj is an Indian actor and a model. She predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. She is a young actress who is the face of the modern Tamil cinema. Her good looks and elegance have made her a rising star in the South Indian film industry.

Pooja hegde was the second runner up at miss universe India contest 2010. She won Miss India talented 2009 honour.

Pooja’s family belongs to Mangalore, Karnataka. She was born on 13th October 1990 in Mumbai. She is a model turned actress who did various big budget commercials like that of ‘lays’ and ‘hero maestro’ opposite Ranbir kapoor, the youth icon and heart throb of this era.

Pooja went to MCET School. She is a trained bharat natyam dancer. She finds peace in dancing. The girl considers herself as very simple who loves to be like her own self when not shooting. She is very fond of reading all genres of books and spends time in watching game of tennis. She is also interested in singing.

The girl began her career with the Tamil film ‘Mugamoodi’, released in the year 2012.  In the movie she played the role of a care free girl to whom she empathies in real life.

Her talent helped her survive in the industry and later she was seen in some other moves like ‘oka laila kosam’ and ‘mukunda’, a Telugu film released in the year 2014.

Director Ashutosh gowarikar’s wife saw the exotic potential within her and thereby suggested her name to her husband. These days the actress is hence busy working for Gowarikar’s next movie, ‘Mohenjo daro’ starring Hritik roshan. The movie is expected to be released in 2016 probably.

Since the very beginning, pooja had taken interest in her mother’s e-commerce business and had worked with her as well.

Buzz is that pooja rejected Mani ratnam’s next movie. She says that her prime focus is in doing the Hindi films these days and so wants a break from the regional movies.

Shruthi is the original name of Haripriya, who is a south Indian actress. Hailing from Chikkaballapura, Karnataka, she is also a Bharathanatyam dancer and model. Her maiden venture is in a Kannada film named Manasugula Mathu Madhura. Later, her films didn’t do that well. However, she got Filmfare nomination for her good performance in the political movie Kallara Santhe. The film Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu gained her much appreciation and she became famous in Karnataka. She also acted in a couple of films in Tamil and Telugu. 

Shruthi proved her dedication towards acting by taking up a workshop for her role in the Telugu venture Abbayi Class Ammayi. Her Kannada film Ugramm was her acclaimed comeback to Karnataka. She gave a natural performance in the film. Later she worked in big banner films in Karnataka. 

Shruthi has some releases lined up in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. Shruthi’s grandfather was a theater artiste .

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Born as Shruthi, the actress changed her name to Haripriya, which acts as her stage name. Following the recent trend to turn the factors of luck, based on numerology the actress altered the spelling of her name to Hariprriya. She was born in Chikkaballapura, Karnataka and studied at Vidya Mandir. Hariprriya completed her Pre-University Course and started learning Bharatanatyam in Bangalore. She claims to have been inspired by her grandfather, who was a theater personality himself. 

Hariprriya made her debut in acting with a Tulu film, Badi, directed by Richard Castelino and later on, starred in other languages such as Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In 2008, she made her first appearance on the Kannada film screen with the movie, Manasugula Mathu Madhura, which wasn’t much of success. After a few unsuccessful projects, Hariprriya got her first Filmfare nomination as the Best Kannada actress with the political satire, Kallara Santhe in 2009. The movie was directed by D. Sumana Kittur and starred other actors such as Yash, Rangayana Raghu, Kishore, and Sobhraj. Hariprriya’s popularity rose with her next film, Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu, and with that, she started receiving offers from directors of other languages. In 2010, she starred in Kanagavel Kaaka, a Tamil film directed by Kavin Bala. The movie was produced by Saravana and Kishore G. Sha under the production company of Akarshini Theatres and was received with a moderate review. 

Shanmukha Priya is a young singer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has been among the Top 15 contestants in ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs, 2017’. Priya has impressed the judges and jury with her melodious voice. She has already won millions of hearts with her beautiful voice. She is a mommy’s girl and has her constant support under all circumstances.

Kalyani Natarajan is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil cinema. She is a Tamilian based in Mumbai where she had enacted as many as 15 Tamil plays on stage. She relocated to Kollywood in order to pursue her passion of acting in films. Before making her debut in movies, she handled many modeling assignments as well. After which she had begun her film journey. She was auditioned for Sathyaraj’s wife in director Vijay’s ‘Thalaivaa’, but she could not make it. Hence, the first film that came in her lap was ‘Settai’( Tamil) that released in 2013. ‘Settai’ was a remake of Hindi movie Delhi Belly where she appeared in a cameo role. In the same year, she appeared as Imran Khan’s sister-in-law in Dharma Productions 'Gori Tere Pyaar Mein’. Sooner, she followed up doing many supporting roles in various Tamil movies. In 2014, she was seen in a movie ‘Saivam’ (a remake of Telugu film ‘Dagudumootha Dandako,' where she appeared as Nassar's daughter Meenakshi and got noticed. But she met with her biggest success in Mysskin’s Pisaasu where she essayed the role of a mother in the form of Janaki Soundarrajan. It seems that when she came to Chennai for the release function of ‘Saivam’, she met the film director Mysskin and enquired if he was looking for someone to play a character in his film. Later, the director auditioned her for the role. The actress also is doing a small cameo in ‘Atlee’s Vijay 59,’ where she will play the role of a doctor.

Rohini is a multi-talented South Indian actress, director, and lyricist. She mainly appears in Tamil and Malayalam movies. She started her acting career at the age of 5. Rohini came into the film industry because of her father's keen interest in cinema. Her father Apparao Naidu wanted to become an actor and he approached the director of Yashoda Krishna movie, but the director needed a child artist for doing the role of Krishna. Finally, his eyes fell on the small 5-year-old girl, and she became Krishna. The little Rohini didn’t like the film sets she liked to go to school and continue her education. But her father told her that she is destined to be an actor and could continue the studies privately.

Trivikram Srinivas, a Telugu director and writer, who brought out a need for new marketing strategy for Telugu film makers. He had always presented and structured to carve out the original marketing plan that was required in Tollywood then. His clever promotion strategies than he had planned, for example, for a film like’’ Athadu’’, he made the film in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam languages. Later, the same film was dubbed into Polish language for Poland people. The film’s satellite in Telugu circuit was sold to a whooping sum of $45 million then, and it became the top grosser in 2005. His next flick in 2008 was Jalsa which had released in 1000 theatres and the film grossed $220 million in just 50 days. Later on, he continued with the same formula for Khaleja (2010) which did not meet the same expectation which he had, the film became just an average grosser. This filmmaker had always pitched or his every film project according to his audiences, and then went to define a target audience for his project’s promotional strategy. But why was drawn to such marketing? Because, his first film Nuvve Nuvve’’ was superhit which had new comer Tarun Kumar and Shriya Saran playing the lead. Success of this film really inspired the director to bring a new trend in marketing films. He has directed many stars of Tollywood such as Mahesh Babu, Trisha, Pawan Kalyan, Ileana D'Cruz, Allu Arjun, Upendra, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who were just ultimate superstars. Although he was a dialogue writer he had penned lyrics ( film Oka Raju Oka Rani) and rendered his voice too for his own film “Nuvve Nuvve”.

Allu Aravind is a film producer in Andhra Pradesh who is also a distributor in Tollywood. The film producer has produced films in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi too. He is the brother-in-law of actor Chiranjeevi, He is also the uncle of actor Ram Charan. He has three sons, Allu Venkatesh, Allu Arjun, and Allu Sirish.

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.

Naveen Nooli is an Indian Film Actor and Editor. He was born in India. He mainly works for the Telugu film Industry. He has the Indian nationality. He did his recent films in the year 2018 as Aravindha Samantha, Bluff Master, Mr. Majnu, Tholiprema, Rangasthalam, and Aatagadharaa Siva in the year 2018. He did his debut in Hindi cinema with Hindi film Login in the year 2012. He did his debut in Telugu Movies as Devaraya in the year 2012. His upcoming projects are Mr. Majnu and Bluff Master. Sanjeev Reddy has given the opportunity to make Hindi Film like login. He did various projects in line. The list of the project includes as Atharintki Daaredi in the year 2013, Sarocharu, Login, Devaraya in the year 2012, Govindudu Andari Vaadele and Maaya in the year 2014, Dohchay, Ladies & Gentlemen, in the year 2015, Dhruva, Nannaku Prematho in the year 2016, Darshakudu in the year 2017.

The actor was born to producer Allu Arvind and Nirmala on April 8, 1983. H Hence, it makes sense to say that acting bug ran in him too. Allu Arjun is related to some pretty big-time Tollywood heroes (Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan are maternal uncles) and has kept their flame burning on the silver screen. Considering big heroes like Chiranjeevi, Pawan and Charan as famous actors in Indian screen could have earned him passage to Tollywood royalty. Allu Arjun still realizes that he needs his space in Indian screen. Today, he is undoubtedly a popular name in Telugu cinema. He is also the paternal grandson of comedian Allu Rama Lingaiah. As a two-year-old boy then, the actor had begun his journey in a Chiranjeevi’s film ‘Vijetha’ and appeared in two scenes as actress Subha's son. Later he also acted as a dancer in “Daddy’ and was appreciated.

Boman Irani is a well known name today in the Bollywood industry with a strong audience support for his studied comic roles tinged with traces of villainy in many cases. His entry into the industry was, however, much later in life when he was already 41. In fact, his route to film acting was laced with diverse previous occupations. Along with his love for photography, which many people are not aware of, he had a nascent fondness for acting too, but was never very open about it. It was ultimately Shiamak Davar who facilitated this and got him to audition for the veteran theatre personality Alyque Padamsee. Once the acting bug caught on with him, there was never a looking back. He swiftly established himself not only as one of the leading theatre personalities but also one who was clearly acknowledged by many as a prodigy. Theatre it was, that took him places, and soon he was a familiar face not only on the regional stage but also well known for his roles in English drama in the Mumbai circuit. In fact his most noteworthy stage appearance was in “I am not Bajirao”, which drew audiences for almost ten years. His transition from stage to the silver screen was punctuated by several ad shoots for leading brands, till he finally landed up with a small role in the 2003 film “Darna Mana Hai”, which in spite of not being commercially successful, had the audience look up to him as an actor of immense talent. For one like he, so obviously steeped into acting and rendering each of his roles with aplomb, it was natural that his name as a character actor of substance spread very fast and wide. His brand of comedy laced with villainous touches has been very popular with his large fan following, but on a more serious note, his performances in other roles too have been appreciated by critics. While the Raj Kumar Hirani films like his first film “Munna Bhai MBBS”, followed by his sequel “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”, the subsequent “3 Idiots” and the more recent “PK” have already made him a character whose next appearance is anxiously awaited, his more serious or varied roles in films like the Yash Raaj films “Veer Zara”; “Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Maara”, remembered for Anupam Kher’s brilliance and Ram Gopal Varma’s crime thriller “My Wife’s Murder” have been equally appreciated by the discerning moviegoers. With over 70 films to his credit including one in Telegu, Irani’s tally of films and awards is likely to rise steeply, and his place in movies can be considered not as a loss for the world of theatre, but as a gift from theatre to cinema, since he continues to equally enthuse theatres not only in India but elsewhere too with his superb acting skills.

Brahmaji is an Indian comedian, actor, and supporting actor who predominantly works in Telugu film and television industry. He was born on April 25, 1965. Brahmaji’s place of birth is East Godavari district in the Coastal Andhra region, Andhra Pradesh, India. During his college days, he was a huge fan of superstar Krishna (Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna Murthy). His father worked as a Tahsildar in Nellore. He married Sashwaty with whom he has a son named Sanjay Kumar. His son works in the Indian Navy.

Rahul Ramakrishna is an Indian Telugu lyricist who gave meanings to the songs for many marvelous Telugu movies. He is known for his beautiful style and he mostly writes lyrics for the Tollywood ndustry. He also won many music awards for his splendid work. At the age of eight, he started writing short stories and essays. He got good recognition for it. He loved writing short stories wrote poems splendidly during his earlier days. During the starting of his career, he started looking for a job of a lyricist and got a chance in a Tamil movie. Afterward, he scribbled more songs, and people started recognizing him. Mr. Rahul Ramakrishna once told in an interview that he never sit down with an intention to write instead, what he does is that he always enjoy his life and make songs related to it.

Rao Ramesh is a Telugu actor and son of Rao Gopal Rao, one of the greatest actors of Telugu cinema. He was born in Srikakulam district in present state of Andhra Pradesh. He was married and couple has a son and daughter. He was brought up in Chennai with his father being an actor at that time. He completed his B.Com in Chennai. He was very much interested in photography. He also tried at join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, California for pursuing different courses but latter dropped due to reluctance from parents.

Being a son of great actor nobody came up with petty jobs to him, he himself tried to direct a few films on his own but his mother pursued him to become an actor like his father. His career was very low at the starting. He was an avid reader of poetry also and has ferocity of narration. He tried to start his career in a TV serial by Gantasala Ratna Kumar (famous TV serial director), but he was too shy and nervous before camera and odd are against him which made serial stalled in the middle. Later he went back to Chennai and there he started as a small screen artist and started acting in TV serials. He acted in serials like ‘Pavitra bandham’ and ‘Kalavari Kodalu’ and spent about four and half years working on TV serials.

He got a breakthrough movie named Gamyam (message oriented film) in 2008, Later on he has a catastrophic rise in his career and presently he was one of the versatile and busiest actors in Telugu film industry. He acted in more than 30 films in the past three years. He was now offered roles in every big project in Telugu movies. He also acted in Kollywood & Sandlewood movies in 2010.

Sathyaraj is one of the greatest actors of Tamil film industry. He has good comic sense, good height, and good performance, and is still active in the industry. Rangaraj is the real name of Sathyaraj. Born on October 3, 1954 Sathyaraj forayed into the Tamil film industry as a villain. He depicted the suave villain perfectly and he was accepted by the audience. His dialogue Thagudu Thagudu from the film Kaaki Chattai is still famous now. In fact, it is no exaggeration to tell that he gave a complete transformation to the notion we have about villain. His oratory adeptness in villainous roles is indeed exemplary. 

Kalyana Chakravarthy Tripuraneni, known as Kalyan, is a famous lyricist and executive producer who works predominately in the Tollywood film industry. He is a native of Gudivada. He holds a diploma of B.Tech and MBA. He has worked in the revenue department of the Telangana government for five years. His first break in the film industry was with the music director Chakri but due to unforeseen circumstances, it couldn't happen. Then, he went back to his hometown to run a private school. He dedicated his next three years to the school. A music director and a few other people were the chief guests to one of his school functions.

Kasarla Shyam is an Indian music director, lyricist, and folk singer. He started his musical journey in 1984 after joining the Mantrala Mutthigadu Folk Dance during the Babala Academy’s Children’s Day event. He bagged the first prize for the song Warangal Shankar, which led him and his troupe to perform in different events.

Krishna Chaitanya is a famous lyricist in the Indian film industry, especially in the South Indian cinema. He was born in the city of Eluru, Andhra Pradesh on 2nd of May, in the year 1983. He did his education from CRR Public School. He further attended Sriram Engineering College, Madras University. It was while he was studying engineering that he became highly fascinated towards the film industry. It was when he was in the final year of his engineering that he decided to try his skills out and contribute to the Indian Cinema. He realized his potential and made his debut as he wrote a few songs for the film Sambhavami Yuge Yuge. He was, however, given his first break in the movie Yuvutha in which he wrote the lyrics for all its songs. It was after this that he had established himself as a talented and skillful lyricist.

Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry is an Indian Lyricist and Poet. He works in the Telugu Film Industry as a Lyricist. His actual name is Chembolu Seetharama Sastry. Sastry was born on the 20th of May in the year 1955. He was born in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh. He is currently staying in Hyderabad, Telangana. Seetharama Sastry had his debut with writing songs for the legendary director K. Vishwanath.

Anurag Kulkarni is a playback singer from Hyderabad. He was born on the June 7th 1993. He is a playback singer in the Telugu Film Industry. He started to learn Hindustani Classical Music for three years from late Sri. Kakunoori Jangaiah, a famous Hindustani vocalist and guru. He pursued his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from Vignan Institute of Technology and Aeronautical Engineering in 2015.

On 22 July, 1995, Armaan Malik was born in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a playback singer by profession. Armaan belongs to a music family. His father, Daboo Malik, is also a singer and music director. The singer is the nephew of the famous Hindi music director, Anu Malik. Armaan has a brother, Amaal Malik, who is also a music director.

Unlike foreign countries, India has produced a very few good rappers. Among them, very few have managed to achieve critical as well as commercial success. 'Blaaze' is one of them. Born on October 15, 1975, his birth name is Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman and originally belongs from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Rahul Sipligunj is a Telugu songwriter, singer and music composer who rose to fame with independent music videos. It is his music video albums that paved him a way to enter the film industry. Rahul made his debut as a playback singer with Naga Chaitanya's debut film 'Josh.' The film was directed by Vasu Varma and produced by noted producer, Dil Raju.

Indian-American playback singer and music producer Sid Sriram was born 19 May 1990 in Chennai. He spent his childhood in Fremont, California. Sid graduated from Mission San Jose High School. After that, he admitted in the Berklee College of Music and completed his graduation in Music Production and Engineering. He is famous for his musical collaboration with A. R. Rehman and Bharata Natyam dancer, Pallavi Sriram (sister).

Sri Krishna is a Tamil Playback Singer, and he had contributed many of his songs to the Tamil industry. Some of his music were on the top charts, and which made him famous. He was born on 17th August, 1983. After completing his studies, he tried his luck in singing, and everybody loved the way he attracts the audience when he is performing. He was also an actor and sung some of their top hits. He is very hardworking and dedicated to his career and wants to grow more in the music Industry. He believes himself lucky that he got a chance to showcase his talent to the entire world, and also people love him when he sings. In 2015, Mr. Sri Krishna acted as the screenplay writer and playback singer for a movie called 'Unakkenna Venum Sollu' also known as 'Unakenna Venum Sollu'.

