Telugu Movie Review The Family Star - Cast & Crew

Mrunal Thakur is a television and film actress who is popular for bagging the role of Sakshi in the action crime television series, Har Yug Mein Ayega Ek Arjun on STAR Plus. She was born on August 1, 1992 at Nagpur, India. Mrunal was brought up in Mumbai. She studied at KC College in South Mumbai and took up journalism before landing into the field of acting. She came from an orthodox family so she had a hard time convincing her parents and uncles to enter the television industry. She started when she was just 15 years old through a Marathi documentary drama.

When she was studying in college, a friend adviced her to audition and she got the lead character role as Gauri Bhonsle Gaikwad in Hemant Devdhar soap, Mujhse Kuchh Kehti… Yeh Khamoshiyaan, opposite with Siddharth Kapoor (played by Mohit Sehgal). Gauri was raised in London and she went missing after returning to India. This serial ended after few months but she said that her experiences were really amazing and she learned so much from her co-stars like the proper intonation, how to deal with people and how to become professional and some life lessons too.

Besides acting, she also did the Hindi play Do Fool Chaar Mali together with Barun Sobti under the direction of Manoj Verma. Recently, she played the role of Bulbul Arora, sister of Pragya Abhishek Prem Mehra (played by Sriti Jha) in the drama serial, Kumkum Bhagya on Zee TV which was directed by Ekta Kapoor. 

She also appeared in the silver screen through the film Rangkami in year 2013. She was also given a spot in the romantic comedy film, Jab We Met in 2007 by Shahid and Kareena Kapoor. Mrunal was also roped in to do a role in a Marathi film, Hello Nandan by Shashi-Sumeet Mittal. She played the role of Ruby, Nandan’s another love interest. Later, she did a pivotal role as Sandhya in the Marathi film, Viti Dandu which was directed by Ganesh Kadam. This year, in another Marathi film, she bagged the role of Dr. Swapna Bhosale in Surajya under the direction of Santosh Manjrekar

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Mrunal likes to enter the Bigg Boss house when given a chance. She was known for her beauty and her beguiling smile that can melt a stone. She is also waiting for a better opportunity to come her way either in television or films.

Mrunal also acted in various films such as “Super 30,” “Batla House,” “Ghost Stories,” “Toofan,” “Dhamaka,” “Jersey,” “Sita Ramam,” “Jahaan,” “Selfiee,” “Gumraah,” “Lust Stories,” Season 2, “Aankh Micholi,” “Pippa.” She was also appeared in a Web series “Made in Heaven,” Season 2. She also appeared in music videos such as “Gallan Goriya,” and “Aise Na Chhoro.” Mrunal also received many awards, such as “Rising Star From Indian Television to Films,” “Most Promising Newcomer- Female,” “Most Stylish Rising Star (Female),” “Most Stylish Game Changer,” “Diversity in Cinema Award,” “Best Actress Critics- Telugu,” “Best Female Debut- Telugu,” “Best Actress in a Short Film.” 

Rohini Hattangadi is an Indian actress who can be called as a veteran in the true sense of the term. She is a very senior actress, who debuted with the movie called ‘Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan’ in 1978. She has an experience of around 35 years and she has been widely appreciated and critically perceived very well by the audiences and critics respectively. Some of her noted works are popular movies such as ‘Arth’ (1982), ‘Saaransh’ (1984) & ‘Gandhi’ (1982). She won a lot of recognition for her role of Kastoorba Gandhi in Sir Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ (1982), which was a critical success and it won an Academy Award for the best film category. Rohini won the BAFTA Award for her role in this movie.

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Born on January 1, 1970, in Payyanur, Kerala, K U Mohanan is an Indian movie cinematographer. Raised to a conventional family, he contended energetically proportional up to the best. He is a conceived artist and was exposed to dramatization and silver screen significantly very early in his life.

Ajay Gosh is an Indian actor who works in the Telugu and Tamil Film Industries. The actor is termed as the gifted villain for both Tollywood and the Tamil Film Industry. With his stout body and ferocious looks, he gave a spellbinding performance in one Tamil and one Telugu movie. Though he just appeared in two films, the audience from both the states received him well. He had a very attractive physique that suits the role of a villain. In both the films he worked, he did the negative characters. In the Tamil Film Industry, Ajay Ghosh made a decent entry. He gave a luminous performance as a sadistic police officer in ‘Visaaranai’.

Vijay Deverakonda is a film actor of Tollywood. He was born on 9th May 1989. He was born in Achampet, Mahabubnagar now in Telangana. He, along with his younger brother had taken their early education from Sri Sathya Sai High Secondary School, which is in Puttaparthi in Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh. As he was sent to a boarding school, so he had to spend most of his formative years in the school. Since being in a boarding school, he learned a lot of things, and he uses those things in his life to enjoy his success.

Vennela Kishore is a famous Tollywood actor, director and comedian. He was born on 19th September 1980 at Kamareddey, Nizamabad,Telangana. He was working as software quality engineer in the USA.Later, He took a stand and settled in India in 2008 to furnish his passion as an actor or comedian. He debuted in Movie Vennela in 2005.

Parasuram is a newly established director in Tollywood. With successful direction and point direction, he has started to make a good image in the Telegu cinema. His few subjects have been distinct and worthy. He has cast some of the finest Tamil actors in his movies. He has worked in a variety of genres. From youth based on family drama, he has captured the essence very well. He is fondly called ‘Bujji.’

The precious icon of the Indian music industry, Gopi Sundar has composed his soulful music for more than fifty movies to date. In 2014, he composed the songs & background score for the Malayalam movie "1983" and was awarded the National Award.the movie got a good critic rating of 3.5 out of 5.abrid shine, the debut director of the movie was awarded the Kerala State Awards in the category of the best debut director. Alongside the film bagged two more awards for the category of best & second best actor in the same award ceremony of 2014. He was born in Kochi & opted for joining the music industry for his career. Gopi has a good knowledge of instruments like Tabla & keyboard & has worked as a keyboard programmer in some of Bollywood hit films.