Sadhana Sargam
Kiran Rathod
Uma Riyaz Khan
Kamal Haasan
V Swaminathan
Vairamuthu
Karthik
Sriram Parthasarathy
Udit Narayan
Vijay Prakash
M Prabhaharan
S Rajendran
Suresh Pai
Vikram Dharma
R Madhavan
Nellai Siva
RS Shivaji
Santhana Bharathi
Yugi Sethu
Vidhya Sagar
Sundar. C
Nassar
Kasinadhuni Viswanath
S P Balasubrahmanyam
Arthur A Wilson
1. Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974, she changed her name to Sadhana Sargam on advice given by Kalyanji Anandji, who had promoted her singing career.
...2. Kiran Rathod
Karan Rathod is an Indian actress and a model. She has appeared in many Tamil movies. She also acted in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies. She as born on 11 January in 1981. She was born in Jaipur in Rajasthan. She finished her graduation in Mithibai College in Mumbai. She is also a distant relative of a Bollywood villain Amjad Khan. She first appeared in Hindi pop song album. In the late 1990s, she caught the attention of Hindi movie producers. She performed in the film Yaadein as her first film appearance as Monishka. The film was an average film.
...3. Uma Riyaz Khan
Uma Riyaz Khan (born Uma) is a Tamil actress who appears in supportive roles in movies. She is also a popular figure in the TV industry where she has performed in serials, dance shows and as judge in comedy shows. Uma was born to music director Kamesh and actress Kamala Kamesh as the only child. She lost her father at a young age of 9 and was brought up by her mother. She was a state level athlete in 100mt sprint and Javelin. She also is master over several dance skills including classical, salsa and other Latin American dance forms.
...4. Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan is the most versatile actor that India had ever witnessed. His innovative performances have been acclaimed worldwide. He is known for his passion for dance forms, action, and his enthusiasm for new concepts in movies. He is one of the most unforgettable actors in India. Born in 1954, Kamal Haasan has a never ending passion for Indian Cinema. He is still acting in movies. Though he belongs to Kollywood Industry his movies are much appreciated in Bollywood and Tollywood as well.
...5. V Swaminathan
V Swaminathan is a Tamil producer who grew up in the Tamil film industry alongside G Venugopal and K. Muralitharan. One can say Sundar C, Fazil and Venkatesh were the directors who brought Swaminathan into filmmaking.
...6. Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu is a very famous Tamil writer, poet, and lyricist. His full name is Vairamuthu Ramasamy. He was born on 13th July 1953. He was born in a middle-class family to Ramasamythevar and Angammal in Mettur. His family moved to Vadugapatti, Theni in Tamil Nadu when he was four years old. He is famous by the pen name Kaviyarasu or Kaviperarasu. He got married to Ponmani Vairamuthu and had two children, Madhan Karky Vairamuthu, and Kabilan Vairamuthu. He got inspiration from the Tamil and Rationalist movements in the 1960s that enthused him to pursue a career as a writer. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. As a speaker and a poet, he was highly praised as the best in his college.
...7. Karthik
8. Sriram Parthasarathy
The immensely talented classical singer is taking further his father’s late Shri Veena Raghavan legacy. This well versed Tamil singer is principally seen singing in Tamil and bagging work from famous music directors such as A.R.Rehman. This amazing talent was born on 9th may 1981. This 34years singer is considered to be a source of abundant knowledge in classical singing, well-versed Veena player and most popular among classical section. His father late Shri Veena Raghavan is himself a great veteran in classical music. No doubt Sriram had to look nowhere for inspiration. Sriram started his career in 2001 and is still active. He is pulling it all with his exceptional talent.
...9. Udit Narayan
10. Vijay Prakash
Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force.
...11. M Prabhaharan
M.Prabhaharan is an Art Director. He was born on 6th July 1966 at Dindigul in Theni, Tamil Nadu. In a career spanning over three decades, he has worked in more than seventy-five films in the Tamil film industry and a few in Hindi, English and other regional languages. Some of the movies for which he won an award are "Pullakuttikaran", "Sundara Purusha", "Anbe Sivam" and a few more. Prabhaharan hails from Kuchanur, a small village near Dindigul. He completed his school education in Theni itself. He commenced his high school at Dindigul St. Mary’s School and completed it at Theni Nadar Saraswathi Boys’ Higher Secondary School.
...12. S Rajendran
Some dedicated people can't enjoy their life unless settling in their dream position. Irrespective of the circumstances around him, and the demands they have to meet, some people will stick to their respective jobs. They will lead a happy life being in that role. Such a guy is S. Rajendran.
