Tamil Movie Review Aruvi - Cast & Crew

Aditi Balan is a kollywood actress who gained popularity with her recent flick ‘Aruvi’ (Flowing Water), directed by the debut director Arun Prabhu Purusothaman. She is originally a lawyer by profession but she grabbed everyone’s attention with her performance through Aruvi for which she was also nominated for 2016 National Awards.

Aruvi is about a gentle girl born and brought up in an undeveloped village, who finds it difficult to fit in the city. She decides to take it hard on the people. What she does next is the rest of the story. She generally speaks about the social anguish of a girl.

Date of Birth: 21-09-1990

Age: 33

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Female

Skills: Movie Actress

Biography About Aditi Balan

Biography About Aditi Balan

Date of Birth: 21-09-1990

Age: 33

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Female

Skills: Movie Actress

Bindhumalini is a singer who is popular for her singing. She has a beautiful voice that takes you to your dreams.She has a powerful voice. Her life revolves around music and along with it, she acts, dances and paints as well. Bandhumalini is married to “Vasu Dixit” who is a lead vocalist in a band named “Swarathma” which is a folk rock fusion music band. Bindhumalini is a double graduate. She has done graduation in art and music as well from Loyola. She has done post-graduation from NID. She is a granddaughter of “Kalaimani Seetha Doraiswamy.”

Bindhumalini comes from a musical background, and her whole family is engaged in art and music which were their way of life instead of something one did. Bindhumalini was interested in art and mu...

Dr. S. Revathi, whose pen name is Kutti Revathi is an Indian lyricist/poet, activist, and a doctor. She published three books of poetry. She is the editor of Panikkudam, which is a literary quarterly for women's writing, and the first Tamil feminist magazine. After several literary meetings and reviewing poetry collections by other students, Revathi began working on some of her creations.

After completing school, she studied Siddha medicine and received a bachelor's degree in Siddha medicine and surgery, which is one of the oldest medical systems in the world. It derived from her native Tamil Nadu. Revathi had pursued her doctoral research in medical anthropology at the Madras Institute of Development Studies.

She received the Sigaram 15 Faces of Future award for literature from India Today. She awarded a travel...

Praniti Praveen Kumar Is A Child Artist Who Is A Singer And An Actor From The State Of Tamil Nadu. She Was Born On 5th November 2008. She Has Recorded And Sang For Various South Indian Films And Musical Albums. Praniti Praveen Kumar Has Also Worked As A Child Actor In Various Tollywood Movies.

Praniti Praveen Kumar Has A Youtube Channel To Her Name, Which Is Extremely Popular Amongst Her Fans, Where She Sings And Lends Her Voice For Various Popular Songs. Most Of Her Cover Songs Go Viral All Over The Internet. She Made Her Tollywood Debut In A Tamil Film Called 'Aruvi'.

Vasuki Bhaskar is a popular actress and fashion designer who has appeared in various character roles in Tamil films, Tamil television serials, and ad commercials and has worked as fashion and costume designer in many Tamil reality shows, television serials and films. Born on September 18 in Chennai, Tamilnadu, Vasuki belongs from an elite and eminent family which is associated with the Tamil entertainment industry for years now. She is the daughter of famous Tamil film personality Shri R.D.Bhaskar. Her uncle is the legendary composer Illayaraja. She completed her studies from the Loyola College, Chennai, Tamilnadu. During her college days, she was offered by a leading producer who was also a good friend of her father to design costumes for one of his upcoming productions Kangalal Kaidhu Sei to which she happily agreed. This was the ste...

Lakshmi Gopalaswamy is a South Indian actress and a classical dancer, qualified in Bharatanatyam. She was born on November 7 1970 in Bangalore, to Dr.Uma Gopalaswamy and M.K Gopalaswamy. She did Master’s Degree in Women’s studies. Her Mother Dr.Uma Gopalaswamy is a Scholar of music who lead Lakshmi to train and take Bharatanatyam as career. Lakshmi received the eminent Kerala State Film Award for the second best actress for her roles in 'Thaniye' in 2007, directed by Babu Thiruvalla. She even appeared in P. T. Kunju Mohammed direction movie 'Paradesi'. She was cast as a dancer possessed by an evil spirit in a dream role in 'Aptharakshaka' directed by P. Vasu, opposite Super Star Dr.Vishnuvardhan, an Indian superstar of more than 200 films in five different languages.  For her magnificent performance in ‘Aptharakshaka’, she has b...

