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She was born on May 10, 1984 in Surat, India. Her father is a textile businessman and her mother is a housewife. Her dad ran a Raymonds Showroom. She did her B.A. in MTB Arts College. Namita lives in Chennai now, with 30 over films in her credit, she has over 2500 fan clubs and is doing lots of charity work and has a soft corner for HIV effected kids and often Aids them in Pondecherry Communicable Disease center. Namita also sponsored public toilet projects in commercial areas of several states, mainly for ladies. Namita besides her films has also gained fame in small screen programme Manada Mailada in Kalignar TV.She started out by participating in the Femina Miss India Contest. She was crowned Miss Surat in 2000 and came fourth in the Miss India contest during the year 2001 along with Trisha Krishnan and Celina Jaitley, who was crowned Miss India Universe.
She has acted in Telugu,Tamil, Kannada, Hindi & Malayalam films. She made her debut in the Telugu film Sontham. Subsequent to that, she became famous after the Tamil film Engal Anna opposite Vijayakanth. She starred in Tamil Film "Aai" the song "Arjuna Arjuna" along with Sarath Kumar, which ended up as a big hit. This movie dubbed in Hindi as Nayi Baazi (going to release very soon). Her screen name for the first two Telugu movies was BhairaviShe has also appeared in an English film named Maya directed by Eric Manning.Namita Gokhale was born in Lucknow, India in 1956 and spent her childhood between New Delhi and Nainital, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Married to Rajiv Gokhale when she was eighteen, she dropped out of college after a conflict over the bias against Indian literatures in the curriculum. She then published the enormously successful film magazine “Super” from Bombay in the late seventies.
She has written five novels and two works of nonfiction, all in English. Gokhale’s first novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, 1984, a satire upon the Mumbai and Delhi elite was critically acclaimed and caused an uproar due to its mischievous sexual humour. Gods Graves and Grandmother- an ironic fable about street life in Delhi was adapted into a musical play. Gokhale was diagnosed with cancer when she was just thirty-five and her husband died a few years later. The experience of illness and loss has informed her later books, A Himalayan Love Story, The Book of Shadows and Shakuntala, the play of memory. Gokhale has written two books of non-fiction, Mountain Echoes and The Book of Shiva and retold the Indian epic, The Mahabharata, for young readers (to be published 2009). She has also co-edited an anthology which revisits the mythology surrounding Sita in contemporary ethos.
The Namita Gokhale editions, a signature imprint published in association with Roli Books, introduced some notable titles including Rashna Imhasly Gandhy’s The Psychology of Love and Neelima Dalmia Adhar’s biography of her father, R K Dalmia. She has conducted two memorable writers’ retreats in Landour, with Roli Books, for the Namita Gokhale editions. She is committed to showcasing and translating the best of Indian writing and engaging the vibrant Bhasha languages of the Indian sub-continent in a creative dialogue with each other and the rest of the world. She is one of the founder directors of Yatra Books which co-publishes with Penguin Books in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and other Indian languages including in English in a ground breaking series. Gokhale conceptualised the famous International Festival of Indian Literature, Neemrana 2002, and also The Africa Asia Literary Conference, 2006. She is a co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival along with the author, William Dalrymple and has been associated with it since its inception

Diana Mariam Kurien (born November 18, 1984), popularly known by her stage name Nayanthara (Malayalam: നയന്‍ താര), is a South Indian actress, who has acted in many Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu movies. After several commercial successes such as Chandramukhi, Ghajini, Billa and Yaaradi Nee Mohini, Nayanthara has established herself as one of the most promising, sought-after actresses of South India.Nayanthara was born into a Orthodox Syrian Christian family, in Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala.
She did her schooling at various parts of India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu), as her father was an Air Force Official. She joined Balikamadom High School, Thiruvalla for +2, then joined Marthoma college in Thiruvalla for her Bachelor's degree (English Literature).Nayan Tara who was Diana Mariyam Kurien then was chosen 1st runner up in Best model Kerala 2003 which was conducted by Thrissur Advertising Club. This gave her few opportunities in modelling for adverisements. While at college, she was spotted by director Satyan Anthikkad and cast opposite Jayaram in Mansinakkare. Afterwards, she co-starred alongside Mohanlal in Naatturajaavu and in Fazil's Vismayathumbathu. She was also cast with Mammootty in Thaskaraveeran (Dubbed into Tamil as Yuvaraj) and Raapakal.She has also starred in several Tamil and Telugu movies. She was cast opposite Sarath Kumar in Ayya and with Rajnikanth in Chandramukhi. Her later films are Vallavan (Tamil), Gajini (Tamil), Yogi (Telugu) etc. flopped except Ghajini. She regained her throne in Kollywood through Billa in 2007. Her next movie Yaaradi Nee Mohini was a stupendous success. Nayanthara is currently a leading star in Southern Cinema, with leading roles in films with Rajnikanth - Kuselan, with Ajith Kumar - Aegan, with Vijay - Villu, with Vishal - Sathyam and an untitled film with Surya. She is currently the highest paid South Indian actress. She was paid Rs. 1 crore for Sathyam, Kuselan and AeganNayantara is very generous person, who has contributed to several causes. While working with Rajini, who is known for giving away gifts such as chains to people on the sets to celebrate a movie's success or to reward his coworkers, she became intrigued by his kind gestures. Inspired by this, she also started to reward her co-workers in her other movies by giving away gifts such as bicycles. She is a down to earth and a darling among technicians for the exemplary camaraderie she exhibits with them. During shoots Nayan always stays at the floor, unlike other stars, who shut themselves up in the vanity vans. She contributed INR 5,00,000 (5 lakhs) to TN Chief Minister as relief aid for displaced Sri Lankan Tamils, at a celebrity fast arranged in solidarity with the Tamils of Sri Lanka. Her donation was the heftiest sum given by an actress, this despite the fact that Nayanthara is not a Tamil herself. [1]
Nayantara created headlines when publicity posters of her movie Vallavan sprung up around Chennai showing her Vallavan co-star, Silambarasan and her kissing, who she was rumoured as involved with at the time. However, the pair broke up citing differences soon after the film was released. Further controversy was created when rumours leaked out that the plot of Silambarasan's forthcoming film, Kettavan, was based on the couple's true love story.

