Leena Daru
Nilita Vachani
Mamata Shankar
Moloya Goswami
Renu Saluja
Kottayam Santha
Bijaya Jena
Vani Jairam
Neeta Lulla
Kalaipuli S. Thanu
Rajat Dholakia
V. Ramachandra Rao
Kumar Shahani
PP Govindan
Anwar Jamal
Bhalji Pendharkar
Arun Khopkar
Soumitra Chatterjee
Arun Kaul
Apurba Kishore Bir
Yash Choudhary
B Narsing Rao
Akkineni Kutumba Rao
Composer - Raveendran
Rajiv Mehrotra
Samir Chanda
Aribam Syam Sharma
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Satyajit Ray
Balu Mahendra
T. S. Nagabharana
P. L. Narayana
Mohanlal
K J Yesudas
Sudhir Mishra
Basu Chatterjee
Bharath Gopi
1. Leena Daru
Leena Daru was a popular costume and fashion designer, who passed away on the 31st of July; 2021. She was 81 years old when she died. She was the wife of famous art director Paresh. She has done the costume wok for many films including ‘Roop ki Rani Choron Ka Raja,’ ‘Khal Nayak,’ ‘Yaraana,’ ‘Tezaab,’ and many more. She also won the National Award for her costume work in the film ‘Lamhe.’ Leena also had an experience in working with famous actresses of the late 1900s. These actresses include Rekha, Zeenat Aman, Hema Malini, Neetu Singh, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, and Karisma Kapoor. She started her work and career in the film, ‘Aaye Din Bahaar Ke’ with Asha Pa...
Gender:
Female
2. Nilita Vachani
Nilita Vachani is a documentary filmmaker who has won numerous awards. Nilita is a writer as well as a teacher. Eyes of Stone, Diamonds in a Vegetable Market, and When Mother Comes Home for Christmas are three award-winning documentaries she created, directed, and edited. Nilita is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Chennai's Asian College of Journalism. She has won the Grand Prize at the Festival de Popoli, the Royal Anthropological Institute's Basil Wright Prize, the Golden Conch at the Bombay International Film Festival, the Prix Alcan du Jury at the Montreal International Film Festival for Women, the Uppsala Filmkaja in Sweden, the Asian Film Academy's Best Television Documentary in London, and the First...
3. Mamata Shankar
Mamata Shankar was born on 7th January 1955 in Kolkata, West Bengal. She belongs to Bengal’s one of the most influential family. Her parents, Uday Shankar and Amala Shankar both were legendary dancers and choreographers of their time. Her brother, Ananda Shankar is a well know indo-western fusion musician. She is also the niece of Pandit Ravi Shankar and cousin to Norah Jones. Mamata received her training in dance and choreography from her father’s institute called Uday Shankar Indian Culture Centre and got trained by her mother itself. She is married to Chandrodoy Ghosh and had two sons- Ratul Shankar and Rajit Shankar Ghosh. Her husband Chadrodoy presently runs Udayan- Mamata Shankar Dance Academy along with Mamata founded ...
Age:
69
Gender:
Female
Age:
69
Gender:
Female
4. Moloya Goswami
Moloya Goswami is an Indian actress who works in the Assamese films. She was born at Dibrugarh. In the 39th National Film Awards 1992, she won the Best Actress award for her performance in the Firingoti. Moloya married Pradip Goswami in 1981. The couple has two little girls, Nimisha Goswami and Nishita Goswami, who is an actress too. Some of the films of Moloya are Agnisnaan, Maa, Sarbajan, Siraj, Uttarkaal, Firingoti, Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence, Konikar Ramdhenu, Jeevan Baator Logori, Srimanta Sankardeva, Poley Poley Urey Mon, Bhal Pabo Najanilu and Calendar....
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
5. Renu Saluja
Very few filmmakers can maintain a balance and succeed in art films as well as commercial cinema. Renu Saluja was one such woman. She was an editor, who was born in Punjab, India on July 5, 1952. In 1974, Renu tried to enroll herself in Film and Television Institute of India's direction program. However, the institution rejected it and gave her admission into their editing section.Â
Though it was a male-dominated profession, Renu accepted the offer without much hesitation and studied there for two years. Initially, Renu began her journey by collaborating with her classmates from Film and Television Institute of India like Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Kundan Shah, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, and others. In fact, it was her work in Ja...
Date of Death:
16-08-2000
Age:
71
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
16-08-2000
Age:
71
Gender:
Female
6. Kottayam Santha
Kottayam Santha is a Malayalam film actress who has given voice overs for more than 1,000 films and has acted in more than 300 films. She also has acted in 26 dramas. She entered her acting career in a theater group and later evinced interest in cinema and started her career as a voice over actress. She was the famous actress in the sixties and seventies. She has dubbed for actresses like Seema and Lakshmi. Actress Seema, while giving her call sheet, emphasized that Kottayam Santha should do voice over for her. Her voice was suitable for Seema, especially synchronizing with her lip movements. Though her voice suited Seema well, she gave voices for Lakshmi, Swapna, and Sumalatha. Her first film was M Krishnan Nair's f...
Date of Death:
27-04-2007
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
27-04-2007
Gender:
Female
7. Bijaya Jena
Bijaya Jena is also known as Bijoya Jena or Dolly Jena. She is an Indian film & television actress, film director and producer, screenwriter, and theatre artist. From 1992 to 1995, she also served on the FTII (Governing Council of the Film and Television Institute of India). She was born on August 16. Bijaya Jena’s place of birth is Cuttack in Odisha, India. In her early teens, she took a diploma course in film acting from the Film and Television Institute of India. She participated in an International Transpersonal Association Conference (a science and religion conference). Later, she attended a two-weekend course in Erhard Seminars Training.
She belongs to a family of aristocrats and academicians, where she is the thi...
Gender:
Female
Gender:
Female
8. Vani Jairam
Vani Jairam is a South Indian playback singer in Indian cinema and was born in 30th November 1945 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. She was the fifth daughter of a family of eight children. Her mother is Padmavathi and a disciple of Ranga Ramunaja Iyengar. He taught her Dikshitar kritis and at age of eight, she got the opportunity of singing in All India Radio.
Her Carnatic music teachers were Srinivasa Iyengar, R. S. Mani and T. R. Balasubramanian. And Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan was her Hindustani classical music teacher. Vani was married to Jayaram and they settled in Mumbai after their marriage. In Mumbai, she realized her dream of becoming a playback singer in the film industry.
Her playback singer career started in 1971 with movi...
Date of Death:
04-02-2023
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
04-02-2023
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
9. Neeta Lulla
Neeta Lulla is a costume designer, having worked in over 300 films, since the 1990s, with noted filmmakers like Yash Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Subhash Ghai, Sooraj R. Barjatya, etc. She made her debut as a film costume designer with the film ‘Tamasha’ which had Kimi Katkar in the lead role. Neena started as an assistant to the former Indian fashion choreographer, Jeanne Naoroji, in the late 1980’s. After gaining some experience, she took up her career independently. After few films, she followed her career with Yash Chopra’s ’ Lamhe’, ‘Chandni’,’Darr’.
In her career spanning close to thirty years, she has rec...
Age:
59
Gender:
Female
Age:
59
Gender:
Female
10. Kalaipuli S. Thanu
Kalaipuli S Thanu is a veteran Tamil film producer, who gave innumerable successful box office films in Tamil Nadu circuit. He also launched a banner with his name, ‘’Kalaipuli Films International"( known as V. Creations) as a distributor. Of late, we hear that Kalaipuli S Thanu is prepared to commence shooting for his upcoming film ‘’Kabali ‘’where Rajanikanth is going to play a dual role in the movie. The superstar will play the role of a mafia don and other one as a Malaysian cop. The film has Radhika Apte, playing the female lead...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
11. Rajat Dholakia
Rajat Dholakia is an Indian actor known for his work on Mirch Masala (1987), Holi (1985) and Firaaq (2008). He has been attributed with acquainting Chhattisgarhi music with Bollywood and won the 1991 National Film Award for the best music director for the movie Dharavi made by Sudhir Mishra. In 1992, he won the honor for the movie Sunday, directed by Pankaj Adwani. He began his career as a music producer for Gujarati and Hindi films. So far, he has performed music in roughly 300 plays. He has worked on sound design and music for over 8000 commercial and public service films in the United States and many other countries
He is now working on western classical and fusion symphonies. Shri Dileep Dholakia, his father, taught...
12. V. Ramachandra Rao
V. Ramachandra Rao was a director cum producer in the Telugu film industry. In 1992 the national award-winning movie Bhadram Koduko was released, which was produced by V. Ramachandra Rao. This movie makes a permanent place for him in the industry as a noted producer.Bhadram Koduko was directed by Akkineni Kutumba Rao.This movie displayed the actual condition of Street children in India. Bhadram Koduko bagged three prestigious awards - Nandi Award for Best Children's Film, National Film Award for Best Child Artist - Santosh Reddy, National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu.
V. Ramachandra Rao predominantly worked as a director in the Telugu film industry and gave some famous hits suc...
13. Kumar Shahani
Kumar Shahani is a renowned director. He was born on 7th December 1940 in Larkana, Sindh, now a part of Pakistan. Kumar completed his B. A (Hons) in Political Science and History from the University of Bombay. He was a student of Ritwik Ghatak at the Film and Television Institute of India, where he studied screenplay writing and advanced direction. He continued his study under D.D. Kosambi. He also got a chance to study at the Institut des Hautes etudes cinématographiques in France, as the French government awarded him a scholarship. There he assisted Robert Bresson with his first color film, Une femme douce. His first film came out in 1965. It was his graduate diploma film titled The Glass Pane. After this, he made several short ...
Age:
83
Gender:
Male
Age:
83
Gender:
Male
14. PP Govindan
Govindan was a National Award-winning director. He was the first person from North Malabar to attend film school. Furthermore, he was a member of the Mumbai International Documentary Film Festival's Chief Selection Jury in 2010. His notable documentaries are the nature-themed Sarpakkavu, the Seventh Theyyamkettu dispute, tax fraud in the backyard, and films about the famous poet Ullur and actor Sathyan. He has also served as President of the North Malabar Film Directors Club, Secretary of the South Indian Cine Technicians Association, and State President of Grafti, the Pune Film Institute Alumni Association.
He received national and state awards for his documentary film 'Malbariyum Pattunoolum. During his final days, he w...
15. Anwar Jamal
Anwar Jamal, an Indian documentary filmmaker based in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, was born on August 15, 1961. He has won the National Film Award multiple times and has directed critically praised feature, short, and documentary films on various social, political, and cultural subjects. He has served on numerous international film festivals as a jury member, including the National Film Award Jury. Swaraj – The Little Republic (2002) is a feature film about women's empowerment and water politics in rural India that he wrote, produced, and directed. He moved to Delhi to pursue his arts, literature, theatre, and, later, film. While working as a freelance journalist to fund his Master's degree in Hindi literature, he became i...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
16. Bhalji Pendharkar
Bhalji Pendharkar was an Indian film director who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the industry's highest honor. He was born on May 3, 1897. Vande Mataram Ashram (1927), Netaji Palkar (1939), and Shyam Sundar were his films as a director and writer. He died on November 28, 1994. His parents are Radhabai and Dr. Gopal Pendharkar. Several of his close relatives rose to prominence in the Indian film business. In the 1930s, he married Leela Chandragiri, who appeared and sang in Hindi and Marathi films as Miss Leela. When Leelai first met Bhalji, she already had two children. Bhalji adopted both of them, a boy (Jayasingh) and a girl. Madhavi Desai (died in 2013) was the girl's name who later married novelist R...
Date of Death:
28-11-1994
Age:
127
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
28-11-1994
Age:
127
Gender:
Male
17. Arun Khopkar
Arun Khopkar is a director who was born in Bombay on November 5, 1945. Haathi Ka Anda (2002) and Tobacco Habits and Oral Cancer are among his films (1977). He has also won the Golden Lotus, the top National Film Award, three times for his short films. He has published articles on films and other topics in national and international magazines. In Marathi, his work on Guru Dutt earned a National Award for the best book on cinema. Arun Khopkar graduated from FTII with a degree in film direction in 1974, and his short films are exceptional. He uses different lighting, lensing, camera motions, and montage rhythm to bring out the right aspects in his films....
Age:
78
Gender:
Male
18. Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee was born on January 19, 1935, in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. His films include The World of Apu (1959), Kony (1984), and Days and Nights in the Forest (1970). Deepa Chatterjee was his wife. He died in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on November 15, 2020. He was well known for his fourteen films with Oscar-winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray, with whom he collaborated. Soumitra Chattopadhyay was the first Indian film celebrity to receive France's highest honor for artists, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was also the recipient of India's highest film honor, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
Krishnanagar, in the district of Nadia in West Bengal, where he spent the first ten years of his childhood...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
19. Arun Kaul
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Arun Kaul is Scriptwriter, Screenwriter. Arun was born in 1933. He assisted Veteran filmmaker Gulzar with many films, including Lekin in 1990, Ijaazat in 1987. Diksha in 1991, Prakope in 1990, Chandni in 1989, Doongar Ro Bhed in 1985, Mrigaya in 1976, Ek Adhuri Kahani in 1971 are some of his films. He produced a serial named KASHMIR FILE.
He received many awards such as Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie for Diksha (1992), The Golden Lotus award for Diksha (1992). He worked on the screenplay for Yash Chopra's Chandni. ...
20. Apurba Kishore Bir
Apurba Kishore Bir is an Indian-Director. He is a Screenwriter and cinematographer too. He was born in the year 1948. He is born and brought up in Odisha. He is highly passionate about painting. He completed his graduation from the Film and Television Institute of India with a specialization in Motion-Pictures and Graphics. Some of the movies in which he had worked include 27 Down, which released in the year 1973, Gharonda, which released in the year 1977, Godhuli which released in the year 1977, Ondanondu Kaladalli, which released in the year 1978, Khatta Meetha, which released in the year 1979. Dooriyaan, which released in the year 1979, Humari Bahu Alka which released in the year 1982 and G...
Date of Birth:
1948
Gender:
Male
21. Yash Choudhary
"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...
Age:
33
Gender:
Male
22. 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...
23. Akkineni Kutumba Rao
Every year from many decades, many actors, directors and producers are giving their best to the Telugu film industry. While all these artists and movie makers are trying their level best to change and improve the standards, only a few directors and producers are coming forth to make movies for kids. Every movie we watch is almost with adult generation concept forgetting about the importance of educating minors with their pictures.
Akkineni Kutumba Rao is one of the very few people in the industry who strived hard for making films for children. The concepts he used for his films are very inspiring and supporting for the off springs. Few of Akkineni Kutumba Rao books such as...
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
24. Composer - Raveendran
Raveendran was born in Kollam, Kerala on 9 November 1941 as Kulathupuzha Ravi. He is associated with the Malayalam and Tamil Music industry. He began his career in music as a singer. He worked as a playback singer and then as a music composer. His first song was ‘Parvanarajanithan’ in the Malayalam movie ‘Velliyazhcha’ in 1969. He married Shobha and has three sons.
Ravi met a sad demise at the age of 63 after suffering from cancer. M. Raveendran is a famous singer and music composer of South Indian film industry. He has contributed greatly to the Carnatic music, Hindustani Classical, and world music. He was first praised for his music composition in the movie ‘Chola’ in 1979. H...
Date of Death:
03-03-2005
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
03-03-2005
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
25. Rajiv Mehrotra
Rajiv Mehrotra is an Indian writer, documentary filmmaker, and television producer-director. He is best known as the acclaimed host of the talk show "In Conversation", that was aired on Doordarshan News Channel on Saturdays at 9:30 pm. He has directed over 650 documentary films and has won over 170 international and 40 national awards for them. A student of The Dalai Lama, he likes to call himself "a most unworthy chela" of his.Â
Apart from The Dalai Lama, Rajiv Mehrotra was also the student of eminent gurus including Swami Ranganathananda, and yoga icon B.K.S. Iyengar.Â
Rajiv Mehrotra was born on 4th March 1953 in Kolkata. Â He did most of his early schooling from La Martiniere Calcutta....
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
26. Samir Chanda
Samir Chanda was a popular Indian director and production designer, who was born in 1957. He worked in the Indian cinema industry, including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali. He was well-known for his work in movies like Yoddha (1992), Dil Se (1998), Omkara (2006), Rang De Basanti (2006), Guru (2007), and Raavan (2010).
Samir also directed a Bengali movie, Ek Nadir Galop (2008) featuring popular actor Mithun Chakraborty. It went ahead as the Indian entry for the African, Latin American and Asian Competition segment of the International Film Festival of India’s 38th edition, in Goa. Samir was given the National Film Award for Best Direction (Art) four times, which include Shyam Benegal directed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
27. 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:
28. M. T. Vasudevan Nair
M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned writer and director. He is famous for Kadavu, Oru Vadakkan Veergatha, and several other movies. He has written about 54 screenplays for movies and did direction for about seven movies. He has been rewarded by several awards for his direction, screenplay and for his novels.
Nair was born on 9 August 1933, in a small village of Kudallur in Kerala. Vasudevan won his first award at the age of 20 when he wrote a short story in Malayalam for Best Short Story Writing Competition held by The New York Herald Tribune in 1953.
Nair penned down his first novel Naalukettu in 1958 and won the prestigious Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Since then he has written about eight novels, eightee...
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
29. Satyajit Ray
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 of the honorary doctorate by Oxford University ( after actor Chaplin). The government of India has awarded him ‘Padma Bhushan(1965) and  Dadasaheb Phalke Award(1985) and the highest civilian honour’Bharat Ratna’(1992) too. In 1992, he was even posthumously awarded the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Ach...
Date of Death:
23-04-1992
Age:
103
Gender:
Male
30. Balu Mahendra
Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran was born in a Sri Lankan Tamil family on the 20th of May 1939 and passed away on the 13th of February 2014. He was a cinematographer, film editor, director and a screenwriter. He has worked in some Indian film industries but mostly worked in the Tamil film industry. BaluManhendra had developed an interest in photography in his early years, as he graduated as a gold medallist in cinematography from FTII in Pune he first started his career as a cameraman.
Balu Mahendra had married three times, his first wife was Akhileshwari who was the mother of his first son and in the year 1980 his second wife actress Shoba had committed suicide ending their relationship and also putting...
Date of Death:
13-02-2014
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-02-2014
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
31. T. S. Nagabharana
T. S. Nagabharana is a very famous Indian Film director, producer, and screenwriter. His full name is Talakadu Srinivasaiah Nagabharana. He was born in the year 1953 in Bangalore, Mysore State in India. He is a very renowned personality in the Kannada film industry and one of the individuals that lead the way to parallel cinemas. He is one of the very few directors that bestride the conventional as well as the parallel cinemas. He is very well-liked and successful in both the Television industry and Kannada film industry as a director. In his career of 40 years, he directed 34 movies under his guidance. Out of those 34 movies, 20 movies received awards at international, national and state level. This was one ...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
Skills:
32. P. L. Narayana
P. L. Narayana is a prominent Indian dialogue writer and playwright-turned-film actor, who predominantly works in the Telugu and Tamil cinema. He was born as Lakshmi Narayana on September 10, 1935, in Bapatla, India. He used to be a playwright and stage actor before he started acting on the silver screen. Narayana appeared in character roles in most of his films and usually portrayed the role of a downtrodden person or a person in distress. He also donned many comic roles along with other Telugu actors like Kota Srinivasa Rao, Suthivelu, and many more.
In 1978, he acted with Kamal Haasan in the Telugu film, Maro Charitra, helmed by K. Balachander. He is noted for his ...
Date of Death:
03-11-1998
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
03-11-1998
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
33. Mohanlal
Mohan Lal is the Super Star of the Malayalam film industry. He is the Son in Law of a famous producer cum veteran actor Balaji. Mohan Lal is married to Suchithra, the elder daughter of Balaji. Mohan Lal was born in the year 1960 in Elanthoor in Kerala. He is very popular for his natural acting and simplicity. The first movie, he committed was Thiranottam, but the first to release was Manjil Virinja Pookal. This movie had Poornima Jayaram as his pair and that is the debut movie in Malayalam for her too. Rajavinte Makan was the movie that made him to reach super heights. Mohan Lal is not choosey in particular character; but he acts in all types of film that give him a good performance scope.
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
34. K J Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas shortly called as K J Yesudas is an exceptional Carnatic singer and playback singer in Indian Cinema. Born on Jan 10 in 1940, he is fondly called as Gana Gandharvan and Dasettan. He has set a record of recording more than 60,000 songs. He is born in a Roman Catholic family, in Kochi. His father was a great classical Malayalam musician. His first song was Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham (music: M B Sreenivasan) recorded on 14 November 1961. This song is so close to Yesudas, that he signs it even today very often in any of the concerts. His journey started with this song. He got his first hit through a movie Bharya under the music direction of G. Devarajan. He made hu...
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
35. Sudhir Mishra
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 ...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
36. Basu Chatterjee
Basu Chatterjee is an Indian screenplay writer and director. He was born on 10th January 1930 in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Chatterjee kicked-off his career in Mumbai, then Bombay, by joining the weekly magazine, Blitz. He worked there for 18 years as a cartoonist and an analyst. He changed his career preferences when he joined Basu Bhattacharya as an assistant director for the Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman as lead cast 'Teesri Kasam', the film won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film. He directed his first movie in the year 1969; it was named 'Sara Akash'; the movie won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay.
The movie is based on the novel of the same...
Date of Death:
04-06-2020
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
04-06-2020
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
37. Bharath Gopi
Bharath Gopi was the evergreen pride of Malayalam media with his superlative performances which were well rewarded with four national awards, five state awards, six international awards and much more. He was neither handsome nor a grand master of dance and stunt moves or style. But he still carved out his niche in the industry with his unique acting skills and performance. He was born in 1937 at Trivandrum as the son of Velayudan Pillai and Parvathy Amma. He was very active in the film industry from 1972, until his death in 2008. His is survived by wife Jaya Lekshmi, Son Murali Gopi, and daughter Meenu Gopi. Murali Gopi is also an actor in Malayalam movies. Bharath Gopi has done many television shows and serials as wel...
Date of Death:
29-01-2008
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
29-01-2008
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
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