Pushpa Bhaskar
Aishwarya Rajeev Y
Vidya Balan
Aamani
Amala Paul
Hansika Motwani
Manjima Mohan
Mirchi Madhavi
Nithya Menen
Payal Rajput
Poonam Bajwa
Pranitha Subhash
Rakul Preet Singh
Shalini Pandey
Shriya Saran
Supriya Vinod
Yashu Mashetty
KS Chithra
Mohana Bhogaraju
Ramya Behara
Sai Shivani
Sunitha Upadrashta
Sreenidhi Tirumala
Himanshi Choudary
Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi
Nandamuri Balakrishna
Sai Korrapati
Vishnu Induri
Kunal Mehta
Parikshit Lalwani
Sahi Suresh
Shiva Shankar
Swarna Babu
Viswa Raghu
Yugandhar Tammareddy
Bharath Reddy
Brahmanandam
Chandra Siddhartha
Devi Prasad
Jisshu Sengupta
Kaikala Satyanarayana
Mandali Buddha Prasad
Prakash Kovelamudi
Prakash Raj
Raghu Master
Ramajogayya Sastry
Rana Daggubati
Ravi Prakash
Sachin Khedekar
Sai Madhav Burra
Sanjay Reddy
Srinivas Avasarala
Subhalekha Sudhakar
Vennela Kishore
Nanda Kishore
MRV Prasad
Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Kaala Bhairava
Kailash Kher
Keerthi Sagathia
Dhani Aelay
Raja Abel
Rama Krishna Arram
Santosh Kiran Billakurti
Daggubati Raja
Garapati Srinivas
1. Pushpa Bhaskar
Pushpa Bhaskar is a Telugu casting director based in India. In 2016, she worked in Posh Poris, directed by Aparna Malladi, written by Gautami Challagulla, and starring Arjun Menon, Aditi Myakal, and Maria Pantazi. In 2019, she worked in NTR: Kathanayakudu, directed by Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi, written by Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi and Sai Madhav Burra, and starring Vidya Balan, Rana Dabubatti, and Sumanth. She worked in NTR: Mahanayakudu, directed by Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi, written by Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi, Sai Madhav Burra, and Abhimanyu Srivastava, and starring Sumanth, Doctor Ali, and Anjali. She worked in Dear Comrade, directed by Bharat Kamma, written by Bharat Kamma, Jay Krishna, and Gautam Siddharth, and starring Vijay Deverakonda, Rashmika Mandanna, and Raj Arjun.
She worked on Gang Leader, directed by Vikram K K...
2. Aishwarya Rajeev Y
Aishwarya Rajeev Y is a costume designer in the Telugu movie industry. She loves fashion and took costume designing in cinema to the next level by working in films like Gautami Putra Satkarni and Anthariksham. In the year 2017, her first film Gautami Putra Satkarni hit the theatres across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This film is a historical drama based on the life history of the famous ruler Gautami Putra Satkarni.
Designing costumes for actors and actresses in a historical epic action drama is not an easy task. But Aishwarya Rajeev took up the challenge and performed well. Her costumes were the talk of the set. She made many innovations in designing the costumes for the legendary actor Nandamuri Balakrishna and lead actress Shriya Charan. Aishwarya Rajeev also designed outfits for other characters in the film like Kabir Bed...
3. Vidya Balan
Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress who was born in Poothamkurussy, Puthur of Kerala. Her birthday is 1st of January in 1978. Her parents are Saraswathy and P. R Balan. Her elder sister is Priya Balan and her second cousin is Indian actress Priyamani. She studied at a High School in Mumbai and in 1995, at the age of sixteen, she played the role of Radhika in the first season of Ekta Kapoor's TV series named “Hum Paanch”. In her teenage, she was inspired by Indian actress Shabana Azmi and Madhuri Dixit. She studied Sociology in St. Xavier's College and completed Master's in Mumbai University. She has appeared in several TV commercials and also she has starred in music videos. Vidya has briefly studied Carnatic music, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. She was listed as the "India's hottest vegetarian...
4. Aamani
Among the rare breed of actors who are the perfect blend of talent and striking beauty, Aamani is one. This Tamil and Telugu actor of the late 80’s and 90’s has got a list of some very special, unforgettable movies in her film career, Mr.Pellam (a popular telugu movie directed by Bapu) and Subha Sankalpam (starring Kamal Hassan and by the director Viswanath) being some of them. Aamani has been one to bag some prestigious awards like the National Film Award and the Nandi award in her career as well.
Starting off with the comedy film, Jamba Lakidi Pamba (starring Naresh, Bramhanandam and a host of comedians), and winning hearts with her very first film, Aamani had no turning back after the movie became a huge hit. Her career graph went up after that and she bagged roles opposite bigger actors like Jagapathi Bab...
5. Amala Paul
Amala Paul is the super talented star of South Indian film industry. She is the promising actress that had been critically acclaimed of her work. The south Indian beauty had many ups and downs in her career, but a star shines bright after midnight. She started off with a low budget film ‘Neelathamara’ in 2009 in which she played just a minimal role.
