Telugu Movie Review Shankara - Cast & Crew

Divija Karthik is an Indian-origin singer and playback singer who primarily works in the Tollywood industry. She has sung for several albums, films, and music videos. She was born in Telangana, India. In 2016, she worked as a playback singer for the film Selfie Raja. G. Eshwar Reddy directed the film, and Sridhar Seepana wrote the storyline for the film. The movie starred Allari Naresh, Sakshi Chaudhary, and Kanwa Rawat. Chalasani Rambrahmam Chowdary produced the film, and S Lokanathan headed the cinematography department. Sai Karthik composed music for the film, and its story revolves around a guy who falls into trouble every other day because of his addiction to selfies. In 2016, she sang for another movie called Shankara. Tatineni Satya directed the movie, and R.V. Chandramouli Prasad produced the film. T. Surendra Reddy managed the...

Regina Cassandra is a film actress, who is noticeable in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada movies. She rose to fame in the film, Kanda NaalMudhal directed by V. Priya at the age 16. Regina was born on 13 December 1988. Her birthplace is Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her mother is from Karnataka, and her father is from North-India.

She is Christian as her grandfather is an Iyengar who converted to Christianity. Her grandmother is Anglo-Indian from Goa. Regina started anchoring when she was four years old on a children’s channel Splash. She was seen in many TV commercials during her school days. She debuted in the Kannada film Suryakaanti. Also, she made her Telugu movie debut with the film SMS (Shiva Manasulo Shruthi).

She receiv...

Hazel Crowney is a British model and film actress who has appeared in several advertisements and Bollywood movies. Born in United Kingdom on 15 September 1982 to Karin and Phil Crowney, she chose subjects like fashion and textiles at West Kent College.

She was enjoying her vacation in 2004 on Thailand when she came upon the sets on an Indian film as a chance. She then became an extra in an item song for the movie Janasheen. She eventually appeared advertisements for products like Samsung, Nokia, HSBC and Ponds. Her first full role in a feature film came with MP3- Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar.

Apart from Janasheen and MP3, Hazel has appeared in movies like U, Me aur Hum, Mittal v/s Mittal, Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyon, Jeena Hai Toh Thok Daal, A Flat, Kaash Tum Hote and Jilla.

Her appearance extends ...

Pragathi is a South Indian actress who was born in Hyderabad. She has acted mainly in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam movies. She lost her dad at an young age and wanted to support her family financially and thus she began her career as a dubbing artist for cartoons.  During this time, one of her friend’s father noticed her and introduced her to model for Mysore Silk Palace. After watching the advertisement,  Director K. Bhagyaraj was very impressed with her and offered her a role in his movie,’ Veetla Visheshanga’ which was her debut. The same movie was simultaneously dubbed in Telugu and named ‘Gowramma Nee Mogudevaramma’.

In one of her interviews, she has mentioned that she never...

Surender Reddy is a movie director in Tollywood who has worked with top actors and has made blockbuster movies. He was born in Jammikunta, Karimnagar, Telangana, and is known by the names S. Reddy and P.S. Reddy. He has achieved a very successful career by working with Tollywood superstars like Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Ravi Teja, Mahesh Babu, and Allu Arjun.

Surender made his directorial debut with 2005’s Athanokkade. This movie starred Nandamuri Kalyan Ram and Sindhu Tolani. His next directorial venture was the Sameera Reddy and N. T. Rama Rao Jr. starrer Ashok. 2007’s Athidhi, which had Mahesh Babu and Amrita Rao playing central characters, was his next venture. His 2009 movie Kick with Ravi Teja and Ileana D’Cruz achieved great reception. This film...

Sai Karthik ( Sai Kartheek) is a noted South Indian music composer who predominantly works in Telugu and Kannada movies. He has completed 50 movies in 2016, his most recent release being ‘Raja Cheyyi Vesthe’, and is a very busy music composer in Tollywood. With the completion of 50 movies, he is fast moving ahead into the big league of music directors. His movies have decent openings and the scores are really appreciated. The musician took a keen interest in music by playing on rhythm pad player. He had good associations with G. Anand, Vasu Rao, Devi Sri Prasad, Mani Sharma, and even Vandemataram Srinivas, who are all veterans in the music world of the Telugu film industry.

Although, he made his debut as a solo music director through the movie, ‘Call Center’, his biggest hit came through the runaway succ...

Ramajogayya Sastry was born on August 24, 1970 in the small village called Arepalli Muppalla, Ipur Mandal which is near Narasaraopet of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh to parents Suryaprakasa Rao and Saraswatamma in an agricultural family. His father was a priest and an agriculturist by profession. His mother is a home-maker. He was the only child of his parents. He is a Computer Science Engineer who persuaded his B.Tech from NIT Warangal and his Master’s degree in M.Tech at IIT Kharagpur.

During his under graduation, he was very much passionate about writing and he involved into writing lyrics. He was very much interested in writing irrespective of his education which had nothing to do with his passion. Even though, he did not have any connec...

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 classical music.

He is trained in Hindustani music and Carnatic music by Vidwan Cuddalore S...

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 a...

Nara Rohit is a 5'6" South Indian actor, basically, Tollywood, who was born on July 25th, 1985 in Jaggampeta, Tirupati, Andra Pradesh, India. He is in his 30's now and is known to be single. He has now settled in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He is known to have played many lead roles in movies such as "Asura" etc. He is a graduate of Anna University and New York Film Academy, Los Angeles, as well. He is a son of Nara Ramamurthy Naidu.

His relatives are known to be active in politics. His uncle is the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. He is a relative of Naidu and Nara family. Irrespective of his heavy family background, he is still known to a very humble, kind and a down to earth person, so never wears his wealth on his sleeves. He also owns Aran media works. He is known to have completed his schooling in...

K S R Rao is a producer by profession in the Tamil Film Industry. His Production Company, ‘Creative Commercials’ has produced many famous South Indian movies like Abhilasha, Munageetam, Chanti, Swarna Kamalam, Rakshasudhu, and Matrudevobhaba and is very famous in the South Indian Film Industry. K S Rama Rao is originally from Vijayawada, India. His father was a businessman. Rama Rao was interested in films from his childhood. During his childhood, he used to go the nearby theaters in his locality and watch the dramas on display. He used to watch them very closely and note all the details down.

In those days, Vijayawada was also known as the film city of the South. Most of the theaters in the South were present in Vijayawada. Many of his school friends were the siblings of some theater owners due to which he had a ma...

M.S. Narayana was a film Telugu actor in South India. He was born on 16 April 1951 at Nidamarru, Andhra Pradesh. He has acted in more than 750 films. He was born to Mailavarapu Bapi Raju and Venkata Subbamma.

His debut as an actor came up with the movie Pedarayudu in 1995. He is a writer and director too. He was primarily known for his comedy roles, that he did in movies. He best played drunkard role and was very famous for that. And he had played this drunkard role in more than 200 movies. He had got a unique talent of making everyone laugh at his dialogues. His comedy timing was perfect, and he was very enjoyable to watch. He had married M.V. Kala Prapoorna and had two children with her.

His direction debut came whe...

Rajiv Kanakala is a south Indian actor and mostly seen in Telugu industry. He started his career through tv serials and short films. He is also a producer and director. He is the son of Devadas Kanakala who is the popular person in Telugu industry and he has an acting institute. From that institute, only 95% south Indian artists are got trained. And Devadas Kanakala is also an actor. Rajeev Kanakala’s mother is Laksmi Devi. Now she is maintaining institute. he got married to Suma Kanakala and she was a popular artist and anchor in the Telugu tv industry. She is a Malayali, but she can speak fluent Telugu. He has 2 children: Roshan Kanakala and Manaswini Kanakala. He has one sister and her name is Srilakshmi and she is also an actress. He started his career in TV serials like Rajashekara charithra, Ruthuragalu, Kasthuri, Shan...

MLR Karthikeyan is no longer a budding singer in South Indian movies. He started his journey at the age of 14 by singing in school competitions and went on to become a part of many inter-school competitions. He also completed his BSC degree in Mathematics and Masters of Computer Application from Madras University.

He is the discovery of music composer Devi Sri Prasad (DSP) who gave him first break in the film ‘Aaru’ for the peppy number ‘Freeya Vudu’ which was a group song sung by other singers too - Mukesh, Karthikeyan, Vadivelu, Jassie Gift, Grace Karunas.

After this song, he had no looking back. He started off pretty early as a singer in his life and he is still going so strong. To be able to do that retaining his individuality as singers and ensuri...

Tatineni Satya, belongs to the family of director’s, who have been directing movies for last 25 years. His grandfather’ s name was Tatineni Prakash Rao, and he directed many films in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages which included films like ‘Drohi’ released in 1948, ‘Parivartanam’ released in 1954, ‘Samsaram’ in 1975, ‘Bahu Beti’ released in the year 1965, Gali Patalu, and much more. His father, TLV Prasad, has his name registered in the Limca book of world records for churning out 35 movies with the same lead actor. His father started his career with the movie ‘Kudi Edamaithe’.

Tatineni Satya upon completing his school from Chennai went to Loyola College, Chennai for completing his graduation in Visual Communications. Tatineni started hi...

P. Sai Sharan, renowned as Saicharan is an Indian playback and Carnatic singer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Born on October 16, 1992, he hails from a Hindu Tamil family. As a child, he always dreamt of becoming a singer.

At an early age of 8, he began to boost his music vibe by singing Carnatic songs at Thyagaraja Aradhana in Thiruvaiyaru. He started his singing career as a Tamil playback singer in 2012 and sang “Dang-Dang” in a movie called Manam Kothi Paraval with singer Malavika. Every successful individual has an essence of perseverance and Charan’s story is no exception.

After many rejections, he rose to make his name by winning the third season of Airtel Super Singer. The s...

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