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Hindi Awards 32nd National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. S. Janaki


s.-janaki.png As popularly known, The Nightingale of South, S. Janaki was born as Sishtla Sreeramamurthy on 23rd April 1938 in Repalle, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Her childhood love for music turned out to be her talent, and she started performing at a tender age of three. Her voice is compared to Lata Mangeshkar, and Janaki has a large fan following because of...
Date of Birth: 23-04-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-04-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Singer

2. Rohini Hattangadi


04-05-2017/rohini-hattangadi.png Rohini Hattangadi is an Indian actress who can be called as a veteran in the true sense of the term. She is a very senior actress, who debuted with the movie called ‘Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan’ in 1978. She has an experience of around 35 years and she has been widely appreciated and critically perceived very well by the...
Date of Birth: 11-04-1951
Age: 73
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-04-1951
Age: 73
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

3. 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

4. Sonia Bose


Sonia-Bose.jpg Sonia is an Indian film actress popular in South Indian movies, mainly in Malayalam. She had her debut in movies as a child artist in 1979, at the age of three, in the Malayalam film Ival Oru Naadodi. She appeared in many films as a child actor by the name Baby Sonia. During her childhood she has dubbed for many...
Date of Birth: 26-08-1977
Age: 47
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 26-08-1977
Age: 47
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

5. Sanjay Kak


13-10-2020/sanjay-kak.jpg   Sanjay Kak is an Indian director who worked for the Hindi film industry. He was born in 1958 and was a multi-talented author, activist and filmmaker. After being born in a Kashmiri Pandit family he lived in Delhi and work in many movies which are based in New Delhi. Sanjay completed his studies from University of Delhi and was famous...
Date of Birth: 1958
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1958
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

6. Jehangir Choudhary


13-10-2020/jehangir-choudhary.jpg   Jehangir Chaudhary is an Indian cinematographer who worked for the Bollywood film industry. He worked in more than 20 Hindi movies and gained a huge amount of respect and reputation in the Hindi movies. Some of his work as a cinema cinematographer includes Sold in 2014, Aa Dekhen Zara in 2009, Bus Yun Hi in 2003, Mirch Masala in 1986,...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:

7. Vasant Dev


13-10-2020/vasant-dev.jpg   Vasant Dev is an Indian lyricist who worked for the Hindi film industry. He worked with big directors of Hindi cinemas like Mahesh Bhatt, Govind Nihalani, and Shyam Benegal. Vasant also worked in Hindi parallel cinemas during 1980 and completed his academic from Parle College in Mumbai. He also worked with the great singer Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle in...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Lyricist

8. Jijo Punnoose


23-05-2019/jijo-punnoose.jpg Abhishek Dudhaiya is an India Television and film industry director, writer and producer. He has worked in almost 20 TV shows for Zee TV, &TV and DD National. He is also known as Mukesh Dudhaiya....
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

9. Anil Malnad


19-03-2018/anil-malnad.jpg Anil Malnad is a film editor. He was born in Malnad, Chikkamagaluru, and India. He mainly works with the Kannada, Tamil and Telugu Cinema. He has Indian Nationality. His star sign is Scorpio. He did films projects of different genres. He has done the best editing. He gave his best assistant at the time of his editing career. Anil has...
Date of Birth: 12-10-1957
Date of Death: 19-03-2018
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-10-1957
Date of Death: 19-03-2018
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Editor

10. 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

11. Jaidev


j/a/i/d/e/v/jaidev.png Jaidev is a talented music composer in Bollywood. Hum Dono, Prem Parbhat, Reshma and Shera are some of his notable works. He gained the National Award for Ankahee, Gaman and Reshma Aur Shera. Born in Nairobi and grown in Ludhiana, Jaidev acted in few films as a child artiste. Due to unfortunate circumstances he had to quit acting. Jaidev has...
Date of Birth: 03-08-1918
Date of Death: 06-01-1987
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-08-1918
Date of Death: 06-01-1987
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Composer

12. Rajam Balachander


r/a/j/a/m/0/rajam-balachander.png Rajam Balachander (1956-2014) was an Indian film producer, popular amongst the audience for her work in movies like Duet (1994), Roja (1992), Kalyana Agathigal (1985), etc. Mostly known for her predominant involvement in Kollywood movies, dramas, and TV shows, she was one of the key figures behind the establishment of Kavithalaaya productions....
Date of Birth: 1956
Date of Death: 2014
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1956
Date of Death: 2014
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Producer

13. V. Natarajan


v/0/0/n/a/t/v.-natarajan.jpg V. Natarajan is also known as Pyramid Natarajan is a well-known Tamil film actor cum producer who has been working in the Tamil show business industry for four decades now as an actor, producer, content creator, and film distributor. He has acted in over ten movies and has been the member of the Government Body formed to deal with Film...
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:

14. 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

15. Bhimsen Joshi


b/h/i/m/s/e/bhimsen-joshi.jpg Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi was born on 4th February 1922, in Ron Karnataka India, to parents Gururaj Joshi ( his father authored the Kannada to English dictionary) and Godavaribai (she was a home maker). He was the eldest among his sixteen siblings. Bhimsen lost his mother at a very young age and was raised by a step mother. Bhimsen had an...
Date of Birth: 04-02-1922
Date of Death: 24-01-2011
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-02-1922
Date of Death: 24-01-2011
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

16. Edida Nageswara Rao


edida-nageswara-rao.png He is a well-known producer of the Tollywood film Industry. He has his productions named ‘Poornodaya Movie Creations’ and through this production house, he had produced several blockbusters in the Tollywood which include ‘Sankarabharanam’ and ‘Swayam Krushi’. These movies also appeared at the Moscow Film Festival. He was born on 24th of April in the year 1934 in Kothapeta located...
Date of Birth: 24-04-1934
Date of Death: 04-10-2015
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-04-1934
Date of Death: 04-10-2015
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Producer

17. Tarun Majumdar


07-01-2020/tarun-majumdar.jpg A legendary director who has created the most exceptional of films for more than decades, Tarun Majumdar is the most respected personality in the Indian film industry. He was born in Bengal, in the year 1931. This renowned directed is especially noted for his sharp representation of the Bengali culture and society. He has directed many hit films, many of...
Date of Birth: 1931
Date of Death: 04-07-2022
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1931
Date of Death: 04-07-2022
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

18. Satyajit Ray


satyajit-ray.png Biographies reveal bare details about the maverick filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Even today not much is known about this extraordinary filmmaker. But people still have a passion for doing research upon his classic films as he is an extraordinary filmmaker. Satyajit Ray was India’s first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award (Honorary Oscar) in 1992. He is also a recipient...
Date of Birth: 02-05-1921
Date of Death: 23-04-1992
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-05-1921
Date of Death: 23-04-1992
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

19. Goutam Ghose


goutam-ghose.jpg Gautam Ghose is a special man. He has won numerous awards, and his work has been appreciated across cultures and boundaries. He is the most celebrated Bengali Film Director. He is known for his films, and has won numerous National and International Awards for his performance. To say the least, he has won 16 National Awards and many Filmfare Awards....
Date of Birth: 24-07-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-07-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

20. Victor Banerjee


16-01-2019/victor-banerjee.jpg Victor Banerjee was born 15 October 1946 in Calcutta, India, belongs to a Zamindar family of Kolkata and got his initial education from Kolkata and higher education from Dublin.He  is an Indian actor of Bengali descent and worked in various Hindi, Bengali and English language films. He has also appeared on a number of TV Series.Firstly recognised by Satyajit Ray...
Date of Birth: 15-10-1946
Age: 78
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-10-1946
Age: 78
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Producer

21. Prakash Jha


14-03-2017/prakash-jha.png Prakash Jha, a director, film producer and screenwriter, was born on 27th of February 1952. ‘Prakash Jha Productions’ is his production venture. Hailing from Bihar, Prakash Jha went on to study B.Sc Honors in Ramjas College. Eventually he stopped studies and came to Mumbai, wanting to be a painter. As he was preparing for entrance exam for a course in...
Date of Birth: 27-02-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-02-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

22. Siddharth Kak


13-08-2019/siddharth-kak.jpg Siddharth Kak is active in the Hindi Television world right from the year 1972 until the present. He got married to Gita, and the couple has a daughter namely Antara Kak. He is known for anchoring of TV shows, and he produced many serials. He plays a commendable job on the TV shows and serials. He hailed from Kashmir. His...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

23. Shyam Benegal


Shyam-Benegal.jpg Shyam Benegal is a renowned Indian director and screenwriter. He created, what is today referred to as ‘middle cinema’. His work has widely received critical acclaim in India as well as in the International Film Circuit. He was born on 14 December 1934 in Secunderabad. He is a cousin of Guru Dutt. His paternal grandmother and Guru Dutt’s maternal grandmother...
Date of Birth: 14-12-1934
Age: 89
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-12-1934
Age: 89
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director, Screenplay

24. Saeed Akhtar Mirza


Saeed-Akhtar-Mirza.jpg Saeed Akhtar Mirza is a screenwriter and director. He is known for Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai, which was released in 1980, then four years later another hit film- Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! in 1984, then Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro in 1989 and six years later Naseem in 1995, which grabbed two National Film Awards in 1996....
Date of Birth: 30-06-1943
Age: 81
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-06-1943
Age: 81
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director, Screenplay

25. Shankar Nag


Shankar-Nag.jpg Shankar Nag, most influential and talented Kannada actor and director, who acted in around 90 Kannada movies, in a career spanning 12 years from 1978 to 1990. Shankar also produced R.K. Narayan's novel, Malgudi Days as a teleserial and also acted in it. He was also a part a Kannada theater. He co-wrote 22 June 1897, an Indian national award-winning...
Date of Birth: 09-11-1954
Date of Death: 30-09-1990
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-11-1954
Date of Death: 30-09-1990
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Movie Actor

26. Pratap K. Pothen


07-12-2019/pratap-k.-pothen.jpg Prathap Pothan is a famous South Indian Director, Actor, Writer and Producer who has acted in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi movies. He was born on 13 August 1955 in Trivandrum. His father was a well to do Businessman named Kolathinkal Pothan. His father passed away when he was 15 years old. He also has a elder brother whose name...
Date of Birth: 13-08-1955
Date of Death: 15-07-2022
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-08-1955
Date of Death: 15-07-2022
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

27. Naseeruddin Shah


Naseeruddin-Shah1.JPG Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and associated with theater. He had treated art-cinema as his serious endeavor requiring the dedication, discipline, and integrity. Throughout his career, he subjected his own acting to a process of rigorous artistic self-analysis and reflection. He was the discovery of filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who introduced actors like Shabana, Om Puri, Smita Patil and others...
Date of Birth: 20-07-1949
Age: 75
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-07-1949
Age: 75
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

28. K. Balachander


06-01-2020/k.-balachander.jpg Kailasam Balachander or most popularly known as K. Balachander is a legendary film producer, director and screenwriter who dedicate his life in the film industry for almost half of his life. He was born on July 9, 1930 in a Tamil family in the Tanjore District of Nannilam, Madras Presidency, British India. He stated that, since his eight year, he’s...
Date of Birth: 09-07-1930
Date of Death: 23-12-2014
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-07-1930
Date of Death: 23-12-2014
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director