5. Shobana: Shobana was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. In 2006, the Indian Government honored Shobana with the Padma Shri for her contributions towards the classical dance. In 2014, The Kerala Government honored her with the Kala Ratna Award. The actress was brought up in Chennai. Shobana made her debut in the year 1980 with the Tamil movie ‘ Mangala Nayagi’ alongside Srikanth and K R Vijaya. She then made her Malayalam debut in the year 1984 with the movie ‘April 18’ alongside Balanchandra Menon. In 1994, Shobana founded a school for classical dance Bharata Natyam in Chennai – ‘Kalarpana’.

6. Sridevi: The actress was born and brought up in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. Sridevi started her career as a child artist in M.A. Thirumugham’s devotional ‘Thunaivan’ at the age of 4 and continued to act as a child artist in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She made her Bollywood debut as a child artist in the hit ‘Julie’ (1975) and played her first adult role at age 13 with the Tamil film ‘Moondru Mudichu’ (1976). Sridevi established herself as one of the leading actresses of Tamil and Telugu cinema, with roles such as ’16 Vayathinile’ (1977), ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’ (1978), ‘Varumayin Niram Sivappu’ (1980), ‘Meendum Kokila’ (1981), ‘Premabhishekam’ (1981), ‘Moondram Pirai’ (1982), ‘Aakhari Poratam’ (1988), ‘Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari’ (1990), and ‘Kshana Kshanam’ (1991).Sridevi had an affair with Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborthy but later she married Boney Kapoor and is now a proud mother of 2 daughters. After 15 years she made a comeback with the movie ‘English Vinglish’ which was a blockbuster.