Hindi Awards 30th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

Prema was a famous theatre personality, who was known to be the first woman director of films in the Kannada language. B. V. Karanth was her husband. She was the film-maker of Phaniyamma, which was the first movie directed by a woman, based on M. K. Indira's novel. M. K. Indira was a famous Indian novelist in the Kannada language. She was born in the year 1936 to a poor family in Bhadravathi, an industrial city of Karnataka state in India. Her father died at a very early age. Kamalamma, her mother, was suffering from tuberculosis. Because of this, she was never given a chance even to touch her mother. In the early years of her life, till the death of her mother, she lived at Sidlaghatta, a town in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka. After the death of her mother, her grandparents took care of her. After her schooling, she started working as a teacher in the St. Teresa's convent in Bangalore. She used to teach in some primary schools also. She conducted stage plays of small time in the schools. Though she did not want to marry anyone, she fell in love with B. V. Karanth. She got married to him in 1958 and later moved to a North Indian city, Varanasi. She joined the Banaras Hindu University and continued her education. Later, her husband moved to Delhi and joined the National School of Drama.

P. Susheela is a well-known playback singer in South Indian film industry, who has received five National awards for the talent she posses. P. Sheela was born on 13th November 1935. She has been associated with the film industry for over six decades now. She is a legendary artist who has the purest form of vocal strength, with great syllabic pronunciations. She is mainly noted for her honey like sweet voice; that can speak fluently and deliver the word or the lyrics sung so distinctly and clearly. Sheela, from her childhood, discovered itself the talent she has and the passion she feels for it. Thus, she went for classical music training and perfected her skill. She was seen to sing for AIR (All India Radio). And it was from here that she got the opportunity to sing as playback for films. She can sing fluently for Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films.

Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin and social activist. Shabana was born on 18, September 1950 in Hyderabad. Her father, Kaifi Azmi was an Indian poet while her mother Shaukat Azmi was a stage actress for the Indian People’s Theatre Asociation.

Suhasini Mulay is popular for Marathi films and mother roles in most of the Bollywood films. Of late, he has performed in Hindi TV serials also. She was born in Patna, aon 20 November 1950. She spent her childhood in Patna where she got early education. She is brought up by her mother because her father died when she was only 3 years of age. She adopted interest in acting from her mother, Vijaya Mulay.

Gautam Chattopadhyay is an Indian songwriter who worked for the Bengali film industry. He was born on 1st June 1949 and was a multi-talented singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer. Gautam was the founder of the rock band Moheener Ghoraguli, whose other members include Tapas Das, Abraham Mazumdar, Pradip Chatterjee, Ranjon Ghoshal, Biswanath Bishu Chattopadhyay, and Tapesh Bandopadhyay in 1975. During his college days, he played many Indian and Western instruments, like in his college years he played guitar in a band called The Urge.

Suresh Jindal was born on 7th September 1942 in India. He completed BSEE from UCLA in Los Angeles, California. He worked in California as an aerospace/electronic engineer for four years. He then read about art-house cinema being produced in India, which got him interested in taking up a career as a film producer. He decided to approach Basu Chatterjee for his first project as a film producer as he was impressed by Basu’s film Piya Ka Ghar’s reviews. He told the man that he had no idea about production but wanted to get into it and liked the script of the film Rajnigandha. Three producers had already ditched Basu, so he was cautious with Suresh, but they completed the project in 1974. The film went on to win the Filmfare award for Best Film in the consecutive year. It was Amol Palekar and Vidya Sinha’s first film. He was bestowed with the honor to work with ace filmmaker Satyajit Ray in his film ‘Shatranj Ke Khilari’ in 1977. He had arranged a meeting with Satyajit via his connection with Tinnu, an assistant to Ray. The film was his first Hindi movie, and Ray wanted a producer like Jindal, who had produced a successful Hindi film. This, coupled with the fact that he was an acquaintance of Tinnu, made Ray decide to go with a rookie producer.

Akkineni Lakshmi VaraPrasada Rao commonly recognized as L. V. Prasad, was an Indian film producer, director, actor, cinematographer, and businessman. He was born on January 17, 1908, in the village of Somavarapadu, in Eluru Taluk in Andhra Pradesh, India. He was one of the trendsetters of the Indian cinema and has received the DadasahebPhalkeAward.He is also the recipient of three National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. His life is an inspiration for many of the people. He passed away on June 22, 1994.

Tapan K Bose is a filmmaker cum human rights activist. Who actively writes articles for magazines in Nepal, India, and Pakistan. He has a website called the ‘Academia.’ He released a film in 1982 titled ‘An Indian Story.’ The film was first banned but then cleared by the High Court in Bombay. It won the Critic’s Choice Award at the London Film Festival in 1983 and the National Award for Best Documentary in the same year. He then released the film Beyond Genocide: Bhopal Gas Tragedy in 1986, which the Censor Board banned.

Puruvula Ramesh Naidu was an Indian Music, film composer, director, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly composed music for Telugu Cinema World. He was born on 1 January 1933 at Kondapalli in Madras Presidency, British India (Now in Andhra Pradesh, India). He has got various awards such as National Film Award for Best Music Direction-1983- Megha Sandesham, Nandi Award for Best Music Director-1983- Megha Sandesham, and Nandi Award for Best Male Playback Singer-1977-Chillarakottu Chittemma. He also made music for a Hindi movie, Hamlet in the year 1954. Some of the films in which Pasupuleti gave his contributions are Aha Naa Perllanta (1987), Swayamkrushi (1987), Srivariki Premalekha (1984), and Ananda Bhairavi (1983). 

V R Gopinath is a well-known Malayalam director who hails from Kerala. He has been honored with the Kerala State Film Award for Best Movie and National Film Award for Best Educational/ Instructional/ Motivational Film. He has directed movies such as Greeshmam, Our Lady of Lourdes, Oru Maymasappularayil, Poothiruvathiranalil, Unnikuttanu Joli Kitti and Poothiruvathira Raavil.

Nitish Roy is a Bengali film director and an art, production and costume designer in the Hindi film industry who moved up the ladder from a disadvantaged youth to one of India’s most prolific designers through hard work. Though that is not all that he does as he is also a world renowned architect with several film cities, amusement parks and museums under his belt.

Arvind Deshpande is an Indian actor; he was involved in Marathi and Hindi Drama and a part of some notable Bollywood films. He had participated in many art house films as a TV actor for Television series and theater plays. He was one of the famous artists that the industry has ever had. He was born in Mumbai, India on 31st of May, 1932. He became the leading individual in the movement of experimental theater held during the 1960s. Arvind Deshpande was also associated with Rangayan Association that was co-founded by him with his wife Sulabha Deshpande and his friend Vijaya Mehta. In 1971, he co-founded a theater group with Sulabha Deshpande called “Awishkar” with its children going to several professional children shows.

I.V. Sasi or Irruppam Veedu Sasidaran is a prominent film director known for directing more than 150 Indian films in various languages. He married a Malayalam actress, Seema, on 28 August 1980 and the couple has a daughter and a son by the names of Anu and Ani. The Sasidaran family lives in Chennai, where his son, Ani, studied at Loyola College in Visual Communication. His son is working towards becoming a director himself whereas his daughter, Anu, acted in the symphony, directed by Sasi. Symphony is a Malayalam movie produced by M. N. Thankachan. The movie is a debut for Anu Sasi as well as the lead actor, Shiva. His wife, Seema, is known to have acted in over 250 movies in various languages including Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. 

Dasari Narayana Rao is an Indian cinema director who has mainly worked in Telugu movies and has credit to some Bollywood movies too. He was born on 4 May 1947 in Palakol, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has done his graduation in BA and had an interest in acting and directing since then. He has performed in many drama competitions. Most of the films he has done in his career have laid emphasis on corruption, gender discrimination and injustice.

Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran was born in a Sri Lankan Tamil family on the 20th of May 1939 and passed away on the 13th of February 2014. He was a cinematographer, film editor, director and a screenwriter. He has worked in some Indian film industries but mostly worked in the Tamil film industry. BaluManhendra had developed an interest in photography in his early years, as he graduated as a gold medallist in cinematography from FTII in Pune he first started his career as a cameraman.

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas shortly called as K J Yesudas is an exceptional Carnatic singer and playback singer in Indian Cinema. Born on Jan 10 in 1940, he is fondly called as Gana Gandharvan and Dasettan. He has set a record of recording more than 60,000 songs. He is born in a Roman Catholic family, in Kochi. His father was a great classical Malayalam musician. His first song was Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham (music: M B Sreenivasan) recorded on 14 November 1961. This song is so close to Yesudas, that he signs it even today very often in any of the concerts. His journey started with this song. He got his first hit through a movie Bharya under the music direction of G. Devarajan. He made huge hit songs in Tamil and Telugu film industries as well. His first song in Tamil was in a film Bommai, where the music was composed by the very famous Music composer S. Balachander. He had set exceptional records in music industry. He stands as a winner of 43 state awards in all over India, 7 national awards for best singer which are completely unbreakable records.

Kamal Haasan is the most versatile actor that India had ever witnessed. His innovative performances have been acclaimed worldwide. He is known for his passion for dance forms, action, and his enthusiasm for new concepts in movies. He is one of the most unforgettable actors in India. Born in 1954, Kamal Haasan has a never ending passion for Indian Cinema. He is still acting in movies. Though he belongs to Kollywood Industry his movies are much appreciated in Bollywood and Tollywood as well.

Jahnu Barua, an Assamese Filmmaker, born on 17 October in Guwahati, Assam. He is known as the pioneer of Assamese Artistic Cinema. He pursued Bachelor in Science from B. Barooah College of Guwahati and took Diploma in Film Direction from FTII (Film & TV Institute of India) in Pune. He got married to Gayatri, (a filmmaker) who inspired him to become a filmmaker too. Oyu barua is the name of their son. We can say that he is an ‘all-rounder’ because he is a Director, Producer, Writer & Editor. He directed, produced and edited many films like ‘Aparoopa’ (1982), ‘Firingoti’ (1992), 'Tora' (2005), etc. As a Writer, he worked in films such as ‘The F Cycle’ (1974), ‘Ek Kahaani’ (1986), ‘Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara’ & ‘Tora’ (2005), ‘Mumbai Cutting’ (2011).

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