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Nibunan
''Nibunan'' () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film co-written, co-produced and directed by Arun Vaidyanathan. The film features an ensemble cast of Arjun, Prasanna, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Sruthi Hariharan, and Vaibhav. It was Arjun's 150th film. Featuring music composed by Navin and cinematography by Arvind Krishna, the film began production in late 2015. the film was imultaneously dubbed and released in Kannada ''Vismaya'' (). The two versions of the film had a worldwide theatrical release on 28 July 2017 and received mixed reviews from critics as well as the audience. Plot Ranjith Kalidoss is a DSP in CB-CID, who along with Inspectors Joseph and Vandana, takes on high-profile cases and closes them successfully. Counter to his high intensity job, Ranjith has a peaceful family life with his wife, Shilpa, daughter Oviya, younger brother Sandeep, and their family dog Rocky. Ranjith's superiors assigns his team a task to pursue a group of 5 criminals, who con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjun Sarja
Srinivasa "Arjun" Sarja is an Indian actor, producer, and director who works predominantly in the Tamil film industry, in addition to Kannada and Telugu languages as well. Referred to by the media and his fans as " Action King" for his roles in action films, Arjun has acted in more than 160 films, most of them being lead roles. He is one of few South Indian actors to attract fan following from multiple states of India. He has directed 12 films and also produced and distributed a number of films. In 1993, he starred in S. Shankar's blockbuster '' Gentleman'' which opened to positive reviews, while Arjun went on to win the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor. During this time, he starred in hits such as ''Jai Hind'' (1994), ''Karnaa'' (1995), and the action thriller film '' Kurudhipunal'' (1995), for which Arjun won acclaim for his role while the film became India's official entry for the 68th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. In 1999, he starre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prasanna (actor)
Prasanna Venkatesan, often credited mononymously as Prasanna, is an Indian actor who works predominantly in the Tamil film industry and alongside appeared in a few Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films. He made his first success in '' Five Star'' in 2002, which was produced by Mani Ratnam. Some of his other notable films are ''Kannum Kannum'', '' Cheena Thaana 001'', '' Kanda Naal Mudhal'', ''Naanga Romba Busy'' and '' Naanayam''. Apart from lead roles, he has also played villain roles. His film '' Achchamundu! Achchamundu!'', in which he starred alongside Sneha and American actor John Shea, was screened at many International film festivals, such as Shanghai and Cairo International Film Festival. Early life and background Prasanna was born in Tiruchirappalli. His father was an employee in BHEL and his mother is a homemaker. He completed his schooling from BHEL Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tiruchirappalli. He has a younger brother. Prasanna was good at mimicry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sruthi Hariharan
Sruthi Hariharan (born 2 February 1989) is an Indian actress and producer who appears primarily in Kannada language films. She debuted in a 2012 Malayalam film, '' Cinema Company'', and her first film in the Kannada cinema industry was '' Lucia''. Shruthi received Special Mention Award at the 66th National Film Awards for her performance in the film Nathicharami. Early life and family Sruthi Hariharan was born into a Tamil family in Trivandrum, Kerala, and was raised in Bangalore, Karnataka. Her mother tongue is Tamil. She attended school at Sishu Griha Montessori and High School. After high school she attended Christ University and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) degree. She is trained in Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance. Apart from her mother tongue she is fluent in Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi and can understand Telugu. She became interested in cultural activities when she attended Christ College and became a part of their cultural team. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arun Vaidyanathan
