Telugu Movie Review Ismart Shankar - Cast & Crew

Ramya Behara who was born on 1 February in the year 1994 is a singer in Telugu industry. She was born in Narasaraopet, Guntur District, and Andhra Pradesh. She has sung for many Hindi films and mainly sings in regional films. One of the most popular sung by her was “Main Tujhse Pyaar Nahi Karti” in one of the most popular Bollywood movie named “Baby” starring Akshay Kumar.

Nabha Natesh is a film actress from India. She predominantly acts in Kannada movies. Nabha was born in 1995 in Sringeri, situated in Karnataka. Nabha has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science from Mangalore, Karnataka. After finishing her studies, she started working as an IT Engineer. Later she went on to pursue her interest in acting and modelling. Nabha was among the top 11 contestants to make it to the Femina Miss India Bangalore in the year 2013.Before debuting in Sandalwood, Nabha had done theatre acting as well. She has taken formal acting lessons in Abhinaya Taranga. Her interest in acting and theatre led her to work closely with Prakash Belawadi. Due her dedication and passion for acting, she even went on to assist him in some plays. While being at the backstage of the plays, she slowly got a chance to act in few plays.

Nidhi Agarwal is a talented, hard-working, beautiful Hindi Indian film Actress, who has worked predominantly in the Hindi movie industry. She was born in the capital of Karnataka, Bangalore. She currently resides in Bangalore. She was born on 17th August in the year 1993. She saw a great future in her at a young age; an actress and her family helped her in every possible way to support her. Her mother describes her as very hard working and friendly. She started her modeling as a career.

Pavithra Lokesh is a popular South Indian Actress born on 19th February. She is the daughter of yesteryear actor Mysore Lokesh, who has acted in about 300 Kannada movies. She also has a brother named Adi Lokesh who has acted in several Kannada movies. She got married in 2008 to Suchendra Prasad.

Mohana Bhogaraju is an Indian Playback Singer. She works in the Tollywood, Kollywood, and Sandalwood Film Industries. Mohana was born in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. Her family moved to Hyderabad after she was born. Mohana spent her childhood in Hyderabad. Mohana pursued her Bachelor’s degree from Bhojreddy Engineering College. She later pursued her Master of Business Administration Degree from Osmania University. Mohana was always fascinated with singing and music. She started learning music at a very young age of six. Her mother recognized her talent and encouraged her. She participated in many competitions in school.

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Puri Jagannadh wears many feathers to his cap including production, direction and screenplay writing. His main area of interest is Telugu films. He has received Nandi awards thrice in his career spanning more than a decade. 

During the year 2004, Jagannadh ventured into Bollywood with the flick, Shart: The Challenge. This film bombed at the box office. Bbuddah..Hoga Terra Baap is his directorial venture of 2011 and it has the credit of being recorded in Oscar library. Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies and Vaisho Academy are his production ventures. Puri Sangeet is the music company organized by Jagannadh. 

Badri, Idiot, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Pokiri, Desamuduru, Golimaar, Sivamani, Iddarammayilatho, Businessman, Temper and Heart Attack are some of his box office successes. Born on 28 September 1966 in Pithapuram, Andhrawala, Jagannadh pursued his studies at St. Theresa R.C.M. High school. He initially tested waters as an assistant director to ace director Ram Gopal Varma and worked under him in many Telugu flicks. His first directorial venture, Badri, was a commercial success. This film had Pawan Kalyan in the main role and the film led way to Jagannadh to direct more films. Telugu actor Ravi Teja and Jagannadh share a good rapport and they have worked together in Idiot, Itlu Sravani Subramanyam and Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi. Jagannadh helmed direction for the debut venture of Chiranjeevi’s son Ram Charan Teja. 

Jagannadh received the Nandi Award for his flick Pokiri. This film also fetched him the Best Director Filmfare Award during the year 2006. This film ran for over 500 days, which is indeed a great feat. It was remade into Tamil and Hindi too, and it was successful in these languages. Jagannadh also tried his luck in Kannada film industry and the flicks that he directed here include, Yuvaruvaraja and Appu. Jagannadh had also succumbed to depression once, but later he took it in his stride and emerged a wise person.

Raj Thota is an Indian film cinematographer. He works in the Telugu film industry. Raj belongs to Telangana. He is married to Jayanthi Thota. He has a son named Yochan Varshith Raj and a daughter namedHasmikka Raj. At the beginning of his career, he assisted the renowned cinematographer, T. Surendra Reddy.

Mani Sharma is a famous music Director in Tamil and TelughMovies. His full name is Mani Sharma Yanmandra. Mani Sharma was born in a small district of Andhra Pradesh. His Village name is Machillipatnam which is situated in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. He spent his childhood in Chennai.

Ravi Kumar is a Lyricist from India. He works in Telugu Cinema. He penned lyrics for more than 390 songs and has contributed to more than 125 films. He considerably worked with directors like Puri Jagannadh and music director Chakri and S.S. Thaman. He predominantly writes songs appealing to the masses. His genres include mass, melodies, and romance. He gained the credit and won two Santosham Film Awards in the year 2006 and 2008. He also received SIIMA Award in 2013. Ravi Kumar Bhaskarabhatla born on June 5, 1974, in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was brought up in Rajahmundry among five siblings. He got passionate about literature and got the inspiration from his maternal Grandfather Aravelli Rajagopalacharya, in his early years of childhood. While he was in Rajamundry he used to visit Gouthami library and it influenced him to approach into poetry.

Sarath Santhosh is an Indian film singer in the Telugu industry. He has sung many hit songs in movies like ISmart Shankar, NGK, Dhanusu Raasi Neyargalae, VellaiPookal, NTR: Mahanayakudu, Nota, Vishwaroopam 2, Theeran Adhigaram Ondru, and Winner. He advanced to third place in Padutha Theeyaga and won accolades from S.P. Balasubrahmanyam and Vani Jayaram Garu. Sarath has also participated in other Tamil shows like Vijay TV’s Super Singer and Sangeetha Maligai. VyzarsuBalasubramanyam and Ramachari groomed him in a music show PadalaniUndi.

Junaid Siddiqui is a talented film editor in the Tollywood Entertainment Industry. He was born and grown up in Hyderabad, Telangana. Junaid passion for films made his career in film editing. In 1990, he started his career as an editor and completed editing his debut movie, Kalyana Vaibhogame, which was highly appreciated. He has a very impressive filmography, having worked on many movies, such as Paisa Vasool, Ismart Shankar, Red, Idhe Maa Katha, Lakhsya, 7 Days 6 Nights, and Liger. In 2023, his latest movie as an editor is Anni Manchi Sakunamule. His work has been released in Telugu and Kannada Language films.

Hailing from Hyderabad, Telangana, Ram Pothineni is a Telugu, film actor. His uncle is a notable film producer popularly known as Sravanthi Ravi Kishore. His other uncle is Dr. Ramesh Babu, owner of Ramesh Hospitals in Guntur and Vijayawada. Ram was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and his father is Murali Mohan Pothineni. He finished his schooling at Chettinad.

Getup Srinu is the stage name of the Indian television actor, stand-up comedian, and film actor, Bodupalli Srinu. He has worked mainly in the Tamil television and film industry. He was born on 12th December 1984 in Achanta Mandal, Kalingapalam, in West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. His zodiac sign is Leo. He is married to Sujatha and has one son. He completed his studies in Achanta Mandal and later moved to Hyderabad for work and started working in the Tamil television and film industry.

Puneet Issar is a prominent Indian actor and brilliant director. He was born on November 6, 1959 to film director, Sudesh Issar. He was married to Deepali, sister of popular actor, Satyajeet Puri. They have two children namely, Nivriti and Siddhant. Besides being a trained actor, he is also a professor of speech, method acting and diction. He also learnt mixed martial arts and he was skilled in wrestling, kung-fu, karate and boxing.

Puneet was first seen in the Bollywood action comedy film, Coolie which stars Amitabh Bachchan in 1983. One of the action scene in this film requires him to punch Amitabh Bachchan and the punch accidentally falls into his abdomen which injures him severely. Although Amitabh understand that things like that can happen while on shoot, many people blamed Puneet for the incident and he admitted that he encounter some difficulties in bagging roles in films because of the notoriety of the said incident. Moving on, the actor was usually acted as a villain in most of his films during the 80s and 90s including the Prem Shakti, Zakhmi Aurat, Teja, Jagruti, Palay Khan, Kal Ki Aawaz and more. He was also part of the Mohanlal starrer films, Pingami and Yodha and also in Salman Khan’s films like Chandramukhi, suriyavanshi and Sanam Bewafa. He played as a villain in the film Aashant which stars Akshay Kumar and also in Ram Jaane with Shahrukh Khan. He also played as Subedar Ratan Singh in the box-office Bollywood war film, Border. He bagged the role of Anand in the Hindi feature film, Purana Mandir in 1984 and in 1987, he appeared in the Bollywood version of Superman. During the 80’s, Puneet has done various Horror films including Tehkhana. In 1997, he got the opportunity to act in the mythological film, Suryaputra Shanidev. He was also starred in films like Krrish, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Aryan, Partner and a lot more in year 2000s. In 2008, he essayed the role of Anguli Mala in the multilingual feature film, Gautama Buddha; a film based on the life of the Buddha. Puneett also acted in various Punjabi films including the Rab Ne Banayian Jodiyan. Puneet has donned more than 150 Hindi films and a hundred regional films.

In 1988, he played as Duryodhana in the epic series, Mahabharat under the direction of Ravi Chopra. His performance in the show gained him more fame and popularity. He, along with other casts toured around India to perform live shows about the epic during the 90s. He was also starred in television serials like Sahil, Vikram Aur Betaal, Junoon and more. Puneet appeared in more than 1800 episodes in television. Puneet was also part of SAB TV’s Left Right Left. He also played as Lord Parshurama in the latest mythological drama series, Mahabharat in 2013. Recently, he joined the reality show, Bigg Boss on Colors TV.

In 2004, he directed the action film, Garv: Pride and Honour which stars Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty. The film was Above Average in the box-office. In 2011, he also directed the Bollywood film, I Am Singh which is based on the stories about the Sikh immigrants in U.S. after the September 11 attack. 

Puneet signed as the Brand Ambassador of the Paras Lubricants Ltd in 2013.

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 ferocity of narration. He tried to start his career in a TV serial by Gantasala Ratna Kumar (famous TV serial director), but he was too shy and nervous before camera and odd are against him which made serial stalled in the middle. Later he went back to Chennai and there he started as a small screen artist and started acting in TV serials. He acted in serials like ‘Pavitra bandham’ and ‘Kalavari Kodalu’ and spent about four and half years working on TV serials.

He got a breakthrough movie named Gamyam (message oriented film) in 2008, Later on he has a catastrophic rise in his career and presently he was one of the versatile and busiest actors in Telugu film industry. He acted in more than 30 films in the past three years. He was now offered roles in every big project in Telugu movies. He also acted in Kollywood & Sandlewood movies in 2010.

Vishu Reddy is an Actor who works predominantly in the Indian movie industry. A majority of his work is for Telugu movies. He is a native of the city of Hyderabad. His most recent release was called Mehbooba, and it hit theatres in the year 2018.

Kasarla Shyam is an Indian music director, lyricist, and folk singer. He started his musical journey in 1984 after joining the Mantrala Mutthigadu Folk Dance during the Babala Academy’s Children’s Day event. He bagged the first prize for the song Warangal Shankar, which led him and his troupe to perform in different events.

Anurag Kulkarni is a playback singer from Hyderabad. He was born on the June 7th 1993. He is a playback singer in the Telugu Film Industry. He started to learn Hindustani Classical Music for three years from late Sri. Kakunoori Jangaiah, a famous Hindustani vocalist and guru. He pursued his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from Vignan Institute of Technology and Aeronautical Engineering in 2015.

Rahul Sipligunj is a Telugu songwriter, singer and music composer who rose to fame with independent music videos. It is his music video albums that paved him a way to enter the film industry. Rahul made his debut as a playback singer with Naga Chaitanya's debut film 'Josh.' The film was directed by Vasu Varma and produced by noted producer, Dil Raju.

Saketh Komanduri is an Indian playback singer. His works are generally seen in the Tollywood or the Telugu film industry. He is the son of Ramachary Komanduri, who is a playback-singer, music teacher, and music composer. At a very early stage in life did Saketh decide his goal of being a successful music composer. He completed his bachelor’s degree in the stream of audio engineering in order to get closer to fulfilling his dream. He also has a sister, whose name is Sahithi. She is also known as Sony, which is her stage name.