Anu Vardhan
Shana Dowdeswell
Nayanthara
Namitha
Suresh Balaje
Javed Akhtar
Salim Khan
Nirav Shah
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Pa Vijay
Naveen Madhav
Milan
Marthand K Venkatesh
William Ong
Ajith Kumar
Adithya Menon
Premgi Amaren
Yog Japee
Raghava Lawrence
S. Gopal Reddy
Santhanam
Rahman
Vishnuvardhan Kulasekaran
Prabhu
1. Anu Vardhan
Anu Vardhan is an Indian- Costume Designer. She mainly works in the Tamil, and Telugu Film Industry. Her nickname is Anu. Her hobbies include Costume Designing, Cooking, and Watching Television. She is married to Vishnuvardhan. She is currently living in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Her husband is the Kollywood director. In the Vijay Award, she was honored with the title of Best Costume Designer. Vishnuvardhan, and Anu were the Classmate of each other during there College.
They started loving each other, and finally, get married. She has worked in many movies which are named Bella, Vedalam, Panja, Sri Rama Rajyam, and Kabali. N.S Krishnan is the Grandfather of Anu. Her grandfather is Tamil Actor and Famous Singer.
...2. Shana Dowdeswell
A Broadway actress, Shana was born on April 1st,1989 in Harare, Zimbabwe. She was the daughter of former professional tennis player Roger Dowdeswell, and Laurie Smith. When most kids were busy playing outdoors, Shana began her acting career at an astonishing age of eight. She did her schooling at New York City from City and Country School. Shana graduated high school from Professional Performing Arts High School. She got a chance to portray Anne Frank at the Papermill Playhouse. She also worked on television shows and films. Her family members lived in Paris and London, and Shana frequently flew to meet them. As the saying goes, her heart was where her home was. She returned to Africa after travelling the world. Her boyfriend Cameron Moneo was beside her throughout, and even toured Canada with her.
Shana had been immensely love...
3. Nayanthara
Nayantara also called as Nayanthara Kurian, is a renowned Indian actress from Kerala. She was born on 18th November in the year 1984 in Bangalore that is situated in Indian province Karnataka. Her actual name is ‘Diana Mariam Kurian’ the daughter of ‘Omana Kurian’ and ‘Kurian Kodiyatto’. Due to her father’s service, she stayed in several places of India. She joined in “Mar Thoma College” for attending her B.A in English Literature. Besides study she also initiated her modeling career.
As she was indifferent towards building her career in the film industry she denied her first offer, but at last she agreed to do the film ‘Manassinakkare’ where she was casted opposite Jayaram. This was a financially successf...
4. Namitha
5. Suresh Balaje
Suresh Balaje is a film producer who produces Indian movies in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. He has also produced a few French films. He is known for movies like Megham, Niyaman, Makkal En Pakkam, Gandharvam, 13 B, Dheepan and several others. He is also known as Suresh Balaji.
Suresh was born in Chennai in Tamil Nadu. He is the son of the late film producer K. Balaji and Anandavally. He is the brother-in-law of actor Mohanlal, through his sister Suchitra Mohanlal. He is married to Usha Suresh. He is the father of the actor Suraj Suresh and Sitara Suresh. Suresh produced the Tamil film Thee directed by R. Krishnamurthy. The crime drama flick hit the silver screens on 26th January 1981 under the banner of Suresh Arts. He produced the Tamil movie Vaazhvey Maayam direc...
6. Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.
Javed has two children, Zoya...
7. Salim Khan
Salim Khan was born in 1935 and he is considered as a popular Indian actor as well as a talented Screenwriter in the Indian film industry. He is an individual who hails from Indore, in the Madhya Pradesh of India. His father was a member of the ‘Police force’. The Salim-Javed screenwriting has been a reason why he has been able to achieve most of his popularity in the industry. He is married to Helen, who is also an actress in India.
He has three children who are named as Salman Khan, Sohail Khan and Arbaaz Khan. The director K. Amarnath was impressed by Salim Khan’s good looks after seeing him at a wedding, and hired him to act in Mumbai for a monthly salary. He had to act in many small parts in movies for a period of seven years, where he was unable to impress the audience who watched these movies...
