Anoubam Kiranmala
Bhanu Athaiya
Lata Mangeshkar
Vijayashanti
K P A C Lalitha
Shamili
Jayabharathi
G Jayakumar
Ajayan
Hridaynath Mangeshkar
Tapan Sinha
G Aravindan
M.S. Mani
B Narsing Rao
Nitish Roy
Nedumudi Venu
Rajendra Singh Babu
K S Sethumadhavan
Aribam Syam Sharma
Rajkumar Santoshi
Gulzar
Mani Ratnam
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
MG Sreekumar
Victor Banerjee
Tarun Kumar
Sunny Deol
Santosh Sivan
Dharmendra
Govind Nihalani
K. Balachander
Pankaj Kapur
Amitabh Bachchan
1. Anoubam Kiranmala
Kiranmala is mainly famous for her lead role in Ishanou, the film by Aribam Shyam Sharma, in which she gave an eye-catching performance. Kiranmala won the International film festival award, France. Theatre activist Oja Birhari was the ticket to the acting journey because of his suggestion that begins to act in drama. She worked in 200 theatres and also managed her studies. Her play Kanana Haijilibano has completed 100 episodes. Kiranmala was born in March 1970. She has four siblings, the younger of all. Kiranmalas father Anoubam kanhai was a Nata Sankritana Artist, because of him kiranmala loves music and singing. Kiranmala has had a passion for art since she was six years old, she also joined Government Music College, but she has to sto...
Gender:
Female
2. Bhanu Athaiya
Born on April 28, 1929, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Bhanu Athaiya née Rajopadhye is an Indian costume creator. She has created a costume in more than 100 movies, since the 50s.She is the daughter of Shantabai and Annasaheb Rajopadhye. She is the third child among her seven siblings.
Her father was a painter. When Athaiya was nine years old, he passed away.She is the daughter of Shantabai and Annasaheb Rajopadhye. She is the third child among her seven siblings. Her father was a painter. When Athaiya was nine years old, her father passed away. At very early age, she started studying art. She took tuition from an art teacher, who came to her house and taught her drawing.
Later after completing her schooling, she enlist...
Date of Death:
15-10-2020
Age:
95
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
15-10-2020
Age:
95
Gender:
Female
3. Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had formal training in music from her father. Her father ran a theater company in Mumbai, where she began to learn music with her father's grudging approval, and with whom she also sang a song. As her father was a conservative man, film music was not appreciated at her home. After the theater company was auctioned, her father died, and she assumed the financial responsibility by becoming an actress, first in Marathi and later in Hindi cinema, but in acting, she did not click. Later she surprised everyone with one of her solo number (Aayega Aanewaala) from the movie Mahal released in 1949. The song was screened on Madhubala...
Date of Death:
06-02-2022
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
06-02-2022
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
4. Vijayashanti
Vijayashanti, the popular Tamil and Telugu actress was born in Chennai in the year 1966 to Srinivas Prasad and Varalaxmi. She was introduced through the Tamil film, Kallukkul Eeram in the year 1980. Kilaadi Krisnudu was the Telugu movie, in which she debuted. Her aunt Vijaya Lalitha was popular in Tamil and Telugu films in the early 1960s and 1970s. Though she started her career as a normal glamorous heroine, the film Karthavyam made her as an Action heroine. During that time, there were no heroines to do such roles.
The film was a super duper hit and it was also dubbed in Tamil and there too it landed with success. After the success of Karthavyam as a Police officer, Vija...
Age:
57
Gender:
Female
Age:
57
Gender:
Female
5. K P A C Lalitha
K.P.A.C Lalitha is known for her character Mayavathi Amma in the super hit comedy serial ‘Thattiyum Muttiyum.’ She is one of the finest Malayalam Cinema and Serials actors, known for her acting in very distinctive and versatile roles in hundreds of movies. She has won National Award twice for the movies Amaram (directed by her husband) in 1991 and Shantam in 2000. She has also won several state awards and many television awards.
In 2013, her autobiography Kadha Tudarum won the Cherukad award. She was born Maheshwari in 1947, in Alappuzha, Kerala, India. She is a part of the Malayalam Cinema Industry and Tele Serial Industry. She began her career at the age of 10 by acting in plays. Her first play...
Date of Death:
22-02-2022
Age:
76
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
22-02-2022
Age:
76
Gender:
Female
6. Shamili
Widely known as Baby Shamili, Shamili is an actress whose claim to fame comes from acting as a child actor in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films and TV serials.
Shamili was born in the family where acting was aplenty. She is the younger sister of Shalini and Richard Rishi, both actors.
Shamili started her acting career as early as when she was two years old. She acted in Bharathan's movie Malotty. She won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist. However, Shamili's biggest claim to fame came after starring in award-winning director Mani Ratnam's “Anjali”. Shamili portrayed a mentally challenged kid in this movie. ...
