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,...
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,’...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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)....
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...