Telugu Movie Review Kalki - Cast & Crew

Adah Sharma is an Indian actress and a model. She got popular for her role in Bollywood horror movie “1920”. She has also worked in some Telugu movies and a few ad films. Adah Sharma was born in Palakkad, Kerela on 11 May 1989 and brought up in Mumbai, Maharastra. She belongs to a non-film background, to a Tamil Brahmin family. She went to Auxilium Convent School in Pali, Mumbai for early education. She was very clear on career front and decided to become an actress when she was in class 10th. She had already learned to write Bhagwad Gita at the tender age of three. She completed her graduation in Kathak, from Gopi Krishna’s dance academy. She is a dancer since her age of three.

Nandita Swetha is a South Indian Actress. Swetha is her birth name. She was born in Bangalore, Karnataka. Her father is a businessman and mother is a homemaker. She has two brothers, both of them are younger to her. Nandita entered films in the year 2008 with the Kannada release ‘Nanda Loves Nanditha’; she played the role of Nanditha in the film that she continued as her screen name after that.

Lalitha Kavya is an Indian playback singer and dubbing artist who works in the Telugu industry. She is associated with many Telugu movies like Kartha Karma Kriya, Savitri. Her previous film to hit in the theatre was Kalki in the year 2019. She is married and had two children. She likes singing since childhood. After completing her studies, she got married and came to Hyderabad with her husband. She tried to get opportunities in films and her husband supported her. She started as a playback singer in 2015 with the movie Savitri. The first song was Naan Nee. Then, she worked continuously in many movies and created an identity of herself. She worked with many famous composers like A.R. Rahman.

The gorgeous lady Aditi Agarwal was born on January 27, 1987. She predominantly works in the Tollywood industry. Her father is into business, and her mother is a homemaker.

Pujita Ponnada is an actor from web series. She made her debut in web series and later got offers from TV shows and now she has grabbed some interesting roles even in movies. The actress was born in Vizag, and later on moved to Chennai, where she did her graduation.

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Prasanth Varma is an Indian director who has worked in several Telugu movies. He made his debut in the year 2018. In 2018 he was the writer and director of the thriller film Awe! Kajal Aggarwal, Nithya Menen, Srinivas Avasarala were in the cast of the film. Then in 2019, he was the writer and director of the film Kalki. Saitej Desharaj and Tajuddin Syed were the writers of the film.

C. Kalyan is a producer in the Telugu and Tamil film industry. A strong believer of versatility, Kalyan possesses the ability convince and make people stick to the project at hand. He started out his career by working as an assistant director to well-noted directors of the time. His debut in the field came with the movie, “Bavagaru”, starring Suman and directed by Satyamurthy. He became one of the noteworthy people in the industry by producing movies with a certain flair to them such as “Chandamaama”, starring Navdeep and Kajal Agarwal and directed by Krishna Vamsi.

Shravan is a Telugu music director who debuted with Alias Janaki. He has a great passion for music . His other movies include Prema Ishq Kaadhal, Savitri, Malli Raava etc. He was keen on becoming a sportsman but accidently entered into film industry. He was brought up in a musically interested family. Malli Raava was his initial independent work and that got him the much-needed recognition. He is also interested in digital platforms.

Krishna Kant is a well-known lyricist in the Tamil film industry. He has opted for Sanskrit in his secondary school so that he gets command over the language, which is a desirable credential for being a successful lyricist. He is born in Nalconda but shifted to Hyderabad.

Goutham Nerusu is an Indian editor who has worked in several Telugu movies. Nerusu made his debut in the year 2013. In 2013 he was the editor of the film Prema Ishq Kaadhal. It was written and directed by Pavan Sadineni and was released on 26 December 2013. The cast of the film includes Uday Bhanu Avirineni, Chandini Chowdary, Mohi. Then in 2015, he did the short film Virgin and the family drama Surya vs. Surya. It was written and directed by Karthik Gattamneni. Nikhil Siddharth, Tridha Choudhury, Satya were in the cast.

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.

Shatru is an Indian actor who has worked in several south Indian movies. Shatru started his career as an actor in the year 2010 and is still active in the industry. He is popular and also loved for his villain characters in most of his movies. Mutyala Ramakrishna is his actual name, but later, he got the name Shatru in the industry. In the year 2010 Shatru made his debut in the film Leader. It is a political drama film written and directed by Sekhar Kammula. Rana Daggubati, Priya Anand, Richa Gangopadhyay, "Suman," Suhasini Maniratnam, and "Subbaraju" were in the cast of the film. He came into the limelight in 2016 in the movie Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha. After this, there was never a turnback for Shatru. He kept on giving one on another super-hit film.

Nassar is one of the multi talented actors in the Indian cinema industry. He has achieved various awards for his acting performance. He is not only an actor, but a producer and a good director too. Mehaboob Nassar is his full name and Nassar remained as his stage name. He is married to Kameela and has three children. His debut was through Kalyana Agathigal, a Balachander movie. He has acted in various films with different roles. Most of his roles depict him as a villain. After few years of his successful villain roles, he jumped to character roles that yielded him fame. He did a good role in Roja as a good Police Officer. His role in Thevar Magan made him to get a good name. He made his debut as a director through Avatharam in the year 1995. He acted in a lead role in the film alongside Revathi. Revathi acted as Blind women in this film. Nassar performed as a blind singer in the film Minsara Kanavu. He did a dual role in Jeans. He did a different role in Saivam, in which he acted as a village grandpa of Baby Sarah. From his debut in 1985, till now in Kamal's Uttama Villain, he has earned good name and lots of fans too. He has been awarded as Kalaimamani by Government of Tamilnadu.

Charandeep Surneni or better known as Charan is a Telugu actor who rose to fame after featuring in Tamil films, Jilla and Sigaram Thodu in year 2014. The young actor who likes to play a powerful villain roles have learned mixed martial arts for three years and focused on developing his six-pack abs that made him more popular. During the first phase of his career, he struggled as an actor and ended on being part of small budget films. Charan re-planned his career and prepare himself by taking acting and dance classes, working out to get a better physique and learnt mixed martial arts. Since then, he started getting better opportunities and portrayed villain roles in films like Kalyanram Kathi and Darling. He was also starred in the Telugu film, Billa Ranga in 2014, under the direction of Pradeep Maadugula. He said, he doesn’t want to be stereotyped with the same roles and an actor should try playing any roles. 

Dasarathi Shivendra is an Indian director of photography who has worked predominately in the South Indian film industry. Dasarathi made his debut in the film industry in 2011. In 2011 he directed the photography of the film Solo. It was written and directed by Parasuram. The cast of the film includes Nara Rohith, Nisha Agarwal, Prakash Raj. Then in 2012, he did the comedy film, Nuvva Nena. It was written and directed by Narayana. It was released on 16 March 2012. In 2014 he did Jump Jilani and Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham. Though both of them didn’t do so well in the box office, but his work was appreciated. Intlo Dayyam Nakemi Bhayam was released in 2016, in which he worked as a cinematographer.

Hemachandra is a music director and a playback singer of Telugu Industry. He is from Hyderabad. He became famous since he stood 2nd runner-up in the singing competition at the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge in the year 2005. He took training in Carnatic music. He was trained by Vedala Sasikala Swamy, his mother. He was also trained at the Hyderabad's Government Music College at the Hindustani music. He completed his schooling in Hyderabad at the All Saints High School, and he completed his graduation in Animation and Multimedia. He is the cousin of a popular playback singer, N.C. Karunya. He was married to Sravana Bhargavi, a South Indian playback singer, who has recorded several Telugu songs. They got engaged on 9th December 2012 and were married to each other on 14th February 2013. Niluvave song from the movie' Lakshyam' was his first song which was composed by Mani Sharma. At present, he is putting his efforts on his performance in a show named Super Singer 9. He belongs to the Challengers team alongside an Indian playback and classical singer, who mainly sings songs in Tamil movies. The team is led by Kalpana. He was the winner of the Super Singer Male Award in the seventh series along with Srikrishna.

Very soon, Nagendra Babu is going to launch his son Varun babu into movies as a hero. Nagendra Babu’s daughter Niharika is doing internship on Maa TV. She has interest in media, but she has interest to do any thing behind camera. She acted in one short film. Nagendra Babu said that he has no restrictions to come her daughter into film industry, if she really wants to come into film industry.

At present Nagendra Babu garu doing Seethamahalkshmi serial.

Serials: Seetha mahalakshmi, shikaram, Aparanji, etc.

Movies: Bavagaru Bagunnara (Special Appearance), Aatadista, Chandamama, Srisailam, Aakasa Ramanna, Orange, Mirapakay, Shikaram, Shadow, Vettai, Tuneega Tuneega, VizhithiruChandee, Veyyi Abbadalu, Kowravudu, Premabhishekam,Hands-up, Chandee, Mrugaraju, Annavaram, Amma Cheppindi, Rakshasudu, Murari, Anji, Sarkar, Apadamokkulavadu, Agriment, 420, Kondaveeti Donga, Marana Mrudangam, Andaru Dongale, Trinetrudu, Andamaina Abaddham, Allarodu, 143, Shock, Anjani Putrudu, Manasu Maata Vinadhu, Godava, Shree, Okkade, Ek Police, Operation Duryodhana, Mental Krishna, Sri Ramadasu, Hero, Ganapathi, Rukmini, etc.

