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Hindi Awards 17th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. Madhabi Mukherjee


11-01-2021/madhabi-mukherjee.jpg Madhabi is a National Award-winning Indian Actress who is considered one the great actresses of Bengali cinema. She had performed amazingly well in most critically acclaimed films. She got into the theater at an early age. In 1960, she played in Mrinal Sen’s Baishey Shravan. Ritwik Ghatak’s Subarnarekha was her next major film in 1962, though in 1965 it was released....
Date of Birth: 10-02-1942
Age: 82
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-02-1942
Age: 82
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills: Movie Actress

2. K B Sundarambal


k/0/b/0/s/u/k-b-sundarambal.png K B Sundarambal was an Indian stage artist, singer, and actor. She was born as Kodumudi Balambal Sundarambal, on October 11, 1908, in Kodumudi at the Erode district located in Tamil Nadu. She has been bestowed upon the title of the Queen of Indian Stage, and she also gave stunning performances in Tamil Movies. K B Sundarambal spent her childhood...
Date of Birth: 11-10-1908
Date of Death: 15-10-1980
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-10-1908
Date of Death: 15-10-1980
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil

3. Devika Rani


22-05-2017/devika-rani-roerich.png In the annals of history of the Indian movie industry, the name of Devika Rani would be truly written as that of a legend – not just for the fact she held several “firsts” in the industry but also because of the variety that one comes across reading her life history. Although the twists and turns in her life have...
Date of Birth: 30-03-1908
Date of Death: 09-03-1993
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-03-1908
Date of Death: 09-03-1993
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Actress

4. Manjilas Joseph


m/a/n/j/i/l/manjilas-joseph.png Manjilas Joseph, whose full name is Manjilas Ouseph Joseph, was a veteran producer of the Malayalam film industry. He was born in Thrissur in the year of 1929. His father managed the Jose Theatre, the first theatre of Kerala. Manjilas was the student of St. Thomas College, Thrissur....
Date of Birth: 1929
Date of Death: 08-01-2016
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1929
Date of Death: 08-01-2016
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Producer

5. Prabhakar Pendharkar


11-01-2021/prabhakar-pendharkar.jpg Prabhakar Pendharkar was born in 1933 to Bhalji Pendharkar, a prominent director and producer. Bhaji Pendharkar had directed several movies like Bajirao Mastani, Vande Mataram Ashram, Rani Rupmati, Shyam Sundar, Shyam Sundar, Akashwani, Partha Kumar, etc. He has also gained the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award. To be like his father, Prabhakar Pendharkar has worked a lot of times with him. He gained...
Date of Birth: 1933
Date of Death: 2010
Gender: Male
Language: Marathi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1933
Date of Death: 2010
Gender: Male
Language: Marathi
Skills: Writer

6. Puttanna Kanagal


01-04-2017/puttanna-kanagal.jpg Puttanna Kanagal was known as Chitra Brahma (God of Films). He was born as Shubraveshti Ramaswamiah Seetharama Sharma. He is the most famous filmmaker of Kannada film industry. He has received three National Awards and three Filmfare Awards. Every year an award is held in his memory by the name of Puttanna Kanagal Award in the Karnataka Award Functions. Puttanna...
Date of Birth: 01-12-1933
Date of Death: 05-06-1985
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-12-1933
Date of Death: 05-06-1985
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

7. Dinen Gupta


11-01-2021/dinen-gupta.jpg Dinen Gupta is a Bengali Director, Writer, Producer and Cinematographer who was born on 30 November 1932 in Calcutta, Bengal presidency of British India. His wife’s name is Kajal Gupta who was an Indian Bengali actor and daughter’s name is Sonali Gupta. He has worked on many movies which includes; The new leaf (1969), Pather Panchali (1955), Antaranga (1988), Nati...
Date of Birth: 30-11-1932
Age: 92
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-11-1932
Age: 92
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

8. Brajen Baruah


05-01-2021/brajen-barua.jpg Brajen Baruah was an Indian director and actor. He was born in 1925 and was popularly known for ‘Dr Bezbarua.’ His other significant movies include ‘Mukuta,’ ‘Sito Bahuto,’ ‘Opaja Sonor Mati,’ and ‘Lalita.’ His younger brothers, ‘Nip Baruah’ and ‘Ramen Baruah’, are also known director and composer respectively. Brajen was the director and the actor of the movie, ‘Dr Bezbarua,’...
Date of Birth: 1925
Date of Death: 1970
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1925
Date of Death: 1970
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director, Producer

9. KK Mahajan


30-10-2020/kk-mahajan.jpg K K Mahajan was an Indian cinematographer. Mahajan was born in Gurdaspur, Punjab, in 1944. He graduated from Panjab University in Chandigarh and went on to FTII Pune. He received a gold medal in Motion Picture Photography in 1966 and immediately began working on commercials and documentaries. One of Shyam Benegal's widely appreciated documentary films was Child of the Streets (1967)....
Date of Birth: 02-10-1944
Date of Death: 13-07-2007
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-10-1944
Date of Death: 13-07-2007
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Cinematographer

