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1. Frank Fernand


10-02-2022/frank-fernand.jpg Frank Fernand, also known as Franklin Fernandes, was a Konkani Filmmaker and Musician from Curchorem, Goa. He was born Franklin Fernandes on May 3rd, 1919. He is one of the pioneers of Konkani Cinema. Amchem Noxib and Nirmon are notable films by Frank Fernand. He mastered violin and trumpet under Diego Rodrigues. After this, he moved to Bombay in 1936,...
Date of Birth: 03-05-1919
Date of Death: 01-04-2007
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Konkani
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-05-1919
Date of Death: 01-04-2007
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Konkani
Skills: Filmmaker, Musician

2. Kantilal Rathod


15-11-2021/kantilal-rathod.jpg Kantilal Rathod was a Gujarati Indian filmmaker, animator, and director who had worked in the Gujarati and Hindi film industry. He was also a well-known painter. He was born on December 12, 1924. Kantilal Rathod’s place of birth is Raipur, India. But, he raised up in the Bengali atmosphere. He completed his studies at Shantiniketan in Arts. After that, he...
Date of Birth: 12-12-1924
Date of Death: 28-09-1988
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Gujarati
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-12-1924
Date of Death: 28-09-1988
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Gujarati
Skills: Director

3. Tapan Sinha


15-10-2020/tapan-sinha.jpg   Tapan Sinha, one of the foremost Indian directors of his time was born on 2nd October 1924 and died on 15th January. 2009.He formed the legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen. Being primarily a Bengali filmmaker, he worked in both Hindi Cinema and Bengali Cinema, making films including Kabuli Wala, Louha Kapat, Sagina Mahato, Apanjan,Kshudhita Pashan,...
Date of Birth: 02-10-1924
Date of Death: 15-01-2009
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-10-1924
Date of Death: 15-01-2009
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

4. Mrinal Sen


15-10-2020/mrinal-sen.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 14-05-1923
Date of Death: 30-12-2018
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-05-1923
Date of Death: 30-12-2018
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

5. Bhalji Pendharkar


13-10-2020/bhalji-pendharkar.jpg Bhalji Pendharkar was an Indian film director who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the industry's highest honor. He was born on May 3, 1897. Vande Mataram Ashram (1927), Netaji Palkar (1939), and Shyam Sundar were his films as a director and writer. He died on November 28, 1994. His parents are Radhabai and Dr. Gopal Pendharkar. Several of his close relatives rose...
Date of Birth: 03-05-1897
Date of Death: 28-11-1994
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-05-1897
Date of Death: 28-11-1994
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

6. Keval P. Kashyap


08-08-2020/keval-p.-kashyap.jpg Kewal P Kashyap is a veteran producer, director and publicist, who used to work in the Bollywood film industry in the golden era of Indian cinema. Kewal finished his graduation, where he pursued journalism and began his work in Bollywood as a publicist. His first job as a publicist was for the movie Pyaar Ka Saagar. He went on to work...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

7. M Krishnan Nair


08-08-2019/m-krishnan-nair.jpg M. Krishnan Nair was an Indian film director, who primarily worked in the Malayalam industry. He was born on 2nd December 1926 and passed away on 10th May 2001 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He was one of the few people whose experience and work speak for themselves. With directing over a hundred Malayam Movies, he did not refrain from working in...
Date of Birth: 02-11-1917
Date of Death: 10-05-2001
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-11-1917
Date of Death: 10-05-2001
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

8. Phani Majumdar


10-12-2016/phani-majumdar.png Phani Majumdar was a legendary Indian film director. He worked in the Hindi film industry. He was one of his time directors to work abroad. He worked in the country of Singapore for a while. He was born on 28th of December in the year 1911 and died at the age of 82 on 16th of May in the year...
Date of Birth: 28-12-1911
Date of Death: 16-05-1994
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-12-1911
Date of Death: 16-05-1994
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

9. Ramu Kariat


29-11-2016/ramu-kariatf.png Ramu Kariat is an Indian Film Director. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Ramu was born on the 1st of February in the year 1927. He was born in Engandiyur, Kerala, in India. He has a daughter whose name is Suma Devan. Ramu started his career in the Film Industry with the Malayalam Film Neelakkuyil (1954)....
Date of Birth: 01-02-1927
Date of Death: 10-02-1979
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-02-1927
Date of Death: 10-02-1979
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

10. T. E. Vasudevan


t/0/0/e/0/0/t.-e.-vasudevan.png T E Vasudevan is one of the most revered personalities in south India. It is considered that he is a man with zero enemies and zero haters. He is a film producer and distributor by profession and has also served as the chairman of the south Indian film industry chamber of commerce. He has also been awarded many lifetime achievement awards for...
Date of Birth: 16-07-1917
Date of Death: 30-12-2014
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 16-07-1917
Date of Death: 30-12-2014
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

11. Adurthi Subba Rao


a/d/u/r/t/h/adurthi-subba-rao.png Telugu film industry has tasted the direction of very few classics. Movies made by Adruthi Subba Rao are one of the finest pieces that Tollywood could ever watch. Born on 16th December 1912 in Rajahmundry, India he grew up in pure Telugu family background. Adruthi Subba Rao is not merely a cine director but he is a multi-talented human and...
Date of Birth: 16-12-1912
Date of Death: 01-10-1975
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 16-12-1912
Date of Death: 01-10-1975
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

12. Kotayya Pratyagatma


k/o/t/a/y/y/kotayya-pratyagatma.png 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...
Date of Birth: 31-10-1925
Date of Death: 08-06-2001
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 31-10-1925
Date of Death: 08-06-2001
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Writer, Director

13. A. Vincent


a/0/0/v/i/n/a.-vincent.png Aloysius Vincent was born on 14th June 1928 in Calicut and he died on 25th February, 2015 in Tamil Nadu. He was a very popular Film Director and Cinematographer. He has two sons named Ajayan Vincent and Jayanan Vincent and two daughters named Snehalatha Marie and Sumithra Marie. He is the Director of about 30 films in the Malayalam language....
Date of Birth: 14-06-1928
Date of Death: 25-02-2015
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-06-1928
Date of Death: 25-02-2015
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

14. Ritwik Ghatak


r/i/t/w/i/k/ritwik-ghatak.jpg Ritwik Ghatak was born in Dhakka, East Bengal now Bangladesh on 4th November 1925. His father Suresh Ghatak was a poet, play-writer and District Magistrate while his mother Indubala Devi was a house-wife. Ritwik and his twin sister Prateeti were the youngest in the family. His family moved twice to different places before settling in Kolkata for good to get...
Date of Birth: 04-11-1925
Date of Death: 06-02-1976
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-11-1925
Date of Death: 06-02-1976
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

15. A P Nagarajan


a/p/0/n/a/g/ap-nagarajan.png Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan born on 24 February 1928 as Kuppuswamy. His father Paramasiva Gounder named him after the Lord of anger. A sign of misfortune, his parents died in the early childhood stages. Nagarajan's grandmother Manicka Ammal, guardian of the child Kuppu sent him to a drama company after knowing his interest in the field of Filmography. Around the time,...
Date of Birth: 24-02-1928
Date of Death: 05-04-1977
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-02-1928
Date of Death: 05-04-1977
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

16. V. Madhusudhan Rao


v/0/0/m/a/d/v.-madhusudhan-rao.jpg Veeramachineni Madhusudhan Rao was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for his great work in Telugu cinema. The story of his movies was loved by the audience just like the music of his movies. Veeramachineni Madhusudhan Rao was born in Peyyeru, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh on 14 June 1923. He began as an assistant director to...
Date of Birth: 14-06-1923
Date of Death: 11-01-2012
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-06-1923
Date of Death: 11-01-2012
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

17. K S Sethumadhavan


k-s-sethumadhavan.png 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...
Date of Birth: 1931
Date of Death: 24-12-2021
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1931
Date of Death: 24-12-2021
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

18. V. B. Rajendra Prasad


v.-b.-rajendra-prasad.jpg The director and producer, V.B. Rajendra Prasad was born on 4th November 1932 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh. Being from a small town, he never thought he would one day become this famous. He always wanted to become an actor since he was a child and destiny took him to the same field but gave a different role. He then became a...
Date of Birth: 04-11-1932
Date of Death: 12-01-2015
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-11-1932
Date of Death: 12-01-2015
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Producer

19. Vijay Anand


27-03-2017/vijay-anand.jpg Vijay Anand also known as ‘Goldie‘ is an Indian filmmaker, producer, director, screenwriter and an actor who made some classic films to date. He is related to actor Dev Anand and directed many in-house films of ‘Navketan Films’ (owned by actor Dev Anand). He was born on 22 January 1934 in Punjab. As an actor, he acted opposite Jaya Bhaduri...
Date of Birth: 22-01-1934
Date of Death: 23-02-2004
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 22-01-1934
Date of Death: 23-02-2004
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

20. Motilal


motilal.png Motilal was India’s first natural actor. The actor was born in Shimla on December 4, 1910. He is still remembered for portraying the role of ‘Chunni Babu’ in Bimal Roy’s Devdas, which he acted with Dilip Kumar. Since then he has been described as one of the best actors of all times in Indian cinema. Few actors followed his footsteps...
Date of Birth: 04-12-1910
Date of Death: 17-06-1965
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-12-1910
Date of Death: 17-06-1965
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

21. Gopal Datt


06-12-2019/gopal-datt.jpg Gopal Datt is an Indian actor; he works in Hindi Film and Television Industry. Gopal made his debut in the films by the film ‘Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai’, released in the year 2001; he played the character Hrithik....
Date of Birth: 19-02-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-02-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

22. Hunsur Krishnamurthy


hunsur-krishnamurthy.jpg Hunsur Krishnamurthy is a multi-faceted film personality. He is a director, playwright, actor, producer, lyricist and screenwriter in Kannada cinema. In his initial stages of his career, Krishnamurthy got himself associated with acclaimed theater personalities. Gubbi Veeranna, B R Panthulu and Mohammed Peer were some of the notable personalities with whom Krishnamurthy worked. His forte is mythological flicks and some such...
Date of Birth: 09-02-1914
Date of Death: 13-02-1989
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-02-1914
Date of Death: 13-02-1989
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

23. S Shankar


S-Shankar.jpg S Shankar is one among the populous directors who direct high budgeted movies in India. S Shankar started his career as an assistant director to S.A. Chandrasekaran, father of actor Vijay. After working as assistant director in few films, he made his directorial debut in Gentleman with Action King Arjun and Madhubala. It was a blockbuster hit, even Shankar would...
Date of Birth: 17-08-1963
Age: 61
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-08-1963
Age: 61
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director

24. Isa Ismail Sait


26-02-2022/isa-ismail-sait.jpg Bio coming soon......
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Producer