Prema Karanth
P Susheela
Shabana Azmi
Suhasini Mulay
L V Prasad
Gautam Chattopadhyay
Suresh Jindal
Tapan K. Bose
Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu
VR Gopinath
Nitish Roy
Arvind Deshpande
I. V. Sasi
Dasari Narayana Rao
Balu Mahendra
Kamal Haasan
K J Yesudas
Jahnu Barua
Vimal Child Artist
K Hariharan
1. Prema Karanth
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 Chi...
Date of Death:
29-10-2007
Age:
87
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
29-10-2007
Age:
87
Gender:
Female
2. P Susheela
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)....
Age:
88
Gender:
Female
3. Shabana Azmi
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.
Both her of her parents was supporters of the Communist Party of India. She has a brother named Baba Azmi, who is a cinematographer. Shabana’s early childhood memories consist of high social activity of her parents and respect for human values.
Shabana did her schooling at the Queen Mary School situated at Mumbai. Following that she did her graduation in Psychology from S...
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
4. Suhasini Mulay
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.
She has properly joined showbiz in 1965 when she was chosen as a model for a commercial ad. Then, she was signed for a film ‘Bhuvan Shome’ in 1969. It was a blockbuster film but she did not pursue acting as profession and left for Canada where she joined McGill Univers...
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
5. L V Prasad
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.
Akkineni Lakshmi VaraPrasada Rao was the second son to Akkineni Sri ramulu and Akkineni Basavamma. His family was into agriculture, he was a pampered child and wa...
Date of Death:
22-06-1994
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
22-06-1994
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
6. Gautam Chattopadhyay
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.
He with his brothers and cousin brothers formed a band named The Saptarshi and later they changed the name to Moheener Ghoraguli. As a music director he wo...
Date of Death:
20-06-1999
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
20-06-1999
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
7. Suresh Jindal
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...
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
8. Tapan K. Bose
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.
Bombay High Court cleared the film, and it went on to win the Best Non-Fiction Film Award at Golden Lotus in 1986. His other films included ‘Semurg’ in 1978, ‘...
9. Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu
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). ...
Date of Death:
03-09-1987
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
03-09-1987
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
10. VR Gopinath
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.
Apart from direction, Gopinath was also interested in writing, acting, and editing. He has written scripts and dialogues for movies such as The Divine Touch, Parasparam and Greeshmam. He has acted in his own direction, Our Lady of Lourdes and has played a role in editing the very same movie. He has also been the producer of a film named The Divine Touch ,i.e....
11. Nitish Roy
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.
Born and raised in Bengal he has a degree from the Government Art College. Originally he worked with a carpenter and attributes his present ability from his work. He late moved on to become a commercial artist with an advertising firm while decorating the houses of his friends in his spare time. He also de...
Age:
70
Gender:
Male
Age:
70
Gender:
Male
12. Arvind Deshpande
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.
...
Gender:
Male
13. I. V. Sasi
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 Malay...
Date of Death:
24-10-2017
Age:
76
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
24-10-2017
Age:
76
Gender:
Male
14. Dasari Narayana Rao
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.
He has done over 150 films as a director and also produced 53 films. He got married to Dasari Padma, producer and they have a son, Arun Kumar Desai, who is an actor. In his early life, he had launched a newspaper, Udayam, which got very famous...
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
15. Balu Mahendra
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.
Balu Mahendra had married three times, his first wife was Akhileshwari who was the mother of his first son and in the year 1980 his second wife actress Shoba had committed suicide ending their relationship and also putting...
Date of Death:
13-02-2014
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-02-2014
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
16. Kamal Haasan
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.
Just like any other actor, Kamal had to struggle for that one Break-through too. His first hit was through drama ‘Apoorva Raagangal’, in 1975. Haasan was appreciated across states for his exemplary performance in &l...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
17. K J Yesudas
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 hu...
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
18. Jahnu Barua
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 Ga...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
19. Vimal Child Artist
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20. K Hariharan
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