Tamil Movie Review Kaaval - Cast & Crew

Geetha Ammasee, who is well known as Punnagai Poo Geetha born in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia is a very talented person, who has achieved a great amount of reputation from her work, from being a Radio personality to a film producer and an actress, in the Tamil Film industry. She started off her career as a host on a Malaysian TV channel NTV7, on a show, Rhythm, and Raaga. Then later she went off to start a job in a Malaysian Tamil Radio Station, Time Highway Radio Raaga. Being a part of the Radio station since the beginning, made her good at what she is. On side she did hosting jobs, as she worked there in the radio station at the same time being called as a Punnagai Poo, which means smiling flower in Tamil, which turned out to be her nick name in time.

Priya Himesh is a renowned female playback singer primarily working in South Indian Film Industry. She has sung in various languages including Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Odiya etc. His most popular song across the whole India remains RingaRinga from movie Aarya 2 for which she also won Film fare Awards South. Priya was born 10 February 1982 in the suburbs of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. From a very early age, she was into singing and had classical training within her family. Then she started to participate in many local singings show and got the attention of local crowds. After completing her studies at Chennai University, she started auditioning to try her luck in the film industry as a singer.

Sanjana Divaker Kalmanje is an Indian playback singer, popular amongst the regional audience for her work on the soundtracks of movies and independent albums like Kavaal (2015), Orange (2018), Meendum Vaa Arugil Vaa (2016), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in soundtracks of Kollywood movies, Sanjana has been a prominent part of the South Indian film and music industry for more than five years now.

Megha has a birth name of ‘Hirani Ramachandran’, born on 18th March 1987, who turned 28 this year. She is a Tamil playback singer singing predominantly in Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam and Kannada. She is also a co-founder of School of Excellence that offers NLP programs and models. She is the great-granddaughter of Papanasam Sivan, who was a Carnatic composer; daughter of S. Ramachandran and Gowri Ramachandran. She was born in Chennai but did most of her schooling from Bangalore. While doing masters, she persuaded signing in 2007 as she completed her grade 8 in western classical music from Trinity College, London. Her first debut performance in the south film industry was in film Naan Avanillai where she was introduced by Vijay Anthony; she has also worked with various music directors including A.R Rehman. But this is not the only point where she has limited her learning, she showed a great deal of interest in learning neuro-linguistic programming technique, and she learned it from John Grinder and Richard Bandler.

Film director Rajanish is associated with two Tamil movies so far. One is ‘Loduku Pandi’ which was released in 2016 and another one was 'Kaaval' that released in 2015 for which he wrote the screenplay along with writer Nagendran R. As a director, he shot an extensive shot in the movie ‘Loduku Pandi’ with 13 movie cameras and to shoot the sequence, he set up an expensive huge set with a total amount of Rs 20 lakh near Karnataka and Tamil Nadu border.

Na. Muthukumar is a poet, lyricist, writer and novelist, who writes in Tamil. He is famous for writing scripts and songs for Tamil films. Na. Muthukumar was born on 12 July 1975 in a small village named ‘Tirur’ near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. His Father, Mr Nagaraj was a Tamil teacher.Mr Nagaraj always maintained a collection of 5000 books throughout his life, and after he had passed away, this collection was preserved by his son in his office. Also, his mother passed away when he was merely four years old. Muthukumar reminisces that he acquired most of the knowledge of his life from his father’s book collection. Also, to help others he has plans to open a library where everybody could access those books. Na. Muthukumar began his career with a dream to be a director. So, he started working under director Balu Mahendra for about four years as assistant director. But due to turn of events, he landed into being a lyricist. He began with writing the lyrics for the Tamil movie ‘Veera Nadai’ which was directed by Seeman.

Snehan, born as Sivaselvam is an actor, poet, lyricist and motivational speaker from Tamil Nadu. He was born on 23 June 1978 in Pudhukariyapatti, a small village in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, India. He was the youngest brother out of all eight and belonged to a well to do agricultural family. After completing his education, he moved to Chennai to find work. There he worked for the noted poet and lyricist Vairamuthu as his protégé. He stayed with the five years and the work familiarized him to the literary world of Tamil Nadu.

Santosh Hariharan is an Indian playback singer and has been a contestant of singing reality shows. He was born on 5 September 1987 and is 29 years old presently. He was born and brought up in Chennai, India. His hometown is in Palghat. He started his schooling at Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Hyderabad, and went to St. Joseph Higher Secondary School, Cuddalore, to complete his 10+2 education. Santosh pursued Biotechnology from SRM University of Ramapuram, Chennai. He is an alumnus of Soundtech Media Institute of Audio Technology. He shifted to Mumbai after his musical career started attaining success. The languages spoken by him are Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and, English.

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.

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.

Bobby Antony is an Indian choreographer. He worked for the Tamil film industry and is a very famous dance choreographer in the nation. Bobby was born in Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, and he's also currently living there. He worked as a dance choreographer in Film Industry and now he started his business in choreography. He started his choreography business in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Nikkil Murugan is one of the leading PROs in the Tamil film industry. He has been the PRO for legends including Rajinikanth and Kamal haasan. He was acclaimed as the best communication man by India Today. Nikil, as he is also called, has also taken the role of media manager of Kamal Haasan for several years. The wide coverage of Kollywood movies throughout the world is done by him. He is also closely associated with music director A R Rahman. Nikkil Murugan is regarded as very media friendly. He believes in the efficient application of technology for his PR communications. He has been associated with more than 200 movies. Born on 1967, Nikkil Murugan also had close association with ace directors Shankar and Maniratnam. He can communicate in over 5 languages.

Stunt Silva was born in Tuticorin, TamilNadu. He started his career as a male nurse after getting trained in Stanley Medical College. Silva worked as a Ward boy in Tuticorin hospital. Later he joined in Vijaya Health Center in Chennai by the year 1990. To maintain his family’s financial status, he worked in several sectors such as Peon in offices and dabbled in transport sector business offices. He then joined in the background dancer of the film under the guidance and advice of the Dance

Actor Vimal is one of the many actors who took un-credited roles during his lucrative film careers. When he was seen in films like ‘Ghilli’, ‘Kuruvai’ and ‘Kireedam’, it was a seemingly bizarre career choice for the actor. But that is just only half the story. Later on, when the actor understood that such roles may not see any logic behind his career for lack of acknowledgement he gets, he fetched more credits as an actor by appearing in films like ‘Pasanga’ and ‘Kalavani’ and his role in subsequent films such as ‘Eththan’ and ‘Vaagai Sooda Vaa’, allowed him to fulfill the appetites of the audience and he got noticed as an actor. He only acted in realistic roles in many movies and slowly climbed the ladder of success by signing half-a –dozes of projects year after year. 

In between 2011 and 2015, he never felt in want of any roles as he was booked in advance for many movies. Naturally, there have been cases where his presence even in a minimal role could overshadow the entirety of the film. For those reasons and more, the un-credited role had become a choice of this actor in early stages of his career. He naturally got designed roles as an actor for the audiences where he was noticed with big names of Tamil cinema. Such films where he got huge appreciation include ‘Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga’, ‘Rendavadhu Padam’, ‘Sillunu Oru Sandhippu’, ‘Koothu’, ‘Moondru Per Moondru Kaadhal’. His fans and loyalist have given him the title of 'Junior Kadhal Mannan’ (the original Kadhal Mannan being late actor Gemini Ganesan). He was born on January 1, 1980, in Tiruchirappalli. He is married to Priyadarsini, with who he was in love. Since the girl’s parents did not want their daughter to marry an actor, Priyadarsini left to Kumbakonam where the actor was shooting for a film and tied a knot in a temple.

Ashvin Raja is an actor in the Tamil movie industry. He plays comedy roles and character roles. This multitalented star was born on 21st November 1989 in Choolaimedu, Chennai. He began his career in director Rajesh’s movie, ‘Boss Engira Bhaskaran’ (2010). His character of ‘Paalpandi’, son of the money lender from whom the lead borrows money, became a sensation and offers began to rain for this star. The scenes where he shows the knife and eats apples in the tutorial and laughs at the lead when he comes to borrow money became quite famous.

Imman Annachi is one of the most popular television anchors in the history of Tamil Television. He is also a well-known actor and comedian and is best known for his sense of humor. He gained popularity through popular television shows such as 'Kutty Chutties' and 'Sollunganne Sollunga'. He was born as Immanuel in the city of Thiruvaluthinadar Vilai in the district of Thoothukudi in Eral in the state of Tamil Nadu. He was a talented young man since his early life and got his fame and recognition after he appeared on a talk show on Makkal TV.

“Laughing kills diseases,” is a famous line that everyone knows about, and Singamuthu is the person who makes us primarily obey the above statement in an indirect fashion. Though it’s obvious from the introduction, it’s not a muck to mention that, Singamuthu is a South Indian comedian, Tamil being his most fluent language. Comedy is the most entertaining thing that induces every one of its prey in a jovial manner. Singamuthu had his feet on this world on Monday, 8th December 1958, Monday.

