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Karunas

Cast · Known for Gatta Kusthi 2, Meesaya Murukku 2

Karunaas (Tamil: கருணாஸ்; born 21 February 1970 as Karunanidhi) is a Tamil comedic film actor in the Tamil film industry. He has acted with many prominent actors and starred in successful films. Appearing mostly in supporting roles and providing comical relief, he also played lead roles in Dindigul Sarathy and Ambasamudram Ambani. Apart from acting, Karunas is known as a musician and singer as well.

Kaali Venkat

Cast · Known for Gatta Kusthi 2, Vishwanath & Sons

Kaali Venkat is a Tamil actor who mainly plays supporting roles in films. The first film Venkat acted was also by Vijay Prabhakaran, Thasaiyinai Thee Sudinum. The film failed to release but Venkat decided to keep his character name in it, Kaali, as his screen name after everything on the set was calling him by that name. He then acted in various short films made for the Kalaignar TV show Naalaya Iyakkunar and won the Best Actor in a Series Award in Season 3 of the show. After a series of small roles in various feature films, he first gained attention with his role in the action drama Thadaiyara Thaakka. The short films fetched him small roles in bigger projects like Kalakalappu and Udhayam NH4. He played a substantial role in mystery thriller Thegidi, which went on to become a sleeper hit and Venkat stated that he was flooded with friend requests on Facebook post the film's release.

Sukanya 'Suki' Krishnan

Sukanya 'Suki' Krishnan (Tamil: சுகன்யா கிருஷ்ணன்; born August 2, 1971) is an Indian-born American 7x Emmy Award-winning television host, news anchor, and producer from New York City. She may be best known for her work with WPIX from 2001 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2017. She anchored the morning news in NYC for nearly two decades chronicling some of the biggest local and national stories.  Krishnan was also a trail blazer becoming the first South Asian to anchor news in the #1 market working at WCBS-TV, WPIX-TV, FOX5-NY and CBS NEWS. In October 2007, she was named one of the 2007 Power Women by New York Moves Magazine, at an awards ceremony hosted by Mira Sorvino and MC'd by Judy Gold. In 2020, she hosted the TLC show Find Love Live, and in 2021, she became the host of 90 Day Fiancé: Love Games, a dating and relationships show on Discovery+ streaming service.

Prasanna Puwanarajah

Prasanna Puwanarajah (Tamil: பிரசன்னா புவனராஜா; born 1981) is a British actor, director, writer, and former junior medical doctor. Puwanarajah was born at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk to Tamil Sri Lankan parents from Sri Lanka, his mother a psychiatrist and his father a dentist. He spent his early childhood on Churchill Avenue in Ipswich before the family moved to Hampshire when he was four. He participated in school plays and spent a season with the National Youth Theatre, but thought of acting as more of a hobby than a career choice at the time. He trained in Medicine at New College, Oxford. After working as a junior doctor in reconstructive surgery for over three years, Puwanarajah decided to take a year out. It was during this time he decided to become a full-time actor, describing it as "more of a strong pull towards something else" than a "push away from" his medical career.

D'Lo

D'Lo is a Tamil Sri Lankan-American performer, writer, and community activist, who performs in America, Canada, the UK, Germany, Sri Lanka, and India.

Sakthi Balaji

Composer · Known for The Dark Heaven

Sakthi Balaji Tamil film industry-based music composer

Balaji Tharaneetharan

Director · Known for Baththa

Balaji Tharaneetharan is a Tamil film director and he made directorial debut with 2012 comedy film Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom. The film released on 30 November 2012 to very positive reviews from critics

Devadarshini

Cast · Known for Sardar 2

Devadarshini is an Indian actress appearing in Tamil films and television series. She began her career as a television anchor before venturing into acting, first in television and later in films. She predominantly appears in supporting roles and often performs comic roles.

Sivakumar

Cast · Known for Veera

Pasanga Sivakumar is a supporting actor in Tamil movies.

S. Thirunavukkarasu

Cinematographer · Known for Dorothy

Tirru (Thirunavukarasu) is an Indian cinematographer from Tamil Nadu, India. Tirru's films are predominantly in the Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi languages. He had initially worked as an associate to veteran cinematographer P. C. Sriram. He also co-wrote the screenplay of the Malayalam film Mission 90 Days with director Major Ravi. He is also well known in the field of television commercials having shot more than 1000 commercials in the last 15 years. He has worked with almost all the major advertising production houses in India.

George Mariyan

Cast · Known for Vishwanath & Sons

George Mariyan is an Indian actor who works primarily in Tamil movies in supportive and comedy roles.

Java Sundaresan

Cast · Known for Vishwanath & Sons

Chaams is an Indian film actor who has appeared in Tamil language films. His birth name is Swaminathan. He has predominantly appeared in supporting roles, notably in Crazy Mohan dramas and playing one of the several leads in Palaivana Solai (2009) and Onbadhule Guru (2013).