Shivada Nair is an actress that hails from the southern part of India. Nair performs in movies that are in the Malayalam Language. Shiva made her debut into the entertainment milieu in 2009.She demonstrates splendor in her acting. She is a superstar, who thrills the audience with her performance. Shivawas born at Srilekha in Tamil Nadu. Her father is Vijayarajan, who ensures she is comfortable, and happy. Kumari (Shiva’s mother) plays an indispensable role in the superstar’s life. Shiva’s family relocates to Angamaly, which is in Kerala.

She enrolls at a public institution in Angamaly, where she continued her 6th Standard. Shivada Nair completed 12th Standard at Viswajyothi CMI, which is a school in Kerala. She later pursued a degree in...

Shwetha Shekar is a film actress by profession who has worked predominantly in the Tamil movie industry. Her previous film to hit the theatres was Aruvi within the year 2017. Her birthplace is Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She has done her schooling at Our Own English High School, Dubai. She has completed her education degree of Bachelor in Technology in Genetic Engineering, M.S. in Forensic Science.

Her movie Aruvi is a superbly written drama centered around a unique character that unfolds as a thriller, a black comedy, an awareness movie, and a tragedy. The film is so effortlessly crowd-pleasing — and also tremendously moving.

Anjali Varathan also pronounced as Anjali Varadhan is a Tamil transgender actress. She debuted in a film name “Aruvi,” co-starring Aditi Balan. In 2017, she got fame after playing a very strong supporting role of a transgender AIDS patient in the film Aruvi. She received an awesome response from every corner for her heart touching performance as Aruvi’s friend in the movie. As she was a newcomer in the industry debuting from film Aruvi left an impression by her marvelous performance. The movie showcased at many International Film Festivals. It is very difficult for a transgender to find their place in the society because of some people’s thinking and their perspective, transgender’s find it difficult to cope up with the society for better living.

Anjali has took the bold step to make her place in t...

S R Prakash Babu started his career as a producer with Studio Green, which also had Gnanavel Raja and “S R Prabhu.” He produced various films, among which Singam tasted a great success.  Prakash Babu is the nephew of veteran Tamil actor “Sivakumar.” Suriya Sivakumar and Karthik Sivakumar are his cousins. Most of his films are with Suriya and Karthi. In 2010, S R Prakash Babu teamed up with his brother S R Prabhu to lay down the foundation of Dream Warrior Pictures, a production company based in Chennai. This company deals with film production as well as film distribution. Dream Warrior Pictures had produced eight films of different genres. “Saguni” starring Karthi and Pranitha Subhash was the first project of Dream Warrior Pictures. “Kaashmora,&rdquo...

S. Raja Mohan is an art director and production designer of Tamil cinema. Raja Mohan is from Chennai. His schooling is from I.G.M.M. (Indira Gandhi Memorial Matriculation) Higher Secondary School in Thirunagar, Madurai. He has done his Bachelors in Engineering in Electrical, Electronics and Communications in the year 2007. Next, he joined the famous Loyola College for post graduation. He completed his post graduation in filmmaking in 2010. He entered the Tamil film industry in April 2011. He always wanted to be a production designer. From childhood, he was attracted to the colors and making designs out of them. Raja Mohan has won various competitions and awards in stage setting, painting and concept designing. That inspired him to enter the business of art. When in High school, he won an International award...

MV Rajesh Kumar is a Tamil film editor. Kumar was born and bred up in Chennai, India. He graduated from Anna University which is a technical university based in Guindy, Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Every year, Kumar celebrates his birthday on June, 30. His Star Sign is Cancer.

He has edited films for well-known actors and directors such as Dhanush, N.V. Nirmal Kumar, Rajendran and few more. He has worked in more than five pictures and has numerous projects lined up in his kitty. He was born to father MV Raghavan and has two brothers and a sister. Kumar was fond of watching films in his childhood. He started his career in 2014 with the project 'Velaiilli Pattathari' as a debutant in film editing department. Very few people are honored to work with the prominent actor of...

Vedanth Bharadwaj is a singer by profession. He was born on 1st October, 1980. He was born in Mumbai, India. He became famous because his poems and songs are associated with the Bhakti Movement. He is also a professional guitarist and composer. He became a qualified guitarist at Trinity College, London. The different genres he has performed in are Folk, Carnatic and Hindustani Classical. Vedanth married Neha, a Punjabi girl, in the year 2010. He was trained in classical music at around the age of four years under Neyveli Santhanagopalan for ten years and Sri Narayana Iyengar for around three years. He later moved to Rishi Valley School and finally met his roommate and his future collaborator, Ananth Menon. He introduced him to the genre of Rock Music. He even taught him how to play the guitar. 

Born on June 14, 1989, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Arun Prabhu Purushothaman is a director and writer, who works predominantly in the Kollywood cinema. He wanted to become a Samurai; an instructor; a yogi; it was particular and continued changing each day in his childhood days.

He read Tamil literature and composing used to be a fun piece of everyday life. His principle side interest was watching films; the manifestations of world experts, for example, GilloPontecorvo and Jean-Luc Godard inspired him.

Observing the world and composing his contemplations as screenplays became his habit. He joined the rundown of top-notch debutant directors of 2017. Arun has been a part of acclaimed Tamil serial Annamalai which stars Sivakumar, Radhika Sarathkumar and others in lead parts.

He played the character called, 'Shiva.&#...

Shelley Calist is an Indian film cinematographer. He has worked with many prominent Tamil directors making evident his cinematographic skills. Shelley Calist has worked with the director of the Tamil language political drama film ‘Aruvi’. The movie was the debut movie as a director for Arun Prabhu Purushothaman. Aruvi was premiered at various film festivals. Its first public screening took place at Shanghai International Film Festival. The film was released worldwide on 15 December 2017. It has also won many awards like two South Indian International Movie Awards, two Vijay Awards, a Techofes Awards, two Edison Awards, four Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards and four Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards.

Shelley has also worked in two more Tamil movies named ‘Vaazhl’ and ‘Nila’. Vaazhl was a Tamil dra...

Raymond Derrick Crasta is a young Indian Tamil editor. He was born on the 15th of April in Kannur. He lives in Chennai. Raymond Derrick Crasta completed his schooling at Loyola College. Furthermore, he went to Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School. He has a sister named Diyana Elizabeth Joseph.

Derrick is a renowned Tamil film editor and has received multiple editorial credits for his work in movies such as NOTA (2018), Velvet Nagaram, and the acclaimed Tamil socio-political drama Aruvi (2017), which also won several national and international awards. Derrick is also famous for his editorial work in Minmini, Kalvan, and Jallianwala Bagh.

Kavitha Bharathy is an Indian film actor and writer who works predominately in the Tamil movie industry. He is best known for his works in movies such as Chitthi (2003), Priyamanaval (2015), and Aruvi (2016). Bharathy was born in Chennimalai, in Erode district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He currently lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Kavitha Bharathy fell in love with Malayalam television actress Sri Kanya. Her spouse's mother was unsupportive of their love marriage. To convince his mother-in-law, Kavitha Bharathy learned Malayalam.

They got married on 15 September 2002 and have a daughter. He always wanted the surrounding people to notice his work. During his school days, he used to short. It created an inferiority complex inside him. He was once the class representative in his school days. In one case, his Tamil teache...

Mohammad Ali Baig is an Indian filmmaker of ad & documentary films, referred to by the media as “Global Face of Hyderabadi Theatre,” “Sultan of Epics,” and “Master of Revival.” He was born in Hyderabad and directed & produced over 400 advertising, along with corporate films for leading Indian & foreign brands in India, Thailand, France, UK, US. He is a founder-curator of Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival, one of the most prestigious theatre festivals in the country, held annually in Hyderabad during October-November. During this launch, State IT Secretary J.Yash Ranjan, INPR Commissioner Naveen Mittal and along with some actors & actresses, gathered.

“The festival has grown out of its infancy, and every year, he tries to do something innovative to be recognized in India,&r...

Pradeep Antony is a director turned actor. He works in the Kollywood industry. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is a Viscom graduate. His hobbies are dance and music. His professional skills are scriptwriting, art direction, conceptualization, and Art direction. He was a part of Bigg Boss Tamil.

He and actor Kavin are close friends. In 2016, he worked as an assistant director for the movie "Aruvi," an Indian Tamil sociopolitical drama film. It was directed and written by Arun Prabu Purushothaman, for his debut film. The movie stars Aditi Balan, Anjali Varadhan, and Lakshmi Gopalaswamy.

Pradeep made a debut as an actor in the movie 'Vaazhl' in 2019. This movie was directed by Arun Prabhu Purushothaman and produced by Sivakarthikeyan's SK Productions.