Shubra Aiyappa
Jayasudha
Karunya Ram
Lekha Chandra
Nabha Natesh
Padmaja Rao
Vijay Anand
CR Gopi
Arjun Janya
Nagendra Prasad
Dhanush
Karthik
Santhosh
Shankar Mahadevan
Sharan
Yogi G Raj
Deepu S Kumar
Sudheendra Venkatesh
Ravi Varma
Dileep
Ravi Teja
Avinash
Madhu Guruswamy
Manjunath Gowda
Ravi Kale
Sadhu Kokila
Mohan Kumar
Ravi Santehaklu
1. Shubra Aiyappa
The young Bangalorean, who first stepped into modeling before acting in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada films. While modeling, she received offers to appear in several commercials before having signed on to her first film which was in Telugu, 'Rey'.
However, due to personal reasons, Shubhra opted out of the team, and the Telugu movie 'Prathinidhi' (2014) went on to be her debut film, once again in Telugu, where she portrayed to be a journalist. She then bagged an offer in Kollywood, 'Sagaptham' in the year 2015, opposite the actor and politician Vijayakanth, which didn't bring her to limelight since the film left the screens without a trace.
She went on to make a special appearance in another Te...
2. Jayasudha
Born on 17 December 1958 Jayasudha is predominantly a Telugu actress, though she has worked in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada films too. She was born in Chennai, but her mother tongue is Telugu. Her aunt, Vijaya Nirmala has acted in Telugu films and she is a director too.
Jayasudha entered into films during the age of 12; she acted in a Telugu film named Pandanti Kapuram. Later, she did a minute role in K Balachander’s Arangetram. She worked with K Balachander in several films. Her original name is Sujatha and she changed it to Jayasudha. The Telugu film industry welcomed her and she worked in many good films there. The greatest credit to her acting prowess...
3. Karunya Ram
Karunya Ram has been in the entertainment industry for nearly seven years. She is one actress who thinks that an actor should aspire big. She doesn’t believe on complacency and being content with small laurels. She has once revealed that one has to have high goals to move ahead in the industry.
When she entered the film industry the actress signed all the movies that she came across in Sandalwood. But after Matttondu Madhuvena she got offers from Tamil film industry and hence she shifted her attention there. She did a couple of movies in Kollywood including Kannakol and Pongadi Neengalum Unga Kaadhalum. At that time she wanted to return to Sandalwood. While she was thinking of doing another Tamil venture Vajrakaya happened. She shared screenspace with Shivaraj...
4. Lekha Chandra
Lekha Chandra is a film actress, who has worked mainly in the Kannada movie industry. She was born in Bangalore, Karnataka in 1990. She has worked in popular films like Sanjeeva, and Sarkaar. Her lastest released movie was Sanjeeva (2018.) She made her acting debut in the 2014 movie named as Naanu Hemanth Avalu Sevanthi.
Then, she worked in films like Vajrakaya (2015) and Krishna Rukku (2016.) She has starred along Samartha, Deepthi Kapse, and Ugramm Manju. Her other release include Sanjeeva, alongside Chethan Gandharva in the lead and Mr. LLB.
...5. Nabha Natesh
Nabha Natesh is a film actress from India. She predominantly acts in Kannada movies. Nabha was born in 1995 in Sringeri, situated in Karnataka. Nabha has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science from Mangalore, Karnataka. After finishing her studies, she started working as an IT Engineer. Later she went on to pursue her interest in acting and modelling. Nabha was among the top 11 contestants to make it to the Femina Miss India Bangalore in the year 2013.Before debuting in Sandalwood, Nabha had done theatre acting as well. She has taken formal acting lessons in Abhinaya Taranga. Her interest in acting and theatre led her to work closely with Prakash Belawadi. Due her dedication and passion for acting, she even went on to assist him in some plays. While being at the backstage of the plays, she ...
6. Padmaja Rao
A pleased on screen mother, she has received phenomenal appreciation for her roles as a soft mom. She is a familiar face not only on the small screen, but also on the big screen. Added to this is the ease of having more than fifteen years of experience in acting, which definitely propels this actress to take up roles and accomplish the same efficiently.