10. B. D. Garga


15-10-2020/b.-d.-garga.jpg Bhagwan Das Garga was a director and filmmaker based in India. He has worked predominantly in the Bollywood film industry. He was born on 14 November 1924 in Lehragaga, Punjab, India. He studied Cinematography at Xavier’s College, Bombay, India. He initiated his journey as a filmmaker in 1948 with the documentary film Storm over Kashmir. Some of the works he...
Date of Birth: 14-11-1924
Date of Death: 18-07-2011
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-11-1924
Date of Death: 18-07-2011
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

11. 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

12. 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

13. S. Mohinder


14-08-2020/s.-mohinder.jpg S. Mohinder, also profoundly known as Mohinder Singh Sarna, was well-known and a legendary Indian lyricist, composer, and poet. Mohinder is known for his predominant contributions to the Hindi and Punjabi film industry. Singh was born on the 24th of February in the year 1925. His place of birth is Silanwali, Punjab. He was born to his father, Sardar Sujan...
Date of Birth: 24-02-1925
Date of Death: 06-09-2020
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-02-1925
Date of Death: 06-09-2020
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Music Director

14. 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

15. Marcus Bartley


m/a/r/c/u/s/marcus-bartley.png Marcus Bartley is an Anglo-Indian film actor and renowned cinematographer, who played a significant role in a number of Indian films. He used to be an amateur photographer when he was still studying. He continued his passion until he got the opportunity to work as a press photographer in the newspaper, Times of India, in 1935. Under the patronage of...
Date of Birth: 1917
Date of Death: 14-04-1993
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1917
Date of Death: 14-04-1993
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Cinematographer

16. Kaifi Azmi


k/a/i/f/i/0/kaifi-azmi.jpg Kaifi Azmi is born as Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi. He is a famous poet, songwriter, and lyricist. He was born on January 14, and the year 1919. He was born in Azamgarh district of United Province (British India), now Uttar Pradesh, India. His wife's name is ShaukatKaifi. They have two children. They have a daughter and a son....
Date of Birth: 14-01-1919
Date of Death: 10-05-2002
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-01-1919
Date of Death: 10-05-2002
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

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. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas


k/h/w/a/j/a/khwaja-ahmad-abbas.png Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was also well-known as K. A. Abbas. Abbas was an Indian screenwriter, film director and novelist. He had also served as a Hindi, Urdu, English journalist. He has widely contributed to the most popular Hindi movies like Do Boond Pani, Saat Hindustani, Shehar Aur Sapna, Pardesi His movie were widely appreciated by everyone and hence he was...
Date of Birth: 07-06-1914
Date of Death: 01-06-1987
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-06-1914
Date of Death: 01-06-1987
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

19. Utpal Dutt


utpal-dutt.jpg Utpal Dutt is a Veteran in Indian cinema who was a popular theatre actor. He had acted in many Hindi movies too. He has acted over 100 movies in a career spanning over four decades. His most critically acclaimed and box-office successful films include ‘Bhuvan Shome’, Agantuk, Golmaal, Shaukheen, Amanush, Barsaat Ki Ek Raat, The Great Gambler. Although he acted...
Date of Birth: 29-03-1929
Date of Death: 19-08-1993
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 29-03-1929
Date of Death: 19-08-1993
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Movie Actor

20. Hrishikesh Mukherjee


19-04-2017/hrishikesh-mukherjee.png Hrishikesh Mukherjee is a film director, writer and producer in Bollywood. He is well known for giving a facelift to the career of Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Jaya Bhaduri, Rekha and Rajesh Khanna.  Hrishikesh was born in Calcutta on 30 September 1922. He began his career as an editor and assistant director under Bimal Roy. Much earlier, he was associated with Calcutta’s...
Date of Birth: 30-09-1922
Date of Death: 27-08-2006
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-09-1922
Date of Death: 27-08-2006
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

21. Sachin Dev Burman - S. D. Burman


06-02-2017/sachin-dev-burman---s.-d.-burman.png Sachin Dev Burman (S.D. Burman) is a renowned classical Hindi music composer who is known for many melodious songs. He understood the technique ‘hummable’ in music so well that every song that he had composed remained close to music lover’s heart. He was distinguished from other famous Hindi music directors as he was very careful with the understanding of lyrics...
Date of Birth: 01-10-1906
Date of Death: 31-10-1975
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-10-1906
Date of Death: 31-10-1975
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Music Composer

22. K. Balachander


06-01-2020/k.-balachander.jpg Kailasam Balachander or most popularly known as K. Balachander is a legendary film producer, director and screenwriter who dedicate his life in the film industry for almost half of his life. He was born on July 9, 1930 in a Tamil family in the Tanjore District of Nannilam, Madras Presidency, British India. He stated that, since his eight year, he’s...
Date of Birth: 09-07-1930
Date of Death: 23-12-2014
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-07-1930
Date of Death: 23-12-2014
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director

23. B.R. Shendge


11-01-2021/b.r.-shendge.jpg Bio coming soon......
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director, Producer