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The Tamil Film Industry is home to Tamil language cinema based in India. Silent movies were produced in Tamil since 1916 and the era of talkies dawned in 1931. By the end of the 1930s, the industry was booming to the extent that the State of Madras legislature .Tamil films are most popular in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. Till the end of 1970’s M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan are the superstars in Tamil film industry.The 1980’s were dominated by then young stars, Kamal Hassan and Rajnikanth. Now a lot of good actors in Tamil like Vijay, Vikram, Ajith, Surya etc.

1.Rajinikanth

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Rajinikanth is a famous actor in Tamil Cinema. He received Padma Bhushan, for his contribution to Indian cinema in 2000. He joined the Madras Film institute in 1973 and completed a basic course in acting. His first film was “Apoorva Raagangal”(1975). He is a hero of the masses and he formed his own style of acting in every movies. He is very famous for the mannerism which he changes for every movie. He has acted in a variety of roles. “Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri “(1977) and “Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai” (1979) are the turning point of his career. In” Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri”, he played a varied role, as a villain in the first half and a do-gooder in the second, accepting a woman with a child abandoned by her lover. He has acted in more than 157 films. He has won the Film fare during his acting career. He won the award for two films in the year 1995 for the films “Baasha” and “Muthu”. In September 2007, Rajinikanth won the Best Actor award, given by the Government of Tamil Nadu for his role in the film “Chandramukhi”(2005).He also acted in many other languages like Hindi,Telugu,Malayalam,Kannda,Bengali etc. He has also acted in one English film titled “Blood Stone”. “Sivaji” is one of his most popular film released recently. He has acted in several hit films like “Mullum Mallarum”, “Johnny”, “Muratu Kallai”, “Nallavanuku Nallavan”, “Thalapathi”,” Annamalai”, “Mannan”, “Basha”, “Muthu”, “Arunachalam” etc.

2.Kamal Haasan

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Kamal Haasan is one of the most versatile actor in Tamil cinema world. He started his film career as a 6 year old child artist.His first film “Kalathur Kannamma” won him the national film award for best child artist. He has won the national award for the best actor thrice for the films such as “Mundram Pirai” (1982), “Nayakan” (1988) and “Indian” (1996). He also won the best actor award at the Asian film festivals in 1983 and 1985 for “Saagara Sangamam” and “Swathi Muthyam” respectively. His first regional film fare award is for the Malayalam movie “Kanyakumari”. He also won state level best actor award many times from different states. He is also famous as a director, screenwriter, lyricist, playback singer and choreographer. Now he is directing his own films such as ” Marudhanayagam” and “Hey Ram”. He has acted in more than 165 films. He has acted in a variety of roles ranging from a lunatic to a God Father. He has acted in Hindi, Malayalam,Telugu and many other languages. His other language film hits include “Ek Duje Ke liyae” and “Sagar” in Hindi, “Sagara Sangamam” and “Swathi Muthiyam” in Telugu, “Chanakyan” in Malayalam etc. He was awarded the fourth highest recognition given to Indian civilians, the ‘Padmashri’ in 1990. Kamal’s latest venture was “Dasavataram”. In this film, he is acting in 10 different roles. Some of his notable films are “Apoorva Raagangal”(1975), “Pushpak”(1988), “Apoorva Sagodharargal”(1989),”Thevar Magan”(1992) etc.

3.Ajith

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Ajith Kumar is a popular Indian film actor. He is also a car racer. He has acted in many Tamil, Hindi and Telugu films. He has acted in more than 30 films. Currently, he is the most leading young actor in Tamil films. He started his film career at the age of 21 as an actor in the Telugu movie “Prema Pustagam” in 1992 . His first Tamil film was “Amaravathi”. He got noticed in Vasanth’s “Aasai” . He was recognized for his performance in the role of an anonymous lover in the award-winning movie “Kadhal Kottai”. He received his first Film fare best actor award for his performance in “Vaali” in 1999 for portraying a double role in that film. He was again received film fare best actor awards in the 2001 film “Citizen” and in the 2002 film “Villain”. He received the best new face award from “Bharatmuni Art Academy” for the film ‘Prema Pusthakam’ (Telugu). He also won the ‘Cinema Express Best Artiste Award’. Ajith played the role of Shahrukh Khan’s brother in the historical film “Asoka”. He is a race driver, having driven in Formula Three for a season and an active ambassador for the Green Revolution. He went on to demonstrate his versatility as an actor by portraying a variety of unique characters. His hits include “Aasai”,”Kaathal Kottai”, “Kaathal Mannan”, “Ullasam”, “Rasi”,” Aval varuvala”, “Nee Varuvai Ena”, “Vaalie” (dual role), “Anantha Poonkattrea”, “Amarkalam”, “Mugavaree”, “Kandukonden Kandukonden’etc.

4.Vijay

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Vijay is a famous Tamil film actor. He is also a playback singer. He began his career as a child artist. Now, he is famous for his pacy dance sequences and his stereotypical acting style. He is referred to as ‘Ilaya Thalapathy’ . His acting entertaining the people with dialogues, songs & dances, and an equal number of fights.The opening of his movies is truly astonishing. He has given outstanding performance in three of his films as an actor. These films are “Priyamudan” , “Kannukkul Nilavu” and Of Course “Thullatha Manamum Thullam”.He receives the Best Actor Award in 1997 for “Kadhalukku Mariyadhai”. He also received Roja Duke’s Best Actor Award for the film “Kadalukku Mariyadhai”. He also got Dinakaran Best Actor Award in 2004 and Film Today Best Actor Award in 2005 for “Ghilli”. His hit films include “Deva”, “Kathalukku Mariyathai”, “Neruku Ner”, “Poove Unakkaga”, “Love Today”, “Once More”, “Thullatha Manamum Thullum”, “Nenjinile”,” Minsara Kanna”, “Kannukul Nilavu” etc.

5.Surya

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Surya is a most popular actor in Tamil film industry. He is well known for trying out off beat roles in different films. He starred in several popular films such as “Kaakha Kaakha”, “Ghajin”i, “Perazhagan”, “Pithamagan” and “Ve”l. His film “Nerrukku Ner” is a super hit film. “Poovellam Kettuppar” (1999) was the first successful movie of him. He won his first film fare award for best actor for “Nandha” movie. His next venture was with Vikraman in the movie “Unnai Ninathu” . This was followed by “Mounam Pesiyadhe” which also did decently well. “Kaaka Kaaka”, a movie about the life of a police officer was his one of the block buster movie. In the movie “Perazhagan”, Surya acted in two roles, one as a boxer and the other as a handicapped but a confident phone booth keeper.These roles also makes him more famous.He received a Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance in the movie “Perazhagan”. “Aaru” and “Ghajini” are also his famous films.”Ghajini” was one of the most sensational hits of 2005, with Surya playing a short term memory loss patient, for which he even tonsured his head.

Maharashtra is commonly the paradise of all the movie industry. Bombay commonly known as Mumbai is one of the most attractive place of Indian film industry. The Indian film industry is known as Bollywood film industry. Mumbai is the place that decides the destiny of all the Hindi movies. The box office collections of Friday says whether this movie runs or not. So Friday is the good luck and bad luck day for the producers and all who connects with the film industry. The bollywood actors are the mostly worshiped actors all around India. They live in a world of Glamor and million crore deal Industry. Some of the top most actors from Maharashtra have been listed below.

