S. Janaki
Smita Patil
Rosamma George
Mrinal Sen
S. P. Ramanathan
Utpalendu Chakrabarty
Anup Ghoshal
Devi Dutt
Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Baldev Gill
Mani Kaul
K S Sethumadhavan
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Satyajit Ray
Sathya Prakash
Ketan Mehta
Ashokkumar
Balan K Nair
J Mahendran
Govind Nihalani
Prem Prakash
1. S. Janaki
As popularly known, The Nightingale of South, S. Janaki was born as Sishtla Sreeramamurthy on 23rd April 1938 in Repalle, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Her childhood love for music turned out to be her talent, and she started performing at a tender age of three. Her voice is compared to Lata Mangeshkar, and Janaki has a large fan following because of...
2. Smita Patil
This versatile actress was born on the 17th of October in the year 1955, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was a very prominent actress and a news reader. She got lots of fan followers and made a huge impact as far as her acting was concerned. She was known for her splendid acting and sensible portrayal of the character that she...
3. Rosamma George
4. Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen was a renowned and highly skilled Indian film director. Mrinal was born on 14 May 1923 in Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (currently in Bangladesh). Sen has directed various famous films like Raat Bhore, Neel Akasher Neechey, Baishey Shravana, Maitra Manisha, Ek Adhuri Kahani, Calcutta 71, Chorus, Mrigayaa, Kharij, Genesis, Antares, and the list continues. His core focus was...
5. S. P. Ramanathan
S. P. Ramanathan was a sound engineer in the Indian film industry. He had worked for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, and Odia movies. Ramanathan graduated in radio engineering in Malaysia. His maternal uncle, who had estates in Malaysia, requested him to take care of his business in Malaysia. But, due to his love for sound design, he refused...
6. Utpalendu Chakrabarty
Utpalendu Chakrabarty is an Indian director who worked for the Bengali film industry. He was born in 1948 in Calcutta and graduated from Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta. Utpalendu as a director worked in movies, television films, documentaries, and also worked as a music director, composer, and writer. Some movies and television films in which he worked are Maina...
7. Anup Ghoshal
Anup Ghoshal is an Indian singer who worked for the Bengali film industry. He is a playback singer in both Hindi and Punjabi movies and shared his work in both industries. Anup is doing very well in Politics also. He won the 2011 West Bengal Assembly Elections on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Uttarpara Vidhan Sabha Constituency in Hooghly...
8. Devi Dutt
Devi Dutt is an Indian film producer. He is the younger brother of the famous director Guru Dutt. On January 15, 1930, he was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India. He began his career as a director's assistant on Guru Dutt's films like Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959). His first film, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, was a critical and...
9. Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Bhupendra Nath Sakia was a prominent and one of the most liked writers and novelists in India. He was born on 20 February 1932 in Nowgong, Assam, India. Bhabendra completed his schooling in 1950 with the science stream. Later he did graduation with B.Sc. with Physics honors at the College of Gauhati University. Bhabendra was admitted to the Presidency College of...
10. Baldev Gill
Baldev Gill is a Hindi writer and a producer. He is well known for Waaris released in the year 1988, Jee Aayan Hai released in the year 2003 and Jag Jeodayan De Mele in the year 2009. He was also the screenplay and dialogue writer in Punjabi film industry. He wrote down Chann Pardesi in 1980. He is also the screenplay of...
11. Mani Kaul
Mani Kaul undoubtedly was one of the greatest directors of Hindi cinema. He was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and his real name was Rabindranath Kaul. He was from a Kashmiri Pandit family. Kaul initially joined FTII, Pune as an acting student but later on shifted to the direction course. There, his teacher was a renowned film director, Ritwik Ghatak....
12. K S Sethumadhavan
K. S. Sethumadhavan is a famous screenwriter and film director in India dedicating his works to Malayalam movies. Madhavan is famous for his movies in Tamil, Oriya, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi also. Some of the landmark films directed by him are Yakshi, Odeyil Ninnu, Achanum Bappayum, Anubhavangai Palichakal, etc. He won 9 Kerala State Film Awards and 10 National Film...
13. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Born into a family in Kerala, Adoor Gopalakrishnan started doing amateur plays at a young age. Later, he wrote and helmed few plays. His interest in this field was imbibed in him by his family. He had studied Economics, Political Science and Public Administration at Gandhigram Rural University in 1961. Then he studied screenwriting and filmmaking at the Pune Film...
14. Satyajit Ray
Biographies reveal bare details about the maverick filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Even today not much is known about this extraordinary filmmaker. But people still have a passion for doing research upon his classic films as he is an extraordinary filmmaker. Satyajit Ray was India’s first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award (Honorary Oscar) in 1992. He is also a recipient...
15. Sathya Prakash
Sathya Prakash is a popular south Indian villain actor, who hailed from Odisha. His father was a government staff and Sathya got a place in the government school and he completed his schooling. Sambalpur, Burgad and Burhampur are the places, where Sathya completed his graduation and post graduation. Sathya did his MBA in Kolkata. He was a bank employee for...
16. Ketan Mehta
He was born in 1952 and is a director by profession, who has directed may documentaries and TV serials. His birth place is in Gujarat, studied in Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (Delhi) and obtained his bachelor’s in movie direction from Film and Television Institute of India (Pune).
During his career span, he created 10 films, 7 documentaries along with 2 television serials...
17. Ashokkumar
One would be at a loss, wondering where to start when writing about a film legend like AshokKumar. 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. AshokKumar really was witness to a very...
18. Balan K Nair
Balan K. Nair was a Malayalam actor born on 4 April 1933 in Chemancheri, Calicut. He made his reputation acting as a villain in most of the southern films. Balan started his acting career at a very young age of 14 with the association of Sangamam Theatre, Kozhikode. He was the eldest among his siblings and his parents died when...
19. J Mahendran
J Mahendran is a versatile director, who is popular for his film Uthiri Pookal. Born as Alexander to Joseph Chellaiah and Manonmani, he completed his intermediate course in the American College, Madurai. He completed his graduation from Alagappa College of Arts in Economics. Once MGR was invited as the chief guest to the college in which Mahnedran studied. Impressed by...
20. Govind Nihalani
Born on 19 August 1940, Govind Nihalani hails from Karachi. He is a multi-faceted personality; he is a director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and works for Hindi cinema. He is the proud winner of six National Awards and five awards at Filmfare. He had penned the script for a Hindi film Drohkaal in 1996, which was later modified by Kamal...
21. Prem Prakash
A well-known name in Malayalam movie and television industry, Prem Prakash is an actor and a successful producer. He is also known to Malayalam industry through his sons Sanjay and Bobby, the successful scriptwriters of Malayalam movies. He is also known as the younger brother of the beautiful, cruel villain of Malayalam in the 70’s to 90’s, Jose Prakash.
Prem Prakash...