Tanvi Shah
Deepa Sannidhi
Swathi Reddy
Ronnie Screwvala
Siddharth Roy Kapur
AN Balakrishnan
Subha - Suresh
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Pa Vijay
Priyadarshini Ram
Rabbit Mac
Ranjith K Govind
Lalgudi Ilayaraja
Stunt Silva
Arya
Krishna Kulasekaran
Gautham Menon
Premgi Amaren
Venkat Prabhu
Adil Hussain
Harish Uthaman
John Vijay
Ponvannan
RJ Balaji
Robo Shankar
Thambi Ramaiah
Anthony Daasan
S. J. Surya
Y.G.Mahendra
Azhagam Perumal
M.S.Bhaskar
Kishore Jayaram
Vishnuvardhan Kulasekaran
Cinematographer Om Prakash
D Suresh
1. Tanvi Shah
A versatile singer, Tanvi Shah is a playback singer who has sung songs in languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Portuguese, Arabic, and Latin. She made her debut in playback singing with the song 'Fanaa' for the movie Yuva, which released in 2004. Ever since then, she has had a collaboration with the Oscar-winning singer A.R Rahman, and she has sung several songs for him. Amit Trivedi, Yuvan Shankar Raja and other leading music directors invited Tanvi after her success with A.R Rahman reached the public eye. She wrote the Spanish lyrics for the ever popular song of Slumdog Millionaire - Jai Ho. At the 52nd Grammy Awards, she won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written For Visual Media, which she shared wi...
Age:
38
Gender:
Female
2. Deepa Sannidhi
Deepa Sannidhi’s actual name is Rahasya. Born in the year 1990 in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, she is Kannada actress. Her father, a coffee estate owner and mother a homemaker. She was in her first year of Architecture, when she was offered a role in the movie. She dropped out of college to pursue her interests in acting. The year was 2011.Saarathi was the debut movie of Sannidhi. This movie is a romantic action starring Darshan. She has played the role of Rukmini in this movie, which received good reviews and was a blockbuster. Her next movie was Paramathma, directed by Yogaraj Bhat. She is cast opposite Puneeth Rajkumar where she plays the role of Deepa aka Thithi Vade. This movie too did very well in the box-office. 2012, s...
Age:
33
Gender:
Female
3. Swathi Reddy
Swathi Reddy is an actress and TV presenter from India. She was known as Colours Swathi when she was doing the Telugu TV show, ‘Colours’, which was aired on Maa TV. Swathi was born on April 9, 1987, in Vladivostok, Russia. Her first name was Svetlana and then changed it to Swathi. Her father was working as a submariner from the Indian Navy. Then they moved to Mumbai and afterward, in Visakhapatnam where she spent her childhood days. When she was in her 11th standard, she moved to Hyderabad and studied at St. Mary’s College and finished Biotechnology. After taking the EAMCET test, she started on TV at 17. She hosted ‘Colors’ and because of th...
Age:
37
Gender:
Female
Age:
37
Gender:
Female
4. Ronnie Screwvala
Born in the city of Mumbai to a family of Parsi religion, Rohinton Soli Screwvala is an Indian philanthropist, entrepreneur, CEO, and founder of UTV Group, which included Bloomberg UTV, UTV Software Communications, etc. Since school time Ronnie had an interest in films and theater. He also acted in some skits in Bombay theater like Alyque Padamsee and Pearl. But he did not like working for others, so his stage career ended as he wished to initiate his business. Ronnie started on a small scale in the year 1981.
He worked as a cable TV operator in the city Mumbai under the network company. It provided a video channel for three hours to people who lived in the Cuffe Parade area which is the affluent area of Mumbai. ...
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
5. Siddharth Roy Kapur
Siddharth Roy Kapur is an Indian businessman, film producer and managing director of Disney India. He hails from a film background; his mother was a film choreographer and his brothers being well known film actors. His father was a Punjabi and mother, Salome Roy Kapur, was a Jew and former Miss India. He is a two time divorcee and is currently married to actress Vidya Balan. He finished his Bachelors in Commerce from the Sydenham College in Mumbai and got his MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), where he was a part of the hallowed Placement Committee.
 He joined UTV in 2005 as a senior vice president and headed the Marketing and Communications divisions. He let marketing progr...
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
6. AN Balakrishnan
ANBalakrishnan is an Indian Writer, who works in the South Indian Film Industry as a Dialogue Writer and Screen Writer in the pen name of Subha. The pen name he got from his writing partner Suresh. Both work together to write stories from college. Both had an interest in Tamil Literature and participated in a short story writing competition in Tamil magazine, Kalki. From here, their writing journey has started. In 1975, Balakrishnan and Suresh completed B. Sc. Physics at Presidency College, Chennai.
