1. Nadhiya
Zareena is the original name of the south Indian actress Nadhiya. She was born in the year 1966 in Mumbai to the Muslim father, Moidu and the Hindu mother, Lalitha. Nadhiya has a younger sister called Haseena. In 1984, she entered the film industry through the Malayalam movie ‘Nokketha Doorathu
2. Tisca Chopra
3. Kriti Kharbanda
Model-turned- actor Kriti Kharbanda is a popular actress in Sandalwood and Tollywood, who was born in New Delhi and brought up in Bangalore. She took active part in dramas and other cultural activities when she was in college, which gave her space in acting and even modeling. Even in her college days, she did take up assignments in advertisements. Her much popular advertisement in Fair & lovely caught the attention of an NRI director. Director Raj Pippala was in Chennai in search of a new face for his film “Boni”( Telugu film in 2009) and happened to see her face on the billboard. He contacted her through a mediator in Bengaluru and she had to go to an audition for the film. As many as 150 new faces had to contest for the heroine role, but luckily she was select...
4. Arun Vijay
Arun Kumar is the son of famous Tamil actor and politician Vijayakumar. He is also known by the name of Arun Vijay. He was born on November 19, 1977 in Chennai. He was born in a film family so it was not hard for him to make a way towards silver screen.
5. Brahmanandam
Brahmanandam was born on 1st February 1956. He was the seventh son to Kanneganti Nagalingachari and Kannaganti Lakshmi Narsamma. He completed his high schooling from a high school at Sattenapalle. He later pursued his intermediate and graduation from D.N.R College, Bhimavaram. He completed his post graduation in Telugu literature from Andhra University. Before becoming an actor, Brahmanandam had worked as a lecturer in Atthilli for nine years.
Brahmanandam is considered as one of the most versatile Indian comic actors, noted particularly for his comic expressions. He has gone ahead to receive many accolades in the world. In the year 2007, he was in the Guinness World Record for appearing in the highest number of films...
6. S Thaman
Ghantasala Sai Srinivas Thaman Siva Kumar, also known as S.Thaman. He is an Indian film composer, who also works in Tamil and Telugu industry. He is famous for giving his best. He started his career in the film Boys. He then became famous for his passion towards music director. His debut film as music director for Tamil was Sindhanai Sei and for Telugu was Kick. S.Thaman was born on 16th November 1983 in Andhra Pradesh. He is the grandchild of Ghantasala Balaramaya, who is known for producing the Telugu film Seetarama Jananam. Thaman, a 28-year-old hails from a family of musicians from Pottepalam. His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a Drummer; mother Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer and his aunt P.Vasantha is also singer. Thaman married Vardhini, who is a playback singer.
7. Manoj Paramahamsa
Manoj Paramahamsa is a renowned cinematographer for the Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam film industries. He is bestowed with many awards and accolades for his mind-blowing work. Born to UV Babu, a director by profession, on 15th April 1981, this 34-year-old cinematographer has set milestones by his work. Manoj has stated in an interview that his father was the one who wanted him to become a cinematographer”. UV Babu himself has directed many movies in the Telugu film industry. Manoj usually accompanied his father to his shoots and cinematography was all he could think of doing. He often referred cinematography as “the magic of the camera.” He has graduated from Film and Television Institute at Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
During the starting of his career, he assi...
8. Kona Venkat
Kona Venkat is a prominent Indian screenwriter, dialogue writer, actor, lyricist, producer, and director in the Telugu and Hindi cinema. He was born on February 19, 1965, from a Brahmin household in Bapatla, India and completed his studies at the University of Pune. He is the grandson of Kona Prabhakara Rao, the late Governor of Maharashtra. Kona started his career as a producer in Dharmavarapu Subramanyam’s Thoka Leni Pitta.
Later, he worked in Ram Gopal Varma’s films, where he showed his potentials as a brilliant writer. He then became an icon in the comedy genre. He is associated with veteran directors Srinu Vaitla and Gopimohan, whom he worked for quite a long time. He penned dialogues for films like Andarivaadu (2005), Balu ABCDEFG (2005), and much more....
9. Gopimohan
Pinnamaneni Gopi Mohan, popularly known as Gopimohan is an Indian writer who has penned several movies in Tollywood. Gopimohan was born on 1 July 1974 in Kurumaddali which falls under Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh. He developed his passion for cinema from his childhood itself. Starting out as an assistant director, he assisted N Shankar’s Yamajathakudu in 1999. In 2000, he worked in Vamsi under the guidance of B Gopal. Later, he took one step ahead as he served in writing the script alongside assisting the director for Nuvvu Nenu, which turned out to be successful in the year 2001.
Then, Gopimohan decided to concentrate on his career as a writer with Santhosham in 2002. Having written the screenplay, Santhosham featured the debutant Gracy Singh of “Lagaan,” Akkineni Nagarjuna, Shriya Saran, and Prabhu Deva ...
10. Sampath Raj
'Sampath Raj' was born on 25 December 1968 in Chennai. He adopted film field as his profession for more than a decade by acting in a 2004-released film titled ‘Neranja Manasu’ .Though he played only a small role in the film, he gave it his best and had a series of films to his credits almost every year since then. Though born in Chennai, Sampath is not partial about the languages of the movies he acts in, nor is he bothered with the type of role that he gets to play in the films.
He was featured in more than sixty films till date. His impartiality and his wish to accommodate movies from various states in the country has gained him a lot of reputation in the subcontinent. Though Tamil is his mother tongue, he is fluent in various south Indian lang...
