Thamarai
Harini
Srilekha Parthasarathy
Chaya Singh
Saranya Ponvannan
Vanitha Krishnachandran
Nayanthara
Neethu Neelambaran
Udhayanidhi Stalin
M Shenbaga Moorthy
Harris Jayaraj
Yugabharathi
Aalap Raju
Harish Raghavendra
Jassie Gift
Jayamoorthy
Karthik
Krishnakumar Kunnath
MK Balaji
Velmurugan
T Udhaya Kumar
Dinesh Kumar
Don Bosco
Aadukalam Murugadoss
Aadukalam Naren
Bharath Reddy
Sunder Ramu
V Jayaprakash
S R Prabhakaran
Selvakumar
Santhanam
Nikkil Murugan
Gopal Balaji
Dhilip Subbarayan
Mayilsamy
1. Thamarai
Thamarai was born in Tamil Nadu, India on 10th November 1975. She is a lyricist by profession and also writes poems, essays and is also a former journalist. She is a renowned lyricist and mostly writes in Tamil. She received her primary education from Coimbatore and graduated from Government College of Technology in Coimbatore. After her graduation, she continued to work there and later moved to Chennai and devoted her time for a company as an independent journalist, where she used to write essays, poems and short stories for them.
She came into the limelight and became very popular among the people through her writing and also joined the Tamil Industry where she started to write lyrics for various movie songs. Thamarai made her debut in 1998 film, “Iniyavale”. The story is about a poet who dre...
2. Harini
Harini is an Indian playback singer in south Indian cinema. Harini was born on April 30, 1979, in Chennai. She is a noted singer in Tamil cinema with a career spanning two decades. Her singing career started in 1995 with the movie, Indira. She got her first break by singing for A.R. Rahman. In this film Indira, she sang two solo songs, Next year, she also got a chance to sing for a film like Indian and Iruvar. Her first rendering for Deva was in the year 1996 for the film ‘Nerukku Ner’. In the same year, she got a chance to render a solo song for music composer S.A. Rajkumar for the film ‘Pistha’. Occasionally, she did numbers for composers Karthik Raja, Mani Sharma, Vidyasagar, Bharathwaj, Harris Jayaraj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, M. M. Keeravani, Devi Sri Prasad, D. Imman, Chakri.
3. Srilekha Parthasarathy
Srilekha Parthasarathy is a playback singer in Tamil movies. Being a natural singer her voice is always like a breath of fresh air. She has been singing at a tender age of four and got trained in her home culture. Even in her school days, she was crowned with the title Nightingale by New Delhi Tamil Educational Association.
Srilekha was born in New Delhi and had only her maternal grandfather P. S. Varadhachari as her initial inspiration. Later she had been adamant to make her journey as a professional singer in movies. She came to Chennai, but she had no contacts with music directors. Hence, she had to struggle a lot before making her debut. Her struggle continued for long three years; she used to take the appointment of music directors and meet t...
4. Chaya Singh
Chaya Singh was born on 16th May’1981 in Bangalore. Her parents belong to Uttar Pradesh. Before her birth, they migrated to Karnataka. Chaya Singh belongs to Raiput family. She spent her childhood in Bangalore. She has completed her schooling in Lourdes School, Bangalore. She did her Plus Two in Bangalore.
Chaya Singh is a film and TV actress who has started her film career with Kannada films and has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Telugu and Oriya films. Her debut film was the Kannada film Munnudi in the year 2000. Some of her Kannada films are- Haseena directed by the Kannada director Girish Kasaravelli, Thuntata which is a hit film, Chitte directed by Dinesh Babu and Rowdy Aliya directed by Sai Prakash. She has acted in the Kannada film Chitte which has received the National Film Award for Best Film f...
5. Saranya Ponvannan
Saranya Ponvannan is one of the best actresses in the last three decades of the Tamil film and TV industry has seen. She first made her entry into the industry by playing the lead role alongside Kamal Haasan in the blockbuster movie ‘ Nayakan’ directed by Mani Ratnam. She played a res-cued sex worker and pulled off the role with panache. She is the daughter of Malayalam director A.B Raj and is married to a fellow actor Ponvannan with whom she has two daughters.
Post her marriage she took an eight-year hiatus after essaying lead roles until the beginning of the 90’s. After eight years she started accepting meaty roles that had powerful characters in movies and serials. She is so versatile that she can pull off comedy, emotional and dark ...
6. Vanitha Krishnachandran
Vanitha Krishnachandran is another of Mollywood’s long running actors, having featured in over 150 films in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. She played the lead role in several movies in the 1980’s before taking a break after her wedding.
Born to a Malayali father, Ganeshan, and a Tamilian mother Kamala, Vanitha entered the movie industry as a 13 year old, debuting in Padai Maarinal, in which she played the role of a school girl. Her Malayalam debut was in the movie Chandrabimbam, which starred Jayabharathi, MG Soman, Prathap Pothen and Sathar in the lead roles, directed by Sankaran Nair. Her subsequent roles in the movies Eenadu, Enickum Oru Divasumand Kaikeyi made her a popular actress, featuring roles opposite Mohanlal and Mammootty, in Keezhvanum Sivackum, and Vikadaka...
7. Nayanthara
Nayantara also called as Nayanthara Kurian, is a renowned Indian actress from Kerala. She was born on 18th November in the year 1984 in Bangalore that is situated in Indian province Karnataka. Her actual name is ‘Diana Mariam Kurian’ the daughter of ‘Omana Kurian’ and ‘Kurian Kodiyatto’. Due to her father’s service, she stayed in several places of India. She joined in “Mar Thoma College” for attending her B.A in English Literature. Besides study she also initiated her modeling career.
As she was indifferent towards building her career in the film industry she denied her first offer, but at last she agreed to do the film ‘Manassinakkare’ where she was casted opposite Jayaram. This was a financially successf...
9. Udhayanidhi Stalin
Udhayanidhi Stalin is considered to be a mammoth figure in the Tamil film and television industry and he is considered to be one of the powerhouse controller in the Tamil Entertainment Industry. Udyanithu Stalin has a rich family lineage along with his envious filmography and television stints. His father is the famous M.K.Stalin and he is also the grandson of Tamilnadu’s ex-chief minister Shri Karunanidhi. He was born on November 27, 1977. He is currently active in the industry as an actor, producer and distributor. Presently, he owns his own company with the name of Red Giant Movies Banner. Some of his hit and award winning movies as an actor includes Oru Kal Oru Kannadi, Aadhavan, etc. As a producer and distributor some of his successful movie ventures in Tamil includes- Kuruvu, Nellparavai, Idhayam Murali, etc. Udyanithi Stal...
10. M Shenbaga Moorthy
M Shenbaga Moorthy is a co-producer and executive producer by profession in the Kollywood film industry which is the industry for Tamil language and located in Chennai city of India. He is known for producing movies like Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen (2017), Gethu (2017), Nannbenda (2015), Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal (2014), and Vanakkam Chennai (2013).
...11. Harris Jayaraj
Harris Jayaraj is a veteran music composer, predominantly having worked in Tamil film industry. He is currently one of the most sought-after composers, having garnered commercial and critical success to most of his works. Right from his first work in Minnale (2001), Harris made the entire industry take notice.
He had also composed for its Bollywood remake Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, which was also a huge success. Coming from a music background, Harris’s climb to popularity was very gradual. From excelling in his music school in London to working under music maestros like AR Rahman and then making popular ad jingles like Coca-Cola, Harris has done everything to prove his position in the Tamil music industry.
Harris consistently de...
12. Yugabharathi
Yugabharathi is an Indian lyricist and poet. He specializes in writing Tamil poems and Tamil songs. He was born in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu. Yugabharathi’s real name is Prem Kumar, but he changed it to Yugabharathi as it was his pen name for his poems. Yugabharathi completed his Matriculation from Maxwell Matriculation Higher Secondary School. He also has a Diploma in Engineering from Government Polytechnic College. He started his career as a poet in early 90’s and wrote poems for various Tamil magazines. He changed his name to Yugabharathi to honor his idol Subramanya Bharathi. He started his career as a lyricist with the movie Aanandham. He wrote lyrics for Pallankuzhiyin in the movie. After that, he wrote lyrics for many songs. His first work as a successful lyricist came out in t...
