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Hindi Awards 27th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. Sai Paranjpye


s/a/i/0/p/a/sai-paranjpye.png Sai Paranjpye is a screenplay writer and director. She was born on March 19, 1938, in Mumbai. Shakuntala Paranjpye, a yesteryear actress, writer, a Rajya Sabha member, Padma Bhajan recipient, and a social reformer, and Youra Sleptzoff is her parents. Youra is the son of a Russian army general and an artist. However, soon after her birth, her parent's marriage...
Date of Birth: 19-03-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-03-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

2. Geeta Khanna


geeta-khanna.png There is a lesser-known category of celebrities who give voice to the animated characters in movies and make the story come alive, even when they are off the screen....
Date of Birth: 20-12-1951
Age: 72
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-12-1951
Age: 72
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

3. Shobha


shobha.png Shobha was a famous South Indian actress who worked in Malayalam and Tamil films. Her exceptional acting talents impressed many directors who had different ideas, making the out-of-the-box experimental type of movies. She understood what the directors wanted from a scene in a beautiful way. In several films, she had to present distressed characters, and she excelled at them even...
Date of Birth: 23-09-1962
Date of Death: 01-05-1980
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-09-1962
Date of Death: 01-05-1980
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil

4. Vani Jairam


30-08-2019/vani-jayaram.jpg Vani Jairam is a South Indian playback singer in Indian cinema and was born in 30th November 1945 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. She was the fifth daughter of a family of eight children. Her mother is Padmavathi and a disciple of Ranga Ramunaja Iyengar. He taught her Dikshitar kritis and at age of eight, she got the opportunity of singing...
Date of Birth: 30-11-1945
Date of Death: 04-02-2023
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-11-1945
Date of Death: 04-02-2023
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Singer

5. Mrinal Sen


15-10-2020/mrinal-sen.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 14-05-1923
Date of Death: 30-12-2018
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-05-1923
Date of Death: 30-12-2018
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

6. Amalendu Chakraborty


15-10-2020/amalendu-chakraborty.jpg Amalendu Chakraborty was a well-known Hindi writer in the field of English Literature. He was born on 31st December, 1934 in the state Digboi at Assam. He was born inBritish India. He studied at Boubazar High School. Later on, he studied at the Central Calcutta College. He was a student of Bengali in the University of Calcutta. He started his...
Date of Birth: 31-12-1934
Date of Death: 15-06-2009
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 31-12-1934
Date of Death: 15-06-2009
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer

7. Nachiket Patwardhan


15-10-2020/nachiket-patwardhan.jpg Nachiket Patwardhan is an Indian director and producer. He was born in 1948. During 1976-77, he worked as a costume designer for the Ghashiram Kotwal, directed by Mani Kaul, Kamal Swaroop, and K. Hariharan. In 1977, he designed costumes and directed the Kannada language film Onda Nondu Kaala Dalli. Later he produced and directed 22 June 1897 in 1979. Nachiket won...
Date of Birth: 1948
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1948
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

8. Jabbar Patel


15-10-2020/jabbar-patel.jpg Dr. Jabbar Patel (born June 23, 1942, in Pandharpur) is an Indian theatre and cinema director who works in Marathi. His 1973 performance of Vijay Tendulkar's play Ghashiram Kotwal is regarded as a Modern Indian Theatre classic. His father was a railway employee in India. He attended Haribhai Deokaran High School in Solapur for his early education. He graduated from...
Date of Birth: 23-06-1942
Age: 82
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Marathi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-06-1942
Age: 82
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Marathi
Skills: Director

9. Rabi Kinagi


25-08-2020/rabi-kinagi.jpg Rabi Kinagi is an Indian director who worked for the Bengali film industry. He is a multi-talented editor, director, and screenplay writer, born on 19th October 1955 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Rabi was born in a Kannada family and learned the basics of filmmaking from his father. His father was a very favoured producer and director....
Date of Birth: 19-10-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-10-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

10. Basu Bhattacharya


14-08-2019/basu-bhattacharya.jpg Basu Bhattacharya is an Indian-Director. He mainly worked in the Hindi Film Industry. He was born in the year 1934. He was born and brought up in Calcutta, British India. Some of the movies which he has directed include Uski Kahani which released in the year 1966, Teesri Kasam which released in the year 1966 (and this movie won the National Film Award for the...
Date of Birth: 1934
Date of Death: 27-08-1997
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1934
Date of Death: 27-08-1997
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

11. Visweswara Rao


30-11-2016/visweswara-rao.png Visweswar Rao is an Indian Supporting Actor, Screenplay Writer, Director, and Producer. He works in the Telugu Film Industry. He was born in Andhra Pradesh. Initially, he started his career as a Writer and Director. He later also appeared in many Telugu movies in small roles. Visweswara was the secretary of the South India Film Chamber of Commerce. He was...
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:

