Sai Paranjpye
Shobha
Geeta Khanna
Vani Jairam
Mrinal Sen
Amalendu Chakraborty
Jabbar Patel
Nachiket Patwardhan
Rabi Kinagi
Basu Bhattacharya
Visweswara Rao
V. Z. Durai
K. V. Mahadevan
Aribam Syam Sharma
Edida Nageswara Rao
Padmarajan
Sohrab Modi
S P Balasubrahmanyam
Naseeruddin Shah
Prem Prakash
Kasinadhuni Viswanath
Katte Ramachandra
1. Sai Paranjpye
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 hit rock bottom, and they divorced. Sai's mother raised her with the help of Sai's grandfather R. P. Paranjpye, who was a brilliant mathematician and worked in Australia as a High Commissioner to India. As a result, Sai's childhood passed in cities like Pune and Canberra. Achyut Ranade, her uncle, also influenced her a lot. Due to his teachings, she ...
Age:
86
Gender:
Female
2. Shobha
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 at a very young age.
She was the daughter of K. P. Menon and Prema Menon, one of the leading actresses of Malayalam film industry during the 1950s. She joined the industry in 1968, making her screen debut in Tamil Thriller film Thattungal Thirakkappadum at the age of six. She worked with eminent directors like Balachandra Menon, K.G.Georg...
Date of Death:
01-05-1980
Age:
61
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
01-05-1980
Age:
61
Gender:
Female
3. Geeta Khanna
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.
One such talented voice actress of India, Geeta Khanna is a unique artist in dubbing in the Hindi language. Born on 20th December 1951, she now lives in Bandra, Mumbai. Geeta Khanna is popularly known for dubbing the voices of mother and grandmother characters from foreign media in the Hindi language. She has also voiced several cartoon characters in legendary cartoon series like Loony Tunes and Johnny Bravo.
She also dubbed for the character of Rose for the epic film Titan...
Age:
72
Gender:
Female
Skills:
4. Vani Jairam
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 in All India Radio.
Her Carnatic music teachers were Srinivasa Iyengar, R. S. Mani and T. R. Balasubramanian. And Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan was her Hindustani classical music teacher. Vani was married to Jayaram and they settled in Mumbai after their marriage. In Mumbai, she realized her dream of becoming a playback singer in the film industry.
Her playback singer career started in 1971 with movi...
Date of Death:
04-02-2023
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
04-02-2023
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
5. 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
6. Amalendu Chakraborty
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 career as a teacher and taught at Romikanta Institution, Hooghly. He also taught at Khidderpore Academy. He wrote stories like Abiroto Chenamukhin 1986 and Grihe Grantora in 1987. He also earned great fame by writing the novels like Goshtibarir Jibonjapan in 1999, Radhasundari 1st in 1996 and 2nd in 1997. He also wrote Chaad Manashar Jot in 2010. Amalendu Chakraborty was also a popular producer of E...
Date of Death:
15-06-2009
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
15-06-2009
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
7. Jabbar Patel
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 B. J. Medical College in Pune with a doctorate in paediatric medicine. In Daund, near Pune, he and his wife, a gynecologist, run a clinic. They have two daughters. He is the director of great Marathi films such as Samna Jait Re Jait (Mohan Agashe, Smita Patil), Umbartha (Smita Patil, Girish Karnad), and Simhasan (Mohan Agashe, Smita Patil) (Nana Patekar, Shreeram Lago...
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
8. Nachiket Patwardhan
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 2 Filmfare and 2 National film awards in 1978. He also worked as a costume designer and art director for films like- Utsav (1983), Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho (1983), Kanaka (1987), Lamp in the Niche (1988), Bye Bye Blues (1988), Swarajnama (1996), and Mirch (2010). He produced and directed films including- Anantyatra (1984), Limited Manuski (1994), Devi Ahilyabai, and Ekla Chalo...
Gender:
Male
9. Rabi Kinagi
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.
Previously, he directed two Marathi movies Manuski and Halahal, and later started working in Odia films. Some popular movies in which he worked are Annadata in 2002, Champion in 2003, Bandhan in 2004, I Love You in 2007, Wanted in 2010, Ami Je Ke Tomar in 2017, Jamai Badal in 2018, and many others....
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
10. Basu Bhattacharya
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 Best Feature Film), Anubhav which released in the year 1971, Avishkaar which released in the year 1973. Daku which released in the year 1975, Tumhara Kalloo which released in the year 1975, Sangat which released in the year 1976, Known Yet Not Known which released in the year 1977 and Madhu Malti which released in the year 1978....
Date of Death:
27-08-1997
Gender:
Male
11. Visweswara Rao
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 a member of Central Jury for the 17th National Film Awards.
Visweswar Rao won two National Film Awards for Best Feature Film (Telugu) in the years 1979 for the film Nagna Satyam and 1980 for the film Harishchandrudu. He won a Nandi Award as Best Director for the film Keerthi Kantha Kanakan in the year 1972 and Nandi Awards as Best Screenplay Writer for the film Pellila Chadarang...
12. V. Z. Durai
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 Tamil Cinema. He has admitted to multiple sources and also in various talks that it took him a long time to get noticed in the Industry. He has been rejected by over five Producers consecutively, but he did not let this break his belief in himself and his work. He continued to look for a Producer who will be interested in the script and will see what he sees in it.
Although a conventional...
Age:
48
Gender:
Male
Age:
48
Gender:
Male
13. K. V. Mahadevan
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 his compositions were giving essential significance to lyrics and forming music that is impeccably suited to verses. He continually kept a base in the Carnatic music frameworks and offering autonomy to vocalists and different colleagues to openly contribute thoughts for enhancing his pieces.
The well-known Tamil motion pictures for which he compo...
Date of Death:
21-06-2001
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
21-06-2001
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
14. Aribam Syam Sharma
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 in 1974. Lamja Parshuram movie was the first movie of the Manipuri films which runs for about a hundred days and made a box office hit in the industry. Later in 1980, he made his next talkie Olangthagee Wangmadasu.
This movie was another biggest success in the Manipuri films which made the drama to run for almost twenty-five we...
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
Skills:
15. Edida Nageswara Rao
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 in East Godavari district. His father is Sattiraju Naidu, and he was born in a Naidu family. He had produced the old movies that belonged to the 1970’s or 1980’s. His several films received many awards and were also shown in the International Film Festivals, and some of them were even d...
Date of Death:
04-10-2015
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
04-10-2015
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
16. Padmarajan
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.
Padmarajan, born in Alleppey, Kerala, to parents Anantha Padmanabha Pillai, and Devaki Amma, graduated in Chemistry from the University of Trivandrum. In 1965, he signed up as an announcer on All India Radio (AIR), Thrissur, and continued to work with them till 1986. He tied the knot to Radhalakshmi in 1970, who was his co-worker at AIR. Later on, Padmarajan had to retire prematurely from AIR, due to his literature and movie commitments. Padmarajan’s literary works ...
Date of Death:
24-01-1991
Age:
78
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-01-1991
Age:
78
Gender:
Male
17. Sohrab Modi
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.
In 1936, he launched Minerva Movietone, where his early movies dealt with social issues like Meetha Zehar (based on alcoholism) and Talaq (Right of Hindu women to divorce). Minerva Movietone became for its three historical movies – Pukar (1939), Sikander (1941), Prithvi Vallabh (1943). Many of the scenes from Pukar were filmed in Mughal courts and palaces, which gave ...
Date of Death:
28-01-1984
Age:
126
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
28-01-1984
Age:
126
Gender:
Male
18. S P Balasubrahmanyam
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 for more than 30000 songs. His name is recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records for singing several songs in a short span of time. He has sung the most in Telugu, the next being Tamil. He has also given his beautiful voice for Sanskrit slokas. Â
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Date of Death:
25-09-2020
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-09-2020
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
19. Naseeruddin Shah
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 in the Indian cinema. Undoubtedly, this actor has acted in some serious films such as Sparsh, Paar and Iqbal( three national awards). For his performance in Paar, he received the best actor in the Venice Film Festival. His growth even in art-cinema was slow, as he had acted in women-oriented films of Shabana Az...
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
Skills:
20. Prem Prakash
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.
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Prem Prakash had a great attachment towards the entertainment industry since a very young age. His debut to the industry was as a play back singer for the movie Karthika in 1968. But more than a singer he established himself as an actor. His first screen presence in a small role was in Ara Nazhika Neram in 1970, a film by dir...
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
21. Kasinadhuni Viswanath
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 Telugu and he can speak Telugu, Tamil, and English. He is having 57 years of working experience in film industry. He got many awards like Nandi awards, National-film awards, Filmfare awards, etc. He did many hit films like shankara baranam, sagara sangamam, etc. He had done many bollywood films like sargam, san...
Date of Death:
02-02-2023
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
02-02-2023
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
22. Katte Ramachandra
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