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Gayathrie Shankar is a Tamil film actress, who has appeared in leading roles. Her debut film, N. Krishna's Yen Ippadi Mayakkinai remains unreleased, though she made a breakthrough after featuring in the cult comedy Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom.

Gayathrie's family is of Tamil origin and her home town is Bangalore, Karnataka. Her grandfather from Trichy worked as an army officer, while both of her parents work as bankers. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology.

She got her first film offer when she was in 12th class and took it up. She considered acting "just a dream" and stated that she "never really planned on working towards it or taking it seriously as a career." She said that she had stage fright and was afraid of public speaking but that she got over it once she started acting. She has also said that she is "a gypsy at heart" and that she would "have travelled and done something related to psychology" if she hadn't become an actress.

In an interview, she named Suriya her favorite actor.

Badri Venkatesh (born 2 May 1974) is an Indian film director and television professional with more than 17 years of work experience in film direction, film writing, television fiction writing, reality show direction, event direction, and film making, cinematic teaching, creative management, novel writing and short fiction film making.

Venkatesh made his directorial debut with the 2010 Tamil film Baana Kaathadi.His latest project, Semma Botha Aagatha (2016), sees him returning to work with Atharvaa Murali whom he launched in his debut film.

Venkatesh won the National award for his short film, VIdiyalai Nokki, which also is the first Tamil short fiction film to win this accolade.

Venkatesh's popular works include screenplay and direction for the Tamil feature film Baana Kaathadi– (Big Kite), released in 2010 and starring Atharva, Samantha, and Prassanna. A Tamil romantic film with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, Baana Kaathadi was well received.

Apart from mainstream Tamil cinema, Venkatesh has been credited for directing a large number of television shows including: Nalaya Natchathiram Thangamazhai, 'and Amul – Super Kudumbam, a wideranging mix of reality shows.

Venkatesh hails from the Nesapakkam district of Chennai. He is well known as the show director of the popular Celebrity Cricket League (3rd Edition), and the Mirchi Music Awards, the biggest Music awards in South India , and also directing Miss South India, a beauty pageant for all 4 south Indian states.