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Priya Anand is an Indian film actress and model who appears in Tamil and Telugu films. She appeared in several popular Tamil and Telugu films including, Vaamanan and Leader. Priya is the only child of Radha, a Tamilian mother and Bharadwaj Anand, a half Telugu, half Marathi father. Because of her mixed regional background, she was brought up in both her parents hometowns, Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh, becoming fluent in both Tamil and Telugu. Besides her mother tongues, Priya is proficient in Hindi, English, which she usually spoke at home, Bengali and Spanish languages as well.

Priya, who describes herself as "naturally extremely hyperactive", became fascinated by films, developing an interest in cinema, since childhood, and noted that she has been dreaming of getting into the film industry and working on technical aspects of film making, but confesses she never thought of becoming an actor. 

She moved to the U. S., where she pursued her higher studies. Keeping her later career in mind, she studied Communications and Journalism at University of Albany. After completing her education, she returned to India in 2008 and since, stays with her grandparents in Chennai. However, she then ventured into modeling, appearing in various television commercials like Nutrine Maha Lacto, Prince Jewellery and Cadbury Dairy Milk.

She was subsequently receiving acting offers from directors, who had seen her television commercials. She was initially supposed to make her acting debut in the Tamil film Pugaippadam, which she signed up first, but since its release was delayed until 2010, her first release became the action-thriller Vaamanan, directed by newcomer Ahmed.

She was assigned for the project in late 2008 to portray Divya, a simple girl next door, whom the male lead character, essayed by Jai, would fall in love with. The film created some anticipation before its release, mainly due to its hit music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, enabling a big opening, but fared only averagely at the Chennai box office. In 2010, three of her films released within short span, the first on New Year 2010, which was the college-life based drama Pugaippadam, a film revolving around friendship between seven students Priya enacted the charcater of one of the student roles, a Malayali Christian named Shiney George. The film opened to mixed reviews and proved to be commercially unsuccessful.

She next starred in her first Telugu film, AVM Productions Sekhar Kammula directed political drama Leader, alongside newcomers Rana Daggubati and Richa Gangopadhyay. She recalls that an assistant director of Kammula had found her on Facebook and invited her and how he she had to audition thrice for the film to prove herself and eventually get the offer. She played Ratna Prabha, a television channel owner and friend to a young man, who would later go on to become a political leader.

Although her screen presence in the film was very limited, her performance garnered overwhelming response and was well received, while the film itself earned positive reviews and became a critical success. The Dil Raju-produced family entertainer Rama Rama Krishna Krishna is her most recent release, in which she plays the love interest of the films male protagonist. She is currently working on a bilingual Tamil-Telugu project by noted ad filmmaker Jayendra, in which she would act opposite Siddharth.

Sanaya Irani is a very famous face on small screen of television. The actress rose to fame after performing roles in serials like 'Left Right Left' and 'Miley Jab Hum Tum'. Khushi Gupta was the character recently essayed by Sanaya Irani in the television serial 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?'. The bubbly actress was born on September 17, 1983 in Mumbai. She finished her schooling in Ooty and attained her degree from Sydenham College in Mumbai.

The elegant lady bagged awards for her performance on television. In the year 2008, Indian Television Academy Awards praised Sanaya for her performance in the serial 'Miley Jab Hum Tum' by awarding her as 'ITA Fresh Face of the Year'. She received Star Parivar Awards for 'Favorite Jodi' in the serial 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?' with Barun Sobti in 2012. In the same year, Sanaya won the title of 'Favorite International Jodi' with Barun Sobti in the serial 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?'.

Boman Irani, who is now a Bollywood actor, made the portfolio for Sanaya Irani before some years. At that time, Boman was a photographer. Sanaya commenced her modeling career with that portfolio. In the early phase of her career, Sanaya was seen in various advertisements, such as Reliance, Airtel and Pepsi. Sanaya got a chance to perform with Bollywood biggies like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra.

Sanaya Irani made her music album debut with music video 'Tumko Dekha To Yeh' by Jagjit Singh. The year 2006 saw Sanaya debuting on silver screen with the Yash Raj Films movie 'Fanaa'. Cute Sanaya portrayed the role of 'Bobo', who is a friend of the female lead in the film.

In television serial 'Left Right Left' on SAB TV, Sanaya was seen as a newly joined cadet, named as 'Sameera'. Followed by this, Sanaya showed her darker side in another TV opera on Imagine TV named as 'Radhaa Ki Betiyaan Kuch Kar Dikhayengi'.

Eventually, the young lady grabbed the role of protagonist in serial 'Miley Jab Hum Tum' on Star One channel. Sanaya played the host of television dance reality show 'Zara Nachke Dikha' (Season 2) on Star Plus, alongside Mohit Sehgal. The beauty was once again seen in female protagonist's role in the serial 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?'. This serial proved to be all time famous television show. Sanaya became so popular after playing this role, that she even formed her fan base abroad.

Sanaya participated in a television show hosted by Ram Kapoor, named as 'Welcome - Baazi Mehmaan-Nawaazi Ki'. 'Ishq Wala Love' was the television show of which Sanaya hosted Valentine's Day special episode alongside Karan Grover.

Presently, the charismatic Sanaya is essaying the role of a modern and lively girl in the new serial named as 'Chhan Chhan' on Sony TV.

V. Selvaganesh is an Indian percussionist working in the Carnatic tradition and one of the leading kanjira (south Indian frame drum) players of his generation. He is also known as "Chella S. Ganesh."

Born in Chennai to Grammy-winning musician Vikku Vinayakram, a former member of the original Shakti, he is the grandson of T. R. Harihara Sarma, who founded the Sri Jaya Ganesh Tala Vadya Vidyalaya (Sri JGTV school) in Chennai.

Selvaganesh gained world fame through tours with John McLaughlin's group, Remember Shakti.He helps his father, Grammy-winner T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram, to run the Sri JGTV school and train a new generation of Carnatic percussionists. He has also composed and produced albums and played with the Swedish bass player Jonas Hellborg and American guitar virtuoso Shawn Lane.

His debut international solo album, Soukha, was released in 2006 featuring all other regular members of Remember Shakti including John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, U. Srinivas and Shankar Mahadevan, as well as sitar player Niladri Kumar and Selvaganesh's father T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram. He has also formed a new group called dr JSM, with the UK-based Goan songwriter/producer dr.Joel and the young Carnatic singer Mahesh.Their Indo-Celtic album entitled Turn on the dreams was released in the UK in 2005.

In 2012, Selvaganesh made his film directorial debut with Bodhai,a short film in Tamil. He also composed the four-track soundtrack which was released in digital format by Saregama.
V. Selvaganesh made his debut composing for films with the Tamil movie Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (2008).

He next scored the music for the Tamil film Kola Kolaya Mundhirika (2009) where he had composed a diverse album containing a Punjabi-style Bhangra song sung by his favorite singer Shankar Mahadevan, a south Indian folk song, a hip-hop number, and a romantic ballad that brings together singers S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. S. Chithra after a very long time.

The theme track of the film brought together Swedish guitarists Mattias Eklundh on his signature electric guitar and Jonas Hellborg on the bass respectively, Ranjit Barot on the drums, and Selvaganesh's father Vikku Vinayakram on the Ghatam. It marks the first time that so many world-renowned musicians have collaborated in the history of Tamil film music.