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Director Dhanapal Padmanabhan, who is making his debut with Krishnaveni Panjaalai, has already planned his next.While his first film showcases the lives of cotton mill workers in the Udumalpet region, his next will address one of the global issues — terrorism. Says the director, "My next project will deal with the sensitivities associated with terrorism. The script for the film is ready and I will get started on it soon after the release of Krishnaveni Panjaalai. 

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.

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 and Raj TV. On Raj TV, he worked on a program called Hollywood Special where reviews about American films were given in Tamil. He loved that job and learned of many Hollywood films he would not have otherwise been exposed to.

Ever the pragmatist, after completing his education in Computer Science, he joined a leading software company which allowed him to migrate to the United States. He then completed a New York Film Academy program and began directing short English films in his home state, New Jersey.

In 2008, he began working on his debut Tamil feature film, Achchamundu! Achchamundu!. Is a Tamil social thriller starring Prasanna, Sneha and Emmy Award-winning American film actor John Shea. The film was shot in New Jersey and New York during early 2008 and subsequently released in 2009. The film premiered in New Jersey's Garden State Film Festival, and shared 'Best Homegrown Feature Film' award with Dorothy Lyman's Split Ends'.

Arun Vaidyanthan along with Ananth Govindan produced an Indian Tamil romantic-comedy film written and directed by RS Prasanna, Kalyana Samayal Saadham. It features Prasanna and Lekha Washington in lead roles, Krishnan Vasant and Arrora as the cinematographer and music composer respectively.

The film was covered as part of an Emmy Award nominated American TV series Born to Explore with Richard Wiese. Richard Wiese, who features in the show, in his interview with KSS director RS Prasanna, focused on two points – Indian weddings, their universal appeal, and the growing interest in stories and movies based in India.

He then made his Malayalam debut film, Peruchazhi. The type of humour used in the film was inspired by Cho Ramaswamy's 1971 Tamil classic political-satire film Muhammad bin Tughluq, but Peruchazhi has a pan Indian narrative. Peruchazhi features Mohanlal, Mukesh, Ragini Nandwani, Baburaj, Aju Varghese and Vijay Babu among others.

The cinematography was done by Arvind Krishna. The songs and background score for the movie was composed by Arrora (Naveen Iyer). Ajayan Venugopalan along with the director co-wrote the dialogues.

He is currently directing a thriller titled Nibunan starring Arjun Sarja, Varalakshmi Sarathkumar, Prasanna, Sruthi Hariharan, Vaibhav Reddy, Suhasini Maniratnam and Suman, Along with Anand Raghav, he has penned the dialogues and screenplay for the film which is being produced by Passion Film Factory who also produced Kappal(2014).

K. Selva Bharathy is a Tamil film director, who made his debut with the 1998 blockbuster Ninaithen Vandhai starring Vijay, Rambha and Devayani. He was one time assistant of Manivannan and Sundar C.

Anu Emmanuel is an Indian film actress from USA. She made her acting debut as a child artist in the Malayalam film Swapna Sanchari, playing the daughter of Jayaram and Samvrutha Sunil in the film. She is the daughter of film producer and entrepreneur Thankachan Emmanuel and cousin of actress Reba Monica John. She debuted as an adult in Nivin Pauly- starrer Action Hero Biju, directed by Abrid Shine.

Anu Emmanuel made her acting debut as the daughter of Jayaram and Samvrutha Sunil in Kamal's Swapna Sanchari, which was produced by her father Thankachan Emmanuel. Anu was born in the US and was brought up there. She acted in the film when she was studying in 9th standard, and after completing her schools, she went back to US to finish her high school.She made her acting debut as lead in Nivin Pauly starrer Action Hero Biju which was directed by Abrid Shine.She was announced as the female lead in the Telugu film Oxygen, alongside actor Gopichand in the lead.

Abitha is an Indian film actress who appeared in Tamil language films and teleserials. She appeared in notable productions including Sethu alongside Vikram. She is famous for her role as Archana in the teleserial Thirumathi Selvam aired from 2007 to 2013 in Sun TV starring opposite Sanjeev.

As a teenager, Abitha used to go and see the television serial, Nancy starring Sanghavi, being filmed near her house in Thiruvottiyur. The director of that serial recognised her and spoke to her parents, roping her in to play the heroine's sister in their next TV serial Criminal.

After doing a couple of serials, she did a low-budget film titled Golmaal as the sister of the lead lady and then B-Grade film titled Devadasi in Malayalam. At that time, director Bala roped her in for a leading role in Sethu alongside Vikram, which she signed after Keerthi Reddy and Rajshri had dropped out.Bala renamed her Abitha from her original name of Jenila for the film, after the character she was portraying.

The film opened in December 1999 at a single noon show at a suburban theatre but built up through word-of-mouth publicity and ran for over one hundred days at several cinema halls across Chennai, becoming a critical and commercial success. Sethu won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil and secured wins in the Best Film category at the Filmfare Awards and the Cinema Express Awards, while Abitha won critical acclaim for her role of a timid Brahmin girl.

After Sethu's success, Abitha was flooded with offers but chose to complete her studies and finish her PG in Sociology from Annamalai University. She revealed that by the time she decided to come back she had lost her contacts in the industry and was thereafter seen in only a couple of insignificant projects.

She appeared alongside veteran actor Ramarajan in Seerivarum Kaalai before starring in Poove Pen Poove alongside newcomer Ishaq Husseini. After the failure of those films she played the role of Arjun's sister in Arasatchi. Other films in the period, such as Pirantha Naal with Prakash Raj and Kandhavel with Murali were not completed and indefinitely shelved.

In 2005, she got another breakthrough and signed on to play the lead role in Kannamma scripted by Karunanidhi, but to do so she unceremoniously opted out of another film titled Ullakadathal. Subsequently the producers of that film complained and got her banned by the Producer's Council, leaving her out of both films.Later that year she featured in Unarchigal alongside Abbas and Kunal. Her next film was Suyetchai MLA, which had a delayed release in 2006, and featured her opposite Sathyaraj and she was last seen in Nam Naadu as the wife of Saranraj.

Abitha made her small screen debut as the main lead actress in Thirumathi Selvam in 2007 in which she starred opposite Sanjeev. The show made them establish as one of the most celebrated pair of small screen and made them enjoy immense popularity among Tamil audience for their characters Selvam and Archana in the show.The show was a Superhit ruling the Tamil small screen for 4 and half years from 2008 to 2013.

Abitha was selected the best actress of Sun TV in the first two editions of Sun Kudumbam awards held in the years 2010 and 2012 for her performance as Archana in the show. She also starred in the low profile serial Thangamana Purushan. She got married in 2009 and continued to work in serials following her marriage.She currently has one project Ponnoonjal to her kitty which commenced in September 2013.

Sandeep Chowta is an Indian music director who primarily works in Bollywood. He is also the head of Columbia Records in India. He has also sung some of his songs.

In 2003, he produced an anti substance abuse documentary, titled Dead End, that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed. This was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist, Tanya Khubchandani.

In 2004 Chowta invited Jay Oliver and Richard Gannaway of the world/new age musical group, Aomusic (also known as AO), to his Mumbai studio, and has since become one of the group's contributing producers.

Aomusic also features Miriam Stockley, the voice of Karl Jenkins' Adiemus project, and children's choral ensembles from around the globe. Aomusic album releases crediting Chowta have charted in the top five internationally since 2009.
When it comes to Tollywood, he composed music for 10 films of which Akkineni Nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and Mohan Babu has been involved with remaining 5 films.

Sandeep Chowta was born in Ghana, grew up in Nigeria and later Bangalore, India. He is the eldest son of D. K. Chowta,a Kannada author and businessman. His sister is ethnographer Prajna Chowta.

S. S. Stanley is an Indian film director, who has directed Tamil films. He was active primarily as a film maker and a writer in the 2000s collaborating in ventures which often included Srikanth.

After working as an assistant director for twelve years, he made his first film April Maadhathil, a college love story starring Srikanth and Sneha, which became a box office success. His second venture, Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan featuring Dhanush, became an average grosser with Stanley suggesting the film's story was misunderstood by audiences.

He then began work on a film featuring Ravi Krishna, Anjali Devi's granddaughter Saila Rao and Sonia Agarwal for producer Krishnakanth, but financial troubles meant that the film was stalled and Stanley took a sabbatical.

Stanley then worked again with Srikanth in his next two ventures, with the romantic drama Mercury Pookkal releasing first. His most recent directorial venture Kizhakku Kadalkarai Salai (2006) opened to poor reviews, with a critic noting it was "pathetic" and a "virtually invisible script".Stanley then began to appear in films as an actor, notably playing C. N. Annadurai in the biographical film Periyar (2007).

Fatima Sana Shaikh is an Indian actress and photographer. She mainly appears in Bollywood movies and television serials. She is best known for her role as baby girl Bharti in Chachi 420. In her most recent role, she plays Geeta Phogat, an Indian wrestler and Mahavir Singh Phogat's (played by Aamir Khan) daughter in the Bollywood film Dangal.

Shaikh began her film career with the 1997 film Chachi 420 with Kamal Hasan. She played the role of Bharti, Jaiprakash Paswan a.k.a. Jai and Janki Paswan's daughter.In 2001, she appeared in Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla star One 2 Ka 4. In 2008, she played the role of Zoya in Indian drama film Tahaan. Then she worked in the comedy film Bittoo Boss (2012), the romantic film Akaash Vani (2013) and the inspirational movie Dangal (2016).

Balaji K. Kumar is a Film Director who entered Tamil cinema as a director with the 2013 thriller film Vidiyum Munn which released on 29 November 2013 and received positive reviews from critics.hen started his career as story board artist for advertising firms like Ogilvy & Mather, JWT, Saatchi & Saatchi.