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1. Shreya Ghoshal


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Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became ...

Date of Birth: 12-03-1984
Age: 40
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Skills: Singer
Date of Birth: 12-03-1984
Age: 40
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Skills: Singer

2. Nikhila Vimal


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Nikhila Vimal is a Malayalam actress, and a classical dancer hails from Kannur. Nikhila is the daughter of Kalamandalam Vimala Devi, who is an acclaimed classical dancer and her father Pavithran who works in a statistics department. Nikhila started learning dance at a very young age and was an active participant in the youth festival circuit. She is a trained dancer in Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, mono-acting, and Keralanadanam. Nikhila, a dancer, never dreamed of pursuing acting in her career. She did her graduation Sir Sayyed College in Botany. Currently, she is staying in Taliparamba in Kannur. Nikhila in her plus two was offered the role in ‘Bhagyadevatha’ by the director Sathyan Anthikad. She played the active role of sister of ‘Jayaram’s character in the movie. After the film, she took a...

Date of Birth: 10-03-1994
Age: 30
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 10-03-1994
Age: 30
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female

3. B Rakesh


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B Rakesh is a famous Indian producer who is well known for his work in the Malayalam Film Industry. He is also the owner of the Universal Cinemas which works mainly for the Malayalam cinema. For the last two decades, Rakesh has been working tirelessly producing not only films but also Television serials. He has produced several shows on Doordarshan like Chitrageetham, Smrithylayam.

His Television show Eswaran Saakshiyaai got many awards including best show, best director and more from the Kerala State Government in the year 2015. Apart from this, B.Rakesh produced a number of hit Malayalam films under his banner like Vakkalathu, Narayanankutty and more.

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Date of Birth: 28-04-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Skills: Producer
Date of Birth: 28-04-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Skills: Producer

4. Badusha


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N.M. Badusha works in the Malayalam film industry as a producer, associate director, production manager, and actor. N.M. Badusha was born in the Indian state of Kerala, in the town of Aroor. He went to GHS Chandiroor for his education and graduated from Santa Cruz College. He is the father of two children, Sahir Badusha and Shifa Badusha. He is married to Manju Badusha.

In 2000, he began his career. As a production manager, he worked on more than 100 Malayalam films. "Vargam" was his debut film as a production controller. He has worked in several well-known films, including ‘Kurukshetra,’ ‘Pokkiri Raja,’ ‘Lonappante Mamodisa,’ ‘Ayyappanum koshiyum,’ ‘Sathyam Paranja Viswasikkuvo,’ and others. SIIMA Awards, Ramu Kariat Award, Jaycee Foundation Award, and Deshi...

Date of Birth: 31-05-1977
Age: 46
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Skills: Producer, Actor
Date of Birth: 31-05-1977
Age: 46
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Skills: Producer, Actor

5. Shafeer Sait


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Shafeer Sait is an Indian film producer, production controller, and actor. He is basically working with the Malayalam Film Industry. He was born in He has the Indian nationality. He was born on January 25 and in the year 1975. His father name is Sathar Sait. His mother name is Beevikunji. He was born in Kodungallur, Kerala, India. His spouse name is Aisha. C. Ali. Her other name is Aisha Shafeer on June 18 and in the year 2009. They have two children. His son name is Daiyan Sait. Daiyan was born in the year 2014. His daughter name is Diya Qurban. She was born in the year 2010. Shafeer Sait has started his career as Production Manager. He did the first project as a children's movie. The movie name is Gharaksharangal. He did it in the year 2000.

His first project is the winner of the national award for best children's fil...

Date of Birth: 25-01-1975
Age: 49
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 25-01-1975
Age: 49
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male

6. Vinod Illampally


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Vinod Illampally is a cinematographer of the Malayalam cinema. It is true that cinema is the director’s vision but an audience sees this through the eyes of the cinematographer. Hence, we may term that a cinematographer can also be called as a ‘co-director’. Vinod Illampally had begun his career in cinematography in early 2000. He made his debut as an independent cinematographer in the movie ‘Red Salute’ (2006). The film dealt with liquor issues in the state and the film did not get any warm welcome by the masses.

In 2009, the cinematographer has undertaken another film project ‘Patham Nilayile Theevandi’ directed by Joshy Mathew. In 2011, the cinematographer handled a love story 'Innanu Aa Kalyanam' directed by Rajasenan. In this movie, Rejith Menon, Malavika Wales, and Saranya...


