1. Parbati Ghose
Parbati Ghose was also known as Chapala Nayak and Chandana. She was an Indian actress, film producer, and film director. Also, she was the first female filmmaker to belong the state of Odisha. She was born on March 28, 1933. Parbati Ghose’s place of birth is Manasinghpatana in Cuttack district, Odisha, British India. She completed her early education at Sanat Nalini Girls High School, where she vigorously took part in various cultural and social activities. Also, she took formal lessons in Odissi dance under many gurus. She trained under great exponents like Kelucharan Mohapatra, Suresh Routray, and Dayal Sharma. She belonged to a middle-class family and was rich in education and culture. She is a quick learner and avid reader and ...
Date of Death:
11-02-2018
Age:
91
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
11-02-2018
Age:
91
Gender:
Female
2. Ezra Mir
Ezra Mir was born on October 26, 1903, in Calcutta, West Bengal. His career began as a stage actor before moving to New York in 1924, where he started working as an actor and later became an editor. It was during his stay in New York he made his first short film called The Symbolesque in 1929. After he moved back to India, he turned to directing films based on the genre of Hindi Theatre. In 1931, Mir directed his first full-length film, Noorjehan, for the Imperial Film Company, followed by several other films like Zarina (1932). Alongside, he produced many films for Madan Theatre Studios. One of them went on to become his most well-known work, called Rickshawala. In 1939, Mir proceeded to set up his studio, E...
Date of Death:
07-03-1993
Age:
120
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
07-03-1993
Age:
120
Gender:
Male
3. Mahesh Kaul
Mahesh Kaul was an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter, born on April 10, 1911, in Jodhpur State, British India. He graduated from Moni College in Nagpur. He predominantly worked in the Bollywood industry and was well-known in Indian cinema. Initially, he started his career in the film industry as a lyricist and dialogue writer in Hindi films. Mahesh debuted as a Bollywood actor in Naya Sansaar in 1941, which starred renowned actors Ashok Kumar and Renuka Devi in the lead. Mahesh had previously worked as a bank branch manager and was a journalist by trade. He made a significant impression by playing a dialogue-role writer in another bilingual film, Mahatma Vidur, within the same career period. Debaki Bose directed the bilingual cine...
Date of Death:
02-06-1972
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
02-06-1972
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
4. Raja Thakur
Raja Thakur is an Indian director who worked for the Marathi film industry. He was born on 26th November 1923 in Phonda, Maharashtra. Raja is famous for his work in the movie Me Tulas Tujhya Angani, Rangalya Ratree Ashya, Ektee, Mumbaicha Jaawai, Gharkul, and Jawai Vikat Ghene Aahe for which he won several awards. Raja started his career as an assistant to Raja Paranjape and Master Vinayak and directed various films in the 1960s. He produced the film under the banner Nav Chitra.
Some of his popular filmography work includes Bolavita Dhani in 1953, Me Tulas Tujhya Angani in 1955, Rangalya Ratree Ashya in 1962, Sant Gora Kumbhar in 1967, Birbal My Brother in 1972, Jawai Vikat Ghene Aahe in 1973, and many others. He made a hat-trick...
Date of Death:
28-07-1975
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
28-07-1975
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
5. S Sukhdev
S Sukhdev is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of documentary movies. He was born in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, on 1 st October 1933. Sukhdev has a daughter named Shabnam Sukhdev and granddaughter Ishaa Chopra. In 1955, Sukhdev started his career as an assistant cameraman for Paul Zil in India. His education did not get fully accomplished however, Sukhdev’s talent paved his way ahead. After excelling as a cameraman, Sukhdev started making short films on routine. Amongst his films, the most-loved ones are And Miles To Go…., India 67, and Nine Months To Freedom: The Story of Bangladesh. And Miles To Go is based on police repression, riches, and poverty which won an award in 1965 at International Film Festival. Sukhdev had used...
Date of Death:
01-03-1979
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-03-1979
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
6. M.S. Mani
M.S.Mani, a renowned editor and film director of the Indian cinema, mainly ‘Malayalam’ movies, was born in the year 1926 in the month of November in the town of ‘Poojapura’, which is a place in ‘Thiruvananthapuram’. His parents are ‘Balambal’, and ‘Mrithyunjaya Ayyar’. He was married to ‘Seethamani’ and they had been blessed with a son, ‘Karthi’k. He started off his editing career with ‘Aashadeepam’, a 1953 ‘Malayalam’ movie. ‘G.R.Rao’ was the director and ‘TE Vasudevan’ had produced it. Stars like ‘Gemini Ganesan’, ‘Sathyan’, ‘Padmi...
Date of Death:
2008
Gender:
Male
Skills:
7. P. Pullaiah
P. Pullaiah was born on May 2, 1911, at Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is a famous producer as well as director of the Telugu cinema industry. He started his career in 1935 as a director of the movie Harish Chandra. In 1959, he worked for the famous Telugu movie named Jayabheri, featured by Anjali Devi and Akkineni Nageswara Rao in the lead role.
The production is done by V. Shantaram which is posted in Hindi as well as Marathi namely Matwala Siya Ram Joshi and Lokshahir Ram Joshi respectively. The composer of the movie is Nageswara Rao, and the movie includes both Carnatic as well as the folklore songs. In 1937, he worked on the movie Sarangadhara as a director. Sarangadhara is an epic story of Raja Narendra. It is in the po...
Date of Death:
1985
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
1985
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
8. Kotayya Pratyagatma
Born on October 31, 1925, in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, Kotayya Pratyagatma was an Indian film writer, executive, and maker known for his works in Bollywood and Telugu silver screen. He was wedded to Satyavati and had three children. One of his kids is K. Vasu, who is a director. Kotayya has a daughter name TejoLatha in Bangalore and a child in the US, Kalidas. His little girl Tejolatha's is named after him and occupied the proceeding with the legacy.
He worked briefly as a journalist and then turned to a movie career. He worked at Prajashakti magazine as a reporter and also as a Jwala, magazine editor. In 1961, he entered the film industry with his movie Bharya Bhartal...
Date of Death:
08-06-2001
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
08-06-2001
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
9. S Panju
S Panju is the popular film director and he is always referred with his partner “R Krishnan” as Krishnan – Panju. Panju was born on 24th January 1915 in Umayalpuram in Kumbakonam. His birth name was Panchapakesan. Born in a Brahmin community, Panju was against the communal indifference and denied wearing the holy rope, worn by the Brahmins. Krishnan and Panju jointly directed more than fifty films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi.
Before they started working together, Panju worked as an assistant to “Ellis R. Dungan” and PK Raja Sandow. Besides working as an assistant, Panju had worked as an editor for a few films. He was credited as Panjabi while working as the editor . In 1942, Panju and Krishna...
Date of Death:
06-04-1984
Age:
109
Gender:
Male
10. 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
11. Abrar Alvi
Abrar Alvi was born on 1st July, 1927. He was a distinguished and reputed Indian director, actor, and writer. He selflessly devoted more than 50 years to Indian cinema. In the 1950's and 60's, he executed projects with Guru Dutt that ignited a fire in the film industry.
It was an accident of fate that he met Guru Dutt on the shooting sets of ‘Baz’, in 1953, when Dutt was facing certain problems with the dialogues, and in turn was assisted and helped by him. Dutt was so impressed by his talent that he extended him the offer for writing ‘Aar-Par’, from where he embarked on a new journey with the actor, and essentially became the most integral part of his team. His classical writings ...
Date of Death:
18-11-2009
Age:
96
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
18-11-2009
Age:
96
Gender:
Male
12. K S Gopalakrishnan
K S Gopalakrishnan is an Indian director, screenwriter, lyricist and producer. He is done his contribution in Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil industry. He has been in the industry since the 1960s and has worked in more than 70 movies. Along his whole career, he was known for his direction and contribution in the movie which had a devotional or social theme in it. He was born in Tamil Nadu. His father was Shri K. Srinivasan Naidu, and he was their eighth son. When he was five years old, a deadly disease grew in the state leaving him his sister and brother alone. He lost bis parents in the disaster. He and his brother K.S. Sabarinathan then took shelter in Shri Nawab Rajamanickam Pillai. They were running a drama c...
Gender:
Male
13. 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 of the honorary doctorate by Oxford University ( after actor Chaplin). The government of India has awarded him ‘Padma Bhushan(1965) and Dadasaheb Phalke Award(1985) and the highest civilian honour’Bharat Ratna’(1992) too. In 1992, he was even posthumously awarded the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Ach...
Date of Death:
23-04-1992
Age:
103
Gender:
Male
14. Guru Dutt
Born on 9th July 1925, Guru Dutt was an Indian actor, producer and director. His original name is Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone. Pyaasa, Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam, Kaagaz ke Phool and Chaudvin Ka Chand were some of his memorable films. In fact, Kaagaz ke Phool and Pyaasa are considered as best films of all time by a leading magazine (Kaagaz Ke Phool was a flop and Guru Dutt who worked very hard for it gave up direction ever since). Guru Dutt is included in the list of all-time best film directors. Also, CNN credited him as one of the top 25 Asian actors during the year 2010. ...
Date of Death:
10-10-1964
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-10-1964
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
15. PRS Pillai
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