Age:
36
Gender:
Female
Age:
36
Gender:
Female
7. Jayabharathi
Bio coming soon......
8. G Jayakumar
G Jayakumar is an Indian Malayalam Producer. He has predominantly worked for the Mollywood movie industry. He has worked in popular movies like Kallukondoru Pennu, Padheyam. Jayakumar’s film was hit to the theatres Kallukondoru Pennu in 2000. He recently produced Kozhipporu, Perumthachan. He has produced many stage shows and plays....
9. Ajayan
Ajayan is also known as Thoppil Ajayan (8th April 1950 – 13th December 2018). He was a Malayalam cinema director. On 13th December 2018, he passed away.
Ajayan is best known for his one feature film, “Perumthachan (The Master Carpenter). Critics worldwide praised the movie. In 1990, he received the “Indira Gandhi Award” as the Best Debut Film Director. He also earned “the Kerala State Film Award” for the film as the Best Debut Director.
Thoppil Ajayan demonstrated that one might achieve worldwide fame with a single movie. Many directors churn out hundreds of commercial films with no creative value and still fail to earn a place in the hall of fame.
M. T. Va...
Date of Death:
13-12-2018
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-12-2018
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
10. Hridaynath Mangeshkar
A noted Indian music composer and director, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, also known as Balasaheb, was born in Sangli, Maharashtra, India. He belongs to a legendary musical family; his father, Deenanath Mangeshkar, is a noted musician himself, and his sister is the music legend of India - Lata Mangeshkar. There are three more daughters in the family, including Asha Boshle, “Usha Mangeshkar,” and “Meena Khadikar.”
As the only son of the family, he made his name in the music industry through his hard work. Indeed talent runs in his genes. His spouse is Bharati Malvankar Mangeshkar, daughter of a famous Marathi Comedian, “Damuanna Malvankar.” They both have two sons named “Aadin...
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
11. Tapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha, one of the foremost Indian directors of his time was born on 2nd October 1924 and died on 15th January. 2009.He formed the legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen. Being primarily a Bengali filmmaker, he worked in both Hindi Cinema and Bengali Cinema, making films including Kabuli Wala, Louha Kapat, Sagina Mahato, Apanjan,Kshudhita Pashan, and children's films Safed Haathi and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Tapan Sinha began his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with the film production company New Theatres in Kolkata, then in 1950 he shifted to England, where he worked at Pinewood Studios for two years.
Before returning home to start his six-decade career...
Date of Death:
15-01-2009
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
15-01-2009
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
12. G Aravindan
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...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
13. M.S. Mani
M.S.Mani, a renowned editor and film director of the Indian cinema, mainly ‘Malayalam’ movies, was born in the year 1926 in the month of November in the town of ‘Poojapura’, which is a place in ‘Thiruvananthapuram’. His parents are ‘Balambal’, and ‘Mrithyunjaya Ayyar’. He was married to ‘Seethamani’ and they had been blessed with a son, ‘Karthi’k. He started off his editing career with ‘Aashadeepam’, a 1953 ‘Malayalam’ movie. ‘G.R.Rao’ was the director and ‘TE Vasudevan’ had produced it. Stars like ‘Gemini Ganesan’, ‘Sathyan’, ‘Padmi...
Date of Death:
2008
Gender:
Male
Skills:
14. B Narsing Rao
B Narsinga Rao is a popular Telugu director in the parallel cinema field. Parallel cinema is nothing but a genre in movie making where film makers try to show realistic and genuine issues through their feature films. B Narsinga Rao born in 1947 in Medak, Telangana is a producer, director, editor and a composer.
Though his original name is Bongu Narasinga Rao, he is famously known as B Narsing Rao. The media fondly call B Narsinga Rao as The Killer of Kitsch for his naturalism and strong emotions he presents through his films. All his plots revolve around the poor and less nurtured people in Telangana and atrocities they faced from the razakars and also the movements they l...
15. Nitish Roy
Nitish Roy is a Bengali film director and an art, production and costume designer in the Hindi film industry who moved up the ladder from a disadvantaged youth to one of India’s most prolific designers through hard work. Though that is not all that he does as he is also a world renowned architect with several film cities, amusement parks and museums under his belt.
Born and raised in Bengal he has a degree from the Government Art College. Originally he worked with a carpenter and attributes his present ability from his work. He late moved on to become a commercial artist with an advertising firm while decorating the houses of his friends in his spare time. He also de...
Age:
70
Gender:
Male
Age:
70
Gender:
Male
16. Nedumudi Venu
Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is commonly known as Kesavan Venu Gopal. His parents are PK Kesavan Nair and Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi Alappuzha in Kerala. He had four siblings, all brothers. His father was a schoolmaster. Nedumudi completed his primary education at NSS Higher Secondary School and St Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam. During school days, he was interested in music and arts.
He graduated from Sanatana Dharma College in Alappuzha. After graduation, he started his career as a journalist and also worked as a teacher in a tutorial institute. While staying in Trivandrum, he became friends with Padmarajan, Bharath Gopi, Aravindan whic...
Date of Death:
11-10-2021
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
11-10-2021
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
17. Rajendra Singh Babu
S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu is an acclaimed screenwriter, director, and producer in Kannada language. He is a veteran filmmaker and has scripted and directed many blockbuster movies that have the social impact in our society. Besides Kannada, he also has directed a few Hindi and Telugu movies but his basic love was directing Kannada movies. He also had a basic love for adaptation of books into cinema. He also had written some social issue-based films like ‘Bandhana’, ’Antha’, ‘Meri Aawaz Suno’ etc.
In the year 1997, his film 'Mungarina Minchu' won the President medal. His pronounced literary leanings have prompted him to frequently adapt the works of good novels or even b...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
18. K S Sethumadhavan
K. S. Sethumadhavan is a famous screenwriter and film director in India dedicating his works to Malayalam movies. Madhavan is famous for his movies in Tamil, Oriya, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi also. Some of the landmark films directed by him are Yakshi, Odeyil Ninnu, Achanum Bappayum, Anubhavangai Palichakal, etc. He won 9 Kerala State Film Awards and 10 National Film Awards. He was born in the city of Palakkad in the state of Kerala. His mother's name was Lakshmi and father's name was Subrahmanyam. Initially, he worked as an assistant director.
He later worked with many directors like A. S. A. Swamy, L. V. Prasad, and Nandakarni. The first movie for which he worked ...
Date of Death:
24-12-2021
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-12-2021
Gender:
Male
19. Aribam Syam Sharma
Aribam Syam Sharma was born on March 21st, 1936 at Imphal, Manipur. He started his career as a film director as well as a composer from the state of Manipur in India. He made his first appearance in The Manipuri movie Queen as an actor for the motion picture Matamgi Manipur. Besides acting, he directed his first show Lamja Parshuram in 1974. Lamja Parshuram movie was the first movie of the Manipuri films which runs for about a hundred days and made a box office hit in the industry. Later in 1980, he made his next talkie Olangthagee Wangmadasu.
This movie was another biggest success in the Manipuri films which made the drama to run for almost twenty-five we...
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
Skills:
20. Rajkumar Santoshi
Rajkumar Santoshi is an Indian filmmaker who shot to fame with Sunny Deol’s films. However, he had begun his career as an assistant to Govind Nihalani. He learnt filmmaking aspect from Govind. Rajkumar has assisted Govind Nihalani in his five films (notable are Ardh Satya & Vijeta).
Rajkumar Santhoshi was born to filmmaker P.L. Santoshi, who had given a break to actor Dev Anand, music director O.P. Nayyar and even had encouraged playback singer Kishore Kumar. His father was an assistant director for Raj Kapoor’s films Sargam and Barsaat Ki Raat.
Rajkumar Santhoshi was born in Chennai from his father&rsq...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
21. Gulzar
Gulzar is the pen name of the author, poet and popular lyricist Sampooran Singh Karla. He was born on the 18th of August in 1934 in Dina, Jhelum district of British India to parents Makhan Singh Karla and Sujan Kaur. His career kicked off under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His songwriting career began with the movie Bandini, released 1963, for the tunes composed by music director Sachin Dev Burman. From then on, he went on to write the lyrics for many memorable songs of the Bollywood industry. He worked with magnanimous music directors like R. D. Burman, S. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik to name a few. The work of the trio Maniratna...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
22. Mani Ratnam
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...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
Skills:
23. Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Akkineni Nageswara Rao is undoubtedly the ‘Bhisma Pitamah’ of Telugu cinema. Even after few decades not any actor have reached the status that he had achieved. He was also a naturalistic actor who inherited theatrical approach in acting and perhaps of his such approach; he could deliver the high-drama scenes that were indeed Telugu cinema’s landmark films even.
Nageswara Rao bagged the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest honorary award for achievement in Indian cinema. The reason he is considered ‘Bhisma Peetamah’ is because he was instrumental in locating Telugu cinema to Hyderabad. He not only shifted his residence from Madras to ...
Date of Death:
22-01-2014
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
22-01-2014
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
24. MG Sreekumar
M.G. Sreekumar is a playback singer from Malayalam cinema who had sung in many Indian languages. With a career of over 30 years, his melodious voice was considered as a substitute voice for actor Mohan Lal. In the 1980’s and 90's, he sang countless melodious songs that were lip-synched by Mohan Lal on the screen. He became a part of Mohanlal-Priyadarshan gang that helped him to be the official voice of Mohanlal. Later on after 2000, Sreekumar was distracted from playback singing for Mohan Lal as new playback singers were chosen to the voice of Mohan Lal. But it was again after many years the team of Priyadarshan- Mohanlal- MG Sreekumar, was back in another venture ‘Oru Marubhoomi Kadha’ in 2011. He was lucky to make a comeback as a playback...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
25. Victor Banerjee
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 who knows his work in theatres and offered him to play a part in “The Chess Players” (1977 ) which is about an uneven historical drama about colonial Indian politics. He began his career as a child actor on the Calcutta stage in various theatrical productions. He is best known for his performances in some of the films are “A Passage to India” (1...
