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Sangita is an Indian actress, who has worked in Tamil and Malayalam film industries, predominantly in the 1990s.  The actress is best known for her role as Shyamala in Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala, which was written and directed by Sreenivasan. She is also well known for her role of Nirmala Mary in actor Vijay's breakthrough film Poove Unakkaga (1996).  She started her career as a child artiste in the movie Snehikkan Oru Pennu, a Malayalam movie released in 1978. Her debut film as a child artist in Tamil was En Rathathin Rathame, which is the Tamil remake of Hindi movie Mr. India. The first film she acted as a heroine was Ellame En Rasathan in 1995.

Personal life

She is born as the youngest among four children, to Malayali parents, settled at Chennai. Her father, Madhavan Nair is from Kottakkal, Malappuram and mother, Padma is from Kuzhalmannam, Palakkad. Her father migrated to Chennai for fruit business and the family settled there. She had her primary education from Sri Gujarati Vid Matriculation School, Chennai.  She has two sisters, Mallika and Raji and a brother, Nitheesh.  Her brother portrayed a supporting role in her unreleased film, Punniyavathi.
She married cinematographer Saravanan in 2003 and retired from acting after marriage. She assisted her husband when he directed his first film, Silambattam starring Silambarasan, Sana Khan and Sneha.  They have a daughter, Sai Tejaswithi.

Awards

1998 Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress - Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala *1998 [Nominated - Filmfare Award for best actress] -Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala *1998 [Nominated - Asianet Film award for best actress] - Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala *1998 - [Cinema Express Award for best actress] -Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala

Pradeep Shakthi (July 25, 1954 – 20 February 2016) was an Indian Telugu actor, director and businessman.

Pradeep Shakthi, born as Raja Vasireddy, was from the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. He was known for his negative and character roles in many movies from 1980 like Nayakudu, Guna, etc. He directed a politically controversial movie, 'Kaliyuga Viswamithra'. He migrated to the US in 1993 and settled in Staten Island, New York, where he became a full-time restaurateur.

J. Alexander (born 25 July 1939), best known by his stage name Mahendran, is an Indian film director in the Tamil film industry. Though largely ignored during his times, Mahendran is regarded as one of the greatest film makers of Tamil cinema and has inspired many upcoming directors. Particularly he has been an inspiration for the legends of Tamil cinema like Mani Ratnam and Rajinikanth.

Mahendran entered the film industry as a screenwriter, writing scripts for nearly 26 films. He made an immediate impact with his first directional venture Mullum Malarum (1978). Mahendran's next film Uthiripookkal, based on a short story written by Pudumaipithan, firmly established him as an important film maker in Tamil cinema. His Nenjathai Killathe won three National Film Awards including the award for the best regional film. He has only acted in two films, Kamaraj (2004) and Theri (2016).

Mahendran was born in 1939 to Joseph Chelliah, a teacher and Manonmani. Mahendran did his schooling in Ilayangudi and completed his intermediate at American College, Madurai.Later he joined Alagappa Government Arts College to do a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. During his college days, he was very active in stage plays. It was during that time when M. G. Ramachandran (M.G.R) was invited as the chief guest for the college day during which Mahendran gave a speech that directly criticized the commercial elements that existed in cinema.Impressed by his speech M.G.R praised Mahendran and said that he could become a good critic. After completing his degree, he went to Madras to study law.

Seven months after joining the course he had to discontinue due to financial concerns. He then decided to go back to Ilayangud However, on the insistence of Karaikudi Kannappa Valliappan he joined Inamuzhakkam, a periodical as a journalist.It was during this time he met M.G.R again and he was asked to write the screenplay of Ponniyin Selvan after the former decided to make a film based on the story.The idea of developing the screenplay into a film got delayed, and M.G.R asked Mahendran to write a story for his drama troupe. Mahendran wrote a script titled Anaadhaigal. M.G.R decided to make a film based in the play. He named the film Vaazhve Vaa and acted in the lead role alongside Savitri. The project got shelved after three days of shooting. Soon M.G.R acted in a film called Kaanchi Thalaivan and he recommended Mahendran to the director make him an assistant.

Mahendran made his breakthrough as a screenwriter for the film Naam Moovar in 1966.After the success of the film he got more offers from the same banner and worked in films like Sabaash Thambi and Panakkara Pillai, both released in the subsequent years.He also wrote the script for Nirakudam starring Sivaji Ganesan. He announced that he was working on a new film in 2014 starring newcomers, for which Ilaiyaraaja would score music.