Shows: Bhale chancele, Cash, Jabardasth, wow, etc

DOB: October 29 1961

Amit Sharma is an Indian movie, short films and commercial advertisements director. He along with two other partners runs Chrome pictures. He first came into limelight from his very famous Google reunion advert. It featured childhood friends divided and sent apart following the partition between India and Pakistan. It had a very intense impact on both the countries. Within two days of its release, the video was seen by over 1.6 million peoples. The advert was mainly to show how important Google search engine can be in real life. The advert went completely viral. And from here, Amit Sharma, the director’s career started. After this, he directed The Silent National Anthem. This advert was released by Big Cinemas and Mudra Group on 61st Indian Independence Day.

A versatile actor, Ashutosh has worked in Indian films along with Kannada, Telugu, and Marathi films. He was born on November 10th 1964 in Dadarwara and had a knack for acting. His passion for acting prompted him to go to National School of Drama and studied acting. 

Starting his career on the television screen he first graced television in 1994 in a mini-series, Tahqiqat. He got his first break on the big screen, playing a clerk in Sanshodhan in 1995. His role in Dushman made him a well-known actor as he portrayed a psychopathic killer.  This led to his first set of awards for Best Villain in a movie at Filmfare and Screen Weekly Award. He won another Filmfare award in 2000 for Best Villain for his role as Lajja Pandey in Sangharsh. 

Ashutosh has been featured in 220 movies throughout his career in 5 different languages. His latest film is Black Home in which he a darker side of India is portrayed. 

Ashutosh Rana is married to actress Renuka Shahane. The couples have two children together, Shauryaman and Satyendra. He is known to be a devoted believer of his guru who he refers to as Dadda Ji and who guided him throughout his career.

       ‘Ashutosh Rana’ was born on 10th Nov 1964 in Gadarwara, Madhya Pradesh, which is also known as the ‘city of Osho’. He is an Indian Television and Bollywood actor. There he was known as ‘Ashutosh Neekhra’. He spent his childhood in ‘Gadarwara’ where he finished his primary school. He used to play the role of Ravana in the city Ramleela. Ashutosh Rana has staunch faith in his Guru, whom he calls "Dadda Ji". It was Dadda Ji, who suggested to ‘Rana’ to take up the acting career. When Rana was about to venture in the field of acting, Dadda ji told him to go to Bombay and meet ‘Mahesh Bhatt’ and take any project which starts with the letter "S". When Rana got an offer of “Swabhimaan” from Mahesh Bhatt, he didn't wait for a second and grabbed the opportunity. He frequently appears in Mahesh Bhatt's films.

        He is married to TV show host and Bollywood actress ‘Renuka Shahane’ and has two sons ‘Shouryaman’ and ‘Satyendra’. ‘Ashutosh Rana’ learnt acting from “National School of Drama at Delhi”. This was followed by Farz, Sazish, Kabhi Kabhi, Dhund, Apradhi Kaun and Waris. In 2010 he acted in a Star Plus show “Kaali- Ek Agnipariksha”, where he played an extremely powerful negative role as ‘Thakral’. He played the role of “Sarkar” in the reality show, ‘Sarkar Ki Duniya’. He anchored the TV show, ‘Baazi Kiski’ in the year 2001. He made his debut in Hindi films in the year 1996 in ‘Sanshodhan’. His acting was highly applauded in the film ‘Dushman’ in which he played the role of a cold blooded murderer and psychopath killer and he won award for the ‘Best Actor in Negative role’ in the ‘Filmfare’. He is mostly given roles of antagonists in movies, particularly that of a killer. He has played the role of Alia Bhatt's father in Karan Johar's “Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania”.

Sidhu Jonnalagadda, an Indian actor, made his debut in the Telugu film industry with director Praveen Sattaru’s movie ‘Life before wedding’ in 2011. Next he did ‘Boy meets girl Tholiprema Katha’ in 2014. Both these movies were characterized under the genre of romance by the critics, and thus, they did not provide much to the expectant audience. Along with this, he also worked in a Tamil movie called Vallinam. After working in RGV’s Ice cream 2, he decided to go on a break for one year and came back with Mahesh Manjrekar’s ‘Guntur Talkies’. He was very excited to work with this director and he asked him to give him work by which he got this movie in 2015. This movie marks him as a distinct identity from what he had through his debut movie and other movies before. He plays a role of a slum boy from the slums of Guntur in this movie.

Vennela Ramarao is a Telugu actor based in Hyderabad, Telangana. He was born and brought up in Tanuku, Andhra Pradesh. He has studied Engineering in Bellary, Karnataka. Since childhood, he was interested in acting and films. He is a great mimicry artist who has an amazing talent of mimicking whoever he meets in his life. He used to entertain people by doing mimicry of his college professors during his college days.

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