Chinnaponnu
Kavitha Gopi
Meera Krishnan
C Raja Durai
Rajadurai
Srikanth Deva
Snehan
Vairamuthu
Velmurugan
I Radhika
Bava Lakshmanan
Chinni Jayanth
Ganja Karuppu
Lollu Sabha Manohar
Power Star Srinivasan
Radha Ravi
Ravi Mariya
Vaiyapuri
Madurai Selvam
EK Nagarajan
1. Chinnaponnu
Chinnaponnu was born in Suranam in Sivagangai District in Tamil Nadu, India. As a child of thirteen years old, she actively participated in several temple festivals and churches. After that, she started to sing in the troupe of Artist Kottaisamy as a professional singer. She used to say him as her mentor. Later she was noticed by Gunasekar, who is a member of the Communist party. As he searched for folk songs and folk artists, he helped her explore herself in several parts of the state. By 2004, she made her first entry into the Tamil cinemas as a playback singer for the movie Chandramuki song Valthuren Valthuren.
...2. Kavitha Gopi
How good must it have felt for this new singer Kavitha Gopi with her new albums ‘Nattukural’ and ‘Enaiyaalum En Annayi’? Prior to these two albums, she had made influential commercial successful music too in two other movies like ‘Thaarai Thappattai’ and ‘Dummy Tappasu’. She got the credit she deserved in movies too. Whatever projects she has handled, left no question about her talents, as the songs she had sung sold more than any debut singer songs in a movie. In the movie ‘Thiri’, she had sung one song '"Vaetta Pen Vaetta" with Narayanan, the music was composed by Ajesh. In the year 2016, the singer got a break to sing for music composer Ilaiyaraaja in a movie 'Tharai Thappathtai'.
...3. Meera Krishnan
4. C Raja Durai
C Raja Durai took birth on 27th July 1927 and was a Sri Lankan Tamil. He was a potential journalist and a member of the editorial staff at a prestigious newspaper. C RajaDurai appointed as the federal party member at Batticaloa at the parliament election in 1956. Moreover, he was elected for the same in 1960,1965 and, 1970. He was the 1st ever mayor appointment at Batticaloa in 1967.
...5. Rajadurai
Rajadurai is an Indian-Director. He primarily works in the Tamil Film Industry. SHe directed Muthuramalingam which released on 24th February 2017. He has many projects for the coming years. Gautham Karthik, Priya Anand, Napoleon, Suman, Rekha, Vivek, Viji Chandrasekhar, Vamsi Krishna, Singampuli, Singamuthu, FEFSI Vijayan, Cell Murugan, Azhagu and Chinni Jayanth are in the cast.
...6. Srikanth Deva
Srikanth Deva, an Indian music director who had done work in Tamil films. Srikanth started his career by debuting through the film Doubles in the year 2000 as a music director. His father too was a Tamilian music director and singer, Deva. Deva was a very famous man in the Tamil industry.
...7. Snehan
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.
...8. Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu is a very famous Tamil writer, poet, and lyricist. His full name is Vairamuthu Ramasamy. He was born on 13th July 1953. He was born in a middle-class family to Ramasamythevar and Angammal in Mettur. His family moved to Vadugapatti, Theni in Tamil Nadu when he was four years old. He is famous by the pen name Kaviyarasu or Kaviperarasu. He got married to Ponmani Vairamuthu and had two children, Madhan Karky Vairamuthu, and Kabilan Vairamuthu. He got inspiration from the Tamil and Rationalist movements in the 1960s that enthused him to pursue a career as a writer. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. As a speaker and a poet, he was highly praised as the best in his college.
...9. Velmurugan
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.
...10. I Radhika
I Radhika is an Indian dance choreographer who works predominately in the Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, and Malayalam movies. She is best known for her choreography in films such as Mugamoodi (2012), Nandeesha (2012), and Mariyan (2013). Since her childhood, I Radhika had a significant interest in dancing. She is a trained classical dancer. Radhika was a student of Master Udupi Lakshmi Rai. At 12, she completed her onstage performance of Indian classical dance. Both her parents are from the film industry, so she decided to follow a dance choreography career.
...11. Bava Lakshmanan
Bava Lakshmanan is a popular Tamil actor, who hailed from Madurai. His original name is Lakshmanan. His friends used to call him as Bava and the name stayed with him till now. Bava Lakshmanan has seven siblings. He has two sisters and five brothers. When a shooting troupe came to Madurai to shoot in the Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple, the director called Bava Lakshmanan, who was watching the shooting. He asked him whether he is interested to act and Bava nodded yes, after getting the permission from his family.
...12. Chinni Jayanth
Chinni Jayanth is a veteran artist and a quite a famous name in the Tamil cinema and TV world. Chinni Jayanth was born in July 26, 1960 in Chennai Tamil Nadu. He is a seasoned actor, comedian, director and producer. He has hosted some very popular Television Programs like Kalakkapovathu Yaar, Asathatpovathu Yarru and Sagalai vs Ragalai. He debuted in his three decade long film & Television career in the movie ‘Kai Kodukkum Kai’ in 1984. Attempting to fit into a villainous role in his first movie he ultimately found his love in a comedy and mimicry. He has more than 400 movies to his credit. Some of his performances, like the one in Chinna Pulla were critically acclaimed because of his immense acting depth, in the portrayal as a mentally challenged man. He made his directorial debut from the movie Unakkaga Mattum. Although more of his career, points out his greater involvement to cinema, he is the most known faces of the Tamil TV industry as well.
He has earned many reputed awards like Kalaimamani, an award given for excellence in the field of arts and literature. He won several accolades during his long career as an actor. He is an active participant in social welfare programs; AIDS awareness, education and fund raisers through his charity stage shows which he does for free.
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Chinni Jayanth is famous in Tamil Cinema world. He is an acclaimed director, a known Producer, a well received Comedian, a born Actor and Mimicry artist. His original name is Krishnamurthy Narayanan. He was born on 26th July 1960 at Chennai. He had his early education in Wesley High school, Chennai. He had his college education at New College, Royapettah. He took his Diploma in Film Technology popularly called as DFTech from the famous Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu in Taramani which opened the doors of cinema world to him. Chinni Jayanth is a celebrated mimicry artist. He was bestowed the prestigious title of MIMICRY SUPERSTAR. His initiative gave Tamil MIMICRY industry a decent platform acknowledged throughout the world.
He made his debut acting performance in Chinna Pullai. It was released in 1994 in which he portrayed the role of a mentally challenged person. His first initiative as Director was in the film “Unakkaga Mattum”. The story unveils the love story of Subramani, a shy and affluent Brahmin boy who falls in feverish love with Lakshmi, a poor and unfortunate girl. F ollowing movie he directed was “Kaanal Neer”, a tragedy noted for its sarcasm to the callousness of physical world. His last initiative was “Neeye Yen Kaadhali” for which he wrote the screen play also. It was a love story that deeply touches the mind of audience. Currently he makes his appearance in different channels for programmes like “Sagali vs Ragalai” & “Kalakka povathu yaar”. Both are full time comedy programmes and are commercially successful. He received Honorary Doctorate for his life time achievements and contribution to Indian Cinema in 2013. He was also bestowed the Kalaimani award, a prestigious memento given by the Government of Tamil Nadu. He also got “MIMICRY-SUPERSTAR” award from Lions Club for his exemplary contribution to Mimicry industry.
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13. Ganja Karuppu
14. Lollu Sabha Manohar
Manohar is a Tamil comedy actor who was initially doing gag television shows. He shot to fame through the critically famous gag television series, LolluSabha, telecasted in Vijay TV.
...15. Power Star Srinivasan
Srinivasan was born in 1962 in Simmakal, Madurai. He completed his degree at Madurai Kamraj University. He first worked as a medical practitioner, then moved on to business by setting a finance firm Baba Trading Company. Having seen failure in both of his occupation, he then landed in Cinema Industry. Due to his interest towards films, he moved from Madurai to Chennai. He directed and acted in a film Lathika that was running for 220 days.
...16. Radha Ravi
Radha Ravi is a populous actor cum producer in the Tamil cinema industry. He has come from a cinema background family, where his father, brother, and sisters were the actors. He is the son of the popular actor M R Radha, who is well known for his villainy and character roles in the early 50s and 60s. Radha Ravi was born in the year 1952. He did his graduation in the New College in Chennai. He has a brother called M.R.R.Vasu and three sisters namely Rashya, Rani and Radhikala. Radhika and Nirosha are his half-sisters.
...17. Ravi Mariya
Ravi Mariya wears various hats that of an actor, a director and a writer. Born in Virudhangar situated in Tamil Nadu, India, he has been active in the Tollywood industry since 1997. His major body of work includes Tamil and Malayalam cinema. He excels in all that he does and that’s the nexus between all the various yet related professions he deals with.
...18. Vaiyapuri
Vaiyapuri is a popular Tamil comedy actor. He was born and brought up in Theni. He came to Chennai in the year 1986 to seek some opportunities to act in the movies. He made his debut through the movie Chellakannu, in which he acted as a barber in an uncredited role. Then he was given a minor role in Ulaga Nayagan Kamal Hassan’s movie Avvai Shanmugi. His career picked up in the year 1997 through the movie Kadhalukku Mariyadhai. He was also appreciated for his role in Kaadhalae Nimmadhi, as a blind person. Gradually his film count got increased and he started to do a dozen films per year.
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