Kettavan (Tamil: கெட்டவன்; English: Bad Guy) is a forthcoming Tamil film. It carries a tagline saying, I Am What I Am. The film stars Silambarasan in the lead. Namitha plays a pivotal role. Yuvan Shankar Raja will be composing the music and Silambarasan himself will be the director. This film is delayed at the momentThe story is written by Simbu. It is a "Bad girl, good boy" movie with an effective screenplay. Silambarasan plays three different personalities, which would be a great challenge for him in this movie. Namitha plays the character of a super model. Santhanam dons the comedian's role, which he has already done with Simbu.
Simbu has come up with some creative stills which have increased the propaganda for the movie. He is also planning to remake "Raakala Velaiyile" song from his father's movie 'Mythili Ennai Kaadhali'. The advertising stills for this movie have already become the talk of the town. Close sources say that this is a story that is about his lost love life, and the story revolves around the depressing experiences faced by the lead character.Akshai Sarin (a.k.a. ax/ai, Rebirth of DuB, Dj AX) is an Indian composer, producer, performer, and DJ. He has expanded his participation in music to starting a record label—Rebirth—and artist representation through his AXYZmusic (pronounced "axis") company. Sarin’s live set combines live recording, laptops and live remixing.[citation needed] An Indian citizen, he has also lived in the Philippines, United States, Egypt, and the UK.

Billa is a Blockbuster Tamil language feature film, directed by Vishnuvardhan. Based on the 1980 Tamil film of the same name starring Rajnikanth. Ajith Kumar and Nayantara played the lead roles while Prabhu Ganesan, Namitha, Rahman, Adithya and Santhanam were also part of the cast. The film was produced, released and distributed worldwide by Ayngaran International on December 14, 2007.
In 2008, the film was selected to be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival. Ajith Kumar and Vishnuvardhan had attended the screening at Cannes, France.The story begins with a sadistic underworld don David Billa (Ajith). Most-wanted gangster, hiding and operating out of Malaysia, on the top of Interpol’s criminal list. A lone tiger he is, and a ruthless one at that. As he says, “Look at history. If you want to live, to survive, you can kill any number of people, for any reason.” This is Billa – scheming, clever, slippery, enigmatic and dangerous. No one knows his story, really, except that he literally clawed his way to where he is now, from an orphaned and deprived childhood to the top of the food chain. Along the way, he bent and broke every rule for not just survival, but for money, power and love of the game. DSP Jaya Prakash (Prabhu) has spent a huge chunk of the last few years looking for the elusive Billa. He has left a life behind in India, only to base himself in Malaysia and strategise the capture of the man who has 50 high-profile crime cases slapped against him. As luck would have it, his path does cross Billa’s and from then on, it’s a rollercoaster ride.
The Malaysian team is headed by the DSP who wants to break the back of the operations of the Underworld Dons. He believes that capturing the dangerous and elusive underworld don, David Billa, will be the most effective way of accomplishing this. Billa's gang consist of Ranjith and C.J (Namitha). Soon, Sasha (Nayanthara) joins them but she has other plans - kill Billa. Billa was responsible for killing her brother Rajesh as well as his fiancee.
During a chase with the police Billa is seriously wounded after an accident and dies in front of the DSP. The DSP then secretly holds a burying of Billa. He keeps it a secret even from his fellow officers, and tracks down a look-alike called Velu, a lowly pick-pocket(also played by Ajith Kumar). He asks Velu to infiltrate Billa's gang by pretending to be Billa. In return he will make sure that the child Velu adopted, Karan gets a proper education.
The DSP trains Velu and sends him back to Billa's gang. When Velu secretly provides information to the DSP about a meeting of Billa's Network, He accidentally kills C.J. A shootout occurs at the party and the DSP is killed by Jagdish (Rahman) who had come to take over the investigation from the DSP as Interpol Officer Gokulnath; and Velu is forced to run from the police as well as Billa's gang members - pursuing the last piece of evidence (a Pen drive) which has all of Billa's criminal activities loaded on it, a Pen Drive which can get him out of this mess.
Through various plot twists, the DSP's Aid in the case gets the Pen drive and strikes a deal to get hold of Jagdish. Velu arranges a meeting with Jagdish and assists in his capture. In a final confrontation, Jagdish gets shot by a squad of police and dies. Velu finally hands over the Pen drive to the police