Yugandhar Tammareddy is a Hyderabad-based Vfx Supervisor. He is a first-generation entrepreneur and aspiring filmmaker. He set up Pixelloid to provide animation and visual effects services and training. Motion pictures, commercials, trailers, music videos, corporate presentations, and architectural walkthrough projects have utilized Pixelloid’s creative skills in techniques such as matte painting, computer-generated imagery, visual effects, and a variety of related processes required in content creation.

Ajay aka Gaurav Kapoor is a young handsome Tamil tv actor, a Punjabi by birth and brought up in Mumbai. His entry into film industry happened when he was studying in class twelve. Though he made his debut as an actor in the Hindi movie Priyadarshan's `Gardish', his Tamil serial ‘Kolangal’ brought him fame. After his appearance in Hindi movie and tele-films, he entered the Tamil Industry through a film called “Ooty” which wasn't a big hit. Later on after entering small screen, he was playing small roles in many serials when he got the offer for a negative character in a mega serial “Kolangal”, which was a big hit. Though he played the role of a savvy business man in that serial he was one of the most hated characters among Tamil audience when that serial was being telecasted. In 2010, he started his production house N.K.Kraft Private Limited through which he produced the Tamil psychological thriller movie called “Aadhiyum Andhamum” where he played the role of Hero too.

Harsha Vardhan is a famous Telugu actor and a writer. He was born on October 9, 1974 in Rajam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He graduated from L.B. College, Visakhapatnam. Aside from being an actor, he is also a musician and a film director. He was known for his character in TV serials like Amrutham and the Ruthu Raagalu. He did more than 30 Telugu films and became a writer with the Telugu film Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and the epic drama film Manam.

Harsha believes that television is a more powerful medium than cinema because he TV reaches in every audience home. He is also a good singer and he wished to be a musical director someday. Harsha admits that he is a very confused type of person. He doesn’t plan well and he is always unhappy. He aims for more fame and popularity. Harsha is still a bachelor since he always wanted to be alone.

Some of his films are Chal Chal, Dalam, Lovely, SMS, Play, Gaganam, Gaayam 2, Pournami, Athadu, Aithe, Anukokunda Oka Roju and more.

Born on December 10 1965, Jayaram’s main region of interest is the Malayalam film industry, though he had acted in some Tamil films too. Jayaram entered the Malayalam film industry with “Aparan” which was directed by Padma Rajan. They both worked together in two more films. Jayaram was known for his films Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal, Georgootty C/O Georgootty, Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam and Thoovalsparsham. 

During the 90s his films with Rajasenan turned to be commercially successful. The family audiences embraced him with both arms. Jayaram has carved a niche for himself in films such as Ayalathe Adheham (1994), Aadyathe Kanmani (1995), Meleparambil Aanveedu, The Car and CID Unnikrishnan B.A B.Ed. 

Director Sathyan Anthikad’s Thooval Kottaram earned Jayaram accolades and he won an award from the Kerala State Film Award. Also, he has four Film Fare Awards to his credit. His performance in Tamil film “Thenali” didn’t go unnoticed; he was awarded with the Tamil Nadu State Film Award. Jayaram proved his mettle in Tamil films, including “Thenali”, Gokulam”, Murai Maaman”, “Priyanka” etc. “Thuppaki”, “Saroja”, “Aegan” “Pancha Thantiram” and “Uttama Villain” are some of the Tamil films in which he played supporting role. 

Jayaram’s Malayalam films used to seldom flop at the box office and he is renowned for acting in family dramas. But ironically all the films he did in 2012 were a disaster at the box office. Jayaram has also delivered hits for the films directed by Kamal. He shared screen space with happening actors Mammooty, Mohanlal and Suresh Gopi. 

Jayaram is wedded to actress Parvathy who quit films after marriage. They have two children Kalidasan and Malavika. Kalidasan was introduced in the Malayalam film “Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal” and the latter was awarded with the National Award. 

Apart from acting Jayaram is a good mimic too. He had also sung in films including “Kadhanayagan”, “Mayilattam”, “Salaam Kashmir” etc.

Actor Sachin Khedekar is very much known to Indian audience for portraying the role of national leader Subhas Chandra Bose in a biopic directed by Shyam Benegal. Bengal chose this actor because he had so much resemblance in look and personality that Khedeker tried to get into the mind and heart of viewers with his versatile acting. 

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