13. Aalap Raju
Aalap Raju is an eminent playback singer and a mellifluous bass player from Chennai, India. Born (6 June 1979) and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He won a Filmfare Award in the year 2011 for Best Male Playback Singer for Enamo Aedho from the movie Ko, composed by Harris Jayaraj. His Soul – soothing musical interpretation of Enamo Aedho earned him the top spot not just in the music charts but also in the hearts of music fanatics. Hailing from a family with rich musical heritage, Aalap had melodies ensconced in his very veins.
His parents Latha Raju and J.M Raju are playback singers in the Malayalam industry. His grandparents Smt. Santha P. Nair and late K. Padmanabhan Nair were also renowned names in the Malayalam music industry. Aalap, an aspir...
14. Harish Raghavendra
Born on 7 January 1976, Harish Raghavendra is a playback singer. The songs Hey Azhagiya Theeye, Devathaiyai Kanden, Nirpathuve Nadappathuve, Melliname Melliname, Sakkarai Nilavu made him a household name in Tamil Nadu. He has tried his luck in acting too; he acted in few Tamil movies.
Harish entered the music industry at the age of 21 and his first song was for a Telugu film. Then he did a song in Tamil and was absent from the industry for quite some time. He added a degree to his name and embraced Software Engineering too. In fact, Harish would have been a software engineer if not entering the music industry.
15. Jassie Gift
Jassie Gift is a music composer and singer who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He predominantly works for Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil movies and is currently, based in Bengaluru.
Born in a Christian family in Trivandrum, the singer had a passion for music since the beginning. He played the western piano and started playing the keyboard for local bands at a young age. He was influenced a lot by western music.
Later, he evolved as a singer and keyboard player for a local group Moby Dick. His favorite music composers are Freddie Mercury and Ilaiyaraaja. Although he was a gifted singer and keyboard player, he came to learn more about music from music director Jayaraj.
Even before entering the film industry, he composed for an album in Malayalam called ‘Soona Soona’; which became a m...
16. Jayamoorthy
Jayamoorthy is an Indian Playback Singer. He works in the Tamil Film Industry. He is famous for his special way of singing which brings the Tamil nativity into the song. He worked for many famous Music Labels like Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music India, Think Music India, Trend Music, and many more. Jayamoorthy got his first break as a playback singer to sing a song in the film Ghilli (2004).
He later sang songs in many Tamil films like Arai En 305-il Kadavul (2008), Vaagai Sooda Vaa (2011), Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal (2014), Kaadu (2014), Arjunan Kadhali (2016), Kadamban (2017), and many more. Some of his favorite songs are Kabadi, Malayora, Muniya, Labu Labu, Colouru Colouru, Adada Daa, and many more.
...17. Karthik
18. Krishnakumar Kunnath
Krishnakumar Kunnath is an Indian playback singer of Malayalam region. He was born and brought up in Delhi. Krishna was born to C.S. Menon and Kanakavalli, both his parents are Malayali. He has sung a song in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayali languages. His other names are K.K. or Kay Kay. He has completed his schooling from Mount St. Mary’s school, Delhi. Krishna graduated from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University from the commerce background. During his school days, he won many singing competitions. Even before joining singing as his profession he was the lead vocalist for different college bands. KK was very much influenced by singer Kishore Kumar and music director R.D. Burman. No training was taken up by him in this field. After completing his graduation, he moved to Mumbai with dreams to become a s...
19. MK Balaji
M.K.Balaji is one of the renowned Indian playback singers from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has given his stupendous voice to many blockbusters in South Indian movies. His Tamil and Telugu songs are said to be the most awaited ones. He debuted as a playback singer for a Tamil film “Pandhayam” directed by S.A.Chandrasekhar. Songs like “sexy lady” from “Ninaithale Innikum,” “Vellakari Nee” from the movie “Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singham” and “Engepoveno” from the movie “Angaadi Theru” are said to be a turning point in his career which carried him to the great heights.
His first release in the Telugu cinema world was the song “Dailamo-Dailamo” for the movie “Mahatma”, a film by “Krishna Vamsi” which was...
20. 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.
