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Shruti Sawant (born 21 January 1988), better known by her stage name Iniya, is an Indian film actress, who works in the South Indian film industries.


Iniya was born as second child to S.Salahuddin and Savithri at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She has an elder sister, Swathi who is also a Malayalam television actress and a younger brother, Sravan.[2] Iniya had her primary education from Amritha Vidyalaya and Manakkad Karthika Thirunnal High School. She did her B.B.A course by correspondence.


She acted in several Malayalam television series, short films and telefilms as a child artist. While studying in class four, she acted in the telefilm Koottilekku, which was followed by appearances in tele-serials Orma and Sree Guruvayoorappan by Vayalar Madhavan Kutty. Iniya won the Miss Trivum title in 2005, following which she did modeling and appeared in several television advertisements as well as a number of Malayalam award-winning art films, including Saira (2006), directed Dr. Biju, Dalamarmarangal (2009) and Umma (2011), both directed by Vijayakrishnan. She also played a pivotal role in Rajesh Touchriver's short feature The Sacred Face, which focusses on child abuse.According to her she says that cinema includes the meaning of glamour, action and love. Iniya was introduced to Tamil cinema from the movie padasalai but vagai soodava is the movie showed her acting skills to the audience. After that she did several movies and she couldnt get any chance after doing a ghost movie where she plays the ghost, thanks to her height.


In 2010, she starred in a Tamil film Padagasalai and signed up four more Tamil films, all of which were cancelled or remain unreleased. She next played a supporting role as the sister to Cheran's character in Mysskin's mystery thriller Yuddham Sei. Director A. Sarkunam signed her for the female lead character in his period piece Vaagai Sooda Vaa (2011), for which she changed her screen name to Iniya. Her portrayal of a tea stall owner was lauded by critics. Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff wrote that she was a "welcome find", describing her as "natural, appealing, and very expressive". She played as a medical student and love interest of the hero in the film Mouna Guru co-starring Arulnidhi. Bharathiraja signed her for his film Annakodiyum Kodiveeranum, being impressed with her performance in Vaagai Sooda Vaa, but after the script was changed, her role was removed from the film.


She was part of a number of offbeat films in Malayalam like Ayaal, Bhoopadathil Illatha Oridam and Radio. In 2014, she was first seen as herself in Vikraman's Ninaithathu Yaaro [12] and later in Pulivaal, the Tamil remake of the Malayalam film Chaappa Kurishu. She has been signed for Madhu Kaithapram's In the Limelight in which she plays a dancer.

Karthik Raj is an Indian actor who works in Tamil film and television industry.

Karthik started his acting career with the TV show, Kana Kaanum Kaalangal Kalooriyin Kadhai (2011-2012), where he essayed the role of Karthikeyan. Kana Kaanum Kaalangal Kalooriyin Kadhai was followed by Ram Vinayak’s Office. He participated in Jodi Number One Season 7 with Nancy Jennifer. He also rendered his voice as a narrator in a short film "Yaanum Neeyum" starring Vetri, his co-actor in K5.

He has acted as a lead actor in the movies 465  and Naalu Peruku Nalladhun Edhuvum Thappilla.The films, however, failed in the box office and his performance received mixed reviews. 

In 2017, Karthik essayed the role of Adithyaa in the Tamil daily soap Sembaruthi alongside newcomer Shabana Shajahan. The serial made Karthik a household name. In December 2020, however, Karthik Raj was replaced due to unforeseen reasons as quoted in the channel's official statement.

In 2020 Karthik starred in Mugilan alongside Ramya Pandian. The crime thriller miniseries released on ZEE5 streaming platform on October 30, 2020 to mixed reviews. 

Iyshwarya Rajesh is a Tamil film actress, who has appeared in leading roles. After winning the reality show Maanada Mayilada, she made her debut in Avargalum Ivargalum (2011) and became known after starring in Attakathi (2012) portraying the role of Amudha.


Iyshwarya\\\'s father Rajesh was an actor who had appeared in 50 films in Telugu. Her grandfather Amarnath too acted in lead roles, while her aunt Srilakshmi, is a Telugu comedy actor with over 500 films to her credit.


She studied at Ethiraj College for Women and graduated with a B.Com degree.She started to learn dance since she needed to choreograph a stage show for a student cultural fest and later entered the reality show Maanada Mayilada on Kalaignar TV. She won the show\\\'s third season and got offered roles in films thereafter.


Iyshwarya made her debut in the 2011 film Avargalum Ivargalum, playing one of the lead roles, which was followed by minor roles in S. A. Chandrasekhar\\\'s Sattapadi Kutram and Vilayada Vaa. She appeared in the 2012 cult film, Attakathi, portraying the character of Amudha. She also acted in the film Aachariyangal and Puthagam, in which she was paired opposite Sanjay Bharathi.


In 2014, she was seen alongside Vijay Sethupathi in two films, Rummy, and Pannaiyarum Padminiyum, released within two weeks. While the first film was a village drama set in the 1980s, the latter was based on a short film of the same name, and revolved around an old man and his vintage car Premier Padmini. Critics praised her performances, especially in Rummy. Hindustan Times wrote that she was \\\"extremely promising\\\" while film critic Baradwaj Rangan noted that she was \\\"expressive\\\", calling her \\\"a tonic for nerves frayed by the alabaster automatons we usually get as heroines\\\". Her upcoming films include Thirudan Police and Seenu Ramasamy\\\'s Idam Porul Eval.

Parvathi Melton is an Indian American actress and former model who mainly works in Telugu Film Industry. She appeared in several Telugu and Malayalam movies. She acted with Raja in the film Vennela, which turned out to be a success. She acted in the super hit Malayalam film Hallo with South Indian star Mohanlal.  She again shot to fame with item song in Telugu movie Dookudu opposite Mahesh Babu.

Parvathi was born in California to a German father Sham Melton and an Indian Punjabi mother Darika Preet.  Parvathi stated that she was named by her father, who though being German practices Hinduism. She has one younger sister Ariana Sitara Melton.  She is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. She graduated from Emeryville High School and attended Vista Community College in Berkeley, California. She took part in several beauty pageant's and won the Miss.

Teen India Bay Area pageant in 2004 and the Miss India Le Visage USA pageant in 2005. She speaks fluent English, Hindi, Urdu and rudimentary Punjabi, Gujarati and Telugu. While still studying in Vista College, she was offered the lead role in the Telugu film Vennela. Although she intended to go back to school but the film's success kept her away.

Ashvin Raja is an Indian film actor who has appeared in Tamil language films.


Son of producer Swaminathan of Lakshmi Movie Makers, Ashvin Raja made his film debut portraying the student Paalpandi in Rajesh's comedy film Boss Engira Bhaskaran. His performance in Prabhu Solomon's Kumki as an elephant herder alongside Vikram Prabhu and Thambi Ramaiah was also well received by film critics, and had allotted sixty six days to the film for the shoot. In 2013, he was seen in smaller roles, notably featuring in Naiyaandi alongside Dhanush and Thillu Mullu as a friend of the lead character. His upcoming projects are Sippai, Kanithan and Nee Yellam Nalla Varuvada.

Sam C.S. is an upcoming young music director. He is doing his first venture vijay sethupathi starrer Mellisai,also known as Puriyatha Puthir.

Niveditha, formerly known and credited as Smitha, is an Indian film actress, who predominantly appears in Kannada films. She attracted notable attention with her performance in the film Avva that fetched her the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her father Jagadish worked as a deputy commissioner of commercial taxes, her mother Lakshmi is a housewife. She did her schooling in chikmagalur; later she studied at the Marimallappa High School and completed her PUC at the Marimallappa Pre-University College in Mysore, both part of Marimallappa’s Educational Institutions. As a student, Smitha, who described herself as a tomboy, was also an NCC cadet. After graduating as an engineering student from the CMRIT College, Bangalore, she went on to work at the software company Infosys for a year. She quit the job to pursue an acting career; when she was offered a role, she first joined actor Anupam Kher's acting school, Actor Prepares and took a crash course.

Smitha was first signed on for a role in the film Akasha Gange by Dinesh Baboo, however as the film got delayed, several films she had signed later, including Kallarali Hoovagi, Sixer, Mathad Mathadu Mallige and Avva released before. Among her early releases, the Kavita Lankesh-directed Avva remains her most notable. The film particularly made headlines for a kissing scene featuring her and her co-star Duniya Vijay. Her performance in the film earned her the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Although completed in July 2006, Akasha Gange released only in July 2008 and eventually became her sixth release. As she got no offers in Kannada cinema subsequently, she moved on to work in the Tamil film industry. Porkkalam directed by newcomer Bandi Sarojkumar was her first Tamil film, which was panned by critics upon release.

Smitha then changed her screen name to Niveditha, according to numerology as advised by her well-wishers, when she did not receive the offers she was looking for. The first release after her name change was her second Tamil film Kathai (2010). During the period, she had reportedly bagged a lead role in National Film Award-winning director Bala's Avan Ivan; however the character was eventually portrayed by Madhu Shalini. 9 To 12 (2011) starring Kishore who she previously had co-starred with in Porkkalam, became her first release in Kannada after Akasha Gange in 2008; it opened to negative reception. Her first release in 2012 saw her enacting the title role, a Lambani girl, in Parie, based on the award-winning Kannada novel Bharadwaj. Her next release was Kiladi Kitty alongside Srinagar Kitty and Haripriya, with Niveditha lamenting after the release that her role had been cut short. Her upcoming films include Nimbe Huli, Gowri Puthra and the long-delayed Dheena.

Neha Bhasin is an Indian professional singer.

Shweta Basu Prasad is an Indian film actress. She started her career as a child actress in Hindi films and television series and went on to play lead roles in Bengali,Telugu and Tamil cinema. For her performance in the 2002 film Makdee, she won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist.

