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Hindi Awards 39th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. Leena Daru


13-10-2020/leena-daru.jpg 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...
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
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2. Nilita Vachani


13-10-2020/nilita-vachani.jpg 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...
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

3. Mamata Shankar


04-01-2017/mamata-shankar.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 07-01-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-01-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills: Movie Actress

4. Moloya Goswami


m/a/l/a/y/a/malaya-goswami.png 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...
Date of Birth: 05-05-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-05-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actress

5. Renu Saluja


10-05-2020/renu-saluja.png 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...
Date of Birth: 05-07-1952
Date of Death: 16-08-2000
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-07-1952
Date of Death: 16-08-2000
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Editor

6. Kottayam Santha


kottayam-santha.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 1927
Date of Death: 27-04-2007
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1927
Date of Death: 27-04-2007
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

7. Bijaya Jena


bijaya-jena.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 16-08
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Female
Language: Odia
Skills:
Date of Birth: 16-08
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Female
Language: Odia

8. Vani Jairam


30-08-2019/vani-jayaram.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 30-11-1945
Date of Death: 04-02-2023
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-11-1945
Date of Death: 04-02-2023
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Singer

9. Neeta Lulla


Neeta-Lulla.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 05-03-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-03-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actress

10. Kalaipuli S. Thanu


kalaipuli-s.-thannu.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 25-06-1958
Age: 66
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 25-06-1958
Age: 66
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Producer

11. Rajat Dholakia


13-10-2020/rajat-dholakia.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 08-10-1957
Age: 67
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 08-10-1957
Age: 67
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

12. V. Ramachandra Rao


13-10-2020/v.-ramachandra-rao.jpg 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...
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director

13. Kumar Shahani


13-10-2020/kumar-shahani.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 07-12-1940
Age: 83
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-12-1940
Age: 83
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

14. PP Govindan


13-10-2020/pp-govindan.jpg 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...
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

15. Anwar Jamal


13-10-2020/anwar-jamal.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 15-08-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-08-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

16. Bhalji Pendharkar


13-10-2020/bhalji-pendharkar.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 03-05-1897
Date of Death: 28-11-1994
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-05-1897
Date of Death: 28-11-1994
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

17. Arun Khopkar


27-08-2020/arun-khopkar.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 05-11-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-11-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

18. Soumitra Chatterjee


27-08-2020/soumitra-chatterjee.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 19-01-1935
Age: 89
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-01-1935
Age: 89
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Actor

19. Arun Kaul


12-08-2020/arun-kaul.jpg   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....
Date of Birth: 1933
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1933
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Scriptwriter

20. Apurba Kishore Bir


14-08-2019/apurba-kishore-bir.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 1948
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1948
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

21. 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

22. B Narsing Rao


b/0/0/n/a/r/b.-narsing-rao.png 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....
Date of Birth: 1947
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1947
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

23. Rajiv Mehrotra


r/a/j/i/v/0/rajiv-mehrotra.png 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...
Date of Birth: 04-03-1953
Age: 71
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-03-1953
Age: 71
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

24. Akkineni Kutumba Rao


a/k/k/i/n/e/akkineni-kutumba-rao.png 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...
Date of Birth: 05-05-1946
Age: 78
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-05-1946
Age: 78
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Director

25. Samir Chanda


s/a/m/i/r/0/samir-chanda.jpg 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)....
Date of Birth: 19-10-1957
Age: 67
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-10-1957
Age: 67
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

26. Aribam Syam Sharma


19-04-2017/aribam-syam-sharma.png 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...
Date of Birth: 21-03-1936
Age: 88
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-03-1936
Age: 88
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

27. Composer - Raveendran


c/o/m/p/o/s/composer---raveendran.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 09-11-1941
Date of Death: 03-03-2005
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-11-1941
Date of Death: 03-03-2005
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Composer

28. M. T. Vasudevan Nair


m.-t.-vasudevan-nair.png 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....
Date of Birth: 09-08-1933
Age: 91
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-08-1933
Age: 91
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

29. Satyajit Ray


satyajit-ray.png 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...
Date of Birth: 02-05-1921
Date of Death: 23-04-1992
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-05-1921
Date of Death: 23-04-1992
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

30. Balu Mahendra


11-04-2017/balu-mahendra.png 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...
Date of Birth: 20-05-1939
Date of Death: 13-02-2014
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-05-1939
Date of Death: 13-02-2014
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director

31. T. S. Nagabharana


t.-s.-nagabharana.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 23-01-1953
Age: 71
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-01-1953
Age: 71
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

32. P. L. Narayana


p.-l.-narayana.png 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...
Date of Birth: 10-09-1935
Date of Death: 03-11-1998
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-09-1935
Date of Death: 03-11-1998
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

33. Mohanlal


08-08-2019/mohanlal.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 21-05-1960
Age: 64
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-05-1960
Age: 64
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

34. K J Yesudas


k/0/j/0/y/e/k-j-yesudas.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 10-01-1940
Age: 84
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-01-1940
Age: 84
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer, Musician

35. 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

36. Basu Chatterjee


Basu-Chatterjee.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 10-01-1927
Date of Death: 04-06-2020
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-01-1927
Date of Death: 04-06-2020
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

37. Bharath Gopi


Bharath-Gopi.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 08-11-1937
Date of Death: 29-01-2008
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 08-11-1937
Date of Death: 29-01-2008
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam