1. CH Narayana Moorthy
CH Narayan Moorthy, also known as Chitrapu Narayana Rao, born as Chithrapu Narayana Murthy, was an Indian film director known for his significant contribution to the Telugu and Tamil cinema. He had received a Certificate of Merit for the movie, Edhir Paradhathu (1958) and for movie, Annaiyin Aanai (1962). He was born at Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh in 1913. His brother, Chitrapu Narasimha Rao, was also a film director. He started his film career with the help of his brother by assisting him in films like “Seetha Kalyanam”, “Sati Tulasi”, “Mohini Rukhmangadha” and “Krishna Jarasandha”. His directorial debut was “Bhakta Markandeya”, starring Vemuri Gaggayya and Sriranjani. The film had done well and established him as a director.
He further directed many movies like &ld...
2. Chitta Basu
Chitta Basu was a Bengali film director. He was born in 1907 in Bengal, India. Chitta Basu was famous for the direction of ‘Chheley Kaar.’ He made his directorial debut with the film ‘Bondur Path.’ Basu’s film ‘Chheley Kaar’ won him a national award. He was the director of the movies like ‘Dhoop Chhaya,’ ‘Bondhu, ‘Rastar Chhele,’ ‘Godhuli Belaye,’ ‘Putrabadhu,’ ‘Mantra Shakti,’ ‘Profulla,’ ‘Nad-o-Nadi,’ ‘Subhajatra, Meghmukti,’ ‘Epar Opar,’ ‘Kato Door’, ‘Purabi,’ ‘Sahodar,’ ‘Maa,’ ‘Maya Mriga,’ ‘Meghmukti,’ ‘Shubba Drishti,’ and ‘Bindur Chheley.’ He died at the age of 85 in 1993 after a c...
Date of Death:
1993
Gender:
Male
3. HLN Simha
H.L.N. Simha is an Indian director who worked for the Kannada film industry. Simha worked in many movies, which impressed the audience. Some of his popular works as a director include Gunasagari in 1953, Sathya Shodhanai in 1953, Abba! A Hudgi in 1959, Shiv Bhakta in 1955, and many others. As he was a hard-working actor and director, he also worked with big faces of the South Indian film industry.
... Date of Death:
04-07-1972
Age:
119
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
04-07-1972
Age:
119
Gender:
Male
4. SM Sriramulu Naidu
SM Sriramulu Naidu (1910 – 1976), who managed three film studios, deserves credit. He was named "Coimbatore Movie Mogul," implying a legendary mark he had established in the film industry. Munuswami, his father, was a station master when he was born in Tiruchi in 1910. Naidu used to work in his father's bakery. In 1936, he founded Central Studio in Coimbatore with his mates R.K. Ramakrishnan Chettiar, B. Rangaswamy, and Aamikannu Vincent. However, he left them in 1944 and established Pakshiraj Studios in 1945. At the beginning of the 1940s, Naidu decided to enter the film industry. Their first Tamil production, "Aryamala" (1941), was released at the Central Studios under Pakshiraja Films. This was his first movie as a co-director, and it was a huge success.
Malaikallan (195...
Date of Death:
1976
Gender:
Male
5. PS Ramakrishna Rao
PS Ramakrishna Rao was a Telugu director who was a doyen of directors of his time. He was born on 12 October 1918, in Kurnool in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He was married to the veteran actress Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, and had a son by the name Bharani Kumar. He was also a screenwriter and producer. He produced movies under the banner of ‘Bharani Pictures’ named after his son. He died on 7 September, 1986, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, at the age of 67. Some of his popular works include, Gruhalakshmi (1967) (Producer, Director, and writer), Aatma Bandhuvu (1962) (Director), Batasari (1961) (Producer and Director), Kaanal Neer (1961) (Director), Chintamani (1956) (Producer and Director), Vivaha Bandham (1964), Sabhash Raja (1961) (Director), Manamagan Thevai (1957) (Director), Vipranarayana (...
Date of Death:
07-09-1986
Age:
105
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
07-09-1986
Age:
105
Gender:
Male
6. Sundaram Balachander
Sundaram Balachander, known as S. Balachander, was an Indian musician, director, screenwriter, and composer. He was born on January 18, 1927, in Madras, British India. He started as a child artist in the Tamil cinema with Seetha Kalyanam in 1934, which he portrayed as a child musician in Ravana’s court. He also appeared in Rishyasringar and Araichimani. Later in 1948, he directed a film EnKanavar in which he starred in the lead role. The movie revolved around the male lead, his experiences as a son, a husband, and his desires as a human being.
In 1954, he directed a classic Tamil film-noir, AndhaNaal, which was a murder mystery set in the World War II era. It was the first-ever film noir of the Tamil film industry. He was a fine director who appreciated detective fiction and a famous musicologist. He believed that God sen...
Date of Death:
13-04-1990
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-04-1990
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
7. Satyen Bose
Satyen Bose is one of the most exceptional and experimental filmmakers of India, ironically he never had any formal training in cinema, but his name is carved in the cinematic history of India to be the most evergreen filmmaker of his time. His career did not follow a single path of being a director, but he was also a writer and actor in many films. He directed both Hindi and Bengali language films.
