Tamil Movie Review Dev - Cast & Crew

Rakul Preet Singh is a famous Indian model working predominantly in South India. She has got a wide range of craze in a short span of time. She was born on 10 October, 1990. She was born in New Delhi to an army family. She completed her schooling from Army public school and graduation from Jesus and Mary College. She is a professional Golf player and has played National level golf competition. She is a huge fan of Sharukh Khan. Rakul has been passionate about acting since her childhood. So, she opt Modeling as her career. She started modeling when she was just 18. She debuted with the Kannada film Gilli. Next she played a small role in Tamil film, Keratam.

Though she was on the screen for a short time she gained a lot of fame for the movie. She did Yaariyan in Hindi and ...

Ramya Krishnan is a South Indian movie and TV actress who has acted in more than 200 films. She has acted in the 5 big languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. She is a pro in the likes of classic dances, Bharathanatiyam and Kuchipudi, and has performed worldwide as well. She was born in Chennai to Telugu parents, who speak fluent Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She is the niece of Cho Ramasamy, an actor and a leading politician. She is married to Krishna Vemsi, a Telugu director, and has a son named Ritwik.

Ramya Krishnan started to act in movies in a lead role when she was only 13. She starred opposite Y. G. Mahendran in ‘Vellai Manasu’. Since then, Ramya Krishnan started acting her best in every character possible. Her pinnacle was the Rajnikanth starrer, ‘Padaiyappa’, ...

Thamarai was born in Tamil Nadu, India on 10th November 1975. She is a lyricist by profession and also writes poems, essays and is also a former journalist. She is a renowned lyricist and mostly writes in Tamil. She received her primary education from Coimbatore and graduated from Government College of Technology in Coimbatore. After her graduation, she continued to work there and later moved to Chennai and devoted her time for a company as an independent journalist, where she used to write essays, poems and short stories for them.

She came into the limelight and became very popular among the people through her writing and also joined the Tamil Industry where she started to write lyrics for various movie songs. Thamarai made her debut in 1998 film, “Iniyavale”. The story is about a poet who dre...

Malvika Manoj is a talented rising Actress, Singer, and Classical dancer in Malayalam Film Industry. She was born in 2005 in  Kerala and grew up in Saudi Arabia. She has recently finished her schooling at the International Indian School, in Jeddah. Her mother,  Praseetha Manoj, trained her in classical dance. She entered the film Industry at a very young age. She made her debut in the movie Prakasha Parakkatte in 2022. In this movie, she worked with Mathew Thomas in the lead role. She has also played a small comic part in Movie Dev, released in 2019. Her upcoming film is Joe, starring Rio Raj.

Sharanya Gopinath is a Tamilian vocalist. Sharanya Gopinath is a playback singer by profession. She is a musician who knows jazz, blues, pop, rock and funk music. Sharanya Gopinath was born on 19th December.She is originally from Kozhikode, Kerala, India. She has done her early education from CSI Bain School in Chennai, India. She has done her further education from National Institute of Fashion Technology. She was a Fashion Journalist at Myntra.

She was Senior Manager in Artists and Marketing Department at Amaranta Entertainment in Chennai, India. She also has the experience of working as a music and theater creativity trainer for children as well as actresses and voice over artists. Sharanya sings songs mainly in the Tamil language. She has given her b...

Neerja Kona is a costume designer and a stylist and works predominantly in the Tollywood and Kollywood cinema. She was born on April 29 in the year 1983. She is a native of Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh. She currently stays in Hyderabad in Telangana.

She began her career as a stylist assistant for the movie Badshah which is a 2013 release. She worked for Jr NTR and Kajal Aggarwal for the Badshah. An important and significant point in her career was when she styled the famous Nithin for the project Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde which went on to be a tremendous success and received a lot of appreciation.

Nithin recognized her potential and went on to give her work on the two film he was working on next. So, it is though Nithin is how she got Courier Boy Kalyan as well as Puri Jagannadh’s Heart Attack. She hit yet another su...

Amrutha Srinivasan, born on November 3rd, is an Indian film actress. She was born and brought up in the vibrant and bustling city of Chennai, TamilNadu. Ms. Srinivasan first debuted in 2016, as Shruti, with a Tamil language independent film, namely ‘Aviyal.’ She, recently, achieved fame for her role as Mahati in the thriller themed web-series called ‘Kallachirippu’.

