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Hindi Awards 28th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. S. Janaki


s.-janaki.png As popularly known, The Nightingale of South, S. Janaki was born as Sishtla Sreeramamurthy on 23rd April 1938 in Repalle, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Her childhood love for music turned out to be her talent, and she started performing at a tender age of three. Her voice is compared to Lata Mangeshkar, and Janaki has a large fan following because of...
Date of Birth: 23-04-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-04-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Singer

2. Smita Patil


smita-patil.png This versatile actress was born on the 17th of October in the year 1955, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was a very prominent actress and a news reader. She got lots of fan followers and made a huge impact as far as her acting was concerned. She was known for her splendid acting and sensible portrayal of the character that she...
Date of Birth: 17-10-1955
Date of Death: 13-12-1986
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-10-1955
Date of Death: 13-12-1986
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actress

3. Rosamma George


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Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

4. 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

5. Utpalendu Chakrabarty


15-10-2020/utpalendu-chakrabarty.jpg   Utpalendu Chakrabarty is an Indian director who worked for the Bengali film industry. He was born in 1948 in Calcutta and graduated from Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta. Utpalendu as a director worked in movies, television films, documentaries, and also worked as a music director, composer, and writer. Some movies and television films in which he worked are Maina...
Date of Birth: 1948
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1948
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

6. Anup Ghoshal


15-10-2020/anup-ghoshal.jpg   Anup Ghoshal is an Indian singer who worked for the Bengali film industry. He is a playback singer in both Hindi and Punjabi movies and shared his work in both industries. Anup is doing very well in Politics also. He won the 2011 West Bengal Assembly Elections on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Uttarpara Vidhan Sabha Constituency in Hooghly...
Date of Birth: 1945
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1945
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Singer

7. Devi Dutt


15-10-2020/devi-dutt.jpg Devi Dutt is an Indian film producer. He is the younger brother of the famous director Guru Dutt. On January 15, 1930, he was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India. He began his career as a director's assistant on Guru Dutt's films like Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959). His first film, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, was a critical and...
Date of Birth: 15-01-1930
Age: 94
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-01-1930
Age: 94
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

8. Bhabendra Nath Saikia


15-10-2020/bhabendra-nath-saikia.jpg Bhupendra Nath Sakia was a prominent and one of the most liked writers and novelists in India. He was born on 20 February 1932 in Nowgong, Assam, India. Bhabendra completed his schooling in 1950 with the science stream. Later he did graduation with B.Sc. with Physics honors at the College of Gauhati University. Bhabendra was admitted to the Presidency College of...
Date of Birth: 20-02-1932
Date of Death: 13-08-2003
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-02-1932
Date of Death: 13-08-2003
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer, Novelist

9. Baldev Gill


15-10-2020/baldev-gill.jpg Baldev Gill is a Hindi writer and a producer. He is well known for Waaris released in the year 1988, Jee Aayan Hai released in the year 2003 and Jag Jeodayan De Mele in the year 2009. He was also the screenplay and dialogue writer in Punjabi film industry. He wrote down Chann Pardesi in 1980. He is also the screenplay of...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

10. Mani Kaul


02-01-2017/mani-kaul.png Mani Kaul undoubtedly was one of the greatest directors of Hindi cinema. He was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and his real name was Rabindranath Kaul. He was from a Kashmiri Pandit family. Kaul initially joined FTII, Pune as an acting student but later on shifted to the direction course. There, his teacher was a renowned film director, Ritwik Ghatak....
Date of Birth: 25-12-1944
Date of Death: 06-07-2011
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 25-12-1944
Date of Death: 06-07-2011
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

11. K S Sethumadhavan


k-s-sethumadhavan.png K. S. Sethumadhavan is a famous screenwriter and film director in India dedicating his works to Malayalam movies. Madhavan is famous for his movies in Tamil, Oriya, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi also. Some of the landmark films directed by him are Yakshi, Odeyil Ninnu, Achanum Bappayum, Anubhavangai Palichakal, etc. He won 9 Kerala State Film Awards and 10 National Film...
Date of Birth: 1931
Date of Death: 24-12-2021
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1931
Date of Death: 24-12-2021
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

12. Adoor Gopalakrishnan


adoor-gopalakrishnan.png Born into a family in Kerala, Adoor Gopalakrishnan started doing amateur plays at a young age. Later, he wrote and helmed few plays. His interest in this field was imbibed in him by his family. He had studied Economics, Political Science and Public Administration at Gandhigram Rural University in 1961. Then he studied screenwriting and filmmaking at the Pune Film...
Date of Birth: 03-07-1941
Age: 83
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-07-1941
Age: 83
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

13. Satyajit Ray


satyajit-ray.png 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...
Date of Birth: 02-05-1921
Date of Death: 23-04-1992
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-05-1921
Date of Death: 23-04-1992
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

14. Sathya Prakash


sathya-prakash.png Sathya Prakash is a popular south Indian villain actor, who hailed from Odisha. His father was a government staff and Sathya got a place in the government school and he completed his schooling. Sambalpur, Burgad and Burhampur are the places, where Sathya completed his graduation and post graduation. Sathya did his MBA in Kolkata. He was a bank employee for...
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

15. Ketan Mehta


k/e/t/a/n/0/ketan-mehta.jpg He was born in 1952 and is a director by profession, who has directed may documentaries and TV serials. His birth place is in Gujarat, studied in Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (Delhi) and obtained his bachelor’s in movie direction from Film and Television Institute of India (Pune). During his career span, he created 10 films, 7 documentaries along with 2 television serials...
Date of Birth: 1952
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1952
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

16. Ashokkumar


03-05-2017/ashok-kumar---old.jpg One would be at a loss, wondering where to start when writing about a film legend like AshokKumar. After all, he is considered to be one of Indian film industry’s greatest actors, who has performed as the romantic hero, antagonist as well as in various other shades of character roles with equal aplomb. AshokKumar really was witness to a very...
Date of Birth: 13-10-1911
Date of Death: 10-12-2001
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-10-1911
Date of Death: 10-12-2001
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

17. Balan K Nair


Balan-K-Nair.jpg Balan K. Nair was a Malayalam actor born on 4 April 1933 in Chemancheri, Calicut. He made his reputation acting as a villain in most of the southern films. Balan started his acting career at a very young age of 14 with the association of Sangamam Theatre, Kozhikode. He was the eldest among his siblings and his parents died when...
Date of Birth: 04-04-1933
Date of Death: 26-08-2000
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-04-1933
Date of Death: 26-08-2000
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

18. J Mahendran


J-Mahendran.jpg J Mahendran is a versatile director, who is popular for his film Uthiri Pookal. Born as Alexander to Joseph Chellaiah and Manonmani, he completed his intermediate course in the American College, Madurai. He completed his graduation from Alagappa College of Arts in Economics. Once MGR was invited as the chief guest to the college in which Mahnedran studied. Impressed by...
Date of Birth: 25-07-1939
Date of Death: 02-04-2019
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 25-07-1939
Date of Death: 02-04-2019
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director

19. Govind Nihalani


g/o/v/i/n/d/govind-nihalani.jpg Born on 19 August 1940, Govind Nihalani hails from Karachi. He is a multi-faceted personality; he is a director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and works for Hindi cinema. He is the proud winner of six National Awards and five awards at Filmfare. He had penned the script for a Hindi film Drohkaal in 1996, which was later modified by Kamal...
Date of Birth: 19-08-1940
Age: 84
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-08-1940
Age: 84
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

20. 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

21. S. P. Ramanathan


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Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: