Manjula Ghattamaneni
Mumaith Khan
Sudha
Puri Jagannadh
Shyam K Naidu
Mani Sharma
Kandikonda
Ravi Kumar Bhaskarabhatla
Karthik
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Naveen Madhav
Ranjith K Govind
Kalyan
Raju Sundaram
Marthand K Venkatesh
Mahesh Babu
Ajay
Ali Basha
Ashish Vidyarthi
Brahmanandam
Master Bharath
Prakash Raj
Sayaji Shinde
Venu Madhav
Sathya Prakash
1. Manjula Ghattamaneni
Manjula Ghattamaneni or also known as Manjula Swaroop is a Telugu film actress and producer. She was born in the year 1970 to Indira Devi and renowned actor, Krishna Ghattamaneni. Manjula is the sister of prominent film producer, Ramesh Babu, and popular Telugu actor, Mahesh Babu. She got married to Sanjay Swaroop, who is also a film actor and producer and they have one daughter named Jhanavi. Though she came from a popular film family, she had struggles when entering the filmdom. She produced her first film (Show) with the money she saved for many years.
Manjula started her career with a cameo role in the 1999 Tamil film, Rajasthan, helmed by R.K. Selvamani. Prior to this, she played as Aparna in Sibi Malayil’s Malayalam romantic comedy-drama film, Summer in Bethl...
2. Mumaith Khan
Mumaith Khan is an item girl in Indian cinema. She dazzled the screen with her sizzling dances in silver screen in Bollywood. Later, she shifted her loyalty to Tollywood films. After a super-hot item song ‘Dekh Le’ in Munnabhai MBBS, and was seen in another sexy song “Lut Gayee” from the movie Hulchul. Her latest Bollywood item song was Pritam Pyaare from the film Rowdy Rathore. In between her assignments in Bollywood, she stepped into Telugu film industry with Puri Jagannadh's 143 in a cameo role, She took Tollywood by storm through her item number in ‘Pokiri’. She has just acted in a few Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies. This actress hails from Pakistan but later came to Mumbai.
In order to support her family, she joined a small ...
3. Sudha
Sudha is a well-known Telugu cum Tamil mother role artist. She is popular in the Tamil industry for her role in Duet with Prabhu and Ramesh Aravind. Sudha usually performed in character roles when she was young. She has acted as the sister of almost all the top heroes and has acted as their mother after a few years. Sudha was seen in the film Guru Sishyan as the sister of Rajini and Prabhu. Later she acted as Prabhu’s stepmother in the movie Duet, directed by Balachander. From the late '80s till now, Sudha has performed many roles that expose her acting talent. She has also acted as a mother goddess in Raghavendra Mahatmyam.
Whatever character she undertakes, Sudha holds on to that role tightly and lives as the character in a natural way. She has done hundreds of movies as the mother of the Heroes and Heroines, and he...
4. Puri Jagannadh
Puri Jagannadh wears many feathers to his cap including production, direction and screenplay writing. His main area of interest is Telugu films. He has received Nandi awards thrice in his career spanning more than a decade.
During the year 2004, Jagannadh ventured into Bollywood with the flick, Shart: The Challenge. This film bombed at the box office. Bbuddah..Hoga Terra Baap is his directorial venture of 2011 and it has the credit of being recorded in Oscar library. Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies and Vaisho Academy are his production ventures. Puri Sangeet is the music company organized by Jagannadh.
5. Shyam K Naidu
Shyam. K. Naidu is an Indian cinematographer who has mainly worked in the Telugu film industry. He got fame after he worked in the film named as Pokiri which was screened at the 2006 IIFA film festival in Bangkok. He started his career in 1997 with the movie Osey Ramulamma. He has worked on movies such as Ninne Premistha (2000), Tagore (2003), Mass (2004), Pokiri (2006), Ride (2009), Bodyguard (2012), Rabhasa (2014), and Dictator (2016). His recent releases include the movie Ungarala Rambabu starring Miya George, Sunil Varma Indukuri, and Ashish Vidyarthi. He has also worked in a super hit film Arjun Reddy.
...6. Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma is a famous music Director in Tamil and TelughMovies. His full name is Mani Sharma Yanmandra. Mani Sharma was born in a small district of Andhra Pradesh. His Village name is Machillipatnam which is situated in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. He spent his childhood in Chennai.
