Tamil Movie Review Petromax - Cast & Crew

Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil and Telugu film industry with lots of fan following. Chand Sa Roshan Chehra was her first Hindi movie, in the year 2005. Her Telugu debut was Sri and the Tamil debut was Kedi. In Kedi, she did a negative role and the movie did not go well. It was also the debut movie for Ileana, the South Indian popular actress. Tamannaah Bhatia acted in Vyapari with director S.J.Suryah; but she did not get a good recognition. After she performed in Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori, she became notable. Her performance in that film was appreciated by everyone. Similarly, her Telugu film Happy Days was also a super hit and got her good name. Tamannaah Bhatia steadied her market by choosing good films.

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Rohin Venkatesan is an Indian film writer and director, who penned and directed the 2017 Tamil romantic thriller film, Adhe Kangal. This film marks his directorial debut. Film editor Leo John Paul recommended the script of Adhe Kangal to C.V. Kumar. The producer has liked the script and later produced the film. Kalaiyarasan played the main lead role, while Janani Iyer and Sshivada played the supporting roles. Rohin studied Visual Communication at the Loyola College. He initially worked in corporate and ad films and also assisted Tamil Director Vishnuvardhan in the 2009 romantic thriller film, Sarvam, and the 2011 Telugu action romantic thriller film, Panjaa.

Mahi V Raghav is an Indian movie director, producer, screenwriter, and maker known for his works in Telugu films. Mahi is remarkable for directing Anando Brahma, a parody repulsiveness, and Yatra, a biopic. Mahi is an MBA graduate from Madras University. In 2008, Mahi V Raghav assisted Sai Kiran Adivi in Vinayakudu. Mahi V Raghav started his career as a maker of "Village Vinayakudu" with Moonwater Pictures Production Company. In 2014, he directed the third film of Moonwater Pictures, Pathasala. After the widely praised Pathasala, he worked in Anando Brahma with Taapsee Pannu, Vennela Kishore, and Shakalaka Shankar in 2017. Bankrolled by 70mm Entertainments, Anando Brahma did well with the crowd. The film has been remade as Petromax in Tamil and Mane Maratakkide in Kannada. In 2019, he again worked together with 70mm Entertainments and made Yatra, the true to life film of the Late Chief Minister Mr.Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy. Mammootty played the lead in the movie as YSR. The dialogues 'Nenu Vinnanu, Nenu Unnanu," penned by Mahi, has been utilized as a motto by the YSR Congress Party during 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly political decision.

Ghibran is a Music composer in Indian film industry. As one among his experiences, initially, he worked as the composer for ad-films where he was the main composer for more than 800 television commercial jingles covering various languages. After that, he shifted his career towards music composing in Indian Films. From Trinity College London he completed his Grade 8 in Music Theory and Piano. From LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore he obtained the degree in Classical music composition and film scoring under the guidance of Lindsay Vickery from Australia. He has his studio situated at Chennai. Ghibran was born in Coimbatore. He cultivated his interests in music at the age of ten by seeing the performance of Yanni on Television. Initially, he just went to learn Keyboard as a part time from Paul Augustine. After completing the eighth grade there, one of the studios offered him a job to compose for their animations. He got the experience there for two years.

Leo John Paul is a film technician in the field of editing and has over a decade of experience. This film editor of Tamil Film industry has earlier been associated with the making of the “Kolaveri-D song” as a video editor. Since then he has never looked back and has grabbed the attention of cinemagoers of editing many Kollywood movies one after another. Now, he is an independent film editor and has worked in every CV Kumar’s film productions till date.

Vaibhav Reddy is the son of a prominent director of Telugu films, A. Kodandarami Reddy, and is an actor himself by profession. He hails from Hyderabad and has studied at Cambridge Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, as well as from the famous St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. He did his training as an actor at the Asha Chandra School of Acting. 

Born in southern states of India, Aathma Patrick is an Indian actor who primarily appears as a supporting actor in the Tamil Film Industry. He has acted in numerous movies. So here are some of his works for which he is best known.

Kali Venkat hails from a rural village named Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu from where he came to Chennai to pursue his acting career. From childhood, he had a huge passion and interest for acting, He used to take part in lots of dramas hosted in his school and his locality since he was studying in the eighth standard. Realizing that his village would limit his acting career to the stage and the drama medium alone, He moves to Chennai for further opportunities.

Livingston is a noteworthy supporting actor and comedian of Tamil cinema. His work as a solo lead in the flick Sollamale, where he played the role of a low confident lover, got him much acclaim. Apart from acting, Livingston has also tried his luck in penning scripts. During his early stages of his career his screen name was Ranjan. 

Livingston is active in the industry since 1988. Sundara Purushan, Kanni Rasi, Engalukkum Kaalam Varum and Sollamale are the works for which he is known for lead roles. He penned screenplay for Kaaki Sattai and Kanni Rasi by joining hands with G M Kumar of Avan Ivan fame. The flick Thandachoru introduced him as a music composer (he had aspired for it for a long time) and director. This movie is yet to be released. The 1988 flick Poonthotta Kaavalkaaran is the first film in which he got a starring role. Initially Livingston was into singing by perfoming star shows. He also had the aspiration of becoming an actor. Right from his childhood days Livingston was a huge fan of MGR. He worked in several shows before venturing into acting. Eventually he sang a number for the flick Moonram Powrnami and Athey Manithan. Sundara Purushan, Poomagal Oorvalam and Sollamale are the successful films of Livingston as a hero. He is in the industry for many years through his sheer patience. 

The comedy of Livingston has an innocence in it. Initially Livingston was working in roles with gray shades, and supporting roles. Then only he got prominent roles. He was a fan of K Bhagyaraj’s flicks and hung around his home for almost a year. Oru Veedu Iru Vaasal and En Uyir Thozhan are landmarks in this talented actor’s career. On the personal front Livingston is married to Jacintha and is blessed with two children.

Mime Gopi’s original name is K.Gopinathan. When he was young, his father passed away and he was taken care of by his sister and brother. He did schooling at a government school and was not very good at academics but he had interest in extra-curricular activity. He always had respect for his teachers and liked two teachers the most, his Tamil teacher Veeraiya and Nagamuthu, because they were a great source of motivation for him. When he was studying in school, he had the opportunity to participate in a fancy dress competition and enacted the role of a mentally challenged person who he had seen on his way, back to home. He had been influenced by the person and replicated the acting on the stage, which rewarded him with a first place in the competition. He was highly appreciated by his teacher Nagamuthu and that’s one reason for his liking towards teacher.

Yogi Babu is one of the famous actors in Indian films. His appearance is there in only Tamil movies. At present, he is a regular comedy actor in Tamil films. Babu was born in Chennai, Tamilnadu. His acting career started from 2009 onwards. He was famous for his outstanding movie called Maan Karate (2014); a fantasy oriented Tamil film under the direction of Thirukumaran. There are some prominent stars in this movie namely Sathish, Vamsi Krishna, Soori, Hansika Motwani and Sivakarthikeyan. Famous writer Murugadoss wrote the entire script for this movie and went on to screens under the production of Escape Artists Motion Pictures. Anirudh Ravichander gave an outstanding music for this movie. Mr. Babu was also notable for his famous film Yaamirukka Bayamey (2014), a comedy horror movie under the direction of debutant Deekay. It was under the production of Elred Kumar with casting by Anaswara Kumar, Oviya, Kreshna and Rupa Manjari.