In 1949, he began his career with an off-beat Bengali film “Parivartan” which was revived into Hindi movie “Jagriti” in 1954, this movie was a major milestone for Mr. Satyen Bose as he won the Filmfare for Best Film in 1955. His list of films includes all kinds of genres: they were known for their novelty such as comedy, patriotic, sentiment, and full of drama. In 1958 he became the name of every household wh...
8. Ramu Kariat
Ramu Kariat is an Indian Film Director. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Ramu was born on the 1st of February in the year 1927. He was born in Engandiyur, Kerala, in India. He has a daughter whose name is Suma Devan. Ramu started his career in the Film Industry with the Malayalam Film Neelakkuyil (1954).
He then worked for more films like Mudiyanga Puthran (1961), Chemmeen (1965), Ezhu Rathrikal (1968), Maaya (1972), and many more. He got the All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film in 1954. He won the President’s Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Malayalam twice in 1954 and 1961. He won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1965. Ramu died on the 10th of February in the year 1979 in Trivandrum, Kerala.
... Date of Death:
10-02-1979
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-02-1979
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
9. Dasari Yoganand
Dasari Yoganand was born on 16th April, 1922 in Madras. He passed away when he was of the age 84 in Chennai on 23rd November, 2006. He is a very eminent Film Director. His wife’s name is Hanumayamma. He is the proud son of Laxmi Bai and Venkata Das. D. Subbayya, a businessman, who adopted Yoganands.
Yoganand learned photography from D. Subbayya and became an amazing photographer. He loves to direct plays and dramas very much. When he was in Machilipatnam he met Yadavalli Nageshwara and Tugala Chalapathi Rao. Later he went to Bangalore to study radiology and then he went to Chennai to lend a hand to his father in the year 1939. After the death of his father, he joined Banerjee of Newton Studios. He also started working with the very popular cinematographer M.A ...
Date of Death:
23-11-2006
Age:
102
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-11-2006
Age:
102
Gender:
Male
10. V. Dakshinamoorthy
He is popularly known as “Swami” (9th December 1919 – 2nd August 2013) were the maestro of Carnatic music and director & composer of Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi films, chiefly in Malayalam films. He has created songs for more than 125 films. He has almost composed 859 songs over a time span of 64 years.Universally known as Swami, he was influential in classical music- based film songs. In the Malayalam music industry, he has guided many of the renowned singers/composers of current times. Dakshinamoorthy was born on 9 December 1919. Dakshinamoorthy was the son of D. Venkateswara Iyer and Parvathi Ammal in Alappuzha district, Kerala.
He was the eldest child among his two brothers and four sisters. His mother developed his interest in music and taught him kheer Thanas of Thyagaraja Swamigal when he was still ...
Date of Death:
02-08-2013
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
02-08-2013
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
11. P Bhaskaran
P Bhaskaran (full name Pulloottupadathu Bhaskaran)was an actor, poet, lyricist, and filmmaker from South India. He was born in Kodungallur, Thrissur district, Kingdom of Cochinon April 21, 1924, to a lawyer, freedom fighter, poet, and journalist Nandyelathu Padmanabha Menon, and house-wife Pulloottupadathu Ammalu Amma. However, Nandyelathu died when Pulloottupadathu was just ten years old. Within two years, he started writing poems. He went to Maharajas College. While studying there, literature and communism fascinated him. For six months, police kept him in prison for participating in the struggle of August. After releasing from their, Pulloottupadathu migrated to Kozhikode and started working at the Deshabhimani Weekly. Soon after, he commenced writing songs for local stage shows. Since they were communist, Travancore state had even ...
Date of Death:
25-02-2017
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-02-2017
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
12. 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 the film its realism, which a studio-built sets could not provide.
Date of Death:
28-01-1984
Age:
126
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
28-01-1984
Age:
126
Gender:
Male
13. Bimal Roy
Bimal Roy was born on 12 July 1909 in Suapur, Eastern Bengal to a zamindar family. He was the director of Hindi cinema and the well-acclaimed filmmaker of all time Indian film industry. He was known for his realistic approach towards the film. He was the pride of Bengal, who won most of Filmfare award for the Best Director. He was the one who won International Film Award of Cannes Film Festival. He was from East Bengal, a part of Bengal province of British India and now the capital of Bangladesh. After Independence, he moved to India. He started his film career in the film industry named New Theaters Pvt. Ltd as an assistant cameraman. During that time, he worked with P. C. Barua in one of the hit movie Devdas in 1935.
He was a part of parallel cinema move...
Date of Death:
01-08-1966
Age:
114
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-08-1966
Age:
114
Gender:
Male
14. Kadiri Venkata Reddy
Kadiri Venkata Reddy (1 July 1912 – 15 September 1972) was a prominent Indian film chief, essayist, maker and creation administrator in Telugu silver screen, known for his spearheading work in fables, social and Fantasy movies. He was Born in Tadipatri, Anantapur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He graduated with Degree of Bachelor of Science (BSc.) from Madras Presidency College. His first job was as a cashier for the Vauhini Studios in 1938. After that, Reddy was made production manager on the set of Vande Mataram in 1939.
After Vande Mataram, he worked in three more movies as production manager and soon he became a director.
His First movie as the director was in 1942, Bhakta Potana. From 1949 to 1963 he wrote ...
Date of Death:
15-09-1972
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
15-09-1972
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
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