Later she signed a movie ‘Sindhu Samaveli’ in which her role became controversial and was criticized but this criticism was silenced by her next debut film ‘Mynaa’ a romantic film that made her realize as a promising actress in industry. The gorgeous actress made her way in the right direction and got acclamation.
Afterwards there was no stopping and one...
6. Hansika Motwani
7. Manjima Mohan
Manjima Mohan is an Indian film actress who has mostly worked in Malayalam cinema. She did her first movie when she was just five with the movie Kaaliyoonjal in 1998. She did her secondary education from Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
8. Mirchi Madhavi
Mirchi Madhavi, born Madhavi Vootla is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu film and entertainment industry. She was born on 9 June 1973, in Hyderabad, Telengana and has always had dreamt of entering into film industry and making a mark in the field. After completing her schooling in Vivekananda Public School, she made her entry into the film industry. She has also worked in the radio industry and is a popular RJ. After her entry into Telugu film industry, she also stepped into Tamil film industry, where she worked hard to becoming a familiar face among audience. In 2019, she was awarded the Vishishta Seva Puraskar. Some of the films where she has made appearance include NTR Kathanayakudu, Jodi, Rama Chakkani Seetha, Rayalseema Love Story etc.
...9. Nithya Menen
Born on April 8, 1988 Nithya Menen is indeed a star to reckon with. She has worked in South Indian films, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Hailing from Calicut, she was brought up in Bangalore. Before joining films, she passed Journalism from Manipal Institute of Communication. Though, she wanted to do a course in Cinematography things didn’t fructify. After working as a child artiste in the film Hanuman, she did a film with Mohanlal during the year 2008. This got her many accolades and she was nominated in the category of Best Supporting actress.
During one of her entrance exams Nithya met director Nandini, who was instrumental in making Nithya ...
10. Payal Rajput
Payal Rajput is a popular model and television actress who came from Delhi. During her 9th grade, she used to watch the Balaji Telefilms’ drama soap, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and since then, she aspired to become a popular actress someday. Her family supported her dream and soon after, she started anchoring local events before she went to Mumbai. Luckily, she got work after her first 20 days of stay in Mumbai. During her first audition, she applied too much make up thinking that she will look good on that. The casting director saw her and asked her to wash her face. The actress recalls those times and find it very embarrassing.
She initiated her career through the Indian soap, Sapno Se Bhare Naina on STAR Plus. Afterwards, she bagged the role of Ishaani on Life OK’s Gustakh Dil. But later, she quit the ...
11. Poonam Bajwa
Poonam Bajwa is a well-known actress who was born on April 5, 1989, in Pune. This actress’s nickname is Jolly. She appears in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu movies. Poonam’s father is a naval officer and mother a housewife. Poonam’s father was a naval officer, but that didn’t affect her career. Though she is a Punjabi, she worked for South Indian movies. She has a fair complexion with black hair and light brown eyes. Her height is 1.79 m, and she stands as a landmark in the South India. While studying, she started modeling as a part time career. In 2005, she was crowned as Miss Pune. In Hyderabad ramp show, director Matti asked her if she was interested in acting. Just then she has completed her class 12 exams and signed in his movie.
She has also co...
12. Pranitha Subhash
She is a model turned actress. She is from Bangalore and has been a part of Tollywood and Kannada films. Her parents are doctors and run a hospital in Bangalore. Pranitha was a model by profession before she stepped into acting. She debuted in the year 2010 opposite in Porki, a remake of a Telugu hit film with the same name.
She also acted in a Telugu film, Em Pillo Em Pillado in 2010 again. After being choosy and rejected a few Kannada films, she signed a Telugu love story Baava, opposite Siddharth. She was appreciated by the masses for her role of Varalakshmi in this film. She then made her Tamil film debut with Udhayan. Her film Saguni was released both in two languages.
Saguni was released in thousand one fifty...
13. Rakul Preet Singh
Rakul Preet Singh is a famous Indian model working predominantly in South India. She has got a wide range of craze in a short span of time. She was born on 10 October, 1990. She was born in New Delhi to an army family. She completed her schooling from Army public school and graduation from Jesus and Mary College. She is a professional Golf player and has played National level golf competition. She is a huge fan of Sharukh Khan. Rakul has been passionate about acting since her childhood. So, she opt Modeling as her career. She started modeling when she was just 18. She debuted with the Kannada film Gilli. Next she played a small role in Tamil film, Keratam.
Though she was on the screen for a short time she gained a lot of fame for the movie. She did Yaariyan in Hindi and ...
14. Shalini Pandey
Shalini Pandey is an Indian film actress. She kick-started her career with her debut film Arjun Reddy. Shalini has also started her career as a producer; her first production Daas Dev released in the year 2018, and has worked as an associate producer in the movie. She has worked for seven movies till now, and is also filming for some films presently. She entered the industry in the year 2017, with the cinema Arjun Reddy. Due to her marvelous and appreciable acting skills, she is recently working for more than three films now. She has a charming and bold personality. Shalini was born on September 23rd, 1993, and belongs to Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. She comes from a family belonging to an amusing culture. Her father is a government employee, and her mother is a homemaker. She completed her graduation from Global Engineering College.
...15. 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...
16. Supriya Vinod
Supriya Vinod is a Bollywood actress and a Costume Designer who was born in the year 1971 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her hometown has always been Mumbai, Maharashtra. In her early life, she completed her schooling from I.E.S. Girl’s School no:2 (King George School, Mumbai, and graduation from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai. She has approx. Height of 165 cm or 5’ 5” and approx. Weight of 58 kg. Her natural eye and hair color are Black. Early life: Supriya Vinod is known for films like Kucch To Hai (2003), Satrangi Re (2012) and Investment (2103). She made her movie debut with the film Investment (2013), a Marathi film and Bollywood debut with Indu Sarkar (2017).
She has also been on television with the show ‘Aahat.' Vinod is very popular within the Marathi film and Tv industry. She got h...
17. Yashu Mashetty
Yashu Mashetty is a well-known Indian actress who has made a name for herself in the Telugu film industry. With her stunning looks, powerful acting skills, and magnetic screen presence, she has captured the hearts of audiences across the country.
Yashu was born in Bangalore, India, and grew up in a family that was passionate about the arts. From a young age, she was drawn to acting and began to pursue her dream of becoming a performer. She started her career in the entertainment industry as a model and appeared in several advertisements and music videos. Her hard work and dedication paid off, and she soon landed her first role in a Telugu film, which was the start of her successful acting career.
Over the years, Yashu has worked on a number of popular Telugu films, including NTR Biopic (Ka...
18. 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...
19. Mohana Bhogaraju
Mohana Bhogaraju is an Indian Playback Singer. She works in the Tollywood, Kollywood, and Sandalwood Film Industries. Mohana was born in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. Her family moved to Hyderabad after she was born. Mohana spent her childhood in Hyderabad. Mohana pursued her Bachelor’s degree from Bhojreddy Engineering College. She later pursued her Master of Business Administration Degree from Osmania University. Mohana was always fascinated with singing and music. She started learning music at a very young age of six. Her mother recognized her talent and encouraged her. She participated in many competitions in school.
She then got a chance to perform in Ravindra Bharati and Thyagaraja Ghana Sabha at a very young age. Mohana started her career as a Playback Singer in the Telugu Film Industry with the film Jai Sri Ram (2013), w...
20. Ramya Behara
Ramya Behara who was born on 1 February in the year 1994 is a singer in Telugu industry. She was born in Narasaraopet, Guntur District, and Andhra Pradesh. She has sung for many Hindi films and mainly sings in regional films. One of the most popular sung by her was “Main Tujhse Pyaar Nahi Karti” in one of the most popular Bollywood movie named “Baby” starring Akshay Kumar.
Her career-changing song was “Dheevara” from the movie “Baahubali: The Beginning” which was released in the year 2015. It was this song that made her popular in the industry, and her career started blooming. Some of the other popular songs of Ramya are Soodu Soodu, Coffee Song, Choolenge, Osi Prema Rakshasi, and many others. She never thought of becoming ...
21. Sai Shivani
Sai Shivani is an Indian playback singer, popular amongst the regional audience for her work on the soundtracks of movies and albums like Maro Drushyam (2017), Samar (2012), Mega Prince – Varun Tej Hits, Rendu Rellu Aaru (2017), etc. Mostly known for her major involvement in soundtracks of Tollywood movies, Shivani has been a prominent part of the South Indian film and music industry for more than ten years now.
Over the years, Shivani has been admired and applauded by numerous critics and spectators for her exceptional skills as a vocalist and playback singer. She has worked with some renowned record labels including T-Series and Datta Yoga Centre USA.
...22. Sunitha Upadrashta
She was born on May 10, 1978 in Guntur city of Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu Brahmin family. Her original name was Sunitha Upadrashta.
She started training at an age of 3 in Carnatic vocal and light music. She learnt music for eight years. At the age of fifteen she won national award for All India Radio. She began her career as playback singer in 1995 for the movie Gulabi (a musical hit Telugu cinema).
She worked as playback singer, anchor and dubbing artist. She got married very early at an age of 19, her husband Kiran also works for media. Couple got two children, son and a daughter.
She gave voice to famous heroines like Jyothika (wife of actor surya), Anushka Shetty (famous south Indian actress), Bhoomika(famous heroine in south Indian films), Charmi kaur (predominant telugu heroine), Laila, Meera Jas...
23. Sreenidhi Tirumala
Sreenidhi Tirumala is an Indian Carnatic musician, music director and playback singer who was born on January 26, 1990, in Anantapur. Her mother, T. Sarada, is a Carnatic musician, and her father, T. Subramanyacharyulu, is a Carnatic vocalist and violinist. Her mother gave her the initial training since she would sing ragaalapanams, swarams, and Thyagaraja krithis to the newborn Sreenidhi instead of lullabies.
Later, she received professional training from Dr. Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, a renowned vocal virtuoso named Sangita Kalanidhi. Sreenidhi performs concerts in numerous locations across the globe and participates in essential sabhas in India. She has been honored with several prizes. She was the title winner of Super Singer-1 and was also registered in the Guinness Bo...
25. Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi
National Award-winning Director (Film Kanche), and co-director Krish is known as one of the creative Filmmakers in the industry. He is famous for his movies in different genres. He showcased his talent by achieving Film fare award for a 1st movie in his carrier, Gyanam a Telugu movie, it broke all the records, and its remake came into three different languages (Tamil, Bengali, and Kannada).
This Movie makes him famous as a director in Tollywood. In his ten years of the carrier, he directed ten movies & Special things about those film are, each of them belongs to very different category. He amazed everyone with the first multi starrer Telugu film-Vedam, which was the blockbuster hit of 2010.
He directed many award-winning films in his carrier like Vaanam, Kanche, Gautamiputra satkarani etc. He made his debut in hindi...
26. Nandamuri Balakrishna
Nandamuri Balakrishna usually called as Nata Simham is a veteran Telugu actor and son of Telugu legendary actor,Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Sr.Ntr. He was born on 10 June 1960 in Chennai. He completed his schooling and early life in Chennai. He married Vasundhara and he is the father of Nara Brahmini, Tejaswini and MokshagnaTeja. Brahmini is the daughter-in-law of Andhra Chief Minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu.
With his father as the Telugu matinee idol Sr.NTR it has become Bala Krishna’s duty to continue his father’s legacy as Telugu hero. He has been successful in doing it so. Though he acted as child artist in few films he debuted as full-time hero with Sahasame Vupiri. He acted in brother’s role for his father in few films like Dana Veera Sura Karna, Srimadvirataparvam. He turn...
27. Sai Korrapati
Korrapati Ranganatha Sai was born in Guntur District in Bellary, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is currently residing in Hyderabad, India. He is a south Indian film producer who has mainly worked in the Telugu cinema and is widely known for his exceptional work. He is the owner of Varahi Chalana Chitram, an Indian film production company. He founded this company in 2012.
In 2012, he produced the movie, 'Eega'. It is a film based on fantasies. K V Vijayendra Prasad scripted this movie and S S Rajamouli directed it. The star cast of the movie includes 'Sudeep', 'Nani', Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Crazy Mohan, and Santhanam. The film is about a young girl and a bedtime story told to her by her father.
He is also the producer of a recent major Tamil blockbuster of 2015, 'Baahubali: The Beginning'. This ...
28. Vishnu Induri
Vishnu Vardhan Induri is a famous Indian producer. He has worked predominantly in the Tamil industry. His work gained recognition when he produced films based on biographies. Some of his popular movies are NTR Katha Nayakudu (2019) and NTR Maha Nayakudu (2019).
His passion for cricket and films is very clear from the way he branded his production house, Vibri Motion Private Limited. Vishnu was the founder and Managing Director of the Celebrity Comedy League.
In 2019, he signed a film with Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, 83. It is about the victory of India in the World Cup 1983 over West Indies.
Vishnu also signed Kangana Ranaut in the lead role of his film, Thalaivi, which focuses on the life of a renowned politician, Madam ‘Jayalalithaa.’
...29. Kunal Mehta
Kunal Mehta is a known sound designer in the India Film Industry. He had done many hit movies of his time in his career span. The sound designer was born in the year 1976 and entered the Entertainment industry without any professional training or diploma course. He began his career with the studio named ‘Sumi’ as an assistant. Here, he learned the different nuances of Sound design and the importance of background music for any visual. He debuted with the film ‘Mann’ in the year 1999 and gained immense fame with the movie ‘Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya’ starring Salman Khan and Sushmita Sen, Katrina Kaif, and Sohail Khan.
It was a blockbuster movie which gave a lot of popularity to the artist. He had worked in more than sixty films in his career with the various directors and prominent actors of the c...
30. Parikshit Lalwani
Parikshit Lalvani is a famous Indian sound editor, sound designer, DJ and the CEO of Creative Sound Design with an experience of more than 16 years. Parikshit was born on 27th August, 1977 in Juhu , Mumbai. He started his career as an engineer by taking a degree in Digital Electronics and working at PACE Communications.
His career took a next level when he worked on a fair light at the time and shifted his career to Amadeus as a Sound editor. He is quite popular in the industry for his skill to create or edit vehicle sounds by performing them with a CD player. He is so much dedicated to his work that his last watched movies with a clear memory was Waaris in 1988 and Dil To Pagal Hai in 1997,said a journalist.
He start...
31. Sahi Suresh
Sahi Suresh is an art director who is known for his work in the South Industry. He was born on August 15, 1978, in Madanapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India. Coming from a middle-class family, Sahi always had the passion and interest towards cinema and art. He completed his Bachelor's degree in arts from the Kurnool and began his journey as an associate for the Art Director, Mr. Peketi Ranga Rao.
He later went on to work with well-known art directors including Bhupesh R. Bhupathi, Ashok & Anand Sai, etc. Art director Ashwini Dutt gave him a chance to work as Art director for the movie 'Sarochaaru.' Apart from this, he has also worked in the ad industry with advertisements of Deccan Chargers, ThumbsUp.
...32. Shiva Shankar
Shiva Shankar was born in Kathmandu, Nepal on 22nd February 1932. He is a Nepali singer and music composer and has acted in various movies. His mother is Ram Maya, and his father is Man Bahadur, who used to teach Newari music to the children in the local community. His father inspired him and he gives the credits to his father for his style of music, although his father died when he was young still he learned a lot from him. Shiva had his primary and secondary education in Kathmandu but never received any professional training in music.
After he had become an established singer, he earned a graduation degree in classical music from Kalanidhi Sangeet College in Nepal. An excellent music composer with about 1200 Nepali songs in his bag for which Shiva has composed extraordinary music and has also received various prestigious awar...
33. Swarna Babu
Swarna Babu is a South Indian choreographer who works in the Telugu film industry. She also worked in the Tamil, Kannada, and Oriya film industry. In a career of beyond two decades, she has choreographed for hundreds of movies. Swarna is known for her work in highly acclaimed Telugu movies like Vedam in 2010, Nagavalli in 2010, Leader in 2010 and Damarukam in 2012 and several others. Swarna was born in Chennai. She attended school in Tirupati in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. She earned her Bachelor in Dance from the Sri Venkateswara College of Music and Dance in Tirupati. She now lives and works in Hyderabad. She has a son named Tanish Babu. Swarna started her choreography career with Chilakapachcha Kaapuram written and directed by Kodi Ramakrishna.
The movie hit the screens on 7th February 1995. She also choreograph...
34. Viswa Raghu
Vishwa Raghu, also known as Raghu master, is a well-known Indian dance choreographer. Viswa is known for his significant contributions to the Telugu film industry. His excellent moves and steps compelled others to dance on his moves. Raghu also got acknowledged as the stylish choreographer of the South. Raghu was born in the year 1981on the 7th of October.Raghu was born in a south-Indian family. His place of birth Hyderabad in Telangana. Raghu did his initial schooling in Hyderabad. He further did his graduation from a private institution in Andhra Pradesh.
Raghu’s journeyto becoming a known choreographer in the South-Indian industry began with a dance-based reality show. He participated in a show named ‘Dhee the Ultimate Dance Show’ in its third season and bagged the winner position. The show got telecasted i...
35. Yugandhar Tammareddy
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.
Yugandhar also designs and supervises visual effects for feature films, maintains client relationships, runs the company, and sets its quality standards and processes. Yugandhar is a rare blend of creativity and business acumen that makes for a successful entrepren...
36. Bharath Reddy
Bharath is a cardiologist turned actor. He appears mostly in Tamil and Telugu movies. He has an attractive body structure and is well built. He manages both his occupations as an actor as well as a doctor. He was born in Tirupati and later moved to Chennai. He has done his schooling and medical education from La Chateline Residential Junior College and Yerevan State Medical University. After this, he started practicing his medical profession as a Cardiologist in Hyderabad at Apollo Hosptial.
After a struggle in some movies, Bharath was noticed in the venture of J.D.Chakravarthy called ‘Siddham’ in 2009. Chakri Toleti spotted him and offered him a role in ‘Unnaipol Oruvan’. This movie was bilingual, and he played the role of police officer in this ...
37. Brahmanandam
Brahmanandam was born on 1st February 1956. He was the seventh son to Kanneganti Nagalingachari and Kannaganti Lakshmi Narsamma. He completed his high schooling from a high school at Sattenapalle. He later pursued his intermediate and graduation from D.N.R College, Bhimavaram. He completed his post graduation in Telugu literature from Andhra University. Before becoming an actor, Brahmanandam had worked as a lecturer in Atthilli for nine years.
Brahmanandam is considered as one of the most versatile Indian comic actors, noted particularly for his comic expressions. He has gone ahead to receive many accolades in the world. In the year 2007, he was in the Guinness World Record for appearing in the highest number of films...
38. Chandra Siddhartha
Born on 12th May 1969, Chandra Siddhartha is a Tollywood screenwriter, director, and producer. Son of C. Poorna Chandra Rao and C. Shakuntala Devi, he graduated from Nizam College in Hyderabad with a degree in Telugu Literature. He started his career as an assistant director for the movie Jaithra Yathra in 1987. At that time, he worked under Uppalapati Narayana Rao. His first feature film was a movie called Inscrutable Americans in 2001 for which he also wrote the screenplay. The movie is the story of a boy named Gopal and the changes that come in his life when he moves to America to pursue higher education.
This movie shows the differences in the American and Indian lifestyle and the consequences of sudden change. This movie got fairly good reviews and a rating of 6.9/1...
39. Devi Prasad
Devi Prasad is an Indian Director turned Actor who works primarily in Telugu Film Industry. He is widely known for his comedy movies Mr. Pellikodukku and Kevvu Keka.
Devi Prasad is from the middle-class family in Kanagala village in the Rapalle region of the Guntur division. His father is a Pharmacist by profession. Since his childhood, Devi Prasad had the interest to enter the film Industry. During his childhood, he used to tell he wanted to become a Theatre operator so he can watch movies daily. He began his film career by working as an Assistant Director with Kodi Ramakrishna. Devi Prasad started directing a film called Das by casting Srihari as a hero, but unfortunately, the film did not materialize.
Later in the year 2002, Devi Prasad made his directorial debut with Sunil and Srikanth in the comedy film, Aaduthu ...
40. Jisshu Sengupta
Jisshu Sengupta is an artist who is known for his versatile performance in Bengal Film and Television sectors. Originally named as Biswaroop Sengupta, he is fondly called as Jisshu by his friends and family. His father Ujjwal Sengupta too belonged to Bengali film industry whereas Jisshu's mother Mukta Sengupta is from wedding planning industry. On personal front Jisshu is married to Nilanjana Sharma, since 2004. She is daughter of another veteran Bengali Actress, Anjana Bhowmick. Jisshu's fame began in cricket, then strongly routed in Bengali television and film industry. He played for sub-junior level cricket representing Bengal. However, he always wanted to enter silver or movie screen. He got his first break with a television mega serial by name Mahaprabhu. This is a turning point in Jisshu's acting career. He played lea...
41. Kaikala Satyanarayana
42. Mandali Buddha Prasad
Born on the 26th of May 1956, in Nagayalanka, Mandali Buddha Prasad is a Telugu politician and the former Deputy Speaker of Andhra Pradesh. The Avanigadda Constituency of Krishna District elected him as an Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly member. This interest led to his extensive political career- lasting for three terms 1999, 2004 and 2014. In the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Cabinet, he was a minister. Additionally, he presided over the AP Official Language Commission. As a cabinet minister, he has developed several creative programmes, such as "Matsya Kranti," which benefits female fisheries workers, and "Pashukranthi," to help poor people and small farmers with hybrid animals on subsidy rates. He founded three super-speciality veterinary hospitals, one in each of Hyderabad, Vijayawada, and Pulivendula, and an adva...
43. Prakash Kovelamudi
Prakash Rao ( Full Name - Prakash Rao Kovelamudi ) was born to Tollywood Director K. Raghavendra Rao in Hyderabad. Born on May 15, 1975, Rao is a Director, Writer and Indian Actor. He graduated from Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Theatre Arts and IT. Prakash did his debut in the Telugu movie Neetho (2002), directed by John Mahendran, remake of With You followed by 2004 release Morning Raga, starring Shabana Azmi and Perizaad Zorabian. He has directed hit films like Bommalata, and Anaganaga O Dheerudu. His upcoming Direction Size Zero is starring Arya and Anushka in lead roles. Kovelamudi is awarded the National Film Award For Best Feature Film – Bommalata. In August 2014, he married Kanika Dhillon, an Indian writer.
...44. 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....
45. Raghu Master
Raghu has gained fame as a stylish choreographer through the movie Arya 2 starring our handsome hero Allu Arjun. He is also a successfull winner of Dhee, which is an ultimate dance show aired on ETV Telugu. He married the popular singer Pranavi Acharya, who was renowned through the movies Happy Days, Lion and Yamadonga. Both were in a love relationship for few years and later got married in the month of February in the year 2016.
Raghu master trained the contestant Satya, who was the winner of the show in the season three of Dhee dance reality show. He choreographed for the top telugu actor Jr Ntr for the movie Oosaravelli. Raghu even composed dance for young stars of Tollywood Prabhas and Prince Mahesh Babu. Not only for young stars, but he even composed dance for Nandamuri Balakrishna for the flick Srimannara...
46. Ramajogayya Sastry
Ramajogayya Sastry was born on August 24, 1970 in the small village called Arepalli Muppalla, Ipur Mandal which is near Narasaraopet of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh to parents Suryaprakasa Rao and Saraswatamma in an agricultural family. His father was a priest and an agriculturist by profession. His mother is a home-maker. He was the only child of his parents. He is a Computer Science Engineer who persuaded his B.Tech from NIT Warangal and his Master’s degree in M.Tech at IIT Kharagpur.
During his under graduation, he was very much passionate about writing and he involved into writing lyrics. He was very much interested in writing irrespective of his education which had nothing to do with his passion. Even though, he did not have any connec...
47. Rana Daggubati
Rana Daggubati is a famous Indian actor. He was born on 14 December, 1984 in Chennai. Rana is the grandson of legendary producer Daggubati Rama Naidu and son of the producer, D.Suresh Babu. He is the nephew of Venkatesh.. Rana has completed his entire childhood and schooling in Chennai. Rana has also done Photography course in Konica institute of Imaging and Technology. Before acting, Rana was an entrepreneur and his company name is Spirit Media. He was a successful Digital Post entrepreneur. His company has won Nandi award for special effects for the movie Sainikudu. Born with silver spoon in his mouth, Rana has not struggled a lot for movie chances.
He has the responsibility to continue his family legacy as a good actor. He made his debut with the Telugu film, Leader in 2010 directed by Sekhar Kammula. He act...
