Tamil Movie Review Kurukshethram - Cast & Crew

Suhasini R. Naidu, more popularly known by her screen name ”Sneha” is a south Indian actress who works in the Tamil and Malayalam Film Industry.

She was born on the 12th of October, 1981, to parents Rajaram Naidu and Padmavathy Rajaram. She began her career in the year 2000, debuting in the Malayalam film Ingane Oru Nilapakshi where she played the role of an aspiring dancer, where she performed for 7 classical songs. Her first commercial hit was the 2001 movie Aanandham, a family drama by the hugely successful director N. Linguswamy.

Due to her appearance in several commercially successful movies in the 2000’s, she has become one of the most contemporary lead actresses in the Tamil movie industry. Her debut in Kollywood was in the movie Ennavale where she played the lead role opposite R Madhavan. She made her debut in Tollywood with the movie Priyamaina Neeku in 2001 which was also a box office hit, followed by Tholi Valapu.

She has shared screen space with some of the top actors in South India including Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Ajith, Vikram, Vijay, Suriya, Simba, Balakrishna, Ravi Teja  & Nagarjuna. Her work in Tollywood has given her several compliments, including those where she is considered the next Soundarya. 

She also played a major role in the 2002 mega-hit Hanuman Junction apart from roles in King, and Virumbugiren where she played the role of a rustic village belle, and the movie went on to win several awards, including the Best Actress for Sneha.

She has won the Best Supporting Actress award in the Filmfare Awards in 2002 for her supporting role in Unnai Ninaithu.  She is also the recipient of the Tamil Nadu State Film Award – Best Actress category, first for her role in Aanandham, Punnagai Desam and Virumbugiren in 2001, and later in 2008 for Pirivom Santhippom.

Her role in the Telugu hit Radha Gopalam also won her the Nandi Special Jury Award – Telugu, apart from several other awards and accolades.

She has also hosted different shows on the Tamil channel networks, including judging the Jodi Number One show, Season 5 on Star Vijay in 2011; and hosting the Melam Kottu Thali Kattu, Seasons One & Two in 2014 on the Puthuyugam TV channel.

Her hit movie includes the 2000 Tamil movie Ennavale, where she won several awards in the Debut Actress Category.

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Sneha is an Indian actor. She was born on October 12, and the year 1981. She was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her other name is Suhasini Rajaram. Her father name is Rajaram Naidu. Her mother's name is PadmawathyRajaram. She is also a promotional model by profession. Her spouse name is Prasanna. Marriage year for them is May 11 and in the year 2012. She has a son. Her son's name is Vihaan. He was born in the year 2015.

Shruthi is the original name of Haripriya, who is a south Indian actress. Hailing from Chikkaballapura, Karnataka, she is also a Bharathanatyam dancer and model. Her maiden venture is in a Kannada film named Manasugula Mathu Madhura. Later, her films didn’t do that well. However, she got Filmfare nomination for her good performance in the political movie Kallara Santhe. The film Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu gained her much appreciation and she became famous in Karnataka. She also acted in a couple of films in Tamil and Telugu. 

Shruthi proved her dedication towards acting by taking up a workshop for her role in the Telugu venture Abbayi Class Ammayi. Her Kannada film Ugramm was her acclaimed comeback to Karnataka. She gave a natural performance in the film. Later she worked in big banner films in Karnataka. 

Shruthi has some releases lined up in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. Shruthi’s grandfather was a theater artiste .

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Born as Shruthi, the actress changed her name to Haripriya, which acts as her stage name. Following the recent trend to turn the factors of luck, based on numerology the actress altered the spelling of her name to Hariprriya. She was born in Chikkaballapura, Karnataka and studied at Vidya Mandir. Hariprriya completed her Pre-University Course and started learning Bharatanatyam in Bangalore. She claims to have been inspired by her grandfather, who was a theater personality himself. 

Hariprriya made her debut in acting with a Tulu film, Badi, directed by Richard Castelino and later on, starred in other languages such as Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In 2008, she made her first appearance on the Kannada film screen with the movie, Manasugula Mathu Madhura, which wasn’t much of success. After a few unsuccessful projects, Hariprriya got her first Filmfare nomination as the Best Kannada actress with the political satire, Kallara Santhe in 2009. The movie was directed by D. Sumana Kittur and starred other actors such as Yash, Rangayana Raghu, Kishore, and Sobhraj. Hariprriya’s popularity rose with her next film, Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu, and with that, she started receiving offers from directors of other languages. In 2010, she starred in Kanagavel Kaaka, a Tamil film directed by Kavin Bala. The movie was produced by Saravana and Kishore G. Sha under the production company of Akarshini Theatres and was received with a moderate review. 

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

Aditi Arya is an Indian beauty, pageant title holder, model and an entrepreneur. She was born on September 18, 1993 in Delhi, India. Aditi studied at Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School in Chandigarh during her early years and later attended the University of Delhi in India. She graduated her Bachelor’s at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies. 

Bharathi Vishnuvardhan is an Indian actress who worked mainly in Kannada films. She also appeared in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. During the 60s to 80s, Bharathi appeared as a leading lady in Sandalwood. Bharathi who wanted to act in Marathi films too didn’t do so, and she later mused over that. 

Born on 15 August 1950, Bharathi hails from a Marathi-speaking culture. During 1975, she wedded Kannada superstar Vishnuvardhan. Bharathi ventured into the film industry with the 1964 Hindi flick Geet Gaya Patharon Ne. She ventured into the Kannada film industry with the 1966 romcom Love in Bangalore. Bharathi received critical accolades for her flicks Bangaaradha Manushya, Runa Muktalu, Gandondu Hennaru, Doorada Betta, Avalukendru Oru Manam, Bangaarada Jinke, and Bhagya Jyoti. Bangarada Manushya in which Bharathi shared screen space with Dr Rajkumar was a landmark in her career. Bangarada Jinke, Gandondu Hennaru and Bhagyajyothi are some other Kannada flicks which gained her recognition. 

The serial Janani aired in Kannada Doordarshan also was a showcase to her acting prowess. Runamuktalu was the film in which Bharathi worked after a long gap of 10 years. Bharathi feels that an artist will never be complacent and yearns to achieve more. 

Dilip Kumar, Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Dr.Rajkumar, Dr.NTR, ANR, Dr.Sivaji Ganesan, M G Ramachandran, Manoj Kumar, Gemini Ganesan, V Ravichandran, Krishna, Shoban Babu, Kalyan Kumar, Vinod Khanna and Dr.Ambrish are some of the popular actors with whom Bharathi shared screen space. Bharathi is still remembered for her character roles. 

Suraj, Khel, Purab Aur Paschim, Izzatdaar, Uttar Dakshin, Aao Pyaar Karen and Kunwaara Baap are some of the hit flicks of Bharathi in Bollywood. Bharathi is in the film industry for over 5 decades. She is not bothered about the quantity of films that she acted but instead she is happy that she has carved a niche for herself in the hearts of the fans.

Meghana, whose full name is Meghana Raj, is an Indian actress and model who is mostly seen and known for her performances in the Malayalam movies. Meghana has also been acting in other South Indian Industries like Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Meghana Was born on May 3, 1990 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India to the noted actors and producers of Kannada film industry- Actor Sundar Raj, who has acted in over 180 Kannada films and Pramila Joshai, who is a famous and noted actress and producer of the Kannada Film Industry.

Pavithra Lokesh is a popular South Indian Actress born on 19th February. She is the daughter of yesteryear actor Mysore Lokesh, who has acted in about 300 Kannada movies. She also has a brother named Adi Lokesh who has acted in several Kannada movies. She got married in 2008 to Suchendra Prasad.

Pavitra Lokesh is an Indian television and movie actress who was born in 1979. She appears primarily in Telugu and Kannada films playing supporting roles. Pavitra Lokesh was born in Mysore. After securing an 80 percent score in the matriculation examination, she went on to pursue her bachelor's degree in commerce in Mysore SBRR Mahajana First Grade College.

Pragya Jaiswal, born in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, studies at the Symbiosis Law School, Pune. During her college days, she took a part in Miss Pune Contest, won the competition, and surprisingly got a direct wild card entry into Femina Miss India 2008 where she got the title of Miss Fresh Face, Miss Dancing Queen, and Miss Friend Of The Earth. After completing her graduation, she decided to join a law firm in Mumbai, but as she couldn’t be there on time, she started modeling for advertisement campaigns for big brands. Pragya also received the Symbiosis Sanskritik Puraskar Award on 22 January 2014 for her work in the field of art and culture. Pragya made her debut in 2014 in the Bollywood movie Titoo MBA. Her maiden film was Virattu (a Tamil film), also scripted in Telugu as Dega.

The Crazy Actor, Ravichandran is an actor, director, producer, music director and editor known for his work in Kannada Cinema. He was born on 30th May 1961. He was born to N. Veeraswamy, a film producer and Pattamal. He married Sumathy on 14th February 1986. He has two sons Manoranjan and Vikram, and a daughter Geethanjali. Ravichandran’s debut as an actor was Khadeema Kallaru (1982) in which he played the negative role when he was 21 followed by Chakravyuha (1983).

Nikhil Gowda also known as Nikhil Kumaraswamy, is an Indian actor who displays his skills in Telugu and Kannada film industry. He made his first cry on 22nd January 1990 which currently makes his 27 years old. Besides being an actor, the multi-talented Nikhil is also a businessman. He made the third generation of the Gowda family, a family full of politicians. His father H. D. Kumaraswamy being the former Chief Minister of Karnataka and Grandfather H. D. Deve Gowda the former Prime Minister, he was supposed to jump on the bandwagon. However the youngster had other plans. He mentioned how his father has associations with the Kannada film industry and his desire to see the apple of his eye as a hero. He debuted in the movie Jaguar, under the direction of Mahadev and home productions.

Arjun Sarja was born as Srinivasa Sarja. He is an Indian film director as well as an actor. Arjun Sarja was born on 15th of August in the year 1964 to a Kannada film actor Shakti Prasad and an art teacher Lakshmi, in Mysore, Karnataka. He also had an elder brother. Arjun Sarja's father always disagreed in letting him enter the film world as he himself has been an experienced actor and he did not want his son get into an acting career.

Darshan also known as Darshan Thoogudeep is an actor from South India well known for his roles mainly in Kannada movies. He is known to be one of the most famous and credible film stars in the Kannada cinema industry.

Jayanan Vincent is a veteran Indian cinematographer born on 12 September 1959(Aged 57). Vincent has captured nearly 200 films in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi and Bollywood travelling from the Black and White era to the Digital era. He is the son of legendary Cinematographer/Director late Aloysius Vincent & elder brother of promising ace cinematographer Ajayan Vincent.

V. Harikrishna is an Indian movie background score and soundtrack author, playback vocalist and also a movie producer. He has primarily produced background score for many Kannada movies. After his job as a software engineer and associate music artist, he made his entrance as a free music director in the movie Jothe Jotheyali, which starred the famous actor Darshan and was released in the year 2006. From that point onwards, he has been making music for many of Darshan's movies. 

V Nagendra Prasad is a lyricist, music director, director and an actor in the Kannada film industry. He was born on 3rd December 1975 to ‘MV Venkata Ramanappa’ and ‘Chandramma’ in Nagamangala, Karnataka. Prasad completed his schooling in Bangalore. Being passionate about literature, he chose Kannada literature in his under graduation course. To pursue his post graduation, he moved to Mysore. Nagendra is interested in writing poems from his young age. His career in cinema started as a lyric writer in 2000. His first film is “Gajina Mane”, directed by ‘KV Jayaram’. “Hamsalekha” composed the tunes for the lyrics of Nagendra. He developed his knowledge in cinema gradually. Prasad has penned the lyrics for more than thousand songs.

Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record label owned by Gulshan Kumar, his first break came in 1990 when he did playback singing in the movie called Janam. In 1995 he started hosting the popular musical TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, after which he delivered the famous single Acha Sila Diya Tune for the film Bewafa Sanam. Some of his famous tracks are Sandese Aate Hai from the movie Border (1997), Ye Dil Deewana from the movie Pardes (1997). In 1999 he released his debut album Deewana, he also sang the title track for the movie Kal Ho Na Ho. As an individual composer he has worked on movies like Singh Saab The Great, Sooper Se Ooper and Jal. Nigam has contributed in Britney Spears track I Wanna Go, and has also released a track in the album The Beat of Our Hearts as a tribute to Michael Jacskon. In his small acting career he has acted in films like Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahaani, Love In Nepal and Kaash Aap Humaare Hote. Nigam is married to Madhurima and also had a son named Neevan.

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.

"Kiran Kumar Manne is an Art Director in the Telugu Film Industry. He was born in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He later moved to Hyderabad, Telangana to pursue a career in the Film Industry. Kiran Kumar went to Zilla Parisath High School, Visakhapatnam. And then he got graduated from SV University, Tirupati in the year 1996.

Joni Harsha is a prominent film editor and recently turned producer. He is a veteran of the Tamil and Kannada film industry, having worked behind the scenes on more than a hundred films in the two film industries in South India. Recently, he decided to produce and launched a comedy TV serial that currently airs on primetime TV on the channel Zee Kannada. Harsha began his career in the film industry in the early parts of the 1990’s.

Dhani Aelay is a Graphic Designer, Public Relations Officer, and Title Designer in the Telugu film industry. He has worked in numerous films since 1999. He has worked in ‘Sultan’, and ‘Anaganaga Oka Ammayi’ in 1999; ‘Itlu Sravani Subramanyam’ in 2001; ‘Shivamani’ in 2003; ‘Andhrawala’, ‘Athade Oka Sainyam’, and ‘Venky’ in 2004; ‘Super’, ‘Dhana 51’, and ‘Gowtham SSC’ in 2005; ‘Pokiri’, ‘Seetharamudu’, and ‘Samanyudu’ in 2006; ‘Desaramudu’, ‘Madhumasam’, and ‘Chandamama’ in 2007; ‘Swagatam’, ‘Idhi Sangathi’, and ‘Aatadista’, in 2008; ‘Unnaipol Oruvan’, ‘Samardhudu’, and ‘Kasko’ in 2009; ‘Simha’, ‘Pappu’, and ‘Saradaga Kasepu’ in 2010;

Ananth Nag is an actor. He was born on 24th November in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has worked in Tamil and Malayalam films. Ananth Nag’s acting debut had been in the film ‘Neram’ released in 2013. He also acted in films like ‘Amara Kaaviyam’ released in 2014 and ‘Premam’ released in 2015. Ananth Nag pursued graduation with a bachelor's degree from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and began working as a software engineer.

Ramesh Bhat is the most familiar face in Kannada television and movies. Ramesh Bhat started his career dabbling in theatre with groups like Nataranga, Spandana and Benaka.

Shashi Kumar is born on 2nd December 1965 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He is an Indian Kannada Actor, as well as a politician from the state of Karnataka. His wife's name is Saraswati. He has been seen in many Kannada films of which two 1990 films are very successful, namely Rani Maharani and Baare Nanna Muddina Rani; from this movie, he has to gain very popularity, and he became the top hero of Kannada cinema.

Sonu Sood is a famous Indian Cinema actor, model who is famous for portraying Chhedi Singh in the Salman Khan Starrer Dabbang, for which he received the Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role and IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Besides working in Bollywood movies, He has also acted in Tollywood, Kollywood and Kannada language films. Sood was born on July 30th, 1973. Sood’s father is an entrepreneur and his mother was a professor, he grew up in Nagpur and received his degree in Electrical Engineering. He is from Moga, Punjab, who made his debut as an actor in 1999 with the Tamil film Kallazhagar. His first Bollywood debut was in 2002 in the movie Shaheed-E-Azam where he portrayed the role of Bhagat Singh. The Movie could not hit the screens due to a controversy and it was banned. Sood has also participated in the Mr India pageant and appeared in commercials of Apollo tyres and Airtel. Having won critical acclaim for his work in Tollywood movies, he received the Nandi Award for Best Villain and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in Telugu for the role of Pashupathy in the movie Arundhati. Sood has worked in well acclaimed movies like Yuva(2004), Ashiq Banaya Apne(2005), Athadu(2005), Jodha Akbar(2008), Dookudu(2011) and Shootout At Wadala(2013). Sood married his wife Sonali on September 25th, 1996 who hails from Andhra Pradesh and holds a degree in MBA. He also has two sons named Ishant and Aryan. He went to fulfil his childhood dream of becoming an actor, by getting a break as a villain in a Tamil movie for which he had to shave his head. His favorite co-stars to work with are Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwariya Rai Bachchan. He is a teetotaler and a fitness freak who loves to exercise regularly.

Jadalathimmanahalli Krishnappa Srinivasa Murthy Aka Srinivasa Murthy was born in Kolar in the state of Mysore. He is a known Kannada actor and television director. He is now at the age of 67 and living in Chikkaballapura in Karnataka. He is excellent for his work as a director and has directed many television series in Kannada. He has appeared in supporting roles in many Kannada films. He entered film industry in 1977. He started his career as a stage artist. He performed in professional and amateur theaters.