1. Aditi Rao Hydari
As her title may be suggesting, Aditi the talented and versatile actress origins from Hyderabad. But her introduction should not end up just there. On the side of performing arts, she is a trained classical dancer, specializing in Bharata natyam, while in respect of family lineage she comes from the confluence of two distinct blue blooded families of the South - that of Akbar Hydari former Prime Minister of Hyderabad on one hand and from the Wanaparthy royal family on the other. Her family also had a distinctly accomplished educational background and she herself also did complete her graduation before entry into films.
...2. Sangeeta Ahir
Sangeeta Ahir is a producer of the Indian film industry who works in the Hindi film and television industry. She has produced various well-known films like guddu rangeela, Singh Saab the great and Golmaal again. Sangeeta Ahir, the wife of Sachin Ahir, works for mangal murti films.
...3. Ronit Roy
Ronit Roy (Ronit Bose Roy) was born on 11th October 1965, in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He became a popular in the industry after his character “Rishabh Bajaj” in Ekta Kapoor’s Kasautii Zindagii Kay. He is a Bollywood actor and popular Indian Television actor, best known for his portrayal of Rishabh Bajaj, Mihir Virani and Aparajit Deb. He currently acting in the Hindi TV serial Adaalat as KD Pathak. Ronit Roy has been referred to as the Amitabh Bachchan of the TV screen and popularly known as “Big B” of small screen. He also owns a security business, providing security to Bollywood stars and production houses. Ronit has played the prestigious role of the legendary warrior Bhishma Pitamah in Balaji Telefilms' production Kahaani Humaaray Mahabharat Ki. Ronit judged a reality show, "Aajaa Mahi Vay". Ronit Roy also appeared in many Bollywood movies. Some of his popular movies are Two States, Boss, Shootout at Wadala, Ugly, Student of the Year, Luck by Chance, etc.
...4. Arshad Warsi
Arshad Warsi is most popular for his role as Circuit in the super hit Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Born in to a Muslim family; he attended a boarding school and at the age of 14, this led to many struggles in his early life.
He began working as a salesman at the age of 17 but had shown interest in dancing. His interest changed in to a profession as he joined the Akbar Sami’s Dance group, which started his choreography and dancing career.
Arshad’s film career began in 1996 when he was offered a role by Amitabh Bachchan’s production house film Tere Mera Sapne. He was then provided with numerous roles but none of them were too successful. He became a prominent actor after starring opposite Sanjay Dutt in Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Filmfare Awards. Warsi poured his heart out in the role and it paid off as it lead to the many film offers for him. He was signed in supporting roles for Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya and of course the sequel to Munna Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai.
Along with his successful career, Warsi became a family man when he married Maria Goretti in 1999. The two have two children, a son and a daughter.
...5. Amit Sadh
A well-known actor who appears in Indian Television, as well as Indian reality, shows after finishing 12th Amit Sadh started concentrating on acting as his career. In his first film named Kyun Hoya Hai Pyaar, he played a character of Aditya. And then again he appeared in the movie Kohinoor. Later on he diverted towards reality shows and he was seen in the very famous show Big Boss which was hosted by Bollywood legend Salman Khan and also he was appeared in Fear Factor wherein he had to perform various stunts to prove himself as the best fit and later on he appeared in a dance reality show Nach baliye which was to check out the best dancer in the show.
...6. Subhash Kapoor
Subhash Kapoor is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his satirical comedy films like Phas Gaye Re Obama and Jolly LLB. Kapoor started off as a political journalist after he did his MA in Hindi literature and was covering news events in northern part of India during the 1990s time period. In 2001 he directed a short film that won critical acclaim after which there was no turning back for him and he started making short films, advertisement commercials and shifted to Mumbai in 2006 to pursue the career of a director. Kapoor’s debut as director came in 2007 with the movie Say Salaam India which bombed at the box office. In 2010 the comical satire Phas Gaye Re Obama which was his second venture won critical acclaim and commercial success. The movie was based on the world wide recession having its origins in the United States of America. His third venture Jolly LLB which was released in 2013 starring Arshad Warsi and Boman Irani was again a success. It was a courtroom drama which was focusing on the Indian Judicial system. Lately Vidhu Vinod Chopra has roped in Kapoor to direct the third instalment of the Munnabhai series that has gotten delayed due to Sanjay Dutt’s jail sentence. In 2014 Kapoor was involved in a controversy where actress Geetika Tyagi accused him of molestation and also uploaded a video of her slapping him.
...7. Amit Trivedi
8. Hitesh Sonik
Hitesh Sonik is a music director and a singer in the Hindi film Industry. Making a mark in the Hindi music was not tough for him as he was the nephew of well-known music composer Sonik of the Sonik-Omi pair, who composed melodious music in 1970s. Sonik Omi is still remembered in the industry for the Rekha starred film, Sawan Bhado. Music composer Sonik Omi is also known for qawali track which was sung by Asha Bhonsle and Mohammed Rafi and became popular.
Hitesh Sonik got the job of being an assistant to the music director Vishal Bhardwaj. He assisted Vishal in movies like Maachis and Hu Tu Tu and Kaminey and many more. He worked with Vishal for 11 movies.
As a music director, the greatest caliber he has shown to us is, that the full background music goes well with the overall flavor of the film, and he does not deviate from the core theme of the film. Examples of unconventional composition of Hitesh Sonik includes, from the film Hawaa Hawwai.
As an independent composer, he will be also known for Luv Ranjan’s Pyaar Ka Punchaama and Raghav Dhars’s My Friend Pinto. Hitesh Sonik is now flooded with offers after the success of Kaminey; he is the choice for Pyar Ka Panchnama-2 and Manjhi- the Mountain Man. He also has scored the background music for Guddu Rangeela.
He is married to singer Sunidhi Chauhan, who became highly popular with Ram Gopal Varma‘s MAST song.
He also sung many songs in ‘ Hawaa Hawaai’, which grabbed the attention of us. Like other music composers, he chooses to sing songs only if that was a situational and conveys the central theme of the film. Otherwise, as a composer, his tunes are always catchy and can manage to lift our spirits at every situation. As a young music director, he sets an example of being an unconventional composer of recent times.
Hitesh wanted to be an architect, but music was his passion. He loved playing guitar and he used to assist his father in recording and made it a full-time profession. Post partition, his family moved from Pakistan to refugee camp in Delhi; when they came to Mumbai, they had no godfather, but after his uncle Sonik put his feet in film world as a composer, there was no looking back for Hitesh’s family.
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