Showing all artists born in 1961

Ganesh Janardhanan, also known by his stage name VTV Ganesh, is a film actor and producer. He is best known for his appearances in films featuring Silambarasan.

Ganesh made his breakthrough with a role in his home production Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya directed by Gautham Menon featuring Silambarasan and Trisha Krishnan in the lead roles. His portrayal of Ganesh, the fictional cinematographer of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya won plaudits from critics and eventually led to him changing his name by adding a prefix with the initials of the film (VTV). 

He went on to play a comic role in the 2011 anthology film, Vaanam, which he also produced, portraying the character of "Bajanai" Ganesh who assists Cable Raja played Silambarasan.  Ganesh was also acted in Osthi featuring Silambarasan in a role as the heroine's father and he was last seen in Podaa Podi (2012).

Mansoor Ali Khan is an Tamil film actor who has appeared in Tamil films in predominantly supporting roles.  

He has often essayed roles of the lead or a supporting antagonist and appeared in several films throughout the 1990.

The actor was falsely implicated in a high profile criminal case of rape during the height of his career. The chargesheet alleged that Khan had run an advertisement in the newspapers for a woman secretary for his real estate business and a woman named Sneha Sharma applied for the post. Khan, on December 8, 1996, took her to a hotel at Vadapalani, Tamil Nadu, and gave her a drug-laden drink. 

She fell unconscious; he raped her. He did appoint her as his secretary later, and had sex with her, promising to marry her but when Sharma became pregnant and asked him to marry her, he threatened to kill her.

In 2001, he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and told to pay the victim for her maintenance and the child born through the accused. He was able to successfully apply for bail within a week.  However in 2007, he was acquitted of all charges by the Madras High Court after he agreed to pay INR10 lakh as compensation to the victim.  Later, however the Madras High Court on December 2012, directed the woman to pay INR50 lakh as damages to Khan after finding the woman guilty of perjury, malicious prosecution and defamation suffered by the actor. 

Khan in his suit said he came to know through court records that Sharma was already living with another person as his 'wife' and hence filed the present suit. He contended that Sneha Sharma was liable to pay Rs 50 lakh for falsely instituting a complaint and that too with malice to lower his reputation and for wrongfully causing huge loss to him.

Khan tried his hand at politics by supporting the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and contested from Periyakulam as a candidate of the Puthiya Thamizhagam (PT) and secured about one lakh votes. In the following election stood as an independent candidate and the opposition pressed criminal charges against him for moving around in a vehicle with a propaganda banner breaching the moral conduct code.

The actor was also later arrested in January 2012 on land-grabbing charges after it was alleged that the actor had illegally constructed a 16-storeyed property in Arumbakkam.

R. K. Selvamani is a Tamil film director. He was known to make movies of the police or whodunit genre.

R. K. Selvamani made his debut with the thriller Pulan Visaranai which was based on a confession by Auto Shankar that he had kidnapped many girls at the behest of some political bigwigs. This movie starring Vijaykanth was the biggest hit of 1990 in Tamil. It also fetched a state award for Sarath Kumar for his portrayal of the villain character. He also made two movies based on the assassination of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. The latter (based on Rajiv's assassination) got embroiled into controversies with the Indian Film Censor Board and was cleared only recently (fourteen years after its completion). He also made Captain Prabhakaran starring Vijaykanth in 1991 which is both the director's and Vijaykanth's biggest hit. He then made Chembaruthi an unusual love story starring Roja and Prashanth in 1992.

In 1995, he directed Makkal Aatchi with Mammootty in the lead, which became a superhit and he again directed a film Arasiyal with Mammootty in the lead, which released with great expectation but was an average grosser. In 1997, the director once again launched another political drama venture titled Indian Express which would narrate the happenings of an event which had occurred in Trivandrum. However despite signing up Sarath Kumar to play the lead role as well as Roja and Anupam Kher, the film became stalled and was discontinued after the launch. So he retired in 1999 (though he directed Roja's 100th film Durga in 2001). After being instrumental in launching the TV Channel "Tamilthirai", however he had resigned from it later. His recent venture Pulan Visaranai-2 with Prashanth as hero is delayed.

He married actress Roja who starred in his films such as Chembaruthi, Raja Muthirai and Makkal Aatchi in 2001. He mortgaged his property in Chennai to bail out his wife from a cheque bounce case. R. K. Selvaman is now Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Directors association. He is a strong supporter for the Eelam Tamils.

Vivek is a Tamil film actor and comedian. He has won four Filmfare Best Comedian Awards for his performances in Run, Saamy, Perazhagan and Sivaji, respectively.

In April 2009, Vivek received the Padma Shri award by the Government of India for his contribution to the arts.

Vivek debuted in with Manathil Uruthi Vendum in 1987. Later he played roles in Kushi, Minnale, Run and Saamy. In 2009, he received and Asianet Film Award for Special Honour Jury Award.

Vivek was born in the Thevar community (Kallar subcaste) from Tamil Nadu, India. 

He completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The American College, Madurai.  

Vivek is married to Kavitha with children Amritha Nandini Vivek, Tejaswini Vivek and Prasanna Kumar Vivek. 

