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Rekha, also known as Akshara, is an Indian film actress, who predominantly acts in Kannada films and also appears in Tamil and Telugu films. While pursuing modelling, she made her acting debut in the 2001 Kannada film Chitra and has since starred in over 30 films in various South Indian languages.


Rekha was born and brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka. She did her schooling at the Basava Residential Girls School in Kengeri, Bangalore. She was doing her BBA correspondence course from the University of Madras, while modelling part-time and trying to pursue an acting career. She was eventually signed by Jayashree Devi for the Ramoji Rao-produced college drama Chitra, in which she played a NRI student. The same year, she starred in Huchcha, a Kannada remake of Sethu alongside Sudeep and made her debut in Telugu cinema with Sreenu Vaitla's Anandam, all three ventures becoming commercially successful. and the Telugu film Dongodu featuring Ravi Teja in the lead, while making her Tamil debut with Sabapathy's triangular love story Punnagai Poove. 2003 she also had her first and till date only Hindi release, Mudda with Arya Babbar and was seen in a supporting role in the female-oriented Three Roses that featured Rambha, Jyothika and Laila Mehdin in the lead. She was paired with Ganesh in his first feature film appearance in Chellata as well as in Hudugaata the next year, both emerging commercial successes. After her subsequent releases that year bombed at the box office, she starred in the bilingual Ninna Nedu Repu / Netru Indru Naalai and in Ramesh Arvind's directorial Accident, which became critically acclaimed, while making special appearances in the films Mast Maja Maadi, Raaj The Showman and Yogi. In 2010, she had a single release, Appu Pappu, while her most recent release was Boss, paired with Darshan again. She is currently working on projects such as Prema Chandramama,Jolly Boy alongside Diganth, directed by Sabapathy again, and Thulasi.

Chaya Singh is an Indian actress, born 16 May 1981 in Bangalore. She started her acting career in Kannada films and has worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Telugu and Oriya films.  She has a reputation of being very selective in her roles.

Her parents had migrated from Uttar Pradesh to Karnataka before her birth. She belongs to a Rajput family.  Chaya grew up in Bangalore. She did her schooling at Lourdes School, Bangalore and studied for her Plus Two there.

Her first film role was in Munnudi.  She went to do more films in Kannada including Haseena which was directed by Girish Kasaravalli, Thuntata, which was a success, Dinesh Babu's Chitte and Sai Prakash’s Rowdy Aliya.

After having few chances in the Kannada industry she migrated to Tamil movies. Chaya Singh's most famous movie is Thiruda Thirudi in Tamil which has the popular song Manmadharasa.  She also acted in its Kannada remake Sakha Sakhi, which unlike the original was not successful. Chaya later acted in little known films Kavithai and Jaisurya and did item numbers in Arul and Thirupaachi, though she stated that she dislikes doing them.  She returned to Tamil with Vallamai Tharayo and then starred in the supernatural thriller Anandhapurathu Veedu.

She has performed in Akasha Gange in Kannada which released in 2008. About her performance in the film, Rediff wrote, "The highlight of the film is Chaya Singh who has come out with an outstanding performance as a music teacher who comes to her lover's house to win over his family".  Sify wrote, "This is Chaya Singh's yet another best performance. She speaks from her lovely eyes".  She acted in the Kannada short film Simply kailawesome which won the prestigious Platinum Remi Award at the 44th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.  The film made on playwright T. P. Kailasam revolves around conversations between Kailasam and female protagonists from four of his plays. Chaya Singh played all the four characters: Paatu from Tollugatti, Eeke from Gandaskathri, Venkamma from Home Rule and Sule from the play Sule.

She has acted in two Malayalam films, too, Mullavalliyum Thenmavum and Police, both directed by V. K. Prakash. In 2008 she was acting in two Bhojpuri films.  Her first Bhojpuri release was Mahamaayi.  She has directed a Bengali film, too.

She has done supporting roles in Kannada TV shows such as E-TV's Sarojini and Prema Kathegalu.  She has acted in Tamil serial Nagamma, airing on Sun TV.  She was a judge in the show Kuniyonu Bara on a Kannada television channel.  Since 2012, she acts in Telugu serial "Kanchna Ganga", airing on Maa TV.  She is currently acting in the Tamil film Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal.

Singh's parents are Gopal Singh and Chamanlata. She married Tamil television actor Krishna in June 2012.

Varuna Shetty is an Indian actress who has done Malayalam-language and Tamil-language films. She has been launched by Oru Thalai Ragam Shankar in his U.A.E based thriller Manal Naharam, a bi-lingual. Now she has signed Rasam,  a Mohanlal film again shot in U.A.E. The shooting of both the movies are fast progressing. She has also done the first international Tulu film Nirel.

Anu Prabhakar ( born 9 November 1980) is an Indian film actress, who predominantly appears in Kannada films and is from Mangalore.Anu Prabhakar is the daughter of M. V. Prabhakar and dubbing artist and actress Gayathri Prabhakar. She studied at Nirmala Rani High School in Malleshwaram. She dropped out of college as her career in acting took off. However, later, she completed her graduation in sociology from Karnataka University.

Anu Prabhakar first appeared as a child artist in the films Chapala Chennigaraya and Shanti Kranti. Her first film in a lead role came in the 1999 Kannada film, Hrudaya Hrudaya, that had Shivarajkumar paired opposite her. She acted with Vishnuvardhan in films like Soorappa, Jamindarru, Hrudayavantha, Sahukaara, Varsha. She has also acted in a few Tamil movies.

In her next film based on the life of 12th-century Kannada poet Akka Mahadevi, she plays a dual role; one of the poet and the other of Jyothi, a girl who pursues PhD on the poet.

Anu Prabhakar was honoured by Bangalore's Kolada Math, with the title 'Abhinaya Saraswathi' for her performance in various films. She has won other awards such as 'Kannada State Government best actress award 2000–01' and 'Cinema Express best actress.

In 2009, she gave her voice to an HIV/AIDS education animated software tutorial created by the nonprofit organisation TeachAIDS.
Anu married Krishna Kumar, the son of actress Jayanthi in March 2002. Citing differences between them, they divorced in January 2014. In April 2016, she married Raghu Mukherjee, a model-turned-actor.

Malayalis know him as the  producer of films like Anwar starring Prithviraj and Paisa Paisa starring Indrajith but to the Tamil audience, he is known as an actor. Raj Zacharias is awaiting the release of his Tamil film Kaduval Paathi Mirugam Paathi which is also a bi-lingual titled as Rahadhari in Telugu. KPMP is a road movie without a hero-heroine concept and he plays one of the travellers in the movie.

Kausalya also known as Nandini, is an Indian film actress and model, who has starred mainly in Tamil and Malayalam films. She was pursuing a modelling career, before she debuted in the 1996 Malayalam film April 16 by Balachandra Menon. The following year, she appeared in her first Tamil film Kaalamellam Kadhal Vaazhga and went on to star in several successful films, including Nerukku Ner, Priyamudan, Pooveli and Vanathai Pola.

She had starred in over 30 films in Tamil and Malayalam in lead roles, while securing a Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in Pooveli. By the mid-2000s, she turned character artiste and went on to portray supporting roles in films such as Thirumalai and Santosh Subramaniam and ventured into television with the series Manaivi which aired 436 episodes on Sun TV.

Vinay Rai is an Indian film actor, commonly appearing in Tamil films, as well as modelling and catwalking in noted fashion shows. His mother tongue is Tulu.

Vinay was originally a ramp model in Bangalore, but since has now made his debut as an actor in director Jeeva's Unnale Unnale co-starring Sadha and Tanisha Mukherjee.  The film became a large success upon release and opened up more acting offers for Vinay Rai.

Since his debut film, he has appeared in a Telugu language film, Vaana, which flopped at the box-office and a critically successful Tamil film, in Jayamkondaan, for which his performance was acclaimed.

In 2009, he appeared in Saran's Modhi Vilayadu alongside Kajal Aggarwal which also fared poorly at the box office, while two of his films Veelle and Nootruku Nooru were stalled during their production stage. He made a comeback in 2011 with a role in the English film, Dam 999, though the film met with a poor commercial and critical response.

Malavika is the stage name of Shweta Konnur (born 19 July 1979), in Bangalore, an Indian actress. She started out as a model for Fair and Lovely and became an actress in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films.

Malavika made her acting debut in the 1999 Tamil movie Unnai Thedi, directed by Sundar C. which she followed with Anandha Poongatre, and Rojavanam. She acted in the Tollywood film Priya Nestama . She appeared in Perazhagan in a song. In 2004, she had starred in Vasool Raja MBBS and later in that year she acted in the Bollywood film C U at 9.Since then she has performed in Chandramukhi.

Malavika got married to Malayalam films worker Sumesh Menon in 2007 after their 2 years love.

Vasundhara Das was born in a Tamil family from Bangalore. She studied at Cluny Convent High School, Bangalore and Mount Carmel College, graduating in Economics and Mathematics.

She began training in Hindustani Classical music since the age of six. She used to run away from home to avoid taking music lessons. In her college days, she was part of an all-girl band and can play some Flamenco strums on her guitar.

She speaks Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, English, and a little bit of Telugu.