1. Amitabh Bachchan

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Amitabh Bachchan is one of the mostly renowned actor in the Indian film industry. He is one of the most demanded actors in this industry even at his age of 65. He has a lot of caliber at this age and acts around five movies a year. His greatest asset is his personality and his voice other than his looks. He is married to the popular actor named Jayabhaduri and have two children. One of his children Abhishek Bachchan is one of the leading actor now. When he entered into the film industry he struggled a lot for a hit. It was “Zanjeer” that made his way clear and gave sure that he will remain here itself. Then came “Sholay” which made history in box office. Then he doesn’t need to look back,all the movies was making a huge profit and made him more demand. Then after 25 years came his bad luck and he was debt with lots of money. Then came a TV reality show name “Kaun Banega Crorepati” which boosted up his career once more at the age of 60 and till now also he is the most demanded and popular in all over the world. His wax statue is fixed in Madame Tussuad’s museum in London.

2. Shahrukh Khan

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Shahrukh Khan is known as the King of the Bollywood. Shahrukh Khan struggled a lot for his position in Bollywood in his early times. He is the most popular young actor that has fans all over the world. He is one of the highest paid actor in this film industry. He is the only actor that has no family backgrounds related to film industry. Its his effort and hard work that made him Numero Uno. He appeared into the television serials first at early 90s named “Circus” and “Fauji”. His wax statue is also fixed in Madam Tussuad’s museum. Beside acting he is also good in business whether it is film production or owning a cricket league team he makes a good profit in any field. He is married to Gauri Khan and have two children named Aryan and Suhaana. He is one of the few actor that give more value to his family and postpones anything for his family. He has won national award and lots of film fare awards for his best performance. One of his biggest asset is that he is considered as the boy next door and a pet for all of the family and is liked by all the people of different age groups. He is very kind at heart and donates without any media presence for the welfare of the poor people.

3. Hrithik Roshan

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Hrithik Roshan known as the Greek god of the film industry is the present heartthrob of the nation and all over world. His killing looks and perfect combination of his skills made him to chart up at early age. He is the true blue nice boy in bollywood and the actor that don’t have any rumors linked with any heroines. He is the son of Actor/director Raakesh Roshan. Hrithiks first movie named”Kaho naa pyaar hai” made a big blockbuster and entered into the Limca book of records for ‘the maximum number of awards a movie can get”. The film bagged 101 awards so far. He was not choosy after that movie and payed a lot for it. He has more than 10 flops at that time. He then took a break and appeared in “Krissh’ as a supernatural powered hero and once again he created history for that movie. He is married to Suzanne and has two children. He is kids hero for his dance and ladies hero for his killing looks and mens hero for his fantastic body and action. Totally he is the biggest asset that Hindi film industry can ever get.

4. Salman Khan

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Salman Khan is the most handsome man in Bollywood. He is known as the bad boy of the bollywood and is the popular actor in bollywood . He is very generous to his heart and has great acting skills. He is the hunk in bollywood and the trademark is his body shape maintaining for years. He is at the age of 40 and still his looks are much up to a college boy. He is there in the film industry for about 20 years and still in demand. Most of his fans are youth and he is the trend setter in bollywood whether it is body, fashion and more. He is very good at his comic roles and mostly takes that roles and the movie becomes a blockbuster after that. He is still a bachelor and has linked with many heroines. His wax statue is also fixed in Madam Tussuad’s museum. He is very kind at heart and do sell his own paintings for auction and gives for the welfare of the orphans.

5. Aamir Khan

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Most popularly known as Mr.Perfectionist. He is very much concerned about his roles and do lots of hard work for his particular character. His movies will be assured with class and perfection. He won’t act in random. He does only one movie in a year and it will be making a history for sure. He is the actor that has only less flops. Recently he has proved that he can direct too and make a huge success. The film was “taare Zameen Par” and was dealing with boys having Dyslexic. The movie is one of the biggest asset that a bollywood can get. This movie has been displayed to many parents in schools as apart of documentary to improve and how to behave to their children. This movie has changed many parents. Aamir latest movie to be released is “Kajiri” which is adapted from a Tamil movie. He has acted in epic movie ‘Mangal Pandey’. The movie became a flop but his skillful acting was praised a lot.