Meena Kumari - Hindi
Ameeta
Mala Sinha
Nimmi
Lata Mangeshkar
Nutan
Shashikala
Baldev Raj Chopra
Ashok Kumar - Old
Roshan
C.V. Sridhar
Rajendra Kumar
Johnny Walker
Mehmood Ali
Sahir Ludhianvi
Naushad Ali
Shakeel Badayuni
Vijay Anand
Mahendra Kapoor
Raaj Kumar
Bimal Roy
Sunil Dutt
Muhammad Rafi
1. Meena Kumari - Hindi
Meena Kumari was known as the tragedy queen of Hindi cinema for her superb performances in tragic roles, in film after film during her active career. Unfortunately, her personal life was also a series of tragedies that ultimately resulted in her virtually taking her own life due to excessive and reckless drinking. She died at a relatively young age when she was approaching 40. At that time she had acted in almost a hundred films in an active career of 30 years, which included her appearances even as a child artiste. Many of her films are mentioned in revered tones even after almost half a century has passed after her death.
Meena Kumari was not born with that name, her real name being Mah...
Date of Death:
31-03-1972
Age:
91
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
31-03-1972
Age:
91
Gender:
Female
2. Ameeta
Ameeta is an Indian actress. Her birth name was Qamar Sultana. She was born in Kolkata. She was born to actress Shakuntala Devi and ChoudharyRiaz Ahmed. Lekhraj Bhakhri signed her for his movie in Thokar. She played a side role of Jayjaywanti in her debut film Thokar. She did her first lead role in Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu directed by Vijay Bhatt. She acted in films like Amar Kirtan, BadalAurBijli, Amar Kirtan, Indrasabha and BaaghiSardar and Indrasabha, which weren’t huge hits. Her acting career took a turn with Shirin Farhad in which she acted along Madhubala in 1956. This hit brought her lead roles in Abhimaan and Zamana. The owner of Flimistan Studios Tolaram Jalan promoted Ameeta as well. He...
3. Mala Sinha
Mala Sinha is a legendary actress of Bollywood fame, having acted in a number of Hindi movies, several Bengali movies and even a Nepali movie as well. Born to ethnic Nepali parents in Calcutta of British India on November 11th 1936, she was named Alda but her name has been changed to suit the Bollywood, the then Bombay Cinema world. (Actually, it was said that she was teased at school with the then famous cooking oil ‘Dalda’, and hence the name change.) All through the 50s, 60s, and the 70s, she has entertained her huge fan base with her beauty and acting talent. She is a Scorpio and is 157 cm (5’2”) tall. Mala Sinha has married her husband Chidambar Prasad Lohani in the year 1968 and they ha...
Age:
87
Gender:
Female
4. Nimmi
Nimmi is the famous Bollywood actress who was at the peak of popularity during the 50s and early 60s. She was born in the year 1933 as Nawab Banoo. She was born to Abdul Hakim, a military contractor and Wahidan, a versatile actress cum singer in Agra. As her mother was a popular singer, she had a good relationship with the popular musicians in the cinema industry. One among the popular cinema people is Mehboob Khan, who was famous for making the movies. Nimmi’s mother died suddenly due to ill health and Nimmi was forced to live with her granny. Nimmi’s aunt Jyoti was a popular actress and her husband Durrani was also in the music field. Nimmi stayed with them. Once, her family friend Mehboob Khan asked her to watch the shooting of the movie...
Date of Death:
25-03-2020
Age:
91
Gender:
Female
Skills:
Date of Death:
25-03-2020
Age:
91
Gender:
Female
5. Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had formal training in music from her father. Her father ran a theater company in Mumbai, where she began to learn music with her father's grudging approval, and with whom she also sang a song. As her father was a conservative man, film music was not appreciated at her home. After the theater company was auctioned, her father died, and she assumed the financial responsibility by becoming an actress, first in Marathi and later in Hindi cinema, but in acting, she did not click. Later she surprised everyone with one of her solo number (Aayega Aanewaala) from the movie Mahal released in 1949. The song was screened on Madhubala...
Date of Death:
06-02-2022
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
06-02-2022
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
6. Nutan
Nutan Bahl was an old Indian actress. She was born on 4 June in 1936 in Bombay. She appeared in many old Hindi films. She played as an actress for forty years career. She is one of the best actresses in the Hindi film industry. She is famous for playing many unconventional roles for which she received many awards and praises.
She started her career in 1950 when her age was just 14 for the film Hamari Beti. The film was directed by Shobha Samarth, her mother. After that, she played many famous roles in many other films like Nagina, Humlog in 1951. The movie that brought her fame and name was in 1955 was Seema. She also won Best Actress award in Filmfare Awards.
She then got many other offers to play the le...
Date of Death:
21-02-1991
Age:
87
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
21-02-1991
Age:
87
Gender:
Female
7. Shashikala
Shashikala Om Prakash Saigal is a Hindi and Marathi actress who has been a part of over 200 Hindi films and 50 Marathi ones. Shashikala belonged to an affluent Marathi family in Solapur, Maharashtra. She faced hard times when her father faced financial problems in her childhood and was then asked by her family to look for roles in movies as she was the best looking amongst her siblings.
For a lot of time, she just kept wandering from one place to another, in search of decent work to provide for her family. Her comfortable time started only when she came across Noor Jehan, whose husband Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, who gave her a small role in a qawwali sequence in his film Zeena...
Date of Death:
04-04-2021
Age:
91
Gender:
Female
Skills:
Date of Death:
04-04-2021
Age:
91
Gender:
Female
8. Baldev Raj Chopra
Baldev Chopra had faced a lot of problems in his early career. He had to leave his home place, Lahore after riots broke out at the time of independence. He was working on his new production with a story by I.S Johar but had to abandon it because of the ensuing ruckus. He was born in Ludhiana and studied at the University of Punjab in Lahore. He received an M.A there. There was a monthly magazine about films called Cine Herald. He worked as a journalist there at the start of his career and took over it and ran it until 1947. India was partitioned into India and Pakistan after peace prevailed, and he moved to Delhi in 1947. His first successful production, Karwat, in 1948, turned out to be a flop at the box off...
Date of Death:
05-11-2008
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
05-11-2008
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
9. Ashok Kumar - Old
One would be at a loss, wondering where to start when writing about a film legend like Ashok Kumar. After all, he is considered to be one of Indian film industry’s greatest actors, who has performed as the romantic hero, antagonist as well as in various other shades of character roles with equal aplomb. Ashok Kumar really was witness to a very important evolutionary phase of the Indian film industry, and has spread across generations his genius as an actor. From very unpretentious beginnings, having been born as Kumudlal Ganguly in a Bengali family living outside Bengal, he seemed destined to take up a legal profession, having completed his law course from the prestigious...
Date of Death:
10-12-2001
Age:
112
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-12-2001
Age:
112
Gender:
Male
10. Roshan
Roshan, or better known as Roshanlal Nagrath was born on July 14, 1917, in Gujranwala, Punjab, British India. He was a famous music director. Roshan started learning music at a very young age and later got admitted in Marris College, now known as Bhatkhande College of Music, Lucknow. He studied music under the guidance of Principal of College, Pt. S. N. Ratanjankar. Roshan is the grandfather of the famous actor Hrithik Roshan.
Roshan’s family consisted of his wife, two daughters and two sons. Because of his rigorous training, he was hired as a staff artist in the program of AIR Delhi. After this, Roshan headed to Mumbai in 1948, to search for work as music dire...
Date of Death:
16-11-1967
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
16-11-1967
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
11. C.V. Sridhar
C. V. Sridhar, full name is Chithamur Vijayaraghuvulu Sridhar, born on 22nd July 1933, was an Indian screenwriter and film director. His zodiac sign was cancer. He directed over 60 films in the three languages of Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil. He was born in Chengalpattu, Madras Presidency, British India. He did his schooling from St. Josephs Higher Secondary School, Madras. In school, he started writing plays and staging them from the 7th standard itself. When he was 18 years of age, he went to AVM productions with a story Latchiyavathi, but they rejected his story though Avvai T. K. Shanmugam liked his story very much and he asked him to prepare the script.
