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Sathyan Mahalingam, simply known and credited as Sathyan, is an Indian playback singer and composer. He is best known for performing the hit numbers "Kalakkapovathu Yaaru" (Vasool Raja MBBS), "Sil Sil" (Arinthum Ariyamalum) and the title track from Boss Engira Bhaskaran.

Satyan Mahalingam was born in 31 May 1980 to Mr. Mahalingam & Mrs. Mariammal in Chennai, India. During his high school and college years, he was called "Needhi Mohan", but changed his name into "M. Satyan" later on.


Mahalingam had been singing in numerous light music orchestras since 1996. He had also performed for many of the leading orchestras in Tamil Nadu. In fact, he had been working in more than 2500 stage shows during his singing career as a light music singer.


In 2004, Mahalingam entered the Tamil Film Industry, which was introduced by Music Director Baradwaj. He started his career as a play back singer in the film Vasool Raja MBBS and Kalakka Povadhu Yaaru with Padmasree and Mr. Kamalhaasan. Consequently, Mahalingam had performed for several star shows in various countries and cities. Some of those countries and cities include Canada, United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, Sri Lanka, London, Paris and throughout India.


Besides being a playback singer, Mahalingam had also been doing music directions since 2008. In fact, he had composed and programmed more than 90 jingles, some of which are included in a couple of music albums for Shakthi FM, Sri Lanka. For example, he composed one devotional song for the Nallur Murugan Temple (Sri Lanka), which was sung by T. M. Soundararajan and P. Susheela. It was followed by an Allah song, performed by Mano.

Vir Das is an Indian Bollywood actor and comedian.

Vir Das was born in Dehradun and has lived in Africa and studied in Indian Language School in Lagos, Nigeria, Shimla and Delhi. He obtained a Bachelor's degree from Knox College, Illinois in Economics & Theatre with a concentration in performance. Vir is also a brother of Knox's Delta Theta chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity. After graduating from Knox, Vir was accepted into the Stanislavsky Program of Moscow Arts Theatre.

He married his girlfriend of six years, Shivani Mathur in October, 2014.

t was at Knox that Vir first explored stand-up comedy with his first (1-1/2 hour) special, Brown Men Can't Hump, which debuted in Knox's Harbach Theatre. He received a Richter Scholarship for Theatre and later went on to win the Colton Performance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting from Knox. He was a teaching assistant for Beginning Acting at Knox. At Harvard, Vir trained as a method actor for six months and performed eight plays with the Moscow Arts Theatre.

He performed at the Habitat Center, New Delhi on a visit to India. While in the USA, Vir was a cast member in three sketch comedy troupes: The Really Useless Improv, Improv Inc, and Illegal Aliens. He performed, wrote and developed 'Whose Line is it Anyway?' style comedy sketches with them. He has performed as a ship comedian aboard Carnival Cruise Line between Houston and Mexico. Furthermore, he spent time working comedy clubs in Chicago.

Vir returned to India in April 2003 and since then has performed over 100 comedy shows in all the major cities. He has debuted six (1.5 hour) comedy specials written, directed by and starring him at the India Habitat center to audiences of over 900 a night. These include Brown Men Can't Hump, Not for Members Only, Bored of The Things!, Who Let the Das Out?, Son of a Switch! and VIRagra. Every one of these shows has sold out within a matter of days.

Vir started his career on TV when he hosted two TV shows on Zoom Channel. The first one was Is Route Ki Sabhin Linein Maast Hain where he was an agony uncle. The second was his own stand-up comedy late night show Ek Rahin Vir. Although early for their time, they got noticed and put Vir on the comedic map in India. Vir has also hosted Top Drive getaway for Star World.
Vir's comedy can be viewed on TV in many genres of entertainment. He hosted Cricket Firsts, a sports comedy show on Zee Sports (now TEN Action+). He did improvisational comedy on SAB TV's Lo Kar Lo Baat. He was an addition to the cast of The Great Indian Comedy Show on STAR One. He can be seen anchoring Now Not Showing on CNN-IBN.

Most importantly, Vir is the host of News on the Loose, his own news comedy show on CNBC-TV18. The show is a huge hit amongst Indian audiences for its fearless brand of intelligent comedy. News on the Loose was recently given its own weekly half-hour special News On The Loose — Weekend on CNBC-TV18, which went on to become a hit.

Vir was cast as the comic relief by winning one of the principal characters in The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, a Hallmark mini-series filmed in India. He began filming for his first two Bollywood roles in early 2006. He can be seen in Vipul Shah's hit movie Namastey London.

The Indian Express has called him 'a comedian to watch out for' and 'India's Answer to Jay Leno'. The Hindustan Times calls him 'simply hysterical'. Delhi Times has listed him as one of Delhi's Top Ten Dream Men. The Pioneer has called him 'The Funniest Kid in India'. Verve has called him 'India's only true comic'.

Vir has approximately 35 plays, over 100 stand-up comedy shows, 8 TV shows, 2 movies and 6 comedy specials behind him. He is writing comedic columns for Femina, Maxim, Exotica, DNA and Tehelka.

Vir Das currently is also working with Ashvin Gidwani Productions-AGP in plays like Walking on Broken Das, Battle of Da Sexes and History of India: VIRitten. Walking on Broken Das, History of India: VIRitten and Battle of Da Sexes is written, directed and performed by Vir Das.

Rajan Babu is an Indian film director, screenwriter, working predominantly in Tamil cinema based in Chennai. Having born into a family that appreciates all forms of cinema, he has imbibed the quality to breathe in the nuances of the cinema. This can be clearly seen in his debut movie Muran. His dad Raveendran strongly inspired him to take up cinema as his career. While his brothers took it to music, Rajan Madhav made it to direction.

He was born as one of the twin to the well- renowned music director Raveendran and Sobhana in chennai. His brothers are Sajan madhav and Naveen Madhav. After his first movie, he fell in love with Sandhya who was working as an assistant director as well in Bollywood and married her on May 23, 2012 in chennai.


While his family was so much into music with Sajan madhav being a music director and Naveen madhav being a playback singer already, Rajan Madhav was a B.Com graduate and was looking forward to getting into direction. However, he was conscious enough not to use his dad's influence anywhere at work and so joined as an assistant director to Shaji Kailas. After working as an AD for about 6 films, he was all set to commit as a director himself which was when his dad Raveendran passed away. He then joined director Mysskin as Co-director in his movie Anjathey and then went on to become a director with his debut movie Muran. Currently he is filming his second movie, titled as Ula.

Sajan Madhav is an upcoming indian music director.