Star Portrait-Suman

Mangalore Suman Talwar is well known as handsome hero Suman for entire film industry. He is one of most popular heroes who acted in Tollywood, Kollywood and Mollywood too. He is the only one Telugu actor who shared a screen space in English film. He was born on 28 August 1959 in Mangalore to the couple Sri & Smt Susheel Chander, Kesari Chander. His mother Late Smt Kesari Chander was the Principal of the prestigious Ethiraj College for women in Chennai and His father worked for I.O.C. Chennai. Due their job they moved to Chennai where childhood was spent in Chennai. Suman did his kindergarten at Church Park Convent, Chennai. He completed his schooling at The Besant Theosophical High School, Chennai. He joined the Pachayappas College to do his B.A. in English Literature. He is now residing at Hyderabad, with his Wife Smt. Sirisha who is a grand-daughter of well known Play-Wright Sri.D.V.Narasa Raju. Suman’s couple is blessed with a daughter Akilaja Prathyusha now she is his fifteen-year-old, his mother-in-law Smt.Kavita Raju and Sri.D.V.Narasaraju are also currently staying with Suman’s family. Suman holds a Black Belt 1st Dan in Karate, from Shotokan Karate Association which is affiliated to Japan Karate Association. He is the Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Karate Association. Suman’s mother tongue is Tulu. He can speak Tulu, Telugu, Malayalam, English, Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi fluently. He learnt Sanskrit from Sri. H.A.S. Sashtri. He also learnt playing the Veena and the Guitar.

Film entry and journey till now.

Suman started his career as Master in Karate. His family friend Mr. Kittu introduced him to a Tamil producer. He thus started off his film career in the year 1977.In his final year he acted in his first Tamil movie “Neechal kulam” produced by well-known producer in Tamil Nadu Late Sri.T.R.Rammanna. His first role was that of a Police officer. Then he gave a power packed performance in the remake of classic Hindi movie Deewar made into Tamil as Thee(1981),he played a sincere police officer with the upcoming superstar rajinikanth. In more than 3 decades, he acted more than 150 films as a hero in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and English language films. After a break, he returned to acting by playing the villain in Kollywood movies Sivaji and Kuruvi. He is cast as the main villain in the Malayalam movie Sagar Alias Jacky. He Played action hero and romantic hero in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films during the 1980s. After a long while away from cinema, he returned to acting in Tamil films in 2007, starring in S. Shankar‘s Sivaji: The Boss with Rajinikanth. He has also appeared with Joseph Vijay in Kuruvi and with Ajith Kumar in Aegan. He acted in many action and romantic movies in Telugu, including Sitara, Tharangini, and Neti Bharatham. He appeared as a villain in Malayalam film Sagar Alias Jackie and enacted the historic character Pazhayamveedan Chandhu in the biopic malayalam movie Pazhassi Raja. Suman has witnessed three generations in the Telugu film industry. Today, Suman has to his credit more than 150 films, in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. He is also the first actor from Telugu Film Industry to act in a Hollywood movie-”Death And Taxis” produced by Clear water pictures and directed by Kevin Mukherji.

Special Activities

He is a Black belt in karate, he also learnt Martial Arts of Kerala from Sri. Gopal Gurukkal. Suman attributes his Patience and Endurance to Martial arts. He is known for his famous stunts in movies, which got him the title of an Action Hero, due to his martial arts background. His film career was thanks to Martial arts, as his potential to be different and trend setting, was noticed by his producer in a School where he was teaching Karate. Suman takes an active part in all demonstrations and promotions, in Andhra Pradesh, to popularize martial arts as an effective way of striking a perfect balance, mentally and physically, to defend one’s self, with harmony, patience and restraint. Suman Budokan Karate Association is an extension of his involvement in promoting Martial Arts.

Political Appearance.

Suman joined as a supporter in the year 1999, to the Telugu Desam Party. He inspired by our Ex Chief Chandra Babu Naidu’s dynamic administrative and Leadership qualities.  

Star Portrait-Tamanna

Tamanna Bhatia who is well known as South Milky Beauty Tamanna is a south Indian model and actress who started her film career through her debut film in Hindi film “Chand Sa Roshan Chehra” but she was not recognized at that time. Later on she debuted into South films where she made her own mark in entire film industry.   Tamanna was born to Santhosh Bhatia and Rajani Bhatia on 21st December 1989 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her father is a financial consultant and mother is Home maker. She started acting at the age of 13, she did her schooling in Maneckji Cooper Educational Trust School, Juhu, Mumbai and she is currently pursuing a BA degree at National College, Mumbai through distance education. She has a brother, Anand Bhatia. She can speak Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and English. Her real name is Tamanna later she changed her screen name for numerological reasons, varying it slightly to Tamannaah.  First she was spotted at her school’s annual day function and offered the lead role which she took up. She also appeared in the music video of ‘Lafzon Mein Keh Na Saku by Abhijeet Sawant’, the winner of the first Indian Idol. Tamanna has done many ads in Tamil for big companies such as Shakti Masala, Saravana Stores and RMKV. She also did few music albums before she entered the film industry. She stars in the commercial of Sun Direct.

Film Journey

Tamanna started her film journey through a Hindi film “Chand Sa Roshan Chehra” at the age of 13 years and made her debut in Tamil film industry with “Kedi” which did not do well at the box office. Her debut film in Telugu is “Sri” in which she played the leading female role opposite Manoj Kumar and in the following year she appeared in her first Tamil film “Kedi”. Her Role in Telugu film "Happy Days” brought her huge success in Tollywood. Her performance in the role of Madhu in "Happy Days" brought her critical acclaim. Film “Kalloori” in Tamil brought her craze in Kollywood too. ”. Presently she is acquiring popularity as a heroine in both Tollywood and Kollywood industries. After being part of the several commercially successful films she emerged as a leading contemporary actress in film industry. She staged a successful comeback in Tollywood in 2011 with the romance film “100% Love” in 2011 which won her several accolades. She was subsequently acted in several high-profile projects like “Oosaravelli”, “Rachcha”and “Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu” which became a block buster at box office. She established herself as one of Tollywood's leading modern actresses.  After establishing herself in Tollywood and Kollywood she again re-entered into Bollywood with the film “Himmatwala” opposite Ajay Devagab but the film didn’t ran well at box office and Tammana was not recognised in proper way so, than she is back to pavilion and she is currently busy with Telugu and Tamil films.  Her current release “Thadaka” is running with an above average talk at the box office.   

Brand Endorsement

Tamannaah is endorsing popular brands like Celkon Mobiles, Fanta and Chandrika Ayurvedic Soap. She is also the brand ambassador of the Salem based jewellery shop AVR and Khazana Jewellery. Before entering the film industry, she also acted in Tamil advertisements like Shakthi Masala, Power Soap and Sun Direct.She also worked with Virat Kohli recently for an ad shoot of celkon mobile.

Award Nominations

She nominated five times for Filmfare Award for Best Actress for the films, Tamil film “Kalloori” in  2007, Telugu film “Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam” in 2009,Tamil film “Kanden Kadhalai” in 2009, Tamil Film “Paiyaa” in 2010, Telugu film “100% Love” in  2011

She nominated three times for Vijay Awards  for Best Actress  for the Tamil films “Kanden Kadhalai” in  2009, “Ayan”  in 2009, “Paiyaa” in 2010

Awards Received

She won the CineMAA Award for Best Actress  for the Telugu film “100% Love” in 2011

She won the Hyderabad Times Film Award for the Telugu film “100% Love”

She won the Santhosham Awards as Best Actress for the performance in “100% Love”.

She won the Kalaimaamani Awards  By Tamil Nadu Government

She won the South Scope Award for Best Tamil Actress  for the Tamil Film “Kanden Kadhalai”

Star Portrait-Devi Sri Prasad

Devi Sri Prasad who is well known as DSP is one of the famous Music Director, Composer and Play singer in Tollywood, Kollywood and Bollywood film industry. He was born on 2nd August 1979 in Vedurupaka in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh and later on moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu. His father Satyanand was a school master and his mother Siromani is a home maker. He has only one brother Sagar who is also a Play Back Singer and Anchor too. He completed his entire schooling at Sir M. Venkata Subba Rao Boys High School, Chennai and completed his graduation in Chennai only. He won several prizes in the culturals organised at inter-school level for both dance and singing competitions. He has directed music for several South Indian films and many of them are box office hits. Devi’s soundtracks are dubbed in several languages also. He is a big fan of Ilayaraja and A. R. Rahman.

Industry Journey.

Devi’s debut music album was “Dance Party” along with S. P. B. Charan and a few more debutants at the time, was the kick start of his music career. He started his music direction in the year 1999 through the Telugu film “Devi” which was musically hit. He is making his debut in Malayalam cinema with the forthcoming film Kandahar, which stars Mohanlal, Amitabh Bachchan and Surya Sivakumar in lead roles.

As a Lyric Writer.

He wrote lyrics for the many Telugu songs, ‘Vecha Vechaga’ song from “Vamsi”, ‘Premante Yemitante’ song from “Anandam”, ‘Chaila Chaila’ song from “Shankar Dada MBBS” and ‘Udayainche Suryadinadigaa’ and ‘Akaasam...’ songs from “Kalusukovalani”. ‘Chandamama Okati’ song from “Oka Oorilo”, ‘Thellarindoi..’ and ‘Chaila chaila..’ songs from “Shankardada MBBS”, ‘Good morning Hyderabad’ song from “Shankardada Zindabad”, ‘Pilla...’ song from “Gabbar Singh” , and ‘O Madhu’ song from “Julai”

As a Play Back Singer.

Some of the Songs he performed as a playback singer are Vecha Vechaga, Chitiksethe Alalaina, Jagada Jagada, Mudula Chiluka, Maakakrledu, Hot Summer, Lakapidathala, Tha Thai Tha Thai, Pantham Pantham, Andee Andaka, Hylessa, Just Love Me Baby, etc.

As a Composer.

Some films that he composed soundtracks include Yamudu, Manmadha Baanam, Mr. Perfect, 100% Love, Adurs, Arya 2, King, Current, Ready, Jalsa, Tulasi, Bommarillu, Rakhi, Pournai, Aaru, Andarivaadu, Namo Venkatesa, Rakhwala Pyar Ka ,Sye Aata, Yamudu, Singam, Manmadha Baanam, Dhada, Simhaputrudu, Oosaravelli, Gabbar Singh, Julayi ,Damarukam, Sarocharu , Bad Boy, Alex Pandian, Mirchi,  Iddarammayilatho, etc. He composed song for the Telugu Cinema Vajrotsavam.

Awards

He received Film fare Best Telugu Music Director Award three times for the films “Varsham”, “Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana” and “Bommarillu”. He got Santosham Best Music Director Award three times for the films, “Varsham”, “Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana “ and “Jalsa”. He received Isai Aruvi Tamil Music Awards, Best Music Director and CineMAA Award for Best Music Director for the film “Arya 2”. He received MAA Music Awards Most Popular Music Director for the film “Gabbar Singh” . IIFA Award for Best Music Director for the tamil film “Venghai” and TSR TV9 Award for Best Music Director for Telugu film “Damarukam”