Born on 9th April 1948 Jaya Bachchan is an Indian artiste, who is also a politician. A noteworthy point is that, she is a former student of the Film and Television Institute of India. She is married to the legend of Bollywood, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. Her daughter-in-law is the former Miss World and Bollywood heartthrob Aishwarya Rai.
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Prema was a famous theatre personality, who was known to be the first woman director of films in the Kannada language. B. V. Karanth was her husband. She was the film-maker of Phaniyamma, which was the first movie directed by a woman, based on M. K. Indira's novel. M. K. Indira was a famous Indian novelist in the Kannada language....
Subrata Mitra is an Indian Cinematographer who revolutionized filmmaking with the innovation of bounce lighting. He was born on October 12, 1930, in Calcutta into a Bengali middle class family. Being a movie enthusiast, he wanted to pursue the profession of a cinematographer or an architect. In 1950, he started learning the art of lighting at the sets of the...
Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with...
Shyam Benegal is a renowned Indian director and screenwriter. He created, what is today referred to as ‘middle cinema’. His work has widely received critical acclaim in India as well as in the International Film Circuit. He was born on 14 December 1934 in Secunderabad. He is a cousin of Guru Dutt. His paternal grandmother and Guru Dutt’s maternal grandmother...
Romesh Sharma (original name Romesh Brij Sharma) is an actor, producer, writer, and director in Bollywood. He is a graduate from FTTI Pune, and he has acted in many prominent films with actresses like Jaya Bhaduri, Shabana Azmi, Simi Garewal in 1970’s. In the year 1979,  he has acted in a small role in Yash Chopra’s magnum opus ‘Kaala Patthar’ which had...