Arun Vaidyanathan (born in Sirkazhi, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian-American film director, producer and screenwriter of feature films, short films and television dramas. He directed his first full-length feature film in Tamil, '' Achchamundu! Achchamundu!'', which released in July 2009. He produced a Tamil romantic-comedy film, '' Kalyana Samayal Saadham'' in 2013. In 2014, he directed Mohanlal in a Malayalam political satire film, '' Peruchazhi''. Early life and career Arun Vaidyanathan was born and raised in Sirkali, a remote town in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He watched movies during his childhood as it served as his only entertainment. In school, he was very much interested in music and dance and held the talent of receiving an applauding audience. He also discovered a talent for mimicry, which he pursued in college. This led to jobs in the television field. He wrote scripts, directed and performed in the leading television programs of South India aired on Sun TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar (born 5 March 1985) is an Indian actress who appears in Tamil and Telugu films, in addition to Kannada and Malayalam films. She made her debut with the Tamil film ''Podaa Podi'' (2012). Early life and family Varalaxmi was born to actor Sarathkumar and Chaya on 5 March 1985. Her stepmother is actress Raadhika. Varalaxmi did her schooling at St. Michael's Academy, Chennai. She is a graduate in Microbiology from Hindustan Arts and Science college, Chennai with a Masters in Business Management from the University of Edinburgh. She honed her acting skills at Anupam Kher’s Acting School in Mumbai, before becoming a professional actress. Career Varalaxmi auditioned for Shankar's ''Boys'' (2003) and was selected to play the lead role, before her father requested her to turn down the opportunity. Likewise, she also missed out on opportunities to act in Balaji Sakthivel's '' Kaadhal'' (2004) and Venkat Prabhu's '' Saroja'' (2008). Varalaxmi signed on to sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna (Tamil Actor)
Krishna Kulasekaran (born 14 February 1978) credited as Krishna is an Indian actor who mainly appears in Tamil cinema. He is the younger brother of Tamil film director Vishnuvardhan. Early life Krishna's father is film producer K.K.Sekar (Pattiyal Sekar) and his brother is noted film director, Vishnuvardhan. He went to St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai, studied at Loyola College and graduated with an MBA in finance in the United States. He worked for a year and a half in the IT industry and started his own business that was doing well. He has also undergone training in Jazz and worked as a dancer/choreographer before he left for US. Career As an actor, he first faced the camera for Mani Ratnam's '' Anjali'' and later appeared in ''Iruvar'' and Santosh Sivan's '' The Terrorist''. He was also chosen to play the younger version of Rajinikanth's character in ''Thalapathi'', but the character was later scrapped because it affected the film's length. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karthik Jayaram
Karthik Jayaram is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. He is known for his work in the Colors Kannada television soap opera ''Ashwini Nakshatra'', in which he played superstar actor Jay "JK" Krishna. He also acted in ''Siya Ke Ram'' as Raavana in Star Plus. His first role as a lead actor came in ''Just Love''. He was second runner-up in the 2017 reality show ''Bigg Boss Kannada 5''. Early life Karthik was born in Koppa, India. His father is veterinarian. He has engineering degree from BIT, with a specialization in Civil engineering. He later pursued his Masters in structural engineering and worked for Praxair in Dubai as a structural engineer and then moved back to Bangalore while he was still at the peak of his career. While working with Praxair his instincts in modeling and movies led him to quit the job. Television Karthik appeared in a television soap, ''Ashwini Nakshatra'', portraying the role of an actor Super star "JK", that was aired on Colors Kannada. ''Ash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suhasini Mani Ratnam
Suhasini Maniratnam (born 15 August 1961) known mononymously as Suhasini, is an Indian actress, director, producer and writer in the Tamil film industry. She has worked as an actress in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She made her cinematic debut with the 1980, Tamil film. '' Nenjathai Killathe''. Suhasini then won National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in '' Sindhu Bhairavi'' (1985). Suhasini has won 4 Filmfare Awards, 2 Kerala State Awards, 2 Tamilnadu State Awards and 2 Nandi Awards. Early life Her paternal cousins Anu Hasan, Shruti Haasan and Akshara Haasan have also since become actresses. Suhasini attended the Municipal Elementary School in Paramakudi, before moving to Madras aged 12 to live with her grandmother and uncle Kamal Haasan. Film career As an actress She made her film debut in 1980 with the Tamil movie '' Nenjathai Killathe''. In her first movie itself, she won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress. She was intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sathish Suriya
Sathish Suriya is an Indian film editor, who has worked on Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada language films. Career Sathish Suriya began his career as an editor with Indian television channel Apt TV, before choosing to join the post-production team of Mani Ratnam's production house, Madras Talkies. During his ten-year stint with the production studio, Sathish apprenticed under Sreekar Prasad and worked on productions including ''Five Star'' (2002), '' Aaytha Ezhuthu, Yuva'' (2004), ''Guru'' (2007) and '' Raavanan'' (2010). Sathish made his debut as the main editor through Priya's ''Kannamoochi Yenada'' (2009) and moved on to work on films including ''Naan'' (2012) and '' Oru Oorla Rendu Raja'' (2014). In 2016, he worked on his most high-profile project till date, when he served as the main editor in Sudha Kongara Prasad's bilingual films, ''Irudhi Suttru'' and ''Saala Khadoos'' (2016) featuring Madhavan. Despite being a bilingual shot simultaneously, Sathish worked on differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaibhav Reddy
Sumanth Reddy (born 21 April 1978), better known as Vaibhav, is an Indian actor who works primarily in Tamil film industry. He made his debut with the Telugu film ''Godava'' (2007) under his father, A. Kodandarami Reddy's direction. He is best known for his performances in Venkat Prabhu films '' Saroja'' (2008), '' Goa'' (2010), '' Mankatha'' (2011), ''Chennai 600028'' (2016) and movies such as ''Kappal'' (2014), ''Aambala'' (2015), ''Aranmanai 2'' (2016) and '' Meyaadha Maan'' (2017). Early life Vaibhav Reddy was born in Chennai to Telugu filmmaker A. Kodandarami Reddy. He did his schooling at the Cambridge Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Lloyds Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu and at St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai. His elder brother, Sunil Reddy, made his acting debut with '' Seethakaathi'' (2018). Career He made his acting debut in 2007, starring in the Telugu film ''Godava'' under his father's direction opposite Shradha Arya, which didn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navin (music Director)
Navin is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, who has predominantly scored music for Tamil and Malayalam films. Career Navin began to learn the flute aged five and continued to learn both Carnatic and Western interpretations of the instrument throughout his childhood. In 2005, he received an opportunity to work on the "Luka Chupi" song in ''Rang De Basanti'' (2006) as a flute player in A. R. Rahman's music, and the opportunity marked his first film performance. Navin worked as a flute player for more composers including Harris Jayaraj and G. V. Prakash Kumar, before working as a music composer on R. S. Prasanna's ''Kalyana Samayal Saadham'' (2013). For the film, he preferred to be credited under the stagename of Arrora however he later reverted to his real name. He later also worked on the Mohanlal-starrer, '' Peruchazhi'' (2014), his first release in Malayalam. He has since worked on the compositions of Tamil films including '' Oru Naal Iravil'' (2015) and ''Vil Ambu' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvind Krishna (cinematographer)
Arvind Krishna is an Indian cinematographer, producer and actor in Indian film and television industry. He is well known for his work in ''7G Rainbow Colony'' (2004) and ''Pudhupettai (2006)''. Early life Born in New Delhi on 11 May, Arvind Krishna spent his childhood traversing between Chennai and Delhi. He was educated at the Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Mylapore, and holds a professional graduate degree in Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai. His father, a producer, was one of the first to produce a TV series for Doordarshan called "Adade Manohar". S.Krishnan ( Arvind's father) owned a film lab called "Aarkay Home Movies" and a production company called "Ark Media". Arvind was inspired by his father and thus chose to pursue a career in film and television. Marriage He is married to Anupama Arvind. Career Cinematography His first stint was with P.C.Sreeram, with whom he interned for six years. In this role he assisted him in the cinematography depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
