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Nandini Rai (born 18 September), formerly known as Neelam Gouhranii, is an Indian model and film actress. After modelling, she went to pursue a career in acting. She made her film debut in the 2011 film Family Pack.

Nandini hails from a Sindhi family. She completed her schooling from St. Albans High School, Hyderabad, passing out in 2003. She has modeled for over 80 national and international brands. She holds a bachelor's degree in computers. During her modelling stint, she has won several beauty contests, being named Miss Hyderabad 2008, Miss Andhra Pradesh 2008, Miss Pantaloons Fresh Face of AP 2009 and Miss Beautiful Eyes of AP 2010.

She has acted in the Hindi film Family Pack and the Telugu film 040. She has performed in another Telugu film Hormones, in which she played a journalist, a role which required her to gain 12 kilos. In 2012, she was seen in the Bollywood film Log In, too. She made her Malayalam film debut in A. Sajeed's Goodbye December. In the “musical love story”, she portrays a young, naughty teacher. In 2014, she was signed for her first Kannada film Khushi Khushiyagi, in which she played the role of a fashion designer. She has signed up her first Tamil film, a romantic thriller titled Grahanam.

Vignesh Shiva, the Director of the  Podaa Podi is an Indian film director. Born in 18th September 1985. His debut Movie is Poda Podi  with Simbu and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar. Both his parents worked for the Police department and he went to school at Santhome Higher Secondary School, Chennai. He has written and acted in plays while in school. His nick name is Vicky.

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.

Pandari Bai (Kannada: ಪಂಡರೀ ಬಾಯಿ; 18 September 1928 – 29 January 2003) was a prominent actress of South Indian languages films mostly in Kannada and Tamil during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She is considered Kannada cinema's first successful heroine. She has the distinction of having acted as both heroine and mother to stalwarts such as Rajkumar, MGR and Sivaji Ganesan. She was the heroine in Rajkumar's debut movie Bedara Kannappa and also Sivaji's debut movie Parasakthi.She has acted in over 1,000 films in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi.

Born in Bhatkal, Karnataka, in present Uttara Kannada in a Marathi speaking family. Her father was a drawing master and a Harikatha exponent, and also a stage actor. He taught her the art of Harikatha, thus even before she was ten years old, Pandari started giving Harikatha performances.

Pandaribai began her career in acting in plays based on mythological stories before making her film debut in 1943 with the Kannada language film, Vani. She shot to fame after appearing in the hugely successful 1954 Kannada film Bedara Kannappa opposite another future star Rajkumar. In the film, she played the role of Neela, wife of Kanna (played by Rajkumar), a hunter. She established herself as a lead actress portraying a woman with a 'progressive' image assuming the burdens of a feudal patriarchy in films such as Sant Sakhu (1955) and Rayara Sose (1957).In 1959, she appeared in Abba Aa Hudugi, with her sister Mynavathi. The film is considered a landmark in Kannada cinema.

She went to act in around 1,500 films in other languages like Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi and enjoyed a long career span of nearly half a century. Her first film in Tamil Parasakthi directed by the duo directors Krishnan-Panju in the year 1952, where she paired with Sivaji Ganesan was a grand success. She played lead roles in many movies and then switched over to character roles.

Later in her career Pandari Bai played the mother of stars older than her, most of whom had played the lead with her in her earlier years. She also played as mother to actors like M. G. Ramachandran in Tamil and Rajesh Khanna in Hindi, N.T. Ramarao in Telugu. Pandari Bai also acted in a couple of Kannada TV serials Amma and Manethana (1998–2000). Both of them were produced by her sister Mynavathy's Son's company Yantra Media.The last picture in her career was "Baaro Nanna Muddina Krishna" in Kannada which had Sashikumar as lead.