Hindi Awards 22nd Star Screen Awards - Cast & Crew

Kalki Koechlin is a famous film actress, model and screenwriter, known for working in Hindi films. She was born on January 10, 1984, in Ooty, Tamil Nadu in India to Joel Koechlin and Francoise Armandie. Her father came to the country from Angers, France many years ago and met Francoise in Auroville, Puducherry. They are both followers of Sri Aurobindo. 

Harshaali Malhotra is a model and a child actress who has worked in some Hindi daily soaps as well as some Bollywood movies as well. She has acted in hit television series Qubool Hai but shot to fame after her spectacular performance of a Pakistani mute girl, Munni in Salman Khan starrer, Bajangi Bhaijaan. She was born on March 6, 2008 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her mother is Kajal Malhotra and father’s name is Vipul Malhotra. She also has a younger brother who is named Hardik Malhotra. This little 8 year old studied in Seven Square Academy in Mumbai. She made her acting debut in Bollywood, in a leading role, from Bajrangi Bhaijaan. This film by Kabir Khan is a 2015 drama film that stars A-List Bollywood stars like Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor and Nawazuddin Siddiqui along with Harshaali Malhotra herself.

Pooja LadhaSurti is an editor and screenwriter by profession. She is currently working in Bollywood for the past few years. Pooja was born in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and grew up in Mumbai after her family shifted because her grandfather's health was not good. She has studied in St. Xavier's, where she read a lot of books related to movies. She was quite interested in dramas from her childhood, leading her to become an Associate director, editor, and screenwriter.

Juhi Chaturvedi is a screenwriter from India and had an advertising profession in Mumbai. She was born in the year 1975 in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. In her career she wrote scripts for Bollywood movies like Vicky Donor and Piku. In the year 2013, she won the Film fare award for the best story for Vicky Donor. She was felicitated with National Film Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Dialogues, and 2016 Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Piku. She graduated from Lucknow College Of Arts.

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).

'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.”

Saloni Dhatrak is an Indian production designer. She worked for the Hindi film industry. She was born in Mumbai and currently living in Mumbai only. Saloni completed her high school from St. John The Baptist High School and Junior College, Thane and completed her architecture from Dr. D Y Patil College of Architecture. She had also completed her Master in Construction Management from the University of Mumbai. Sonali had done some part-time jobs like Jr. Town Planner in Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, in Madhur Bhandarkar Production, Little Red Car Films, J P Dutta Films, T-Series, R S V P Movies and also an Architectural Designer in Ahmedabad Film City.

Bhumi Pednekar is Maharashtrian unconventional actress. Bhumi was initially an assistant to the casting director of Yash Raj Films; and recently made her debut under the Yash Raj Films banner by starring in Dum Laga Ke Haisha starring Ayushmann Khurrana. She holds that it was like a “Cinderella moment” for her when she was asked to play the role of the leading actor in the movie. Bhumi plays the role of Sandhya an over-weight girl in her debut movie. She had to gain about 15 kilograms for her role in the movie but has now lost a lot of weight and is back at being fit.

Monali Thakur is a Kolkata-born playback singer and actress. Born in a musical family, Monali's father is a renowned Bengali Playback singer and her sister, Mehuli Thakur, is also a Playback singer. Monali's singing talent was initially recognized when she'd won the Best Playback Singer award at the 'Amandalok Awards', for the serial 'Sri Rama Krishna' at the age of 14. She'd been trained under Padma Shri Pandit Jagdish Prasad and Padma Shri Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty for Hindustani music. Monali's singing career started when she auditioned for Indian Idol 2 (the Indian version of Pop Idol) in 2005. Monali had been well acclaimed for her singing by the judging panel that included Anu Malik, Sonu Nigam, and Farah Khan.

Deepti Naval belongs to India. She is an actress, a director, painter, writer and a photographer. Her family belongs to Amritsar, Punjab. Deepti was born in Amritsar. She acted in more than 90 Indian films. She started her career in 1980 by acting in an Indian film Ek Baar Phir and her services in the industry were first recognized due to her brilliant performance in her first movie. She acted in many Bollywood films such as Chashme Baddoor, Mirch Masala, Katha, Kamla and many more. She won many award for the best performer in numerous intercontinental film centenaries for her role in Leela, Listen Amaya and Memories in March. She was awarded by NY Indian picture centenary for her directional role. She also inscribed and directed a television serial Thoda Sa Aasmaan about womanhood and created a tourism show.

Born on 18 July 1982, Priyanka Chopra is an established actress and ex Miss World. She is also a talented singer. She is one of the richest actresses of Indian film industry and is a celebrated diva of Bollywood. Priyanka Chopra is bestowed with numerous credits; she has won the Filmfare awards 4 times and National Award once. 

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 Bachna Ae Haseeno in 2008 and Housefull in 2010 got negative reviews.

K.V. Vijayendra Prasad was born as Koduri Venkata Vijayendra Prasad. He was born in Kovvur in Andhra Pradesh, India. He is an Indian Director, Writer, and Screenwriter. S.S. Rajamouli, Filmmaker, is his son. He is the uncle of M.M. Srilekha, Kalyani Malik, and M.M. Keeravani who are all music composers. He is also the uncle of S.S. Kaanchi, writer. He is an expert and well-rooted director and screenwriter.

Prasad Vasant Sutar is a famous Indian producer and visual effects supervisor, designer, and coordinator active in the Bollywood film industry. He completed his schooling at Shri Vani Vidya Shala High School and also completed a course in animation and VFX in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is working in the Hindi and Marathi language entertainment industry. At the start of his career, he started as a CGI Animator and compositor, Prasad Sutar later worked as Visual Effects Supervisor and Digital Artist at CMM Studios for two years in 1997. He joined Maya Entertainment in 2000 as Visual Effects Supervisor and worked there for three years. From 2004 to 2012, he worked at EFX and Pixion. CCL as Visual Effects Supervisor and Director.

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.

Sudeep Chatterjee is a well-known cinematographer in Bollywood. He was the man behind the camera for movies such as ‘Chak De! India’, ‘Iqbal’, ‘Dhoom 3’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’. Sudeep was born in the city of Kolkata in West Bengal. In his childhood, Sudeep always wanted to express and visualize art. His desire to visualize made him try a hand at painting but it didn’t work out for him. Later when he was in the 10th grade, Sudeep’s father gave him a camera as a gift.

Salam Ansari is a stunt and action director and coordinator. He has to arrange the casts for the stunt doubles and stunt players for the stunt performances in movies, TV shows, or even during live events. He has worked in many films and coordinated various stunts and actions sequences in the movie. He began with Ghulam in 1998, where he was the assistant stunt coordinator. Then he continued to work as assistant stunt coordinator on films including Sarfarosh (1999), Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (2001), Awara Paagal Deewana (2002), Deewane Huye Pagaal (2005), Taxi No. 9211: Nau Do Gyarah (2006), Phir Hera Pheri (2006), Welcome (2007), Dhobi Ghat (2010), Agneepath (2012) Idak: The Goat (2017). He started to work as an action director and did films like Rajjo (2013), NH10 (2015), Dilliwaali Zaalim Girlfriend (2015), Trapped (2016), Laal Rang (2016), Jora 10 Numbaria (2017), Bhonsle (2018), Judgementall Hai Kya? (2019) Laal Kaptan (2019), Panga (2020), Bamfaad (2020), Ghoomketu (2020). He also worked on the film Rangbaaz (2018) as the action director. He has worked on web series shows such as Pataal Lok (2020), Bullets (2020).

Sujeet Sawant or Sujeet Subhash Sawant is an Indian Production Designer for films, best known for his work in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 2015 epic historical romance film, Bajirao Mastani.

This is where he met other like-minded people like Anurag Kashyap and now he is the editor of the blog. Since he liked the movies made by UTV Pictures, he applied for the post of UTV Spot boy. But he ended up being recruited into the digital marketing team of UTV New Media. Though the job offered him good money, he felt like being burnt out and that the job offered him no satisfaction. After consulting with Anurag Kashyap, he quit his job and took a complete leap into the world of filmmaking and joined Anurag Kashyap and spent the next 2 and a half years working on “Gangs of Wasseypur”.

Vicky Kaushal is a famous Indian movie actor. He was born in Mumbai and has been raised in Mumbai since then. He was born to Shyam Kaushal, who is an action director and stunt coordinator in various films. He has worked in films like Slumdog Millionaire, 3 Idiots and Bajrangi Bhaijaan. He also has a brother in Sunny Kaushal who is linked to the film industry and has assisted in directing in movies like Gunday. He did his early education in Mumbai and later graduated with Electronics and Telecommunication engineering degree. He had various job options but decided to follow his father’s footsteps and entered the film industry. He started doing theatre and joined an acting workshop under Kishore Kapoor. He is born and brought up as a total Punjabi and lives his life the same way. He did various theatre plays with the group of Manav Kaul andNaseeruddin Shah. He continued to grow in stature and gained much more experience working in theatre. He did various small stints in movies like Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana and Bombay Velvet. He also did a short film named Geek Out, where he played the role of a Geek. In 2010, he assisted Anurag Kashyap in Gangs of Wasseypur. The movie with its violent and direct approach was an instant hit.

Varun Grover is a comedian, screenwriter, and even lyricist. The actor was born on 26 January 1980. Basically, he was a software engineer in a software firm in Mumbai, but he afforded to step down from the post and got connected with the film industry.

Angarag Mahanta, better known as Papon, was born on 24th November 1975 in Guwahati district of Assam. He is deeply engaged in various forms of music in which lies his entire career and dreams. Angarag formed his own music band known as the ‘Papon and The East India Company.' It was due to the huge popularity of the band that he came to be known as Papon (which happens to be his nickname) rather than his real name. His parents were Assamese folk singers Khagen Mahenta and Archana Mahanta.

Amaal Malik (D.O.B- 16 June 1991) is a music composer and playback singer in Bollywood who hails from a family of highly talented musicians. He is the son of Daboo Malik- a well-known face in the music industry, grandson of Sardar Malik, the brother of singer Armaan Malik and the nephew of the famous music director Anu Malik.

Ankit Tiwari was born on March 6, 1986 in Kanpur, India. He is a drastically advancing music composer and a playback singer who had given back to back hit albums and songs. He got into the Bollywood Cinema world in the year 2010 until the present. His works are quite impressive and blissful listening to them. Initially, he entered into the film industry as a music director after which he also lingered into playback singing. In the year 2013, he got an award for the music director category. Also, his album contested for a couple of awards in the Filmfare Awards.

Deepak Dobriyal is a talented theater and film actor who has appeared in many successful Bollywood movies. He was last seen in the romantic comedy- ‘’Tanu Weds Manu’’ &’ Tanu Weds Manu Returns’- and is the most versatile actor of the current generation.  Since this actor is from a theater, he has the high-octane energy to do any serious villain role, which are often challenging and needs a lot of rehearsal before the camera.

Ronit Roy (Ronit Bose Roy) was born on 11th October 1965, in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He became a popular in the industry after his character “Rishabh Bajaj” in Ekta Kapoor’s Kasautii Zindagii Kay. He is a Bollywood actor and popular Indian Television actor, best known for his portrayal of Rishabh Bajaj, Mihir Virani and Aparajit Deb. He currently acting in the Hindi TV serial Adaalat as KD Pathak. Ronit Roy has been referred to as the Amitabh Bachchan of the TV screen and popularly known as “Big B” of small screen. He also owns a security business, providing security to Bollywood stars and production houses. Ronit has played the prestigious role of the legendary warrior Bhishma Pitamah in Balaji Telefilms' production Kahaani Humaaray Mahabharat Ki. Ronit judged a reality show, "Aajaa Mahi Vay". Ronit Roy also appeared in many Bollywood movies. Some of his popular movies are Two States, Boss, Shootout at Wadala, Ugly, Student of the Year, Luck by Chance, etc.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born in Budhana in Muzaffarpur district of Western UP on May 19, 1974. He grew up with seven brothers and two sisters in his native village. He is a science graduate from Gurukul Kangri University Haridwar and after completion of his graduation, he worked as a chemist in a factory for a short while. He did not like the job and hence leaving it proceeded to Delhi to find some other job which might interest him. As he could not find a suitable job in Delhi, he even worked as a watchman for his survival. Within a short while, he watched theatres and felt interested in it. He joined a theatre group and started studying the art of acting. He graduated in acting from National School of Drama in 1996 and relocated to Mumbai to pursue his career in acting.

Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. 

Ramesh Sippy is an eminent film director and he is widely acclaimed for his classic Sholay, who was born in the year 1947. He is the son of yesteryear producer G P Sippy. Ramesh Sippy is wedded to Kiran Juneja, who is an Indian actress. At the age of 9, Sippy acted in the film Shahenshah. For around 7 years he took up the role of assistant director. During this time he took lot of effort to know about the nuances of the film industry. Later, during 1971 he directed the film Andaz, which didn’t do well. But luck favoured him in his next venture Seeta Aur Geeta which was very successful.  The year 1975 saw one of the best films of Indian history, Sholay, which was directed by Sippy.

Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Sharukh, Salman, Kajol and Rani. This was a block buster hit and Karan Johar reached fame in his first movie, itself. This film won the National Award for the Best Entertainment Film. It has also bagged eight Awards from Filmfare including the Best Director and Screen Play. Kabhie Kushi Kabhi Gham, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, My Name Is Khan, Student Of The year and Gippi are the films directed by Karan Johar. He has produced many hit films including Kal Ho Na Ho, Wake Up Sid and I Hate Love Stories. Karan Johar has also acted in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, apart from his assistant direction. He has also performed as a costume designed for the popular celebrities like Sharukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan. Koffee With Karan was the popular show hosted by Karan Johar, which made him popular among the TV audience. This program got aired for four seasons till 2014. He was also a part of the show Jalak Dikhhla Jaa, judging the participants along with Madhuri Dixit.

Kabir khan is a very much renowned director of Bollywood. His directorial skills were appreciated across the world when his second movie New York was released. Born in 1971, Kabir khan has always been creative and new with his work. He hails from Hyderabad but completed his education in New Delhi. Kabir Khan's career graph has taken few versatile turns in terms of what he worked on.

Ranveer Singh Bhavnani is an Indian movie actor who had no filmy links to make a Bollywood career. This handsome hunk is a carbon copy of Disney's Tangled Flynn Rider (Hollywood actor). Ranveer Singh is one of our brightest stars who rose to his heights through dedication, hard work, and perseverance. He always had an inclination for performing arts, But this actor needed the luck to launch his film career. Yash Raj films invited the struggling actor to audition for their next film, and Ranveer won the part of lead hero in the surprise 2010 hit ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’.

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 the early 1970s, Bachchan had collected fame in crowds as the "Angry Young Man" in an arrangement of successful Hindi gimmick movies. His featuring part in Zanjeer was especially instrumental in propelling him to fame as an action-movie film legend. Amitabh didn’t stopped gaining fame and popularity and soon he delivered another successful movie Anand in 1971. Anand was followed by movies like Reshma Aur Shera and Parwana in the same year.

Being family friend with Rajiv Gandhi, he got an opportunity to choose to run for seat in the Congress from the place where he grew up. He challenged Allahabad's seat of eighth Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, previous Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in history (68.2% of the vote). His political life, on the other hand, was fleeting in view of debates especially after Rajiv and he were embroiled in the now scandalous "Bofors" case alongside the U.K. based Hinduja Brothers.

In 1997, Bachchan endeavored to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata, produced by ABCL. However, the film was a disappointment both fiscally and basically. His vocation was spared with a successful film “Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)”. In 2000, Bachchan facilitated the first season of “Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)”. Likewise in that year Amitabh Bachchan showed up in Yash Chopra's film industry hit “Mohabbatein” directed by Aditya Chopra. Different hits emulated, with Bachchan showing up as a more established family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and Baghban (2003). Bachchan is also well known for his profound, baritone voice. He has been a storyteller, a playback artist, and moderator for various projects.

Despite a couple of film industry disappointments in the 1990s and the 2000s ruined his career yet, Bachchan climbed his way back up to as a topnotch Bollywood actor, gaining Filmfare and International Film Awards for his work on movies like Baghban (2003), Khakee (2004) and Paa (2009). His hard work guaranteed his prosperity and now he is known as the "King of Bollywood".

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