He started his career in late 80’s as keyboard player. Music Director Shri Satyam was his teacher and guide. He got married to Shri Vani Sharma. They have a son named Swara Sagar Mahathir who is also a well- known Music Director in Tamil movies. Mani Sharma has performed in many live stage performances in India as well as in abroad. He was a troupe member of well-known Indian play back singer Shri S.P.Balasubramaniam.He has performed in many countries such as U.K, U.A.E, USA, E...
7. Kandikonda
Kandikonda is a South Indian lyricist who writes songs for the Telugu film industry and the Telugu television industry. He was born on 13th October. He is known for the songs Gala Gala Paruthunna from Pokiri and Chennai Chandrama from Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi. He wrote the lyrics of more than five hundred songs. Kandikonda attended high school at the Sharat High School in Hyderabad.
He attended college at the Osmania University in Hyderabad from where he earned an MA in Political Science and a Master of Arts degree in Telugu Literature. Kandikonda wrote lyrics for the feature films Itlu Sravani Subramaniam, Shivamani, Andhrawala, Super, Dhana 51, Chukkallo Chandrudu, Ranam, Pokiri, Stalin: Man For The Society, Adavari Mataluku Ardhalu Verule and several others. He also...
8. Ravi Kumar Bhaskarabhatla
Ravi Kumar is a Lyricist from India. He works in Telugu Cinema. He penned lyrics for more than 390 songs and has contributed to more than 125 films. He considerably worked with directors like Puri Jagannadh and music director Chakri and S.S. Thaman. He predominantly writes songs appealing to the masses. His genres include mass, melodies, and romance. He gained the credit and won two Santosham Film Awards in the year 2006 and 2008. He also received SIIMA Award in 2013. Ravi Kumar Bhaskarabhatla born on June 5, 1974, in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was brought up in Rajahmundry among five siblings. He got passionate about literature and got the inspiration from his maternal Grandfather Aravelli Rajagopalacharya, in his early years of childhood. While he was in Rajamundry he used to visit Gouthami library and it influenced him to...
9. Karthik
10. Mahalakshmi Iyer
Mahalakshmi Iyer was born on 21 March 1990, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She is a professional Indian singer and playback singer. Iyer is best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung songs in many other Indian languages like Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Assamese, and Kannada. She belonged to a piece of Tamil music backgrounded family. Iyer was the daughter of her mother, who is a Carnatic classical singer as well. She started taking classes in Hindustani music at a very young age. Iyer has three sisters named, Kalpana, Padmini, and Shobha, and she was the youngest of all. Iye has been raised in Chembur, Mumbai, India.
She is a graduation degree holder from R.A.Podar College & Economics, Mumbai, India. Iyer did many TV songs like in the year 2000, she did Kasamm and Kundali. Then in 2002, Kuchh Jhuki...
12. Ranjith K Govind
Ranjith is a very famous and versatile south Indian singer. He has a vibrant personality and can make the crowd tap their feet with his energetic songs, can make them emotional with his soothing voice and is a mass entertainer. He was born on February 21, 1977. He is a very well-known playback singer and has worked for many films. He is mainly working for the Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Ranjith was born in a Malayali family, in Chennai. His family belongs to a small town, Kalluvazhi, Kerala. Ranjith grew up listening to various types of music he stayed in a society where social-programmes were a trend. The localities used to participate in these programmes. Once, a family friend suggested training Ranjith for classical music.
He is trained in Hindustani music and Carnatic music by Vidwan Cuddalore S...
13. Kalyan
Kalyan Master is an Indian choreographer who had contributed in various Tamil and Telugu films. He is one of the renowned choreographers in the today's industry. Kalyan Master also choreographed many songs for Hindi, Kannada, and Malayalam films. He has been the part of over 200 songs in total for various films released in India. He is also the part of many TV reality dance shows like Jodi number one and for the show starred on Vijay TV named Kings of Dance. Kalyan was born in Chennai, India and started his career as a dancer in the film industry under his great-aunt Puliyur Saroja. He performed as a dancer in a movie called Per Sollum Pillai in the year 1987.
Then after his first debut film, he started working as an assistant choreographer and worked in many top-knotted movies during the 80s. During the same era, he appear...
14. Raju Sundaram
Raju Sundaram is an Indian choreographer, actor, and director. Raju was born on 7th March 1968. His father Mugur Sundar is a prominent choreographer. Raju is the eldest among the three brothers; all the three brothers are choreographers. One is the famous Prabhu Deva and other is Nagendra Prasad. He is married and his wife name is Vasanthi. In his youth he was forcefully taken to film sets by his father to assist him. Raju invented interest in films and choreography after that. Raju started his career being a dancer in films like ‘Roja’, ‘Aasai’ and playing cameo appearances in songs with his brother Prabhu Deva in the films ‘Gentleman’, ‘Kadhalan’.
Then he went on to do a few Kannada films as a lead choreographer. Then he ...
15. Marthand K Venkatesh
Marthand K Venkatesh is a well known professional film editor who is mainly recognized for his works in Telugu cinema or Tollywood. He was born as the son of the famous K. M. Marthand, the most renowned film editor in the Telugu film industry and as the nephew of B. A. Subba Rao, a legendary director in the Tollywood film industry. As a young boy, he used to visit his father’s office where he saw him work. After a certain period, his father, K. M. Marthand had become an alcohol addict and his health quickly declined due to increased consumption of alcohol. Due to this, young Venkatesh had offered to assist his father with his editing, all while he was still doing his higher secondary education.
Marthand made his debut into the field of film editing after he had an honest conversation with filmmaker, K. Raghavendra Rao. D...
16. Mahesh Babu
Born on 9 August 1975 in Chennai, Mahesh Ghattamaneni is a South-Indian actor and philanthropist. He was born and brought up in Chennai. His father is Krishna Ghattamaneni, a yesteryear superstar of the Telugu film industry. Mahesh Babu completed his schooling at St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School and graduated from Loyola College with a bachelor’s degree in commerce. He further underwent training in acting from director L. Satyanand. Mahesh first faced the cameras when he was just four. His debut was in ‘Needa’ and did nine films in total as a child artist. In 1999, he debuted opposite Preity Zinta in ‘Rajakumarudu,’ a rom-com Telugu film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film got him his first Nandi award as well. He is best known for hi...
17. Ajay
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 w...
18. Ali Basha
Ali is a Telugu actor and also worked in Bollywood movies. He was born in a financially weak family but always had a passion for acting. Irrespective of his financial condition, he kept on developing his passion for acting and got his first role as a child artist in Director Bhagyaraj’s film Seethkoka Chiluka. He performed a great job as a child artist in different movies. Afterward he faced many difficulties for a “Grown up actor’s” role, and his struggle got a life when he got to play a comic role in director S.V Krishna Reddy’s films.
He is also the brand ambassador of an anti-itching medicine company. Currently, he is an actor in Puri Jagannadh’s movies. Ali got married to Zebeda Sultana Begum in 1994 and had three children’s. He also has a brother i.e., actor Khayy...
19. Ashish Vidyarthi
20. 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...
21. Master Bharath
Master Bharath is the budding young comedy actor, who is hailed from Tamilnadu. This bubbly charming boy was born and brought up in Tamilnadu; his ancestral origin is Andhra Pradesh. He was introduced to the film industry through the Tamil film Panchathandhiram, a Kamal movie. In this movie Master Bharath acted as the son of Jayram. He has acted in a huge number of Tamil and Telugu films as a child artist. He is very popular for his Tamil films, Pokkiri and Utthama Puthiran. He has acted with almost all the top heroes, as the brother or niece. Baadhsah, Autonagar Surya and Dhoosukeltha are some of the Telugu movies, which gave him a good name. Though he is acting in many films, he concentrates on the studies too. His aim is to become a doctor. His favorite actor is Kamal Hassan. He is well versed in Tamil and Telugu. One of his notable...
22. 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....
23. Sayaji Shinde
24. Venu Madhav
Venu Madhav is a well-known comedian in Tollywood. He was born on 30 December 1979 in Kodad, Nalgonda district, Telangana.He did B.com degree and later pursued his acting career. He has acted in movies of three regions in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. He was a TV mimicry artist and TV anchor. He anchored a funny show “Once more Please”.
He made his debut in Tollywood in the movie “Sampradhyam” in 1995 under the direction of SattiVenkata Krishna Reddy. He acted as Hero in movies like Hungana, Bhulailas, and Premabhisekam.He acquired popular recognition in movies Sampradayam and Master in 1997 and TholiPrema in 1998. Now he is working as a comedian in various movies.
...25. 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...