Showing all artists born in October 18

Shazahn Padamsee was born on 18th October 1987 in Paris, France. Before making her entry to films she worked in numerous stage performances along with her father. She made her Bollywood debut with Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year in 2009 co-starring Ranbir Kapoor, Gauhar Khan and Prem Chopra.

Shazahn Padamsee subsequently appeared in numerous commercial successful films like Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji co-starring Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Omi Vaidya, Tisca Chopra and Shruti Haasan, Housefull 2 co-starring Akshay Kumar, Asin Thottumkal, John Abraham ,Jacqueline Fernandez and Rishi Kapoor, Masala co-starring Venkatesh, Ram and Anjali, among other films.

Freida selena pinto (born 18 october 1984) is an indian actress and model best known for her portrayal of "latika" in the 2008 british indian drama film slumdog millionaire, for which she won a screen actors guild award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.

Keba Jeremiah is primarily an Indian guitarist working for musical soundtracks of Bollywood as well as for regional cinema of India. His guitar playing styles are influenced by genres like jazz, rock, Contemporary R&B and acoustic styles of music.


Born and brought up in Karama, Dubai, Keba Jeremiah started playing music at the age of 7. He began taking guitar lessons as a kid. Keba started off on the acoustic guitar and later learnt keyboard and drums along with his two brothers. At the age of 10, he started playing for various audiences at church programs and Christian events. For his school band, he tried his hands at the bass guitars. As the guitarist of the Our Own English High School band, he won awards at various inter-school level competitions. By the year 2004, for pursuing a professional engineering degree, he flew to India and joined the Hindustan College of Engineering, Chennai. Keba started playing at the New Life Assemblies of God Church every Sunday. He drew inspiration watching various leading musicians in the city at work. As a youth, Keba spent hours jamming with friends and experimenting with different sounds and styles. He and his friends formed a band titled "Fire Frenzy". In 2005, he began teaching music at the Institute of Music Technology, Chennai, run by John Satya.


In 2008, he played for music director James Vasanthan, on the soundtrack for the 2008 Tamil film Subramaniapuram that grabbed various awards and critical acclaim for its music. Further, Keba collaborated with composers Yuvan Shankar Raja, Manikanth Kadri, Harris Jayaraj, Ouseppachan and A. R. Rahman. Keba has also played at various live shows collaborating with artists like Leslie Lewis, Naresh Iyer and Vijay Prakash and international artists namely Don Moen, Bob Fits, Steve Kuban and Sean Michael. He has also lent his musical knowledge for different television shows and music competitions like Airtel Super Singer, Sun TV’s "Ooo La La.." and Vijay TV’s "Kadhal Unplugged".


Post the success of Keba's work for the songs of 2011 musical drama film Rockstar scored by A. R. Rahman, the former has been frequently collaborating with the composer's film score outings.


As of 2013, he has played various guitars an estimate for 400 different songs. In 2013, he worked on A. R. Rahman's film soundtracks Kadal, Maryan and Raanjhanaa. In the same year, his work for songs of the film Sutta Kadhai, Vanakkam Chennai and both blockbuster Bollywood films Chennai Express and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani were noteworthy.


In 2013, he had wrapped up work on independent albums of artists Andrea Jeremiah and Malavika Manoj.

Jyothika (Jyothika Sadanah, born on 18 October 1978) is an Indian actress who predominantly appeared in Tamil films. She also acted in a few Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films. She gained critical acclaim for her performances in Kushi, Perazhagan, Chandramukhi and Mozhi, winning three Filmfare and three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She was one of the most successful actresses in the Tamil film industry of her time. She is also a recipient of the Kalaimamani award.  Her performance in Mozhi & Chandramukhi took her very close to winning the National Film Award for Best Actress.

She made her acting debut in the Hindi film Doli Saja Ke Rakhna directed by Priyadarshan. She later ventured into the Tamil film industry. Her first role was a cameo appearance in Vaali (1999). Later that year, she starred in Poovellam Kettuppar, in which she played the love interest of the protagonist, portrayed by her future husband Suriya. A string of successful films followed between 2000 and 2002 , among them Kushi, Dum Dum Dum and Snegithiye. She also acted with Kamal Haasan during this period, in the comedy film Thenali. She was awarded the Filmfare Best Tamil Actress Award for her role in Kushi.

In 2003, she starred in Dhool with Vikram, Kaakha Kaakha with Suriya and Thirumalai with Vijay, all of which did good business, Kaakha Kaakha in particular being one of the biggest hits of her career. In 2004, she acted in a double role in the critically acclaimed Perazhagan opposite Suriya. In 2005, she acted in Manmadhan opposite Silambarasan.

Her most successful film till date is the Rajinikanth starrer Chandramukhi 2005 in which she essayed the title role. She also received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress for Perazhagan in 2004 and Chandramukhi in 2005.

Her last films were Gautham Menon's Pachaikili Muthucharam and the critically acclaimed Mozhi, both in 2007. Her performance in Mozhi took her very close to winning the National Film Award for Best Actress. However, she lost the award by a narrow margin at the end. Her roles in these two films, as a negative character in the former (which she played for the first time) and as a deaf and mute in the latter earned her widespread appreciation.

