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1. P Susheela


p-susheela-.png 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...
Date of Birth: 13-11-1935
Age: 89
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-11-1935
Age: 89
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Singer

2. Durga Khote


durga-khote.png Durga Khote is a legendary actress of Indian cinema who has acted in over 200 films and even numerous theatre productions. The actress was born on January 14, 1905, and is considered to be the foremost leading ladies of her times. Her performances were truly gripping because of the genuineness that she portrayed on the screen. She was also part...
Date of Birth: 14-01-1905
Date of Death: 22-09-1991
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-01-1905
Date of Death: 22-09-1991
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

3. Vijaya Mehta


14-05-2017/vijaya-mehta.png Vijaya Mehta is an acclaimed Indian television film and theatre actor. She is known for her works in parallel cinemas as a director, and an actor....
Date of Birth: 04-11-1934
Age: 90
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-11-1934
Age: 90
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

4. Shabana Azmi


Shabana-Azmi.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 18-09-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-09-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actress

5. Kamal Hazarika


20-10-2020/kamal-hazarika.jpg Kamal Hazarika was born and raised in Assam, India. Kamal went to Government High School and then went to St. Edmund College in Shillong. Kamal is widely known as a lyricist; one of his most famous songs is Ae Senai Moi Jaao Devi. Before becoming a lyricist, Kamal worked in various places. At first, he started working in Arunachal Pradesh;...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Lyricist

6. T. S. Narasimhan


20-10-2020/t.-s.-narasimhan.jpg T. S. Narasimhan is a film producer best known for producing and Directing films for children. He was born in 1927. He lived in Kolkata, India. Narasimhan made a spectacular movie called Dangeyedda Makkalu. Narasimhan won the National Award for the Best Children’s Film; he produced the Naaviddeve Echcharike, which helped him bag the national award. Narasimhan is also renowned for bringing...
Date of Birth: 1927
Date of Death: 27-07-2013
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1927
Date of Death: 27-07-2013
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Producer

7. 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

8. Manmohan Mahapatra


20-10-2020/manmohan-mahapatra.jpg Manmohan Mahapatra was an Odia filmmaker, producer, director, and writer who was born on November 10, 1951. Mahapatra studied filmmaking at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, and in 1975, he released his debut short film, "Anti-Memoirs." In 1976, he directed his first full-fledged Odia film, "Seeta Raati," which won him the National Film Award for Best...
Date of Birth: 10-11-1951
Date of Death: 13-01-2020
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-11-1951
Date of Death: 13-01-2020
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer, Producer

9. Kumar Shahani


13-10-2020/kumar-shahani.jpg Kumar Shahani is a renowned director. He was born on 7th December 1940 in Larkana, Sindh, now a part of Pakistan. Kumar completed his B. A (Hons) in Political Science and History from the University of Bombay. He was a student of Ritwik Ghatak at the Film and Television Institute of India, where he studied screenplay writing and advanced direction....
Date of Birth: 07-12-1940
Age: 83
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-12-1940
Age: 83
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

10. PN Menon


26-08-2020/pn-menon.jpg Palissery Narayanankutty Menon, famously known as P.N. Menon, was an Indian film director and an Art Director, mainly in the Malayalam film industry. Besides, director Menon is also known for designing promotional posters....
Date of Birth: 02-01-1926
Date of Death: 09-09-2008
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-01-1926
Date of Death: 09-09-2008
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

11. Sangram Naiksatam


27-09-2019/sangram-naiksatam.jpg Sangram Naiksatam is an assistant director at TVF Media Labs (2015-present). The Viral Fever (TVF), founded by Arunabh Kumar, is an online YouTube channel started by TVF Media Labs in 2010 and currently owned and operated by Contagious Online Media Network Private Limited, Mumbai, India....
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:

12. Raj Shekhar


26-08-2019/raj-shekhar.jpg Raj Shekar is a famous Indian Lyricist who works in the Bollywood industry. He wrote the lyrics for the Bollywood film Tanu weds Manu and its sequel Tanu weds Manu Returns, directed by Anand L Rai. Raj has also written numerous children’s stories. He was born on 22 September 1980 in a small village, Medhapura, Bihar. At first, he wanted...
Date of Birth: 22-09-1980
Age: 44
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 22-09-1980
Age: 44
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Lyricist

13. Nirad Mohapatra


19-08-2019/nirad-mohapatra.jpg Nirad Mohapatra was an Indian film director. He was born on the 12th of November 1947 at Odessa. He completed his college-level education in 1967, and then he started a diploma in film directing where he got a chance to worked as a lecturer at the institute. He is the father of freedom fighter, journalist, and his mother was a...
Date of Birth: 12-11-1947
Date of Death: 19-02-2015
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-11-1947
Date of Death: 19-02-2015
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

