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1. Rakhee Gulzar


raakhee-gulzar.png Raakhee attained stardom with her first film itself; it was the Bengali flick Bandhu Baran which helped her in attaining this status. Then Bollywood leading star Sunil Dutt recommended her for the Hindi flick Reshma Aur Shera. But she did Sharmeelee and Jeevan Mrutya even before Reshma Aur Shera. In Sharmeelee, Raakhee shared screen space with Sashi Kapoor and their...
Date of Birth: 15-08-1947
Age: 77
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-08-1947
Age: 77
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills: Movie Actress

2. Dimple Kapadia


22-05-2017/dimple-kapadia.png Regarded as the wife of the first superstar of Hindi cinema Rajesh Khanna, she made her foray into films with showman Raj Kapoor’s Bobby in 1973. She later spent her life as a devoted house wife after marrying Rajesh Khanna in the same year 1973 and had almost had quit the film industry. She played her first Bollywood teen role...
Date of Birth: 08-06-1957
Age: 67
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 08-06-1957
Age: 67
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Actress

3. Asha Bhosle


Asha-Bhosle.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 08-09-1933
Age: 91
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 08-09-1933
Age: 91
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer

4. Mohammed Rafi


06-02-2017/mohammed-rafi.jpg Mohammed Rafi is a renowned Indian playback singer who dominated Bollywood for over three decades where no singer could equal his mighty classical voice or even come closer to him in his voice quality; that was appreciated across the globe. He was at the height of his career when actors like Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, and Raj Kapoor ruled the...
Date of Birth: 24-12-1924
Date of Death: 31-07-1980
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-12-1924
Date of Death: 31-07-1980
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

5. Kalyanji Virji Shah


19-04-2017/kalyanji-virji-shah.png Kalyanji Virji Shah is mostly known as Kalyanji from Kalyanji-Anandji duo. Kalyanji was born on June 30, 1928, to Virji Shah. Virji Shah was a businessman in Kutch, Gujrat. Later, to start a provision store he moved to Mumbai. He has a brother Anandji Virji Shah, they both are very famous Indian musicians. Kalyanji-Anandji has won the Filmfare Award for...
Date of Birth: 30-06-1928
Date of Death: 24-08-2000
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-06-1928
Date of Death: 24-08-2000
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

6. Mahendra Kapoor


06-02-2017/mahendra-kapoor.jpg Mahendra Kapoor was a playback singer in 1960’s, and he became popular for singing songs for music composers like O P Nayyar and Ravi. He was inspired by singers like Mohammed Rafi and even Mohammed Rafi congratulated him many times for the quality of his voice; Rafi found Mahendra’s voice a bit classical. Overall, the singer has sung  2,500 songs...
Date of Birth: 09-01-1934
Date of Death: 27-09-2008
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-01-1934
Date of Death: 27-09-2008
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer

7. 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

8. Salim Khan


s/a/l/i/m/0/salim-khan.jpg Salim Khan was born in 1935 and he is considered as a popular Indian actor as well as a talented Screenwriter in the Indian film industry. He is an individual who hails from Indore, in the Madhya Pradesh of India. His father was a member of the ‘Police force’. The Salim-Javed screenwriting has been a reason why he has been able...
Date of Birth: 24-11-1935
Age: 88
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-11-1935
Age: 88
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

9. 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

10. Asrani


Asrani.jpg Govardhan Asrani, simply known with the pet name Asrani, is a popular Bollywood veteran actor. He was born on 1st January, 1941 in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Asrani's father had a small carpet shop. He had four sisters and three brothers. Since childhood, Asrani never had interest in business and also he was very bad in mathematics. He completed his schooling from...
Date of Birth: 01-01-1941
Age: 83
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-01-1941
Age: 83
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

11. Rishi Kapoor


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

12. Javed Akhtar


Javed-Akhtar.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 17-01-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-01-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

13. Amitabh Bachchan


a/m/i/t/a/b/amitabh-bachchan.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 11-10-1942
Age: 82
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-10-1942
Age: 82
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

14. Yash Chopra


yash-chopra.jpg Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king of romance’ in Indian cinema for directing films like kabhie Kabhie. Daag, Noorie, Silsila, Darr, Chandni, Lamhe, Dil To Pagal Hai, etc. Earlier, he made some serious and social films like Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dharmputra, and Ittefaq, etc. He was a trendsetter as a filmmaker. Yash Chopra gave Bollywood the...
Date of Birth: 27-09-1932
Date of Death: 21-10-2012
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-09-1932
Date of Death: 21-10-2012
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director