11. Brahmaji
Brahmaji is an Indian comedian, actor, and supporting actor who predominantly works in Telugu film and television industry. He was born on April 25, 1965. Brahmaji’s place of birth is East Godavari district in the Coastal Andhra region, Andhra Pradesh, India. During his college days, he was a huge fan of superstar Krishna (Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna Murthy). His father worked as a Tahsildar in Nellore. He married Sashwaty with whom he has a son named Sanjay Kumar. His son works in the Indian Navy.
He is a repeated actor in director Krishna Vamsi's movies. Brahmaji featured in a major role in Krishna Vamsi's first movie as a director, titled Gulabi. He worked in Krishna Vamsi's second movie Ninne Pelladata. Krishna Vamsi cast him in the lead role wit...
12. 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...
13. Posani Krishna Murali
Posani Krishna Murali is a Telugu celebrity actor, who was born in the year 1958 in Secunderabad. He is well known to the Andhra people as a director, producer, writer and an actor. Almost all the films in his directions were commercially hit and he retains the title as a successful director. He has been the story writer for more than 100 films and succeeded in that too. Posani Krishna Murali was the elder brother in their family with two sisters and a brother. He got his Master of Arts degree from the Acharya Nagarjuna University.
After the death of his father, the entire burden of his family fell with Murali. He managed with his chit fund job, somehow. As he did not get satisfaction from the job, he resigned it and went to Chennai in search of work. He found Paruchuri Gopala Krishna and joined as his assistant. He compl...
14. Rao Ramesh
Rao Ramesh is a Telugu actor and son of Rao Gopal Rao, one of the greatest actors of Telugu cinema. He was born in Srikakulam district in present state of Andhra Pradesh. He was married and couple has a son and daughter. He was brought up in Chennai with his father being an actor at that time. He completed his B.Com in Chennai. He was very much interested in photography. He also tried at join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, California for pursuing different courses but latter dropped due to reluctance from parents.
Being a son of great actor nobody came up with petty jobs to him, he himself tried to direct a few films on his own but his mother pursued him to become an actor like his father. His career was very low at the starting. He was an avid reader of poetry also and has feroci...
15. Amitash Pradhan
Amitash Pradhan was born on 1991 in Chennai, and he has successfully carved a recognition for himself in the Tollywood industry at such a very young age. He had a flare for acting ever since his childhood and according to him. He chose to become an actor at the tender age of three, after watching one of Shah Rukh Khan’s movies. Since his decision of selecting acting as a career option was made at tender age, his family pressured him for a degree in electronics.
Though he received the degree that his parents had wanted, he never opted for a job in any corporate offices. Rather, he continued his quest to find suitable opportunities in films and ended up working with various theater groups. The theater groups range from local associations to reno...
16. Ram Charan
Ram Charan is a famous Tollywood actor and an entrepreneur. He is the son of legendary actor, Megastar Chiranjeevi and Surekha Konidela. He was born on 27 March, 1985 in Madras, now Chennai. He has two sisters namely Sreeja and Sushmita. He is the nephew of famous Indian producer, Allu Aravind. He married Upasana Kamineni, vice-chairman of Apollo group. Born with silver spoon in mouth, Ram Charan started his career with the movie Chirutha directed by Puri Jagannadh. The movie is a blockbuster and he has gained good marks for his movie. His next movie, Magadheera changed the dimensions of Tollywood box office. Directed by S.S.Rajamouli and Chiranjeevi playing a cameo role, Magadheera has been an industrial hit and has collected 70 crore collections in 2009.
17. Srinu Vaitla
Shrinu Vaitla is an Indian film director predominantly working in Telugu film industry. The 43year old director is from Kandulapalem, East Godavari District. His first venture movie called ‘Nee Kosam’ having in lead Ravi Teja and Maheshwari, produced by Ghanta Srinivas in 1999 did not do well in box offices. But this movie made a path to the heart of critics and received applauds from the critic world. His next venture ‘Anandam’ in 2001 helped him marked his place in comedy stream. The Ace director is appreciated and credited for introducing parabolic narrative in Telugu in cinemas, and that is seen in most of his feature films like ‘Venky’, ‘Dhee’, ‘ubai Seenu’ and ‘Ready’.
He was seen doing the cam...
18. M R Varma
M R Varma, who is an amazing editor starting off his career in 2007, with the movie Chirutha, a movie about to people who fell in love, who met each other unexpectedly on an island. Work was done well, though it was his first work, as a debut. Since then without a break, he has been asked for or called out for editing many movies which turned out to be a great. Then later he worked for the movie Swagatham (2008), a movie written and directed by Dasarath starring Jagapati Babu, Bhumika Chawla, and Anushka Shetty. A movie about a business man who came to the USA with his daughter, who seems to bring up a connection between an Indian girl who is quite a lot of financial problems. In the movie it was clearly seen, how good the picture was on the screen, giving the touch of professionalism. Ready (2008) a movie ...
19. D V V Danayya
Born in Tallapudi, a small village in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on April 1, 1961, D V V Danayya is an eminent film producer of the South film industry. Danayya has mostly produced Telugu movies. He embarked his film journey with the Telugu movie, “Jamba Lakidi Pamba”, in the year 1993. This film revolved around the story of a woman who got fed up of living in a patriarchal society and decided to approach a learned man who makes a lotion named, Jamba Lakidi Pamba, which results in men behaving like women. The film was well-received by the viewers and had a rating of 8 on IMDb.
After that, Danayya went ahead to work as a producer for the movie, “Maavidakulu”. This movie starred ‘Jagapati Babu’, ‘Rachna Banerjee’ and 'Kota Srinivasa Rao'&nb...