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Mandy Takhar is a British Punjabi Indian actress, who predominantly appears in Punjabi films.

Early life

Mandy Takhar was born and raised in the city of Wolverhampton in the UK. She belongs to a Sikh Jatt family and traces her roots to Maliana, a small village near Phagwara in Punjab.  While growing up Mandy was quite a tom boy. During high school she was the only female in boy's rugby team, football team, and she also trained in Martial Arts. She then moved to London from her family home when she was 17, to study drama at the Kingston University and then left the UK in 2009 to work as an actor in the Indian film industry.

Career

Mandy moved to Mumbai and landed the role opposite renowned Punjabi singer Babbu Mann in the 2010 in film, Ekam - Son of Soil. and her work was highly appreciated. As a result, she was offered the lead role opposite the superstar Gippy Grewal in the most high budgeted film of Punjabi cinema, Mirza - The Untold Story. She played Sahiba in this modern adaptation of the ethic love story of Mirza-Sahiba. Her portrayal of Sahiba got her nominated for the best actress at the PTC Punjabi Film Awards. After Mirza Mandy is known as one of the top most loved actresses of Punjabi cinema.

In 2013, she starred in Tu Mera 22 Main Tera 22 a comedy alongside Amrinder Gill and Honey Singh. She played the role of a teacher and won hearts again and got the award for most prominent & popular face and youth Icon of 2012-2013 at the 6th Punjabi Film and Music Festival.

She made her debut in Tamil cinema with Venkat Prabhu's Biriyani starring Karthi.  Her role in the film "Sardaar Ji" took her to the new heights of success and fame.  She won the award for best supporting actor at PTC Punjabi Film Awards however she did not attend the awards, according to the sources it could be because it was quite evident that she deserved to be nominated in the Best Actress category. Sardaar ji was a record breaker in the history of Punjabi cinema. it opened to 100% occupancies and shattered previous openings and was the first Punjabi film to cross the 50cr worldwide mark.

Mandy is known to be involved in humanitarian acts and in 2016 she shocked the industry and her fans by personally visiting refugee camps close to the Iraq and Syria border, in association with her supported UK based charity Khalsa Aid to help the refugees in crisis.

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Bharathan is a Tamil film director from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He initially began his career as an assistant director to film director Dharani and penned dialogues for Vikram\'s Dhill (2001) and Vijay\'s Ghilli (2004) which was directed by Dharani and Madhurey (2004) which was directed by Ramana Madhesh and Ajith\'s Veeram (2014) which was directed by Siva. Bharathan made his directorial debut in Vijay's Azhagiya Tamil Magan which performed good at the boxoffice. His second film was Athithi which performed average at the box office. He is directing his third movie with Vijay titled Bhairava.

Ennaku Vaaitha Adimaigal is an upcoming Indian Tamil comedy film written and directed by Mahendran Rajamani.

Veera Sivaji is an upcoming Tamil action comedy film directed by Ganesh Vinayak.

K. V. Vijayendra Prasad (born Koduri Venkata Vijayendra Prasad) is an Indian film screen writer, and director known for his works in Telugu cinema and Bollywood. In 2011, he directed Rajanna which won the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film.

Since 1988, he was the screen writer for more than twenty five films, most of which turned out to be block busters. His recent works include Baahubali: The Beginning, and Bajrangi Bhaijaan which became biggest blockbusters of the year, for which Prasad won the Filmfare Award for Best Story.

V. Sekar is an Indian film director, who has directed Tamil films. He was primarily active in the 1990s and early 2000s and is most noted for his work on family drama films.

Sekhar has often worked on multi-starrer family dramas portraying middle class households. In regard to his method of scripting, Sekhar has noted that he does not change his screenplay from the initial draft, and has collaborated often with comedian actors Goundamani, Vivek and Vadivelu.

He began work on his latest venture in 2013, directing Saravana Poigai, starring his son Karl Marx in the lead role.He was arrested on 12 August 2015, by the Idol Wing, Economic Offences Wing for suspected role in an idol smuggling racket.

Pushkar-Gayathri are a Tamil film director duo. The pair are married.Following the release of Oram Po, Pushkar and Gayathri began work on another comedy film titled Rakkozhi with Jai and Lekha Washington in the lead roles. However as a result of Jai's busy schedule, the film was postponed.

Pushkar and Gayathri announced that they would collaborate with producer S. Sashikanth for a police-gangster film titled Vikram-Veda. Describing it as an action film set in the world of encounter cops, they revealed that Vijay Sethupathi had been signed to play a gangster called Veda, in the film.

Badri is an Indian film director and screenwriter who primarily works in Tamil film industry. He started his career with television series Malargal and made his debut in films with Veerappu in 2007.

Badri started his career by directing a Television series Malargal for Sun TV. He then shifted to cinema by working as an assistant to Sundar C. and also made his directorial debut by directing him in Veerappu, remake of Malayalam film Spadikam. The film released in 2007 to mixed reviews, with one critic claiming that it is a "racy commercial entertainer"while another critic felt that it is not good as original. He again collaborated with Sundar C. with Ainthaam Padai, film received negative reviews with critics accusing director for plagiarism by lifting scenes from Malayalam film Devasuram.

He then directed Thambikku Endha Ooru with Bharath, the film received negative reviews and became unsuccessful at box office. He wrote dialogues for Sundar C.'s directorial Kalakalappu.
Shiva and Vendhar Movies approached Badri to direct the remake of Rajinikanth starrer Thillu Mullu. Badri said that he ventured into Thillu Mullu with an open mind. "I wanted to make the storyline contemporary. Retaining the characters from the original, I wrote the script to suit today's generation". The film was launched on 24 August 2012 with a puja at the Image Auditorium at MRC Nagar in Chennai.

Celebs included Karthi, Sneha, Prasanna, Meena, S. A. Chandrasekhar, Ambika, Vijay Antony, K. Balachander, Vaali and Dharani were present at the launch. The team after shooting in Chennai and Hyderabad headed to Dubai and Abu Dhabi to can a few songs and scenes. The songs Ragaangal Pathinaru was also shot in Dubai.

The shooting was completed in March 2013. After wrapping up the shoot, Badri decided to shoot a music video of the 'Thillu Mullu' remix and convinced the M. S. Viswanathan to appear alongside Yuvan Shankar Raja in the iconic song. Prakash Raj reprised the character played by the late Thengai Srinivasan. Director Badri stated "the challenge was to cast someone in Thengai Srinivasan's role. I couldn't think of anyone other than Prakash Raj". Kovai Sarala was selected to play Sowcar Janaki's role.Santhanam reprised the special guest appearance by Kamal Haasan.

Thillu Mullu received mostly positive critical response. M. Suganth of The Times of India gave 3.5/5 and said, "Much of the credit for this (film) should go to director Badri, whose script clearly suggests that some amount of thought has gone into reworking a cult classic for present-day audiences. Instead of going for a scene by scene remake, he manages to spin newer situations that make it very much a film of our times."

Badri is currently directing Aadaama Jaichomada with newcomers.

R.Velraj is an Indian cinematographer who was born in a village called Kutthiyar Kundu near Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He did his school in PKN Boys Higher Secondary School (Tirumangalam), and college in Madurai Sourastra College. At his early stage, he was associated with cinematographer Tirru and worked in several Tamil films as assistant cinematographer, notably Aalavandhan etc., also worked mainly in Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi films including Polladhavan, Aadukalam, Kandahar and Engeyum Eppodhum.