Prasad was born in Jamshedpur, Bihar (now in Jharkhand) and moved to Mumbai when she was a child. Her mother Sarmishta is from West Bengal while her father Anuj is from Bihar.She studied commerce in the R. N. Podar High School, Santa-Cruz, Mumbai. She added her mother\\\'s maiden name Basu to her screen name.

In 2002, Prasad started her acting career as a child actress at the age of 11. She enacted dual roles as Chunni and Munni in the film Makdee, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and got the National Film Award for Best Child Artist for the same. As a child artist, she also acted in the Star Plus series Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii as Shruti, Parvati and Oms daughter, and in soap operas like Karishma Kaa Karishma.

In 2005, she starred in the film Iqbal, which propelled her to mini stardom and got subsequent film offers. Her performance as Khadija in the film, fetched her several accolades including the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 5th Karachi International Film Festival. The following year, she acted in Ram Gopal Varma\\\'s Darna Zaroori Hai as Ashu.

In 2008, she debuted in Telugu cinema and played her first starring role in the film Kotha Bangaru Lokam, co-starring Varun Sandesh. The film became a large commercial success.Shwetha Basu Prasad could not replicate the success of Kotha Bangaru Lokam. She was seen in Kasko, Kalavar King, Priyudu and Nuvvekaddunte Nenakkadunta. However, the actress could hardly make money from these films as they were all small-budget movies.

On 31 August 2014, Shweta was found in a compromising position at a star hotel in Hyderabad and was booked under prostitution. She has willfully admitted to the charge and has claimed that prostitution among movie actresses is far more common than is known.

The actress was lodged in a rehabilitation center in Hyderabad but was released following a court order on her mother\\\'s plea. The actress received a lot of support from women on the social media who poured in their sympathy towards her plight. Bollywood film-maker Hansal Mehta intends to offer her a role.

Her on screen mother from the serial Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, Sakshi Tanwar, sent her an open letter. She has shown sympathy to her and extended her support to Shweta. Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone came out strongly in support of Shweta and has also asked other heroines to step in and support her. \\\"It\\\'s sad, but if that\\\'s the only way she could run her family, I don\\\'t think there\\\'s anything wrong. Instead of making this a scandal, why are we not helping her? We should, in fact, talk about the people who have hired her. Not look down on her\\\" commented Deepika.

Madhu Shalini is an Indian film actress and model, who has appeared in Telugu and Tamil language films. She has previously worked as a television anchor as well.

Madhu Shalini was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, her father being a businessman and her mother an advocate. Like her mother she also learned Kuchipudi, before taking part in a beauty contest, which she won and which paved her way for a modelling career. After working as a television anchor for a short while, she soon ventured into film business, turning an actress.

She made her feature film debut with the 2005 Telugu film Naa Pranam Kante Ekkuva directed by music composer Shashi Preetam, which was largely panned by critics. Her next film, E. V. V. Satyanarayana's Kithakithalu opposite Allari Naresh, released in 2006, went to become a very successful venture. The same year, she had appeared in two more Telugu films, namely Teja's Oka V Chitram as part of an ensemble cast, and Aganthakudu. 2007 she starred in the Telugu action comedy State Rowdy, a remake of the successful Tamil K. S. Ravikumar-directorial Aethiree, with Madhu Shalini essaying a Brahmin girl character, played by Kanika in the original. She made her Tamil film debut later that year with the low-budget feature Pazhaniappa Kalloori, which released without publicity and vanished shortly.

She later signed to play the lead female in D. Sabhapathy's Telugu project Happy Journey, while she also agreed to appear in the director's next Tamil venture, Pathinaaru, which, despite being heavily delayed, became her next release. Though the film received mixed reviews and fared averagely at the box office, Madhu Shalini's performance as Indhu received positive reviews, with critics citing that she performed her role "with consummate ease", was "adequate in her role", and acted "like a pro". Her subsequent release, Karalu Miriyalu, likewise, released to negative reviews, while her performance, however, met with favorable remarks from critics, with one reviewer claiming that she "looks pretty and dishes out a pleasing work", further noting that it was a pity that she does not get to work in any "big projects". She eventually got her big break as she was cast by noted National Film Award-winning filmmaker Bala for his comedy flick Avan Ivan. She disclosed that Bala selected her without even auditioning her, after numerous girls were auditioned for the role, with none of them measuring up to Bala's expectations. Madhu Shalini would play a college student in the film, for which she did not apply any makeup, while also dubbing for herself for the first time.

She made her Bollywood debut in Ram Gopal Varma's Department that featured her as a gun moll alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Rana Daggubati. She collaborated with Ram Gopal Varma again later that year on the horror flick Bhoot Returns and two years later on the psychological thriller Anukshanam. Madhu Shalini will be seen as a reporter in Gopala Gopala  and as Seetha in Seethavalokanam.