Hindi Awards 35th Filmfare Awards - Cast & Crew

Raakhee attained stardom with her first film itself; it was the Bengali flick Bandhu Baran which helped her in attaining this status. Then Bollywood leading star Sunil Dutt recommended her for the Hindi flick Reshma Aur Shera. But she did Sharmeelee and Jeevan Mrutya even before Reshma Aur Shera. In Sharmeelee, Raakhee shared screen space with Sashi Kapoor and their onscreen chemistry was applauded. This popular pair did 9 flicks together. Out of the 9, 5 were declared superhits. 

Having worked in 91 films in a film career of more than 3 decades, Raakhee has four awards to her credit. Tapasya, ...

Sridevi is an Indian an actress renowned for her work in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies. She is regarded as Hindi cinema’s first female superstar. She was born as Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan on August 13, 1963, in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu to Ayappan and Rajeshwari. Her father is a Tamilian and mother is a Telegite. Sridevi made her debut as child artist at the tender age of four with the devotional film Thunaivan. She made her debut in Bollywood in 1975 with the film Julie where she was a child actor. Sridevi’s debut as a lead actress happened in the year 1978 with the movie Solva Sawan after which she delivered several hits like Himmatwala, Mawaali, Tohfa, Masterji, Karma, Mr. India, Waqt Ki Awaz, Chandni, Sadma, Nagina, Chaalbaaz, Lamhe, Khuda Gawah, Gumrah, Laadla and Judai. Her portrayal o...

Born with an inborn talent, Saroj Khan is one of the most well-known and eminent choreography in the Indian film Industry. She has produced many pieces of good work for around 2000 films. Talking about her earlier days, she along with her family migrated to India right after the partition. Her family was one among the orthodox one, but she turned out to be a freak. She started her career at a very tender age of 3 with the film Nazrana and also a background dancer. B. Sohanlal was her mentor and trained her very well.

Later she shifted to choreography, first as an assistant choreographer and later getting her break as an independent choreographer, with GeetaMeraNaam (1974). Her ladder of success was connected to Madhuri Dixit. With her, Khan choreographed TammaTamma, Ek do teen and Dhakdhakkarnelaga to name a few. After many yea...

Gifted with a melodious voice, Sapna Mukherjee won various accolades for the song ‘TirchiTopi wale’ from Tridev. The song was a huge hit with people accepting it openly. She won the Filmfare for it as the Best Female Playback Singer. KalyanjiAnandji gave a kick start to her career by offering her a song from the movie Janbaaz in 1986.

Later on, she went to work with many known music artists. With Abhijeet, she had a new learning phase. With Mohammed Aziz, she gave some of her best compositions, with Sonu Nigam she got more professional, and with AlkaYagnik she had a good rapport. 2006 saw the release of her album ‘Mere Piya’ which contained her solo as well as duet performances with LataMangeshkar and Sonu Nigam. This brought her fame and popularity. She performed abroad as well.

In spite of havi...

Born and brought up in Mumbai, this film and TV actress was born to Madhavrao and Rajya Lakshmi Patwardhan. The much appreciated “Maine Pyar Kiya” fame Bhagyashree Patwardhan comes from the royal Marathi family of Maharashtra.

Moreover, her father Vijay Singhrao Madhavrao Patwardhan reigns as the “King of Sangli”. Though, known prominently for her role in the Hindi Blockbuster “Maine Pyar Kiya” opposite Salman Khan, she also tried her luck with films like “Humko Deewana Kar Gaye” (2006) in a paltry role which was not much noticed by the audience. “Janani” (2006) was also one of the failed attempts of Bhagyashree, and “Red Alert” (2009) too saw her in a trivial role. These films did no justice to her, and she failed to make a mark. She was t...

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 for more than 30000 songs. His name is recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records for singing several songs in a short span of time. He has sung the most in Telugu, the next being Tamil. He has also given his beautiful voice for Sanskrit slokas.  

Other than Telugu and Tamil SPB has sung in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada too. SPB also tried his luck a...

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a classic filmmaker, who has given Indian audiences films like Parineeta, Munnabhai MBBS, 3-Idiots, PK and 1942-A Love Story. What distinguished him from other film maker was that, he always wanted to experiment cinema. Both in terms of his script and in terms of mise-en-scene, character development and pace of the film, we believe that most of his films were very successful in box-office. As an FTII student, he always wanted to learn by making his films; he selected films therefore like an intensive program. He has a reputation for being completely demanding during production and his moody, temperamental and control freaks always made him the perfect filmmaker before and behind the camera.

He had captured and shown the lovely romance (‘’1942-A Love story’’),which dates back to Brit...

Nana Patekar is a popular Indian actor who was born in 1st January in 1951. He is also a successful filmmaker and writer simultaneously. He was born in the place named Murud-Janjira which is located in Raigad district in Maharashtra. His parents are Dinkar Patekar and Sanjana Patekar. Nana Patekar studied Applied Arts at the Sir J.J Institute in Mumbai. From his college life, he was attracted to acting and he did attend the inter-college dramatics. He also loved to sketch. His journey in the film industry started in 1974 with the film named ‘Garman’. After that, he acted on several movies like “Mohre(1987)”, “Salaam Bombay(1988)” and so on. But, he came to the gossip headline by his acting in the film “Parinda” which was released in 1989. He appeared as a villain in that movie. As the rec...

An active actor, filmmaker & producer as well. He was born in Haryana, India on April 13th, 1956. This actor has marked his presence in the comic roles since his entry in Bollywood, He worked with the prominent actors of his time & is active yet in Bollywood. After completion of graduation from National School of Drama in 1978, he made his entry in the Filmmaking as an Assistant Director of the movie “Masoom” that won the Filmfare Award for “ Best Film Critics”, directed by Shekhar Kapoor. Masoom was his first movie as an actor too. He bagged two Filmfare Award in the category of Best Comedian for his role in Ram Lakhan & Saajan Chale Sasural. He tried his hands as Director, Producer, Screen Writer along with acting on the Telly Shops.

Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a producer. He was born as Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Salman is referred to as one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. His father is Salim Khan who is also an actor and a screenwriter while his mother is Sushila Charak (Salma Khan). He graduated from St. Stanislaus High School in Mumbai. Prior to this, he went to Scindia School, Gwalior together with his brother, Arbaaz Khan. He also studied at Elphinstone College.

Salman started his acting career in year 1988 through the Hindi film, ‘Biwi Ho To Aisi’, where he played as the younger brother of Farooq Sheikh, followed by a breakthrough performance in his first leading role in the musical romantic film, ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ in 1989...

Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.

Javed has two children, Zoya...

Intro: Jackie Shroff is a well known Bollywood actor who also has presence on Indian television sector.

Jackie Shroff is a popular actor who has worked for more than 175 movies in various languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, and Punjabi. He was launched by Dev Anand in his movie Swami Dada in 1978. Subhash Ghai chose him for the movie Hero which became a huge hit and paved the way of success for Jackie Shroff in Bollywood. Some of his movies which became huge commercial success include Karma, Ram Lakhan, Izzat, Tridev, Rangeela, Saudagar, Angaar, Khalnayak, and Aina. He got his first Filmfare award for best actor for the movie Parinda which was released in 1989.

While Jackie Shroff is known for his work and success with Bol...

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...

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, sanjog, eeshwar, sangeet, etc. He started his career as a technician at Chennai. After that he worked a...