Tamil Movie Review Sangathamizhan - Cast & Crew

Nivetha Pethuraj is an Indian actor and a model. She predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. She is a young actress who is the face of the modern Tamil cinema. Her good looks and elegance have made her a rising star in the South Indian film industry.

Ananya is the stage name of a Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu film actress Ayilya Nair. She was born on March 29, 1987. She is the daughter of famous film producer Gopalakrishnan. She is an expert archer and won the state championship in her school days. She represented her college in a reality TV show, and many producers offered her roles in their films. Her first Malayalam movie was “Positive,” which was released in 2008. Her first Tamil movie “Naadodigal” was a big commercial hit, and critics appreciated her acting talent.

In 2010, she won her first award for best-supporting actress for her movie “Seniors.” The year 2011 proved to be the year of bigger achievements for Ananya. Her film “Engeyum Eppodhum” became a super hit and led her to “The Filmfare Award for Best Actress.” She was also nominated for the “Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actress” for the same film.

She got married to a businessman from Trichur in 2012, but the marriage was kept a secret. A few months back, she revealed her marriage in a TV show. Since then, they are seen together in different interviews.

In 2014 three Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil movies are scheduled for release. The films are Still on the sets and would hit the screen at the end of the year.

Ramya Subramanian is a very popular TV host and actress. Ramya hails from Chennai. Many of them can easily identify her as VJ Ramya. She is one of the most endowed actresses in the Tamil film industry. She is well known for the characters she chooses to do in the films. In the year 2004, she participated in Ms. Chennai competition. She was among the finalists in that competition. Before emulating in such a candidacy, she was already done with her first project, a movie named “The Missing.” In that talkie, she portrayed the role of a doctor. Subsequently, she continued with her acting career.

Vijay Chander is film writer and director best known for his super- hit film – “Vaalu.” This film also happens to his first as a director. “Vaalu” is an action-comedy film with 'Silambarasan' and Hansika Motwani in the lead role. Vijay Chander is a “self-made” man; it is because of his hard work and determination that he has reached this place in the industry. He has struggled for over 12 years to reach this high. Vijay is the first person from his family to join the film industry. Initially, he joined the college for acting in Kollywood, but it turned out that his destiny wanted something else. He would enthusiastically attend all the guest lectures from the famous directors that happened in the college, and that is how his journey as a director began. After finishing his college, he worked as the assistant writer under famous director Nagaraj.

Vijaya Gurunatha Sethupathi was not born with silver spoon. Neither did he have a family background that had deep roots in cinema field. He was rejected even for the role of a junior artist. But it was his hard work and continuous struggle, that made him a star that he is today.

K. Srinivasa Reddy popularly known as Sriman is an artist who has appeared in different languages such as Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies. He was born in Rajamundry, in Andhra Pradesh, India. He is popular for his excellence in movies like Sethu, a Tamil drama romance which is directed by Bala, who also made a debut with this film. The film was a major success. Sriman was seen in the pivotal role along with Vikram and Abitha in the lead. The film has won national film award for the best feature film, Ayutha Ezhuthu, which in English means three dots a picture released in 2004 which has Bollywood actor R. Madhavan in the cast. It is a Political drama movie, Pokirrri a Tamil drama film with the Bollywood star Asin the movie is directed by the multi-talented personality Prabhu Deva released in the year 2007. Sriman has a film background his father Prakash Reddy is a renowned director of dance and a film producer, contributing to 22 Telugu films in all. He started his career as a child artist in the year 1975 in a movie named Bangura Manushulu but hen after acting in some films he decided to continue his studies. His uncle, K.S Reddy was a renowned film director. After completing his college, he recommenced his acting and made a comeback with the movie Dongalunnaru Jagartha. But, unfortunately, the film did not show up at the box office. He was given a chance by Vikraman, a Tamil movie director in his film Puthiya Mannargal, and this proved to be the turning point in his career. His movie Love Today was also appreciated by all and gained him popularity. He has shared the screen with Kamal Hassan in the 2000’s in Kamal’s movies related to Comedy and Humour. Sriman is married to Nimitha, who is a doctor by profession.

Soori is a South Indian actor in Kollywood. His nickname is “Parotta Soori’ which has been derived from his Tamil movie that he had acted. In 2009, he acted in a film ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’(2009) where a scene was shot with a crew of actors, who sit together and eat Parotta by keeping a challenge who eats more Parotta’s. In this scene, Parotta Soori performed his best, so people coined his name as Parotta Soori. Basically, he appeared as a comedian in many Tamil movies. After the film became a blockbuster, he never looked back. He is doing five to six films in a year. Today, this dusky lad with the moustache look has placed him in line with other comedians like Vadivelu, Santhanam and Goundamani. He is in peak of his career today playing comedian roles and doing a number of movies with the lead actors. With his popularity reaching a new height, the actor even now demands to play a lead role in some movies. Although these movies are not yet been officially announced, we can hear the announcement very soon. He has rejected some new movies that came in his hand and want now a scripted-backing role for his comedy touch. It is believed that a film in which he would play a lead actor, a need for new heroine is all the way. This actor was born on August 27, 1977 in Madurai. When he was new in the industry, he shared the screen as one of the junior artistes and did side acting only. Later on, he got comedy roles, which had given him a good chance to show his timing comedy sense and dialogue delivery on the screen. 

He was a very busy actor in between 2011-14, that placed him with other comedians like Vadivelu or Santhanam. There was neck-to-neck completion amongst every comedians and he also got a nice space to expose his great timing comedy sense amidst talented actors and actresses, which became a good factor behind every movies. His best films are Thillu Mullu, Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai and Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara etc. Film lovers today prefer more subtle comedic performers and even opt for a slapstick actor, who can crack jokes in every second of the movies. In that sense, hope Soori will not let down his fans in his near future.

Vivek Siva and Mervin Solomon, the duo commonly known as Vivek-Mervin, is considered as India’s youngest duo music directors. They are currently working as music composers, singers, arrangers, music producers, etc. They have composed songs for various Tamil films like Vadacurry, Pugazh, Dora and Gulebakavali. Vivek and Mervin, both of them hail from Chennai and started their singing in their childhood only. Mervin is said to have started playing piano since when he was 3 years old. He then started writing many gospel rock songs in the church.

Vivek Siva is a Playback Singer, music director, and lyricist in South India. He has done predominant work in the Tamil film industry. He is known for being part of a film composing duo with Mervin Solomon for his work in Tamil films, and they are known as Vivek-Mervin. 

The name Anirudh does not need any introduction down South among the music lovers. With his boy next door looks, he can really amaze you by his skills when it comes to composing and singing. This music Rockstar will rule our playlists whenever his new album is released. He can make you go 'Gaga' right from the first time you hear his songs. His recent movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' has took the town by storm. This is not the first time he has done this. He did the same on his debut movie '3' (Three). He evolved as a star overnight after the music release of '3' and became the talk of the town. Indeed Kolaveri made him get famous worldwide and it got him more fans.  

Anirudh is always good with experimental aspects in music. His movie 'Naanum Rowdydhaan' is the first of its kind as all the songs from the movie got released as single tracks on specific dates, just to increase the hype & curiosity among the fans. Indeed, it worked out well. His tracks in the film Vellayilla Pattathari have become a huge hit, due to his different composition style. The song “Amma Amma” from the movie VIP brings tears to us with his tunes. His latest tracks from the movie “Maari” have also fetched him fame, especially the songs ‘Don Don Donu’ and ‘Maari’. He won the Best Music Director award for his works in VIP and Ethir Neechal. 

Born on 16th Oct 1990, Anirudh is the son of Ravi Raghavendra (an actor) and Lakshmi, who is a dancer. He is the nephew of superstar Rajinikanth. He is not only a music director, but also a playback singer and he gave many hits even as a playback singer. His upcoming projects to name a few are VIP 2, Naanum Rowdydhaan, Singam 3, Vedhaalam, etc..

Anal Arasu is a heat amidst the stunt coordinators in the cine industry. He is known to us as the fight master or the action master who performs various stunts in the movies of Indian languages like Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and much more. This simple man was born in Chennai and has dedicated his entire life, literally and figuratively in performing stunts as a coordinator in the movies. His initial times were quite hard. He stepped in as an extra fighter and then became assistant to stunt masters like Kanal Kannan, Stun Shiva, and Peter Hein. His source of inspiration to become a stunt master is his father C.M. Arasu, who has also performed in numerous movies in the 1980s. He made his debut in the film “Chathrapathy.’ He then worked with Prabhu Deva for the action films like Vedi (2011) and Rowdy Rathore (2012).

A versatile actor, Ashutosh has worked in Indian films along with Kannada, Telugu, and Marathi films. He was born on November 10th 1964 in Dadarwara and had a knack for acting. His passion for acting prompted him to go to National School of Drama and studied acting. 

Starting his career on the television screen he first graced television in 1994 in a mini-series, Tahqiqat. He got his first break on the big screen, playing a clerk in Sanshodhan in 1995. His role in Dushman made him a well-known actor as he portrayed a psychopathic killer.  This led to his first set of awards for Best Villain in a movie at Filmfare and Screen Weekly Award. He won another Filmfare award in 2000 for Best Villain for his role as Lajja Pandey in Sangharsh. 

Ashutosh has been featured in 220 movies throughout his career in 5 different languages. His latest film is Black Home in which he a darker side of India is portrayed. 

Ashutosh Rana is married to actress Renuka Shahane. The couples have two children together, Shauryaman and Satyendra. He is known to be a devoted believer of his guru who he refers to as Dadda Ji and who guided him throughout his career.

       ‘Ashutosh Rana’ was born on 10th Nov 1964 in Gadarwara, Madhya Pradesh, which is also known as the ‘city of Osho’. He is an Indian Television and Bollywood actor. There he was known as ‘Ashutosh Neekhra’. He spent his childhood in ‘Gadarwara’ where he finished his primary school. He used to play the role of Ravana in the city Ramleela. Ashutosh Rana has staunch faith in his Guru, whom he calls "Dadda Ji". It was Dadda Ji, who suggested to ‘Rana’ to take up the acting career. When Rana was about to venture in the field of acting, Dadda ji told him to go to Bombay and meet ‘Mahesh Bhatt’ and take any project which starts with the letter "S". When Rana got an offer of “Swabhimaan” from Mahesh Bhatt, he didn't wait for a second and grabbed the opportunity. He frequently appears in Mahesh Bhatt's films.

        He is married to TV show host and Bollywood actress ‘Renuka Shahane’ and has two sons ‘Shouryaman’ and ‘Satyendra’. ‘Ashutosh Rana’ learnt acting from “National School of Drama at Delhi”. This was followed by Farz, Sazish, Kabhi Kabhi, Dhund, Apradhi Kaun and Waris. In 2010 he acted in a Star Plus show “Kaali- Ek Agnipariksha”, where he played an extremely powerful negative role as ‘Thakral’. He played the role of “Sarkar” in the reality show, ‘Sarkar Ki Duniya’. He anchored the TV show, ‘Baazi Kiski’ in the year 2001. He made his debut in Hindi films in the year 1996 in ‘Sanshodhan’. His acting was highly applauded in the film ‘Dushman’ in which he played the role of a cold blooded murderer and psychopath killer and he won award for the ‘Best Actor in Negative role’ in the ‘Filmfare’. He is mostly given roles of antagonists in movies, particularly that of a killer. He has played the role of Alia Bhatt's father in Karan Johar's “Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania”.

G. Marimuthu is a very well known Indian Film director as well as an actor. He has mostly directed Tamil Films. He made his entrance film in the year 2008, which is KannumKannum. He also enacted in a movie, Pulivaal in the year 2014.

John Vijay was born in 1976. John is a Tamil film actor, who has contributed on playing many brace roles. He has mostly attempted the role as a comedian and villain in Tamil films. John did his Master of Science in Visual Communication from Loyola College.

It's no secret that most celebrities use stunt doubles when filming particularly challenging scenes, but it's not something we always remember when caught up in the energy of an action-packed movie. In Indian film industry, particularly in Kollywood and Bollywood, stunt actors are indeed a must. 

B Bharathi Reddy is an Indian film producer who works in the Tamil industry. She is the partner with his husband of Vijaya Production, which is founded by his husband. Her husband’s name is B Venkata Rama Reddy. They had one son and two daughters. Her husband was died on 12 May 2019due to prolonged illness at the age of 75.SheSupported every decisionin her husband. She misses her husband a lot. She produced many hit films like Bhairvaa, Thamizan and Veeram, Padikkathavan.

Karthick K U is an Indian film lyricist, who works predominantly in Tamil movie industry. He made his debut in the film industry just a few years ago and had carved a niche for himself; He has worked in movies that included music composers like P.C. Shivan, Dhina, Amara CV, but he may not have any track with them.

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.

Viveka is a lyricist, who works in the Tamil film industry of South India. Viveka started as a lyricist in the year 2015. Viveka was born in 1985, and currently resides in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. Before venturing into the film industry, Viveka studied engineering and then law. Inspired by the work of Vairamuthu, a famous lyricist of the Tamil industry, he also began penning down poems. In the year 2015, he received his first breakthrough movie, “Enakkul Oruvan”, for which he wrote the lyrics of the songs “Poo Avizhum Pozhudhil”, and “Yaar”. After that, there was no looking back for this star lyricist. In the same year, he wrote lyrics for movies like “36 Vayadhinile”, "Indru Netru Naalai", “Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam”, and “144”. These included songs such as “Happy”, “Pogiren”, “Vaadi Raasathi”, “Kadhale Kadhale”, “Ennodu”, ” Mokka Piece”, “Mora Saiyyo”, and “Sarakka”. In the year of 2016, he has worked on four films, namely: “Kathakali”, “Irudhi Suttru”, “Aranmanai 2”, and “Jil Jung Juk”. He is working on the upcoming film, “Oru Naal Koothu”. These five in total include around ten songs that are being written by Viveka.

Nakash Aziz, is an Indian playback singer and music composer in Bollywood industry. He was born on 24 February, 1985. Basically Nakash Aziz comes from a petit town Moodbidri, near Mangalore, Karnataka. He is well known for his hit songs like “Sari Ke Fall Sa” and “Gandi Baat”, both songs came from the movie ‘R… Rajkumar’ (2013) and another song ‘Dhating Nach’ from a film ‘Phata Poster Nikla Hero’ (2013). All these songs are picturised on ‘Shahid Kapoor’. Nakash has also assisted a very famous and “The Living Legend Composer and singer” Mr. A. R. Rehman on Hindi films such as ‘Delhi 6’,’I’, ‘Rockstar’, ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Highway’. Before becoming a playback singer he worked as music composer for TV serials. He also composed for Marathi films like ‘Raada Rox’ and ‘No Entry Pudhe Dhoka Aahe’. Nakash comes from a musical family, and his taste was influenced by his father and uncle. They were famous for voice-alike of very famous singers ‘Kishor Kumar’ and ‘Mukesh’ in hometown Mangalore. During his initial days in Mumbai, Aziz got a small-time job in a reality show where A.R. Rehman was one of the judges. And now in 2015 he is performing in ‘IIFA awards’ with a new singer in the block, ‘Sonakshi Sinha’ and ‘Mika Singh’. Aziz says, “I want to be anything that music allows me to be, even if it comes up with a small musical idea like introducing a slight variation in my singing for Amit Trivedi’s Aisha title song”.

Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 April 2012 which is a thing of pride. Shankar has always considered himself as a restless student wanting to learn more every time. He says he’s thirsty and want to learn every time and experiment with something new. He wants to be a perfectionist. Shanker also feels that Karnatak music is the most powerful form of music and he himself started with Karnataka classic which he says is the best to create a prominent base for music. Music is the thing which excites Shanker the most, and he would always be attached to it. Personal Life: Shanker Mahadevan was born in Chennai to a Tamil family but was later brought to Mumbai and was raised there. Being born into a Tamil family and later raised in Mumbai, he knows both Hindi and Tamil language but is not well versed with Tamil and Malayalam. He finished his schooling from OLPS High School in Chembur and his engineering in computer science from R.A.I.T (D Y Patil, Navi Mumbai). His wife, Sangeeta is Maharashtrian and oldest son Siddharth Mahadevan. Also, a singer, made his debut on the 2013 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’s song, Zinda. Shankar’s youngest son, Shivam Mahadevan, also a singer made his debut in 2013 in the movie Dhoom 3’s song, Bande Hain Hum Uske. Mahadevan is fluent in Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu and English.

Vinoth Kumar also known as Kalloori Vinoth was born on 11th May 1988 in Chennai. He started his career as a theatre artist and a writer but in 2007 he got an opportunity to act in film Kalloori as a supporting artist. Though the film did not receive any good review Vinoth’s acting was appreciated by the audience. He has worked for both Tamil and Bollywood film industry. Vinoth took his inspiration to become an actor from his father who was a drama artist. It was during his college days that he started practising his acting skills and took part in various acting/drama competitions. He used to take part in various competitions and it was during one of those competitions that he won, and was asked to audition for a role in the film in which he got selected. Along with being a reputed actor he also knows the art of mime.

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.