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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. Sharada was a skilled artist and to portray any scene which contained any kind of grievance or pain; she was chosen. There is also a fact that scenes were specially scripted to depict the pain to show her skills, and that was a one-way audience got attracted towards her. Personal Life: Sharada belongs to Andhra Pradesh, India. When she was born her name was 'Saraswati Devi' that was later changed. On 25th June 1945, Venkateswar...

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 was auctioned, her father died, and she assumed the financial responsibility by becoming an actress, first in Marathi and later in Hindi cinema, but in acting, she did not click. Later she surprised everyone with one of her solo number (Aayega Aanewaala) from the movie Mahal released in 1949. The song was screened on Madhubala. Finally, Lata became a singing star overnight. 

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 was auctioned, her father died, and she assumed the financial responsibility by becoming an actress, first in Marathi and later in Hindi cinema, but in acting, she did not click. Later she surprised everyone with one of her solo number (Aayega Aanewaala) from the movie Mahal released in 1949. The song was screened on Madhubala. Finally, Lata became a singing star overnight. 

Date of Birth: 28-09-1929

Date of Death: 06-02-2022

Age: 94

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Female

Language: Hindi

Skills: Singer

Biography About Lata Mangeshkar

Biography About Lata Mangeshkar

Date of Birth: 28-09-1929

Date of Death: 06-02-2022

Age: 94

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Female

Language: Hindi

Skills: Singer

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). In 1969, he made his cinematic debut as an independent cinematographer with Bhuvan Shome, a landmark picture in Indian cinema. The film won all three elite prizes at the national awards: best feature picture, best director, and best actor. His genuine career breakthrough came as a result of the film. He has also worked on numerous Bollywood classics with Basu Chatterjee, including Swami, Piya ka Ghar, Rajnigandha, Mqanzil, Chitchor, and Choti ...

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 National Film Board of Canada on a UNESCO fellowship, where he briefly apprenticed under Norman MacLaren. Before becoming an independent filmmaker, he worked at Films Division, where he established an animation lab. Gujarati masterpieces serve as the inspiration for these feature films. His film is Saraswati Chandra, is based on Govardhan Tripathi's epic novel, coupled with its sequel Gunsundari No Ghar Sansar. W...

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 led him to win India's two most prominent awards, ‘Padma Bhushan Award’ in 1983 and Da...

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. He continued his study under D.D. Kosambi. He also got a chance to study at the Institut des Hautes etudes cinématographiques in France, as the French government awarded him a scholarship. There he assisted Robert Bresson with his first color film, Une femme douce. His first film came out in 1965. It was his graduate diploma film titled The Glass Pane. After this, he made several short films. These were Manmad Passenger in 1967, A certain childhood in 1969, Rails for the World in 1970...

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 active from 1963 till he died in 1992. He died at the age of 75 in Chennai.

He began as an Assistant director to T.R. Ragunath. He also worked under C.V. Sridhar. Then he became a full-fledged director. P. Madhavan’s notable films are Dheiva Thaai, Vietnam Veedu, Thanga Pathakkam, Kanne Paapa, and Kuzhanthaikaga. Vietnam Veedu is a brilliant creation and watched by many even now. Thanga Pathakkam is a milestone film in his career. Sivaji Ganesan is the hero of the film.

This f...

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 as G. Aravindan, P.N. Menon and much more.

Ravi Varma is also the director of two movies and he has also won many awards. He has won seven Kerala State Film Awards and Two National Film Awards for many categories. Ravi Varma loved photography when he was a kid. Therefore, he did his graduation from Victoria College and he also studied motion pictures photography from the FTII (Institute Of Film Technology). After he had completed his stu...

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.

He is at present the Chief executive officer (CEO) and Chairperson of Graphiti Multimedia which is an Animation Company situated in Mumbai. Graphiti Multimedia got established in the year 1995. In the year 2006, Graphiti School of animation also got established in Mumbai.

Ram Mohan won the National Film Award for the category Best Non-Feature Animation Film. He won awards for his animated films Fire Games in the year 1983 and You said it in the year 1972. He also got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Film Festival which was held in Mu...

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 Ray a.k.a. Siddharth Ray.

Shantaram at that point wedded on-screen character Jayashree and, they had three youngsters Tejashree, Marathi movie chief and maker Kiran and performing artist Rajshree. His third spouse, performer Sandhya starred opposite him in Do Aankhen Barah Haath and also the courageous woman of his movies, for example, Sehra, Jhanak Payal Baaje, Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli and Navrang.

His girl Madhura from his first marriage w...

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 was married to Chandramathi Thampuratti. Later he got married to Bharathy Amma, and they have four children together. Their son Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma is a popular lyricist working for the Malayalam entertainment industry.

They also have three daughters, Yamuna, Indulekha, and Sindhu. Bharathy wrote Indradhanussin Theerathu, a book about his late husband, Vayalar. The book became controversial after it was published. Vayalar has written about...

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 as a film director was the Singhalese film named "Veera Vijaya" in the year 1960. "Jn...

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 was born in a small village of Kanagal in Karnataka in a poor Brahmin family to Subbamma and Ramaswamaiah. Being born in a low income family had its hardships and he struggled a lot to get a decent job and did many odd jobs for money. But the job of publicity boy brought him the opportunity to be closer to the film industry.

He started his career as an assistant director to B. R. Punthulu and later got into filmmaking as a full-fledged ...

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 Institute. His debut film was Swayamvaram, which became a milestone in the history of the Malayalam cinema. The film won four National Awards including Best Script, Best Film, Best Actress and Best Director. His third film Elippathayam fetched him the British Film Institute Award for Most Original and Imaginative Film in 1982. The International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) was offered to him six times with great honour. For his work in Indian Cinema, he was h...

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 of the honorary doctorate by Oxford University ( after actor Chaplin). The government of India has awarded him ‘Padma Bhushan(1965) and  Dadasaheb Phalke Award(1985) and the highest civilian honour’Bharat Ratna’(1992) too. In 1992, he was even posthumously awarded the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement in directing at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The director was chosen once...

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 and gave close attention to the situation of the song. He even focused on the scene of the song that he composed. 

Burman also used folk music in his tunes. This composer actually made folk songs acceptable to the masses. He lent his baritone voice to many films that he had composed. He got a National award for ‘Aradhana’ for which he had composed the songs. Although Burman did ...

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, released 1963, for the tunes composed by music director Sachin Dev Burman. From then on, he went on to write the lyrics for many memorable songs of the Bollywood industry. He worked with magnanimous music directors like R. D. Burman, S. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik to name a few. The work of the trio Maniratnam, A. R .Rahman and Gulzar is much remembered in the industry. He has also given dialogues and scree...

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 the celebrated film “The Perfect Murder” in 1988, which was based on the 1964 novel of the same name by British crime fiction writer HRF Keating and starred Naseeruddin Shah. He won the National Film Award yet again in 1993 for the film “Timeless India”. In 2004, while making a movie on Jamshedji and JRD Tata, Hai decided to heed to the call of his roots as his camera prepared to leave the world of corporate Mumbai and roll back into a time when ...

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 is the daughter of a legendary novelist C.V. Raman. Adoor had four brothers and two sisters, late Omana Amma, Rajlaxmi Amma, late K. Sankaran Nair, K. Padmanabhan Nair, late Krishna Nair, and late K. Ramchandran Nair alias Chandraji, who was a film director.

Adoor did his former schooling from a missionary school at Travancore, but after his father had passed away at 44, he moved to Adoor and did his latter studies from th...

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 relationship with Sulakshana Pandit, but the couple didn’t get married. He went to a film school. It was here that he learned the nuances of acting. He performed with Indian People’s Theatre Association and then became a part of the Indian National Theatre. He was spotted by director Gulzar.

In 1960, he debuted in the movie Hum Hindustani, in which he played a small role of a police inspector. His first movie as a lead actress was Nishan, which released in...

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 great classical Malayalam musician. His first song was Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham (music: M B Sreenivasan) recorded on 14 November 1961. This song is so close to Yesudas, that he signs it even today very often in any of the concerts. His journey started with this song. He got his first hit through a movie Bharya under the music direction of G. Devarajan. He made huge hit songs in Tamil and Telugu film industries as well. His first song in Tamil was in a film Bomm...

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 Telugu and he can speak Telugu, Tamil, and English. He is having 57 years of working experience in film industry. He got many awards like Nandi awards, National-film awards, Filmfare awards, etc. He did many hit films like shankara baranam, sagara sangamam, etc. He had done many bollywood films like sargam, sanjog, eeshwar, sangeet, etc. He started his career as a technician at Chennai. After that he worked a...

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 in many serials and movies. He acted in 600 films in his film career and he is also a stage performer.

He got fame with the serial “Amrutham” which aired on Gemini TV in which he played as Anjaneyulu. In 1985, he started his first drama Idhemiti and that drama was seen by Jandhyala and he gave an offer in his movie. After that in 1987, he acted in Jandhyala’s movie ‘Ahan Na Pellanta’ and from this film onwards he got fame...