It was one of the best dramas TKS Brothers ever hosted. Jup...
Date of Death:
20-10-2008
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
20-10-2008
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
12. Rajendra Kumar
Born on 20 July 1929, Rajendra Kumar is a Bollywood actor. He entered the film industry during the year 1950. He worked in over 80 movies in his career of 40 years. The 1960s were favorable for him, since he was highly successful during that period.
Rajendra Kumar was not inclined towards playing hero roles and hence, he started his film career as an assistant director. After having tried his luck as an assistant director to H. S. Rawail, he took up acting. The film, ‘Jogan’, established Rajendra Kumar as a star to reckon with. He acted in a supporting role in ‘Mother India’, and the film was a huge success.
The film, ‘Ghooj Uthi Shehnai’, showcased his romantic acting ...
Date of Death:
12-07-1999
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
12-07-1999
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
13. Johnny Walker
Johnny Walker is a comedian of Bollywood. His original name is Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi. Born on November 1926 in Indore, he was a great comedian during his times. Since his father had no job Johnny Walker took up a job. One of his jobs before entering Bollywood is as a bus conductor.
Johnny Walker always wanted to be a film star and he always thought about it. While he was a bus conductor, he used to enthrall the audience with amusing gimmicks. If sources are to be believed, it was actor Balraj Sahni who understood his t...
Date of Death:
29-07-2003
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
29-07-2003
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
14. Mehmood Ali
Mehmood Ali is one of our greatest comedian actors, who had acted in over 300 Hindi films. Born on 29 September 1932, his memorable films include Kunwara Baap, where he acted with versatile actress Manorama from Tamil film. The story had a message on polio vaccination and was essayed on the backdrop of a newly born son who was rescued by Mehmood, and when the boy develops polio, Manorama and Mehmood takes full care to bring up this destitute-cum-polio-affected boy in the film.
This was Manorama’s only Hindi film, and the film was directed by Mehmood whose son was also a victim of polio in real life. After acting in small roles in few films like ‘Pyaasa&rs...
Date of Death:
23-07-2004
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-07-2004
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
15. Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi is one of the celebrated lyricists that Hindi film industry has ever had. Coming from Urdu background from Ludhiana Punjab (undivided then), Sahir was enormously gifted and this gift was exploited royally in Indian film industry. Born on 8th of March 1921 in Ludhiana, Sahir had to face parental separation during his childhood. Born as Abdul Hayee, Sahir adopted this pen name which has so deeply imbibed among people’s memories. He hails from a wealthy family and his grandparents and parents were zamindars in Ludhiana.
His father Fazal Mohammad and his mother Sardar Begum who was a Kashmiri went through a divorce when Sahir was just 13 years old. Both battled over his custody and it was his mo...
Date of Death:
25-10-1980
Age:
103
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-10-1980
Age:
103
Gender:
Male
16. Naushad Ali
Naushad Ali the son of Wahid Ali was an Indian virtuoso and is also known as 'The Mughal-E-Azam of Music', he was one of the most prodigious singers and is considered to be the soul of the Indian music industry. He was prominent for the classical music and introducing the industry with the tremendous rhythm and compositions.
He was the one who introduced the world to the legendary voices like Lata Mangeshkar and Muhammad Rafi. He was born on 25th December 1919 and died on 5th May 2006. He belonged to the city of nobles Lucknow and did his graduation from United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India. He started singing at very young age his propensity was more t...
Date of Death:
05-05-2006
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
05-05-2006
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
17. Shakeel Badayuni
www.nettv4u.com/celebrity/hindi/lyricist/shakeel-badayuni Shakeel Badayuni was a well-known and renowned Indian lyricist, writer, and prominent poet. Shakeel is known to enrich Urdu literature with his intensive poetries and writings. Shakeel was known for his predominant contributions to Hindi cinema. He is one of the people who contributed towards the upliftment of the Urdu culture. Badayuni was born on the 3rd of August in the year 1916. His place of birth is Badaun, United Province of Agra and Oudh, during the British Era. Shakeel’s father’s name is Mohammed Jamaal Ahmed Sokhta Qadiri, who always aspired to see his son with a successful career. His love of poetry and philosophy developed and got majorly influenced by the ...
Date of Death:
20-04-1970
Age:
107
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
20-04-1970
Age:
107
Gender:
Male
18. Vijay Anand
Vijay Anand also known as ‘Goldie‘ is an Indian filmmaker, producer, director, screenwriter and an actor who made some classic films to date. He is related to actor Dev Anand and directed many in-house films of ‘Navketan Films’ (owned by actor Dev Anand). He was born on 22 January 1934 in Punjab. As an actor, he acted opposite Jaya Bhaduri in ‘Kora Kagaz’ which was critically applauded and was a hit film. Later, he also acted with Shabana Azmi. But his contribution to Indian cinema is understood as a director where he crafted classic film such as Guide, behind the camera lens. It was Guide that made him an acclaimed director of Indian cinema. The film was based on R.K. Narayanan’s novel and it ha...
Date of Death:
23-02-2004
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-02-2004
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
19. Mahendra Kapoor
Mahendra Kapoor was a playback singer in 1960’s, and he became popular for singing songs for music composers like O P Nayyar and Ravi. He was inspired by singers like Mohammed Rafi and even Mohammed Rafi congratulated him many times for the quality of his voice; Rafi found Mahendra’s voice a bit classical. Overall, the singer has sung 2,500 songs in various Indian languages. He was noticed for singing in every movie of B.R.Chopra and their association continued till the release of NIkkah.
The singer shot to fame and popularity with songs such as 'Chalo Ek Baar Phir Se Ajnabi Ban Jayen Hum Dono' (Gumrah), and 'Neele Gagan Ke Tale' (Ha...
Date of Death:
27-09-2008
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
27-09-2008
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
20. Raaj Kumar
Raaj Kumar was a Bollywood actor. He worked as sub-inspector before joining Bollywood. He was born on 8 October 1926 in Loralai, Balochistan, Pakistan, and his birth name was Kulbhushan Pandit. The name of Janni also knew him. He married an Air hostess named Jennifer, an Anglo-Indian. The couple had three children together sons Puru Raajkumar (a Bollywood actor), Panini Raajkumar and daughter Vastavikta Raajkumar, a Bollywood actress.
He made his debut with movie Rangeeli in 1952. Nausherwan-E-Adil and Oscar-nominated Mother India, both released in 1957, were the movies that brought him fame. He has spent four decades in Bollywood and from Rangeeli to God & Gun; he has acted in over 70 movies.
Paigham...
Date of Death:
03-07-1996
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
03-07-1996
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
21. Bimal Roy
Bimal Roy was born on 12 July 1909 in Suapur, Eastern Bengal to a zamindar family. He was the director of Hindi cinema and the well-acclaimed filmmaker of all time Indian film industry. He was known for his realistic approach towards the film. He was the pride of Bengal, who won most of Filmfare award for the Best Director. He was the one who won International Film Award of Cannes Film Festival. He was from East Bengal, a part of Bengal province of British India and now the capital of Bangladesh. After Independence, he moved to India. He started his film career in the film industry named New Theaters Pvt. Ltd as an assistant cameraman. During that time, he worked with P. C. Barua in one of the ...
Date of Death:
01-08-1966
Age:
114
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-08-1966
Age:
114
Gender:
Male
22. Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt was a great actor, director, producer, and politician. He was named Balraj Dutt at his birth on 6th of June, 1929, in Khurd village, Jhelum district, Punjab province, British India. His father departed from this world when Dutt was only five years old. His family moved to a small village called Mandauli in Yamuna Nagar district that is in Haryana after the Partition of India. After this, Dutt moved to Lucknow, where he spent time till he graduated.
After this, he moved to Bombay, joined Jai Hind College for his undergraduate studies and started working at the city’s BEST transport division. Sunil Dutt worked in the oldest radio station in South Asia called...
Date of Death:
25-05-2005
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-05-2005
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
23. Muhammad Rafi
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