N. K. Ekambaram is a famous cinematographer. The well-known cinematographer associates with many Bollywood and Southern films. He is mesmerizing his audience, with his work since 2000. He is born on 30^th March 1972, in the city of Thiruthuraipoondi in Thiruvarur. The place is close to Tamil Nadu. He gained all of his experience after reaching Chennai.

Nagendran R has mainly worked in Tamil film industry. Kaaval is his earlier film which hit the screens in 2015. The film had the star cast of Vimal, Samutharakani, Karuna, Geetha etc.

Dharan Kumar, whose biggest childhood inspiration was Michael Jackson, is a music composer of Indian origin. Most of his works are focused in the Tamil film industry. Born on 8 October, 1984, Dharan Kumar had an interest for music from an early age. At an early stage in his career, he assisted big music composers such as Harry Jayaraj in the film, ‘Anniyan’.

In Indian cinema, there are very few singers and music composers who made their mark in acting too. By having the talent of music along with acting skills, one can get a great chance in the film industry like G.V. Prakash Kumar.

G. V. Prakash Kumar is the new Kollywood singer who, after earning a good name in the music industry, made his acting debut with Pencil opposite Sri Divya, but the project got delayed. His next film Darling got released earlier. Darling was a remake of Telugu film Prema Katha Chitram, which became popular. His third film is going to be in Telugu and Tamil. Telugu film titled Trisha Ledha Nayanthara and Tamil titled Trisha Illana Nayanthara will be released in September 17, 2015. The actor has signed two new films Bruce Lee and Sam Anton, which is getting ready for its shooting.

As a music composer, he already made a huge impact in Tamil Cinema. He was a vocalist on the soundtrack for A R Rahman’s score in Gentleman. Prakash made a contribution to Rahman’s numerous projects. He worked with Harris Jayaraj and sang two popular songs in Anniyan and Unnale Unnale, but he got the break as a full-fledged composer in Tamil film Veyil. His score in Madrasapattinam was appreciated by the masses; especially he cast a spell for his number in the song” "Pookal Pookum Tharunam". The composer made even Dhanush to sing for a song” Voda Voda Voda” and even recorded some songs with his wife Saindhavi.

A young brain deeply rooted in Indian music, his talent needs no mention, but when a singer, composer makes a mark in acting as a hero, it is indeed a milestone in the cine world. Very few had achieved this status, one being legendary playback singer Kishore Kumar. G. V. Prakash Kumar is married to Saindhavi, who is also a playback singer.

Namo Narayanan was a South Indian actor. He predominantly performs comic roles in Tamil Movies. Namo Narayanan is an extremely talented actor who received huge appreciation right from his very first movie. His first movie was ‘Nadodigal’ released in the year 2009, in which he played a comic role and turned out to be instant success. Due his fabulous comic skills and funny timing, he has been offered with many Tamil as well as Malayalam movies as well. After his much appreciated hilarious role in Nadodigal’, Namo Narayanan went on to do comic roles in movies like ‘ Kutti Puli’ released in the year 2013, followed by another movie ‘Yaamirukka Bayamey’ that released in the year 2014. Though, all of his performances were appreciated.But the movie that came as a breakthrough in his career was ‘Komban’ released in the year 2015.

Samuthirakani has carved a niche for himself in the Tamil cine industry not only as a director but also as an actor. He has tried his luck in screenwriting and voice-over too. One of his earlier films, Nadodigal, was a huge hit at the box office. It was released in the year 2009. Later, this movie was remade in three different languages. Samuthirakani has acted in numerous movies and is best known for his performance in the movies like ‘Sattai’, ‘Easan’, ‘Visaranai’, and ‘Subramaniapuram’.

K L Praveen whose full name is Kuchipudi Latha Praveen is a famous Indian film editor who has worked with many notable directors. Praveen mainly works in the Kollywood industry and has showcased his editing skills in many popular movies and has received accolades for the same. The Andhra Pradesh born editor wanted to pursue a degree in Bio-Technology when he was 17 but unfortunately the number of seats was already full for the course. He had an entire year on his hand and didn't wish to waste that time without doing anything productive. As a result, he started learning to edit in some studios. Most of his family members including his father used to work in the movie industry, but he had a lack of interest to work there.

M. S. Bhaskar is an Indian actor, born on Jan 19, 1952, and hailed from Muthupettai, Tiruvavur District, Tamil Nadu, India. He used to be a theater artist and performed as a comedian in Tamil TV series and films. His method of acting is simple and is getting professional by the day. He became famous for playing as Pattabi in the TV serial, Chinna Papa Periya Papa and Selvi; and as Vakkeel Venky in the 2005 Tamil film, Sivakasi; and as Gnanaprakasam in Mozhi. Besides acting, he was also a dubbing artist and a playback singer.