After the completion of the degree, Balakrishnan got a Bank job in Perundurai, where Suresh got a job in Chennai. But their love for writing remained, which made them quit their jobs to become full-time writers since 1979. They wrote ...
Gender:
Male
7. Subha - Suresh
D Suresh and A N Balakrishnan are together known as Subha. They write screenplay in Tamil. They also pen stories and detective novels. Both of them commenced co-authoring stories when they were studying in college. Ko, Yatchan, Ayan, and Thani Oruvan are the films for which they have written the story.
The duo shared a good writing partnership for over 20 years They have a great passion for the Tamil language. Their first story Visithira Uravuhal won first prize in Kalki magazine. They write both fiction and non-fiction. They tried their luck in army stories too and they are considered the first in the same genre....
Gender:
Male
8. Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja is the popular music composer, who is the second son of Music Maestro Isai Gnani Ilayaraja. He was born in the year 1979 in Madras. He started his music career at the young age of 16 in the year 1996, through the film Aravindan, in which Sarath Kumar, Nagma and Urvashi were in the lead roles. His breakthrough movie was Thulluvadho Ilamai, which was the debut movie of Dhanush and Sherin. He has composed for more than a century of films in his career span of 18 years. He has a talent to compose music in various genres using various instruments. He is also a playback singer and his voice is different from that of other singers as his father Ilayaraja has. He is one among the youth icons of the south Indian music industry. Hi...
Age:
44
Gender:
Male
9. Pa Vijay
P Vijay (Pa Vijay) is a Tamil poet and film lyricist, who wrote the award-winning lyrics for the song’’ Ovvoru Pookalume’’ in Cheran's Autograph in Kollywood film industry. This lyricist had an extensive impact on Tamil cinema and was considered to be a gem writer of many songs that had featured in many movies. This poet and lyricist-writer were born in a middle-class family where his mother was a school teacher, and his father worked as a spinning master in a textile mill in Coimbatore. The actor was born in Coimbatore on 20 October 1974 and did his MA Literature in Tamil from Annamalai University. This poet was a discovery of director K Bhagyaraj, who was his family friend. He was associated with K. Bha...
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
10. Priyadarshini Ram
Priyadarshini Ram is a popular director, actor and writer of Telugu film industry who hailed from Tenali. He was born in the year 1955. When his father left this world, Priyadarshini Ram has been just 13. Due to his hard work he succeeded a degree, but could not carry his dream of a Management master. He has talents in writing different articles. He was a great writer, right from his college days. His works were well appreciated by his friends and teachers. As he is very creative, he got placed in an advertising company. He was offered to advertise the political campaign of the leaders. Grey America is the company that tried to acquire Priyadarshini Ram’s ad company, but they did not get succeeded, as Ram wanted to stay with his mother. ...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
11. Rabbit Mac
The Malaysian Hip Hop and Rap based Indian singer Charles John MacCallum or Charley Georgetown is well known as Rabbit Mac. He was born on 7th August 1983 in Penang, Georgetown, Malaysia.He is functional in the Malaysian musical industry. He did over 50 albums with many other artists and became famous in Asian regions such as Singapore, India, Canada and Sri Lanka.
Rabbit Mac started his professional music career by making the mix of both English and Tamil songs and made underground music from them.His passion for music career was so evident in his works that some of the owners of the leading lounges and pubs observed him and offered him shows like hip-hop shows and Gigs i...
Age:
40
Gender:
Male
12. Ranjith K Govind
Ranjith is a very famous and versatile south Indian singer. He has a vibrant personality and can make the crowd tap their feet with his energetic songs, can make them emotional with his soothing voice and is a mass entertainer. He was born on February 21, 1977. He is a very well-known playback singer and has worked for many films. He is mainly working for the Karnataka, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Ranjith was born in a Malayali family, in Chennai. His family belongs to a small town, Kalluvazhi, Kerala. Ranjith grew up listening to various types of music he stayed in a society where social-programmes were a trend. The localities used to participate in these programmes. Once, a family friend suggested training Ranjith for...
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
13. Lalgudi Ilayaraja
Lalagudi NÂ Ilayaraja is an Art Director from Lalagudi, a town in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. He did his schooling from Government Higher Secondary School situated in Lalagudi. He completed his degree from the Government College of Fine Arts, Kumbakonam which was affiliated to the Bharathithasan University at that time. Hehas worked on several projects including Yuvan Yuvathi and Veattai Manam. He also worked with some of the most prominent actors,directors and producers of the Indian, Tamil and Telugu film industry.
He worked as an Art Director in the films UttamaVillan (2015) and Vishwaroopam(2013), which hadone of the best actors of Telugu film industry, Kamal Hassan. During his contribution to the film Kaththi (2014), he ...
Gender:
Male
14. Stunt Silva
Stunt Silva was born in Tuticorin, TamilNadu. He started his career as a male nurse after getting trained in Stanley Medical College. Silva worked as a Ward boy in Tuticorin hospital. Later he joined in Vijaya Health Center in Chennai by the year 1990. To maintain his family’s financial status, he worked in several sectors such as Peon in offices and dabbled in transport sector business offices. He then joined in the background dancer of the film under the guidance and advice of the Dance
Choreographer. He then took his dance lessons from Paul Raj's School....
Age:
50
Gender:
Male
15. Arya
Joining the ranks of Malayalaee born actors who have chosen Tamil filmdom was Jamshed Cethirakath. He even changed his name as per the prevailing custom, to ‘Arya’, encouraged his brother Sathya to follow suit, and made him join Tamil cinema too. However, earlier in life when selecting a course of studies he may not have been very clear about the future course of his life, making him choose an engineering course in Computer Science in Chennai, rather than selecting any of the other options in Chennai relating to the performing arts. As he grew up, his family’s links with Chennai grew stronger, and his father currently owns one of the favourite Arabian fo...
Age:
43
Gender:
Male
16. Krishna Kulasekaran
Krishna Sekhar is a Tamil Actor. He is the brother of the noted film director, Vishnuvardhan. After limited appearances as a child actor in several films like Anjali, Iruvar and The Terrorist, actor Krishna Sekhar made his film debut with a leading role in Ali Baba in 2008. After several critically and commercially successful films as a child actor, he starred as an adult hero in his fathers’ production ‘Alibaba’.Â
He followed it with leading roles in ‘Udhaya’, ‘Kattradhu Kalavu’ and ‘Kazhugu’. ‘Kazhugu’ was released in 2012. K. S. Madhubala produced the film along with his fathe...
Age:
46
Gender:
Male
17. Gautham Menon
Gautham Vasudev Menon is known for his directional capabilities and bringing his intense films to life in the Tamil Industry. He was born on 25th February and has established himself as a heroic director. He is most known for his work where he, portrayed the life of real men on screen. One of such work named Vaaranam Aayiram was a blockbuster and won him the prestigious National Film Award for the category of Best Feature Film in the Tamil Language. And since then, he started his try to produce such films in multiple languages. He got much acclaim when another of his film Thanga Meengal, brought him another very prestigious and devoured National Film Award for Best Fe...
Age:
51
Gender:
Male
18. Premgi Amaren
A native of Chennai, Premgi Amaren is a multi-talented artist. He was born on February 25, 1979. In about a decade-long career, he has been sailing the boat as a playback singer, a film composer, a songwriter as well as an actor, commendably. Hailing from a culture enriched family background, Premgi is the son of renowned music composer and singer Gangai Amaran and younger brother of film director and actor Venkat Prabhu. He is famous as a comedian in Tamil films. Maestro Ilaiyaraja is his uncle.
Premgi initially wanted to be a music composer and to follow his dreams; he commenced his career as an assistant to Yuvan Shankar Raja, his cousin, who is a renowned film music co...
Age:
45
Gender:
Male
Age:
45
Gender:
Male
19. Venkat Prabhu
Venkat Prabhu is a multifaceted and multitalented and multidimensional personality in the Tamil Film and Television Industry. He is an actor, director and singer who acts and directs Tamil television shows and movies. Venkat Prabhu, commonly known as Venky among his friends and colleagues, has also rendered his voice as a playback singer and also has several independent singing assignments and albums in his kitty. Before venturing into the glamour industry Venkat Parbhu was an active member of a popular young Music Band that was quite popular across the South India. Venkat Prabhu has also worked on few Malayali projects also. Born on November 7, 1975, to an affluent Tamil family in Chennai and UK, Venkat Prabhu belongs from a family with...
Age:
48
Gender:
Male
20. Adil Hussain
Adil Hussain is a prominent Indian television, film and stage actor who predominantly works in the Hindi and art house cinema. He was born on October 5, 1963 in Goalpara, Assam in India, where he was also brought up by his father, who works as a teacher. He used to join school plays and left home when he was eighteen years old to take philosophy course at B. Borooah College in Guwahati. Adil started acting in plays as a stand-up comedian. He used to mimic well-known Bollywood actors in between the Bhaya Mama Group’s (a local stand-up comedian group) performances. He has been a stand-up comedian for six years until he participated in a mobile theatre and w...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
21. Harish Uthaman
Harish Uthaman has worked in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. Born on 5th April 1982, Harish entered the film industry with the 2010 Tamil flick Thaa. Later he worked as villain in Paandiya Naadu, Gouravam and Meagamann. Harish initially worked in Paramount Airways in the cabin crew department. Later he got himself associated with British Airways. Then he had a brief stint with an ad company in Chennai. Then Thaa happened which received good reviews. He worked hard for the film by growing a beard and darkening his skin. Surya Prabhakar was the director of this film. The film was not a commercial success but Harish received good critical acclaim. This flick was shown in the Tamil Film Festival in Norway. Harish fe...
Age:
42
Gender:
Male
22. John Vijay
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.
He has been working as the program director of Radio One FM station. He his running an advertising agency and it named as H2o with its office in Chennai, and also He made his debut in Thalaimagan film.
He was critically appreciate...
23. Ponvannan
Ponvannan is a popular and leading Tamil actor who is predominantly a Tamil film actor but has also appeared in Tamil television shows as an actor, producer, scriptwriter and director. He can be considered as a multitalented and multifaceted personality. In personal life, actor Ponvannan is married to his fellow actress and co-star Saranya Ponvannan who is also an acclaimed artiste in her own right. Â Born on January 12, 1952, in Tamilnadu, India, Ponvannan has been active in the Tamil film and television circuit since the year 1989 and continue to mesmerize the audiences till today with his strong acting skills. He was seen a few years back appearing on the hit and popular Tamil comedy television show Veettukku Veedu Lootty alongside w...
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
24. RJ Balaji
RJ Balaji is the famous name of Balaji Patturaj. He was born on the 20th in the month of June in 1985. He is a famous Indian Radio jockey, comedian, actor based in Tamil Nadu. From his childhood, he was brought up in Chennai.
In an interview with Hindu newspaper, he says that he changed nearly twenty-seven houses and studied in ten schools. While he was pursuing a PG Diploma in Journalism at Coimbatore, he gave auditions to a famous radio station there. He became a radio jockey in the month of November 2006. In his first show, he talked about social issues.
After working for four years in Coimbatore, he came back to Chennai and started ...
Age:
38
Gender:
Male
25. Robo Shankar
Robo Shankar is an upcoming comedian artiste in the Tamil cinema who was noticed as a mimicry artist in ‘’Rowtrhiram’’, that released in 2011. But while editing the movie, his role was cut fully, and the actor could not get any recognition.Â
As a comedian, he works very hard on the scripts and found that needed updating with the trending talks of today’s youth has become very necessary to understand the pulse of the audience to pull them to the screen. In order to be a successful comedian, he feels, one artist has to update himself with trending talks of youths witnessed in college and even schools.Â
The actor feels that today’s audiences are smart enough and ...
Age:
45
Gender:
Male
Age:
45
Gender:
Male
26. Thambi Ramaiah
Thambi Ramaiah, an Indian film actor, and director is considered as the busiest actors in Kollywod appearing in maximum movies that released in 2014. Once upon a time, he did not even how to make a foray into Kollywood. Anticipating for someone to give a chance in films, he had to wait till his luck could get him a status of an actor.Â
Things changed when he got the national best-supporting actor in the year for ‘Mynaa’ (released 2010). But he had to wait till 2013-14 when he was at the peak of a career. He works for up to four films a day and even stays 25 days (2013-14) on location for shooting his various films that were under production. He took in-cha...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
27. Anthony Daasan
Anthony Daasan is an Indian singer, traditional Tamil folk musician, lyricist and an artist hailing from Reddiyarpalayam, Puducherry,Tamil Nadu. He currently lives in Chennai, India. He was born on 26th April 1977. He completed his education from the Government High School of Tanjore. Music is an associated and ever-lasting part of his life. He connected to music from a very young age. His vision and dreams lead to him celebrating the flavor of folk music internationally.
His deep roots, love, and passion are exploring a variety of traditional forms of art. When he moved to Chennai, he joined Sangamam and later got in touch with the industry because of his hard work, commitment and sheer passion for music. His de...
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
28. S. J. Surya
Selvaraj Justin Surya was born in Vasdevanallur, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. He pursued his graduation from Chennai. He is a renowned Actor, Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer and a Music Composer in the Kollywood. He is known as Suryah.
Career:
He started his career in films at an early age of 20. In 1988, he acted in the movie ‘Nethaidi’. After that, in 1993, he made a cameo appearance in ‘Kizhakku Cheemayile’. The music of the movie was composed by legendary A.R Rehman, and this film was later remade in Telugu. He did numerous small guest appearance and cameo roles. He played an auto driver in ‘Asai&rsqu...
Age:
55
Gender:
Male
29. Y.G.Mahendra
Yechan Gunja Mahendran or famously known as Y.G.Mahendran was born as Y. Gee Mahendra on January 9, 1950 at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He is a very famous serial and cinema actor, dramatist, producer, director and also a well-known playwright singer. His father, Y.G. Parthasarathy is a known pioneer of the new Tamil drama and her mother, Rajalakshmi Parthsarathy initiated the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan or the PSBB, a group of schools where she is also the dean located in Chennai. Y.G. Mahendra is the cousin of the veteran actress, Vyjayanthimala.Â
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