Frank Fernand
Kantilal Rathod
Tapan Sinha
Mrinal Sen
Bhalji Pendharkar
Keval P. Kashyap
M Krishnan Nair
Phani Majumdar
Ramu Kariat
T. E. Vasudevan
Adurthi Subba Rao
Kotayya Pratyagatma
A. Vincent
Ritwik Ghatak
A P Nagarajan
V. Madhusudhan Rao
K S Sethumadhavan
V. B. Rajendra Prasad
Vijay Anand
Motilal
Gopal Datt
Hunsur Krishnamurthy
S Shankar
Isa Ismail Sait
1. Frank Fernand
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, playing music alongside George Theodore at the Green’s Hotel and Taj Mahal Hotel. He decided to move to Mussoorie in 1942, where he started playing music with Rudy Cotton in Mussoorie and became an excellent jazz musician. He began finding ways to merge jazz with Indian music after hearing Mahatma Gandhi’s Lecture. Later he returned to Mumbai in 1946 and began performing with M...
Date of Death:
01-04-2007
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-04-2007
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
2. Kantilal Rathod
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 went to America to pursue his studies in Animation and Cartoon film at the Art Institute of Chicago. He received exposure to the films of Norman MacLaren, whose work immensely influenced him. He dedicated himself to making experimental films like animation and documentaries after returning to India. He belonged to the Indian nationality. Kantilal Rathod also took training in film ...
Date of Death:
28-09-1988
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
28-09-1988
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
3. Tapan Sinha
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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, and children's films Safed Haathi and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Tapan Sinha began his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with the film production company New Theatres in Kolkata, then in 1950 he shifted to England, where he worked at Pinewood Studios for two years.
Before returning home to start his six-decade career...
Date of Death:
15-01-2009
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
15-01-2009
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
4. 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
5. Bhalji Pendharkar
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 to prominence in the Indian film business. In the 1930s, he married Leela Chandragiri, who appeared and sang in Hindi and Marathi films as Miss Leela. When Leelai first met Bhalji, she already had two children. Bhalji adopted both of them, a boy (Jayasingh) and a girl. Madhavi Desai (died in 2013) was the girl's name who later married novelist R...
Date of Death:
28-11-1994
Age:
126
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
28-11-1994
Age:
126
Gender:
Male
6. Keval P. Kashyap
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 as a publicist on films like Professor, Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke, Mujhe Jeene Do, Mere Mehboob, Wo Kaun Hai and Ghazal.
He later started working as publicity in charge, which was almost a similar job to a publicist. He worked on movies like Khanadan and Abdullah. As a producer, some of the films under him were Shaheed, Parivar, Chori Chori and Upanishad Ganga, a TV serial released in 2012. As a ...
7. M Krishnan Nair
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 the Tamil industry. M. Krishnan Nair directed about 18 Tamil movies.
In 1955, he debuted with the Malayam movie, CID, and he didn’t stop after that. Khadeeja (1967), Yamini (1973), Tara(1970), Amma (1976), Paalam (1983) are some of the movies directed by him. The last movie directed by him was Kalam Mari, Katha Mari, in the year 1987. M. Krishnan Nair got married to K. Sulochana De...
Date of Death:
10-05-2001
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-05-2001
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
8. Phani Majumdar
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 1984. He belonged to a small town called Faridpur in East Bengal. He started his career in the year 1938 and successfully worked until the year 1986. He was married to Monica Desai, actress Leela Desai’s sister. He is known as one of the pioneering directors of Indian Cinema. He is prominent for his work on the film ‘Street Singer’ which was released in the year 1938. It casted K. L. Saigal in the lead role and was known for its hit...
9. Ramu Kariat
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).
He then worked for more films like Mudiyanga Puthran (1961), Chemmeen (1965), Ezhu Rathrikal (1968), Maaya (1972), and many more. He got the All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film in 1954. He won the President’s Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Malayalam twice in 1954 and 1961. He won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1965. Ramu died on the 10th of February in the year 1979 in Triva...
Date of Death:
10-02-1979
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-02-1979
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
10. T. E. Vasudevan
TÂ EÂ 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 his incredible contribution to the film world. He has produced more than 20 Malayalam films and I also considered as the uncrowned king of south Indian film producers. He is an era himself and his legacy is quite difficult to maintain....
Date of Death:
30-12-2014
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
30-12-2014
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
11. Adurthi Subba Rao
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 has worked as a scriptwriter, cinematographer, producer and editor. During his mid 20’s he decided to be a cinematographer and against his parents will he attended St. Xavier’s college to pursue cinematography course.
After his studies, Adruthi Subba Rao didn’t succeed immediately but had to work in different branches o...
Date of Death:
01-10-1975
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-10-1975
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
12. 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
13. A. Vincent
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.
He won the Best Cinematographer award for the film Prem Nagar in the year 1974. He is the Director of the films like Varum, Iru Veedugal, Engalkku, Thulanharam and much more. He got an Honorary Membership from the Indian Society Of Cinematographers in the year 2003. In the year 1996, he won the J.C. Daniel Award. He worked under Kamal Ghosh and worked with Gemini Studios...
Date of Death:
25-02-2015
Age:
95
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-02-2015
Age:
95
Gender:
Male
14. Ritwik Ghatak
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 away from flood and Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of Bengal in 1947. He was married to Surama Devi and had three kids, a son Ritaban and two daughters Samhita and Suchismita; before they got separated. His wife went to her family owned place in Shillong while he had to be admitted to a mental hospital.
Ritwik was a Bengali script-writer and a film-maker. His works we...
Date of Death:
06-02-1976
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
06-02-1976
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
15. A P Nagarajan
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, when India was a free country, Nagarajan joined another drama company named Avvai T. K. Shanmugam's, for further assistance and learned the basics of acting. At Avvai T.K, Kuppuswamy became Nagarajan due to his acting style and thought process. In the late 40s, Nagarajan earned fame due to his debut role in the play "Gumasthavin Penn" and proved hi...
Date of Death:
05-04-1977
Age:
96
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
05-04-1977
Age:
96
Gender:
Male
16. V. Madhusudhan Rao
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 Adurthi Subba Rao for the movie ‘Todi Kodallu’ in 1957. He was given his first directorial opportunity with ‘Sati Tulasi’ (1959), a black and white film which didn’t go well.
But he was not discouraged by this and directed another movie ‘Annapurna’ (1960), a melodrama. It was the first hit for the director. Encouraged ...
Date of Death:
11-01-2012
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
11-01-2012
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
17. K S Sethumadhavan
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 Awards. He was born in the city of Palakkad in the state of Kerala. His mother's name was Lakshmi and father's name was Subrahmanyam. Initially, he worked as an assistant director.
He later worked with many directors like A. S. A. Swamy, L. V. Prasad, and Nandakarni. The first movie for which he worked ...
Date of Death:
24-12-2021
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-12-2021
Gender:
Male
18. V. B. Rajendra Prasad
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 producer and a director. After ruling Bollywood, and Telugu and Tamil films, he died on January 12, 2015, in Hyderabad due to a serious respiratory ailment.
He is survived by two children, Jagapathi Babu, who is a famous actor and Ram Prasad. He directed his debut film, ‘Dasara Bullodu’ starring the late Akkineni Nagesw...
Date of Death:
12-01-2015
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
12-01-2015
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
19. Vijay Anand
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 in ‘Kora Kagaz’ which was critically applauded and was a hit film. Later, he also acted with Shabana Azmi. But his contribution to Indian cinema is understood as a director where he crafted classic film such as Guide, behind the camera lens. It was Guide that made him an acclaimed director of Indian cinema. The film was based on R.K. Narayanan’s novel and it ha...
Date of Death:
23-02-2004
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-02-2004
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
20. Motilal
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 like Balraj Sahni, Yakub or even Nasseruddin Shah. But everyone lacked the spontaneity he had as an actor. He was effortlessly a natural actor that everyone felt he was not at all acting. That was his grace and credibility as an actor. He dodged the style of theatrical acting. It is noteworthy that previous actors like Sohrab Modi and Prith...
Date of Death:
17-06-1965
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
17-06-1965
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
21. Gopal Datt
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.
Later he acted in the big hit of the year 2003, ‘Tere Naam’ starring Salman Khan. The other two films he has acted in are ‘Filmistan’ (2012) and ‘Samrat & Co.’ (2014).
He has acted in the TV mini-series of TVF, the channel on Youtube, the series was named ‘TVF Pitchers’ (2015); he played the role of Rastogi. He has appeared in 3 episodes of the series.Â
G...
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
22. Hunsur Krishnamurthy
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 films that he directed include, Bhakta Kumbara, Satya Harishchandra and Babru Vahana. Rajkumar starred in all of these films. These films gained great appreciation and are a landmark in Kannada cinema. The career of Rajkumar also bloomed with these films. Born on February 9, 1914, Krishnamurthy d...
Date of Death:
13-02-1989
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
13-02-1989
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
23. S Shankar
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 not have even thought about it. His second movie is Kadhalan with Prabhu Deva. Nagma was introduced in this film by Shankar and the film is a super hit. The songs went very well with A.R. Rahman in the music composing side. After Kadhalan, S Shankar’s market picked up very well and he directed Indian, a patriotic film with Kamal Haasan. Unlike other directors, Shankar never thought ...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
24. Isa Ismail Sait
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