Priya Himesh
Brinda
Nikhaar Dhawan
Anushka Shetty
Hansika Motwani
Janaki Sabesh
Krishna Priya
Lakshmi Narayan
Manorama
Priyan
Devi Sri Prasad
Baba Sehgal
Hariharan
Javed Ali
Shankar Mahadevan
Anup Dev
Baba Bhaskar
Robert
Sangeeth
Anal Arasu
Suriya Sivakumar
Danny Sapani
Delhi Kumar
Mansoor Ali Khan
Mukesh Rishi
Nizhalgal Ravi
Radha Ravi
Rajendran
Thyagu
Vijayakumar
Rahman
Srirengaraj
1. Priya Himesh
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.
He started as a backing vocalist & extra in many films. Priya got his first big break when famous music director Devi Sri Prasad gave her...
2. Brinda
Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer. Brinda dedicated all her life to choreographing and assisting various notable actors.
According to Brinda, she was not a good student in school and had an inclination towards extra-curricular activities like acting in plays and dance. She is not a highly educated person and has studied till class 12th only. Brinda listed English as her favourite subject in school and her interest in dancing started because of her ...
3. Nikhaar Dhawan
Nikhaar Dhawan is an Indian Costume designer based in the capital, Delhi. She graduated from NIFT and has made aher name in Bollywood and Tollywood. Dhawan has designed costumes for theatre plays as well. Her notable works include creating costume movies like 'Singham 2' and 'Once Upon a Warrior'. She was also the costume designer for the film, 'Guru'.
Nikhaar Dhawan was the mind behind responsible for Karthi’s various looks in the highly popular South Indian movie 'Kaashmora'. She also gave Sridivya a changeover in the movie. Some other Tamil films she has designed costumes for includehe had worked in many Tamil movies like 'Guru', 'Maattrraan', 'Aadhavan', '7 am Arivu', 'Lingaa', 'Singam 2', 'Anaganaga O Dheerudu', and 'Bal...
4. Anushka Shetty
Anushka Shetty is the popular South Indian star who is very famous for her work in Arundhati, a Telugu movie. This film was dubbed in Tamil and made her more popular among the Tamil audience. Her first Tamil movie was Rendu with R. Madhavan. Anushka Shetty was not well known during the time of Rendu. It is only through Arundhati, she entered the hearts of the people. She masters all the roles given to her. She has paired with almost all the top stars of South Indian film industry right from Rajini Kanth. She paired Super Star in the film Linga and got a decent role in that film.
Her appearance in Thaandavam with Vikram was praised by many people, as she did a good role, leaving the heart hard at the end in the movie. She acted with Vikram in Deivathirumagal as an Advocat...
5. Hansika Motwani
6. Janaki Sabesh
Janaki Sabesh is renowned for playing mother roles to various top actors. Her main area of interest is Tamil and Telugu films.
Hailing from a Palghat Iyer family, Janaki pursued her schooling in New Delhi. Later she went on to do her degree in political science, and post graduation in Mass Communication. Janaki’s father opposed her into entering the film industry and she was told to test waters in films only after being wedded. During the year 1991, at her colleged days, Janaki worked in Rajiv Gandhi’s documentary along with Simi Garewal. Then she got wedded. Later she did various roles, including working in ads on TV's, anchoring ...
7. Krishna Priya
Krishna Priya was born on 26th April 1990 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She was born and brought up in Chennai. Krishna started working in the film and television industry from a very young age. She is well known Tamil television and film actress. Krishna has worked in films like ‘Naan Mahaan Allah,’ ‘Yuva Ratna’ by Narayan Rao Upplapati, ‘Divine Reality,' ‘Red Chillies,’ and ‘Soan Pappdi.’ Her film Soan Pappdi got released in 2015 under the direction of Sivani, was a huge success; she starred in the film along with Shri and Niranjana. Her role in the film was appreciated and loved by both audiences and the critics.
She received various accolades for the film. Priya is married to Tamil film director Atlee Kumar since 9th November 2014, after their eight years o...
8. Lakshmi Narayan
Lakshmi or Lakshmi Narayan is an Indian film actress who was born as Lakshmi Yaragudipati to Yaragudipati Varada Rao from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil actress, Rukmini who is also the daughter of actress, Nungambakkam Janaki. Lakshmi’s father is a notable actor and Telugu filmmaker who usually does films that deals with significant social issues. Lakshmi was born on December 13, 1952 in Madras Presidency in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Lakshmi was only fifteen when she entered the film industry. She was first introduced in the Tamil film, Jeevanamsam in 1968 and later appeared in the Telugu film, Bandhavyalu. Then she went on acting in many Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada movies. She became popula...
9. Manorama
Being called as Aachi, Manorama is strongly seeded in the hearts of Tamil audiences. This talented lady has crossed many hurdles in her life and achieved a great success to retain her name and place in the cinema industry. She has appeared in almost all the Indian language films and gained goodwill too. Born as Gopishantha, she was renamed as Manorama to appear in theatres. She has crossed several stage dramas and films and has got a guiness record of acting in more than 1000 films. This wonderful lady has started her cinema career in Maalyitta Mangai. The only film she played as a heroine is Konjum Kumari in the year 1963. She was suggested for the role by Kavi Arasu Kannadasan.
Aachi Manorama is not only a talented actress; she is a wonderful dancer and a great singer ...
10. Priyan
Born in the year of 1964, he was an Indian director who has worked on Tamil flicks. Starting his profession as a subordinate to Balu Mahendra, Priyan began his job as an autonomous operator in the 1990s before he commenced as a leading cinematographer in the Tamil movie production in the 2000s.His notable works are with filmmaker Hari. He died due to heart seizure in his home on 9th November 2017. Priyan was born and brought up in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu. While he was doing a course in polytechnics, the cinematographer spent his time with his uncle Ganesan during a vacation in Chennai. Having observed his interest in movies, his uncle familiarized him to his acquaintance K. Balaji, an actor and a producer in the Tamil industry. Priyan consequently started operating in K. Balaji's behind the screening crew and worked for the produc...
11. Devi Sri Prasad
After the success of "Dhinka Chika" song for Salman Khan, starrer "Ready", South Indian composer Devi Sri Prasad, has been getting numerous offers in Bollywood. Devi Sri Prasad liked the evergreen film ‘Sholay’ so much in his youth days, that he has seen the movie many times in his young days, and had then made his thoughts to make his journey to the film world.
He stated that music in’ Sholay’ could always be an inspiration for his generation. Thus, he always wanted to be part of Bollywood and entertain the music lovers throughout India. He has so much passion for music and the film industry that he does not miss any music show hosted for his fans in abroad. Though offers from Bollywood are in the pipeline, he wants...
12. Baba Sehgal
Baba Sehgal is a multi-talented Indian play back signer who has also acted in various film industries. He began his career as a rapper, one of the first in India. One of his biggest hits was a remake of the popular Vanilla Ice’s "Ice Ice Baby" in Hindi, 'Thanda Thanda Paani’.
Baba studied to become and electrical engineer and went to G.B. Pant University in Pantnagar. He joined the music industry in 1990’s releasing five albums from 1990 - 1999. Almost all his songs were written and composed by him. Along with his albums he has a career as a playback singer in Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu, and Begali films.
Baba has had a career in acting starring in the 1998 Bollywood film Miss 420. The romance thriller wasn’t much of a hit but it allowed Baba to establish himself as an actor also....
13. Hariharan
Hariharan is a renowned Indian singer, who sings mainly for Hindi and Tamil films. Born in 1955, he is a well-known Ghazal singer. He was also instrumental in bringing fusion music to India.
Colonial Cousins is the name given to Hariharan’s band, wherein he collaborated with Lesle Lewis. This band was featured in many private albums. Not only this, they have also composed music for a few movies in Hindi and Tamil.
Hariharan is born and brought up in Mumbai and he is well-versed in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Hindi. Hariharan is the o...
14. Javed Ali
Javed Ali (Javed Hussain) was born in Delhi in 1982. He has been working as an Indian playback singer since 2000. Ali started his singing journey at a very early age with his father, who is a popular Qawwali singer named, Ustad Hamid Hussain. He is also a playback singer in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, and Tamil.
He has been singing since 2000, but his song “Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein” from the film Naqaab (2007) made him famous in Bollywood. After that, he sang hit song like Jashn-E-Bahaara from the Movie Jodha Akbar (2008). He also sang the song Guzarish (Ghajini) and Maula mere Maula (Arziyan). Javed started hi...
15. Shankar Mahadevan
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 Apr...
16. Anup Dev
Anup Dev is a re-recording mixer and sound supervisor. He has spent many years working in the Bollywood film industry with great names like Aananth Mahadevan, Rohit Shetty, Ajay Devgan, late Irfan Khan, and late Rishi Kapoor. In 2006 he won ZEE cine award for Best Re-Recording. Anup has worked as a sound mixer in Hip Hip Hurray in 1984, Mard in 1985, Janbaaz in 1986, Samundar in 1986, Nagina in 1986, Allah-Rakhda in 1986, Kalyug aur Ramayan in 1987, Shehenshah in 1988, Ganga Jamuna Saraswathi in 1988, Kaal Chakra in 1988, Clerk in 1989, Prem pratigyaa in 1989, Nighahen: Naagina part II in 1989, Chandni in 1989, Naqab in 1989, Swarg in 1990, Aaj ka Arjun in 1990, Agneekaal in 1990, Jai Shiv Shankar in 1990, Javani Zindabad in 1990, Farishtay in 1991, Kurbaan in 1991, Akayla in 1991, Phool aur Kaante in 1991, Panaah in 1992, Tehelka in 1...
17. Baba Bhaskar
Baba Bhaskar is a popular Indian movie director as well as a Choreographer, who mainly works in the South Indian movie industry. He mostly features in Tamil movies, but he also works in other language industries such as Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu films as well. He started his career with the movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam, which is a Telugu movie as a Choreographer. Later, Baba worked in the Tamil film Kedi which got him great recognition. Presently, he is taking part in one of the famous TV reality show Bigg Boss Telugu Season 3, which is hosted by Akkineni Nagarjuna.
...18. Robert
Robert is an Indian choreographer. He mostly works in Tamil Film industry. He is officially known as Robert, but his full name is Robert Raj. He also acts; either as a villain or does cameos in his self-choreographed dance numbers. Although turning out to be a choreographer later in life, he started out as an actor. He played the role of Mammooty's son in the movie Azhagan in 1991.
He turned towards dancing in songs like “KallooriSaalai” in the filmKadhalDesamand in“EnnaAzhagu” fromLove Today. When he got older, he was cast as the main villain in the film Maaran in 2002. The film received positive reviews for the story-line. Robert played the role of a Shivadas, a son of an influential father. Robert was also in the movie Pava...
19. Sangeeth
Sangeeth is a playback singer who chiefly works in the Malayalam movie industry. He was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to Rajagopal and Shantha Rajagopal. He did his secondary education at a school in Panthalam, Pathanamthitta, and Higher Secondary education in Thiruvananthapuram. Later, he joined a Music college in Trivandrum. Sangeeth developed a passion for music from a very young age of three and started learning music under his mother, who herself was a music teacher. He enthusiastically participated in School Kalolsavam, which earned him the title “Kala Pratiba.” Sangeeth is trained well in Classical music, light music, Mappila Pattu, and many more.
Being extremely talented, he had the opportunity to participate in many musical events that gave him the confidence to win the title of “Super Star,&rdq...
20. Anal Arasu
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).
He yiel...
21. Suriya Sivakumar
Suriya Sivakumar is undoubtedly the biggest star in contemporary Tamil film yet most critics would agree that he is truly a ‘real and spontaneous’ actor who can match any character that he plays in screen. His rise in Kollywood cinema came at a time when commercial Tamil films tended to shy away from the dark themes and ambivalent morality associated with film and style. The popularity of Ghajini proved that the level of negativity that the audiences could bear. When A.R Murugadoss selected Suriya to don the role in Ghajini, he knew how it would work with mainstream audiences and was almost right. Truly, this actor had overcome his father’s shadow and moved to be one of the most talented actor, whose films got inspired by even Aamir Khan and even Ajay Devgan. Aamir Khan had showered him praise for his performance in G...
22. Danny Sapani
Danny Sapani is a British actor who has worked in Indian movies. He was born on November 15, 1970 in London and also brought up in London, UK. He has worked in many films and TV series in his career. The films and TV series are B & B as Henry in the year 1992, Between The Lines as Steve Coogan in the year 1993, Performance as Sir William Bagot in the year 1997, Trial & Retribution as Nicky Burton in the year 1998, Fish as Peter Cookson in the year 2000, Tip of My Tongue as Dave’s Mate, Hotel as AJ, and Judge John Deed as Johnny Latymer in the year 2001, Pissboy as Carl and Anansi as Adolph in the year 2002, Song for a Raggy Boy as Preston, Serious & Organized as D.I. Dennis Clifton, and In Deep as Davies in the year 2003, Ultimate Force as Cpl. Ricky Mann, Holby City as Kumi Griffin, and Little Britain as Derek in the...
23. Delhi Kumar
Delhi Kumar is a veteran Tamil television and film actor. He is also a known stage actor and a senior drama artist. He is married to Gayathri, and they have a son named, Arvind Swamy, who was adopted by the Indian Philanthropist, V. D. Swami. He is basically from a theater group based in Delhi and also one of the members of the Delhi Drama Troupe in Nanganallur in Madras, India together with the veteran film actor, Delhi Ganesh. Although Delhi Kumar is widely known for his roles in television and films, he was just like the other veterans who started off as a stage artist and playwright.
Delhi Kumar has written and acted in many stage plays like Theerndhadhu Kanakku, an adaptation of the Agatha Christie Novel, ‘Witness for the Prosecution.'...
24. Mansoor Ali Khan
Mansoor Ali Khan was born in the small village called Pallapatti in Tamilnadu. He is the popular villainy actor in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies. Mansoor made his debut to the cinema industry through the movie Captain Prabhakaran in the year 1991. He acted as an antagonist in the movie opposite Vijayakanth. This movie gave him a good name and he got opportunities frequently. Rudra is his next movie with Bhagyaraj, Gouthami and Lakshmi.
In the year 1992, he took a hero Avatar through the film, Rajadhi Raja Raja Kulothunga Raja Marthanda Raja Gambeera Kathavaraya Krishna Kamarajan. This movie was directed by Balu An...
25. Mukesh Rishi
Mukesh Rishi is one of the best actors who has done negative roles in Hindi cinema. Mukesh is from Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, from a Gujjar family. He completed his graduation from Chandigarh and worked in Mumbai for some time, he left India and moved to Fiji. In Fiji, he met his future wife of Fijian-Indian descent, Keshni Rishi and gave birth to two children, a son, and a daughter. They moved to New Zealand after marriage where he worked in an office job for some time and at the same time he started his career as a model. He worked in commercial jobs for seven years and despite the great efforts towards modeling he was not happy and finally moved back to Mumbai to start his acting career and enrolled himself at Roshan Taneja’s acting school.
In 1988, he got his f...
26. Nizhalgal Ravi
Nizhalgal Ravi is a veteran actor in TV serials and films and has acted in hundreds of movies alongside the greatest of actors in the industry. Born on April 16, 1956, he first started out under legendary director Bharathiraja in ‘Nizhalgal’ which later stuck on to his name because of the instant hit with people. He has played many impressive roles in blockbuster movies like Vedam Puthithu, Nayakan, Chinna Thambi Periya Thambi, etc. His versatility has won him praises from all over the industry and from people. He has acted in over 20 movies in Malayalam in the 80s before moving into mainstream Tamil movies.
He completed his Bachelor of Arts majoring in economics from PSG Arts College. He then acted in K Balachander’s telefilm ‘Rail Sneham’ in the late 80s and 90s. He became popula...
27. 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.
28. Rajendran
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.
Here we bring out a story on Rajendran, who has bonded with many actors as stunt doubles in many films. Having a career graph in over 500 south Indian films as a stunt double in M-town (Malayalam films), he shifted towards Kollywood for getting better opportunities where he could transform him to a seasoned artist. The man with flawless body has come a long way.
He has a major break in Vijay 59, where the stunt artist has develop...
29. Thyagu
Thiyagu is a renowned Tamil actor who usually appeared in comedy films and has done different types of roles in the Tamil film industry. Thiyagu is the grandson of the Carnatic music violinist, Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai from Tamil Nadu, India.
He initially started his career as a protagonist in most of his films. He played important roles in the Tamil films, Oru Thalai Ragam in 1980 and Palaivana Solai in 1981. During the late 80’s until the early 90’s, he starte...
30. Vijayakumar
Vijayakumar is a very famous actor in Tamil films and television serials. He has acted in more than 400 movies in very popular characters, from child roles to hero roles to supporting roles to father roles to grandfather roles. You name any famous artist in Tamil, Vijayakumar would have acted with him or her. That is the reach he had in the Tamil filmdom.
Vijayakumar’s real name was Panchaksharam Ranaswamy. He wanted to act in movies from a very young age and apparently acted in a movie as a child artist. But, not many called him for future films, so he was discouraged and went back to his home town. Later, when he was a young person, he returned to try movies where he got some very good offers. Movies such as Aval Oru Thodarkathai, Ponnukku Th...
31. Rahman
Rahman also known as Rashin Rahman, is a famous South Indian Actor born on 23 May 1967. He was born in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. and his native is Nilambur in Malappuram District, Kerala. He studied in Baldwin Boys High School in Bangalore, Rex Higher Secondary School in Ooty and did his college from M.E.S Mampad College, Nilambur and St.Joseph’s Abu Dhabi. He got married to Mehrunnisa in 1993. The couple have two children namely Rushda and Alisha. Rahman’s wife’s elder sister , Saira Banu is married to Oscar winning music director A.R. Rahman. He has acted in more than 150 films in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil movies.
Rahman made his debut with the Malayalam movie, ‘Koodevide’ in the year 1983 wi...