She has acted in a lot of movies and some of the movies which were a blockbuster. The notable names include, Mungaru Male, in the year 2006, directed by Yogaraj Bhat. This movie ran in the theatres for five hundred days. Pamaja plays the role of Bablee, who is Pooja Gandi (Nandini’s) mother. The year 2008 saw her in Gaali Pata, directed by Yogaraj Bhat. In this movie, she plays the character of Padma, who is Sowmya’s (Daisy Bopanna) mother – in – law. This was yet another su...
7. Vijay Anand
Vijay Anand also known as ‘Goldie‘ is an Indian filmmaker, producer, director, screenwriter and an actor who made some classic films to date. He is related to actor Dev Anand and directed many in-house films of ‘Navketan Films’ (owned by actor Dev Anand). He was born on 22 January 1934 in Punjab. As an actor, he acted opposite Jaya Bhaduri in ‘Kora Kagaz’ which was critically applauded and was a hit film. Later, he also acted with Shabana Azmi. But his contribution to Indian cinema is understood as a director where he crafted classic film such as Guide, behind the camera lens. It was Guide that made him an acclaimed director of Indian cinema. The film was based on R.K. Narayanan’s novel and it had Waheeda Rehman and Dev Anand playing the lead roles. The film won him even international recogniti...
8. CR Gopi
CR Gopi works as an Actor and one of the leading Producers of the Kannada Industry in India. Gopi was born in Bangalore, India. He completed his studies in Bangalore, India. Gopi is the younger brother of CR Mohan, who is a politician and a member of Chikkaballapur Vidhan Parishad. CR Gopi produced and acted in films like “Vajrakaya” (2015) (as an Actor), “Rogue”, “FM”, “Amma” (2017) (as an Actor and Producer), “Shivam” (2015) (as an Actor), “School Master” (2010) (as an Executive Producer), “Janumada Gelathi” (2008) (as a Co-Producer). Gopi is also a politician, he had contested in the 2018 Karnataka assembly elections as a JDS candidate from Bagepally constituency.
...9. Arjun Janya
Arjun Janya is an Indian singer and music composer. In 2006, he made his debut in the industry with Kannada movie Autograph Please starring Dilip Raj and Sanjjanaa. In the south film industry, he is a score director and composer of high demand. The movies for which he composes music have done well on box-office in past. He is known for music in Sanchari and Singam. He was born on May 13, 1980, in Bengaluru, Karnataka to Anusuya and Ashwath Kumar. He learnt music from James and thinks of AR Rahman as his inspiration. It is said that a meeting between him and AR Rahman changed him and converted him into what he is today.
He played keyboard in the background for about thirty films. He started his career with being an assistant to composers K. Kalyan and V. Manohar. His music first became a hit with the film Biruga...
10. Nagendra Prasad
Nagendra Prasad is an Indian dance choreographer and occasional actor. Most of his work has been done in either the Tamil or Kannada film industry. He belongs to a household of artists as his father is a renowned dance teacher and master while his brothers are both accomplished dancers and actors. His father, Mugur Sundar, is a very well-known choreographer who has worked dance numbers for a few South Indian films.
His brothers are Raju Sundaram and the famous actor and dancer Prabhu Deva, who has had success in Bollywood as well. Nagendra’s first appearance in a film was a short cameo appearance in the popular South Indian film Bombay. Directed by Mani Ratnam, the film went on to achieve critical and commercial succes...
11. Dhanush
This lanky superstar Dhanush is an actor from Tamil cinema but has appeared in two Hindi films too. He credits R Balki and Anand L Rai for making him consider acting in Hindi films (‘Shamitaabh’ and ‘Raanjhana’). In the year 2011-12, his song “Why This Kolaveri Di’’ continued to rise on the charts and gain millions of viewers on YouTube. Dhanush happens to be the youngest actor to receive the national film award for his performance in “Aadukalam”.
This actor had carved a place for himself in the world of cinema by his acting prowess. He has so far featured in 25 movies. Dhanush has ventured into production with his company Wunderbar Films. He is married to southern superstar Rajinikanth's daughter...
12. Karthik
13. Santhosh
Santhosh is an Indian dancer and choreographer. He was born on June 16. He started his career by joining the first season of the dance reality show, Dance Tamizha Dance, aired on Zee Tamil. Santhosh bagged the title and received a cash prize a total of Rs 5 Lakhs and a trophy in 2013. He dedicates his award to his mother, who already died in 2011.
...14. Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...
16. Yogi G Raj
Yogi G Raj is a Director. He was born in India. He was born on June 11. He predominantly works with the Kannada Film Industry. He has Indian Nationality. He had appeared in the film industry various times. He is an actor of versatile talent. He has worked with several artists. Yogi did multiple projects in line and made the audience entertain. Yogi did KGF in the year 2018. The release date of this is December 12 and in the year 2018. Its run time is two hours and 50 minutes. It has the genre action, and romance. Cast includes for this is Malavika Avinash, Mita Vashisht, Yash, Srinidhi Shetty, Ninasam Ashwath, S Kumar, Prashanth Neel, Vijay Kiragandur, Ravi Basrur, Bhuwan Gowda, Yogi G Raj, Ananth Nag, Ananya Bhat, Vijay URS, Beesu Suresh, Ayyapa P Sharma, Vinay Bidappa and many more.
Jani Shaik is the choreographer. Ravi Basru...
17. Deepu S Kumar
Deepu S. Kumar is a South Indian film editor who works in the Kannada film industry. He has worked with Kannada directors like- ‘Duniya Soori’, ‘Harsha’, ‘Yograj Bhat’ and many others in movies like ‘Jackie’, ‘Bahaddur’, ‘Vajrakaya’ and many others. Deepu married Sudha Deepu on 19th August 2007 with whom he has two children. They live in Bangalore. Deepu made his film debut as a film editor with the movie ‘Mungaru Male’ written and directed by Yograj Bhat. The film hit the screens on 29th December 2006. He also worked in Bhat’s ‘Dana Kayonu’ in 2016. Deepu worked under director Duniya Soori in the film ‘Duniya’. The movie hit the screens on 23rd February 2007 and won three awards.
After the success of the film, Deep...
18. Sudheendra Venkatesh
Sudheera Venkatesh is an Indian Film public relations officer. He commenced his journey in the year 1985. Having done 1200+ films, Sudheera boasts 35 years of experience as a Public Relations Officer, mirroring all his successes. He is the founder of Raghvendra Chitravani. The all-time best movies, “Mungaru Male” and “Dhuniya” got him recognition for his work. He is continuing Sri Raghavendra Chitravani’s legacy. A few big names such as “Hombale films”; “Rockline Productions”; “Pushkar Films”; “And SV Productions” are permanent clients. With Fluency in 5 Indian languages, Sudheera Venkatesh has worked on assignments beyond Karnataka in his era. His noble works were awarded, the Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Kempe Gowda award, Nagara Jilla Kannada Sahitya Prasha...
19. Ravi Varma
He was born in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. At the age of two, their family moved to Hyderabad, so he was grown up in Hyderabad.
He learnt Kathak (Indian classical dance) while he was studying 3rd class. Afterwards he learnt Bangra (dance originating from the Punjab region) extensively for eight years. He was even familiar with mime (imitation without use of speech) and gave many performances. He used to participate in lot of cultural activities mainly dance competitions.
He completed his engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Later on he went to USA and pursued Masters in Computers. He even joined in a job at Rediff. At the same time he joined a three month course in NYFA (New York Film Academy), which helped him a lot for his acting career. Meanwhile he also worked...
20. Dileep
Dileep was born in Kerala as Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai in the year 1968. His career started as an assistant director to Kamal. He was named as Dileep through the character he performed in his debut movie. His debut movie as a hero was in the year 1994 through Manathe Kottaaram as Dileep. Sallapam and Punjabi House made him get popularity among the Malayalam audience. Before his film entry, Dileep was a mimicry artist. He worked in Kalabhavan too.
While assisting Kamal in his films, Dileep showed off his face in some films too. His natural acting skill paved him a way to reach good heights in the Malayalam cinema. One of his best movies is Kunjikoonan, in which he acted as a hunchbacked man. He got the special Jury Award for his performance in thi...
21. Ravi Teja
Ravi Teja is the popular Telugu hero, whose birth name is Ravi Shankar Raju Bhupatiraju. He started his career as an actor from the year 1990 in a supportive role. His debut movie is Karthavyam, in which Vijay Shanthi was the lead. He has also worked as an assistant director for few Bollywood and Tollywood movies. His first main role was in the film Sindhooram in the year 1997. Nee Kosam was the movie, which revealed out his acting talent and got him the Nandi Award for his excellent performance. Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru, Idiot, Khadgam and Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi were his hit movies in the beginning.
Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi is the film remade in Tamil as M.Kumaran, S\O Mahalakshmi. Both the Tamil and Telugu films were by Asin as the female lead. Naa Autograph, Chanti, Dubai Cheenu, Nenithe,...
22. Avinash
Avinash is a Kannada actor, who has starred in South Indian language films and notably in the Kannada, Telugu and Tamil film industries. Avinash completed Master of Arts in Literature from the Mysore University and began his Career as a lecturer of English. In the beginning of his career, he was very active in the English theater circuit in Bangalore. He was following theater during his college days and he got into films. Avinash has acted in more than 200 movies in his career. Avinash married lawyer turned actress Malavika, who was his co-star in the soap opera Mayamriga.
Avinash made his debut in the movie ‘Thrishoola’. Unfortunately, the movie was not released due to reasons. He was introduced to the Kannada film industry through another movie “Samyuktha”. His first notable ro...
23. Madhu Guruswamy
Madhu Guruswamy is an Indian actor, who was born in Mysore, Karnataka, India. He was very passionate about theatre at a young age. He did many stage shows and awareness programs all over Karnataka. He began his career as a stage actor. His debut as an actor was in the movie Deadly-2; he also worked as an assistant director in the movie. He has played the antagonist roles in the hit movies such as K.G.F: Chapter-2. He gained fame among the people from the movie Bhajarangi. He has worked in many well-known movies such as Chingari, Jaanu, Vajrakaya, Jai Maruti 800, Mufti, Saak-Shyam.
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Madhu Guruswamy is an Indian film actor. The actor has mostly worked in South Indian Kannada language films. Guruswamy was born on 3rd May 1986, in the beautiful city of Mysore (Karnataka). He is ...
24. Manjunath Gowda
Manjunath Gowda is a talented producer and actor from the Kannada film industry. He produced the Kannada movies Window Seat in 2022, directed by Sheetal Shetty, starring Sanjana Anand, Nirup Bhandari, and Amrutha Iyengar, 13 part I in 2023, directed by K.Narenndra Baboo, starring Raghavendra Rajkumar, Pramod Shetty, Shruthi and Dilip Pai. Manjunath has also acted in Kannada movies such as Kadhal in 2017, directed by Murali S V, Avadhi in 2016, directed by Sai Kiran Mukkamala, Kireeta in 2017, directed by Kiran Chandra, Bari 100% Baddi in 2023 directed by Krishna Leela, Sippayi in 2016 directed by Rajath Mayee, Kidi in 2017 directed by Raghu S, Telugu film Kathanam in 2019 directed by Sai Kiran Mukkamala and many more.
...25. Ravi Kale
Ravi Kale is an Indian actor known for acting in Telugu, Kannada, Marathi and Bollywood movies. He rose to fame with movies like Sarkar (where he played Amitabh Bachchan’s right-hand man), Agyaat, Mylari etc. He also starred in AMR Ramesh’s movie Cyanide, where he was the mastermind behind Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination. The film showcased the aftermath of Rajiv Gandhi’s murder. He also played the role of a Naxalite in the movie Red Blood. Due to his acting abilities, he has made his presence known in both Malayalam and Marathi cinema.
As an actor, he does all his roles so well that he leaves his fellow actors awestruck with his acting ability. Recently when Namma Duniya Vijay started using social media to stay in touch with hi...
26. Sadhu Kokila
Sadhu Kokila is a Kannada actor who primarily works on comedy roles. He is also a director and music composer. Rakta Kanneeru, Om and Shhh are some of the movies that he directed and also acted. The Vijay starrer Devru was also directed by him.
Born on 24th March, 1966, Sadhu Kokila, also known as Kokila Sadhu, hails from a family of musically inclined people. His father was a violinist in a music group of Karnataka Police Department. His sister and mother are singers. Layendra, Kokila’s brother, is also an actor. Kokila pursued his schooling at St. Joseph’s Indian High School in Bangalore. Kannada star Upendra provided him with the name Sadhu Kokila.
Kokila kickstarted his career in the film industry as a musician and eventually he was referred to Kasturi Shankar, another m...