Shraddha Kapoor
Maxima Basu
Deepa Bhatia
Anju Modi
Richa Chadda
Swara Bhaskar
Deepika Padukone
Ronnie Screwvala
Anand Gandhi
Amitabh Bachchan
Aditya Roy Kapur
Ritesh Shah
Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Apurva Asrani
Hansal Mehta
Ravi Varman
Remo Dsouza
Wasiq Khan
Manohar Verma
Ritesh Batra
Sushant Singh Rajput
Arijit Singh
Swanand Kirkire
Pritam Chakraborty
Rishi Kapoor
Saurabh Shukla
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Farhan Akhtar
Shoojit Sircar
Shah Rukh Khan
1. Shraddha Kapoor
Shraddha Kapoor, born on March 3rd, 1989, is a young emerging actress of Hindi Film Industry. She is the daughter of veteran actor Shakti Kapoor and niece of famous actress Padmini Kolhapure. Shraddha started her acting career in the year 2010 with a film called Teen Patti which had Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley and R. Madhavan in it. Though the film did not do well at the box office, her performance got some attention. Her second film was Luv Ka the End (a teen comedy), opposite Taaha Shah, which failed to perform at the box office but Shraddha’s performance in the movie was very well appreciated by the film critics. Even after giving two consecutive flops, Shraddha went on to take a major risk and cancelled her three-film contract with Yash Raj Films, signing a Mohit Suri directorial flick Aashiqui...
2. Maxima Basu
Maxima Basu is a well-known costume designer from Delhi. Maxima is also an Earth lover and a scuba driver. She has worked for various films and has created a wardrobe ranging from majestic clothes to ragged clothes. Her wardrobe selection has intensified the films she was involved in. She has worked simultaneously on three different films at a time. They were: ‘Padmavati’ (Bhansali production), ‘Raabta’ (Maddock production) and ‘Dangal’ (Aamir Khan production).
In ‘Dangal’, she replaced Manoshi Nath and Rushi Sharma who are popularly called as Manu-Rishi. For ‘Raabta’, she had to design some armoury and for ‘Padmavati’, she had to create a jacket for Ranveer Singh. Initially, she was...
3. Deepa Bhatia
Early life
Deepa Bhatia completed her post-graduate diploma course in social communications media from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai.
Career as a film editor
She belonged to the family of multi-talents, who expended their full potential for creating original theme and substance in their work. She is well-known for her role as an editor, director, and producer. She made her debut as an editor while working with eminent director GovindNihalani for his film HazaarChaurasi Ki Maa. She had earlier assisted him in direction when he noticed her talents. From the beginning, she was fascinated by the post-production aspects and got interested in editing. A woman of conviction...
4. Anju Modi
'Anju Modi' is a critically-acclaimed Indian fashion and costume designer. She started her career in the year 1990 after doing a collection based on embroidery and weaving. She is now one of the founders of the Fashion Design Council of India. Unlike her competitors, Anju has made a fascinating identity in the fashion world by doing ramp shows instead of designing costumes for Bollywood flicks. She is running her flagship now from DLF Emporium Delhi and accredits her own labels called “Anju Modi” and “AM: PM.”
Anju never had any formal training or education in Fashion as she developed her skills through her association with the craftsmen and experimenting on the world of couture. She rais...
5. Richa Chadda
Richa Chadda is a new and sultry Indian actress. She came into public’s view through her film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! starring as Dolly in a supportive actress role. But before this stardom, Richa started out as a model. After modeling, she changed her course to the theater. She toured in India as well as Pakistan for her plays. She gained more insight on the theater from the Founder-Director of ‘Theatre Action Group’, Barry John.
She spent her childhood in Delhi with her father of Punjabi and mother of Bihari descent. She completed her schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in 2002. After graduating from St. Stephan’s college for Bachelors in History, she went on to get a PG Diploma. Her course was of Social Communication Media, which she completed from Sophia Polytechnic College, Mum...
6. Swara Bhaskar
7. Deepika Padukone
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 Ba...
8. Ronnie Screwvala
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.
He worked as a cable TV operator in the city Mumbai under the network company. It provided a video channel for three hours to people who lived in the Cuffe Parade area which is the affluent area of Mumbai. The channel became famous, and craze grew among people there. In the year 1990, Ronnie found the UTV...
9. Anand Gandhi
From TV Soap writing to becoming an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, born on 26 September 1980, in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Anand Gandhi has worked as a producer, script writer, director, cinematographer and currently working as a CEO of ‘Memesys Culture Lab’, a Mumbai-based Studio. He began his career when he was 19, as a scriptwriter for some of the famous TV Soaps in India in the early 2000’s. He wrote dialogues for the first 82 episodes of the prominent TV Serial “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi”. ‘Kyunki..’ and “Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii” , where some of his work fields for which he wrote screenplay. No doubt this person was one of the backbones of many successful Hindi daily Soaps. He then moved away from his television career to write and direct many critically acclaimed play...
10. Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.
In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By t...
11. Aditya Roy Kapur
Aditya Roy Kapur, a young and successful actor was born on 16th November, 1985 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Aditya was a video jockey before coming to Bollywood. He is a self made man who started his film career as a side actor and later a leading actor. He acted in his first movie LONDON DREAMS alongside the superstars Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan, which released in the year 2009 and it didn’t secure a hit as expected.
Aditya has 2 brothers Siddharth Roy Kapur and Kunaal Roy Kapur. Kunal is also an actor who mostly plays side roles in the movies and worked in more than 8 movies till now and he also did two TV shows JUST MOHABBAT and MUMBAI CALLING. Siddharth is Aditya’s eldest brother who is a Producer and a Managing Director of Disney, India. Till now, Siddharth has produced more than 25 films as ...
12. Ritesh Shah
Ritesh Shah is a very well-known screenwriter who lives in Mumbai currently. His very recent famous works include ‘Airlift’ which was released in 2016. Ritesh along with fellow writer Suresh Nair put together a power packed dialogue and screenplay, and the movie was a blast in the box office.
In the silver screen industry, he was nominated for best screenplay and best dialogue writing award in the Indian Telly Jury Award for his work in the show ‘Kashmeer’ that aired on Star Plus back in 2003.
He was also nominated for the Filmfare Award in 2014 for his dialogue and screenplay in the movie ‘D-Day’ that released in 2013. This movie starred Bollywood hotties like Arjun Rampal and Irrfan Khan.
He was nominated for Best Story award in Filmfare 2014 for the movie ‘B.A. Pass&r...
13. Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Bishwadeep Chatterjee is an Indian-audio mixer, Sound Designer, and Sound Editor. He has worked on a lot of projects in the Television and Film Industry. He worked in the movie named Madras Café, which brought him the National Film Award for the Best Audiography. In the year 2013, he worked in Bajirao Mastani. In the year 2018, he worked in Uri: The Surgical Strike, and in the year 2018, he worked with the movie named Children Of The Soil.
...14. Apurva Asrani
Based in Mumbai, Apurva started off his career as a film editor while also giving directing and screenwriting a try. Born on 21st March 1978 he began his career in television as an assistant for Bpl Oye! on Channel V in 1995. In an interview he said that he worked anywhere from 17 to 20 hours on editing the show. He continued working for various shows and serials including Sajid Khan’s El TV and serials for Plus Channel.
He began editing films at the age of 19 with Ramgopal Varma’s Satya. He won a Filmfare award for his work in Satya. Apurva was praised for his editing work in the film Chhal, which received rave reviews from critic. He then edited Anupam Kher’s film Om Jai Jagadish, which was Kher’s debut as a director. In 2014 Apurva won Best Screenplay at the Life Ok Screen Awards for his work in Shah...
15. Hansal Mehta
Hansal Mehta is an Indian writer, director, producer and actor. He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He started his career in the year 1993 by directing TV serials. His first serial was a cookery show, hosted by Sanjeev Kapoor on Zee TV; the show was ‘Khana Khazana’. He also directed the TV serials ‘Amrita’ in 1994, Yaadein in 1995, Lakshya in 1998 and many more. Mehta made his directorial debut film in 1999, named ‘Jayate’.
Later he directed films on different themes; he was praised with handling and showing different topics in a subtle way. He directed films like ‘Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!’ in 2000, ‘Chhal’ (2002), ‘Woodstock Villa’ (2008) and a few more. His 2013 released film ‘Shahid’, star...
16. Ravi Varman
Ravi was born in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. By profession, he is a cinematographer. Also, he penned the script and directed one movie. He has got some nominations and awards for his brilliant works. With a connection to the South Indian movie industry, he also has worked in Bollywood, and his work won acclamation. His great zeal for literature helped him to create a magazine (online) named Yavarum Kelir. His interest in photography is linked to the death of his mother, who he lost at a very young age.
He grew up watching movies, but he never thought that he will make his career in the film industry. Ravi has been a part of various languages movies like Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English. He has done some TV commercials, albums and short films.
For the movie ‘Barfi’, he got four awards and one for...
17. Remo Dsouza
Remo D’Souza, who is primarily an Indian dancer cum choreographer, is also an actor and film director. He was born on 2nd of April, 1972 in Jamnagar, Gujarat and was named as ‘Ramesh Gopi’. He changed his name, when he moved himself into Christianity religion. His wife’s name is Lizelle D’Souza. It is a very true fact that he struggled hard in his life to reach the celebrity place. He is primarily involved in choreography and choreographed several numbers of films as of now.
He took a place as judge in the most famous reality show of the country, ‘Dance India Dance’. He has also participated in several other dance shows as judge and guest judge. It was during his HSC board exams, he realized that he is not interested in studies anymore. D’Souza immediately left hi...