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
26. Tarun Kumar
Tarun Kumar Bhatt, the child actor, can easily share a credit with Mani Ratnam who introduced him as a child artiste in Anjali which fetched him the national award. Later on, ultimately his recognition as a child actor made him the real chocolate hero in 2000s and he went to become the craze star in Tollywood then. But his success was short lived too. His success came early in Telugu films with Nuvve Kavali (remake of a Malayalam movie Niram) which was a smash hit at box office. After success of Nuvve Kavali, his break in Kollywood was with “Punnagai Desam’’ (R. B. Chowdary film) which was not well appreciated in the box office. Even his next Telugu flick’’ Enakku 20 Unakku 18&qu...
Age:
41
Gender:
Male
Age:
41
Gender:
Male
27. Sunny Deol
Sunny Deol is a film actor, director and producer. He is best known for his ‘Dhaai Kilo Ka Haath’ dialogue. He was born as Ajay Singh Deol, on 19th of October, 1956, in Sahnewal, Ludhiana, Punjab. He is the eldest son of veteran actor, Dharmendra, and his first wife, Prakash Kaur. Bollywood actor, Bobby Deol, is his younger brother.
He has two sisters, Vijayta and Ajeeta, who are currently settled in California. He also has two half-sisters, Esha Deol and Ahana Deol, from his father’s second marriage to actress, Hema Malini. Sunny studied theatre and acting in England and joined Old Web Theatre in Birmingham before joining Bollywood.
He began his career with the hit film Betaab in the ye...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
28. Santosh Sivan
Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is a film director, producer, and cinematographer, of the Indian cinema. Santosh is an FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) graduate and has so far has done 41 documentaries and 45 feature films. Not only is he a founding associate of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), but also is the bigger of the highest number of Director of Photography (DOP) award in India. Sivan is the first ever Cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific area to achieve an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) fellowship.
He has as many as five National Film Awards for cinematography to his name, four of which are for Best Feature Film Cinematogr...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
29. Dharmendra
Dharmendra Singh Deol was born on 8th December 1935 in Punjab, India. He is considered to be an asset of the Indian film industry. He is an icon of the Bollywood film industry, and he has acted in movies that are indeed blockbusters. Currently, he resides in Phagwara, Punjab. He is a very popular actor as well as producer of films. He got into politics as well, and he is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
He got married to Parkash Kaur in the year 1954 and was blessed with four children. He also married the prominent actress namely Hema Malini in the year 1980 and then had two children. The names of his children are Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol, Ajeeta Deol, Vijayta...
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
30. Govind Nihalani
Born on 19 August 1940, Govind Nihalani hails from Karachi. He is a multi-faceted personality; he is a director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and works for Hindi cinema. He is the proud winner of six National Awards and five awards at Filmfare. He had penned the script for a Hindi film Drohkaal in 1996, which was later modified by Kamal Haasan for a Tamil film Kurithipunal. This film went on to become the official entry of India for the Academy Awards. Nihalani cultivated interest in Hindi films since his school days. Aakrosh is the directorial debut film of Nihalani. This film revolves around a real happening. Om Puri, Smita Patel, Naseerudin Shah and Amrish Puri are the star cast of the film. This film gained recognition at ...
Age:
83
Gender:
Male
31. K. Balachander
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 been seeing cinema and as he recalls, he remembers that his interest and passion towards the cinema grew after he watched the films of the renowned Tamil actor and producer, M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. At 12, he has done theatre and drama, which subsequently helped him in developing his passion for writing, acting and directing. He studied Zoology...
Date of Death:
23-12-2014
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-12-2014
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
32. Pankaj Kapur
Pankaj Kapur is a prominent Indian actor and director who has shown his talent through various mediums such as theatre, television and film actor from Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is a screenwriter, director as well as an actor, a multi-talented personality. Pankaj has appeared in several acclaimed television serials and films. Some of his film roles that are remembered till date include characters of Inspector P.K. in Raakh, Dr. Dipankar Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut as well as Abba ji, (based on Shakespeare's King Duncan) in Vishal Bhardwaj's reworked copy of Macbeth; Maqbool .All of these three critically acclaimed roles received appreciation, and the actor got National Film Awards for the same. Pankaj along with his colleagues Om P...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
33. Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.
In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a f...
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
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