8. Nirav Shah
Nirav Shah is an esteemed name, in the field of Indian cinematography. He is best known for his works in Bollywood blockbusters “Dhoom,” and “Dhoom 2”, and numerous other Hindi and Tamil hits.
Nirav started off his career with various assignments on short films, music videos, and also television advertisements, and often worked as an assistant cinematographer or as an ancillary to acclaimed cinematographers. Following which, he realized his passion for cinematography and started working independently.
The year 2004 marked Nirav’s debut in feature film cinematography, with the release of “Paisa Vasool,” which featured Manisha Koirala, Sushmita Sen, and Sushant Singh, in lead roles. ...
9. Yuvan Shankar Raja
10. Pa Vijay
P Vijay (Pa Vijay) is a Tamil poet and film lyricist, who wrote the award-winning lyrics for the song’’ Ovvoru Pookalume’’ in Cheran's Autograph in Kollywood film industry. This lyricist had an extensive impact on Tamil cinema and was considered to be a gem writer of many songs that had featured in many movies. This poet and lyricist-writer were born in a middle-class family where his mother was a school teacher, and his father worked as a spinning master in a textile mill in Coimbatore. The actor was born in Coimbatore on 20 October 1974 and did his MA Literature in Tamil from Annamalai University. This poet was a discovery of director K Bhagyaraj, who was his family friend. He was associated with K. Bhagyaraj in the magazine ‘Bhagya’ and even got a chance to pen his lyrics for the film Gna...
12. Milan
Milan is an experienced and expert artist who is known for his work in the Tamil film industry. He is known for his work as a talented art director. Milan’s complete name is Milan Fernandez. He was born in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu and he currently resides there. He started working in the film industry in the year 1999.
He initially joined as an assistant art director to the famous Sabu Cyril. While working along with Sabu Cyril, he was part of many movies. Citizen (2001), Thamizhan (2002), Red (2002), Villain (2002), and Anniyan (2005) are some of the most popular films in which Milan has worked as an assistant art director. In the year 2006. Milan decided to venture into art direction as a solo being. His first movie as the art director was Kalabha Kadhalan.
The movie, Kalabha Kadhalan, was released in t...
13. 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...
14. William Ong
William Ong is an Indian stunt director and actor, popular amongst the audience for his work in movies like BIlla (2007), Beyond Ragoon (1995), Lost in the Pacific (2016), and Zokkomon (2011). Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Bollywood movies and action sequences, the fact that he started out with his career as an actor is still unknown to many.
In 1995, he made his acting debut with the crime thriller film Silkabo, directed by Joel Lamangan. Since then, he has mostly focused on establishing himself in the film industry as a stunt director. The latest project that featured him in the stunts department is the TV series Our Girl (2018).
...15. Ajith Kumar
Ajith Kumar is a prominent Tamil film actor, model, racing driver and philanthropist. He was born on May 1, 1971, in Hyderabad. In 1986, he studied at Asan Memorial Senior Secondary School but dropped out before finishing higher secondary. He worked as a 2-wheeler auto mechanic and got a license so he can satisfy his fondness of bike and car racing. When he turned 18, he took a job to support his racing career. Occasionally, Ajith also did ads and television commercials.
Ajith was forced to decide on whether he would do films or continue racing. He focused on doing films. In 1990, Ajith debuted in a small role in the Tamil romantic film, ‘En Veedu En Kanavar’. At 21, he started his film career in a low-budget Telugu romance film entitled ‘Prema Pusthaka...
16. Adithya Menon
Adithya Menon was born on 6th April 1974 as Anil Menon in Mumbai. When he was a kid, his family shifted their base to Dubai. Till his 18 years, Adithya grew up in Dubai. He is an alumnus of Our Own English High School in Dubai. Later, his family returned to India and settled in Bangalore. He is an engineering graduate, who was graduated from M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology. During his college days, he attended an audition for the Radio Jockey in Radio Midday. It was the base for him to enter the media.
After completing his graduation, he had been an event manager and hosted a few programs. While working as a radio host, he found an actor inside him and joined a theater. Prakash Belawadi, a popular pan-India actor, found out the talents inside Anil and introduced hi...
17. Premgi Amaren
A native of Chennai, Premgi Amaren is a multi-talented artist. He was born on February 25, 1979. In about a decade-long career, he has been sailing the boat as a playback singer, a film composer, a songwriter as well as an actor, commendably. Hailing from a culture enriched family background, Premgi is the son of renowned music composer and singer Gangai Amaran and younger brother of film director and actor Venkat Prabhu. He is famous as a comedian in Tamil films. Maestro Ilaiyaraja is his uncle.
Premgi initially wanted to be a music composer and to follow his dreams; he commenced his career as an assistant to Yuvan Shankar Raja, his cousin, who is a renowned film music composer. The journey he started never ceased, as soon after, he became a playback singer. He is signi...
18. Yog Japee
Yog Japee is a Tamil writer, trainer, and actor. He founded the Theatre Y, a theatre company based in Chennai that focuses on training the children. His passion is to mainstream theatre into education and uses it as a tool to bring social awareness and development. Yog is also passionate about folk traditions, myths, and history and he is working so hard to bring his stories alive on theatres and other mediums, most especially for the children. Because of this, he earned the prestigious International Fellowship on the Chevening-Clore Leadership Programme for Cultural Leaders, making him one of the four scholars who was selected internationally. Yog entered the Tamil film industry in Gautham Menon’s action drama film Kaakha Kaakha in 2003.
The following year, he made his first Telugu film appearance in Gharshana. His chara...
19. Raghava Lawrence
20. S. Gopal Reddy
S. Gopal Reddy is an Indian director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter. The multi-talented personality has given his contribution to the Telugu and Bollywood film industry. He has established the Durga Arts a production house. He won two Filmfare Award (South) as the best Cinematographer for his work in the films like ‘Varsham’ and ‘Sri Ramadasu’. He was born in Andhra Pradesh. He started his career at Venus Studios in 1968 under the guidance of V.S.R Swami, who is a veteran cinematographer. At that time, the films were pictured in black and white print. He made his entry into Telugu film industry in 1979 with the film Raktha Tilakam. He has been a part of many movies from the Telugu industry like ‘Dhruva Nakshatram,’ ‘Moodu Mullu,’ ‘Nelavanka...
21. Santhanam
22. Rahman
Rahman also known as Rashin Rahman, is a famous South Indian Actor born on 23 May 1967. He was born in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. and his native is Nilambur in Malappuram District, Kerala. He studied in Baldwin Boys High School in Bangalore, Rex Higher Secondary School in Ooty and did his college from M.E.S Mampad College, Nilambur and St.Joseph’s Abu Dhabi. He got married to Mehrunnisa in 1993. The couple have two children namely Rushda and Alisha. Rahman’s wife’s elder sister , Saira Banu is married to Oscar winning music director A.R. Rahman. He has acted in more than 150 films in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil movies.
Rahman made his debut with the Malayalam movie, ‘Koodevide’ in the year 1983 wi...
23. Vishnuvardhan Kulasekaran
Vishnuvardhan is an eminent director who is famous in the Tollywood industry. He is young and affluent and has seven hit movies to his credit. Vishnuvardhan is the eldest son of 'Kulasekaran' and was born on November 30. He completed his schooling at St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School and was a student of visual communication at Loyola College in Chennai. He has starred in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Anjali’ and in his teen years he acted in The Terrorist, ‘Fiza’, ‘Malli’ and ‘Asoka’.
He drew his inspiration from Mani Ratnam and Santosh Sivan and pursued his dream to work with them on the sets of Asoka, starring Shah Rukh Khan. He had a penchant for directing and learned the basics of directing.He had every detail embedded in his mind at the sets...
24. Prabhu
Prabhu Ganesan or better known as Prabhu is a prominent Indian entrepreneur, producer, comedian and actor who mainly appear in Tamil films. He was born on December 25, 1956 in Chennai, India. His mother is Kamala and his father, Sivaji Ganesan is a stage and film actor during the 20th century. Prabhu is the father of Vikram Prabhu, who is making a name in the Tamil film industry. After his debut in the 1982 film, Sangili, the actor started to play leading and supporting roles, which gained him the Best Actor in Lead Role Award by the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards in after donning a brilliant performance in the Tamil film, Chinna Thambi in 1991.
He studied at Bishop Cotton School in Bangalore and after this he entered film production and worked as an executive producer to his uncle, V. C. Shanmugan. Initially, hi...