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Hindi Awards 18th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. Sandhya Mukherjee


11-01-2021/sandhya-mukherjee.jpg Sandhya Mukherjee is also known as Sandhya Mukhopadhyay. She was born on 4th October 1931. Mukherjee is one of the finest Singers and a Musician, primarily in Bengali music. She is a diva of the Bengali Music Industry. To her, music was not just a passion but devotion. Sandhya Mukherjee was born in Calcutta to Narendranath Mukherjee and Hemaporva Devi....
Date of Birth: 04-10-1931
Date of Death: 15-02-2022
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-10-1931
Date of Death: 15-02-2022
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills: Singer

2. Rehana Sultan


rehana-sultan.png Rehana Sultan was born to Baha’i parents in Allahabad in 1950. She came to fame through her two movies: Dastak, and Chetna, which got her critical appraisals; Dastak got her a National Award for Best Actress. She is known in the industry as someone taking up bold roles with such finesse and getting the sexual revolution in place, since 1970’s....
Date of Birth: 19-11-1950
Age: 73
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-11-1950
Age: 73
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actress

3. R. N. Krishna Prasad


19-11-2019/r.-n.-krishna-prasad.jpg R N Krishna Prasad was born in Mysore, Karnataka, in 1929. He was an Kannada Actor , Producer, Cinematographer as well as a Director. He directed a Kannada film which had his young brother R.N. Sudarshan in the lead role. Krishna Prasad has received the Karnataka State Award for Cinematography....
Date of Birth: 1929
Date of Death: 15-02-2012
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1929
Date of Death: 15-02-2012
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Cinematographer

4. BN Sircar


11-01-2021/bn-sircar.jpg Birendranath Sircar, one of the well-renowned film producers and the creator of New theatres in Calcutta, was born on 5th July 1901. He was born in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency, under the British rule. He was taken. to Sir N.N. Sircar, Bengal Advocate-General. B.N Sircar studied at Hindu School in Calcutta, after completing his Civil Engineering from the University of London....
Date of Birth: 05-07-1901
Date of Death: 28-11-1980
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-07-1901
Date of Death: 28-11-1980
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

5. Ajoy Kar


05-01-2021/ajoy-kar.jpg Ajoy Kar was a known Indian cinematographer and film director. He is also popularly known as the Father of the back projection in Bengali cinema. To pursue his career as a professional photographer, Ajoy left college. Later, he picked up cinematography. In 1935, he graduated as an assistant photographer. He became a chief photographer at Indrapuri Studios in 1938. As a cinematographer,...
Date of Birth: 27-03-1914
Date of Death: 25-01-1985
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-03-1914
Date of Death: 25-01-1985
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

6. Raja Thakur


05-01-2021/raja-thakur.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 26-11-1923
Date of Death: 28-07-1975
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Marathi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 26-11-1923
Date of Death: 28-07-1975
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Marathi
Skills: Director

7. Radhu Karmakar


21-10-2020/radhu-karmakar.jpg   Radhu Karmakar was a cinematographer and director of great repute. His claim to fame in Bollywood was his beautiful night sequence photography and high contrast lighting. He has worked with numerous luminaries. His long-term association with Raj Kapoor and R.K. Films is something about which almost everyone knows. He was born in Dhaka on 3rd June1919. In the film industry,...
Date of Birth: 1919
Date of Death: 05-10-1993
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1919
Date of Death: 05-10-1993
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

8. 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

9. A B Raj


08-08-2019/a-b-raj.jpg Antony Basker Raj is an Indian director, producer and writer. He is known for his work in the Malayalam film industry. He was born on 21st April 1925 in Alappuzha. He has left his mark on the Sinhalese, Tamil and Malayalam movie industries. He made his directorial debut in the Sinhalese industry in 1953 with his movie ‘Prema Tharagaya.’ Over...
Date of Birth: 21-04-1925
Date of Death: 23-08-2020
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-04-1925
Date of Death: 23-08-2020
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

10. P Madhavan


07-08-2019/p-madhavan.jpg P Madhavan is a Tamil director. He was born on the 1st of January, 1928. P Madhavan also produced many movies in the 1960s and 1970s. On the whole, in his lifetime, he directed 49 films and produced about 39 films. His banner ‘Arun Prasad Movies’ released all his films. Madhavan was born as Palakrishnan Madhavan in Kerala. He was...
Date of Birth: 01-01-1928
Date of Death: 06-12-2003
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-01-1928
Date of Death: 06-12-2003
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director

11. C S Rao


30-11-2016/c.-s.-rao.png Chittajallu Srinivasa Rao, also known as C. S. Rao was an actor, director, and writer in the Indian Cinema industry. He is the recipient of some awards at the national level. He nursed his ambitions from childhood itself and made his entry into the film industry in the childhood itself as a child actor in the movie “Anasuya (1936).” C....
Date of Birth: 20-12-1935
Date of Death: 08-12-2004
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-12-1935
Date of Death: 08-12-2004
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Writer, Director

