Hindi Awards 18th Star Screen Awards - Cast & Crew

Kalki Koechlin is a famous film actress, model and screenwriter, known for working in Hindi films. She was born on January 10, 1984, in Ooty, Tamil Nadu in India to Joel Koechlin and Francoise Armandie. Her father came to the country from Angers, France many years ago and met Francoise in Auroville, Puducherry. They are both followers of Sri Aurobindo. 

Katrina Kaif is a prominent and very popular British-Indian model and film actress. She was one of the highest-paid actresses in the Bollywood industry and one of the most attractive personalities in India. She was born as Katrina Turquotte on July 16, 1983, in British Hong Kong to Mohammed Kaif, a business person and Suzanne Kaif, a lawyer, and social service worker. Her parents had a divorce when she was just a child and then her father moved to USA. She grows up without a father by her side, but she never complains and instead, she always feels grateful for all the wonderful things she has. Since then, her mother dedicates her life in working for social causes, which led them to relocate to several countries from time to time. Because of this, she and her seven siblings did a homeschooling with some tutors. She lives in London for three years before she moved to India. She changed her surname to Kaif because it’s easier to pronounce.

Asha is considered to be the second greatest female vocalist in India, second to only her sister the great Lata Mangeshkar. Born on September 8th 1933 in Maharashtra to Master Deenanath Mangeshkar, a classical singer and actor. Her father passed away when Asha was only 10 and she and her sister began to sing from an early age to support their family. Asha had a big family with 4 sisters, including Asha, and one brother.

Deepika Padukone is an Indian actress and model. She was born on 5th January 1986. Deepika is one of the most famous celebrities. She is working in Bollywood films and won two film fare awards. She is the daughter of the badminton trouper Prakash Padukone. Copenhagen was the birth place of Deepika. She was raised in Bangalore. She frolicked badminton in national level championship in her teenage but later on she switched her career from spots and became a model. In 2006 she did receive some offers for Indian films and did her film debut. In 2007 she did double role in her first Indian bestseller film Om Shanti Om. In the same year she won the film fare award for best female debut. In 2009 she performed in an Indian film Love Aaj Kal and in 2010 she acted in a drama Lafangey Parindey. Her performance in Bachna Ae Haseeno in 2008 and Housefull in 2010 got negative reviews.

In 2012 her performance in the super hit movie Cocktail was turning point of her career and she won many awards in different ceremonies and she was nominated as the best actress. After that she acted in many super hit films of Bollywood such as Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani in 2013, Chennai Express which is also released in 2013 and Happy New Year in 2014. She won film fare in 2013 for the performance and lovely acting in Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela. Deepika Padukone also did many stage shows as well. She has also inscribed posts for Indian newspapers. She is a prominent celebrity and brand ambassador for many brands and products.

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Niharika Khan was born on November 21, 1996, in Jamshedpur, in the Indian state of Jharkhand. She did the bachelor degree in public relation and completed her HR from Seattle US. Her present residence is Mumbai. She has done costume designing in Bollywood. First, she started her work in a corporate set-up, and she hated it and also she did not attend classes of

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

The bubbly actress, born on 22nd October 1988, landed in the film industry quite accidently. The aspiring investment banker, who holds a triple honours degree, joined the Bollywood bandwagon as a public relations consultant with ‘Yash Raj Films’ and not as an actor.

Born on 18 July 1982, Priyanka Chopra is an established actress and ex Miss World. She is also a talented singer. She is one of the richest actresses of Indian film industry and is a celebrated diva of Bollywood. Priyanka Chopra is bestowed with numerous credits; she has won the Filmfare awards 4 times and National Award once. 

Born in Jamshedpur, Priyanka’s parents were doctors in Indian Army. It was during the year 2000, that this actress stepped into the Femina Miss India contest and from then on her journey to success is indeed commendable. She was the runner up in the contest and eventually won the Miss World title in 2000. She made her entry into films through the Tamil film Tamizhan. Later she was offered roles in Hindi films and a couple were box office hits during her initial stages. The 2004 thriller Aitraz gained her the much needed appreciation as she earnestly portrayed the role of a seductress. Then she acted in Krrish and Don which were successful. 

Later she had her share of flops, but that was compensated by her portrayal in the 2008 film Fashion, directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. She went on to play unconventional roles and gained acknowledgment for her all-round acting. Chopra had a brief stint with stage shows and she had also penned for newspapers. She is also a good singer and her first single was released during 2012. 

Priyanka’s philanthropism is very well known and she supports child rights by being the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights. Whether it is girls’ education, women’s rights or environmental issues Priyanka voices her opinion. Chopra has a passion for penning short stories and poems. This diva has 11 awards to her credit. She is the only Indian to represent India in U.S. for a charitable cause. Priyanka has in fact proved that beauty queens are not just glam dolls; they are also talented.

As her title may be suggesting, Aditi the talented and versatile actress origins from Hyderabad. But her introduction should not end up just there. On the side of performing arts, she is a trained classical dancer, specializing in Bharata natyam, while in respect of family lineage she comes from the confluence of two distinct blue blooded families of the South - that of Akbar Hydari former Prime Minister of Hyderabad on one hand and from the Wanaparthy royal family on the other. Her family also had a distinctly accomplished educational background and she herself also did complete her graduation before entry into films.

Guneet Monga is a film and line producer; she mainly works in Hindi Film Industry, Bollywood. She is CEO of Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt Ltd (AKFPL). She was born on 21st November 1983 in New Delhi. Presently, she lives in Mumbai. She did her schooling from Bluebells School International, Delhi. She graduated from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi in Mass Communications.

She is an Indian film producer, screen writer and director by profession. She was born on 7th Nov, 1973 in a royal family from Bangalore. Her paternal grand father was Raja of Wanaparthy. In Kolkata she attended Loreto House, then she moved on to Mumbai. She did her graduation in Mumbai from Sophia College for Women in the year 1995. Then she did social communications media course for two months but then left for Delhi.

Shobha Kapoor is a film and television producer from India and the Managing Director of the much acclaimed Balaji Telefilms, a serial production house based in Mumbai. It is now run by her talented daughter Ekta Kapoor. Shobha mainly takes care of the production and administration activities of the company. She has co-produced many cult Hindi serials such as ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ from 2000 to 2008, ‘Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii’ also from 2000 to 2008, ‘Kasautii Zindagii Kay’ from 2001 to 2008 and ‘Kaahin Kissii Roz’ from 2001 to 2004. She is married to veteran actor Jeetendra, and they have two kids, Tusshar Kapoor, and Ekta Kapoor. Shobha and Jeetendra were dating each other for 13 years before their wedding, and former was working as an air-hostess then. 

Ekta Kapoor; a legendry producer in Indian TV and film industry was born on 7 June 1975 in India. She is basically the creative director and Joint Managing Director of her production company Balaji Telefilms. She is the daughter of Shobha Kapoor and actor Jeetendra. Tusshar Kapoor, his brother is also working in Bollywood movies. She completed her early studies from Bombay Scottish School Mahim and went to college Mithibai.

Ms. Kapoor has produced many wonderful soap opera, unforgettable movies and long remembered tv series. Kasturi, Kabhii sautan Kabhi Sahelii, Hum Paanch, Kasautii Zindagii Ki, Kahiin to Hoga, Miya Fauj mein Biwi Mauj Mein, Kkavyanjali, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Kkusum, Kitani Mohabbat Hai, Kutumb, Tere Liye, Bandini, Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil, Zindagi Kay Sapno Ka and Kya Hua Tera Vaada are some of her most likeable soap operas. Presently, she is working on Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, Pavitra Bandha, Pavitra Rishta and Ye Hai Mohabbatein.

Ekta began her Bollywood career as producer in 2001 started with Kyo Kii Main Jhuth Nahi Bolta and Kucch to hai. Her one of the very famous movie Krishna Cottage broke many records and still remains most favorite. She is also known by her block buster movies Once Upon a time in Mumbai, Dirty Picture, Shootout at Wadala, Once Upon a time in Mumbai dobara, Eik Villan, C Kkompany and Ek Thi Daayan.
 

Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress who was born in Poothamkurussy, Puthur of Kerala. Her birthday is 1st of January in 1978. Her parents are Saraswathy and P. R Balan. Her elder sister is Priya Balan and her second cousin is Indian actress Priyamani. She studied at a High School in Mumbai and in 1995, at the age of sixteen, she played the role of Radhika in the first season of Ekta Kapoor's TV series named “Hum Paanch”. In her teenage, she was inspired by Indian actress Shabana Azmi and Madhuri Dixit. She studied Sociology in St. Xavier's College and completed Master's in Mumbai University. She has appeared in several TV commercials and also she has starred in music videos. Vidya has briefly studied Carnatic music, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. She was listed as the "India's hottest vegetarian" in polls conducted by PETA in 2011 and 2012. In 2003, she commenced her career in feature film industry with the Bengali movie “Bhalo Theko”. “Parineeta” (2005) was her foremost Hindi movie. There she played the role of Lalita. Parineeta was a box-office hit and Vidya received the Filmfare best actress award in 2006, for her performances in Parineeta. Later, she appeared in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” (2006) co starred with Sanjay Dutt. In 2007, she appeared in romantic comedy film “Heyy Babyy”. Heyy Babyy is a remake of Hollywood film “Three Men and a Baby”. Vidya played the role of Isha Sahni and the movie became an overnight hit. She got the opportunity of working with director Aziz Mirza, in 2008. Aziz selected Vidya for the role of Priya, in “Kismat Konnection”. The victorious period of her career as a Hindi actress began in the year 2009. She appeared in five different successive films, including “Paa” (2009), “Ishqiya” (2010), “The Dirty Picture” (2011), Kahaani (2012). Her prominent acting skills in those roles recognized her in Hindi cinema. She has won the National Film Award for best actress (Dirty picture), five Filmfare Awards for Parineeta (2005), Paa (2009), The Dirty Picture (2011), and Kahaani (2012) and Ishqiya (2010), five Screen Awards and Padma Shri Award in 2014. Vidya Balan got married to Siddharth Roy Kapoor, the CEO of UTV Motion Pictures on 14th of December 2012 in Bandra, Mumbai.

Hrithik Roshan with his unimaginable dance moves is praised as the Dance God of Bollywood, is the only son of Bollywood Director/Actor/Producer Rakesh Roshan. He is considered the most hard working personality when comes to the profession. As a kid he had stammering problem and it doesn’t stop him from moving ahead to this position. Hrithik who is fondly called as duggu by his family also worked in few bollywood movies as a child artist and the notable one was with Superstar RajiniKanth where he played the role of Our Thalaivar’s Son.

Abhay Deol is an actor and director of the TV industry and was born on March 15th, 1976. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall, and is a muscular man from the garden city, Chandigarh, Punjab. His nickname is Dimpy, which is called by his loved ones, because Abhay has dimples on his cheeks. Abhay did his graduation from Mumbai, Maharashtra. After his Bachelors degree, Abhay went to the United States of America and studied Fine Arts from the most expensive city of the world, Los Angeles, also called the Hollywood city.

Partho Gupte is a well known child actor. He was well known and became very famous after performing in his debut film named as Stanley ka Dabba. This movie was released in 2011. His performance in this debut movie was so amazing and awesome, that he was awarded the special Film fare Award in the same year. After that, he appeared in another movie in 2014 named as Hawa Hawai. Apart from winning the Film fare award for his movie, he also earned some of the international awards in 2011 like he got the best actor award in the Shlingel Film Festival held in Germany in 2011.

He performed the main role in this movie, and the whole story revolves around him being a school boy who never brings his own Tiffin and likes to eat from the lunch boxes of his friends and class fellows. Therefore, this character signifies both the mysterious and interesting aspects of the boy. This movie was filmed in a school of Mumbai. This was a non mainstream film, but in spite of this, it earned a lot and made a business of about 3.8 Crore. Partho Gupte is not only engaged in his studies, but also owes to continue his showbiz career in the coming time and is planning to become the rising movie star in the future. In this way his professional line has been set and decided that, he is going to become a star in the field of Indian drama and in the film industry as well.

Keitan Yadav is a visual effects supervisor. Yadav with his outstanding skills flavors the Bollywood. Yadav is also the Chief Operating Officer and VFX Producer at Red Chillies Entertainment. Red Chillies Entertainmentswhich is headed by Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan is a company that is surging ahead in the Global Entertainment Industry. Keitan Yadav is basically from Mumbai and lives in Mumbai only. He has done his early education from Sir Cowasgir High School (1977 - 1988), Mumbai, India.

Haresh Hingorani and Keitan Yadav originally met Shah Rukh Khan in 2003 when he was documenting Paheli, where they deliberated an idea about making an initiative under the support of Red Chillies Showbiz. They produced a superhero flick, clearly containing SRK and red chilies. VFX was born three years afterward. The pair began work on the striving Fan –determined because it had SRK, frolicking dual roles as Aryan Khanna the megastar and also Gaurav Chandana, a 24-year old infatuated fan.

Akshat Verma is the Indian actor and writer who made his place in the ‘fame’ of Film Industry because of the film Delhi Belly (2011). His first contribution in the Industry was the script writing of a movie called “The Ode” (2008). It was co-associated with Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla and produced by G.K Desai, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, Manu Gargi, Ratna Maity and Bharat S. Shah. After “The Ode”, Akshat’s next successful release was a film “Delhi Belly” (2011), starring Imran Khan, Vir Das, Kunaal Roy Kapur and Poorna Jagannathan. His key role is “Writer” of the story, but he is also Co-Director of Delhi Belly. In one of the interviews, Akshat said “It took me 15 years to get done with this movie, but I wanted to make an Indian film, which is of equal structure and pacing, of an American movie.

Huzefa Lokhandwala is a very talented editor in Indian Film Industry, who started his career as a visual effects artist. He is the Co-founder and the Creative Director of advertising at Prime Focus. Huzefa has worked with almost every advertising company and advertising filmmaker in India. He is highly praised and widely known for his good work. He has edited the popular movie ‘Delhi Belly’ that won him the Colors Screen and Film fare Awards for best editing in 2012. Editing of Delhi Belly was like a fun puzzle game to him. He says, “It’s challenging but in the form of a puzzle game. More than that challenge, it was like having fun.

Rajat Arora is an Indian Writer, Lyricist, Producer, and Film Director. He works in the Bollywood Film Industry. Rajat was born on the 23rd of July in the year 1975. He was born in New Delhi, India.

Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.

One of the most recognized young director of Indian cinema. In fact, he is the most versatile person in the industry as of now. He is Farhan Akhtar, a film director, actor, singer, writer, producer, screenwriter everything you name it, he has it. Son of the famous writer Javed Akhtar & actress Honey Irani was born on 09 Jan, 1974 in Mumbai. 

As he was growing, he found the film industry around him. At home, the atmosphere of arts, literature influenced him to become creative man. He did his schooling from Maneckji Cooper & Graduated from HR College, Mumbai. After then, he started his career in films, first as assistant director & then director. His first directorial debut was Dil Chahta Hai in 2001 which received critical acclaim as well as commercial success. After then he did not see back & made other movies like Lakshya in 2004, Don in 2006, Rock On in 2008. He got two national awards, one for Dil Chahta Hai & another for Rock On for direction & production subsequently. 

He portrayed the character Milkha Singh, in the year 2013 in his biographical feature film, for which he got positive reviews as an actor & it, is his best performance yet, which also earned him Filmfare Award for Best Actor. He considers Robert Di Niro as his inspiration for his life & career & respects his parents for the heritage he got & continues to do better work. He has a production company named Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. established with Ritesh Sidhwani. 

He directed a 12 min short film named Positive, 2007 based on HIV-AIDS, to create awareness about the problem. He did sing for Rock On which showed his versatility. He has also launched a social campaign named MARD – Men against Rape & Discrimination.

R Madhi is an Indian-Cinematographer. He is born on 7th January 1971. He is born and brought up in Nannilam, Tiruvarur District, Tamil Nadu, India. He primarily works in the Tamil Film Industry. He is thinking of working in the Hindi Film Industry, Telugu Film Industry, Kannada Film Industry, and Malayalam Film Industry. Some of the movies in which he had worked include Punnagai Desam which got released in the year 2002, Machi which got released in the year 2004, Gurudeva which got released in the year 2005,

RanjitBarot  is a  Film Score Composer as well a allrounder personality born around 1955 in England has hands on in an assorted arena of the music world. Usually a diversified and dynamic person started his career in the year 1995 with Oh Darling YehHai India  and is working his charm till date in the music array.

Shashank Tere is a well-known production designer and actor in the Bollywood industry. By his skills, he represented a whole new world for everyone, to which we can somehow relate. He is known for his works in many movies as the production designer like Dhadak, which came out in 2018 which was a tragic love story between two students from different castes addressing a long issue in our society.

Bejoy Nambiar was born on April 12th, 1979 in Kochi, India. He is a screenwriter, a story writer, and a director who is mostly known for his short films, "Reflections" and "Rahu." In 2007, he was married to Juhi Babbar, an Indian film and television actress, although they, unfortunately, divorced after two years. Cheating and forgery were claimed to be the cause of the divorce. Also, Babbar stated that for Nambiar, work seemed more important than marriage.

Nambiar began his career as a director with his first Malayalam short film, "Reflections", in 2005. The film was written and produced by him too. Also, he directed another short film, "Rahu," in 2008. 

He continued his career as a director, and he directed a Hindi thriller film, "Shaitan," which marked his first debut in 2011. Nambiar claimed that he had a different point of view since he wanted to shoot the film at unusual places and refused to shoot it at common locations. Also, he worked on a bilingual gangster comedy film, "David", in 2013, which became his second feature film. He directed the film himself wrote and produced it with the help of Natasha Sahgal and Sharada Trilok. An alternate version of "David" was also directed by himself, which featured a different cast and was shot in Tamil. He was also a member of the jury for India Film Project during the same year. In 2014, Nambiar produced "Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi" and "Pizza", a Hindi comedy, romance, and drama film, and a supernatural thriller film.

This year, he is currently filming Wazir, a Hindi drama which will be released in December. Although he was mostly the writer, director, and producer for the previous films, now he is taking part as a director only.

Mohit Chauhan is a Bollywood playback singer. He was born on March 11, 1966 at Nahan, Himachal Pradesh, India. He was also a previous front-man of the band, Silk Route. Mohit is fluent in Pahari, Hindi and English languages. He went to St. Xavier’s School in Delhi and then he came to Himachal Pradesh to finish his studies. He graduated college with a Master of Science in Geology at Dharamsala College. 

Divyendu Sharma is an upcoming actor in Bollywood. He was born on 13 May 1982 in New Delhi. He is based in New Delhi. He is an alumina of Pune film institute and even has experience in theater acting. He completed a three-year course in theater acting too. Before he made his debut in the film, he appeared in television commercials and endorsed the campaign for Birla group of companies and some mutual fund companies. The actor appeared in a movie named 'Aaja Nachle' where he appeared in a small role as MLA's son. It was Madhuri Dixit's comeback movie.

Prasoon Joshi is an Indian poet, writer, lyricist and also an advertising guru. He is also the President of the McCann Worldgroup in South Asia and the CEO of McCann Wordgroup in India. He won the Best Lyricist award at the Filmfare for two consecutive times from 2007 to 2008. In year 2014, he received the same award for the biographical sports drama film, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He also won the Best Lyricist award at the National Film Award twice; one for Aamir Khan’s drama film, Taare Zameen Par and another one for the historical war drama film, Chittagong.

Prasoon was born on September 16, 1971 in Uttarakhand, India and spent most of his childhood days in Almora. His father is D.K. Joshi, a PCS Officer and his mother is Sushma Joshi, a political science lecturer who has been part of the All India Radio for over 30-years. Prasoon starter his career in writing at the early age of 17. He wrote his first book, Main Aur Woh which was inspired by Thus Spake Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche. Subsequently, he wrote two more books which established him as an author. He launched his book, Sunshine Lanes on January 2013 at the Jaipur Literature Festival. He studied Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Physics until he was elected to took a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at the Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad, India. At the same time, he decided to start his venture in advertising.

Prasoon started his career in one of the leading agencies worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather in New Delhi. For more than a decade, he worked as a Creative Star and became an Executive Creative Director in the leading office in Mumbai. In 2002, he also worked as the Executive Vice President and the National Creative Director of the global advertising agency, the McCann Erikson and later became the Regional Creative Director for South and South East Asia. In 2006, he was promoted as the Executive Chairman for the McCann Worldgroup India and also, the Asia Pacific’s Regional Creative Director.

He has done a series of advertisements including his campaigns for LG, NDTV India, Saffola, Marico, Perfetti and the Coca-Cola campaign who won in the Cannes along with Aamir Khan. His television commercial for Happydent was still notable and considered as the best ad in India until now. Prasoon was later called as ‘The Ad Guru of India’. Some of the award-winning advertising ads that he did were for brands like Cadbury, Close-Up, Coke, Ponds, Asian Paints, CNN IBN: India rising and more. He also donned several advertising for the public including the Pulse Polio, Anti Child Abuse, UN Millennium Goals: Anti Poverty Campaign and more.

He was debuted as a film lyricist in the critically acclaimed Lajja by Rajkumar Santoshi. This led him to Yash Chopra’s romantic comedy film, Hum Tum from where he gained the Best Lyricist award for Saanson Ko… at the 2005 Screen Award and a nomination for the same award, for the song, Hum Tum at the 2005 Zee Cine Awards; followed by a series of Bollywood films like Delhi 6, Fanaa, Black, Rang De Basanti and more. He also penned the soundtrack on Aamir Khan’s starrer film, Rang De Basanti. He also worked on the dialogue of the film and this became his debut in screenwriting. In 2006, he also penned the lyrics of the music from the box-office romantic crime drama film, Fanaa. Prasoon won the Best Lyricist awards for the song, Chand Sifarish at the Filmfare and IIFA Awards in 2007. He also wrote the lyrics for the song, Maa in Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par in 2008. Prasoon has won the significant National Award for two times; one is from the film, Taare Zameen Par and the other one for Chittagong in 2013.

This year, Prasoon Joshi will be the very first Asian to become the Chairman of the Cannes titanium Jury. He was also one of the juries in the reality singing competition show, Dhoom Macha De which was aired on NDTV Imagine in 2007. He has won over 200 national and international award for his advertising work, as a lyricist and as a scriptwriter. He was married to Aparna, an advertising professional with whom she met at O&M Delhi and her daughter’s name is Aishaanya.

Prashant Narayanan is a renowned Indian actor, born in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India. He was raised up in Delhi and studied at Kirori Mal College of Delhi University, where he became a badminton state champion. He also joined Act 1, a theatre group at school. In year 1991, the actor moved to Mumbai with a plan to make his own ad agency. He initiated his career as an assistant art director in films like Rukmavati Ki Haveli, Saudagar and Sardari Begum.

He was also the costume director of the historical drama series, Chanakya on DD National. Later, he started to act in plays again and subsequently received an offer for television shows such as Shagun, Parivartan, Jaane Kaha Mera Jigar Gaya Ji, Farz, Kabhi Kabhie and Gatha. His first film role was from the movie, Chhal by Hansal Mehta in 2002. The film received mixed reviews from the critics but his performance as a hitman who works in the underworld of Mumbai was well appreciated. Later, he acted as Vishnu in the film, Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II, the directorial debut of Shashanka Ghosh.

His character was quite similar to his character in Chhal, but he gained appreciations by the critics. In 2004, he was starred as Ravi Gupta in the Bengali language German film, Shadows of Time by the award winning director, Florian Gallenberger. He also played a pivotal role as Kanji Waghela in Ekta Kapoor’s Bandini on NDTV Imagine. He was roped in to do the antagonist role as Carlos in the unreleased Hindi film, Peter Gaya Kaam Se. Prashant gained more fame after essaying the role of Dheeraj Pandey in the Bollywood psychological thriller film, Murder 2; a sequel to the film, Murder in 2004.

He played as a straight man who later turned as a serial killer who kills call girls. His portrayal in the film received praises by the critics and the Best Villain at the Screen Award and the Best Actor in a Negative Role at the National Award. In 2012, the actor was seen in the Malayalam film, Edavapathi by Lenin Rajendran. ​Prashant has done films including ‘Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India!’, Mudda: The Issue, Instant Karma, Game, Summer 2007, The good Friday, The White Elephant, Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta, Peter Gaya Kaam Se, Rasgulla, Doors, Unnam, Cigarette Ki Tarah, Dee Saturday Night, 7th Day, Nedunchaalai, Amma and he is currently filming the Tamil film, Naan Thaan Siva.

Abhinay Deo is an Indian commercial director who later turned into a feature film director. He had no aspirations of become a star, all he wanted to do was present stories to the public. Deo says that his goal was never glamour, acting or even films. He considers himself to be a lucid storyteller.

Sunil Bohra is the son of Shanti Bohra and Surendra Bohra; he is the 3rd generation of producers in the Mumbai film industry. He was born on August 2, 1972, in Jodhpur (Rajasthan). He has produced many films including Mastram, Tanu Weds Manu and its sequel entitled Tanu Weds Manu: Returns, Gangs of Wasseypur, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, and Shahid. The two-part crime film, Gangs of Wasseypur, earned him a nomination for Best Film at the Filmfare Awards.

Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has established himself in Bollywood as a prominent director, producer, and screenwriter while even giving acting a try.  A born and raised Uttar Pradeshi, Kashyap had keen interest in science and aimed to become a scientist. In an interview Anurag said that he had no dreams of going into the film industry and had all hopes of pursuing Zoology. He went on to say, this all changed in 1993 after he watched Bicycle Thieves, an Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film inspired him enough to give us becoming a scientist and move to Dehli to become a filmmaker.    

Anurag got his first chance in the industry as a screenwriter for Auto Narayan when the initial script by Subramaniam was not working and Anurag was given a chance to rewrite it. He then wrote the screenplay for Jayate, a Hansal Mehta film, which was never released. Ram Gopal Varma was impressed by Anurag’s work in Auto Narayan and signed him for the screenplay and dialogue for his thriller, Satya. The film was critically acclaimed as one of the best crime, gangster movie of Bollywood. He then dabbled with production after some time with his director debut in Paanch. The movie faced trouble with the certification board due to the content not being suitable for all.  In 2012, he took on two ambitious movies in Gangs of Wasseypur 1 and 2, which received numerous awards and outstanding reviews. He recently produced and directed Bombay Velvet, which is currently in theatre and has received praise from critics.

Born in the city of Mumbai to a family of Parsi religion, Rohinton Soli Screwvala is an Indian philanthropist, entrepreneur, CEO, and founder of UTV Group, which included Bloomberg UTV, UTV Software Communications, etc. Since school time Ronnie had an interest in films and theater. He also acted in some skits in Bombay theater like Alyque Padamsee and Pearl. But he did not like working for others, so his stage career ended as he wished to initiate his business. Ronnie started on a small scale in the year 1981.

Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bollywood’s finest actor. He is a package for the Indian TV industry as he is a producer, director and actor an all-rounder kind of personality. Khan has an estimated net worth of $185 million. Aamir has born on 14th March, 1965 (aged 50) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did two marriages, first with Reena Dutta in 1986 they were together till 2002, than Kiran Rao came into his life, she is 42 years old, born in November, 1973, and they got married in 2005, now they both are living together happily in Mumbai. Kiran is from Bengaluru and also a director, screenwriter and producer.

Aamir’s father was Late Tahir Hussain, who was from a village Akhtiyarpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a screenwriter and director. Aamir is having 3 children today, one son Junaid and one daughter Ira from his first wife Reena Dutt and 1 son Azad Rao Khan from his second wife Kiran.

Aamir Khan is the fourth richest Bollywood personality in Hindi cinema. Aamir has earned his income by doing work as an actor, director and produced some movies and also worked in many advertisements. Khan began his career in a very tiny age with the film YAADON KI BAARAT released in 1973, which is produced by his uncle.

He started his professional career in 1984 with a movie HOLI. He won his first Film award as a Special jury after giving a fantastic performance in the movies like QAYAMAT SE QAYAMAT TAK released in 1988 and a movie RAAKH picturise in 1989. In 1996, Aamir received his first Filmfare Award as a Best Actor for his work in the movie RAJA HINDUSTANI. This movie was the blockbuster of his time.

He also won the Academy award and this time second Best actor award for the movie LAGAAN. Aamir won a Filmfare Critics Award also in 2006, as Best Actor in RANG DE BASANTI. He directed a movie also TAARE ZAMEEN PAR and won the Best director award after the nomination in Filmfare Award. Aamir is widely known as the perfectionist in the film industry.

Aamir Khan with his wife Kiran Rao in one of the awards function. He is a kind of actor who nominated for more than 20 types of awards like, IIFA Awards, National Film Awards, Apsara Award, Screen Award, Civilian Award and many more.

Ritesh Sidhwani was born in Mumbai on January 1, 1973. He had no formal education on filmmaking, yet he turned himself as a producer of Bollywood films and runs Excel Entertainment (an Indian film studio) in Mumbai, which was jointly created by Javed Akhtar’s son Farhan Akhtar, and Ritesh Sidhwani in the year 1999. So far the duo had released 14 blockbuster films under Excel Entertainment banner. 

Ranbir Kapoor is a noted Indian film actor. He was born on September 28, 1982, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Rishi (Bollywood film actor, producer and director) and Neetu Singh (Bollywood actress). His grandfather, Raj Kapoor, is also a noted film actor, producer and director and was once called “The greatest showman of Indian cinema”. He has a sister named Riddhima, an interior and fashion designer. Ranbir, Karisma and Kareena Kapoor were first cousins. He studied at Bombay Scottish School, Mahim. During an early age, he admitted that he never had a close relationship with his father.

Milan Luthria is a film producer and director who made many successful commercial movies with top Bollywood stars. He is the son of noted film director and producer Raj Khosla who was associated with directors like Guru Dutt and actor Dev Anand. Like Raj Khosla started as assistant director to Guru Dutt, Milan too started as an assistant director to Mahesh Bhatt.

Sajid Khan is a Bollywood director, producer and even actor. He was born on November 23, 1970. Before making debut as an actor and director, he was a popular TV host who claimed recognition in TV medium. Since the early days of television, he gained popularity as talk show hosts and was among the most popular personalities in the medium.

Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent Indian film actor, television personality and producer. He was born on November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India. He is often called as the ‘Baadshah of Bollywood’, ‘King Khan’ and ‘King of Bollywood’. The actor has done more than 80 films in Bollywood. He was cited as ‘The World’s Biggest Movie Star’ by the Los Angeles Times. Khan is also one of the wealthiest actors in the world, with over $400–600 million net worth. He also won several accolades including the 14 Filmfare Awards.

Khan went to St. Columba’s School in Delhi where he topped in studies and sports like football and hockey, where he got the Sword of Honour Award, a school’s highest award. He acted in several stage plays and gained praises for mimicking Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Mumtaz. He studied at Hansraj College from 1985 to 1988 to get a degree in Economics but the actor spent much of his time in attending the Theatre Action Group (TAG) in Delhi. He studies acting through his mentor, Director Barry John. Later, Khan studied at Jamia Millia Islamia and took up a degree in Mass Communications, but he left it to enter the showbiz industry. He attended Delhi’s National School of Drama on his early years in Bollywood.

He started his career during the late 80’s with some appearances in many television series. He was debuted in Bollywood in the blockbuster hit film, Deewana in 1992. He was also recognized for doing villain roles in movies like Darr, Baazigar and Anjaam. He rose to fame after he was starred in various romantic films like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. In year 2002, Khan gained critical acclaimed for his role as an alcoholic in the romantic drama film, Devdas; as a scientist of NASA in Swades; a coach in Chak De! India and My Name is Khan in 2010 where he played the role of a man with Asperger Disorder. For his outstanding contributions to the film industry, he received the Padma Shri Award by the Government of India and the Legion d’honneur and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France.

This year, he became the co-chairman of Red Chillies Entertainment and all its subsidiaries. Khan became one of the owners of the cricket team, Kolkata Knight Riders of the Indian Premier League. He is also a regular host and stage show performer. The media called him as Brand SRK due to his many endorsements and business ventures. He is also a philanthropy who has given health care and reliefs to the disaster victims. He gained the UNESCO’s Pyramide con Marni Award in year 2011 for supporting the education of many children.

Khan got married to Gauri Chibber on October 25, 1991 and they have been blessed with a son named Aryan and a daughter named Suhana. In year 2013, through a surrogate mother, the couple had another baby named Abram.