Konidela Nagendra Babu is a Telugu film actor and producer. He acts mainly in supporting roles and villain roles, though he has also played the hero in some films. He acted in 143, Anji, Shock, Sri Ramadasu, Chandamama and Orange. He has produced several films with his brothers Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan under Anjana Productions. He has two kids Varun Tej and Niharika. He currently appears in television serials. He is also a judge on the comedy showJabardasth, which airs on ETV 

Ramakrishnan, better known by his cinema name Ramki, is an Indian film actor best known for his work in Tamil films as a lead actor. He is married to actress Nirosha in 1995, whom he appeared with in several films. The couple don't have any children. Now after a hiatus, he has made a comeback to Tamil Cinema with the films Maasani and Biriyani.

Livingston is a Tamil film actor and Screenwriter who usually plays in supporting roles. He is credited in his earlier films by the stage name Ranjan.

His first starring role was in Poonthotta Kavalkaran (1988).

He started out playing villains and graduated to playing lead roles with Sundara Purushan in 1997. Sollamale (1998), En Purushan Kozhanda Maadiri (2001) and Engalukkum Kaalam Varum (2001) are other films in which he has appeared in lead roles.  At present he is usually cast in supporting roles.

He also wrote the screenplay for the movie Kanni Rasi along with G.M Kumar, who played a crucial role in Avan Ivan.

Suhasini Mani Ratnam, commonly known as Suhasini, is an award winning south Indian actress. She made her film debut in 1980 with the Tamil movie Nenjathai Killathe. Suhasini was born in Chennai, the daughter of actor of Charu Hasan - the elder brother of Kamal Hassan. In 1988, she married Mani Ratnam. The couple have a 15-year old son. Suhasini is a trained costumer designer, hair stylist and Cinematographer , the first girl student to graduate from the Madras Film institute.

In 1996, Suhasini stepped into direction, helming her first film Indira. She also wrote the screenplay for the film. The project was produced by G.V films . She and husband Mani Ratnam, are both involved in the running of their production company Madras Talkies, along with G. Srinivasan.

She won the coveted National Film Award for Best Actress in 1986 for her role in the 1985 Tamil film Sindhu Bhairavi, directed by K. Balachander.She has acted in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada as well as Malayalam films. She was introduced to Malayalam cinema through Padmarajans Koodevide 1983, which also featured Mammootty. Her role in the AFI Fest nominated feature Vaanaprastham (1999), which starred Mohanlal was particularly well received.

She is also a very talented make-up artist and hair stylist. Suhasini has helped her co-stars who were equally popular like Radhika, Radha, Vijayashanthi, Sumalatha and Ambika on thier make up and hair. She even volunteered to do Radhikas hair for the movie, Keladi Kanmani, a sort of come-back movie for Radhika. She was very instrumental in getting Radhika back to Cinema after the later succumbed to some personal problems.

Guru Dutt is an Indian actor and director primarily concentrating on Kannada and Tamil feature films. He debuted along with Shivrajkumar in the 1986 blockbuster Anand. He was launched in Tamil by K. Balachander with the 1989 smash hit Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal. He has acted in Ennarukil Nee Irunthal and more than 100 films .

His major Tamil appearance was opposite Kamal Haasan in musical Kalaignan as the psychopath doctor.  He is the son of Chi. Udaya Shankar.

Chi Guru Dutt as directed Aryan starring Shivarajkumar, Ramya and Sarath Babu due to sudden demise of Veteran director D. Rajendra Babu.

Koduri Keeravaani, better known as M. M. Keeravaani under the alias Maragatha Mani (Tamil Cinema) and M. M. Kreem (Bollywood), is an Indian film music composer and Playback singer, who works in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi cinema.  In 1997, he has garnered the National Film Award for Best Music Direction. He has won eight Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards, four Filmfare Awards South and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award He was priveleged to work with legendary veterans like K. Vishwanath, K. Balachander and Bharathan very early in his career.

Keeravani first began his career as an Assistant music director with the noted composer Chakravarthy in the year 1987. He assisted in some movies like Collectorgari Abbayi and Bharathamlo Arjunudu in the later 80's. During this time, he also sought the guidance of the veteran lyricist Veturi for over a year.

Keeravani's first big break as an independent musician came with the film Kalki in 1990. But the film never got released and the soundtrack also went unnoticed. It was director Mouli's 1990 film Manasu Mamatha that brought him to the limelight and considered his first released movie.

However, it was Ram Gopal Varma's blockbuster film Kshana Kshanam (1991) that made Keeravani an established music director. All the songs of this movie went on to become top chartbusters and Keeravani was flooded with offers from all across south Indian film industries. His first major Hindi film was Criminal.

He is known for his play back singing contributions to the Telugu film industry with compilations for hit films like Annamayya. He has composed music for Hindi films such as Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996), Sur: The Melody of Life, Zakhm, Saaya, Jism, Criminal, Rog and Paheli. In Malayalam, he has scored for films like Neelagiri (1991), Soorya Manasam (1992), and Devaraagam (1996). He has composed for over 200 films in various Indian languages.