Star Portrait-Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj is a popular character artist. He was born on 26 March 1965  in Puttur, Karnataka in a Bunt family.

Education

He completed schooling at St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore and  later joined St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore.

Personal

 Prakash Rai changed his name to Prakash Raj based on prominent Tamil  film director K. Balachander's advice, however he is still called Prakash  Rai in his home town Karnataka.Prakash married actress Lalitha Kumari in  1994. They have two daughters—Meghana and Pooja and a son, Sidhu. Sidhu  died of injuries sustained in a fall in 2004.The couple divorced in  2009.He married choreographer Pony Verma on August 24, 2010

Films

 He is actor, director, producer and television presenter, who mainly  works in the South Indian film industry. After working in the Kannada  cinema for a few years, he entered Tamil film industry, through K.  Balachander in his movie Duet (1994). In remembrance, he named his  production company Duet Movies. He has played a variety of roles,  most notably as the antagonist and of late, as a character actor. He has  won a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for Mani  Ratnam's Iruvar and a National Film Award for Best Actor in 2009 for his  role in Kanchivaram, a Tamil film directed by Priyadarshan. Prakash  Raj is also the host of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi from the game show's  second season onwards.

Producer

Prakash Raj Produced Naanu Nanna Kanasu in Kannada (2010), a remake of his own Tamil production Abhiyum Naanum.His latest directorial venture is a Tamil – Telugu bilingual, sports venture Dhoni named after Indian cricket captain.

Director

He took on the mantle of director and has directed several movies in Tamil (Kollywood). Most of the movies he produced turned out to be box-office hits and were also critically acclaimed.

He produced the movie Dhaya in which he acted as the hero with actress Meena which was a hit and earned him a special jury award for his performance.. He made Puttakkana Highway in Kannada which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada in 2011.

Star Portrait-Bharat

Bharath is a child artist who entertain Tamil and Telugu industries. He was born in Trichy on 21st Jul 1981. Bharath Srinivasan has a sister named Preeti.

He is a trained dancer and learned dancing at the age of 11yrs at Swingers International Dance Club. He did his schooling at DAV Senior Secondary School, Anna Nagar,and studied at The New College, Chennai.

Film career

Shankar's Boys in 2003 marked the debut of Bharath. He played the guitarist of a boy band. He was selected for the role, after Shankar had seen him performing at a dance programme "Inspirations" at the Music Academy by Swingers.

He attained fame with Malayalam film 4 The People which was later dubbed into Tamil as 4 Students,and Telugu as Yuvasena.He did more than 35 films  and in telugu he made his debut with Anandamanandamaye.Memorable were Gudumba Shankar, Venky, Happy, Dhee and Pokiri about 35 films.

Star Portrait-SS.Thaman

SS.Thaman is born on 16 Nov 1985 in a brahmin family, Andhra Pradesh. His full name is Ghantasala Sai Srinivas Thaman Siva Kumar, He made his debut as actor in Shankar's Boys but then became the most popular music director. Ghantalasa Balaramayya,erstwhile director and producer, known for producing the Telugu film Seetarama Jananam, the debut film of Akkineni Nageswara Rao, is his grand father.

Family

He hails from the family of musicians.  His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a Drummer, who worked for seven hundred films, under composer, K. Chakravarthy, his mother Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer, his aunt is singer P. Vasantha.

Personal

He is married to playback singer Sai Vardhini. Thaman owns a band named Thakkali. At the age of nine, He joined Ilaiyaraaja's brother, G. Anand as a rhythm pads player, and discontinued studies when he lost his father at the age of 13. He was compelled to make his hobby into a profession to meet the crisis in his family.[He then joined Raj-Koti team, and worked for three years on sixty films and then joined M. M. Keeravani and worked with him for three years completing thirty films. He has also gained experience from composers like Vandemataram Srinivas, Chakri, R. P. Patnaik and Devi Sri Prasad.

Under Manisharma he worked for more than 6 yrs and 80 films. Before turning music director he had stint of 14 yrs under various directors as rhythm, key board programmer.

Film Career

He made his debut in telugu in 2009 with Bheebhatsam and later scored for many films. Important among them are Kick,Brindavanam,Mirapakaya,Kanchana, Kandireega,Dookudu,Business Man,Nayak, Bodyguard,Love Failure, Baadshah,Greeku Veerudu.

Awards

Best Music Director-Film Fare Award,SIIMA, TSR TV9 2011-2012-Dookudu

   The Hyderabad Times Film Awards 2011 - Best Music Director for Dookudu.

   MAA Music Awards 2011 - Best Music Director for Dookudu.

Hobbies

Cricket

Twitter Account

@musicthaman

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