...13. Suresh Pai
Suresh Pai is a Hindi film editor working in Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. He is a freelancer and has an interest in Media and Marketing, Film and TV tech and Post Production. Suresh Pai has been an editor since 2000, and he has worked on over 35 feature films in Hindi including Snip!, Hawai Dada, Bheja Fry Masala, Jhankaar Beats, etc. Suresh Pai has won National Awards for the category "Best Editor" two times for his work in the movies "Snip!" in the year 2000 and "Page 3" in the year 2005.
...15. R Madhavan
16. Nellai Siva
Nellai Siva is a famous comedian and a supporting actor who predominantly works in Kollywood cinemas. He works mostly in comedy scenes. One of the outstanding comedy scenes with comedian Vadivelu is in the movie Kannum Kannum. In 2000 he played in Vetri Kodi Kattu as a tea shop owner. After this movie, he slowly progressed by acting in big movies like Saamy, which had actor Vikram in the lead, Anbe Sivam with Kamal Haasan in the lead, Thirupaachi with Vijay and Kireedam with actor Ajith Kumar in the lead.
...17. RS Shivaji
R.S. Shivaji is a film actor, who works mainly in Tamil film industry, and also works in other languages such as Hindi and Telugu movies. He was born on 26th October 1956. R.S. Shivaji also works as a line producer, sound engineer, and assistant director. He is the son of producer and actor M.R.Santhanam, who worked in the films such as Meera in the year 1945 by Ellis R. Dungan. R.S. Shivaji, a brother of well-known Tamil actor and director Santhana Bharathi, who works in the films such as Panneer Pushpangal, Vietnam Colony, Thozha, Shivalinga, Anbe Sivam, so on. He acts mainly in comedy roles and works in the Kamal Haasan’s films continuously. R.S. Shivaji works in the movies such as Aboorva Sagodharargal, Michael Madhana Kama Rajan, Vikram, Vanamagan, and Sangili Bungili Kadhava Thora and so on.
...18. Santhana Bharathi
19. Yugi Sethu
Yugi Sethu is a multi-talented man. He is an actor, screenwriter, director, writer, producer and a show host. So many qualities in one person are rare to find. He was born on 28th January in Chennai. He belongs to Oothukaadu, which is a small town near Kumbakonam. He has done his graduation in Commerce and his masters in Political Science. Though he studied two subjects, his interest was more towards fine arts, but he could not pursue that. Well! None of the three subjects could give him the success and fame that he has today. He is married to Amritha Kalyani and has two children with her. As an actor, he has done only a few films. He has played the lead roles as well as supporting roles. He is mainly a screenwriter. He applied his diversified skills in the less known Tamil movie ‘Maathangal Aezhu’ which means seven months. He had written not only the movie but also directed it. He played the hero in this film, and the other actors were Nassar and Ramya Krishnan.
...20. Vidhya Sagar
21. Sundar. C
22. Nassar
Nassar is one of the multi talented actors in the Indian cinema industry. He has achieved various awards for his acting performance. He is not only an actor, but a producer and a good director too. Mehaboob Nassar is his full name and Nassar remained as his stage name. He is married to Kameela and has three children. His debut was through Kalyana Agathigal, a Balachander movie. He has acted in various films with different roles. Most of his roles depict him as a villain. After few years of his successful villain roles, he jumped to character roles that yielded him fame. He did a good role in Roja as a good Police Officer. His role in Thevar Magan made him to get a good name. He made his debut as a director through Avatharam in the year 1995. He acted in a lead role in the film alongside Revathi. Revathi acted as Blind women in this film. Nassar performed as a blind singer in the film Minsara Kanavu. He did a dual role in Jeans. He did a different role in Saivam, in which he acted as a village grandpa of Baby Sarah. From his debut in 1985, till now in Kamal's Uttama Villain, he has earned good name and lots of fans too. He has been awarded as Kalaimamani by Government of Tamilnadu.
...23. Kasinadhuni Viswanath
Kasinadhuni Viswanath is a famous south Indian film actor, writer, director. He is from Repalle, Andhra Pradesh. Kasinathuni Viswanath’s father’s name was Subrahmanyam and mother’s name was saraswathamma. He married Jaya lakshmi and he has 3 children and their names are Ravindhranath, Nagendhranath and Padhmavathi. And he has 4 grand children: pranav, hema, swarna, and naren. His mother tongue is Telugu and he can speak Telugu, Tamil, and English. He is having 57 years of working experience in film industry. He got many awards like Nandi awards, National-film awards, Filmfare awards, etc. He did many hit films like shankara baranam, sagara sangamam, etc. He had done many bollywood films like sargam, sanjog, eeshwar, sangeet, etc. He started his career as a technician at Chennai. After that he worked as an assistant director to many directors. After that he acted in movies and his first movie was Siri siri muvva and he got fame into this film. This was followed by a series of films based on the themes of art, music and dance. Some of his later films discussed issues of social concern while others presented simple morals and facts of life to the common man in a palatable form.
...24. S P Balasubrahmanyam
S P Balasubrahmanyam is still considered to be one among the best musicians in the past three decades, in spite of the surge of various new comers. This legendary singer is reputed for his intense voice, profound knowledge of music, and a style of singing which is appreciated even today. SPB, as he is fondly called, has given his voice for more than 30000 songs. His name is recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records for singing several songs in a short span of time. He has sung the most in Telugu, the next being Tamil. He has also given his beautiful voice for Sanskrit slokas.
Other than Telugu and Tamil SPB has sung in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada too. SPB also tried his luck as music director in Telugu film industry (he had composed one film Sigaram in Tamil too).
A south Indian singer becoming successful in Bollywood is quite a feat, but SPB achieved that. In fact, he was the regular for some of Salman Khan’s films including, the musical blockbuster Hum Aapke Hain Kaun. With his imminent voice, he also shined as a dubbing artist.
Hailing from Andhrapradesh, SPB comes from a traditional Telugu Brahmin origin. SPB tested waters even in acting. His sister SP Sailaja is also a noted singer. Born on 4th June 1946, SPB gained interest in music very early. He got to know about the flute and harmonium by his own interest. He nevertheless followed the wish of his father and did an AMIE course. During his engineering days SPB took part in various singing competitions and garnered several awards. Music composer S P Kodandapani introduced SPB into singing for films, since he was attracted towards SPB’s voice.
Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna, a Telugu film, is the debut film (as a singer) of SPB which had music scored by S P Kodandapani. SPB made his foray into acting with the 1969 Telugu flick Pellante Noorella Panta. He worked in character roles in Telugu and Tamil. SPB worked as the dubbing artist for Kamal Haasan in most of his Telugu movies which were dubbed into Tamil. It is no wonder that SPB has several awards to his credit including, the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri and 6 National Awards.
Nandamuri Balakrishna, the popular star in Tollywood, was received well by the entire South audiences with the movie, Sri Ram Rajyam. It is SPB, who dubbed for Balayya in the Tamil version of the film. Besides singing for the movies, SPB rendered his voice to the devotional music albums and the title songs for various TV Series. Nimmadhi Ungal Choice, Sondham, Sorgam, Vazhkai and Nambikkai are some of the series that got hit title songs with SPB’s voice. In 2010, he played in a film, “Naanayam,” as a businessman and his character was entirely different from that of the roles which he played previously. SPB Charan produced the movie. SPB had played in varieties of roles in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies and in TV Series too. "Jannal," a TV Series produced by Veteran director K Balachander was one of his perfect performances.
His latest film appearance was in the year 2018 with the Telugu film, Devadas featuring Akkineni Nagarjuna and “Nani” in the lead roles. The awards and honors received by SPB couldn’t be listed out on a single page. He had bagged a lot of awards from almost all the leading languages in which he worked. SPB’s latest hit song in Tamil is Chumma Kizhi for Rajini in “Darbar,” which released in 2020. He reunited with “Ilaiyaraaja” in “Thamilarasan,” a movie featuring Vijay Antony. Devadas Parvathi is a film, which has a song by SPB and NV Arun composed the music. In Telugu, Nuvvu Naatho Emannavo from the film Disco Raja composed by S Thaman, was a super hit in 2020. Of late, he had also crooned in Palasa 1978, Cheema Prema Madhyalo Bhaama, Ayyappa Kataaksham, Neekosam and Badugu Jeevulu in Telugu.
SPB was admitted to a private hospital in Chennai in August 2020, due to the coronavirus attack. He had also posted a video about his recovery. Soon, it was announced that he tested negative of Coronavirus and his fans had a sigh of relief. However, he suffered from breathing issues and had been on life support for nearly a month. Group prayers were hosted and people across the world, who love him for his songs and his down to earth nature, prayed for him to get well soon. But, his health deteriorated on 24th September 2020 and the legend breathed his last at 1:04 pm on 25th September 2020, leaving his fans, family and friends in pain. SPB will be remembered forever, not only for his songs and acting but for his sweet nature that tied everyone to him.
...25. Arthur A Wilson
Arthur A Wilson is a professional and established cinematographer in the south Indian industry. He is well known for his works in the movies Anbe Sivam, Naan Kadavul, and many more projects. Arthur A Wilson has been part of many films in the Tamil movie industry. Arthur A Wilson was born on 7th of July in the year 1983. He was born in the United Kingdom, and then he moved to Chennai where he started his career as a cinematographer. Arthur A Wilson has worked in many film industries including, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and even Hindi. He first started his career as a cinematographer with the movie V. I. P. which was directed by film director D. Sabhapathi and has actors Abbas, Fathima Babu and S. S. Chandran in lead roles.
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