KAMAL HASAN BIOGRAPHY

NICK NAME : Universal Hero

Mini Biography

Kamal Haasan was born 7th November 1954. In 1960 he starred as a child artist in "Kalathoor Kannammaa", his first movie. Ever Since, he has starred in more than 150 movies, in almost all the major Indian languages - Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. His trajectory in the Indian film industry is one prototypical journey, where he started as a child artist, then continued as a romantic hero, and finally evolved into one of the best actors Indian has ever produced. As most of his movies are in Tamil, he might not have given such a wide array of versatile performances over the last two decades like Kamal. he had to occasionally work through the commercial roles and trashy movies to finance the movies he wanted to produce with his heart - but the movies that resulted out of his artistic potential - they were in a class apart. 16 Vayadhinilae, Nayakan, Guna, Mahanadhi, Hey Ram and Alavandaan are some of the must - watch among his movies. Had he been a star in Hollywood, he would now be effortlessly rubbing shoulders with extremely talented actors like Jack Nicholson of yesteryears and Tom hanks of the present day.

Trivia

His innovative acting has earned him the title "the first, and perhaps the last, complete hero in Indian Cinema"

Kamal's hobby is magic

On April 27 2002 Kamala Haasan was detained at Toronto airport and denied boarding his fight to L.A. because he had an Arab name/look and was considered a potential terrorist.

Is the only actor to have earned a Best Actor in a Leading Role award and a Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination for the same movie (Saagar (1985)) at Filmfare Awards.

Is a very very strong fan of Ilayaraja and always ropes him as the composer for all his home productions.

Has two daughters , Shruti K Haasan and Akshara.

Gets his wife/girlfriend to do costumes for his films

Seven movies that he has starred in have been sent to represent India in Oscars for Best foreign movie category, highest by any Indian.

Trained in the classical Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam.

Has acted in Tamil, Telugu, kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi films.

Met action superstar Jackie Chan for the first time, when the latter came to the audio lauch of Hassan's latest thriller, Dasavatharam in April of 2008. hassan confessed to have been a huge fan of Chan, and admitted at the audio launch that he had during his career, tried emulating Jackie Chan's stunts, resulting in 32 fractures to his body.

Did daredevil stunts for the film, Abhay (2001), where he did bungee jumping. Severely injured his back whilst filming.

Personal Quotes

" A London editor once told me that the best way to put news hounds off your scent is to lile inventively"

"The closest I feel to is Dustin Hoffman who shares many of my paradoxes. Physical appearance to begin with".

Salary

Indian (1996) Rs. 40,000,000/-

MINI BIOGRAPHY

RAJANIKANTH BIOGRAPHY

Rajanikanth is a rags to riches story. His histrionics onscreen have raised his status to that of a cult hero. His presence creates an excitement close to hysteria among his fans.

BASICS ON RAJANIKANTH

Rajanikanth was born on 12th December 1950 as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad to a Maratha family in Bangalore, karnataka. His roots are in nachikuppam, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Naidu. His father is Ramojirao Gaekwad, a police constable and his mother is Jijabai, who passed away when he was eight years old.


Rajanikanth studied at the Acharya Paathshala and Vivekananda Balaka Sangha in Bangalore. He worked as a bus conductor for the Bangalore Transport Service to earn a living. His love for acting was evident even then as he used to participate in stage plays and practice stunts atthe Rama Hanuman Temple. In 1973, he joined the Madras Film Institute with a colleague to study acting and was mentored by A.Prabhakarn, his vice Principal.


He married actor Y.G.Mahendran's wife Latha Parthasarthy in 1981 in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. She runs a school called The Ashram. They have two daughters Aishwarya and Soundarya. While Aishwarya is married to actor Dhanush, Soundarya is a director, producer and graphic designer.

Rajanikanth was honoured with the padma Bhushan in 2000 for his contribution to cinema.

Rajanikath - Politics, Social Service & Trouble

In 1995 Rajanikanth spoke to Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and confirmed that he'd support the Congress Party. But when the Congress Party joined hands with AIADMK, he withdrew support and joined the DMK-TMC alliance. He later shifted loyalties and joined the BJP-AIADMK alliance. Though his fans look forward to see more of him in Politics Rajanikanth is reluctant. His fans even started a political party in his name but he confirmed he has no hand in it.


He marked his protest against Karnataka's decision not to release water to tamil Nadu by fasting in 2002. His remarks regarding this issue angered the prokarnataka group Rajshan Vedike which threatened that his movies would not be screened in Karnataka after which he issued an apology.


Rajanikath has shown his generous side often. He used one of his banquet halls the Raghavendra Marriage Hall to help the needy. He plans to start a hospital and a school. He has made several donations - twelve lakh rupees to the family members of the victims of the Coimbatore bomb blasts, one crore rupees was handed to Chief Minister Jayalalitha for the Tsunami Relief Fund in 2004 and ten lakhs rupees to the Sri Lankan Tamil humanitarian aid in 2008.

Meena Biography

Name : Meena

Sex : Female

Date of Birth : 16 Sep 1977

Place of Birth : Chennai

About Meena :

Meena Durairaj ( Tamil) is one of the most successful actresses in South Indian cinema. Meena was born on September 16, 1977, in Chennai, she became heroine at a very young age of 13 while doing her 8th grade. She established hereself in some matured roles and that making her a very successful heroine.

Meena started her career as a child as a child artist in the film Nenjangalin 1982 when she was 5 years old featuring Dr Sivaji Ganesan in the lead role. She later became a heroine in 1990 at the age of 13 in the film Oru Pudhiya kathai. Before that, she did a short role in the film Karthavyam which was dubbed as Vijayshanthi IPS in the same year.

Meena was still very young at that time she was doing child roles. Her mother Rajamallika brought her to A.M. Ratnam's office for an offer. Even though she looked chubby, they felt she fitted the bill.

She has acted with Rajinikanth, Kamal haasan and Chiranjeevi and later became a the star in her own right . She had hits with films like Muthu, Ejaman, Veera, Awai Shanmughi and Mutamestri.

Following the release of her movies with Rajanikath in Japan and their commercial success, Meena's popularity rose in Japan. She acted in almost all the south Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and kannada etc., opposite almost all the leading actors.

She was in the film industry as the top heroine in Telugu and Tamil for almost one and a half decades successfully from the early 1990s. She often portrayed characters with unidimensional personality with no negarivity or grey shades. She was known to restruct glamourous roles though she has acted in a few like Maaman magal in Tamil opposite Sathyaraj and Muta Mestri in Telugu osspsite Chiranjeevi. In the Kannada remake of Autograph, she essayed senha's role of Divya. Meena was a judge for a dancing competition "Mastana Mastana Season1" is Sun TV. She is currently starring as the lead actress in the Sun TV serial Lakshmi.

Rajanikaht's Kuselan (Kathanayukudu in Telugu) got a lujewarm response from Rajini's diehard fans and critics. Meena, who acted in the film in a significant role opposite Pasupathy, has said that she was not happy with the way the kuselan team treated her.

She is an only child to her parents. She did her schooling till 8th std in Vidyodhya schools in Chennai. Busy with her acting schedules she had to discontunue schooling in 8th gradem later taking up private coaching and completed her 10th grade. She went on to get her MA in History from the University of Madras through open univeristy system 2006.

Meena acted as amarried woman in a 1990 DD TV Serial (Anbulla Amma) with famous tamil actresses.

When the make up artist failed to turn up at a remote village in Kakinada during the movie shoot of "Bobbilli Simham" in 1994, it is known that Roja Selvamani did Meena's hairstyles for those two days for a song involving Meena and was much appreciated by Meena herself . Roja Selvamani and Meena are best friends. her another close friend is actresses Maheswari. Roja and Meena, in their younger age, resembled each other so much. Infact Meena has acted as Roja's younger sister atleast in 5 or 6 movies in Telugu.

TELUGU ACTOR MAHESHBABU

Mahesh Babu BiographyMahesh Babu is fondly known as Prince by his fans, is a popular Telugu Cinema actor. Mahesh Babu real name is Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu. Mahesh Babu was born on August 9, 1974 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He is the son of veteran actor, Krishna who is an actor in Telugu Cinema. He graduated from the Prestigious St. Bede's School in Chennai & later graduated with a B.Com from the famous Loyola College, Chennai. He married Bollywood actress, who was the former Miss India Namrata Shirodkar on February 10, 2005. Their first child, a boy named Gautam Krishna Gattamaneni was born on August 31, 2006.Mahesh Babu Film CareerMahesh started out his career in Telugu Cinema with Rajakumarudu in as a hero.The movie co-starred Preity Zinta who played the hero's romantic interest. The movie received good response at the box office.His second movie was Yuvaraju. Sakshi Sivanand and Simran were cast opposite Mahesh. Mahesh played the role of a father having a 7 year son and surprised all. Although the movie ran for hundred days,it is rated as an average movie.His third movie was Vamsi co-starring Namrata Shirodkar. The movie also featured his father Krishna in a pivotal role. The movie didn't do well at box office and was declared a flop.His fourth movie Murari directed by Krishna Vamsi and co-starring Sonali Bendre provided him the much needed breakthrough. The movie was declared as hit and the music was an instant hit and it proved Mahesh's ability as an actor.His fifth and the first cowboy movie in his generation was Takkari Donga . His co-stars in this movie were Bipasha Basu and Lisa Ray. Despite heavy expectations the movie only got average collections at the box office.His sixth movie was Bobby with Aarti Agarwal as a heroine and directed by Sobhan.His seventh movie was what all his fans were looking for, Okkadu . His costar was Bhoomika Chawla. This movie directed by Guna Sekhar was a blockbuster. With this movie, Mahesh became one among the young top heroes of the Telugu industry.His eighth movie was Nijam which costarred Rakshita . Though the movie,directed by Teja, didn't do well at the box office and was declared a flop, it was applauded by the movie critics for Mahesh's performance. Mahesh went on to win the Nandi Award for Best Actor for this film.His ninth movie was Naani directed By S. J. Suryaah and co-starring Amisha Patel. Mahesh always tried novelty in his films and this time he did a experiment with a science fiction movie. The movie did not do well at the box office but the soundtrack was successful.His tenth movie was Arjun costarring Shriya Saran. Directed By Gunasekhar, this is a family movie which was average flick.His eleventh movie was Athadu directed By Trivikram Srinivas this was a super hit in South India and overseas. The music added to the success of the movie. The movie's screenplay was critically acclaimed