Showing all artists born in 1989

Meenakshi Dixit (born 12 October), is an Indian model, dancer and actress. She has appeared in various Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films.


Meenakshi Dixit was born 12 October in Raebareli, India. She is the daughter of Ishwar Chandra Dixit, a senior lawyer, and Geeta Dixit. She graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Botany, Zoology, and Chemistry.[citation needed] She has trained in Kathak and western dance. She was active in sports, especially in athletics.


In 2008 Meenakshi Dixit appeared as a contestant in NDTV Imagine's dance reality show Nachle Ve with Saroj Khan hosted by Saroj Khan, which led to her entry to the Indian film industry. She first appeared in a Telugu film, Lifestyle. Later on, she got into modelling, endorsing local and international brands such as Joyalukkas Jewelry, Microsoft Windows, Fair and Handsome cream, Chennai Silks, Shankaram diamond jewellery, Brook Bond Taza tea, Paaneri Sarees, Lee Cooper, Red Square Energy Drink, Radio Mirchi and ESSAR, and Anytime Fitness gym. She has also been a regular model for the fashion industry, as well as in prominent Indian magazines.


In 2011, she made a special appearance in a dance number in Dookudu, the year's highest grossing Telugu film.Following Dookudu, she was also chosen by the producers of the Bodyguard remake to do a dance number, hoping that it would repeat the success of her number in Dookudu. She also performed an item number in the Tamil film Billa II, considered to be one of her biggest project to be done yet. 2014 she was seen in lead roles in two films. She essayed the role of a princess in the Tamil period-comedy Tenaliraman  while the thriller-drama Adavi Kachina Vennela saw her playing an aspiring sharp shooter, with the actress also performing stunts in the film. She will be making her Hindi debut with P Se PM Tak in which she plays a call girl.

Archana Galrani, born October 10, 1989 better known by her stage name Sanjjanaa, is an Indian model turned film actress. She made her film debut with the Tamil film Oru Kadhal Seiveer 2006 and soon shot to fame with a controversial role in the Kannada film Ganda Hendthi 2006. Her supporting role in the 2008 Telugu film Bujjigadu directed by Puri Jagannadh brought her to limelight in the Telugu industry.

Sanjjanaa was born in 1989 and brought up in Bangalore. She is of Sindhi origin. When she was doing her PUC, she received her first modelling offer. She continued her studies while working as a part-time model.  She appeared in over 60 television advertisements the most notable being a Fasttrack advert with John Abraham. After appearing in a couple of advertisements, she signed her first film Ganda Hendathi in Kannada. Her first release, however, became the low-budget Tamil film, Oru Kadhal Seiveer, which met with negative reviews and poor box office returns. S. R. Ashok Kumar of The Hindu noted that Sanjjanaa, then credited under her birth name, was beautiful but has to work on her acting. Ganda Hendathi, a remake of the Hindi film Murder 2004, itself an adaptation of the Hollywood film Unfaithful 2002, was also panned by critics. Sanjjanaa's performance drew mixed reviews, with a reviewer from Nowrunning.com claiming that she utterly fails to deliver in the emotional sequences, while Sify wrote Sanjana has made a decent debut and she is extremely daring and does justice to her role.

In 2008, she made her Telugu film debut in Puri Jagannadh's Bujjigadu, in which she played a notable role alongside Prabhas and Trisha Krishnan. Although her role was small, the film gained her considerable attention and helped her growing in popularity. In 2010, she was first seen in the Telugu film Police Police, which was followed by a cameo role in Huduga Hudugi. Her final release of that year was Mylari that featured her opposite Shivrajkumar. It was the biggest milestone in her Kannada career as she was subsequently flooded with offers in Kannada cinema. Regarding her performance in the film, the Times of India wrote that she shines in her lively and mischievous role.