12. V. Z. Durai


v/0/0/z/0/0/v.-z.-durai.jpg V. Z. Durai’s former name was Peer Moideen. Durai was his nickname, given to him by his grandmother and it later stuck as everyone continued calling him that. He is an Indian Director. He works in the Tamil Cinema. He is one of the few Muslim Directors in the Industry. The director, Durai, had a long struggle period in the...
Date of Birth: 11-12-1975
Age: 48
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-12-1975
Age: 48
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director

13. K. V. Mahadevan


k/0/0/v/0/0/k.-v.-mahadevan.jpg Born on March 14, 1918, in Kanyakumari, Travancore, Krishnankoil Venkatachalam Mahadevan was an Indian vocalist, musician, music producer, lyricist and composer known for his works in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu cinema. He belongs to Tamil Brahmin family. He began his career as a composer with Tamil movie Avan Amaran by Nagercoil S. Nagarajan in 1950. The exceptional elements of...
Date of Birth: 14-03-1918
Date of Death: 21-06-2001
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-03-1918
Date of Death: 21-06-2001
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

14. Aribam Syam Sharma


19-04-2017/aribam-syam-sharma.png Aribam Syam Sharma was born on March 21st, 1936 at Imphal, Manipur. He started his career as a film director as well as a composer from the state of Manipur in India. He made his first appearance in The Manipuri movie Queen as an actor for the motion picture Matamgi Manipur. Besides acting, he directed his first show Lamja Parshuram...
Date of Birth: 21-03-1936
Age: 88
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-03-1936
Age: 88
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

15. Edida Nageswara Rao


edida-nageswara-rao.png He is a well-known producer of the Tollywood film Industry. He has his productions named ‘Poornodaya Movie Creations’ and through this production house, he had produced several blockbusters in the Tollywood which include ‘Sankarabharanam’ and ‘Swayam Krushi’. These movies also appeared at the Moscow Film Festival. He was born on 24th of April in the year 1934 in Kothapeta located...
Date of Birth: 24-04-1934
Date of Death: 04-10-2015
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-04-1934
Date of Death: 04-10-2015
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Producer

16. Sohrab Modi


sohrab-modi.png Sohrab Merwanji Modi was born into a Persian family in the year 1897. He was a stage and film actor, a producer and a director. He did various films like Khoon Ka Khoon, Jhansi Ki Rani, Sikandar, Pukar, Mirza Ghalib, Prithvi Vallabh, etc. His movies carried strong messages of social and national issues....
Date of Birth: 02-11-1897
Date of Death: 28-01-1984
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-11-1897
Date of Death: 28-01-1984
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

17. Padmarajan


03-02-2017/padmarajan.jpg P.Padmarajan is an acclaimed name in Malayalam literature and cinema history. He was an Indian screenwriter, author, and film director, known for his intricate writing and direction....
Date of Birth: 23-05-1945
Date of Death: 24-01-1991
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-05-1945
Date of Death: 24-01-1991
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

18. S P Balasubrahmanyam


s/0/p/0/b/a/s-p-balasubrahmanyam.jpg S P Balasubrahmanyam is still considered to be one among the best musicians in the past three decades, in spite of the surge of various new comers. This legendary singer is reputed for his intense voice, profound knowledge of music, and a style of singing which is appreciated even today. SPB, as he is fondly called, has given his voice...
Date of Birth: 04-06-1946
Date of Death: 25-09-2020
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-06-1946
Date of Death: 25-09-2020
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

19. Naseeruddin Shah


Naseeruddin-Shah1.JPG Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and associated with theater. He had treated art-cinema as his serious endeavor requiring the dedication, discipline, and integrity. Throughout his career, he subjected his own acting to a process of rigorous artistic self-analysis and reflection. He was the discovery of filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who introduced actors like Shabana, Om Puri, Smita Patil and others...
Date of Birth: 20-07-1949
Age: 75
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-07-1949
Age: 75
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

20. Kasinadhuni Viswanath


29-09-2017/kasinathuni-viswanath.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 19-02-1930
Date of Death: 02-02-2023
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-02-1930
Date of Death: 02-02-2023
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director

21. Prem Prakash


02-03-2017/prem-prakash.jpg A well-known name in Malayalam movie and television industry, Prem Prakash is an actor and a successful producer. He is also known to Malayalam industry through his sons Sanjay and Bobby, the successful scriptwriters of Malayalam movies. He is also known as the younger brother of the beautiful, cruel villain of Malayalam in the 70’s to 90’s, Jose Prakash.   Prem Prakash...
Date of Birth: 19-07-1943
Age: 81
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-07-1943
Age: 81
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

22. Katte Ramachandra


15-10-2020/katte-ramachandra.jpg Bio coming soon......
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director