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Manishajith is a south Indian actress who acts mainly in Tamil language films

Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant are a pair of musician brothers, born and brought up in Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat, India. They belong to an Ismaili Muslim family and are inspired by their father Sadruddin Merchant, who used to lead Ismaili Scouts Orchestra in India.Steeped in a family tradition of music as the sons of composer and veteran of the film industry Sadruddin Merchant, Salim mastered the piano on at the Trinity College of Music in London while Sulaiman took up tabla training with such legends as Taufiq Qureshi and Ustad Zakir Hussain. They emerged as popular music directors only in 2003, six years after their first music composition in a Bollywood film. They received recognition with their award-winning performance for their music in Bhoot, in which the music was a very influential and significant aspect of the movie. Their music in the award-winning movie Iqbal earned them rave accolades.


Salim and Sulaiman have been composing music for over a decade having scored for movies such as Neal 'n' Nikki, Chak De! India, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Fashion. The duo had also composed for many Indi-pop performers including Viva, Aasmaan, Shweta Shetty, Jasmine and Style Bhai among others, composed and produced several TV commercials and collaborated with artistes such as Ustad Zakir Hussain and Ustad Sultan Khan. They got their first break when Karan Johar asked them to compose the music for his movie Kaal. After that, they have gone to do movies with well-known producers and directors like Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai and Ram Gopal Varma. Before composing music, they were composing the background scores for movies.


Salim Merchant was one of the three judges for the Fifth season of Indian Idol on Sony Entertainment Television (India) . Later in 2012; Salim Merchant sang "Ishq Wala Love" opposite Neeti Mohan and Shekhar Ravjiani for which he received rave reviews from critics. The song topped the music lists for a long period of time; thus becoming a chart-buster and a high commercial success. "Ishq Wala Love" remains one of the most listened songs on gaana.com(Popular music website throughout the globe). In the annual Top 100 songs of Radio Mirchi; Ishq Wala Love featured in the top 30, ranking at No. 13 respectively. The song became the biggest hit of Student of the Year as well as Salim Merchant's all-time biggest critical and commercial success till date.


They have worked on a Bollywood remix for Lady Gaga's songs Born This Way and Judas. The duo are also composing music for the Hollywood film Sold, produced by Academy Award winner Jeffrey D. Brown.

Krithi Shetty is an Indian film actress appearing in Tamil and Kannada films.

At one of her Bharatanatyam performances, theatre director Jai Theertha, noticed the actress's talent and convinced her to join Samasthi Sunday School of Drama. Consequently, she pursued a diploma course in drama and performed in a play titled ‘Preethi’, later having an opportunity to play the lead role in 'Sadarame’, performing all over the state of Karnataka. Krithi collaborated with director Sunil Kumar Desai, and bagged the lead role in the Kannada film Sarigama. At the same time, she met Murali from the Tamil film industry who offered her an opportunity to play the lead role in Sagakkal directed by Swami. The actress then starred in Suseenthiran's critically acclaimed Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai (2011) alongside Inigo Prabhakaran, before featuring in another little known Tamil film Kondaan Koduthaan, the following year.

In 2013, she changed her screen name from Advaitha to her original name in time for the release of Snehavin Kadhalargal. She noted that the name Advaitha had been chosen for numerological reasons, but stated she did not like the way people pronounced the name.She worked again with Suseenthiran, portraying a small role in Pandiya Naadu. Her future projects include Maanga with Premgi Amaren, Sevili and the heroine-centric Snehavin Kadhalargal.

Navika Kotia is an Indian film and television child actress. She is also the elder sister of Shivansh Kotia. Currently, she is playing the role of Chikki in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on Star Plus.

Ranya Rao is an Indian actress and model who appears in South Indian films. She made her debut with the 2014 Kannada film, Maanikya.

Ranya Rao originally hails from the Chikmagalur district of the Indian state of Karnataka. After completing her schooling in Kodagu, she began pursuing her graduation in engineering at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore. Eager to pursue a career in acting, she dropped out and began training at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute in Mumbai. Around this time, she started out as a model.

Rao was first signed by actor and director Sudeep in April 2014 for his directorial Kannada film, Maanikya. She was cast as Varalakshmi in a supporting role, portraying a girl belonging to a rich Indian family and Sudeep's love interest. Her performance received mixed reviews from critics. A. Sharadhaa of The New Indian Express wrote, "Both Ranya and Varalaxmi play their parts well but fail to impress."

In June 2015, Rao signed her second film and first Tamil film, Wagah.She is cast opposite Vikram Prabhu, and is her first film as a female lead. Around the same time, she also signed her second Kannada film Pataki and is cast opposite Ganesh.

Angela Krislinzki is an Indian Actress and model with Indo-Polish genes.

She has done Major in Psychology and is a trained Latin jazz dancer. She is currently pursuing a career in modelling and acting. Apart from modelling she is founder of Barbie locks hair extensions. Krislinzki has done Tollywood projects in the past and now she has her eyes on Bollywood. She has done over 50 television commercial ads to name a few, Envy Deodrant with Irrfan Khan, Pizza Hut commercial with Shushant Singh, Renault Car with Ranbir Kapoor, He deodrant with Hritik Roshan.

Angela was due to star opposite Parth Samthaan in his debut film 'Googly Ho Gaye", but she backed out of the project , as she was offered other projects.

Shivada Nair is an upcoming south indian film actress. She is born and brought from Kerala. She well known as director Krishna's "Nedunchalai".

Sakshi Sharma is an Indian film actress who made her debut with the Tamil-language film Manal Naharam directed by Oru Thalai Ragam Shankar. Sakshi Sharma is from the state of Himachal Pradesh and she is residing at Dubai, where she is working as I.T Manager at Salwo Trading Ltd-Industrial Solution Provider and she is doing photo sessions for the designers in Dubai as her hobby.

She had also done the hit music video Piriyuvaan Samayamaay for Kappa TV.

Preethi Christina Paul, who is an upcoming southindian film actress and model. She is doing the movie vinay starrer  titled Serndhu Polama directed by Anil Kumar.

Ashna Zaveri, who made her debut in the Tamil film industry opposite Santhanam in the comic caper Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham (VPA), is intent on learning Tamil. The fashion-stylist-turned actress, who is now busy working on director. Muruganand's untitled film, starring Santhanam in the lead, says she had a tutor who taught her the language for a couple of hours every day.