48. Ravi Prakash
Ravi Prakash is the Telugu actor who is growing well in the south Indian films with popularity. He was born in the year 1981 in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. He was introduced to the cinema industry through the film Subhavela in the year 2000. The film was directed by Teja; but Ravi was not recognized at that time. When he did not get proper recognition, Ravi Prakash got fed up and continued with his MBBS. He became a qualified doctor. After 4 years, he was called by Gautam Menon to perform as a Police officer in the film Gharshana. It gave him a good breakthrough and the audience recognized him well. Athadu, Killer, Simha, Gaganam, Payanam, Vedam, Vaanam, Dookudu, Maattraan, Solo, Ishq, Badshah, Edhir Neechal, Thalaivaa, Aagadu, Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham, S/O Satyamurthy and Gabbar is back are his popular Telugu and Tamil movies. Re...
49. Sachin Khedekar
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.
This artiste was predominantly acting in Marathi cinema, and Benegal had discovered him to essay the role of freedom fighter Bose. Later, he played Tabu’s husband in Astitva and also performed in Ajay Devgan’s Singham and Hrithik Roshan’s Krrish-3. In the quest for good roles, the actor then took a break from Hindi cinema and switched to Marathi Cinema and Television. This actor started his film journey in 1990 with the...
50. Sai Madhav Burra
Sai Madhav Burra is a popular Indian screenwriter, who is popular for his works in the Telugu film industry. Madhav had written the dialogues for the movies Kaidi No. 150 and Gautamiputra Satakarni for the superstars Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna. His earlier works in dialogues include Malli Idi Rani Roju and Krishna Vande Jagadguru.
He started his career in the television industry as a television writer, and now he is a well-known dialogue writer in the Telugu cinema industry. He is presently working as a dialogue writer for the film Magnum Opus RRR, which is to be directed by well-known SS Rajamouli. This film has a massive cast of Jr. NTR popularly known as Junior Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao and Mr. C well-known as Ram Charan Teja in Tollywood.
...51. Sanjay Reddy
Sanjay Reddy is an Indian producer, actor, and entrepreneur in Bollywood and Mollywood film industry. He was born on 29 June 1968 in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Sanjay Reddy is also known as Tekulapalli Sanjay Reddy and Silly Monks Sanjay. Sanjay Reddy has completed his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya. He graduated and then completed a post-graduation in Business Administration at Savitribai Phule Pune University. He is post-graduated with a double specialization in marketing and finance.
Sanjay Reddy is a trained shooter and won a silver medal at the national level. He is married to Swathi Reddy. They both have a son, Mahikaansh Reddy, and a daughter, Gaurika Reddy. Sanjay Reddy is a co-founder of Silly Monks Entertainment Ltd. The company is the first com...
52. Srinivas Avasarala
Srinivas Avasarala is a Telugu film celebrity, who was born to Satya Narayana Murthy and Nagamani Avasarala. He is a popular director, actor, screenplay writer as well as dialogue writer. Being impressed to screenplay writing, he attended a course in Screen writing in California. He also learnt acting from the Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institute. He has also worked as a theater artist in New York and also worked as an assistant director in the film Blind Ambition. Working at Universal Studios is really amazing and this opportunity was given to Srinivas Avasarala and he did perfectly, as a script screener. Though he is a post graduate in Mechanical Engineering and worked in Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, his interest was in the cinema industry. Ashta Chasma was his first Telugu movie, which is released in the year 2008. He ha...
53. Subhalekha Sudhakar
Subhalekha Sudhakar was born on November 19, 1960. He is an Indian film actor in Tollywood who belongs to the Nellore, Andhra Brahmins family. His real name is Suravajula Sudhakar. Suravajula changed his name after doing his debut film entitled, Subhalekha where he acted as Murali in 1982. Subhalekha is 53 years old hailed from Visakhapatnam. He was the eldest of his two brothers. In 1980, he moved to Chennai to study in a film institute. His dream was to become an actor, so he began to search for acting chances.
Director Viswanath gave him a chance to be part of the Telugu film titled ‘Subhalekha’. After that, he had done more than 100 films including some Tamil films. He had done different roles, but he was mostly known for doing comedic and supporting roles. He was married to pla...
54. Vennela Kishore
Vennela Kishore is a famous Tollywood actor, director and comedian. He was born on 19th September 1980 at Kamareddey, Nizamabad,Telangana. He was working as software quality engineer in the USA.Later, He took a stand and settled in India in 2008 to furnish his passion as an actor or comedian. He debuted in Movie Vennela in 2005.
He received a lot of appreciation for role “Shastri” in movie Dookudu. His performance was notable and praised in movies like Bindass, Pilla Zamindar, Daruma, Seema Tapakai, Doosuketta, etc. He received Nandi Award as “Best Male Comedian” in the year 2009. Getting award was the turning point for him. His recent films in 2015 are Elukamajaka, Srimanthadu, S/O SathyaMurty. His fans are eagerly waiting for his upcoming movies Dictator, NamakuPrematho and Savithri in 2016. He followe...
55. Nanda Kishore
Nanda Kishore is one of the multi-talented people in the Indian Film Industry.He has his hands in Direction as well as in Screen Writing. He also has some cameo appearances in the songs of his films. The works of Nanda Kishore majorly are the remake of the either Tamil or Telugu films. He has been prominently active since 2013, with his first release of Victory, which was an instant success on the box-office and gave his career a kick-start. He has a total of seven (7) movies in the name of his creation. Nanda Kishore, also known as the remake director was born in Sagara in Karnataka, also known as the sub-divisional headquarter of Karnataka. He is one of the two Children of yesteryear villain and veteran actor Sudheer and Malathi Sudheer, former with some of the notable films in the Kannada Film Industry such as SP Sangliyana 2 (1990)...
56. MRV Prasad
M R V Prasad is a famous producer and film distributor in the Tollywood film industry. He is widely known as the producer of the 2005 hit film, Allari Pidugu, starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, Katrina Kaif, Puneet Issar, and many more. He completed his high school education at Loyola Public School, Guntur, and pursued a Bachelor’s Degree from National College, Bangalore. He later completed his M.B.A. from Alabama A & M University, America and returned to India to manage his father’s industrial business.
M.R.V. Prasad developed an interest in film production because of his association with his co-brother and the legendary actor Nandamuri Balakrishna. He opened his film production company, PB Arts, and another production compan...
57. Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
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.
His first song was for the film “Janani Janmabhoomi” (1984). He wrote songs for the film “Sirivennela” (1986). The songs were loved by the audience. That is the reason he got renamed from Chembolu Seetharama Sastry to Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry. Some of his famous works are “Lasku Labo,” “Yennadu Vidiponi,” “Love Me,” “O Chilaka,” “Nee Kosam,” “...
58. Kaala Bhairava
Kaala Bhairava is an Indian-Singer. He is mainly the playback singer. He primarily works in the Telugu Film Industry. He is thinking of working in other film industries, which include Tamil Film Industry, Hindi Film Industry, Malayalam Film Industry, and Kannada Film Industry. Beinga hardworking and dedicated Lyricist, his long-term goals includes becoming most successful Singer. The movie in which he has worked includes Bahubali 2.
The name of his father is M M Keeravani. The name of his mother is Srivalli Keeravaani. He has many upcoming projects in the coming years. He has sung two blockbuster songs which are named 'Dandalayya dandalayya' and 'Oka Pranam Oka Tyagam'.
...59. Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from his childhood. He left his home at the age of 14, for learning music and took proper lessons from his guru.
After many attempts, he didn’t get the right teacher. He began to learn music, by listening to the classical music of Indian singers like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kumar Gaurav, Pandit Gokulotsa...
60. Keerthi Sagathia
Keerthi Sagathia is one of the well-known singers, songwriters, and musicians in the Bollywood film and music industry. He is well known for his wonderful contributions in the artistic field of music. He is the man behind one of the famous and award winning song ‘Satyamev Jayate’ for the show with the same name which was hosted by Aamir Khan.
He was born on the 14th of September in the year 1979 in the city of Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra. He was born to Karsan Sagathiya one of the most well-known folk singers in the history of the Gujarati Folk Music industry. Born into such a family with a lineage of musicians, Keerthi was bound to follow his instincts into the field of music.
In the year 2005, Keerthi decided to c...
61. Dhani Aelay
Dhani Aelay is a Graphic Designer, Public Relations Officer, and Title Designer in the Telugu film industry. He has worked in numerous films since 1999. He has worked in ‘Sultan’, and ‘Anaganaga Oka Ammayi’ in 1999; ‘Itlu Sravani Subramanyam’ in 2001; ‘Shivamani’ in 2003; ‘Andhrawala’, ‘Athade Oka Sainyam’, and ‘Venky’ in 2004; ‘Super’, ‘Dhana 51’, and ‘Gowtham SSC’ in 2005; ‘Pokiri’, ‘Seetharamudu’, and ‘Samanyudu’ in 2006; ‘Desaramudu’, ‘Madhumasam’, and ‘Chandamama’ in 2007; ‘Swagatam’, ‘Idhi Sangathi’, and ‘Aatadista’, in 2008; ‘Unnaipol Oruvan’, ‘Samardhudu’, and ‘Kasko’ ...
62. Raja Abel
Raja Abel is a well-known face in the Telugu film industry. He was the male protagonist in the Telugu hit, ‘Anand’. Raja was born on 9 November, 1978, in Vizag. Raja was born to a British mother and a Brahmin father from Andhra Pradesh.
His mother died when he was just five, and his father died due to a heart attack in 1989. Since he lost his parents at such a young age, he and his sisters had to work to support their education. Raja has one elder sister, Vijaya, and a younger sister, Padmini.
He is married to Amrita Vincent (2014). Raja made his debut with ‘Vechivunta’ (2001), a Telugu film. Before starting his career in movies, he did eighteen commercials in Mumbai. Though his opening films did not do well at the box office, his performances were much appreciated.
His m...
66. Garapati Srinivas