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Hindi Awards 34th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. Monisha Unni


monisha-unni.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 24-01-1971
Date of Death: 05-12-1992
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-01-1971
Date of Death: 05-12-1992
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

2. KS Chithra


05-07-2017/k.-s.-chithra.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 27-07-1963
Age: 61
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-07-1963
Age: 61
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

3. Bhanumurthy Alur


13-10-2020/bhanumurthy-alur.jpg 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...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director, Producer

4. P Vijay Kumar


13-10-2020/p.-vijay-kumar.jpg 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...
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Actor

5. Sandip Ray


12-08-2020/sandip-ray.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 08-09-1953
Age: 71
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 08-09-1953
Age: 71
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

6. Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni


22-02-2020/umesh-vinayak-kulkarni.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 06-12-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 06-12-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

7. G Aravindan


12-08-2020/g-aravindan.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 23-01-1935
Age: 89
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-01-1935
Age: 89
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

8. V K Pavithran


08-08-2019/v-k-pavithran.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 1-06-1950
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1-06-1950
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

9. 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

10. Venu Isc


04-08-2020/venu-isc.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 26-08-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 26-08-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Cinematographer

11. B Nagi Reddy


b/0/n/a/g/i/b-nagi-reddy.png 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....
Date of Birth: 02-12-1912
Date of Death: 25-02-2004
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-12-1912
Date of Death: 25-02-2004
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

12. M. Mani


m/0/0/m/a/n/m.-mani.jpg 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...
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Producer

13. G Venkateswaran


g/0/v/e/n/k/g-venkateswaran.png 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....
Date of Birth: 13-01-1948
Date of Death: 03-05-2003
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-01-1948
Date of Death: 03-05-2003
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Producer

14. Visu


v/i/s/u/0/j/visu.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 01-07-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-07-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

15. Hemant Kumar


h/e/m/a/n/t/hemant-kumar.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 16-06-1920
Date of Death: 26-09-1989
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 16-06-1920
Date of Death: 26-09-1989
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

16. Sibi Malayil


s/i/b/i/0/m/sibi-malayil.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 02-05-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-05-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

17. P Krishnamoorthy


10-04-2017/p-krishnamoorthy.png 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...
Date of Birth: 08-09-1943
Date of Death: 13-12-2020
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 08-09-1943
Date of Death: 13-12-2020
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

18. Girish Kasaravalli


17-06-2017/girish-kasaravalli.png 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...
Date of Birth: 03-12-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-12-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Director

19. Suresh Oberoi


suresh-oberoi.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 17-12-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-12-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

20. 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

21. Mani Ratnam


17-06-2017/mani-ratnam.png 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...
Date of Birth: 02-07-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-07-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

22. Buddhadev Dasgupta


16-08-2019/buddhadev-dasgupta.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 11-02-1944
Age: 80
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-02-1944
Age: 80
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

23. M. Balamuralikrishna


24-03-2017/m.-balamuralikrishna.png 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...
Date of Birth: 06-07-1930
Date of Death: 22-11-2016
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 06-07-1930
Date of Death: 22-11-2016
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Singer

24. 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

25. Ketan Mehta


k/e/t/a/n/0/ketan-mehta.jpg He was born in 1952 and is a director by profession, who has directed may documentaries and TV serials. His birth place is in Gujarat, studied in Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (Delhi) and obtained his bachelor’s in movie direction from Film and Television Institute of India (Pune). During his career span, he created 10 films, 7 documentaries along with 2 television serials...
Date of Birth: 1952
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1952
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

26. Chidananda Dasgupta


chidananda-dasgupta.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 20-11-1921
Date of Death: 22-05-2011
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-11-1921
Date of Death: 22-05-2011
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

27. Sudhir Mishra


13-08-2019/sudhir-mishra.jpg 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,...
Date of Birth: 22-01-1959
Age: 65
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 22-01-1959
Age: 65
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director, Screenplay

28. 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

29. Kasinadhuni Viswanath


29-09-2017/kasinathuni-viswanath.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 19-02-1930
Date of Death: 02-02-2023
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-02-1930
Date of Death: 02-02-2023
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director

30. Charuhasan


Charuhasan.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 05-01-1931
Age: 94
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-01-1931
Age: 94
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil