Vijaya Mulay
Ananda Shankar Jayant
Lata Mangeshkar
Shabana Azmi
S Sukhdev
S Krishnaswamy
Prem Vaidya
Pramod Pati
Srirangam Srinivasarao
Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy
Pattathuvila Karunakaran
KK Mahajan
Soumendu Roy
Mrinal Sen
Bhim Sain
G Aravindan
Anil Ganguly
Sadhu Meher
Ritwik Ghatak
Satyajit Ray
Mukesh Chand Mathur
Zafar Hai
Kushal Chakraborty
Shyam Benegal
1. Vijaya Mulay
Vijaya Mulay is a filmmaker, Educationist, Historian and a Writer. She was born on 16 May 1921 in Mumbai. People also know her by name Akka. She is one of the biggest personalities that influenced filmmaking industry across globe. She has given birth to a great personality who won National award Sushani Mulay. Vijaya Mulay’s family is one of the renowned families of India. Vijaya Mulay as an Educationist is remembered by her movie Ek anek aur ekta. Her movie Ek anek aur ekta won National movie award for the best Educational Film.
Vijaya Mulay started his career in the very backward state of India which symbolizes her hard work, passion, and dedication towards her car...
Date of Death:
19-05-2019
Age:
102
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
19-05-2019
Age:
102
Gender:
Female
2. Ananda Shankar Jayant
Ananda Shankar was born on 27 September 1961 in a Tamil Brahmin family in Tirunelveli District. She was a Famous Classical dancer. She was born to G.S. Shankar (Indian Railways Officer) and Subhashini (School Teacher and Musician) and was brought up in Hyderabad. She studied at St. Ann’s High School, Secunderabad. At the age of 4, she started learning classical dance under Sharada Keshava Rao. Her teachers are Padma Balagopal, Sharada Hoffman, and Krishnaveni Laxman at Kalakshetra of Rukmini Devi Arundale. By the age of 11, she had got both diploma as well as post graduate degrees in Bharatanatyam and various fields like Carnatic music, Veena, dance theory, and Philosophy.
She learned Kuchipudi under Pasumarthy Ramalinga Sa...
Age:
62
Gender:
Female
3. Lata Mangeshkar
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...
Date of Death:
06-02-2022
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
06-02-2022
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
4. Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin and social activist. Shabana was born on 18, September 1950 in Hyderabad. Her father, Kaifi Azmi was an Indian poet while her mother Shaukat Azmi was a stage actress for the Indian People’s Theatre Asociation.
Both her of her parents was supporters of the Communist Party of India. She has a brother named Baba Azmi, who is a cinematographer. Shabana’s early childhood memories consist of high social activity of her parents and respect for human values.
Shabana did her schooling at the Queen Mary School situated at Mumbai. Following that she did her graduation in Psychology from S...
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
5. S Sukhdev
S Sukhdev is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of documentary movies. He was born in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, on 1 st October 1933. Sukhdev has a daughter named Shabnam Sukhdev and granddaughter Ishaa Chopra. In 1955, Sukhdev started his career as an assistant cameraman for Paul Zil in India. His education did not get fully accomplished however, Sukhdev’s talent paved his way ahead. After excelling as a cameraman, Sukhdev started making short films on routine. Amongst his films, the most-loved ones are And Miles To Go…., India 67, and Nine Months To Freedom: The Story of Bangladesh. And Miles To Go is based on police repression, riches, and poverty which won an award in 1965 at International Film Festival. Sukhdev had used...
Date of Death:
01-03-1979
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-03-1979
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
6. S Krishnaswamy
S Krishnaswamy is counted among the legendary artists with exceptional skills. He is a well-known Indian documentary filmmaker and writer who is also the recipient of the Padmashri award given in 2009. He has given remarkable works to the industry, which are highly appreciated by people. His notable works include Indian Imprints, A Different Pilgrimage, and Tracking Indian Footmarks.
This personality was born on 29 July 1938 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He was raised in the former county only. He completed his schooling at one of the renowned schools of the state and later went to the United States to finish his further studies. He graduated to improve his communication skills from one of the prestigious Universities in the U.S...
Age:
85
Gender:
Male
7. Prem Vaidya
Prem Vaidya was born on February 26, 1927. He was a director, cinematographer, scriptwriter, and producer. His award-winning works include Veer Savarkar, a biographical documentary on freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. In 1954, he became a part of the Government of India’s Films Division as an assistant cinematographer. Moreover, Prem Vaidya has also directed movies like Kala Pani: A Pilgrimage, Veer Savarkar, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy: President of India, Go Slow, Rhythms of a New Life, etc.
Apart from directing, he was also a good writer. He wrote many articles for newspapers and international magazines in English, Hindi, and Marathi. Memorable Assignments on Moving Images...
Date of Death:
10-07-2014
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-07-2014
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
8. Pramod Pati
Pramod Pati is an Indian Film Director. He was born in Odisha in the year 1932 and studied there. He has done graduation from Utkal University in Bangalore and worked for a few years in the Odisha state government. He was awarded a scholarship to study in Czechoslovakia under the legendary puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator, and director Jiri Trinka. His work journey was small but filled with genre-busting and dazzling work. His short films date back to the 1960s and 70s, but they remain strikingly fresh. He preferred non-narrative ways of storytelling and mixing the cultures of Indian and Western....
Date of Death:
20-01-1975
Gender:
Male
9. Srirangam Srinivasarao
Srirangam Srinivasarao, who is lauded as the first truly modern poet of the Telugu literary world, is a poet and lyricist. The book readers know him for addressing contemporary issues via his writings. Srirangam Srinivasarao, more familiarly known as Sri Sri, was born on 30th April 1910 to Pudipeddi Venkatramaniah and Atappakonda, in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He started writing when he was seven years old. After completing his school education in Visakhapatnam, he moved to Chennai to pursue his college education in 1928. He finished his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Madras in 1931.
Srirangam Srinivasarao worked in a college as a demonstrator for some years before working as a sub-editor in Andhra Prabha. He ev...
Date of Death:
15-06-1983
Age:
114
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
15-06-1983
Age:
114
Gender:
Male
10. Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy
Padma Bhushan Dr. Bommireddy NarasimhaReddy is a legendary award-winning director of Indian cinema. He was one of the first people from South India to win the Dada Saheb Phalke Award and one of the first Indian film celebrities to earn the Doctor of Letters honor. Bommireddy NarasimhaReddy, popularly known as B.N. Reddy was born on 16th November 1908 in a village called Kothapalli in the Kadapa District of Andhra Pradesh. His father is NarasimhaReddy, and he has two younger brothers. His brother, B. Nagi Reddy, is also a famous Indian director, and his other brother B.N. Konda Reddy is a cinematographer. Theatre plays fascinated B.N. Reddy to the level that he went to Calcutta to watch plays and dramas.
He completed part of ...
Date of Death:
08-11-1977
Age:
115
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
08-11-1977
Age:
115
Gender:
Male
11. Pattathuvila Karunakaran
Pattathuvila Karunakaran was a film producer and a writer mainly writing in Malayalam Literature. He was born in Kollam, India in the British era in 1925. He received his primary education at Craven School, Quilon, and Graduated from the Presidency College Madras. Then went to study law at the Government Law College but didn’t complete the course. He worked as a journalist in Kerala, Kaumudi, before going to the US to study Business Administration at Syracuse University, where he earned a master’s degree in business administration. After completing his master’s degree, he returned to his homeland – Kerala, where he worked as a manager in the Calicut branch of Pierse Leslie India Ltd.
He spent the rest of h...
Date of Death:
06-05-1987
Gender:
Male
12. KK Mahajan
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...
Date of Death:
13-07-2007
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-07-2007
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
13. Soumendu Roy
Soumendu Roy is one of the most prominent and profitable cinematographers in India. Soumendu was born on 7 February 1933. He began his career in cinematography in 1960. Soumendu amazed everyone with his excellent cinematography skills. A few of his works are Rabindranath Tagore, Teen Kanya, Palatka, Abhijaan, Mahapurush, Kapurush, Balika Badhu, Badhubaran, Kuheli, Pratidwandi, Aranyer Din Ratri, Sikkim, The Inner Eye, Sonar Kella, Bala, Agun, Debata, Will To Live, and the list continues.
Although all his works are good, some were extraordinarily great, like Teen Kanya and Rabindranath Tagore. Soumendu’s contribution to Indian cinema was a lot left unrecognized. Concerning his work, he was awarded Best Cinematographer t...
Date of Death:
27-09-2023
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
27-09-2023
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
14. Mrinal Sen
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 le...
Date of Death:
30-12-2018
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
30-12-2018
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
15. Bhim Sain
Bhim Sain Khurana is a prominent Indian Filmmaker and animator. He was born on 24th November; 1936 in Multan, Pakistan. Bhimsain moved to Lucknow during the partition. He studied Fine Arts and Classical Music at Lucknow University. Then, he is working with Ram Mohan and Disney animator Clair Weeks as a background artist at the Films Division of India. Currently, he lives in Mumbai with his wife Neelam Khurana and sons Himaanshu and Kireet Khurana. Also, Neelam Khurana had worked as an executive producer on his feature film, Tum Laut Aao (1983; starring Ravi Baswani and Karan Razdan) and his documentary on Jamnalal Bajaj, Kathni Karni Eksi (1989). He also writes poetry, songs, paints, and composes music. His latest book, The Incomplete st...
Age:
87
Gender:
Male
Age:
87
Gender:
Male
16. G Aravindan
G. Aravindan, full name Govindan Aravindan was an exceptional personality with many talents. Aravindan was a screenplay writer, painter, director, and cartoonist of Indian origin. He was born in Kottayam in present-day Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in 1935. He was born to a family of artists, his father being M.N. Govindan Nair – a comedy writer. Aravindan went to University College in Trivandrum, Kerala. At an early age, Aravindan started working as an illustrator for Mathrubhumi – a Malayalam weekly newspaper. He worked with Mathrubhumi for 12 years and was known for his comic strip Cheriya Manushyarum Valiya Lokavum which revolved around the socio-politic scenario of the country. After some time, he developed an inclination t...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
17. Anil Ganguly
Anil Ganguly, born on 26th January 1933, was a renowned film director, who entertained the Indian audience for almost two decades. He passed away at the age of 82, on 15th January 2016. He was primarily famous for the 1974 film “Kora Kagaz”, which starred Jaya Bachchan. Along with “Kora Kagaz”, his next movie “Tapasya” (1975) won the National Award for the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. “Tapasya” also marked the comeback of actress Raakhee Gulzar after marriage, making the movie even more popular among the viewers. He started working in the 60s as an assistant director in some films, like “Half Ticket” and “Bheegi Raat”.
He then began wo...
Date of Death:
15-01-2016
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
15-01-2016
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
18. Sadhu Meher
Sadhu Meher is a noted film actor who stated with Hindi films and later acted and directed some Odia films too. He began his career with Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969) which was declared as the best film of the year. It won national award for Utpal Dutt and the best director for Mrinal Sen.
His second project was '27 Down' which was directed by Awtar Krishna Kaul that won the best feature film. In the year 1974, Shyam Benegal cast him in 'Ankur' which had Shabana Azmi, Anant Nag, and Sadhu Meher in lead role. He also appeared in a special appearance in movie ‘Nishant’ which was directed again by Shyam Benegal. The film featured Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi in lead roles. In the year 1976, Sadhu Me...
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
19. Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Ghatak was born in Dhakka, East Bengal now Bangladesh on 4th November 1925. His father Suresh Ghatak was a poet, play-writer and District Magistrate while his mother Indubala Devi was a house-wife. Ritwik and his twin sister Prateeti were the youngest in the family. His family moved twice to different places before settling in Kolkata for good to get away from flood and Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of Bengal in 1947. He was married to Surama Devi and had three kids, a son Ritaban and two daughters Samhita and Suchismita; before they got separated. His wife went to her family owned place in Shillong while he had to be admitted to a mental hospital.
Ritwik was a Bengali script-writer and a film-maker. His works we...
Date of Death:
06-02-1976
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
06-02-1976
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
20. Satyajit Ray
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 Ach...
Date of Death:
23-04-1992
Age:
103
Gender:
Male
21. Mukesh Chand Mathur
Mukesh Chand Mathur (Mukesh) was a popular playback singer in Hindi cinema. He made a place for himself in his era along with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey. He is also regarded as the ghost voice for Raj Kapoor. Being born on July 22, 1923, in Delhi, Mukesh is the son of Zorawar Chand Mathur and Chand Rani. The singer had no formal training in singing but was born with the ability to sing a song. The singer was noticed by his distant relative, Motilal (a legendary actor), while Mukesh was performing in a wedding ceremony. Motilal took Mukesh to Mumbai and offered him a role of actor-cum-singer in the film, ‘Nirdosh’ (1941). Later, Mukesh got a chance to sing for ...
Date of Death:
27-08-1976
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
27-08-1976
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
22. Zafar Hai
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...
23. Kushal Chakraborty
Kushal Chakraborty is an actor and director in Bengali cinema. He made his debut in films as a child artiste in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Sonar Kella’ that released in 1974. The actor received National Award for his first role. Later on, he got engaged in his studies and did not face the arc lights till he completed his degree from Jadavpur. However, it is said that Satyajit Ray had approached the child actor once again for his upcoming movie ‘Jai Baba Felunath’, but this did not work out. After completing his engineering degree, the actor had moved to Gujarat as he was posted there. But he did not like continuing with the job and came back to Kolkata.
Even today people remember Kushals ...
Gender:
Male
24. Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a renowned Indian director and screenwriter. He created, what is today referred to as ‘middle cinema’. His work has widely received critical acclaim in India as well as in the International Film Circuit. He was born on 14 December 1934 in Secunderabad. He is a cousin of Guru Dutt. His paternal grandmother and Guru Dutt’s maternal grandmother were sisters. His career began in advertising in the year 1959. He was initially a copywriter. Over the years, he slowly rose to the position of a creative head. He directed over 900 advertisements before focusing his faculties on film-making. Benegal is known for films like Ankur, Nishant, Manthan and Bhumika, which were released in 197...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
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