12. Pattabhirama Reddy Tikkavarapu


p/a/t/t/a/b/pattabhirama-reddy-tikkavarapu.png Widely known for spearheading the art film movement in Karnataka in the 70s decade, Patabhirama Reddy Tikkavarapu was a noted film producer and director and a pioneer of Kannada and Telugu Parallel Cinema. Tikkavarapu was a social activist, working primarily for improving the condition of the working children. He was a writer and a poet contributing to the Telugu and...
Date of Birth: 19-01-1919
Date of Death: 06-05-2006
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-01-1919
Date of Death: 06-05-2006
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

13. NC Sippy


n/c/0/s/i/p/nc-sippy.png NC Sippy is a film producer and director, known for his sensitive and topical social drama films. He was born on August 22, 1926, in Karachi, Pakistan. He has produced several hit films including Anand, Guddi, Khubsoorat, Padosan, Aashirwad, Bombay to Goa, and Sadhu Aur Shaitan. In his career that spans over forty years, many of his notable films were...
Date of Birth: 22-08-1926
Date of Death: 25-11-2001
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 22-08-1926
Date of Death: 25-11-2001
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director, Producer

14. P Bhaskaran


p/0/b/h/a/s/p-bhaskaran.png P Bhaskaran (full name Pulloottupadathu Bhaskaran)was an actor, poet, lyricist, and filmmaker from South India. He was born in Kodungallur, Thrissur district, Kingdom of Cochinon April 21, 1924, to a lawyer, freedom fighter, poet, and journalist Nandyelathu Padmanabha Menon, and house-wife Pulloottupadathu Ammalu Amma. However, Nandyelathu died when Pulloottupadathu was just ten years old. Within two years, he started writing...
Date of Birth: 21-04-1924
Date of Death: 25-02-2017
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-04-1924
Date of Death: 25-02-2017
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Lyricist

15. Madan Mohan


m/a/d/a/n/0/madan-mohan.jpg Madan Mohan Kohli born on 25thJune 1924 in Iraq (Baghdad) was the most regarded Indian music composer of the years 1950s-70s. He was the son of Rai Bahadur Chunilal, an Accountant General, and Bhagwanti Devi.He spent most of his early life in the Middle East. His family recurs to the native place of Chakwal, then in Jhelum locale of Punjab in...
Date of Birth: 25-06-1924
Date of Death: 14-07-1975
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 25-06-1924
Date of Death: 14-07-1975
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Music Director

16. Satyajit Ray


satyajit-ray.png 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...
Date of Birth: 02-05-1921
Date of Death: 23-04-1992
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-05-1921
Date of Death: 23-04-1992
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

17. 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

18. R. N. Sudarshan


r/0/0/n/0/0/r.-n.-sudarshan.jpg R. N. Sudarshan is a film actor and producer. Apart from Kannada movies, he has also worked in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam films. Sudarshan was born on 2 May, 1939, to Ratna Bai and R. Nagendra Rao (actor, director). His better half, Shylashri, is also a Kannada actress....
Date of Birth: 02-05-1939
Age: 85
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-05-1939
Age: 85
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

19. Manna Dey


manna-dey.png Manna Dey is one of the greatest Indian classical singers who had training from his paternal uncle Sangeetacharya Krishna Chandra Dey ( K.C. Dey). He was instrumental in making Manna Dey’s career in Mumbai. K. C. Dey was a popular actor-singer-composer of New Theatres in Kolkata. When New Theaters closed down, K C Dey moved to Mumbai and Manna Dey accompanied...
Date of Birth: 01-05-1919
Date of Death: 24-10-2013
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-05-1919
Date of Death: 24-10-2013
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer

20. Sanjeev Kumar


14-03-2017/sanjeev-kumar.png Sanjeev Kumar was born on July 9th, 1938 in Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay), India. His original name was Harihar Jethalal Jariwala. He was an actor by profession who worked in Bollywood. He moved to Surat after birth. His family again moved to Mumbai. He has three siblings- one sister and two brothers. Sanjeev didn’t get married ever. He was in a...
Date of Birth: 09-07-1938
Date of Death: 06-11-1985
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-07-1938
Date of Death: 06-11-1985
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

21. Rishi Kapoor


rishi-kapoor.jpg Rishi Kapoor is an actor born in the prominent Kapoor family who has a long history of Hindi cinema where members of the family had careers as actors, producers or directors. Rishi Kapoor was born to veteran actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor on September 4, 1952, in Mumbai. Born with a silver spoon, it was not a...
Date of Birth: 04-09-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-09-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor