Trisha Das
Biyot Projna Tripathy
Tarali Sarma
Sharmishta Roy
Farah Khan
Sharmila Tagore
Saroj Khan
Meera Jasmine
Usha Albuquerque
Mrinal Sen
Anup Mukhopadhyay
Abhik Mukhopadhyay
Rajiv Vijay Raghavan
Anand Patwardhan
Supriyo Sen
Vinu Abraham
Goutam Halder
SP Jananathan
Suddala Ashok Teja
Ashwin Chitale
Aarif Sheikh
Rajiv Mehrotra
Nedumudi Venu
Chandra Prakash Dwivedi
Kalidas Jayaram
Gangaraju Gunnam
Sandeep Sawant
Rakesh Roshan
Goutam Ghose
H G Dattatreya
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
T V Chandran
Prakash Jha
Chiyaan Vikram
Manoj Bajpayee
Jahnu Barua
Sonu Nigam
Rajkumar Hirani
Basu Chatterjee
Pankaj Kapur
Arun Nalawade
1. Trisha Das
Trisha Das is an Indian Filmmaker and author. In 2005, she received the National Award from former Indian president Dr. Abdul Kalam for her documentary “Fiddlers on the Thatch,” which was about the children of Gandhi Ashram School, Kalimpong. During her childhood, Trisha Das spent her summer vacation with her maternal grandparents in Patna, Bihar. Every night her grandfather told her stories about the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and before she knew it, the extended family was gifting her books on these epics. Her first debut novel is “Ms. Draupadi the Pandavas.”
Her second novel, a sequel, The Misters Kuru: A Return to Mahabharata (published by HarperCollins), brings the story to...
Age:
24
Gender:
Female
2. Biyot Projna Tripathy
Biyot Projna Tripathy is an Indian director, producer, and writer. She writes short stories, poems, and articles for Odia magazines and columns for the Odia newspaper. She is a recognized Odia author who writes novels, poems and short stories, and has six books in her kitty. She has produced and directed more than 40 documentaries and promotional films. Her films are regularly screened internationally in Amsterdam, London, the U.S.A, Nepal, and other countries. She also teaches media applications and film studies in different institutions of India.
In 2003, Biyot Projna Tripathy got a National Award for the promotional short film ‘Ladakh - The Land of Mystery’. In 2004, the film was also awarded as the second-best fil...
3. Tarali Sarma
Tarali Sarma is an Indian singer who worked for the Hindi film industry. She was born on 4th August 1975 in Assam and shared his precious contribution to Hindi films. She is the daughter of Prabhat Sharma, who was a folk exponent, flutist, and music director.
Tarali also performed in valley forge in Pennsylvania, which organized by the Assam Society of America in 2009. She also worked in Assamese movies and received The National Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer in 2003. Tarali is now working on her more upcoming projects....
Age:
48
Gender:
Female
4. Sharmishta Roy
An Indian film art director and production designer Sharmishta Roy was born on in Kolkata, West Bengal to Krishna and Sudhendu Roy. Her father Sudhendu Roy was also an art director. He had worked with great film makers like Vimal Roy in movies like "Bandini,"Sujata,"Madhumati." He has also worked with Yash Chopra in movies like "Silsila" and "Chandni." Sharmishta is the youngest among her three siblings; the others are Sumona Roy and Krishnendu Roy.
Before working independently, she assisted her father in many movies. She is one of the first women art directors if Hindi film industry. "The job of an Art Director is as important as that of the Cinematographer or Costume...
Gender:
Female
5. Farah Khan
Farah Khan is an Indian film actress, producer, director and a choreographer. She was born on January 9, 1965 in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Menaka, sister of screenwriter and actress, Honey Irani and Daisy Irani. She is also the sister of film actor and comedian Sajid Khan and the cousin of film personalities Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Farah was married to Shirish Kunder, a film writer, producer, director, composer and the editor of her directorial film Main Hoon Na in 2004. The two have worked together in films like Jaan-E-Mann, Tees Maar Khan and Om Shanti Om. She gave birth to triplets, composing of one boy and two girls in year 2008. <...
Age:
59
Gender:
Female
Age:
59
Gender:
Female
6. Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore is a Bengali actress, who later shifted to the Hindi film industry, who was born on 8th December, 1944. Apart from being an actress, she stood as a member of Indian Film Censor Board for seven years. She was also chosen as UNICEF Goodwill ambassador from India. On the other hand, she was one of the jury members of Cannes Film Festival, 2009. She was recognized by the Government of India with the third highest civilian award of India, Padma Bhushan. She was familiar with her screen name Begum Ayesha Sultana. She is related to Rabindranath Tagore from her parental ancestors. She debuted her film career with under the direction of Satyajit Ray in the movie Apur Sansar, which was released in 1959. After the release, she took ...
Age:
79
Gender:
Female
Age:
79
Gender:
Female
7. Saroj Khan
Born with an inborn talent, Saroj Khan is one of the most well-known and eminent choreography in the Indian film Industry. She has produced many pieces of good work for around 2000 films. Talking about her earlier days, she along with her family migrated to India right after the partition. Her family was one among the orthodox one, but she turned out to be a freak. She started her career at a very tender age of 3 with the film Nazrana and also a background dancer. B. Sohanlal was her mentor and trained her very well.
Later she shifted to choreography, first as an assistant choreographer and later getting her break as an independent choreographer, with GeetaMeraNaam (1974). Her ladder of success was connected to Madhuri Dixit. Wit...
Date of Death:
03-07-2020
Age:
75
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
03-07-2020
Age:
75
Gender:
Female
8. Meera Jasmine
Born on 15th February 1982, Meera Jasmine belongs to Kerala. She did B.sc. In zoology from Assumption College, Changanassery. She is a bright name in the Malayalam film industry, very well known for her role in ‘Soothradharan’ released in the year 2001. Later she worked in films like ‘Gramaphone’, directed by Kamal and commercial hits and critically acclaimed projects like ‘Swapnakkoodu,' ‘Kasthoorima’ etc. She received film fare for the movie as well.
The actress possesses the title of best actress given by National Film Award (2004) along with Kerala film award twice and Kalaimamani award from the government of Tamil Nadu.
Meera considers lohithadas, h...
Age:
42
Gender:
Female
Age:
42
Gender:
Female
9. Usha Albuquerque
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10. 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 on Hindi and Bengali films. Mrinal’s direction positively influenced the whole Indian cinema. He was the only director in India (along with Satyajit Ray) whose films received awards at the three biggest film festivals, Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival.
Mrinal’s priceless involvement le...
Date of Death:
30-12-2018
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
30-12-2018
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
11. Anup Mukhopadhyay
Anup Mukhopadhyay is an Indian sound mixer who worked for the Hindi film industry. He also worked as an actor in Thana Theke Aschi in 2010 and Mondo Meyer Upakhyan in 2002. Anup worked in more than a hundred Plus movies as a sound mixer and his work much appreciated by the audience.
Some of his popular works include Friend in 2009, My Karma in 2004, Tomar Rakte Amar Sohag in 1993, Dan Protidan in 1992, Indrajit in 1992, Guru Dakshina 1987, Nil Nirjane in 2003, Professor Shonku O El dorado in 2019, and many other....
12. Abhik Mukhopadhyay
Abhik Mukhopadhyay is an Indian cinematographer who worked for the Hindi film industry. He worked with one of the most well-known directors like Aparna Sen, Srijit Mukherjee,Anik Dutta, Sujoy Ghosh,etc. As a cinematographer he worked in in Amar Bhuvan in 2002,The Last Lear in 2008,
Bunty aur Babli in 2005,The Violin Player in 2016, October in 2018,Sardar Udham Singh in 2021, and many other. Mukhopadhyay also won National Filmfare Award for Best Cinematography in 2003, 2004, and 2009....
13. Rajiv Vijay Raghavan
Rajive Vijay Raghvan was born on 29 May, 1958 in Kottayam, Kerala, Southwestern India. His mother's name is Mrs. Remani Nair and, his father's name is Mr. K. Ramarajan Nair is well known as a well-skilled and talented Mollywood Director. His Debut film was Margam which gained a lot of global recognition and praise. Apart from, filmmaking he also works for making documentaries. Rajiv was a student of the Film and TV Institute of Pune.