14. Yash Choudhary


25-09-2018/yash-choudhary.jpg "Yash Choudhary is an individual who offers significance to each work he gets as an entertainer despite the distinction in a little and disparaging job in Indian Television. The sole reason he has been grabbing shows like, 'Dread Files,' 'Savdhaan India,' 'Shapath,' and 'CID.' Like a ton of different on-screen characters in this exchange, he also is hanging tight for...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: TV Actor

15. Uday Shankar


23-03-2017/uday-shankar.jpg Uday Shankar is one the most well-known Indian film directors in the Tamil and Telugu film industry. He has directed many films, and one of it has even won national award for the best feature film. Uday is a very talented director, and his potential is countless....
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director

16. Master Suresh


05-07-2017/master-suresh.jpg Master Suresh is a South Indian actor. He did most of his movies in South Indian languages like Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu. Though he has not acted in the lead role in any film most of his films have been great hits....
Date of Birth: 06-09-1974
Date of Death: 11-03-2024
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 06-09-1974
Date of Death: 11-03-2024
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

17. Mankada Ravi Varma


26-11-2016/mankada-ravi-varma.png Manakda Ravi Varma was born on 4th June, 1926 in Malappuram, Kerala. Ravi Varma passed away at the age of 84on 22nd November, 2010 in Tamil Nadu, India. People also know him as Raviettan. He started his career in the year 1966. He is a very popular Malayalam Film Director and Cinematographer. He has worked with many famous Directors such...
Date of Birth: 04-06-1926
Date of Death: 22-11-2010
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-06-1926
Date of Death: 22-11-2010
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Cinematographer

18. Sunny Joseph


26-11-2016/sunny-joseph.png Sunny Joseph is a very well-known cinematographer from India who works predominantly in Malayalam films. He was born in the state of Kerala on the 12th of October in 1957. He is best known for his incredible work in Piravi, a Malayalam feature movie directed by the famous director Shaji n. Karun. His parents CV Joseph and Thressiamma brought him...
Date of Birth: 12-10-1957
Age: 67
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-10-1957
Age: 67
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Cinematographer

19. V.G Samant


v/0/g/0/s/a/v.g-samant.png V G Samant is an Indian animator and director, considered to be the pioneer of Indian animation. He received his diploma in painting and drawing in 1957. In 1959, he joined the Cartoon Film Unit of the Films Division, graduating to become its first Chief Animator. He directed the musical short animation “Tree of Unity” (1972), which was critically acclaimed for...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Animator

20. B Narsing Rao


b/0/0/n/a/r/b.-narsing-rao.png B Narsinga Rao is a popular Telugu director in the parallel cinema field. Parallel cinema is nothing but a genre in movie making where film makers try to show realistic and genuine issues through their feature films. B Narsinga Rao born in 1947 in Medak, Telangana is a producer, director, editor and a composer....
Date of Birth: 1947
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1947
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

21. Komal Swaminathan


k/o/m/a/l/0/komal-swaminathan.jpg Komal Swaminathan is a Tamil Theater personality, and his work is commendable and highly appreciated among the people in the industry. During his earlier days, he was a congressional activist and later become a theater personality, journalist, and film director. He was born on 27th January 1935 at Karaikudi, Thanjavur district, in Tamil Nadu, India and died on October 1995...
Date of Birth: 27-01-1935
Date of Death: 1995
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-01-1935
Date of Death: 1995
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

22. Nitish Roy


n/i/t/i/s/h/nitish-roy.png 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...
Date of Birth: 15-12-1953
Age: 70
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-12-1953
Age: 70
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Art Director

23. Pradeep Uppoor


p/r/a/d/e/e/pradeep-uppoor.jpg Pradeep Uppoor is a film producer. With the help of others, he created Firework Productions. Its office is in West Andheri. In 1983, he produced the Bollywood flick Ardh Sathya. The genre of the movie was a crime drama. It consisted of Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah as lead actors. The lead actress in Ardh Satya was Smita Patil. A...
Date of Birth: 18-07-1958
Date of Death: 13-03-2023
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-07-1958
Date of Death: 13-03-2023
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

24. Shekhar Chatterjee


s/h/e/k/h/a/shekhar-chatterjee.jpg Shekhar Chatterjee is a Bengali actor and director who was born in 1924 in Calcutta.He has struggled a lot in his early life. This hard working actor started his career by working Bengali theater in the 1950s. He was renowned for his remarkable skills and strong political views. He was so firm and determined towards his goals. He was also a member...
Date of Birth: 1924
Date of Death: 1990
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1924
Date of Death: 1990
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

25. Madhu Ambat


m/a/d/h/u/0/madhu-ambat.png Madhu Ambat was born on 6th March 1949 to Prof. K Bhagyanath and Smt. Ambat Sulochana. The Ambat family was an incredible group of individuals, with a father that quit being a professor to pursue his love for magic as full time career and a sister who grew up to be an incredible actress. Not only this, his younger sister,...
Date of Birth: 06-03-1949
Age: 75
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 06-03-1949
Age: 75
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

26. Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao


k/o/t/a/g/i/kotagiri-venkateswara-rao.png Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao- The most wanted editor for the directors of Indian Cinema. He was born in David in Krishna district which is located in Andhra Pradesh. Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao is a film editor in Telugu cinema industry. He is not only an editor but he also produces a lot of films. He started his career in the year 1977....

27. M. S. Sathyu


m/0/0/s/0/0/m.-s.-sathyu.jpg Mysore Shrinivas Sathyu is a prolific film director, art director and stage manager who is known best for his debut as a film director in Garam Hawa. He was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri in 1975. Born in Mysore in India, on July 6, 1930, he is also well-known for his collaboration with Google for the reunion ad series, which...
Date of Birth: 03-07-1930
Age: 94
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-07-1930
Age: 94
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Director

28. 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

29. T. S. Nagabharana


t.-s.-nagabharana.jpg T. S. Nagabharana is a very famous Indian Film director, producer, and screenwriter. His full name is Talakadu Srinivasaiah Nagabharana. He was born in the year 1953 in Bangalore, Mysore State in India. He is a very renowned personality in the Kannada film industry and one of the individuals that lead the way to parallel cinemas. He is one of...
Date of Birth: 23-01-1953
Age: 71
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-01-1953
Age: 71
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

30. G. V. Iyer


g.-v.-iyer.png Internationally renowned film producer-director G. V. Iyer started his career as a stage artiste. He was born on September 3, 1917, in Nanjanagud (Mysore). This veteran film personality started his career as a stage artiste in 'Sadarame' drama in Mysore and later worked in the film field. In early stages of his career, he engaged himself as a poster writer and carpenter....
Date of Birth: 13-09-1917
Date of Death: 21-12-2003
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-09-1917
Date of Death: 21-12-2003
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

31. Ilaiyaraaja


ilayaraja.jpg Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with...
Date of Birth: 02-06-1943
Age: 81
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-06-1943
Age: 81
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Music Director

32. Joy Mathew


joy-mathew.jpg Joy Mathew has various feathers to his cap; he is an actor, director, writer and a political persona. But he is very humble in this real life. Hailing from an upper-class Christian family he had his initial days in Kozhikode. He initially joined Pune Film Institute but later opted for post graduation in Mass Media and Journalism. But films always...
Date of Birth: 20-09-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-09-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

33. S P Balasubrahmanyam


s/0/p/0/b/a/s-p-balasubrahmanyam.jpg S P Balasubrahmanyam is still considered to be one among the best musicians in the past three decades, in spite of the surge of various new comers. This legendary singer is reputed for his intense voice, profound knowledge of music, and a style of singing which is appreciated even today. SPB, as he is fondly called, has given his voice...
Date of Birth: 04-06-1946
Date of Death: 25-09-2020
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-06-1946
Date of Death: 25-09-2020
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

34. Om Puri


o/m/0/p/u/r/om-puri.jpg Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior actors in the Indian film industry and he was born on 18th October 1950 in Patiala, Punjab. He is one of the few Bollywood actors to act in mainstream commercial English movies. The alumnus of National School of Drama was also a classmate of renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah of the...
Date of Birth: 18-10-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-10-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

35. Manmohan Shetty


Manmohan-Shetty.jpg Manmohan Shetty, one of the famous Indian film producer and entrepreneur, was born in Mangalore. After his initial schooling in Mangalore he went to persue arts at Mumbai’s ‘Somaiya College’. Later he founded Adlabs Films Ltd., which has since then shaped into the country’s largest media and entertainment firms. ...
Date of Birth: 24-02
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-02
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

36. 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

37. Kundan Shah


k/u/n/d/a/n/kundan-shah.jpg Kundan Shah is an Indian director and scriptwriter known for his comedy cults such as the film “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro” and the television series “Nukkad.” He obtained his Diploma in 1976 from the “Film and Television Institute of India” (FTII) in Pune, in direction. He started assisting Saeed Mirza on the sets of Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata...
Date of Birth: 19-10-1947
Age: 77
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-10-1947
Age: 77
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

38. Ram Mohan


Ram-Mohan.jpg Ram Mohan is an Indian Film producer who was born on 21 May 1969. He has produced a few Telugu movies namely ‘Ashta Chamma’, ‘Golconda High School’ and ‘Uyyala Jampala’. He has studied at IIT and IIM and has worked in a Senior Management role in the production houses like Suresh Productions and UTV. However he had released the movies...
Date of Birth: 21-05-1969
Age: 55
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-05-1969
Age: 55
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

39. S. P. Ramanathan


15-10-2020/s.-p.-ramanathan.jpg Bio coming soon......
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: