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Richa Gangopadhyay (born Antara Richa Gangopadhyay) is an Indian film actress, model and former beauty queen. After appearing in commercials, she made her film debut in the 2010 Telugu political drama Leader. Since then she has starred in several commercially successful Telugu films, including Nagavalli and Mirapakaay. In 2011, she starred in her first Tamil film, Mayakkam Enna, earning positive reviews for her performance.

Richa Gangopadhyay was born on 20 March 1986 in a Bengali family, to Utpal and Paula Gangopadhyay, in New Delhi.  Her father works as the COO of Netshape Technologies, while her mother works as a Director of Education at The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. Her parents settled in the USA in 1989 after spending her first year in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, with Richa being brought up in Pennsylvania and Michigan. 

While attending Okemos High School, Junior, she was featured in the local media for founding a youth-tutoring program for at-risk children in Lansing, which she ran for four years.  She went on to major in Dietetics and Health Administration at Michigan State University, Michigan.

In 2005 and 2006, Richa began participating in beauty pageants and finished in the top ten in the Miss India USA competitions, winning a smaller prize for Miss Congeniality.  In August 2007, Richa won the Miss Michigan pageant and in December, she was crowned Miss India USA 2007 at the 26th annual pageant held at Royal Albert's Palace in New Jersey.  During the competition, she also secured the title of Miss Photogenic and qualified to represent USA in the 17th Annual Miss India Worldwide Pageant held in Johannesburg.

Richa left the USA in 2008 to Mumbai, India to embark on a career in films. She subsequently graduated with a diploma in acting from Anupam Kher's acting school, Actor Prepares, and completed her portfolio, earning offers for work in fashion shows and for modelling. In early 2009, Richa featured in a commercial for Vatika Almond Hair Oil alongside Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, while she also worked as a model for Peter England, Malabar Gold and Kalaniketan in the period.

Richa was signed on to portray the lead role in the 2010 Telugu film, Leader produced by AVM Productions and directed by Sekhar Kammula.  She was recommended to an assistant director of Leader whilst at a gym, who in turn recommended her to Sekhar Kammula. 

Richa moved to Hyderabad and auditioned for the film on her birthday.  She was selected instantly and shooting started 2 days later.  In the film, she played the role of Archana, a Correspondent with a TV channel and a daughter of a politician who falls in love with the title character, played by debutant Rana Daggubati. 

The film opened to positive reviews and did well commercially, with Richa's performance described as "pretty and charming" and "good in a performance oriented role" by critics.  After the success of the film, director P. Vasu signed her up to appear in Nagavalli, a sequel to his 2005 film Chandramukhi. The film featured an ensemble cast of Venkatesh, Anushka Shetty, Shraddha Das and Poonam Kaur. 

During the production of the film, Vasu was initially unimpressed and Richa has revealed that he had planned to drop her from the project.  The film also opened to mixed reviews, with Richa's portrayal of a girl psychologically possessed by the ghost of Nagavalli, leading to critics dubbing her as "impressive" and "convincing".

Her first release in 2011 was the action film Mirapakaay also featuring Ravi Teja and Deeksha Seth in lead roles. She was signed after the director of the film, Harish Shankar, had noticed her at the success party of her previous film Leader. He initially offered her the role played by Deeksha as she was an NRI, but when they met to review the script, he was convinced that Richa would do justice to the character of Vinamra, a traditional Brahmin girl.

The film opened to good reviews with Richa's performance being described as "just about okay" by critics.  Richa was next seen in two Tamil films; the first being Mayakkam Enna, a drama film based on marriage featuring Dhanush and directed by Selvaraghavan which earned her tremondous positive reviews and appreciation from all over. 

Furthermore she signed on to appear alongside Silambarasan in a leading role in Dharani's Osthe, the Tamil remake of the 2010 Hindi film Dabangg. In 2012, she made her debut in Bengali, her mother tongue, through the film Bikram Singha : The Lion Is Back opposite the prolific Prosenjit Chatterjee, a remake of the Telugu film Vikramarkudu.

She also acted for a Telugu film Mirchi which was released on 2013

Lokesh Kanagaraj is an Indian film director who works in the Tamil film industry who started his film career with the 2016 anthology film called Aviyal.

He was born in Kinathukadavu, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He majored in fashion technology before pursuing his MBA. He is an ex bank employee. He pursued his passion which is towards film making by participating in a corporate short film competition. The judge of the competition was director Karthick Subbaraj. He then encouraged Lokesh to continue making films.

In 2016, his short film Kaalam was included in the anthology film Aviyal produced by Karthick Subbaraj. In 2017, he made his directorial feature debut with the action-thriller Maanagaram starring Sundeep Kishan, Sri, Regina Cassandra, Madhusudhan Rao, and Charle in the lead roles.
 
In late 2018, he began working on a film for Dream Warrior Pictures, the same production company behind Maanagaram. With Karthi in the lead role, the action-thriller was titled Kaithi.He completed an action-thriller film Master which has Vijay and Vijay Sethupathi in the lead roles.[9] Which was released on 13 January 2021, a day before the Pongal festival. It received positive reviews. It ran successfully in theatres.

In 2020, he announced his next directorial venture produced by and starring Kamal Haasan, Vijay Sethupathi, and Fahadh Faasil. The title of the film was revealed in a teaser as Vikram on 7 November 2020.

Debi Dutta (Kyra Dutt) is a model and actress. After she started modeling at the age 15 she shifted her base to Mumbai, India. Her first role was to act in Yash Raj Film's Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (2009). She has done a host of songs and ad films for Thumsup, Close Up, HCL Laptop, Wild Stone Deo etc.

She is now writing songs and composing music in collaboration with DJ Llyod of The Bombay Bounce fame.

2012 the Bengali Beauty sung and wrote a peace song for an initiative called De Paix Yatra to spread peace.

Sanjana Singh is an Indian film actress who appears in Tamil language films. She made her debut in the critically acclaimed 2009 film, Renigunta.


She made her debut in the critically acclaimed 2009 film, Renigunta, directed by Paneerselvam. A critic from The Hindu noted that "an understated yet powerful performance comes from Sanjana Singh, who plays the role of a sex worker forced into the profession by her husband. Her spontaneity and perfection in lip sync for the Telugu-influenced-Tamil accent shows that here's one Mumbai import, who goes beyond glamour and is worth looking out for."She was next seen as a Telugu woman in a special appearance in the film, Ko, featuring alongside several actors in the song "Aga Naga".


In 2010, she signed on to appear in the films Marupadiyum Oru Kadhal, Veyilodu Vilayadu and Mayanginen Thayanginen in item numbers. The films are likely to have a delayed release in 2012. She will be seen in the crime thriller, Yaarukku Theriyum with Harish Raj, revaling she only signed the film after the producers approached her for the role for the second time. Furthermore she will be seen in Thappu Thalangal directed by Adhiyaman and Kadhal Padhai as the second wife of the character portrayed by Thalaivasal Vijay. Her most high profile releases will be Rendavathu Padam, a multi-starrer directed by C. S. Amudhan, who earlier made Tamil Padam and Ragalaipuram which also stars Karunas.

Anjena kirti, commonly known as Anjana, (born 11 February) is an Indian film actress and model, who mainly works in the Tamil film industries. Anjena was raised in Chennai an ex-International airline crew Etihad Airways and then pursued a career in modelling.

2014 Anjana's first release was Azhagiya Pandipuram, a Tamil comedy film directed by N. Rayan. Her other movies are Kaanagam, and jumbulingham 3D directed by Hari and Hareesh of ambuli 3D, aaaah fame are in post production stage. her other Tamil film "Thirandhidu seese" released in May 2015 and Andhadhi directed by Ramesh venkatraman released 9 October 2015.

Shruti Haasan (born January 28, 1986) is an Indian actress, singer and music composer who works in South Indian film industry and Bollywood. Her parents are noted actors, Kamal Haasan and Sarika.

As a child artist, she sang in films and appeared in a guest role, before making her adult acting debut in the 2009 action drama, Luck. She later went on to win critical acclaim for her role in the Walt Disney fantasy film, Anaganaga O Dheerudu, Oh My Friend and 7aam Arivu. In 2012, she starred in Gabbar Singh, Telugu remake of Dabangg which also was her first hit as an actress.

She has also continued her stint in music through work as a singer in Indian languages, a career in music direction beginning with her father's production Unnaipol Oruvan and her own music band and album. She has a tattoo on her back, left shoulder area which in tamil means, Shruti.

Sagarika Ghatge is best known as Preeti Sabharwal of 'Chak De India'. She is a daughter of veteran actor Vijayendra Ghatge. She was born on 8th January 1986 in a royal Maratha family of Kolhapur. She studied at Chhatrapati Shahu Vidyalaya School till 8th standard and later she shifted to Ajmer where she completed 10th and 12th standard studies. She soon shifted to Mumbai and did her graduation from HR college in Mumbai.

Sagarika learnt acting at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting institute. She used to play hockey when she was in school and college. When she was studying in college, she used to get lots of offers for ad films. But her father refused to accept any till she complete her graduation.

Sagarika made her acting debut with 'Chak De India'. She portrayed the character of Preeti Sabharwal of the fictional Indian women's national hockey team. The film was a hit and Sagarika came into the limelight. She became a brand ambassador for Reebok India. She appeared on the cover pages of many fashion magazines and walked the ramp in many fashion shows as well. The leggy lass then appeared in the movie 'Fox' with Arjun Rampal in 2009.

Sagarika's next screen appearance was in 'Miley Naa Miley Hum'. For the first time she essayed a lead role in the film 'Rush' opposite Emraan Hashmi. The movie was released in 2012. She was seen in a Marathi movie 'Premachi Goshta' recently with ace actor Atul Kulkarni. Sagarika who has received the screen award for best supporting actress for 'Chak De India' has also received the Lions Gold Award. This girl from a majestic family wants to create her niche here, in the Hindi film industry.

Deepika Padukone (born 5 January 1986) is an Indian actress and a former model.Padukone was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her father, Prakash Padukone, is a former badminton player of international repute, and her mother is a travel agent. In her high school she played badminton at the state level.She appears mostly in Hindi as well as Tamil and Kannada language films.Padukone made her acting debut in the 2006 Kannada film Aishwarya.The following year, she made her Hindi film debut in Om Shanti Om, for which she earned the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. It also remains her biggest commercial success so far. She subsequently appeared in films such as Love Aaj Kal (2009) and Housefull (2010).
In 2012, Padukone is expected to appear in Homi Adajania's Cocktail opposite Saif Ali Khan and Diana Penty and will make her Kollywood debut in Soundarya Rajnikanth's Kochadaiyaan opposite Rajnikanth. Following this, Padukone will be seen in Ayan Mukerji's Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani opposite ex-boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor and Race 2 alongside Saif Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez and Ameesha Patel. It has been reported that Padukone has also signed a film opposite Shahid Kapoor, which will be produced by her Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani producer, Karan Johar.
In addition to acting, Padukone is also the ambassador of prominent brands such as Tissot, Sony Cybershot, Nescafe and Kingfisher Airlines.

Navaneet Kaur (also spelled Navneeth Kaur or Navaneeth Kaur; born January 3, 1986) is an Indian film actress who mainly acts in Telugu films.

Kaur was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her parents are of Punjabi origin; her father was an army official. After finishing 12th class, she discontinued her education and began working as a model, going on to appear in six music videos later. Kaur made her feature film debut in Darshan, a Kannada film. Then followed her debut in Telugu with Seenu, Vasanthi and Lakshmi (2004). Chetna (2005), Jagapathi (2005), Good Boy (2005), and Bhuma (2008) are some of her subsequent releases. Additional work include Kalachakram, Terror, Flash News and Jabilamma in Telugu. She was a contestant in the Gemini TV reality show named Humma Humma. She starred in the Malayalam film Love In Singapore, directed by Rafi Mecartin. In 2010, she acted in the Punjabi film Lad Geya Pecha opposite Gurpreet Ghuggi.

After a short hiatus from her film career, on 3 February 2011, she married Ravi Rana, an independent MLA from Badnera district of Amravati. It has been reported that they got married along with 3613 couples in a mass ceremony

Sean Roldan is the stage name for Indian musician Raghavendra, who has worked on carnatic, independent and film soundtracks for the Tamil film industry. He rose to fame after gaining critical acclaim for his work in Balaji Mohan's Tamil-Malayalam bilingual Vaayai Moodi Pesavum / Samsaaram Aarogyathinu Haanikaram (2014).


Raghavendra was born to the renowned mridangam player Srimushnam V. Raja Rao and Padma, the daughter of novelist Sandilyan. He began a career in music composing and working on carnatic tracks, before venturing into independent Tamil music with his band, Sean Roldan & Friends.


Raghavendra was recommended by film producer C. V. Kumar to Varun Manian, the producer of the bilingual film Vaayai Moodi Pesavum / Samsaaram Aarogyathinu Haanikaram, who was looking for a composer after the director's original choice Anirudh Ravichander had opted out. He subsequently signed the film and chose to continue to credit himself as Sean Roldan for a career in the Tamil film industry. He produced eight tracks for the film, singing two, while including one inspired by the single track "Mayakkura Poo Vaasam" composed for his band. He performs many stage performs in chennai among littleshows award [5][6] he was also a part of mirchi shiva's 144 directed by debutant manikandan ,produced by cv kumar of thirukumaran entertainment which has oviya and shruthi raamakrishnan playing the female lead with mundasupatti fame munishkaanth playing a pivotal role