18. Wasiq Khan
Wasiq Khan was born in the year 1975 in Delhi. He is an Indian art director and production designer. He is popular for his realism and has been a part of great movies like "The Girl in Yellow Boots" which was released in 2011, "Gangs of Wasseypur" which was released in 2012 and "Goliyon Ki Rasleela: Ramleela" which was released in 2013. He was born in the family of an engineer and grew up in Delhi. He joined Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi in 1996. There he met Samir Chanda while shooting the movie "Sardar", released in 1993, and he came to Mumbai to work with him but couldn’t reach him. He found out a job as a backdrop painter and later met Samir Chanda. Samir Chanda then hired Wasiq Khan to work as an assistant producer. They did movies like "Iruvar", "Hari-Bhari&qu...
19. Manohar Verma
Manohar Verma is an Indian stunt performer who worked for the Hindi film industry. He worked in more than 20+ Bollywood movies. Manohar is also a second unit director and an actor. Some famous Hindi films in which he worked are Lootcase, Airlift, Mardaani, Madras Café, PM Narendra Modi, Shirin Farhad Ki TohNikalPadi, Love You to Death, Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, and many others.
He also won one award in Screen Awards for Best Action in 2014 for the movie Madras café and three nominations in Filmfare Awards and South Indian International Movie Awards.
...20. Ritesh Batra
21. Sushant Singh Rajput
Sushant Singh Rajput is one of the famous Indian television and film actors. He was born on 21st January, 1986 in Patna. His father use to work in a government office. In early 2000s, his family moved to Delhi. Rajput is the younger brother to his four sisters. He has completed his schooling from St. Karen's High School located in Patna and Kulachi Hansraj Model School located in New Delhi. After that, he joined in DCE (Delhi College of Engineering), but after 3 years he has decided to drop out for his acting career.
He has chosen to perform in 2006 Commonwealth Games and the background dancer group at the 51st Film fare Awards. After shifting to Mumbai also he started to involve in theater plays and also became a member of Nadira Babbar's Ekjute theater group.
H...
22. Arijit Singh
Most famous for his songs in Aashiqui 2, Arijit Singh has established himself as a prominent playback singer and music programmer. He was the runner-up in Fame Gurukul, a singing competition, in 2005. He then went on to win another singing reality show, 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil.
Born in 1987 in West Bengal, Arjit was trained in classical music by his aunt and mother. He had a passion for music from an early age and his parents decided to get him a professional trainer, Rajendra Prasad Hazari for classical music and Dhirendra Prasad Hazari to train him at tabla. His teachers encouraged Arijit to try out for Fame Gurukul in 2005 and chose to promote the Indian classical music genre.
Pritam Chakraborty gave Arjit a chance and signed him for three films; Crook, Golmaal 3, and Action R...
23. Swanand Kirkire
24. Pritam Chakraborty
25. Rishi Kapoor
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 difficult task for him to make a debut in films. Raj Kapoor gave him a chance to play a teenager, who was caught on the thin line of boyhood and adulthood in the movie Mera Naam Joker. The film fell flat in the box office, and Raj Kapoor was in massive financial loss.
Hence to tide over the financial crisis Raj Kapoor created teenage romance film Bobby with Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, which remains Rishi’s iconic film to date. Ris...
26. Saurabh Shukla
Saurabh Shukla was born at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in the year 1963 on 5th March. He is a versatile personality who started from theater & reached to Bollywood where he tried his hands in Direction, Screenplay writing along with his Acting. At the age of two, he left Gorakhpur & moved to Delhi. He completed his schooling & later did his graduation from Khalsa College in Delhi. In 1984, he kickstarted his career as a professional with his entry into the theater. Shekhar Kapur gave him the debut role in Bandit Queen.
Earlier he did many plays & also joined NSD Repertoire Company as an actor. Satya, that was directed by Ram Gopal Verma proved to be the film in which his role could not be sidelined. Anurag Kashyap & Saurabh Shukla wrote the story of th...
27. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Born on 7th July 1963, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is a screenwriter and filmmaker. Rang De Basanti and Baag Mika Baag are two of his acclaimed films. He has penned the script as well as directed the films Aks and Delhi 6. The issues surrounding the Mandal Commission of VP Singh inspired Mehra to direct Rang De Basanti.
Mehra never hesitates to voice his opinion on current issues, no matter they are done through films or in real life. He in fact condemned the Education system of India to give priority to scores. He also cited Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore in this regard. He told that Shakespeare would not have been a great...
28. Farhan Akhtar
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 ass...
29. Shoojit Sircar
Shoojit Sircar is an Indian film producer and director born in Kolkata, India. Shoojit is from a Bengali family in Barrackpore from where he completed his schooling.
He directed Bollywood movies like Yahaan released in 2005, Vicky Donor in 2012, Madras Cafe 2013 and Piku 2015, which were all praised, by critics and audience alike. He was appreciated for his art of direction after every film of his. He was also into ad filmmaking and has created award-winning commercials. Having worked with almost all leading agencies in India for products of all categories reflects how versatile he is as a director.
The director, however still has his roots into theatre. He still gives the credit of who he is to theatre. He said that being really involved in plays for pure passion and no money has mad...
30. Shah Rukh Khan
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 ...