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Sangeetha Arvind Krish (born 21 October 1978) is an Indian film actress, model and female playback singer. Making her acting debut in the mid-90s, she is probably best known for her performances in the films Khadgam, Pithamagan, Uyir and Dhanam.

Sangeetha was born in Chennai, India to Arvind and Bhanumathy. Her grandfather, K. R. Balan, is a prominent film producer, who had produced more than 20 Tamil films. Also her father had produced several films. She has two brothers. Sangeetha is a Bharatanatyam dancer as she had learned Bharatanatyam during her school days. She studied in St. John's, Besant Nagar where she was unanimously elected as the head girl of her school.

She started her acting career in late 90's, pairing with Telugu comedian Ali and she performed primarily in low-budget films until her role in Telugu movie Khadgam, alongside Ravi Teja in 2002. Later she acted with Vikram, Surya Sivakumar and Laila in the National Award winning Pithamagan. Later, she appeared in the moderate hit Uyir as a possessive woman wanting her brother in law. She also played a minuscule role in Kaalai. Her last film in Tamil before marriage was Dhanam which won her lots of rave reviews

She is a judge on Vijay TV's hit show Jodi No.1. She was one of the three judges along with Silambarasan and Sundaram in Jodi No.1 Season Two and with S.J.Suryaah and Sundaram in Jodi No.1 and with Jeeva and Aishwarya Dhanush in Jodi No.1 Season Three. She was a guest judge during the finals of Vasantham Central's Indian dance competition "Dhool" held in Singapore on 2008.

She got married to film playback singer Krish on 1 February 2009 at the Arunachaleshwarar Temple in Thiruvannamalai., which was attended by several noted film personalities. In 2012, their first daughter was born.

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.

This baby-faced actress acts in Hindi films. She became a famous face since her role in blockbuster 'Rang De Basanti' in the year 2006. Soha Ali Khan is the loving daughter of late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and yesteryears' noted actress Sharmila Tagore. Soha is the younger sister of Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan. The cute actress was born on 4th October, 1978 in New Delhi. She belongs to Nawab of Pataudi family. The heroine comes from a mixed heritage from her parents; her father was a Muslim, while her mother is a Bengali. Soha's elder sister, Saba Ali Khan is a jewellery designer.

Soha Ali Khan studied at New Delhi based The British School. Soha was the student of Balliol College, Oxford University. She holds a Masters degree from London School of Economics and Political Science in the subject of International Relations. Earlier, Soha used to work for Citibank and Ford Foundation. Apart from acting, Soha Ali Khan modeled recently for spring-summer collection of one of the Indian chain of boutiques named as Globus.

The royal actress stepped in the glitzy world of Bollywood with the movie 'Dil Maange More' in the year 2004. Soha gave credits to her co-stars like Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia and Tulip Joshi. She worked with two Bengali films called as 'Antarmahal' (2005) and 'Iti Srikanta' (2004). Though the film 'Khoya Khoya Chand' (2007) performed poorly at the box-office, the film gained Soha critical acclaim. Same thing happened with her movie 'Tum Mile' opposite Emraan Hashmi in the year 2009. Albeit, the film could not please the box-office to much extent, Soha managed to get thumbs ups for her excellent performance in the movie.

Let's have a look at movies in which Soha Ali Khan showed her acting talent in. They include 'Pyaar Mein Twist', 'Shaadi No. 1', 'Ahista Ahista', 'Mumbai Meri Jaan', 'Dil Kabaddi', 'Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge', '99', 'Mumbai Cutting', 'Tera Kya Hoga Johny', 'Soundtrack' and 'Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns'.

Soha Ali Khan was an anchor for the television show titled 'Godrej Khelo Jeeto Jiyo' aired on Star Plus. The talented actress accomplished three awards in her career shot - IIFA Awards for Best Supporting Actress for 'Rang De Basanti', GIFA Awards for Best Supporting Actress for the same film and Sabsey Favorite Nayi Heroine again for 'Rang De Basanti'. She received nomination from Filmfare Awards for the Best Supporting Actress category.

At present, Soha is working on her future Hindi projects like 'Airport' and 'Chaarfutiya Chhokare'.

Rachana Banerjee was born on 2nd October 1978 in Kolkata city, West Bengal state. She started her career in Bengali films and also appeared in numerous Oriya, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. Apart from films she also worked as a Television host for Zee Bangla channel show named Didi No. 1. While working in studio for Didi No. 1 she fainted because of accidental fire broke out in studio.

During her decades long career she appeared in numerous commercial hits like Kanyadanam co-starring Upendra and Srikanth, Bavagaru Bagunnara? co-starring Chiranjeevi, Rambha and Paresh Rawal, Sooryavansham co-starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jayasudha, Anupam Kher and Mukesh Rishi, Guru co-starrimg Mithun Chakraborty, Tapas Paul and Jisshu Sengupta, Tulkalam co-starring Mithun Chakraborty and Biplab Chattopadhyay, Ramdhanu co-starring Gargi Roychowdhury and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, among other films.