Lokesh Kanagaraj

Cast · Known for DC

Lokesh Kanagaraj is an Indian film director who primarily works in Tamil cinema. He began his career in cinema by directing one of the four segments in the anthology film Aviyal (2016). Over time , Lokesh has carved a niche for himself in Indian cinema through a string of extremely successful action and crime thrillers including Maanagaram (2017), Kaithi (2019), Master (2021) , Vikram (2022) and Leo (2023). Lokesh's films are oriented around the hyperlink crime cinema subgenre where most of the story takes place during nighttime, with Lokesh citing Quentin Tarantino as a major inspiration for his style of filmmaking. His films are known for depicting the dark underbelly of metropolitan cities through multiple grey characters, with the nexus between the police force and organized crime syndicates being a key feature. Lokesh is also credited with the creation of LCU (Lokesh Cinematic Universe) where his films Kaithi (2019), Vikram (2022), and Leo (2023) share interrelated subplots, themes and characters.

Samuthirakani

Cast · Known for Karmakhya

P. Samuthirakani is a Tamil film actor and director. He worked as an assistant to director K. Balachander. His 2009 directorial Naadodigal was a runaway hit, which was later remade in three languages. He has acted in several films as well and is best known for his performances in Subramaniapuram and in Easan, both directed by M. Sasikumar.

Aadukalam Naren

Cast · Known for DC

Aadukalam Naren is an Indian film actor who has appeared in Tamil language films. He made his debut in 1997 film Raman Abdullah but he got noticed for his role in the 2011 film, Aadukalam directed by Vetrimaaran, with the film being used as a prefix to his screen name. He earlier appeared in Balu Mahendra's television series Kathai Neram.

Lizzie Antony

Cast · Known for Gatta Kusthi 2

Lizzie Antony is an Indian film actress working in the Tamil film industry, mostly as a supporting actress.

Karthi

Cast · Known for Sardar 2

Karthi is an Indian film actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He began his career in cinema as an assistant director to Mani Ratnam on the film Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004). Karthi made his acting debut with Paruthiveeran (2007), becoming an overnight sensation. He then went on to star in commercially successful films including Paiyaa (2010), Naan Mahaan Alla (2010), Siruthai (2011), Madras (2014), Thozha (2016), Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017), Kadaikutty Singam (2018), Kaithi (2019), Thambi (2019), Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022), Sardar (2022), and Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023), establishing himself as a successful leading actor of Tamil cinema. Karthi has won three Filmfare Awards, an Edison Award, two SIIMA Awards, and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award.

Nambi

Writer · Known for Sardar 2

Nambi is a screenplay writer known for his work in Tamil film industry. After assisting Director Hari in Singam 3 (2017), he worked as First AD to H. Vinoth in Valimai (2022) apart from contributing to the film's screenplay. He has written the screenplay for Sardar 2 (2025) starring Karthi.

Soori

Cast · Known for Mandaadi

Soori is a Indian film actor who appears in Tamil films. He rose to fame after his role in the film Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (2009), in which the scene involving a parotta eating challenge earned him the nickname Parotta Soori. He performed mainly comical sidekick roles until later transitioning into a dramatic leading man with films such as Viduthalai (2023), Kottukkaali (2024) and Garudan (2024), earning widespread recognition for his performances in the latter films.

R. Velraj

Cinematographer · Known for Reporting Live

R Velraj is is an Indian cinematographer who worked mainly in Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi films.

Vijay Kartik Kannan

Cinematographer · Known for Jailer 2

Vijay Kartik Kannan is an Indian cinematographer who predominantly works in Tamil film industry. He is known for his cinematography in the Tamil film Jailer. Vijay Kartik started his career in cinematography with the Tamil horror film, Darling 2 (2016). After a brief gap, In 2018, Sivakarthikeyan had offered him to work as the cinematographer for his maiden production venture, Kanaa (2018) where he had to decline the offer as he was not confident in completing the film in the specified time. Later, he worked as the cinematographer in Sivakarthikeyan's Doctor (2021), directed by Nelson. Vijay Kartik worked on Aadai (2019) directed by his long-term friend Rathna Kumar whom he knew for more than 13 years and also worked on Vijay Sethupathi's Sindhubaadh (2019) the same year.

Harish Uthaman

Cast · Known for Ramayana: Rise of a Legend

Harish Uthaman is an Indian film actor who has appeared in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam language films. He made his debut portraying the lead role in Thaa (2010), before playing villain in Gouravam, Pandiya Naadu and Meagamann.

Sananth

Cast · Known for Dorothy

Sananth is an Indian actor who works in Tamil cinema. After appearing in several short films, he made his feature debut in Ajay Gnanamuthu’s horror film Demonte Colony (2015). His breakthrough as a lead came with Karthik Subbaraj’s silent thriller Mercury (2018), and he returned to work with Subbaraj in Petta (2019). He is also known for Jil Jung Juk (2016) and the web series As I’m Suffering From Kadhal (2017). In 2026, he played Subbu in Subbaraj’s Dorothy, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.