Showing all artists born in 1985

Tanvi Vyas won the Miss India Earth title in 2008. It was first won by Harshita Saxena who eventually surrendered her title to Ms. Tanvi due to the violation of a contract signed with Gladrags.

She later competed in the Miss Earth competition, but she did not make it to the semi-finals.

Vyas was born on 30 September 1985 in Mehlol, a village near Godhra, Gujarat, and grew up in the Gujarati city of Vadodara. At the time of the Miss India pagaent, Vyas was studying graphic design at M.S. University.

She has also acted in Eppadi Manasukkul Vanthai ("How You Came Into My Heart"), a South Indian film directed by P.V. Prasath.

Shweta Bhardwaj is an Indian actress and model who has acted in Hindi and South Indian films. She made her debut in the 2008 action flick Mission Istanbul, starring Vivek Oberoi & Zayed Khan. She has been a Gladrags Model.

Born and brought up in Delhi, Shweta hails from a humble family. Shweta studied at Gargi College, and has an Honors degree in History. She made her debut as Lisa Lobo in 2008's Apoorva Lakhia film Mission Istaanbul.

Vignesh Shiva, the Director of the  Podaa Podi is an Indian film director. Born in 18th September 1985. His debut Movie is Poda Podi  with Simbu and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar. Both his parents worked for the Police department and he went to school at Santhome Higher Secondary School, Chennai. He has written and acted in plays while in school. His nick name is Vicky.

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.

Neha Oberoi is an actress who appears Bollywood and Tollywood. She is a daughter of Dharam Oberoi who is a famous film producer. Film director Sanjay Gupta is her uncle. She was born on 15th September 1985 in Mumbai. She is married to a diamond venture Vishal Shah in 2010.

Neha has featured in the films like 'EMI' , 'Dus Kahaniyaan' and 'Woodstock Villa'. She made her debut with the Telugu film. She came into the limelight with her performance in 'Dus Kahaniyaan'.

Currently she is busy in shooting an untitled project with Imraan Khan.

Kani Kusruti is an Indian actress and model.  She first gained recognition in 2009 with the film Kerala Cafe, where her performance was critically acclaimed.  Kani was born in Trivandrum, Kerala to social activist and rationalist parents Jayasree AK and Maitreya Maitreyan. Her parents had dropped their last names to erase the social hierarchy marker that comes with last names in India. At 15, she invented her last name “Kusruti” (meaning “mischievous” in Malayalam) to fill in a requirement in her class 10th exam application. She grew up in Thiruvanthapuram, where she got introduced to the Abhinaya Theatre Research Centre, "a common platform for theatre practitioners”. She later moved to Thrissur, where she enrolled in the theatre arts program at the Thrissur Drama School, between 2005 and 2007. She completed her theatre education at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where she studied physical theatre for two years.

Career

At Abhinaya, Kusruti made her theatre debut in Baudhayana's classic farce Bhagavadajjukam. She played the lead role of Vasantsena in the production from 2000 to 2006. The play toured across theatre festivals, including the Bharat Rang Mahotsav and the International Theatre Festival of Kerala. She rendered the part of Kamala in Jyotish M G’s stage adaptation of Herman Hesse' Siddhartha. In 2007, the production was invited to the Villeneuve en Scene Festival d’Avignon.In 2009, after returning from L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Kusruti appeared in the anthology film Kerala Cafe, in the segment “Island Express” directed by Shankar Ramakrishnan. In 2010, she played a Naxalite in the Mohanlal starrer Shikkar, but her nuanced rendition of a sex worker in the 2010 film Cocktail got her noticed by mainstream audiences.

In December 2010, Kani collaborated on creating ‘Las Indias’, a "mega performance event" directed by the thespian and theatre pedagogist Elias Cohen. The performance was staged in a bus, that was designed for the production. The Indo-Latin American theatre company, the Singing Sticks Theatre Ensemble evolved out of Las Indias. The bus that was originally created for Las Indias, was used once again for an interactive theatre roadshow 'Tsunami Express: Highway of Hopes’, which Kusruti collaborated on making.

In 2011, Kani joined the renowned touring theatre company Footsbarn to work on a new production of Shakespeare’s Tempest. She played Miranda in the resulting performance “The Indian Tempest”.  After touring Ireland, Spain, France, Portugal and India, the production opened at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2013.

Kusruti researched, co-developed and acted in the Indo-Polish production 'Burning Flowers - 7 Dreams of a Woman', directed by Pawel Szkotak and produced by Teatr Biuro Podróży.

In 2015, Kani became a household presence with the soap opera Eswaran Sakshiyayi, directed by K K Rajeev. She played the part of Advocate Tresa, a lawyer who joins in on the investigation for her brother’s murder.

Kusruti has acted in Vipin Vijay’s upcoming feature film, due for a 2017 release.

Personal life

Kusruti’s mother Dr.Jayasree AK, a community health specialist and a social activist, lectures at Pariyaram Medical College, and is a regular guest on talk shows. Her father Maitreya Maitreyan has worked for, and led, several human rights movements in Kerala.

Kani Kusruti lives in Mumbai with her partner, the filmmaker and science communicator Anand Gandhi. She identifies herself as an atheist and a rationalist.

Chandan Kumar mononymously known as 'Chandan', is an actor who works in television and Kannada cinema. He is known for his work in the television soap opera Radha Kalyana and later Lakshmi Baramma, in which he played the role of Chandu, that was aired on Colors Kannada from 2012. During the time, he was offered several films for which he had to step out of the serial mid-way.

His first film to be released was Parinaya in 2014 which took two years in the making. Subsequently he starred in few low-budget films until the multi-starrer film, Luv U Alia (2015) directed by Indrajit Lankesh.

Apart from serials and films, Chandan has been contestant for the reality shows such as Pyate Mandi Kadige Hodru , "Dancing Stars season 1" and Bigg Boss Kannada 3

From 2011 to 2014, Chandan appeared in a television soap, Radha Kalyana, portraying the lead role of Vishu, that was aired on Zee Kannada.

Subsequently, he was roped in for another soap, Lakshmi Baramma aired on Colors Kannada channel. The latter serial shot him to fame and made him hugely popular actor in Television. He also participated in the reality show "Pyaate Mandi Kadige Bandru" in 2010 end. He became Runner up of Bigg Boss Kannada 3 which was aired on Colors Kannada during 2016.

Radhika Apte is an Indian film and stage actress. Radhika Apte was born on September 7, 1985 in Pune. She is an Economics graduate from Fergusson College, Pune. She is associated with Mohit Takalkar’s theatre troupe Aasakta in her hometown. She is the daughter of Pune’s leading neurosurgeons Dr Charu Apte.

Actor Rahul Bose, who had seen her perform in Anahita Oberoi’s play Bombay Black, suggested her name to director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury who cast her in Antaheen along with Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore and Rahul Bose. She played the role of Brinda Roy Menon, a TV journalist, in Antaheen. She has also done Marathi plays like Tu, Purnaviram, Matra Ratra, Kanyadaan and Samuel Beckett’s That Time with Rehan Engineer.

In Darmiyan, a short film, she played a college girl Ekta. Apte appeared as Savitri, a village girl in KBC productions, Marathi film Gho Mala Asla Hava. She appeared in a significant role in Ram Gopal Varma's Rakhtcharitra and its sequel. She also appeared in Shor in the City under Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Films banner. She was also seen in Maneej Premnath’s thriller The Waiting Room. Apte will also star in Akash Khurana’s Life on Life, about a bunch of youngsters working in a BPO and Amol Palekar’s Marathi film, Samaantar.

She recently got married to her British boyfriend Benedict Taylor. Radhika met Benedict, a London-based musician, last year during her year-long sabbatical when she had gone to learn contemporary dance.

Mumaith Khan is an Indian film actress known for her item numbers. She has acted in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada language films.

Mumaith Khan an Indian film actress who is very popular for her item songs.Mumait Khan is the uncrowned Bollywood Dancing Queen.Her birth name is Mumait Abdul Rashid Khan. She is also known by the name Munnu.Her mother’s name is Hasina Khan and her father’s name is Abdul Rashid khan.Mumaith’s family hailed from Pakistan but moved to India where they settled in the outskirts of Mumbai. Her father is an Indian (Tamil Nadu) and her mother is a Pakistani.She has four sisters and to support her family, she joined a small dance troop for Rupees 1500/- per month. Her sister Zabyn Khan also entered the film industry and has done some cameo appearances in Telugu films.

Srinda Arhaan is an Indian film actress, who predominantly performs in Malayalam films. Her first film was Four Friends. Her notable roles includes 22 Female Kottayam, Annayum Rasoolum, 1983 and Masala Republic.  Srinda Arhaan was born into a Muslim family. She did her schooling at St. Mary’s Anglo Indian Girls High School, Fort Kochi up to Class X before moving to a school in Palluruthy for her Plus Two. She later studied at the Sacred Heart College, Thevara.

Srinda was passionate about films and photography since she was young and said that films were always on mind even after she started working. Bored with her job, she started her film career as an assistant director.  She then briefly worked as a television anchor, but felt that "my heart wasn’t in it. I felt like something was missing which I found in films".  She went on to model for products such as hair oils and jewellery brands before appearing in a documentary which eventually led her to feature films: she was noticed by director Dileesh Nair who introduced her to Aashiq Abu. Her cinematic debut was Abu's 22 Female Kottayam, in which she played a friend role of the lead character, with Srinda stating that the film "shaped her as an actor".  In the following months, she was part of several popular films such as Thattathin Marayathu, North 24 Kaatham, 101 Weddings, Artist and Annayum Rasoolum although she played only minor supporting roles in them. 2014 she had a lead role in the sports film 1983 and her character Susheela was noticed.  Later that year, she played a police officer in the political satire Masala Republic,and had two releases on one day, Tamaar Padaar and Homely Meals, both of which had her in a starring role.  She made her Tamil debut in Vennila Veedu, in which she portrays a character with negative shades.

Personal life

Srinda is married to Ashab but is currently living separated, and they have a son named Arhaan.  Srinda changed her surname as Srinda Arhaan.  She started her acting career after marriage.