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From Janani Ashok Kumar to Radikaa Sarathkumar, a look at the celebs who are also entrepreneurs

Last updated on - Sep 14, 2020, 12:24 IST
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From Janani Ashok Kumar to Radikaa Sarathkumar, a look at the celebs who are also entrepreneurs

There are many celebs who pursue careers in acting due to the sheer passion in it. Besides acting, many celebs also take to other businesses along side acting. From Janani Ashok Kumar to Radikaa Sarathkumar, let’s have a look at the celebs who are also entrepreneurs, besides being actors.

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Janani Ashok Kumar

Janani Ashok Kumar is well known for essaying the role of Aishwarya Arun in Sembaruthi. Janani and her sister Keerthana are make-up experts and hence they are into make up services. Keerthana with the help of their mom Santhanalakshmi takes care of Janani’s makeover boutique, which focuses on costume designing and make up services.

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Rhema Ashok

Actress Rhema Ashok of Chinna Thambi fame, who is just 20, has turned into an entrepreneur. Rhema has opened an atelier, where she offers bridal make-up solutions, dance training, costume designing and much more. Apart from this, Rhema offers training for beauty and other related courses.

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Sruti Nakhul - Baker and Cook

Sruti is actor Nakhul's wife and host of the show Cinema Villa. Besides being a host, Sruti is also an entrepreneur, who is into baking services. Being an expert cook and baker, she makes customized cakes for various occasions. Sruti has earned appreciation from popular stars like Madhavan, Mohanlal and others for her baking skills.

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Bharatha Naidu

Actress Bharatha Naidu has made a huge mark for herself after her appearance in the show Sembaruthi. Post her marriage with Bharath a few months ago, Bharatha started an academy and turned into an entrepreneur. In her academy, Bharatha imparts training related to professional bridal makeup hair style classes (basic to adv), skin routine, fashion designing, modelling photoshoot and dance.

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Kala Master

Kala Master is a renowned choreographer in the film industry. Besides this, she is the judge and director of the popular dance based reality show Maanada Mayilaada. She has dance academies in India and many countries around the world.

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Santhoshi Srikar

Santhoshi Srikar is famous for her appearances in the serials like Rudhra Veenai, Anni and Ammu, to name a few. Santhoshi owns a boutique and beauty lounge. She offers services like bride & groom makeover, wedding photography, salon services and hiring of bridal jewellery, to name a few.

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Lasya Nagraj

Actress Lasya Nagraj of Vandhal Sridevi fame is a multifaceted talent who is a nutritionist, belly dancer and trained bharathnatyam dancer. Lasya is fortunate to have her mom Sudha Nagraj as the dance guru and learnt dance from a very young age. Being an expert in this dance form, Lasya takes care of her mom’s bharatanatyam training academy in Bangalore.

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Nancy Jennifer

Star Wars show winner Nancy Jennifer is a famous make-up artist indulging in bridal makeovers and other related services. Nancy is running an event management company which focuses on organizing events. Besides this, Nancy owns an organisation which manufactures natural products related to beauty care.

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Nithin Krishnamurthy Iyer - Guitar Academy

Actor Nithin Krishnamurthy Iyer, popularly known as Nithin Iyer essays the role of Akash in Endrendrum Punnagai fame is a professional guitarist and singer. Being a music lover, Nithin has started a guitar academy at Bangalore, where he gives training to guitar lovers.

(Photo - Instagram)

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Sanjay Saravanan

Actor Sanjay Saravanan is known for his appearance as Vasanth in the show Avalum Naanum. Sanjay is an ardent fitness freak and owns a gym at his native Trichy. Sanjay along with the help of his brother takes care of the fitness centre. Besides this, Sanjay and his family members are involved in garment business also.

(Photo - Instagram)

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Sandy Master

Sandy master becames close to the audience with his impressive stint in Bigg Boss Tamil 3. Having started his career in reality shows as a choreographer, Sandy has got into dance training academy. Sandy has multiple dance academies and runs these academies with the help of his wife Dorathy Sylvia and others.

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Sridevi Ramesh

Actress Sridevi Ramesh is an international make-up artist and hair stylist. She has won many awards for her excellence in the make-up domain. She is into bridal make-up services for individuals and other makeover services for shows. Besides this, she has an academy where she provides training about make-up to aspirants.

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Nandha

Nandha, choreographer-turned-actor, made his acting debut in the show Gokulathil Seethai in the role of Arjun. Being a choreographer for shows and films, he also runs dance academies and trains aspiring dancers.

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Radikaa Sarathkumar

Actress Radikaa Sarathkumar (actor Sarathkumar’s wife) needs no introduction. Apart from being a popular actress and host of TV shows like Kodeeswari, Chithi 2 and Vani Rani, she is a successful producer also. Most of the shows featuring Radikaa are being bank rolled by her own production company. She has achieved appreciable success in her efforts due to impeccable quality of content of her shows.

(Photo - Facebook)

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Khushbu Sundar

Khushbu Sundar is a famous actress, host and politician. She is also involved in the productions of TV shows and movies. Her projects like Nandini and Lakshmi Stores are still lauded by the audience for its production values. (Photo - Instagram)

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