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Hindi Awards 20th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. Sharada


sharada.png Noted South Indian actress Sharada, a three-time recipient of National Award, is a South Indian Actress. Initially, she has done many supporting roles in Telugu films, later on, she moved to Malayalam film industry and gained success there. She is also known as Urvashi Sharada because earlier the National Film Award for Best Actress was officially designated as Urvashi Award....
Date of Birth: 25-06-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 25-06-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actress

2. Lata Mangeshkar


15-05-2017/lata-mangeshkar.png Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had formal training in music from her father. Her father ran a theater company in Mumbai, where she began to learn music with her father's grudging approval, and with whom she also sang a song. As her father was a conservative man, film music was not appreciated at her home. After the theater company...
Date of Birth: 28-09-1929
Date of Death: 06-02-2022
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-09-1929
Date of Death: 06-02-2022
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer

3. 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

4. Govind Saraiya


30-10-2020/govind-saraiya.jpg Govind Saraiya is an Indian film director who was born in the Gujarati town Nadiad in 1929. Saraswati Chandra, Sajjo Rani, and Angarey are some of his most well-known films as a director. In 1960, he received a National Award for best educational/motivational/instructional cinema. Bombay University is where Govind earned his bachelor's degree. He studied animation at Walt Disney Studios and the...
Date of Birth: 1929
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1929
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

5. 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

6. Kumar Shahani


13-10-2020/kumar-shahani.jpg Kumar Shahani is a renowned director. He was born on 7th December 1940 in Larkana, Sindh, now a part of Pakistan. Kumar completed his B. A (Hons) in Political Science and History from the University of Bombay. He was a student of Ritwik Ghatak at the Film and Television Institute of India, where he studied screenplay writing and advanced direction....
Date of Birth: 07-12-1940
Age: 83
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-12-1940
Age: 83
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

7. 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

8. Mankada Ravi Varma


26-11-2016/mankada-ravi-varma.png Manakda Ravi Varma was born on 4th June, 1926 in Malappuram, Kerala. Ravi Varma passed away at the age of 84on 22nd November, 2010 in Tamil Nadu, India. People also know him as Raviettan. He started his career in the year 1966. He is a very popular Malayalam Film Director and Cinematographer. He has worked with many famous Directors such...
Date of Birth: 04-06-1926
Date of Death: 22-11-2010
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-06-1926
Date of Death: 22-11-2010
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Cinematographer

9. Animator Ram Mohan


a/n/i/m/a/t/animator-ram-mohan.png Ram Mohan was born in the year 1931 and he is currently of the age 86. He is a very popular Animator. Ram Mohan is also a design tutor and title designer as well. He is the father of the Indian Animation. He started his career with the Cartoon films unit in the year 1956....
Date of Birth: 26-08-1931
Date of Death: 11-10-2019
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 26-08-1931
Date of Death: 11-10-2019
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Animator

10. V Shantaram


v/0/s/h/a/n/v-shantaram.jpg Born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, on November 18, 1901, Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre alluded to as Shantaram Bapu or V. Shantaram, was a Marathi Indian movie producer, filmmaker and performing artist. He is from a Marathi Jain family and, he wedded thrice. He first married to Vimla and, they had three kids Saroj, Prabhat Kumar, and Charusheela, mother of performing artist Sushant...
Date of Birth: 18-11-1901
Date of Death: 30-10-1990
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-11-1901
Date of Death: 30-10-1990
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

11. Vayalar Ramavarma


v/a/y/a/l/a/vayalar-ramavarma.jpg Valayar Ramavarma was an Indian poet and lyricist. He was a modern Malayalam lyricist as well as a poet. Some of his famous works are Padamudrakal, Oru Judas Janikkannu, Mulankaadu, Sargasangeetham, etc. Valayar was born on 25 March 1928, in a village of Valayar, Alappuzha, Kerala. His father was Vellarappally Kerala Varma while his mother was Raghavaparambil Ambalika Thamburatty. He...
Date of Birth: 28-03-1928
Date of Death: 27-10-1975
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-03-1928
Date of Death: 27-10-1975
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

12. 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

13. 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

14. Adoor Gopalakrishnan


adoor-gopalakrishnan.png Born into a family in Kerala, Adoor Gopalakrishnan started doing amateur plays at a young age. Later, he wrote and helmed few plays. His interest in this field was imbibed in him by his family. He had studied Economics, Political Science and Public Administration at Gandhigram Rural University in 1961. Then he studied screenwriting and filmmaking at the Pune Film...
Date of Birth: 03-07-1941
Age: 83
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-07-1941
Age: 83
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

15. 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

16. 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

17. Zafar Hai


15-11-2019/zafar-hai.jpg Zafar Hai is an Indian filmmaker and writer. He is the uncle of Hollywood actor, producer and director Tabreez Noorani. Hai has been in the industry for more than three decades. He won the National Film Award for Best Promotional Film in the year 1972, for his film “Destination India”. His next call to fame was as the director of...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer, Director

18. Gulzar


gulzar.jpg Gulzar is the pen name of the author, poet and popular lyricist Sampooran Singh Karla. He was born on the 18th of August in 1934 in Dina, Jhelum district of British India to parents Makhan Singh Karla and Sujan Kaur. His career kicked off under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His songwriting career began with the movie Bandini,...
Date of Birth: 18-08-1934
Age: 90
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-08-1934
Age: 90
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Lyricist, Poet

19. Adoor Bhasi


adoor-bhasi.jpg Hailing from the city of Kerala, Adoor is an actor and a director. He was born on 1st March 1927 in Vazhuthacaud, Thiruvananthapuram. He spent his childhood with his parents at Travancore. He was the fourth son to E.V. Krishna Pillai, who is a revolutionary story writer, a lawyer and a member of Travancore Legislative Assembly, and Maheshwari Amma, who...
Date of Birth: 01-03-1927
Date of Death: 29-03-1990
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-03-1927
Date of Death: 29-03-1990
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

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. K J Yesudas


k/0/j/0/y/e/k-j-yesudas.jpg Kattassery Joseph Yesudas shortly called as K J Yesudas is an exceptional Carnatic singer and playback singer in Indian Cinema. Born on Jan 10 in 1940, he is fondly called as Gana Gandharvan and Dasettan. He has set a record of recording more than 60,000 songs. He is born in a Roman Catholic family, in Kochi. His father was a...
Date of Birth: 10-01-1940
Age: 84
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-01-1940
Age: 84
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer, Musician

22. Kasinadhuni Viswanath


29-09-2017/kasinathuni-viswanath.jpg Kasinadhuni Viswanath is a famous south Indian film actor, writer, director. He is from Repalle, Andhra Pradesh. Kasinathuni Viswanath’s father’s name was Subrahmanyam and mother’s name was saraswathamma. He married Jaya lakshmi and he has 3 children and their names are Ravindhranath, Nagendhranath and Padhmavathi. And he has 4 grand children: pranav, hema, swarna, and naren. His mother tongue is...
Date of Birth: 19-02-1930
Date of Death: 02-02-2023
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-02-1930
Date of Death: 02-02-2023
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director

23. Gundu Hanumantha Rao


19-02-2018/gundu-hanumantha-rao.png Gundu Hanumantha Rao is a popular comedian in Telugu industry. He is from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. He was born and brought up in Vijayawada. He had a Chocolates and Biscuits Company at Vijayawada. He has 28 year of working experience in acting. In the year of 1974, he started working on stage shows. His first role was Ravana Brahma. He has worked...
Date of Birth: 10-10-1956
Date of Death: 19-02-2018
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-10-1956
Date of Death: 19-02-2018
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu