Hindi Awards 34th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

Monisha Unni is an Indian actress who received a national award at the age of 14, for her poignant role in the Malayalam film Nakhashathangal. She shot to face with this film and later went to act in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films too. This actress died tragically in a car accident when she was traveling with her mother, Sreedevi Unni. While her mother escaped, the daughter Monisha died. Monisha had a deep bond with her mother. Monisha acted in films, sang on the stage, performed dance and even wore ornaments and dresses that her mother chose for her. Monisha was a perfect doll of her mother. Monisha lived with her parents In Bengaluru. She studied in Bengaluru and had performed many stag...

Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tul...

Bhanumurthy Alur is an Indian film director. Also known as a producer, born in India.  He is married. He did work predominantly in the Bollywood industry. Surprisingly, his first movie, “We The People of India” earned him the Best Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film in 1986. This is a movie within a Part of the liberty Struggle film series, this film culminates with the signing of the Constitution of India, which was the assumption of a ninety-year-long struggle for independence. This film traces the history of evolution and framing of the Constitution of India. This movie is available in the English language as country people can also watch it. 

Furthermore, he is talented and passionate about...

P Vijay Kumar is a passionate Indian actor. He hails from Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He has been featured in Telugu movies. He acted in the movie ‘Lakshmi’s NTR’, which was released in March 2019 in the Telugu language. The movie was directed by Agasthya Majnu and Ram Gopal Verma. P Vijay Kumar played a lead role as NT Rama Rao alongside Sritej, Yagna Shetty, Rajsekhar Aningi, and many others. His latest movie is Narasimhapuram released in 2021. He played a supporting role in the movie alongside Nandakishore and Siri Hanumantu as leading actors. The movie is an action drama directed by SrirajBalla. He also appeared in Rajamouli's Yamadonga, where he assisted him with VFX and graphic effects to delight moviegoers.<...

G. Aravindan, full name Govindan Aravindan was an exceptional personality with many talents. Aravindan was a screenplay writer, painter, director, and cartoonist of Indian origin. He was born in Kottayam in present-day Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in 1935. He was born to a family of artists, his father being M.N. Govindan Nair – a comedy writer. Aravindan went to University College in Trivandrum, Kerala. At an early age, Aravindan started working as an illustrator for Mathrubhumi – a Malayalam weekly newspaper. He worked with Mathrubhumi for 12 years and was known for his comic strip Cheriya Manushyarum Valiya Lokavum which revolved around the socio-politic scenario of the country. After some time, he developed an inclination t...

Sandip Ray is the only son of Satyajit Ray and Bijoya Ray, born on September 8, 1953. He is an Indian director and a music director, mainly working for the Bengali film industry. He was born in Kolkata and studied at South Point School and then from Patha Bhavan, Kolkata. Only at the age of 24, he started his journey as an assistant director on the sets of his father. He made his first directorial debut, Phatik Chand, in 1983, which received International Children’s Film Festival in Vancouver. Not only a director, but Sandip was also a noted photographer. He is best known for directing the Feluda series. His recent work was Professor Shonku o El Dorado.

Venugopal, also called Venu, is an Indian director, writer, and cinematographer. He predominantly works in the Malayalam industry. Venu is a founder member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), the first-ever in India.

Venu was born on August 26th, 1961 as the grandson of Karur Neelakanta Pillai, a Malayalam literature writer and founder of the Sahithya Pravarthaka Society. Venu’s mother, B. Saraswathy, is also a famous writer who has authored Indulekha. He married Beena Paul on August 26th, 1983. She is a film editor from the Mollywood industry. The couple has a daughter, Malavika. She works as the Outreach Programme Manager at the prestigious Cambridge University. 

Venu graduated from the pres...

Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni is a director predominantly working in the Marathi Film Industry. He was born on 6th December1976, in Pune, Maharashtra. Umesh holds a Bachelor of Commerce(B.Com) degree from Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce. In 2004, he passed out from FTDI, Pune.

Umesh made his directorial debut in the 2008 drama “Valu.”Girish Kulkarni, Veena Jamkar, Jyoti Subash, and Atul Kulkarni played prominent roles in the movie. The flick released on 25th January 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. Umesh received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 2011 for his motion-picture “Deool.”

Umesh has directed several movies that have been critically acclaimed and commercially successful....

V K Pavithran was a writer, director ,and producer who predominantly worked in the Malayalam film industry. He was born on the 1st of June 1950 in Trichur. His career spanned twenty-seven years from 1975 to 2002. He passed away at the age of 56 on 26th February in Thrissur. His directorial debut ‘Yaro Oral’ was a success. For that movie, he won several awards ,including the state awards for best direction, best editing ,and best cinematography.

He also worked as a lyricist for T.V. Chandran’s Krishnankutty. He won the National Film Award for the Best Regional Film for his movie, ‘Uppu.’

"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 his leap forward yet then one needs to portray this on-screen character who is splendidly reasonable in his methodology, and has his head in the middle of his shoulders. Anyway his adventure in show business started in the year 2008, when he was handpicked, and cast in the Hindi TV program 'Baali Umar Ko Salaam.'

The story...

B Nagi Reddy is a renowned film producer and director in the Telugu film industry. He was born as Bommireddy Nagi Reddy on December 2, 1912, in the village of Kothapalli, Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh. Nagi is also a presenter, editor, businessman, and philanthropist.

He founded the Vijaya Vauhini Studios in 1948, which then became one the biggest film studio in Asia. His brother, Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy, is also a popular name in Telugu cinema. Nagi, together with his business partner and companion, Alur Chakrapani, have produced over 50 films in 40 years of being in the business. They made devotional, mythological, and historical films. Some of them are Swarg Narak, Jul...

M, Mani is an Indian industry movie director and producer, from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, who has predominantly worked in Malayalam and Tamil films. He is also known as Aroma Mani, who has produced more than sixty movies, and directed more than ten popular hits under “Sunitha Productions,” and “Aroma Movie International,” banner. He started his career as the director in the year 1977 with the debut film “Dheera Sameere.” The movie cast was Madhu, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair and Unnimary.

It was highly appreciated in the cinemas for its simplicity. Some of his recognized hits in Malayalam production were “Rowdy Ramu,” “Ithile Vannavar,” “K...

G Venkateswaran also popularly known as G.V. was an Indian film producer. He was the elder brother of the famous director, screenwriter Mani Ratnam, and G.Srinivasan. He was a chartered accountant by profession. GV's father was a popular film financer and producer, Ratnam Iyer of the then Venus films. Thus he followed his father's footsteps and thus started producing films.

He also owned a production house named 'Sujata.' In 80's he produced several hit films including 'Nayagan,' 'Dhalapathi,' 'Agninakshatram,' 'Mouna Ragam,' etc. After 1996 none of the movies under his productions worked and thus started his downfal...

Hemant Mukherjee is a famous composer, singer, and producer, born on 16th June 1920 in Varanasi, British India. He is popularly known as Hemant Kumar. But unfortunately, he died on 26th September 1989 in Kolkata at the age of 69 years. His original birth name is ‘Hemanta Kumar’. He had sung songs in different languages like Hindi, and other languages; he is often identified as India’s greatest playback singer. He was credited with two National Awards.

Though he was born in Varanasi but in early 1990’s he migrated to Kolkata along with the family. He was educated at ‘Nasiruddin School’ and later at ‘Mitra Institution School’. In that school he m...

Visu is a very respectable figure in the South Indian industry. His actual name is M. R. Vishwanathan, and Visu is his stage name. He is a writer, a director, a film and television actor as well as a talk show host. He was born on Jul 1, 1945, in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.

He is the eldest of his brothers, Rajamani, Kishmu and Kuriakose Ranga. He tied the knot with Uma, a homemaker. He has three beautiful daughters Lavanya, Sangeetha and Kalpana. His association with the stage goes back to his school days when he was a stage artist. Professionally, he kick-started his career as an assistant to the great K. Balachander and continued to do so until he gained the experience and expertise to become a director himself.

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Sibi Malayil is an acclaimed director in Malayalam movies and known for his work which is pure melodrama. He has provided many popular melodramatic movies in the 1980s and 1990s. Sibi was a second unit director for director ‘Fazil’ in a movie named ‘Virinja Pookkal' (1980) which had ‘Shankar’ and Poornima Jayaram in the lead roles.

In the year 1982, he assisted in directing Jijo Punnoose for a movie 'Padayottam' which had Prem Nazir, ‘Madhu’, ‘Mammootty’, ‘Mohanlal’ and ‘Shankar’ in the lead roles. In 1983, he was an associate director for the movie 'Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku'. It was baby ‘Shalini’&rsqu...

P. Krishnamoorthy was born in Poompuhar town of Tamil Nadu, India. He is an art director, who has worked in the Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam film industries. He is also a production and costume designer. The director did his graduation from the Government College of Fine Arts (formerly Madras School of Art) in Chennai. He was a student of the batch from 1980 to 1985. He is active professionally since 1972. He has contributed in around 55 movies. The director gives credit for his entry in the movie industry to G.V. Iyer, the famous Indian actor and director. They both met for the first time in 1968. Iyer was about to direct a Kannada film titled Hamsa Geethe. The movie was based on a T. R. Rao novel. Iyer also produced the film. The film ...

Girish Kasaravalli took birth on December 3, 1950. He is a director of the Kannada Cinema World. He is well known as one of the pioneers of Kollywood. His films like Thaayi Saheba, Tabarana Kathe, Ghatashraddha and Dweepa won the ‘National Award for Best Feature Film’ more than three times. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2011 for his contribution to the world of Cinema. Girish is a gold medalist from the Film and Television Institute of India. He directed a film, Avashesh and it was awarded the National Award for Best Short Fiction. Girish has to his credit thirteen National Film Awards. He was born in Kesalur village in Tirthahalli Taluk of Shimoga District to Lakshmi Devi and Ganesh Rao. The anima...

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 in East Godavari district. His father is Sattiraju Naidu, and he was born in a Naidu family. He had produced the old movies that belonged to the 1970’s or 1980’s. His several films received many awards and were also shown in the International Film Festivals, and some of them were even d...

Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker deeply rooted to mainstream Indian cinema. His all films have garnered commercial success. This great filmmaker successfully combined features of both art and commercial cinema, an early example of this was ‘Roja’( a love story that gets lost in country’s terrorism issues), which was both a commercial and critical success. It paved the way for a new wave in Indian cinema too. Man Ratnam became thus one of India’s most successful filmmakers, who also reflected the changing middle-class-ethos (Alaipayuthey).

He also built plots on revenge attitude in Thalapathi movie or even matched a suitable t...

Suresh Oberoi is a character actor and the father of actor Vivek Oberoi. He was born as Vishal Kumar Oberoi, on December 17, 1946, in Quetta, Baluchistan, present-day Pakistan. His father was a Punjabi businessman named Anand Sarup Oberoi. He four brothers and sisters. His entire family relocated to Hyderabad state in India, during the time of Partition. Here, his family established a chain of medical stores.

Oberoi studied in George’s Grammar School in Hyderabad and was also actively involved in sports, while there. He was a champion in tennis and swimming and won the President’s Award as Boy Scout. After his father’s death, a little while after Suresh f...

Born in British India in a Vaidya family, Buddhadeb Dasgupta is a filmmaker, screenplay writer as well as an author. His father was a doctor, and he has eight siblings. At the age of 12, he shifted from his hometown Anara in Southern West Bengal to Calcutta for prospects of education.

He completed his schooling from Dinabandhu School and is a graduate in economics from Scottish Church College; both are situated in Calcutta. He started his job as an economics professor at the University of Burdwan, Bardhaman and later taught at the City College in Calcutta.

He was a member of the Calcutta Film Society and the works of prestigious directo...

Bala Murali Krishna is the popular Carnatic Vocalist and the renowned Playback singer in Indian cinema. He was born in the year 1930 in East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh as Murali Krishna. As his father was a popular musician, Murali Krishna learnt to play the musical instruments at his young age. At the young age of eight, child Murali Krishna vocalized the Thyagaraja Keerthanas in a big concert. By seeing his amazing talent, the popular Harikatha master Musunuri Suryanarayana Murty Bhagavatar, prefixed Bala to Murali Krishna.

At the age of 15, he became the master of all the Melakarta 72 ragas. Apart from singing the Carnatic so...

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. He remains the single Indian to have won the prestigious "Vittorio Di Sica” Award, in Italy.

Goutam Ghose, born on 24 July 1950 belongs to Calcutta, India. His mother Santana and father Prof. Himangshu Kumar Ghose has played a huge role in making him the man he is today. His early schooling days were at St John’...

Dasgupta has emerged as a critic, famous writer, film connoisseur and a historian after days and years of working for his interest. Born on 20th of November 1921 to Manmathanath Dasgupta and Shantilata, Manmathanath was a Brahmo missionary and social worker. He started working as a teacher in St. Columba’s College, Hazaribagh and has also rendered his service as Personal Assistant to PC Mahalanobis at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.

“He is one of the leading pioneers of film criticism in India,” says film industry. The idea of critic versions and judgements about movies were started then. Being very much engrossed in the cine industry and its ...

Sudhir Mishra is a Bollywood director and screenwriter best known for critically acclaimed films like Yeh Woh Manzil Nahi and Hazaro Khwahishein Aisi, Dharavi, Chameli. A three-time national award winner, he is known to be very vocal about his personal opinions and comments on extreme censorship in India. He is also one of the very few pioneers of independent cinema, and recipient to the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Yeh Woh Manzil Nahin was his directorial debut, for which he won the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director, in 1987. His film Chameli (2003), capturing the story of a ...

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 Marathi film. One of his films, Autoraja is appreciated by the audience to the level that even now his posters are there on auto rickshaws of Karnataka even after 25 years of his death. He was also focused towards social improvement as his films portrayed that. He was of friendly nature and loved by all. Shankar Nag was a versatile personality and has left his ...

Kasinadhuni Viswanath is a famous south Indian film actor, writer, director. He is from Repalle, Andhra Pradesh. Kasinathuni Viswanath’s father’s name was Subrahmanyam and mother’s name was saraswathamma. He married Jaya lakshmi and he has 3 children and their names are Ravindhranath, Nagendhranath and Padhmavathi. And he has 4 grand children: pranav, hema, swarna, and naren. His mother tongue is Telugu and he can speak Telugu, Tamil, and English. He is having 57 years of working experience in film industry. He got many awards like Nandi awards, National-film awards, Filmfare awards, etc. He did many hit films like shankara baranam, sagara sangamam, etc. He had done many bollywood films like sargam, san...

Charuhasan is a well known face in the south movie industry. He is the elder brother of south superstar Kamal Haasan. A lawyer by profession, he is a natural actor who has scores of memorable roles to his credit. He has several appearances in the south movies, especially in Tamil, Telugu Kannada and Malayalam movies, covering various languages. He has acted in Tamil television series ‘Chithi & Anandham’.

The National Award has been conferred upon him for the movie ‘Tabarana Kathe’ in 1986 and he has been awarded by the Government of Karnataka for the same movie and same year. He is the father of Tamil Director and Producer Suhasini Maniratnam. His appearance in the Tamil movie ‘D...