1. Kareena Kapoor Khan
Kareena Kapoor is a super hit actress working in Indian cinema with a lots and lots of fan following. She was born in the year 1980 in Mumbai. She is one of the proud members of the legendary Kapoor family. Her parents are Randhir Kapoor and Babita. Her elder sister Karishma Kapoor is also an actress. Kareena did her schooling in Mumbai and later in Dehradun. Mithibai College in Mumbai was her Alma Mater. She has also gone to Harvard University in America to learn about Micro Computers.
...2. Rajkumar Hirani
Rajkumar Hirani is one of the ace director, screenwriter, producer in the contemporary Bollywood. He is one of the directors who distinctively portrays the reality of the society with a touch of sarcasm and humor. He was born and brought up in Nagpur, Maharashtra and did his graduation in Commerce since because his dad wanted him to be a charted accountant. But he was more interested in filmmaking. His life took a significant turn when he joined Film And Television Institute of India, in Pune where he joined an editing course.
...3. Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a classic filmmaker, who has given Indian audiences films like Parineeta, Munnabhai MBBS, 3-Idiots, PK and 1942-A Love Story. What distinguished him from other film maker was that, he always wanted to experiment cinema. Both in terms of his script and in terms of mise-en-scene, character development and pace of the film, we believe that most of his films were very successful in box-office. As an FTII student, he always wanted to learn by making his films; he selected films therefore like an intensive program. He has a reputation for being completely demanding during production and his moody, temperamental and control freaks always made him the perfect filmmaker before and behind the camera.
...4. Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bollywood’s finest actor. He is a package for the Indian TV industry as he is a producer, director and actor an all-rounder kind of personality. Khan has an estimated net worth of $185 million. Aamir has born on 14th March, 1965 (aged 50) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did two marriages, first with Reena Dutta in 1986 they were together till 2002, than Kiran Rao came into his life, she is 42 years old, born in November, 1973, and they got married in 2005, now they both are living together happily in Mumbai. Kiran is from Bengaluru and also a director, screenwriter and producer.
Aamir’s father was Late Tahir Hussain, who was from a village Akhtiyarpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a screenwriter and director. Aamir is having 3 children today, one son Junaid and one daughter Ira from his first wife Reena Dutt and 1 son Azad Rao Khan from his second wife Kiran.
Aamir Khan is the fourth richest Bollywood personality in Hindi cinema. Aamir has earned his income by doing work as an actor, director and produced some movies and also worked in many advertisements. Khan began his career in a very tiny age with the film YAADON KI BAARAT released in 1973, which is produced by his uncle.
He started his professional career in 1984 with a movie HOLI. He won his first Film award as a Special jury after giving a fantastic performance in the movies like QAYAMAT SE QAYAMAT TAK released in 1988 and a movie RAAKH picturise in 1989. In 1996, Aamir received his first Filmfare Award as a Best Actor for his work in the movie RAJA HINDUSTANI. This movie was the blockbuster of his time.
He also won the Academy award and this time second Best actor award for the movie LAGAAN. Aamir won a Filmfare Critics Award also in 2006, as Best Actor in RANG DE BASANTI. He directed a movie also TAARE ZAMEEN PAR and won the Best director award after the nomination in Filmfare Award. Aamir is widely known as the perfectionist in the film industry.
Aamir Khan with his wife Kiran Rao in one of the awards function. He is a kind of actor who nominated for more than 20 types of awards like, IIFA Awards, National Film Awards, Apsara Award, Screen Award, Civilian Award and many more.
6. Boman Irani
Boman Irani is a well known name today in the Bollywood industry with a strong audience support for his studied comic roles tinged with traces of villainy in many cases. His entry into the industry was, however, much later in life when he was already 41. In fact, his route to film acting was laced with diverse previous occupations. Along with his love for photography, which many people are not aware of, he had a nascent fondness for acting too, but was never very open about it. It was ultimately Shiamak Davar who facilitated this and got him to audition for the veteran theatre personality Alyque Padamsee. Once the acting bug caught on with him, there was never a looking back. He swiftly established himself not only as one of the leading theatre personalities but also one who was clearly acknowledged by many as a prodigy. Theatre it was, that took him places, and soon he was a familiar face not only on the regional stage but also well known for his roles in English drama in the Mumbai circuit. In fact his most noteworthy stage appearance was in “I am not Bajirao”, which drew audiences for almost ten years. His transition from stage to the silver screen was punctuated by several ad shoots for leading brands, till he finally landed up with a small role in the 2003 film “Darna Mana Hai”, which in spite of not being commercially successful, had the audience look up to him as an actor of immense talent. For one like he, so obviously steeped into acting and rendering each of his roles with aplomb, it was natural that his name as a character actor of substance spread very fast and wide. His brand of comedy laced with villainous touches has been very popular with his large fan following, but on a more serious note, his performances in other roles too have been appreciated by critics. While the Raj Kumar Hirani films like his first film “Munna Bhai MBBS”, followed by his sequel “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”, the subsequent “3 Idiots” and the more recent “PK” have already made him a character whose next appearance is anxiously awaited, his more serious or varied roles in films like the Yash Raaj films “Veer Zara”; “Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Maara”, remembered for Anupam Kher’s brilliance and Ram Gopal Varma’s crime thriller “My Wife’s Murder” have been equally appreciated by the discerning moviegoers. With over 70 films to his credit including one in Telegu, Irani’s tally of films and awards is likely to rise steeply, and his place in movies can be considered not as a loss for the world of theatre, but as a gift from theatre to cinema, since he continues to equally enthuse theatres not only in India but elsewhere too with his superb acting skills.
...7. Omi Vaidya
Who will ever forget this remarkable face in Bollywood? We have same answer..."The Silencer!" or rather "Chatur". A real-life character as they say that you already encountered while staying a boarding house. It could be your roommate, or his character could also be you. A student that is always being bullied because of his accent and unfamiliar with the Hindi language, and also a very irritating character that almost turned to become the antagonist. However he successfully played this role with outstanding dedication and skills. We saw ourselves within his character. Excreting a "soundless-fart" but can be dreadful to others.
His real name is Omi Vaidya. Born January 10, 1982 and raised from Yucca Valley-California, United States. What was he then before his one-night-stardom?
He's already an actor in California and starred with simple roles in different TV-series. He was the "Rav Nadir " in the TV-Series "Arrested Development" and "Sadiq (My Friend)" in the TV-Series "The Office." He also appeared as unknown inmate from the star-studded and award winning CSI-series. There are a lot of few roles that he appeared but he was famous in the "3 Idiots." He also appeared in a music video Kurti by Bohemia, a famous pop-rap video music in India. He directed the films "Out of Time" and "The Desert Rose" while working as an actor to different TV series.
He denied many times the role of Chatur but he was convinced by one of his friends and the director of the movie. Few days before the release of the movie "3 Idiots" he was invited to appear in an interview. He was instructed by the director to avoid any interviews like this. Without any question he followed it. As everything was according to plan, he went inside the cinema unknown and no one's cheering for him. After the premier night, going out thru red carpet, no one could ever stop fanatics to cheer and swarm going towards him.
For this movie he earned and won Best Comedian, Most Promising Newcomer, the IIFA Awards Star Debut of the Year and the prestigious Lions Gold Awards for Best Supporting Actor all in 2010. It turned out that his stardom is also a "Silencer!" No one knows and notices him at first, at the end no one will ever forget him.
...8. R Madhavan