7. Santhosh Varma


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Santhosh Varma is a well known Tamil Lyricist and has done many movies. He has written the lyrics of many amazing movies and the audience like the songs written by him. Songs are the most important part of the movies as the music attracts the audience the most. Songs of the movies are released even before the movie and most of the people like music a lot. Lyrics that are written by him are appreciated by everyone. He has written the heart-touching lyrics of many Tamil movies. He has written the lyrics of the songs of the film Vetri Nadai. He wrote the lyrics very well and it was very heart touching and was liked by everyone as well.

The music director of the film is Gopi Sunder; he made his lyrics worth listening and made the music of the film stand out. He has also written the lyrics of the film Pa Va which ev...


8. NadirShah


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Nadir Shah is an Indian artist. He is famous for Mimicry, Comedy, Singing, Acting and Direction in Malayalam movies. He is also a Television Host, Music Composer and Lyricist. He was born in Kochi in Kerala. He started his career as an actor in the 1992 film ‘Kasargod Khader Bhai’. This was followed with movies like ‘Manathe Kottaram’ released in the year 1994 and also ‘Ezharakoottam’ in the year 1995. Once his acting career started to flourish, he began experimenting with his other talents like Playback Singing and Writing Lyrics for various Malayalam movies. He lent his voice for the movie ‘Ennethedi ... Maanchiyam’ as a playback singer in the year 1996 followed by ‘Manjaadikkunnile Praave ... Meenakshikkalyaanam’ in the year 1998 and ‘Aa Maalaninakkaa...


9. Jassie Gift


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Jassie Gift is a music composer and singer who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He predominantly works for Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil movies and is currently, based in Bengaluru.

Born in a Christian family in Trivandrum, the singer had a passion for music since the beginning. He played the western piano and started playing the keyboard for local bands at a young age.  He was influenced a lot by western music.

Later, he evolved as a singer and keyboard player for a local group Moby Dick. His favorite music composers are Freddie Mercury and Ilaiyaraaja. Although he was a gifted singer and keyboard player, he came to learn more about music from music director Jayaraj.

Even before entering the film industry, he composed for an album in Malayalam called ‘Soona Soona’; which became a m...

Date of Birth: 27-11-1975
Age: 48
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 27-11-1975
Age: 48
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male

10. Javed Ali


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Javed Ali (Javed Hussain) was born in Delhi in 1982. He has been working as an Indian playback singer since 2000. Ali started his singing journey at a very early age with his father, who is a popular Qawwali singer named, Ustad Hamid Hussain. He is also a playback singer in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, and Tamil. 


He has been singing since 2000, but his song “Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein” from the film Naqaab (2007) made him famous in Bollywood. After that, he sang hit song like Jashn-E-Bahaara from the Movie Jodha Akbar (2008). He also sang the song Guzarish (Ghajini) and Maula mere Maula (Arziyan). Javed started hi...

Date of Birth: 1982
Gender: Male
Skills: Musician
Date of Birth: 1982
Gender: Male
Skills: Musician

11. Sameera Saneesh


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Sameera Saneesh is a South Indian costume designer and fashion designer who works in the Malayalam film industry. She was born on 27th June 1983. She is well known for designing costumes of Mammootty, Jayasurya, Prithviraj Sukumaran and other stars. Sameera hails from Eroor village of Ernakulam district in Kerala. Her parents are Ibrahim and Jameela. She married a software engineer named Saneesh K. J. on 26th November 2006. She learned drawing and painting from Kalabhavan Kochi during her school years. Sameera did an under graduation course at Bharat Mata College before joining a Fashion Designing diploma at the Nation Institute for Fashion Designing in Panampilly Nagar. After diploma, she worked as an in-house designer for “Raymonds” for some time before becoming a freelance costume designer for ad-films. Her first project...

Date of Birth: 27-06-1983
Age: 40
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 27-06-1983
Age: 40
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male

12. PV Shankar


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PV Shankar is an Indian-Cinematographer. He primarily works in the Tamil Film Industry. He is thinking of working in the Hindi Film Industry, Telugu Film Industry, Kannada Film Industry, and Malayalam Film Industry. Starting from his childhood days, he was very much interested in Photography.

Some of the popular movies in which he had worked include Andava Kaanom which got released in the year 2018, and the genre of the movie is Comedy. Kaalakkoothu which got released in the year 2018 and the genre of the movie is Romantic. Maragatha Naanayam which got released in the year 2017 and the genre of the movie is Thriller. Marakathamani which got released in the year 2017 and the genre of the movie is Fantastic. Bruce Lee which got released in the year 2017 and the genre of the movie is Action, and Comedy. Mu...


13. Asif Ali


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Asif Ali is a model –turned actor who was brought into the film by iconic director Shyamaprasad and Sathyan Anthikkad. Later on, he featured in some successful Malayalam movies and made his way to stardom. Though he was not a superstar, his image of a chocolate boy in a movie ‘Salt N Pepper' seems to be best suited to him as he is very cute and innocent-looking. But unfortunately, he was given to play scary characters that had gray and negative shades. 

 

Known for his good looks and easy-going personality, the actor did not get box office success for his films like 'Hi I'm Tony’, ‘Mosayile Kuthirameenukal’ and &l...

Date of Birth: 04-02-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Skills: Model, Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 04-02-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Skills: Model, Movie Actor

14. Biju Menon


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The tall, dark and handsome Biju Menon started his acting career from the small screen. He acted in serials like Mikayelinte Santatikal and Ningalute Swantam Chandu. Mikayelinte Santatikal focused on the life of a family and their complex relationships. 

 In movies, he started with villain roles, second hero roles, and character roles and then graduated to main hero roles. Biju Menon married actress Samyukta Varma, and they have a son Daksh. Biju and Samyukta have acted together in a couple of movies during which they developed a likeness for each other. After the marriage, Samyukta decided to quit her acting career to become a full-time homemaker. Biju Menon resides with his family at Trichur. Their love and relationship is going strong day by day. 

Born in September 1974, Biju...

Date of Birth: 09-09-1970
Age: 53
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 09-09-1970
Age: 53
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male

15. VK Baiju


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V.K. Baiju is a well known Malayalam actor in the Malayalam industry. He has acted in several Malayalam serials and films and has got a good place in the industry. V.K. Baiju’s father is Vidyadhar Kurup, who was a social activist in a political party. His native is Malapuram in Kerala. During his young age, V.K. Baiju has done a lot of jobs before his entry to the cinema. He was a painter and also had run Auto rickshaws too. He has also worked as a salesman in a medical shop.

He has developed his talent through stage plays. He is an information technology graduate and was placed in a popular company. He has never felt ashamed in doing all kinds of works. He believes in, No pain and No gain. V.K. Baiju is married and has a daughter. His wife is a beautician and his daughte...


16. Sreenivasan


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Actor Sreenivasan is a Malayalam actor who had ruled the regional cinema graph for over 25 years and has earned the credit of having acted in over 200 films so far. But he never attributes his success even once for the quantity of films that he had done so far. He is an actor who lacked star appeal always. Instead of relying on his looks, he concentrated more on his talent that helped him carve a niche in Mollywood. He could perform any character on screen whether it is a villain role or a comedy role which drew a parallel recognition when compared with the ranks of superstars.

His comedy role gave Malayalam cinema some of its finest films. Though he had joined films to become an actor, he had never felt he could take up the job of script writer...

Date of Birth: 06-04-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 06-04-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male

17. Emil


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Emil is one of the prominent Kannada music director and singer. He started his debut with the mega-hit song ‘Jinke Marina’ which was from the movie Nanda Nanditha. The film released in 2009 and is directed by B. N. Vijayakumar.

The film had Yogesh and Nandita in the lead roles. The song 'Jinke Marina' is picturized on both of them. The musician is known for using the folk style of songs, that have heavyweight usage of electronic instruments. His next assignment was in 2009 for the movie 'Circus' which stars Ganesh and Archana Gupta in lead roles. The official soundtrack contains six songs composed by Emil with lyrics penned by Kaviraj, Yogaraj Bhat, and Manjunath Rao.

In this movie, he has sung two tracks, namely 'Baaro Geleya’ (lyrics by Kaviraj) along with Karthik and 'Circus&...

Date of Birth: 13-11-1984
Age: 39
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Skills: Music Director
Date of Birth: 13-11-1984
Age: 39
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Skills: Music Director

18. Baburaj Harisri


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19. Dileep Ponnan


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20. Shani Khader


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Date of Birth: 30-08-1990
Age: 33
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 30-08-1990
Age: 33
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male

21. Rohit K Suresh


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