Namitha
After a successful run in beauty pageants, Namitha Kapoor acted in several Tamil and Telugu movies since 2002.
Basics on Namitha
Namitha Kapoor was born in Surat, Gujarat, India on 10th May 1981. She is a Punjabi and was christened Namita M Vankwala. She appeared in her first two Telugu movies with the screen name Bhairavi. She completed college at Ratnam Arts College in Surat.
She won the Miss Surat crown in 1998 and participated in the Femina Miss India contest in 2001, taking fourth position in the contest.
Namitha Kapoor’s Movies
Namitha Kapoor started acting with two releases in Telugu, Sontham and Gemini in 2002. Engal Anna (2004) was her first Tamil movie. She was seen with Vijaykanth and Prabhu Deva in this movie. Her song sequence Arjuna Arjuna from Aai (2005) became popular.
Her other movies are Kovai Brothers (2006), Billa (2007) and Sandai (2008). In 2009, apart from several Tamil movies like Thee and Kethavan, she will also be seen in a Malayalam movie called Black Stallion and an English movie directed by Eric Manning called Maya.
Basics on Namitha
Namitha Kapoor was born in Surat, Gujarat, India on 10th May 1981. She is a Punjabi and was christened Namita M Vankwala. She appeared in her first two Telugu movies with the screen name Bhairavi. She completed college at Ratnam Arts College in Surat.
She won the Miss Surat crown in 1998 and participated in the Femina Miss India contest in 2001, taking fourth position in the contest.
Namitha Kapoor’s Movies
Namitha Kapoor started acting with two releases in Telugu, Sontham and Gemini in 2002. Engal Anna (2004) was her first Tamil movie. She was seen with Vijaykanth and Prabhu Deva in this movie. Her song sequence Arjuna Arjuna from Aai (2005) became popular.
Her other movies are Kovai Brothers (2006), Billa (2007) and Sandai (2008). In 2009, apart from several Tamil movies like Thee and Kethavan, she will also be seen in a Malayalam movie called Black Stallion and an English movie directed by Eric Manning called Maya.
Nayantara is an actress who has worked in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil movies, who lets her good looks take precedence over acting as she is mostly seen in glitzy roles.
Basics on Nayantara
Nayantara was born as Diana Mariam Kurien on 18th November 1984 in Thiruvalla, Kerala, India. Her father worked in the Air Force, so the family moved frequently. She did her twelfth grade at Balikamadom High School in Thiruvalla and graduated in English Literature from Marthoma College, Thiruvalla.
Winning the first runner up spot in the Best Model of Kerala contest in 2002 was a turning point for Nayantara. This helped her get offers to do commercials.
Nayantara was involved with her co-star from Vallavan, Silambarasan though they broke off later.
Nayantara’s Movies
2003 Sathyan Anthikkad gave Nayantara her first break in movies by casting her in the Malayalam movie Manassinakkare with Jayaram.
2004 She worked with Mohanlal in Fazil’s Vismayathumbathu and in Shaji Kailas’ Natturajavu.
2005 She was seen in Tamil and Malayalam like Chandramukhi with Rajnikanth and as Chitra in Ghajini opposite Surya and Asin. Ayya was a good performer at the box office.
2006 She appeared in Telugu movies like Lakshmi and Boss, as well as Tamil movies like Vallavan.
2007 Her success was waning until Vishnuvardhan’s Billa released and became a hit. She was also seen in a cameo in Sivaji: The Boss.
2008 In Yaaradi Nee Mohini, she played the lead with Dhanush and in Kuselan she played herself. Aegan, which was a remake of Main Hoon Na saw her as a teacher.
2009 In Prabhu Deva’s Villu she played the protagonist’s love interest. Her next release is a Malayalam movie Bodyguard and a Tamil movie Aadhavan with Surya.
Basics on Nayantara
Nayantara was born as Diana Mariam Kurien on 18th November 1984 in Thiruvalla, Kerala, India. Her father worked in the Air Force, so the family moved frequently. She did her twelfth grade at Balikamadom High School in Thiruvalla and graduated in English Literature from Marthoma College, Thiruvalla.
Winning the first runner up spot in the Best Model of Kerala contest in 2002 was a turning point for Nayantara. This helped her get offers to do commercials.
Nayantara was involved with her co-star from Vallavan, Silambarasan though they broke off later.
Nayantara’s Movies
2003 Sathyan Anthikkad gave Nayantara her first break in movies by casting her in the Malayalam movie Manassinakkare with Jayaram.
2004 She worked with Mohanlal in Fazil’s Vismayathumbathu and in Shaji Kailas’ Natturajavu.
2005 She was seen in Tamil and Malayalam like Chandramukhi with Rajnikanth and as Chitra in Ghajini opposite Surya and Asin. Ayya was a good performer at the box office.
2006 She appeared in Telugu movies like Lakshmi and Boss, as well as Tamil movies like Vallavan.
2007 Her success was waning until Vishnuvardhan’s Billa released and became a hit. She was also seen in a cameo in Sivaji: The Boss.
2008 In Yaaradi Nee Mohini, she played the lead with Dhanush and in Kuselan she played herself. Aegan, which was a remake of Main Hoon Na saw her as a teacher.
2009 In Prabhu Deva’s Villu she played the protagonist’s love interest. Her next release is a Malayalam movie Bodyguard and a Tamil movie Aadhavan with Surya.
Surya
Surya continues to gain a huge fan following as he completes over ten years in the Tamil film industry as one of the most sought after actors.
Basics on Surya
Actor Sivakumar’s son Surya was born on the 23rd July 1975 in Chennai. He was named Saravanan Sivakumar but known famously as just Surya. Karthik Sivakumar is Surya’s younger brother and an award winning actor. He also has a younger sister Brinda married to an industrialist.
Surya pursued his education in Chennai at the St.Bedes School and then at the Loyola College where he studied Commerce along with Joseph Vijay who is a Tamil actor. He worked in the garment industry before moving into movies.
Jyothika, Surya’s wife is also an actress who has worked with him Kaakha Kaakha and Sillunu Oru Kaadhal. They were married in 2006 and had a daughter Diya in 2007.
He has worked for ads like Pepsi, TVS, Sunfeast Biscuits, Emami Fair & Handsome and Himani Navratna Oil.
Surya’s Movies
1997 to 2002 Surya made a good start with his debut Nerrukku Ner in 1997 with Vijay and Simran. He acted in movies like Kaadhale Nimmadhi (1998), Periyanna (1999) and Uyirile Kalanthathu (2000). Friends and Nandha in 2001 both performed extremely well and Surya won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor for Nandha. In 2002 Unnai Ninaithu and Maunam Pesiyadhe were moderate successes.
2003 to 2007 Gautham Menon’s Kaakha Kaakha (2003) in which he starred with Jyothika was a huge hit as were Pithamagan (2003) and Perazhagan (2004). While he won the Filmfare Best Tamil Supporting Actor Award for Pithamagan, he bagged the Filmfare Best Actor Award for Perazhagan. In Mani Rathnam’s Ayitha Ezhuthu (2004) he played a student leader Michael. The movie was made into Yuva in Hindi and this role was played by Ajay Devgan.
He had a blockbuster in 2005 with Ghajini which also starred Asin and he followed this with a successful Aaru opposite Trisha Krishnan the same year. Sillunu Oru Kaadhal (2006) brought him together onscreen with his wife Jyothika and was an average grosser. He had only one release in 2007 Vel with Asin that became a hit.
2008 to 2009 In 2008, Surya produced, wrote and starred in a five minute documentary called Herova? Zerova? with Jyothika, Vijay and Madhavan. It was to help spread awareness about the importance of education. Gautham Menon’s Vaaranam Aayiram with Simran Bagga also enjoyed success.
In 2009, he has four releases – Ayan with Tamanna, Singam with Shriya Saran, Aadhavan and Mugamoodi.
Genelia
Genelia is all sugar and spice, purring in content, as her ‘meow’ quotient in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na has made her the cynosure of all eyes.
Ms.Congeniality
Genelia D’Souza, also known as Harini to close friends, was born on 5 August 1987 in England to a Mangalore Catholic family. Her parents are Jennifer and Neil. She has an older brother. She grew up in Mumbai.
Her school days were spent in Apostolic Carmel High School, Mumbai while she spent her college days at St.Andrews College to pursue a degree in management studies. She is known to be a state level athlete and a national level player.
Her claim to fame started with commercials like Parker pen with Amitabh Bacchan and Fair & Lovely with Krishnamachari Srikanth.
She is supposed to be dating Riteish Deshmukh.
Meowww
In 2003, she started her career with three movies – the Hindi movie Tujhe Meri Kasam; the Tamil movie Boys; the Telugu movie Satyam. She worked opposite Ritesh Deshmukh in Tujhe Meri Kasam, which was a remake of Telugu movie, Nuvve Kavali, and saw an average response. Boys, on the other hand, was a hit, as was Satyam.
She built up her popularity in the South with Telugu movies like Samba (2004), Subash Chandra Bose (2005), and Sye (2005). She was recognized for her performance in Bommarillu in 2006 with several awards. The movie was remade successfully in Tamil as Santosh Subramaniam (2008).
The year 2008 saw her trying to pave her way into Bollywood in Priyadarshan’s Mere Baap Pehle Aap and the year’s hit Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. The movie which was the debut of Aamir Khan’s nephew Imran Khan received a lot of publicity and her role as the unrestrained Meow shined through.
Following this success, Genelia was seen in Sasirekha Parinayam (2009), Life Partner (2009), and Katha (2009).
What’s Next?
Genelia replaced Jiah Khan in Chance Pe Dance (2010) with Shahid Kapoor. She plays a choreographer in this movie. Next in line is Hook Ya Crook, a movie about cricket and criminals. In the Telugu movie, Orange, she will be see with Ram Charan Teja. In Anees Bazmee’s It’s My Life she is cast opposite Harman Baweja. It is a remake of Bommarillu.