She also has been part of previously hit projects like the Meyaadha Maan (2017) and Mental Madhilo (2017), alongside the web-series in Tamil by the name of Livin. ’She has also garnered acclaim for her acting skills in the Tamilian movie ‘Dev,’ which happens to be her last project from the year 2019. 

Karthik Sivakumar, or popularly known as Karthi, is a prominent film actor, who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He was born on May 25, 1977, in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, to Tamil actor, Sivakumar and Lakshmi. He studied at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, and later attended St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. He obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Crescent Engineering College in Chennai. Post graduation, he started working as an Engineering Consultant in the city and pursued higher education abroad. During those times, Karthi was earning 5000 every month, until he thought that he wanted to do something more. He had his scholarship in the USA and studied at Binghamton University in New York, where he took Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. While doing hi...

Harris Jayaraj is a veteran music composer, predominantly having worked in Tamil film industry. He is currently one of the most sought-after composers, having garnered commercial and critical success to most of his works. Right from his first work in Minnale (2001), Harris made the entire industry take notice.

He had also composed for its Bollywood remake Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, which was also a huge success. Coming from a music background, Harris’s climb to popularity was very gradual. From excelling in his music school in London to working under music maestros like AR Rahman and then making popular ad jingles like Coca-Cola, Harris has done everything to prove his position in the Tamil music industry.

Harris consistently de...

Rajath Ravishankar is an Indian director, writer, and lyricist. He belongs to the Tamil industry. He got his fame for his only movie Dev for which he worked as a director, writer, and lyricist. The movie was released in 2019 and made its success. He is from Chennai, India. He was born on 28 November 1989 and is aged 30 years. He started his career with all the three responsibilities in different roles, which proves his dedication towards his career.

Because of that hard work, he was able to make his first directorial debut movie a big success.

He is a multitalented writer belonging to the Southern India. He had given a new word to the English language ‘Lifotainment’ which means the entertainment through short stories or novels. He firmly believes that anything that is written should either influence oneself or the others in the society. He firmly believes that writings have the capability to bring about a change in one’s life or even the other’s life. He had different kinds of writings. He had written novels, dialogues and also poems. After completing his graduation, he went to Australia to study in the School of Journalism. He had served for three long years in the Tamil TV industry, and he is now involved completely in writing the stories for the Tamil movies. He had written the dialogues for the India’s foremost t...

Antony Ruben or Livingston Antony Ruben (by birth), is a film editor in the Tamil film industry. He acquired a degree in Visual Communication from the Loyola College in Chennai. Gautham Menon advised him to visit Anthony for further help. Ruben had visited Anthony earlier as well. He approached ace director, Gautham Menon, to become his assistant, but the latter redirects him to director Anthony, to work as his assistant editor. Under Anthony’s mentorship, he worked on the film Vettaiyadu Vilaiyaadu, which was a hit. He was given a bright chance to work on film trailers, which ultimately helped him work on films like Thoranai, Avan Ivan and Vedi. His debut as a full-fledged editor was in the film, Kandaen in 2011.

His work in Elred Kumar's Muppozhudhum Un Karpa...

Karthik Muthuraman is an Indian politician, film actor and playback singer. He was born as Murali Karthikeyan Muthuraman on September 13, 1960, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India to Sulochana and Tamil film actor, R. Muthuraman. He attended St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai and later took Bachelor of Arts degree at the New College in Chennai.

He was debuted in the Tamil film, Alaigal Oivathillai in the year 1981, which was helmed P. Bharathiraja. This film turned out to be a cult classic and earned eight Tamil Nadu State Film Awards including the Best Debut Actor, which he received for his brilliant performance in the film. In the same year, a remake of the film entitled Seethakoka Chiluka was released. Since then, there is no...

Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004....

Madhan Karky Vairamuthu was born on March 10, 1980. He lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his education from College of Engineering, Guindy and University of Queensland. He is an Indian lyricist, software engineer, a professor, research associate, and a film dialogue writer. His parents are Vairamuthu and Ponmani; his father is a poet and a lyricist.

He is their eldest son. In 2001 at the college of engineering, Guindy he completed his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Further in the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia he completed his Post Graduation and Ph.D. in information technology in 2004. In 2010 he became a lyricist for the science fiction film Enthiran. For this film, he wrote the song "Irumbile Oru Irudhaiyam." He also assisted the director S. Shankar in w...

Vivekanandan is the birth name of the versatile comedian Vivek. He is introduced by the legendary director Balachander through the film Manadhil Urudhi Vendum. It is the film in which Ramesh Arvind was also introduced. They both acted as brothers of Suhasini in that film. He got famous through Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal, as his dialogue Innaikku Seththa Naalaikku Paal reached the viewers well. He acted with top actors and reached fame within a short span. He performed with Rajini in Uzhaippali, Veera and Sivaji. His role in Kadhal Mannan, an Ajith starter, was loved by many people. Vivek acted with Vijay in Kushi and Priyamanavale. He performed with Vadivelu in few films and the notable one is Middle Class Madhavan, a Prabhu movie. Both Vadivel and Vivek performed humorously in that film. After the invasion of many comedians like Santhanam ...

Arjun Chandy is a well-known playback singer in the film industry; he is basically from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He has a keen interest in music since his childhood. At the age of 14, he started singing for a quartet in middle school. Afterward, he joined the University of North Texas music school, for studying choral music and jazz studies.

He had also achieved an opportunity to be part of an international award-winning vocal group named The Vocal Majority in the U.S. At the end of 2013; he collaborated with A. R. Rahman in his group. He has also worked as a guest professor, coach, and lecturer at many universities and schools. He has given his voice in the Tamil movie Lingaa.

Unlike foreign countries, India has produced a very few good rappers. Among them, very few have managed to achieve critical as well as commercial success. 'Blaaze' is one of them. Born on October 15, 1975, his birth name is Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman and originally belongs from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

 Apart from being a successful rapper, he is also a lyricist, producer, singer, musician, editor, and songwriter. His family belongs to the Brahmin community. However, since his father worked as an architect, the family traveled to several places. As a result, Blaaze's childhood passed in Kitwe, Zambia. He completed his higher education at Columbia College Hollywood, United States of America.

Rekha Srinivasan, his sister, is a ...

Filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer D Satya Prakash (Kannada) has won national awards for his work in these areas. Social and interpersonal relationships are frequently the subjects of his writings. Ondalla Eradalla is the sequel to his breakthrough film, Rama Rama Re. Man of the Match is his newest business endeavor. Prakash directed the short movie Jayanagara's 4th block before he started managing commercial movies. The Karnataka state film award for first-time directing went to Rama Rama Re.

His second movie, Ondalla Eradalla, took home two honors at the 66th National Film Awards: Pv Rohit won Best Child Artist and Nargis Dutt Award for National Integration. As T. S. Nagabharana's assistant director, Satya Prakash worked on films including Kamsale Kaisale and Nam Yajamanru, which starred Dr. Vishnuvardhan. During h...

Haricharan Seshadri is an eminent Carnatic singer who gives his vocal in many Malayalam, Tamil, and other regional movies. He made his debut through the Tamil flick ‘Kadal’, in which he got the chance to sing two solo songs "Unakkena Iruppaen" and the title song "Kaadhal". In the same movie, he also had sung a duet song ‘Thottu Thottu’ with Harini Shankar. 
 

Haricharan was born on March 20, 1987, in Chennai. His early generation proves that they were a typical Palakkad Iyer family, and his father was a B-grade artist in AIR and even a bank employee. Haricharan had taken Carnatic classical musical training since age 7 and then had privileged to learn musical lessons from stalwarts like K. V. Narayanaswamy, T.M.P...

Krish is an actor and a singer in the Indian film industry. He worked in many Tamil and Telugu movies. He was born on 12 September 1977 in Trichy, Tamil Nadu as Vijay Balakrishnan and later went to New York after his father’s posting. His father was a banker. He got married to Sangeetha who is an Indian actress on 1 February 2009. They married at Annamalaiyar Temple, Tiruvannamalai in a private ceremony.

He has a daughter named Shiviya who was born in December in 2012. In New York, he worked in the films “The Cosby Show” and “National Treasures: Book of Secrets” as an assistant. He did an acting course from New York Film Academy. He also gave a performance at Broadway in Aladdin which is a Walt Disney production. He then returned to Chennai where he took part in many stage shows an...

Naresh Iyer is once again a popular face, but mainly due to his singing talent. This 34 year old singer hails from Mumbai. There is no end the number of hit songs he has produced over the years. Likewise, he owns a series of awards that have been rightfully given to him. His contribution to Bollywood has been tremendous.

In spite of having a degree in Commerce, Iyer decided to study Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music. His career has just looked forward from then on.

He got recognition from A.R. Rahman in the reality talent show which was called Channel V’s Super Singer.  His beautiful rendition of Roobaroo, which was an A.R.Rahman composition for the movie, Rang De Basanti, won his a lot of accolade. He went on to win the national award for the Best Male Playback.

Tippu is a playback singer of Indian cinema. He has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages. He has lent his voice to over 4000 songs in the four south Indian languages. His voice for Puneeth Rajkumar went well with the audience. Shiva Shiva Hoguthidde, Hey Hey Paaru, etc are some of his hit songs. His association with music director V Harikrishna is very famous. Tippu has sung for Tamil music composers A R Rahman, Imman, Harris Jayaraj, and Joshua Sridhar.

He has sung the hit Tamil songs Venmathi Venmathi, O Mama from Minnale. The movie had Madhavan in the lead role. Tippu is married to the famous Indian playback singer Harini. Tippu began singing when he was at the age of 19. He received the Karnataka State Film Award and the Kalaimamani Award by Tamilnadu Government for his playback singing.

Velmurgan is a Play Back Singer in Tamil Film Industry. He was born on 5 March 1980 in Viruthachalam, Tamil Nadu. Velmurgan is a singer, actor, musician, and lyricist. He entered the Tamil film industry in the year 2007. He had sung many folk songs, which include Madura in Subramaniapuram and the Otha Sollala in Aadukalam.

In 2019 he made his place in World Guinness Record; he also got American University Award, best playback singer award (2019, 2018, 2014)Tamil Nadu Government award, and Mirchi award(2020). The list of songs sung by Velmurgan is very long and some of them are Atha Ponnu, Sandalle and Onnam Classile. Velmurgan considers James Vasanthan as one of the turning points in his life.

He is an ace choreographer in the Tollywood industry. Founder of IBO Dance Studio, he has also choreographed in Bollywood movie, Holiday, starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha.

He made Tamil superstars like Kamal Haasan, Ajith, Vijay groove to his tunes in movies like Uttama Villain, Mankatha, and Thupakki; and now, after a break, choreographer Shobi Paulraj is returning to Mollywood.

The veteran dance master is all set to make Unni Mukundan dance to his tunes in his upcoming flick 'Style'. Shobi will be helping the young actor groove to a romantic number crooned by singer Karthik. Currently, he is the Director of Cine and TV Dance Director’s Association.

Johnson is a PRO, a Public Relations Officer in the Tamil industry. He has handled the PR of various Tamil movies. Johnson is from Nagercoil, a city in Tamil Nadu. His mother is Johannal, and his father, KGA John, is an ex-naval officer. He has six siblings. He married to H.J. Mano in 1994. Johnson always dreamt of being a filmmaker. He aspired to assist the Indian actor R. Parthiban. He left his city, Nagercoil, and moved to Chennai to fulfill his dream. He met the editor of the magazine Kungumam, Paavai Chandran. Paavai brought him into the world of magazines. There, he started to write snippets about Tamil films. The films he wrote about were handled by Nellai Sundarjan as a PRO.

 The editor and reporter of Dinamalar was working on producing a movie in 1989. He insisted Johnson to take its PR. With this, in 1989, with t...

The secret recipe to make any action movie memorable is having proper action directors to make fight sequences. Action choreography, much like dancing, is art and if not handled correctly, it could lead to the action being choppy, unstructured, unrealistic, and plain tedious to watch. However, if done correctly, It could lead to a surge of emotions from the audience towards the protagonist of the movie and can instill a sense of heroism in them. One such director who makes amazing action sequence is, Anbariv. The Kollywood industry, as we all know, is rich in action; placing a lot of emphasis on fighting scenes.. This is where stunt directors and choreographers, such as Anbariv thrive.

The South Indian director has always been passionate about cinema and movies and by following his calling, he has found his niche choreographing...

Those, who don’t believe in destiny, will surely do after they know how their favorite villain, Vamsi Krishna became one. Vamsi is an Indian film actor who does Telugu and Tamil movies. The tall and hunky boy was born in Visakhapatnam and belongs to a family of doctors, but never wanted to be one. He wanted to start up his own business, and so he went to London for a management course.

He would not have been what he is today if in 2013 he had not accidently met director Gautham Menon. Such a coincidence is very rare, and anyone would wish it to happen to them. He was coming back home when by chance his seat was booked next to director Gautham. They started chatting about films, and he offered Vamsi a role in his upcoming movie. Vamsi was amazed and...

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