Hindi Awards 32nd Filmfare Awards - Cast & Crew

Anuradha Paudwal is a renowned Bollywood playback singer who dominated the industry for a short period but had a shining career for over three decades in Indian film industry having sung in almost all Indian languages. But she is most popular as a singer in Marathi, Kannada and Hindi films followed by Bengali films too. The singer had no formal training but used to practice many hours listening to Lata Mangeshkar’s songs always. Anuradha got her first break in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s film ‘Abhimaan’(1973) by singing a Sanskrit sloka for music composer S.D. Burman. In the same year, she made her debut in singing career in Marathi with the film ‘Yashoda’ and in 1974, she recorded non-film Marathi songs ‘bhav geeten’ that became very popular. She got her first few...

Anupama Deshpande is a female playback singer of Bollywood. She sang a total of 124 songs in 92 films. She was a noted playback singer for Juhi Chawla and Madhuri Dixit. She sang for composers like Anand- Milind, Anu Malik, and Rajesh Roshan. She is known for her rendition of songs like ‘Humko Aaj Kal Hai Intezaar’ (Sailaab) and ‘Tum Mere Ho’ (Tum Mere Ho); especially the song ‘Humko Aaaj Kal Hai Interzaar’ became a top chartbuster as it involved Madhuri’s dance. It was a fisherfolk community dance and Madhuri’s foot tapping matched the quality of Anupama’s voice. 

Anupama also rendered a song with Kishore Kumar in the film ‘Kaash’ that featured Dimple and Jackie Shroff. The song was picturised on Dim...

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 St. Xavier’s College. Post-graduation, following her passion for acting, she opted for acting c...

Aruna Irani is an Indian actress who has acted in over 300 films, mostly doing supporting roles. She was born to a Parsi family on 18th August 1946 in Mumbai. Aruna has mixed origin of Irani Zoroastrian and Hindu background. She was the sister of famous filmmaker, Indra Kumar and actor, Adi Irani. She is married to film director, Kuku Kohli. Aruna Irani was first introduced in the film, Gunga Jumna in 1961. She was just 9 years old at the time when she played the role of Azra. 

After that, she did small roles in several films such as Jahanara in 1964, Farz in 1967 and Upkar in the same year and Aaya Sawan Jhoomke in 1969. In 1968, she acted in Aulad along with the comedian, Mehmood Ali. Later, she also acted in Humjoli in 1970 and Naya Zamana in 1971. She was also starred in 1971 film, Caravan where she pl...

Ravi Baswani was an Indian actor, who worked in Bollywood. He rose to fame after his performance in ‘Chashme Buddoor’ and ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’. For that role, he won a Filmfare for Best Comedian. Known for his timing, he has featured in over 30 films spanning three decades. Ravi, born in Delhi, completed his schooling in Mussoorie. He then graduated from KMC, Delhi University where he was a member of the dramatic society.

In his debut film Chashme Buddoor, Baswani portrayed a student who was very desperate for a girl. Soon, in Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, he played the role of a photographer alongside Naseeruddin Shah. Ravi was a part of several hit films as a supporting artist. He is known for his roles in ‘Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa’, the evergreen ‘Chhota Chetan&r...

Kishore Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who had no formal training in music world. The most easily recalled image of Kishore Kumar that comes in our mind is of his smiling with eyes. He was not just the singer, but a composer, actor and even a script-writer. He is also known for having lent his voice for innumerable hit songs for superstars like Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. At the age of 18, Kishore had set off to Mumbai with a passion for singing. His brother Ashok Kumar was already an established actor and he got a break to sing for Ziddi, which established the leading actor Dev Anand in the industry, but Kishore Kumar did not get any recognition. He acted with top actresses like Nimmi, Meena Kumari, Madhubala, Nutan and Vyjayanthimala Bali and every film...

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt created a niche for himself as a screenplay, writers and even director as his movies dealt with emotion, pain, sufferings, exploitation and even trauma that was not very regular in arts or commercial cinema. His films always had focused women empowerment( Arth, Kaash, Sir, etc.). Arth and “Saaransh; remains his best film till date. His film story was mostly inspired from his own life. 

For instance, Smita Patil’s character in Arth was inspired from his relationship with Parveen Babi. His films “Janam” and “Naam” also had depicted his personal feelings of being born as an illegitimate child. He was born on September 20, 1948 to Hindu father (Nanabhai Bhatt) and Muslim mother(Shirin Mohammed Ali). His father had another family.  Bhatt always found his mother as ...

Bappi Lahiri is a famous Music Composer of India. Born on 27 November 1952 in a Hindu Bengali background, at Kolkata, Bappi Lahiri was instrumental in the popularization of Disco music in Indian films. Namak Halaal, Disco Dancer, and Sharaabi are the songs of the 1980s that made him popular. Both the parents of Bappi were working in the music industry. Bappi fostered the intention to become an international name in his childhood. He was just three years old when he played Tabla. His parents trained him in singing. The 1972 Bengali flick “Daadu” was the first movie for which Bappi composed music. At that time, Bappi was just 19. 

On his personal front, Bappi was married to Chitrani in 1977 and is blessed with two children. Wearing gold accessories is his fancy, and he often appears in black...

Anupam Kher is a very popular actor, director, and producer of the Bollywood film industry. His place of birth was Shimla of Punjab and currently, he is living in Himachal Pradesh. His date of birth was 7th March 1955, and he hails from Kashmir. He got married to Kirron Kher in the year 1985. His brother Raju Kher is also a very famous actor cum director. The best part of Anupam Kher is that he got cast in more than hundred movies, and he is known to make this immense record.

He is an actor who acted in Hollywood movies as well, and he got absolute accreditation for it. In fact, he won many prestigious awards for it, and it includes five Filmfare awards for doing comical roles in movies. Apart from this honor, he got a huge pride after receiving the Padma Shri Award from...

Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. 

His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for about twenty five successful years. As right now, he is quite busy working in the international movi...