Jyothika entered the Telugu film industry with Tagore, starring Chiranjeevi. Her next Telugu film was Mass (2004) written and directed by Raghava Lawrence. The film was dubbed into Tamil as Veeran and Hindi as Meri Jung — One Man Army. Most of her Tamil films were dubbed into Telugu.

Jyothika made a come back through Television ads. She appeared with Suriya for endorsing brands like Aircel and Nescafé. In 2008, she appeared in a short film Herova? Zerova?. The film was written and produced by her father–in–law Sivakumar and also starred Vijay, R. Madhavan and Suriya. Jyothika was also the brand ambassador for RmKV silk sarees and a wardrobe hub in Chennai. She appeared in Paragon Slippers ad.

Senthil Kumar (born 18 October 1978), popularly known as Mirchi Senthil  is an Indian film and television actor, television presenter, radio jockey and voice actor. He began his career as a radio jockey  with the radio station Radio Mirchi. He performed in the lead character Saravanan in STAR Vijay's sensational serial Saravannan Meenatchi. Senthil and his co-star Sreeja Chandran had married on July 2, 2014 in a private function in Tirupathi. He made his debut as a film actor in Thavamai Thavamirundhu and has continued acting in lead roles in Sengathu Bhoomiyilae, Kan Pesum Vaarthaigal and Vennila Veedu.

Radio

Senthil joined Radio Mirchi, Chennai as a Radio Jockey in 2003 and has performed various roles such as Radio producer, EP and Programming Head. Later he moved to Coimbatore to head Coimbatore Radio Mirchi for 4 years. He has hosted many shows like Mirchi Gold, Mirchi Bazaar, Pettai Raap and Love Talkies. Currently, he is presenting a cluster program Neenga Naan Raja Sir which is a special program on the music Maestro Ilaiyaraaja's music that is aired between 9 PM and 11PM from Monday to Saturday. This is a very popular program and was acknowledged and endorsed by music Maestro Ilaiyaraaja himself.

Television

Senthil played the lead character in the successful television serial named Madurai  in STAR Vijay telecasted from 2007 to 2009. Following the success of this serial, Senthil has played the lead character by the name Saravanan again in another sensational serial Saravannan Meenatchi in STAR Vijay. Senthil rose to fame following his performances in these two serials and is very popular by his character name Saravanan.
Senthil has performed in a micro-serial 777 for Polimer TV which was directed by the movie director Manobala.
Apart from the serials, Senthil has hosted a number of shows for STAR Vijay. He has hosted a weekly movie review show Tamil Cinema Indha Vaaram in which he discusses about the movies along with the cast and crew of the movie. Senthil has conducted a game show for women by name Boxing for Polimer TV.

Film

Senthil made his Tamil film debut in the 2005 film Thavamai Thavamirundhu in which he played the elder brother of director Cheran. He was nominated for Filmfare awards for the best supporting actor category. He bagged his first lead role in Sengathu Bhoomiyilae which had the music score by Ilaiyaraaja. This is followed by Kan Pesum Vaarthaigal (2013) with Iniya as the female lead and Movie Pappali . His upcoming film is Vennila Veedu along with Vijayalakshmi as the female lead.

Ramarajan is a Tamil film actor who specialised in acting films on village-based subjects. He is also known as Makkal Nayagan or Pasu Nesan or Panju Mittai Sattai kaaran. He was called as the rural box office emperor in the late 1980s, his movies used to do well in rural centres. He is known for his colourful gaudy costumes and excessive makeup.

Career

Ramarajan hails from a small town Melur situated near Madurai. He grew up from a Cinema entrance ticket validator and plantain seller to a cinema producer. Known for his movies with rustic simplicity, he had disappeared from filmdom following a string of failures. His films were so popular and made big at box-offices that they were equally competent to Superstar Rajinikanth's films. Considered as the man of the rural audiences, he was nicknamed Vasool Chakravathi. He proclaimed himself as the Next MGR in the industry. Many of his films based on village-based subjects were a big hit in B and C centers. He is known for his dark shirts and colorful costumes. His movie Karagattakkaaran was a block buster which ran for 365 days not only in Chennai but also in Madurai. He fell in love with actress Nalini and they got married. However, they divorced citing differences in their relationship.

He took a plunge in politics and managed to become an MP. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Tiruchendur constituency on the AIADMK ticket in 1998. His film and political career both failed for a certain period. His new low budget movie Medhai got released on 2012 which largely went unnoticed and failed. He also very busy with his new upcoming movie titled "Adida Avala".

Political career

He was elected to 12th Lok Sabha as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Tiruchendur Lok Sabha constituency in 1998...

Personal life

Ramarajan married actress Nalini and 13 years later they divorced. They have 2 kids. After divorce, Nalini is active starring in a line of Tamil TV soaps. Nalini acted as a mother-in-law in soaps like Kolangal and Idhayam which were two very famous serials that were broadcast in Sun TV network.