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. 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
3. Padmini
Padmini alias Dharmavaram Padmini is born and brought up in Hyderabad. She has pursued her education of B.Com in Hyderabad. She is famous TV anchor in Telugu channels like Maa TV, Zee Telugu, Mahaa News, Sitara TV, etc. She has taken part in many Dance reality competitions and been well popular in TV industry as well as audience. She is hyper active person with talkative habit. She has been acting in short films. One of her films is “Gundu the Bullet” comedy short film directed by Putta Sreedhar. She has spread her calibre from small screen to silver screen with her debut film “Vichakshana”. In this movie she is playing the role of female protagonist as “Srujana”. This film is propagated as messag...
4. Ravi (Music Director)
Ravi Shankar Sharma was an Indian music director whose contribution to the Malayalam and Hindi films can’t be spoken of or just typed. Ravi was born in Delhi to a poor family. He had to work as an electrician, to manage the daily expenses of the family. He grew up with a passion towards music, listening to his father’s bhajans. He did not attend any music classes. He also taught him selves to play the instruments. He decided to go Bombay to become a professional singer in 1950. He worked very hard in Bombay, both in learning, getting an opportunity in the industry, as well as to manage the daily expenses. He got his breakthrough from Vande Mataram song. He was called to sing it for the film. ...
Date of Death:
07-03-2012
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
07-03-2012
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
5. 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
6. Mukesh Chand Mathur
Mukesh Chand Mathur (Mukesh) was a popular playback singer in Hindi cinema. He made a place for himself in his era along with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey. He is also regarded as the ghost voice for Raj Kapoor. Being born on July 22, 1923, in Delhi, Mukesh is the son of Zorawar Chand Mathur and Chand Rani. The singer had no formal training in singing but was born with the ability to sing a song. The singer was noticed by his distant relative, Motilal (a legendary actor), while Mukesh was performing in a wedding ceremony. Motilal took Mukesh to Mumbai and offered him a role of actor-cum-singer in the film, ‘Nirdosh’ (1941). Later, Mukesh got a chance to sing for ...
Date of Death:
27-08-1976
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
27-08-1976
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
7. Shankar Jaikishan
Shankar Jaikishan is a duo musical composer in Bollywood who dominated the film industry for three decades. It is an unusual story of two classical musical composers who got united together as they had a personal liking for each other. Although Shankar Singh was born in Telangana and Jaikishan in Gujarat, they met each other in Mumbai in Prithvi Theaters ( then run by Prithviraj Kapoor). Both were working as music composer for the plays that were staged in the drama company Prithvi Theaters. While Shankar learnt to play Tabla, Jaikishan was expert in Harmonium,
Before joining Prithvi Theaters Shankar learnt Tabla from the nuances of Baba Nasir Khansahib and Jai...
Gender:
Male
8. 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
9. 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
10. Yash Chopra
Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king of romance’ in Indian cinema for directing films like kabhie Kabhie. Daag, Noorie, Silsila, Darr, Chandni, Lamhe, Dil To Pagal Hai, etc. Earlier, he made some serious and social films like Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dharmputra, and Ittefaq, etc. He was a trendsetter as a filmmaker. Yash Chopra gave Bollywood the angry young man Amitabh Bachchan and even crafted career of another superstar Shahrukh Khan.
During the early times of his career, Yash Chopra worked as an assistant to the director I.S. Johar and his sibling B.R. Chopra. He got his first break as a director in B.R. Chopra’s film Dhool Ka Phool. It was ...
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
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