In 2019 he made his place in World Guinness Record; he also got American University Award, best playback singer award (2019, 2018, 2014)Tamil Nadu Government award, and Mirchi award(2020). The list of songs sung by Velmurgan is very long and some of them are Atha Ponnu, Sandalle and Onnam Classile. Velmurgan considers James Vasanthan as one of the turning points in his life.
...21. T Udhaya Kumar
T Udhaya Kumar is a sound designer, predominantly working in Tamil film industry. He has worked in movies including Vivegam, Ulkuthu, Kodiveeran, Podhuvaga En Manasu Thangam, Dora, Kuttram 23, Chennai 600028 II, Kidari, Miruthan etc.
...22. Dinesh Kumar
Dinesh Kumar is a popular choreographer in the Tamil Film Industry who is active in the field from the year 2001 to till day (as of 2016).He has choreographed for more than 138 films in this period. Dinesh had his schooling in Nandanam Arts College in Chennai. He was initially in the team of the Famous Dance brothers Prabhu Deva, Raju Sundaram and Nagendra Prasad. He won the Best Dance Choreographer award from “Filmfare Awards South” in the year 2009 for the Tamil Movie “Ayan” to his work in the song “Pala Palakkura Pagala Nee...” which was a big hit in that year. He won the Best Choreographer award from “Vijay Awards” in the year 2007 for his choreography in the hit song “ Vasantha Mullai Poley vandhu...” in the Tamil Movie “Pokiri” starring the Famous Actor &ldqu...
23. Don Bosco
V Don Bosco is Tamil film industry editor turned director. He made his debut in the film industry as an editor from the movie ‘Sundarapandian’. This movie was directed by Sasikumar.
He is best known for his work in the movie ‘Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal’. He started his career as a graphic designer and there he learned about editing. He worked for many TV shows for leading Tamil channels and albums too.
But he always wanted to work in the field of directing. He directed the movie ‘7 Star Idhu Punnai Nagar Ani’. His home town is Nagercoil. He has studied at Anna Malai University Chennai. He married Ramya in 2008 and has two children. He has acted, edited and directed in the album ‘Vaa Thamizha’ in 2018.
...24. Aadukalam Murugadoss
25. Aadukalam Naren
Aadukalam Naren was born in Chennai the heartland of Tamil cinema, in a family which took keen interest in movies. He was interested in acting and was also encouraged by his family members, and so he decided to go through formal training before he could enter the industry.
In fact he was originally christened Narayan, but as was the prevailing practice he abbreviated it to Naren, and that was the name by which he came to be well known. He received his formal training in acting an...
26. Bharath Reddy
Bharath is a cardiologist turned actor. He appears mostly in Tamil and Telugu movies. He has an attractive body structure and is well built. He manages both his occupations as an actor as well as a doctor. He was born in Tirupati and later moved to Chennai. He has done his schooling and medical education from La Chateline Residential Junior College and Yerevan State Medical University. After this, he started practicing his medical profession as a Cardiologist in Hyderabad at Apollo Hosptial.
After a struggle in some movies, Bharath was noticed in the venture of J.D.Chakravarthy called ‘Siddham’ in 2009. Chakri Toleti spotted him and offered him a role in ‘Unnaipol Oruvan’. This movie was bilingual, and he played the role of police officer in this ...
27. Sunder Ramu
Sunder Ramu is a film and stage actor, as well as a photographer. Sunder was born on 1st of January, 1986, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He completed his secondary education at The Valley School, Bangalore. After that, he joined the National School of Drama in Delhi, but dropped out halfway, as he had a problem coping with Hindi. He joined the Visual Communications course offered by Loyola College in Chennai, where he shot a portfolio for model Sunita Punjabi, for the Femina Miss India competition.
He has worked for several brands as a fashion photographer. He featured in pantomimes for The Little Theatre, for over ten years, as a stage actor. He wrote three short films along with actor friend Dhanush, one of which was made into Mayakkam Enna. Sunder received critical acclaim ...
28. V Jayaprakash
V Jayaprakash is a Tamil film actor and producer, known for his production of “Gopala Gopala,” “Porkkaalam,” “Thavasi,” “April Maadhathil,” and “Julie Ganapathi,” among many others. Jayaprakash has also featured in more than 50 movies, including Tamil and Malayalam. Jayaprakash started off with productions of various films right from the beginning of the millennium decade, and is the owner of the production house, “GJ Banner.” 2007 saw Jayaprakash cast in the Tamil director, Cheran’s “Maya Kannadi,” which saw the inception of his career as an actor. Consequently, Jayaprakash featured in various movies in memorable supporting roles such as in Pandiraj’s “Pasanga,” and other films such as “Moodar ...
29. S R Prabhakaran
S Prabhakaran is a cinematographer and director working in the Tamil film industry. His most known work is his debut film "Sundrapandian". He’s a former associate of M.Sasikumar. He is married to Dhivya. Since his debut in the south, his works have been recognized all over India. The movie, "Sundrapandian" was released in the year 2012 and was critically acclaimed and widely appreciated. He also took over the command of many movies as their director like – "Idhu Kathirvelankadhal" in the year 2014. It was a Telugu film starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Nayanthara.
The film got negative remarks mainly for its weak storyline and improperly etched out characters. The movie is barely relatable and failed to touch the audience with its emotion. Every scene was so complicated and overly ma...
30. Selvakumar
Selvakumar is an art director working in the Tamil industry. He started his career in an animation company before associating with film directors in Kollywood. He started his career in January 2012. He worked as the production designer in many films. He won the ‘Vijay award” for the best art director for Madrasapattinam.
...31. Santhanam
32. Nikkil Murugan
Nikkil Murugan is one of the leading PROs in the Tamil film industry. He has been the PRO for legends including Rajinikanth and Kamal haasan. He was acclaimed as the best communication man by India Today. Nikil, as he is also called, has also taken the role of media manager of Kamal Haasan for several years. The wide coverage of Kollywood movies throughout the world is done by him. He is also closely associated with music director A R Rahman. Nikkil Murugan is regarded as very media friendly. He believes in the efficient application of technology for his PR communications. He has been associated with more than 200 movies. Born on 1967, Nikkil Murugan also had close association with ace directors Shankar and Maniratnam. He can communicate in over 5 languages.
...33. Gopal Balaji
Gopal Balaji is a digital imaging technician who works predominately in the Tamil film industry. He is a digital cinema designer who works for the Indian cinemas. His noted works include Spanish masala, thanga meengal and idhu kathirvelan kadhal. Gopal Balaji was born on 18th December 1975 in Chennai. Commonly known as Balaji he did his graduation in computer applications and further did advance diploma in multimedia. Later on, he was also a participant of an ICA colorist course.
He started his career as an assistant film editor but after some time moved to VFX and digital cinema. Presently he works as a digital cinema designer, stereoscopic 3D specialist, compositor and online artist and colorist as well as handles various jobs of supervising films from shoot to final delivery in theatres. Balaji started his career professiona...
34. Dhilip Subbarayan
Dhilip Subbarayan is a stunt choreographer, producer, and actor. He has worked in South Indian film industry. His main of contribution lies in Tamil film industry. After a long time of being a stunt choreographer, he made his debut in Sangu Chakkaram. He was born in Tamil Nadu. His father, Super Subbarayan also has served in the industry as a successful stunt chorographer, for many years. He showed interest in the action and fast lifestyle which is practiced. Like his father, he also dreamed of being in the industry and started working in many movies. He was first noticed in ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ in the year 2011. The movie was a full action phased based on the life of the gangster. The movie was a huge hit and received a world première at the South Asian International Film Festival in t...
35. Mayilsamy
Mayilsamy is a popular and veteran television down the South Indian entertainment industry known for his impeccable comic timing and who is mostly seen playing strong supporting character roles in popular Tamil daily soaps and Tamil movies. Mayilsamy is also an acclaimed stage performer, stand in comedian, TV host and a theatre artiste, In short, he is a multifaceted and multitalented personality of the Tamil television industry.
Born on June 5, 1956 at Sathyamangalam in Tamil Nadu, India, Mayilsamy was involved in various stage performances and in theatres from his early childhood days and performed and travelled across Tamil Nadu with a local famous comedy troupe. He has been active in the Tamil film and television industry since the year 1985 and has a long line hit a...