Asha Saini (born as Flora Saini) is an Indian film actress and model. She predominantly works in Tollywood, and also appeared in a number of Kannada, Tamil and Hindi films as well. Since her debut in Prema Kosam (1999), she has acted in over 50 films and co-starred with noted actors including Rajinikanth, Vijaykanth, Prabhu, Karthik, Balakrishna, Venkatesh, Jagapati Babu and Rajasekhar.

She is known majorly because she is the cousin of Manju Saini.

Career

Born in Chandigarh, UT to an army officer, Flora began her schooling in Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir and continued her education in The Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan Delhi. She was the favorite student of Accounts teacher Lala.  Her family moved to Kolkata then, where she started pursuing a modeling career. She participated at the Miss Kolkata beauty pageant contest.  Flora made her acting debut in the 1999 Telugu film Prema Kosam in which she enacted the lead female role.  The film producer of her first film rechristened her as Asha Saini, while years later she would adopt a new screen name, Mayuri, as per an astrologer’s advice, before eventually reverting to her original name.

Flora subsequently played supporting roles in more than a dozen Telugu films in the next three years, with her appearance in the film Narasimha Naidu (2002), which went on to become highly successful, being the most notable, which led to her being referred to as "Lux Papa" thereafter.  In 2002, she debuted in Hindi, starring in the T. P. Aggarwal-produced Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.  Her second Hindi film Love in Nepal (2004) saw her pairing with popular playback singer Sonu Nigam, which too was produced by T. P. Aggarwal.  Flora starred in several Kannada films, too, including Giri starring Srinagar Kitty and Nammannna starring Sudeep.

In March 2008, she was arrested in Chennai for supposedly having forged visa documents, and was subsequently banned from the Tamil film industry.  She claimed innocence, and the ban was lifted a couple of weeks later.

Flora had three of her films, Broker (Telugu), Vismaya Pramaya and Vah Re Vah (both Kannada) releasing on 31 December 2010, a rare occurrence that secured her an entry in the Limca Book of Records for the most number of film releases on one day.  In 2010, Flora Saini was honoured with the Uttarakhand Ratan Award.  She has also received The Great Daughter of Soil Award in Mauritius for her work towards the poor and helpless.

Sutharshi Ignatius (Jereen) born Sri Lanka and migrated to Canada and finished her Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering now in the Tamil Film industry.

She was Tamil RJ at Toronto, Canada and Artist at Chennai Kalai Kuzu.

M. M. Srilekha, (born Koduri Srilekha) is an Indian film playback singer and music composer, known for her works predominantly in Telugu cinema.She is the only female music director in the Telugu film industry.

Srilekha is the cousin of music composer M. M. Keeravani and popular director S.S. Rajamouli. She is married to Putta Prasad. She started her career as a play back singer at the age of 12.

She has composed for her first movie Taj Mahal and Dasari Narayana Rao’s Naannagaru. Apart from South Indian films, She has composed for bollywood films like Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain, Mere Sapnon Ki Raani, Aaghaaz etc.

Maheswari is an Indian former actress, who appeared predominantly in Telugu and Tamil language films. She was one of the leading actresses in Telugu and Tamil films from 1994 to 2000. She appeared alongside major south Indian stars like Jagapati Babu, J. D. Chakravarthy, Ravi Teja, Ajith Kumar, Vikram, Prabhu, Arjun Sarja, Prabhu Deva, and Shiva Rajkumar. She is best known for her performances in Pelli (1997), Gulabi (1995), Karuththamma (1994), and Ullaasam (1997).

Maheswari was born into a Telugu speaking family to Mohan Reddy and Suryakala. Her aunt is veteran actress Sridevi. She has a brother Avishek Karthik who is also an actor.

Maheswari started her film career at the age of 16 in year 1994 through the Tamil film, Karuththamma directed by Bharathiraja and the movie was successful at box office and the song 'Thenmerku Paruva Kaatru' made her famous among Tamil audience. She became popular in Telugu with her second Telugu film named Gulabi in 1995. 

She played the lead role of Pooja opposite with actor J. D. Chakravarthy. After that she got many offers in movies. Maheswari's first Kannada film was the 1995, Annavra Makkalu. She did her first horror film, Deyyam in 1996 under the production and direction of Ram Gopal Varma. She acted as Mahi, the sister of Sindhu who bought a new estranged house near the graveyard. In this film, she was partnered again with actor, J. D. Chakravarthy and also in 1996 Telugu crime film, Mrugam.

 In 1997, she starred in Kodi Ramakrishna film, Pelli (film) along with Vadde Naveen. She also did the Telugu films, Priyaragalu, Jabilamma Pelli and Nesam. She was also in the lead role in the multi-award-winning film, Nee Kosam in 1999. Her role as the wealthy Sasirekha gave Maheswari the Nandi Award for Best Actress. She also got her fame in the Tamil film, Ullasam in 1997. 
Maheswari did few more Tamil and Telugu films including the Maa Balaji, a remake of the Malayalam comedy film, Punjabi House. Maheswari made an elegant performance and succeeded as a heroine for almost 10 years in Telugu and Tamil industry.

After appearing in Tirumala Tirupati Venkatesa, she quit the film industry at the peak of her career in 2000. She married Jayakrishna a software engineer at Tirupati in 2008.

She has since appeared in television for serials after her marriage. In 2010, Maheswari appeared in the serial, Soundaravalli. Then, she featured in the comedy serial, My Name is Manga Tayaru (Telugu) and My Name Is Mangamma (Tamil) in 2012 on Zee TV which was a super hit among households. She has also featured in the serial Adhey Kangal in 2014 which aired on Jaya TV.
She is currently pursuing an alternate career as a fashion designer and recently opened a store and launched her new label ‘Mahe Ayyapan’ in Hyderabad inaugurated by her aunt Sridevi.

Bhumika Chawla is an Indian actress. She made her film debut in the Telugu film Yuvakudu (2000) and has since then worked in various Indian film industries and appeared in over thirty films in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi and Malayalam. She is probably best known for her critically acclaimed performances in Kushi, Tere Naam, Missamma, Gandhi, My Father and Sathyabhama.

Chawla was born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, India and completed her schooling there. Her father was an Army officer. She moved to Mumbai in 1997 and started her career with Ad films and Hindi music video albums. She appeared in the Zee TV series Hip Hip Hurray.

Chawla started off her film career in the Telugu film industry, starring in the feature film Yuvakudu (2000) alongside actor Sumanth. Her second release, Kushi (2001), in which she starred opposite Pawan Kalyan was a box office success, winning her the Filmfare Best Actress Award (Telugu) following which she acted in several films in Telugu, including Okkadu (2003) opposite Mahesh Babu and Simhadri (2003) opposite Jr. NTR, which became two of the year's highest grossers in Telugu. Meanwhile, she made her debut in the Tamil film industry as well, starring in the film Badri (2001) opposite actor Vijay, which was followed by her second Tamil film Roja Kootam (2002).

After a number of critically and commercially successful films in the South, Chawla starred in her first Bollywood film, Tere Naam (2003), alongside Salman Khan. The film was one of the year's highest grossers. It was a critical success and her performance in the film won her many positive notices as well as several nominations for Best Debut at different award ceremonies. She was nominated for her first Filmfare Best Actress Award and won the Best Debut trophy at the Zee Cine Awards ceremony.

Subsequently, she got to star in a number of Hindi films as Run (2004), a remake of the same-named Tamil film, Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa (2004), again opposite Salman Khan, Silsilay (2005) and Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... (2005) alongside Amitabh Bachchan. She returned to Telugu, acting in the films Naa Autograph (2004) (a remake of the Tamil film Autograph) and Jai Chiranjeeva, alongside Chiranjeevi and Sameera Reddy. Whilst Chawla's performance in the former won her accolades and the CineMAA Jury Award for Best Actress, the latter went to become a super hit film.In 2006, Chawla appeared in the Tamil film Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, alongside real-life couple Surya and Jyothika which became a big hit worldwide, whilst playing a vital role in the Hindi film Family - Ties of Blood, in which she shared screen space with Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar, and starring in the Telugu fantasy film, Mayabazar. Following which, she acted in the Hindi film Gandhi, My Father as Gulab Gandhi and enacted the title roles in the Telugu films Sathyabhama, in which she played a woman who suffers from Short-term memory loss, and Anasuya, a crime thriller, and in the Bhojpuri film, Gangotri, a sequel to the successful 2006 Bhojpuri film Ganga, acting again alongside Amitabh Bachchan.

In 2008, she made her debut in the Punjabi film industry, starring in Yaariyan, opposite Gurdas Maan, following which she debuted in Malayalam as well, starring in Bhramaram alongside Mohanlal. Currently, she is working on half-a-dozen films in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, which include Thangar Bachan's Kalavadiya Pozhudugal opposite Prabhu Deva in Tamil, Yagam alongside Navdeep and Sathyaraj in Telugu and Classmates, a remake of the same-named Malayalam film, in Hindi.

Bhumika Chawla married her long-time boyfriend and Yoga teacher Bharat Thakur on 21 October 2007 at Devlali, Nashik in a Gurdwara. She went regularly to Thakur's courses and is said to have dated him for four years, before eventually marrying him. Bhumika has two siblings; one brother, who is an army officer, and one sister, both elder to her.