Apart from directing the films, Rajiv also loves to write scripts and produce various projects. Rajiv’s debut film as a director Margam was about the story of M. Sukumaran. The film was a big hit and got so many awards. It won 7 major Kerala State Awards and the National Film Award from...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
14. Anand Patwardhan
Anand Patwardhan, a generous, humane documentary filmmaker also known as the father of Indian documentaries, was born on 18th February 1950 in Mumbai to a family of a businessman. Graduating from Mumbai University in 1970, upholding an English Literature degree, and further went to America and studied sociology through the Scholarship. The Ongoing Vietnam war influenced him to show concern for social and political changes and brought him into the documentary filmmaking journey. His first acclaimed documentary was in 1971, "Waves of Revolution", based on the Bihar Movement repressing the government for the years of corruption and atrocities, by students and peasants of the area.
The ordinary filmmaker deploys the glamoro...
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
15. Supriyo Sen
Supriyo Sen is an Indian film director. He lives in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Honestly, he worked as a journalist; then he became an independent filmmaker. He directed the short documentary Wagah has been screened at over 200 film festivals and was voted the third most well-liked short film within the world in 2009 by the German short film magazine. Also, he won the Berlin Today Award at the Berlin Film Festival. His two-hour documentary on the Partition of India Way Back Home is the first Indian documentary to be released commercially.
Sen is a Berlinale Talent (international young filmmakers’ program by Berlin Film Festival). He has served as a Juror at several film festivals, including the Busan Internation...
16. Vinu Abraham
Vinu Abraham is a young talented actor who is from Cochin. Besides being an actor, Vinu produced the films too. Vinu made his debut as an actor in the Malayalam movie “Ravu” that released in 2013. He co-produced the film with Jebitha Ajit and Ajit Ravi Pegasus and the film is directed by Ajit Ravi Pegasus.
Vinu’s second venture is a Tamil film, Thottal Vidathe, that hit the screens in 2014. This movie is also directed by Ajit Ravi Pegasus, who also did the lead role. Sanam Shetty, the multilingual star, shared the screen space with Vinu and Ajit Ravi Pegasus in the film....
17. Goutam Halder
Goutam Halder was associated with Nandikar theater group that had its base in Kolkata. The theater group started its first show in the 1960s and found a strong commitment from young theater personalities. In the beginning, there were plays based on English literature and later on, they carried out plays of Rabindranath Tagore too.
But this stage actor did also venture into film direction and made notable critically acclaimed movies like Bhalo Theko in 2003 that featured actress Vidya Balan and actor Soumitra Chatterjee in lead roles. This film fetched him special Jury award at the national film festival. This film also fetched best cinematographer and sound designer award at the 51st national film festival.
Actress ...
18. SP Jananathan
S.P. Jananathan is a prominent Tamil film director and a well-known producer.Iyarkaihis first film came out in 2003.In 2004, this film made him achieve the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil.Purampokku Engira Podhuvadamai was produced by his production house, Binary production house. Hewas also a part of the Tamil Film Directors' Union. S.P. Jananathan was the last son born to his parents. They were illiterate and therefore he studied only till 10th standard.
He even didn't know that film institutes existed. As a child, he used to watch MGR films and was fascinated by his films and scripts. He says "MGR films became his referen...
Age:
64
Gender:
Male
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19. Suddala Ashok Teja
Suddala Ashok Teja, the National Award Winner for the best lyricist, for the song "Nenu Saitam" from the film Tagore (2003) was born in the village Suddala, in the Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh on 16 May 1954. He was born to a well-known Telugu poet, Suddala Hanmanthu and Janakamma. Hanmanthu was a Padmashali poet of Telangana Saayudha Porata Yodhudu and the Telangana Rebellion. Ashok Teja has three siblings, Suddala Prabhakar Teja, Suddala Sudhakar Teja and Racha Bharathi. Young Ashok had a knack of composing lyrics since his childhood. At the beginning of his career, he was a Teacher in Bandalingapoor in the Karimnagar district. But he was positively able to improve his talent and pursue it with some help.
His n...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
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20. Ashwin Chitale
Ashwin Chitale is an Indian actor who predominantly worked in the Marathi and Hindi films. He is also known as Master Ashwin Chitale. He was born in 1996, in Pune, Maharashtra in India. He has portrayed different characters in Marathi and Bollywood films. He has done some short films.He grabbed National award in best child actor category for his role in Shwaas(2004) a Marathi language film. Ashwin began his careeras a child artist in the year 2004 through the critically acclaimed Marathi language film Shwaas.
At the age of eight, Ashwin captured the attention of film critics for his film Shwaas. In this movie, he portrayed a character of a child diagnosed ...
21. Aarif Sheikh
Film editors are an essential part of the filmmaking process, but they're often overlooked since they work behind the scenes. Editing is one of the other things that we understand from the cinema. Editor Aarif Sheikh is a national award-winning editor associated with movies like ‘Drishyam’, ‘Noor’, ‘Baadshaho’. ‘D-Day’, ‘Haider’, ‘Phanthom’ etc.
When we talk about cinema, what comes in our mind is acting, cinematography, BG score, music etc. but nobody knows what work has been done in post-production stages. Aarif Sheikh has directed and was an editor for a 2009 Bollywood film ‘Let's Dance’ that stars Gayatri Patel, Ajay Chaudhary and Aqui...
22. Rajiv Mehrotra
Rajiv Mehrotra is an Indian writer, documentary filmmaker, and television producer-director. He is best known as the acclaimed host of the talk show "In Conversation", that was aired on Doordarshan News Channel on Saturdays at 9:30 pm. He has directed over 650 documentary films and has won over 170 international and 40 national awards for them. A student of The Dalai Lama, he likes to call himself "a most unworthy chela" of his.
Apart from The Dalai Lama, Rajiv Mehrotra was also the student of eminent gurus including Swami Ranganathananda, and yoga icon B.K.S. Iyengar.
Rajiv Mehrotra was born on 4th March 1953 in Kolkata. He did most of his early schooling from La Martiniere Calcutta....
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
23. Nedumudi Venu
Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is commonly known as Kesavan Venu Gopal. His parents are PK Kesavan Nair and Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi Alappuzha in Kerala. He had four siblings, all brothers. His father was a schoolmaster. Nedumudi completed his primary education at NSS Higher Secondary School and St Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam. During school days, he was interested in music and arts.
He graduated from Sanatana Dharma College in Alappuzha. After graduation, he started his career as a journalist and also worked as a teacher in a tutorial institute. While staying in Trivandrum, he became friends with Padmarajan, Bharath Gopi, Aravindan whic...
Date of Death:
11-10-2021
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
11-10-2021
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
24. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi
Chandra Prakash Dwivedi is an Indian film script writer and director with films like “Pinjar”, “ Zed Plus” and “ Mohalla Assi” to his credit. In spite of venturing both into cinema and television, he is best known for directing the famous TV serial “ Chanakya” which was an epic success. Dwivedi also essayed the title role of Chanakya, one of the most influential political diplomat and strategist ever known. In 2009, Dwivedi was honored with the Cultural Catalyst Award by the South Asian Cinema Foundation “in recognition of his commitment to exploring India’s ancient culture and history in television and cinema”. Dwivedi started his career as a ...
Gender:
Male
25. Kalidas Jayaram
Kalidas Jayaram was born on December 16th, 1993. He was born in Kerala, India. Kalidas began his acting career when he was just seven years old, and he took a break from the acting since 2003 till 2014 to focus on his studies. Kalidas is the son of the eminent Malayalam film actor Jayaram and an equally popular Parvathy.
He has a sister-Malavika Jayaram, and he resides with his family. Before he even began to act, He had lent his voice to a movie named ‘Friends’ in1999. He received his bachelor’s degree from Loyola college-A prominent educational institution in Chennai. He graduated in Visual Communication. He debuted his f...
Age:
30
Gender:
Male
Age:
30
Gender:
Male
26. Gangaraju Gunnam
Gangaraju Gunnam is a producer, director and writer in Telugu industry (Tollywood). He was born and brought up in Kakinada, which is a city located in Andhra Pradesh. He is wedded to Urmila and is blessed with two children Sandeep and Vihang. He encountered a lot of difficulties to get where he is right now.
He started his education at a convent school in which he studied until the end of the 6th grade. Then he further continued his studies at Hyderabad Public School on a scholarship. He was an excellent learner and was good at academics too. He was very passionate about medicine. After his school life, he wanted to pursue medicine as he always aspired to ...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
27. Sandeep Sawant
Sandeep Sawant is an Indian writer, director and producer; he mainly works in the Marathi Film Industry. He lives in Vile Parle, Mumbai. He has taken graduation in psychology. His wife is Neeraja Patwardhan. He has done the work in theatre, films and television too.
In 2003, he produced his first film ‘Shwaas’; he also wrote and directed the film. The film starred Arun Nalawade and Ashwin Chitale. Sandeep’s wife designed the costumes for this film. ‘Shwaas’ also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film along with National Award for Best Child Artist, which was won by Ashwin Chitale.
28. Rakesh Roshan
Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath is the original name of Rakesh Roshan. Born on September 6, 1949, he tried his luck in production, direction and acting. The 70s to 90s were heydays in his career.
Rakesh is reputed for directing flicks starting with K. He launched his son Hrithik Roshan with the 2000 flick Kaho Na Pyar Hai which was the blockbuster of the year. A promising star was born in Indian cinema that year. His commendable works are Khoon Bhari Maang, Khudgarz, Karan Arjun, Kishen Kanheiya, Kaho Na Pyar Hai, Koi Mil Gaya, Krrish, etc. Kaho Na Pyar Hai and Koi Mil Gaya fetched him Filmfare Awards for Best Director. Kaho Na Pyar Hai is recorded in Limca Book of Record for fetching the most number of...
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
29. Goutam Ghose
Gautam Ghose is a special man. He has won numerous awards, and his work has been appreciated across cultures and boundaries. He is the most celebrated Bengali Film Director. He is known for his films, and has won numerous National and International Awards for his performance. To say the least, he has won 16 National Awards and many Filmfare Awards. He remains the single Indian to have won the prestigious "Vittorio Di Sica” Award, in Italy.
Goutam Ghose, born on 24 July 1950 belongs to Calcutta, India. His mother Santana and father Prof. Himangshu Kumar Ghose has played a huge role in making him the man he is today. His early schooling days were at St John’...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
30. H G Dattatreya
The two times national award winning actor for supporting roles Dattanna alias HG Dattatreya was working in Air Force, but was interested in acting. He is one of the actors, who are highly qualified and also held a position as a principal in the management academy of HAL. Acting was his passion and so, he continued to do films regardless of awards. Although awards are definitely an encouragement for the actor, but to continue his journey in over 90 films that spanned over 26 years is indeed a remarkable feat. Although he chose to take up supporting actor role or even in character roles, he is known for his versatile performances in Kannada film industry.
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
31. 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.
He had captured a...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
32. T V Chandran
T. V. Chandran is a Malayalam film director whose films belonged to art-house audiences in the large Indian cities or even to film buffs on the international circuit. Most of his films in which he had acted had only achieved fair amount of success at the box-office. Sometimes he appeared in other regional cinemas too which balanced elements of art and popular cinema together. It is for his love for art cinema in Malayalam film industry that helped the art cinema grow further.
In the year 1989, he directed a film &...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
33. Prakash Jha
Prakash Jha, a director, film producer and screenwriter, was born on 27th of February 1952. ‘Prakash Jha Productions’ is his production venture.
Hailing from Bihar, Prakash Jha went on to study B.Sc Honors in Ramjas College. Eventually he stopped studies and came to Mumbai, wanting to be a painter. As he was preparing for entrance exam for a course in painting, Prakash Jha watched the movie Dharma, and thus developed a passion for film making. The year 1973 saw him joining the Film And Television Institute of India, Pune, in order to study editing. But unfortunately the studio was shut down and thus Prakash returned to Mumbai and earned his living.
Initially Prakash Jh...
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
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34. Chiyaan Vikram
Vikram is from the Tamil family. His father is Christian and his mother is Hindu who lives in madras, Tamil Nadu. He was born on 17th April 1966. His father also ran from his home in the hope of becoming an actor but he does not get succeed so he trained his son and make him learn classically and cinema dance form so that he could become a good actor. He is known for doing acting in the Tamil movies. He has done plenty of the Tamil movies and he also got the award for many of them. He has got many awards like ‘national film award', ‘honorary award’ and he also got the award from the people’s university of Milan. His first film in which he has done the acting was “kadhai kanma...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
35. Manoj Bajpayee
Born on 23 April 1969, Manoj Bajpai is first a Bollywood actor, though he has acted in a couple of southern films. He has been appreciated by several critics for his good performances. His noteworthy performances were in the films Bandit Queen, Pinjar, Aks, Satya and Gangs of Wasseypur. He has got various Filmfare awards and also many National awards.
Manoj Bajpai is a graduate in history. Before entering into acting Manoj was a teacher. He tried his luck in theater, but was rejected four times. Later, he worked in a theater Barry’s Drama School. His acting career st...
Age:
54
Gender:
Male
36. Jahnu Barua
Jahnu Barua, an Assamese Filmmaker, born on 17 October in Guwahati, Assam. He is known as the pioneer of Assamese Artistic Cinema. He pursued Bachelor in Science from B. Barooah College of Guwahati and took Diploma in Film Direction from FTII (Film & TV Institute of India) in Pune. He got married to Gayatri, (a filmmaker) who inspired him to become a filmmaker too. Oyu barua is the name of their son. We can say that he is an all-rounder because he is a Director, Producer, Writer & Editor. He directed, produced and edited many films like ‘Aparoopa (1982), Firingoti (1992), 'Tora' (2005), etc. As a Writer, he worked in films such as The F Cycle (1974), Ek Kahaani (1986), Maine Ga...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
37. Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Musta...
Age:
50
Gender:
Male
38. 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.
His early years were quite tough as he was not getting any major breakthroughs in the Bollywood which made him switch to the ad fil...
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
39. Basu Chatterjee
Basu Chatterjee is an Indian screenplay writer and director. He was born on 10th January 1930 in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Chatterjee kicked-off his career in Mumbai, then Bombay, by joining the weekly magazine, Blitz. He worked there for 18 years as a cartoonist and an analyst. He changed his career preferences when he joined Basu Bhattacharya as an assistant director for the Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman as lead cast 'Teesri Kasam', the film won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film. He directed his first movie in the year 1969; it was named 'Sara Akash'; the movie won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay.
The movie is based on the novel of the same...
Date of Death:
04-06-2020
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
04-06-2020
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
40. Pankaj Kapur
Pankaj Kapur is a prominent Indian actor and director who has shown his talent through various mediums such as theatre, television and film actor from Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is a screenwriter, director as well as an actor, a multi-talented personality. Pankaj has appeared in several acclaimed television serials and films. Some of his film roles that are remembered till date include characters of Inspector P.K. in Raakh, Dr. Dipankar Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut as well as Abba ji, (based on Shakespeare's King Duncan) in Vishal Bhardwaj's reworked copy of Macbeth; Maqbool .All of these three critically acclaimed roles received appreciation, and the actor got National Film Awards for the same. Pankaj along with his colleagues Om P...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
41. Arun Nalawade
Arun Nalawade is an Indian Marathi film and theatre actor, producer and director, who earned fame and success after he acted and co-produced the Marathi film, Shwaas which was released in year 2004. The film is the official entry of India to the Oscar Awards 2004 and it received the 6th place position in the 77th Academy Award for being the Best Foreign Language Film at that time. The film also received the National Award for Best Film in year 2004. Prior to this, Shwaas have faced financial issues in showcasing and promoting the film at the Oscars. Luckily, many people contribute to make it to the Oscars including the legendary, Amitabh Bachchan and Marathi cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar. Students from the Jogeshwari create lamps and sel...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
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