In January 2012 released her Malayalam debut she played one of the lead female roles in Casanovva, her maiden Malayalam venture. Reportedly the costliest Malayalam production of all time,co-starring Mohanlal and Shriya Saran, the film saw Sanjjana portray a salsa dancer. Director Rosshan Andrrews signed her for the particular role, since she was trained in salsa. Her last release is her second Malayalam film, the Shaji Kailas directed The King & the Commissioner, co-starring Mammooty and Suresh Gopi. Her upcoming films include Narasimha released and is a hit, Ondu Kshanadalli, Sagar and Rebel, all of which being Kannada projects. Also she is working on 2 Telugu films that include Yamaho Yama, and Jagan Nirdoshi which is made under the pretigious banner padmalaya films which is mahesh babus home production. Sanjjanaa has bagged a very strong role in Mahanadhi her first heroine centric magnum budget kannada film which she is filming for.

Born in Nasik, Anjali is a National School of Drama graduate. She will be seen in Prakash Jha’s Chakravyuh ,  enacting the role of an active naxalite commander.  She was critically applauded for her performance in Delhi in a Day. Patil has been keenly working in theatre with eminent theatre personalities. She is presently anticipating her, Telegu-Malyalam bilingual release, Ente. A gold medalist from NSD, she has also acted in short film called, Green Bangles (2011).


In Jha’s Chakravyuh, Patil will be seen for the first time in a sensual number ‘Tambai Rang Tera’, a tribal merriment song.

Mumtaz Sorcar is an Indian film actress. She is the youngest daughter of magician PC Sorcar Junior and Jayashree Devi. Mumtaz started her career with a music video for singer Mehreen from Bangladesh. She first appeared in the short film Bhorai: The Maladies of Dawn directed by Subhrajit Mitra produced by NIBS.


Her schooling was from Modern High School for Girls (Kolkata). She completed her Graduation in BA.LLB from South Calcutta Law College under Calcutta University. Sports is her hobby. As an athlete she got trained in Boxing from south Kolkata club under Bengal Amateur Boxing Federation. She also has training in Judo. She is also a classical Jazz dancer. She's also a gold medalist in shot put from YMCA.


Her debut film was 033 which was directed by Birsha Dasgupta. She also signed a Tollywood big screen film in Shoumik Sen directed No Poblem (2007). The film is currently in post-production state & is slotted to be released in 2012.


Another one of her upcoming film is Koekti Meyer Golpo directed by Subrata Sen. The film deals with the root cause of involvement of high society girls in escort services. The lead roles are played by Mumtaz, Raima Sen, Parno Mittra. She has also signed a film Atmogopan by Somnath Sen. Mumtaz plays the character 'Anu', Subhash Chatterjee essays her father.

Gautham Karthik is an Indian film actor, working in the Tamil film industry. He made his acting debut in Mani Ratnam's Kadal (2013).

Gautham Karthik was born to Tamil film actor Karthik Muthuraman and actress Ragini Karthik. He is the grandson of actor R. Muthuraman. He spent his growing years in Udhagamandalam and was graduating at Christ University, Bangalore, until film maker Mani Ratnam approached him.Before that, Gautham was not connected with the film industry. In college he performed as a guitarist and vocalist in his band 'Dead End Street'. He has two siblings, Ghayn Karthik and Thiran Karthik.

Reports as early as 2006 suggested that actor Karthik was interested in directing a film with his son in the lead role, though the project never took off. During a press meet in December 2009, Karthik revealed that his son, Gautham, would make his debut in Mani Ratnam's next venture after completion of Ratnam's bilingual films Raavan and Raavanan.After a brief postponement and speculation, Mani Ratnam announced that Gautham would make his debut in Kadal in February 2012. Gautham revealed that he initially felt Ratnam had approached him to be a part of the technical crew and was surprised when he was handed the lead role. Gautham briefly took acting lessons from Kalairani and began to shoot for Kadal across regions in South India for close to a year. After the shootings were completed, he was introduced to the media at the music launch event for the Telugu version of the film in Hyderabad. The film opened in February 2013 to mixed reviews, though Gautham Karthik's performance of a deprived youngster caught in between the characters played by Arvind Swamy and Arjun was unanimously praised. A critic noted "Gautham delivers in his very first film. He scores in action as well as dance department too",while a reviewer from Rediff.com wrote that the actor "pulled it off with elan", labelling him as "a natural performer and is surely here to stay".


He is currently working in three films simultaneously, including a project with Aishwarya Dhanush in Vai Raja Vai opposite Priya Anand. He will also be seen in Saravanan's Sippai opposite Lakshmi Menon, while he will also reprise Nani's role in the Tamil remake of the Telugu film, Ala Modalaindi, to be directed by debutant Ravi Thyagarajan, opposite Rakul Preet Singh.He has also started shooting for Indrajith, directed by Kalaprabhu, opposite debutante Sonarika Bhadoria

Catherine Tresa is an Indian film actress and model, known for her work in Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu films.Catherine was born to Malayali catholic parents in Dubai and was brought up in Dubai.She says, I don’t speak fluent Malayalam, it’s mostly English that we speak at home. I speak decent Hindi though and now I’m taking lessons in Telugu.

She did her Grade twelve in Dubai and moved to Bangalore to do higher education. She studied for two years in St.Joseph's College, Bangalore.While she studied, she also learnt to play a musical instrument, sing and dance, did ice skating and got comfortable with public speaking. She has modeled for Nalli Silks, Chennai Silks, Fast Track, Josco Jewellers and Deccan Chronicle. She has also shot for Srikantadatta Wodeyar's Maharaja Calendar and has been participating with Prasad Bidapa in many ramp shows in many cities.

Catherine made her debut with the Kannada film Shankar IPS with Duniya Vijay. In Malayalam Katherine has acted in The Thriller and Uppukundam Brothers. After that another Kannada film Godfather with Upendra. Talking about her character in Godfather, Katherine says that it is different from what she has done so far in her career. She does not need to worry about her looks, as her role is a more mature character, who is mentally challenged.She has done a role in Kannada film Vishnu that is equally opposite to her real life.

She is currently doing Chammak Challo being directed by Neelakanta and Paisa by Krishna Vamsi. In Paisa with Nani as my pair I play a Muslim, who is sweet, very inhibited and talks a lot with her eyes. This girl is a total contrast to what I play in Chammak Challo. I come in during the second half in Chammak Challo as an urbane, bold and dynamic girl.Katherine Teresa will play female lead alongside Stylish star Allu Arjun in this Puri Jagannath directed, ganesh bandla produced flick Telugu movie Iddarannayilatho.

Sheela is an Indian film actress who has starred in several Tamil and Telugu films along with a few Malayalam films. She is known for her performances in Nandha and Veerasamy.  She has appeared in nearly 20 films as a child actor.  The actress Sheela said she was in UK for a year in 2014. But she says that she is ready to work if the scripts are good. After 2011 she had not got any good script.

Alisha Abdullah (born July 24, 1989) is a racing driver from India. She is India's first female national racing champion. She is regarded as India's only female bike racer and the fastest racer in the country.


Alisha has been fascinated by racing since she was a kid. As a nine-year-old, Alisha was drawn to go-karting. She was winning go-karting races by the time she was eleven. When she was just 13-years-old, she won the MRF National Go-Karting Championship and the Best Novice Award in the National level Formula Car Racing in the open class. She did her schooling in St. Kevin's and pursued her higher secondary studies at Sacred Heart, Churchpark. She currently studies at LIBA.


Alisha then moved on to formula car racing and managed to come fifth in the JK Tyre National Racing Championship, 2004. She made the switch from four wheels to bikes in the same year.


Talking about the change Alisha's father who noted, “The fact is formula car racing can get very expensive. Motorbike racing is easier to manage financially, and moreover, I know what is what in motorbike racing and I can guide her. So I asked Alisha to try bike racing.

Leena Jumani is a famous Tv actor who features mainly in Gujarati movies and in Hindi television serials. Born on 16th July 1989 in Gujarat the actress has been fond of acting since childhood. So after finishing her junior college, Leena started doing modeling assignments and acting in Gujarati films. She later got a chance to work in Hindi television serial Bandini. Her role of Khemi , a village girl was appreciated by the audience and then she got a chance to work in different television series like 'Koi Aane ko Hai','Ganga ki Dheej','Chhoti si Zindagi','Punar Vivah' etc.

Currently she is doing a role of Mala in Tv serial 'Kairi'. She will be making her Bollywood debut through a much awaited film 'Himmatwala'. She will be playing a role of Ajay Devgn's sister in this movie.

Jubin Nautiyal(born 14 June 1989) is an Indian playback singer. Jubin was awarded with Upcoming Male Vocalist of the Year at 8th Mirchi Music Awards, 2016 for his song "Zindagi Kuch Toh Bata (reprise)" from Bajrangi Bhaijaan and his other achievement is the Rising Musical Star Award (2015) received at Zee Business Awards. Early in his career, he has sung several hit songs for Hindi films. He has also recorded songs for film in various Indian languages.

Jubin showed interest in music at the age of four. As a child he loved to sing and try his hand at different musical instruments. By the age of 18, Jubin was well known as a singer in his hometown of Dehradun. He performed live at many events and gave his support to several charities. Jubin made his debut in the Indian Music Industry with the song "Ek Mulakaat" from the film Sonali Cable (2014), which was a hit. Jubin has since given several hit songs.

Jubin was born in Dehradun on 14 June 1989 to parents Ram and Neena. He belongs to a Brahmin family with ancestral roots in the Jaunsar region of the state of Uttarakhand. His father, Ram Sharan Nautiyal, is a businessman and politician in Uttarakhand and his mother, Neena Nautiyal, is a businesswoman and a homemaker.

Jubin showed an inclination towards music at an early age of four taking his father's love for singing. He did his schooling up to eighth grade from St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun. Thereafter, he continued school at Welham Boys' School, Dehradun, where he formally studied music as a subject and built a base in classical music. He also learnt to play instruments like guitar, piano, harmonium and drums.

After completing his schooling, he moved to Mumbai in 2007 and joined Mithibai College. He continued to training in music and explore music scenario of Indian films. During this time he met A.R. Rahman who appreciated his voice quality and suggested that he continue to work on and explore his voice for a few more years before entering into the Indian Music Industry. Taking Rahman’s advice, Jubin moved back to his hometown and continued to train under his schoolteacher, Mrs. Vandana Srivastava.

He also took additional music lessons in the Hindustani classical music from his guru Mr. Samant. Jubin spent four years polishing his skills in music, travelling and jamming with different musicians. He travelled to Benaras to learn light classical from Channulal Mishra. He also took training in western music at a music academy in Chennai where he had the opportunity to study under Veteran Guitarist Prasanna. In 2011, Jubin participated in the television music reality show X Factor where he went up to being in the top 25 participants.

Jubin began his journey in the Indian music industry in 2012 and his debut song ‘Ek Mulakaat’ from the film ‘Sonali Cable’ was released in the year 2014. He made his Telugu debut for Sarrainodu under the music direction of S. Thaman.

In 2016 Jubin performed on MTV Unplugged Season 5 and Dehleez (TV series) title-track "Jiya Re". He worked with composer duo Sachin-Jigar for song Ek Duje Ke Vaaste, Amit Trivedi for film Fitoor and lent his voice to "Tere Liye" alongwith Sunidhi Chauhan. Jubin also worked with composer Nadeem Saifi for song Ishq Forever("Ishq Forever") and Kaushik & Akash for "Gumnaam Hai Koi" movie 1920 London.

His songs "Le Chala" and "The Sound of Raaz" both gave him opportunity to work with composer Jeet Gannguli and this collaboration continued with new project film Rustom song "Dhal Jaun Main”.

In 2017, he was the lead singer of the Hrithik Roshan starrer film Kaabil which had music by Rajesh Roshan and also sang "The Humma Song" for the Dharma Productions film Ok Jaanu. He has many upcoming song including a romantic track in the film Half Girlfriend.