Sridevi
Alka Yagnik
Alisha Chinai
Sonali Bendre
Raveena Tandon
Reema Lagoo
Renuka Shahane
Kajol Devgan
Manisha Koirala
Dimple Kapadia
Kavita Krishnamurthy
Lata Mangeshkar
Waheeda Rehman
Madhuri Dixit
Farida Jalal
Aruna Irani
Tabu
Saif Ali Khan
Danny Denzongpa
Naseeruddin Shah
Anu Malik
Viju Shah
Anand Bakshi
S P Balasubrahmanyam
Udit Narayan
K. K. Singh
Anupam Kher
Mohnish Bahl
Suniel Shetty
Kader Khan
Laxmikant Berde
Paresh Rawal
Mehul Kumar
Rajiv Rai
Rajkumar Santoshi
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Aamir Khan
Akshay Kumar
Anil Kapoor
Salman Khan
R. D. Burman
Shammi Kapoor
Nana Patekar
Sooraj Barjatya
A. R. Rahman
Shakti Kapoor
Shah Rukh Khan
Kumar Sanu
Javed Akhtar
Jackie Shroff
1. Sridevi
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 Aw...
Date of Death:
24-02-2018
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
24-02-2018
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
2. Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik is a very popular playback singer of the Bollywood film industry. She was born on March 20, 1966. She has been working in the Hindi film industry for three decades. She had bagged seven Filmfare awards out of the thirty five nominations at the Filmfare awards. It was for the best playback singer award category. Her singing is quite beautiful and she was felicitated by many icons. She came to the Bollywood industry as a singer at her early age. This gave her a lot of experience and she groomed herself as a consistent and su...
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
3. Alisha Chinai
Alisha Chinai was born on 18th March 1965 and her birth name is Sujata Chinai. She is also popularly known as Alisha, Baby Doll and Indian Madonna. She was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. She got into the film industry at the age of 20 as a pop singer and playback singer. Her debut music director was Bappi Lahiri. This duo had many hit albums in the decade of 1980 that includes Love Love Love, Guru, Tarzan, Commando, Dance Dance and so forth. Alisha Chinai did playback singing, which was immense hits. Her singing for Divya Bharati, Mandak...
Age:
59
Gender:
Female
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4. Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre, the epitome of beauty and grace was born in Mumbai, on 1 January 1975, is a well known Indian Actress. She is also a remarkable Television personality and a model. She has showcased her talent in over 50 films of various categories like romance, comedy and even action. Not even in Hindi but the actress performed superbly in Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada films. In the famous Television shows like Indian Idol and India's Got Talent she was a unbiased judge too. She started her career as a model. To add to her fortune list , she was selected for Star Dust Talent Search.
She has also hosted a show named Kya Masti Kya Dhoom flawlessly. She has been in the Bollywood industry since 1994. She was present for 10 ye...
Age:
49
Gender:
Female
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5. Raveena Tandon
Raveena Tandon is an Indian film actress who is known for doing some commercial cinema and then migrating to serious roles that gave her recognition as a serious actress. She made her superstar debut in film Mohra, which was supposed to be done by Divya Bharti. As Divya died, Raveena was the ultimate choice to play the role of the sexy girl, who did first item song’ Tu Cheez BariHai Mast Mast’. She was often paired with Akshay Kumar, and the duo became the most successful pair in Bollywood. She also made a hit pair with Govinda and did some blockbuster movies with the actor. Raveena made a sabbatical from films and did reject offers such as Dil To Pagal Hai, Gupt, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Virasat, w...
Age:
51
Gender:
Female
Skills:
6. Reema Lagoo
Reema Lagoo is an Indian television and film actress who is the most popular, kind hearted and loving Maa of the Industry. The veteran actress has been around in the industry for around four decades and has won accolades for her work in both Hindi and Marathi film industry. Starting from her early films, Reema featured in the super hit flick 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak' as Juhi Chawla's mother. Since enacting the role of Salman Khan’s mother in the movie ‘Saajan’ and Maine Pyar Kiya, to enacting a major role in family drama films like Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! and Hum Saath-Saath Hain, which were big hits of their time, she has been widely appreciated by the audiences and her roles are still fresh ...
Date of Death:
18-05-2017
Age:
66
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
18-05-2017
Age:
66
Gender:
Female
7. Renuka Shahane
Intro: Renuka Shahane is a veteran television star who established herself as the top television actress during the 1990’s. She is married to Bollywood actor Ashutosh Rana and the couple has two sons.Renuka Shahane is a veteran television actress who also gained a huge success in Bollywood movies. She first appeared as a television host for popular morning television show Surabhi which was telecasted on Doordarshan National television channel from 1993 to 2001. During the decade of 1990’s she was considered to be top television actress along with Pallavi Joshi, Shefali Chaya, and Kitu Gidwani. In 1994, she appeared in the highly successful Bollywood movie Hum Apke Hain Koun? After that she also worked for some...
Age:
57
Gender:
Female
Age:
57
Gender:
Female
8. Kajol Devgan
Born on 5th August 1974, Kajol was the heartthrob of Indians during her peak. Her main region of interest is Hindi cinema. Out of the eleven nominations Kajol had got 6 Filmfare awards. In fact, she has a record of winning Best Actress Filmfare Award 5 times in her career. This is matched only by her aunt Nutan. She is also the proud recipient of Padmashree award.
Her first film was Bekhudi which was released during the year 1992. She didn’t even complete schooling at that time. Acting was her passion and hence she called it quits to studying and took up acting...
Age:
49
Gender:
Female
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9. Manisha Koirala
Manisha Koirala, is a Bollywood actress of Nepalese origin. She was born on 16 of August 1970 in Kathmandu, Nepal. She is the daughter of Nepal’s politician, Prakash Koirala and is the granddaughter of Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala who was the Prime Minister of Nepal during the late 1950s.
Initially she wanted to be a doctor, but performing a modelling assignment paved her way to becoming an actress. Apart from Hindi, she has acted in several other languages. She made her acting debut through the Nepali movie, ‘Pheri bhetaula’ which was released in 1989. Her Bollywood debut was in the year 1991 with the movie ‘Saudagar’. The movie was a top grossing drama, which helped Manisha to establish herself as one of the leading ladies...
Age:
53
Gender:
Female
10. Dimple Kapadia
Regarded as the wife of the first superstar of Hindi cinema Rajesh Khanna, she made her foray into films with showman Raj Kapoor’s Bobby in 1973. She later spent her life as a devoted house wife after marrying Rajesh Khanna in the same year 1973 and had almost had quit the film industry. She played her first Bollywood teen role in Bobby and became heart-throb of Indians. She is highly popular for the title role of Bobby she was cast opposite Raj Kapoor’s son Rishi Kapoor which was a blockbuster hit which went to capture the heart of cinegoers for teen romance, melodious music and versatile performances. Her ultimate decision to quit cinema in 1973, put a b...
Age:
66
Gender:
Female
11. Kavita Krishnamurthy
Kavita Krishnamurthy is the female playback singer, who has sung maximum good songs with Kumar Sanu. She is a most versatile singer, who has amazing classical voice and perfectly trained. She is one among the few singers, who has versitality in singing.
She was a gifted singer, who had won medals since her school days and she got trained by her aunt in Rabindra Sangeet too. It was her aunt, who met Hemant Kumar, the music composer and singer, and wanted Hemant Kumar to give Kavita a chance to record a song.
It was then at age of nine, she got an opportunity to record a song with Lata Mangeshkar in Bengali. It was after a gap of many years, when K...
Age:
66
Gender:
Female
12. 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
13. Waheeda Rehman
She took birth in a Tamil Urdu speaking Muslim family on 3 February 1938, in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu.Her dream was to become a successful doctor but due to circumstances of illness, she dropped this goal. But her parents were too supportive to her debut on silver screen. From the very childhood, she started learning dance forms, especially in the Bharata Natyam dance form. She made her debut into the Telugu industry via two films 'Jayasimha' (1955) and 'Rojulu Marayi'(1955). She also had a film made in Tamil called 'Kalam Mari Pochu'. All these films were a hit, but she got recognition from the song Eruvaaka Sagaroranno Chinnanna from Rojulu Marayi. At the success party of Rojulu Mara...
Age:
86
Gender:
Female
Age:
86
Gender:
Female
14. Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit is not just known as the also a smile-queen of Bollywood for her pleasant smile also a well-trained dancer whose dance performance in movies were appreciated a lot by critics. This actress was born on May 15, 1967, in a Maharashtrian family to Shankar and Snehalata Dixit. She grew up as the youngest girl with three more siblings in her family. When she was a three or four years old, she could dance non-stop. Hence her parents trained her in Kathak dance for eight years.
When she debuted in Bollywood films, she performed many dances that show her skill as the dancer. Her first film was Abodh, which did not fare well in box office, and she had to wait for thr...
Age:
56
Gender:
Female
Age:
56
Gender:
Female
15. Farida Jalal
Farida Jalal is a veteran film and television actress from India. She was born on March 14, 1949 at New Delhi. Farida was known for doing comedic roles but she also laid her hands to doing lead and supporting roles in more than 100 Bollywood films and has been part of the television industry for quite a long time. The actress started her career in 1960’s after winning the Filmfare’s United Film Producers Talent Hunt. She was luckily selected as finalists, together with Bollywood producer and actor, Rajesh Khanna. Farida got a film offer for the first time to do the film, Taqdeer which was offered by Tarachand Barjatya who is one of the audiences at that time. She gained her popularity after essaying a supp...
Age:
75
Gender:
Female
Age:
75
Gender:
Female
16. Aruna Irani
Aruna Irani is an Indian actress who has acted in over 300 films, mostly doing supporting roles. She was born to a Parsi family on 18th August 1946 in Mumbai. Aruna has mixed origin of Irani Zoroastrian and Hindu background. She was the sister of famous filmmaker, Indra Kumar and actor, Adi Irani. She is married to film director, Kuku Kohli. Aruna Irani was first introduced in the film, Gunga Jumna in 1961. She was just 9 years old at the time when she played the role of Azra.
After that, she did small roles in several films such as Jahanara in 1964, Farz in 1967 and Upkar in the same year and Aaya Sawan Jhoomke in 1969. In 1968, she acted in Aulad along with the comedian, Mehmood Ali. Later, she also acted...
Age:
77
Gender:
Female
Age:
77
Gender:
Female
17. Tabu
Tabu is a wonderful gift to the Indian cinema. She is a good performer in Tamil, English, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali and Telugu films. Tabu was born in Hyderabad to Rizwana and Jamal Hashmi. After her schooling, she went to Mumbai to do her graduation. She appeared in small roles in the Hindi films. Her official debut as a heroine is in a Telugu film opposite Venakatesh in Coolie No. 1. In 1987, Tabu was booked in Prem with Sanjay Kapoor. The film was a flop, but Tabu got good market in Hindi as well as South Indian films. After some flop movies, Tabu was identified well for her performances in Saajan Chale Sasural and Jeet. She got the National Award for the Best Actress for performing in Maachis. After that, she performed in Kaalapani oppo...
Age:
52
Gender:
Female
Age:
52
Gender:
Female
18. Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan is a film celebrity born to actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer 'Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi'. He has two sisters, Soba, and Soha. Soha is a well-known actress in Hindi cinema. He was born in New Delhi on August 16, 1970. This actor made his debut with director Yash Chopra’s film Parampara, but the film did not do well in box office. He then acted with Akshay and Kajol in Yeh Dillagi, which majored him.
After this movie success, he got many offers as leading hero but all films failed to create any magic in the box-office. Only his mule-starter films fared well in box-office such as Kachche Dhaage (1999), Hum Saath Hain (1999). He had ...
Age:
53
Gender:
Male
Skills:
19. Danny Denzongpa
For Danny Denzongpa the voyage to the glittering world of films from distant Gangtok in Sikkim, where he was born and had his preliminary education, was quite eventful. In fact his entry into a film career was in many ways a matter of unexpected coincidence. Finishing college from Darjeeling, West Bengal, he made it to the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College in Pune, for he had always dreamed, like many from his region, to join the Indian Army. This desire was perhaps fuelled by his bagging the Best Cadet Award from West Bengal, and in being selected for the annual Republic Day parade in New Delhi. However, once in Pune, he switched over to the Film Institute instea...
Age:
76
Gender:
Male
Skills:
20. Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and associated with theater. He had treated art-cinema as his serious endeavor requiring the dedication, discipline, and integrity. Throughout his career, he subjected his own acting to a process of rigorous artistic self-analysis and reflection. He was the discovery of filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who introduced actors like Shabana, Om Puri, Smita Patil and others in the Indian cinema. Undoubtedly, this actor has acted in some serious films such as Sparsh, Paar and Iqbal( three national awards). For his performance in Paar, he received the best actor in the Venice Film Festival. His growth even in art-cinema was slow, as he had acted in women-oriented films of Shabana Az...
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
Skills:
21. Anu Malik
Anu Malik is considered as one of the most famous and successful music directors from film industry. He has also established his name as a singer. He began his career as a music director in 1977. He gave the music for the film Hunterwali. He became famous in 1990s by delivering the blockbusters like Baazigar,Janam and so on. We can say 1990 to 2000s was the golden period of his career. He was awarded a National Award for his phenomenal music for the film Refugee. His other blockbusters were Shah Rukh Khan starrer Mai Hoon Na and Baazigar . This movie gave him a Filmfare Award of Best Music Director. He has made a record of winning this trophy for 6 times. Anu Malik has given his versatile music for more than 350 films. He is considered a...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
Skills:
22. Viju Shah
Vijay Kalyanji Shah aka Viju Shah (Born 5 June 1959) is a music director of Hindi cinema. He is the son of music director Kalyanji Virji Shah of the famous composer duo Kalyanji-Anandji.
He composed music for super hit Hindi films including, Vishwatma (1992), Mohra (1994), Tere Mere Sapne (1996) and Gupt (1997). He has been nominated for the ‘Filmfare Award for Best Music Director’ twice. Shah bagged the 1998 ‘Filmfare Award for Best Background Score’ for Boby Deol, Kajal and Manisha Koirala starrer Gupt.
He and his wife Sunanda Shah have a daughter who is trained in Western Classical music. He s...
Age:
64
Gender:
Male
Age:
64
Gender:
Male
23. Anand Bakshi
Anand Bakshi was an old poet and lyricist with his popularity in the Hindi film industry. Anand Bakshi He was born in Rawalpindi, a part of India in 1930 which later got converted into a Pakistan city after independence in 1947. His mother died when he was five years old. Due to the partition of India and Pakistan, on October 2, 1947, Bakshi’s family shifted themselves to Delhi. Initially, Bakshi was in the Indian Army after completing his studies. In the free time, he used to write songs occasionally while working for the army. Bakshi initially tried to become a writer or a singer in the Hindi films, but later he found his talent in writing songs.
His first entry into movies as a lyricist was “Bhaala Aadmi” whi...
Date of Death:
30-03-2002
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
30-03-2002
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
24. S P Balasubrahmanyam
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.
Oth...
Date of Death:
25-09-2020
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-09-2020
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
25. Udit Narayan
One of the famous playback singers of Indian Film Industry, who has sung more than 25,000 songs in more than 34 languages. He was born on 1 Dec, 1955 at Bhardaha Village in Saptari District, Nepal. He studied at P.B School, Rajbiraj (Nepal) upto class 10th and intermediate from Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus. Udit passed his initial life with struggles and got a chance to sing in Nepali Radio, meanwhile he also sang songs in Maithli, Bhojpuri and Nepali in 70s. After singing for Radio Nepal, He moved to Bombay on music scholarship to get training in classical music from Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan . He got his first chance to sing for a movie Unees Bees in 1980 , composed by Rajesh Roshan. His dream came true when he also sang a song with his ideal Moh...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
26. K. K. Singh
K.K. Singh was a famous screenplay writer who had worked in the Hindi film industry. He died in 2011 in Mumbai, India. Apart from being a screenplay writer, he was also an actor, producer, and director. In the beginning of his career, he worked in movies as an additional dialogue writer. He made his debut in Prem Rog, directed by Raj Kapoor in 1982. He was an assistant director and a writer in that movie. After that, he produced and directed the movie Veergati. In this movie, eminent Bollywood actor Salman Khan was in the leading role. He acted in his first movie in 1998, which was Sham Ghansham. It was directed by Ashok Ghai.
K.K. Singh had written more than twenty-five movies in his lifetime. A very famous Bollywood movie, Ram ...
27. Anupam Kher
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 r...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
28. Mohnish Bahl
Born to the late actress ‘Nutan’, Mohnish Behl is known for his disarmingly good looks, exotic charm and brilliant acting. He studied at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai.
He was personally recommended by Salman Khan for the movie, Maine Pyaar Kiya, in 1989. He made his place in the industry by doing a string of supporting roles throughout the late 90’s, which he performed under 'Rajshree Banners'.
'Force’, ‘Khap’, and ‘Desi Boyz’ are probably his best known films. He is the cousin of Kajol Devgan and Tanisha Mukherjee, and the grandson of late actress, Shobhna Samarth. He is married to actress, Aarti Behl, and the couple have two daughters, P...
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
29. Suniel Shetty
Suniel Shetty, a renowned Bollywood actor, was born in August, 1961 in Mulki, India. His relatives and close friends know him by the name ‘Anna’. He is an actor, producer and a TV presenter. He is well known for his action films. His first film was ‘Balwaan’ which established him as an action hero. He became popular with his film ‘Mohra’ where he played the character of Vishal in this action packed film. Some of his noted films are: Dilwale (1994), an action film, ‘Border’ (1997), a film about the India-Pakistan war in 1971, ‘Hera Pheri’ (2000), a comedy and ‘Dhadkan’ (2000), a romantic drama. He acted in a Tamil mo...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
30. Kader Khan
Kader Khan was born on 12 November, 1937 in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father named Abdil Rehman is from Afghanistan while his mother named Iqbal Begum is from India. Kader Khan is an actor and writer. Kader Khan obtained a Master's Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Institution of Engineers in India. After completing his education, he started working as professor of Civil engineering in M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering in Byculla.
Khan wrote and acted a play on College’s Annual day function. Dilip Kumar was very impressed after watching his acting...
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
31. Laxmikant Berde
Known for his specialty of slapstick humor and comic gestures, Laxmikant Berde is an Indian actor who has featured in both Hindi and Marathi movies. Berde was born into a Marathi Brahmin Saraswat family and also was an avid participant in the activities of “Konkanasth Vaishya Samaj” in Girgaum. He discovered his passion for acting during the stage-plays he participated during his school and college days, also acquiring various accolades in school and college festivals. It was via the theater club “Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh” that Berde’s inception of a career in drama would propel. His first cardinal role came in Purushottam Berde’s Marathi stage play &ld...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
32. Paresh Rawal
The Padma Shri award winner who shot to fame with his role in the 1986 blockbuster film ‘Naam’, which told the story of a poor family that struggled to make ends meet, was born on 30th May 1950 in Mumbai. He completed his graduation from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai. Rawal made his debut in the film industry through the movie ‘Holi’ in the year 1984 but it was his next film, ‘Naam’, which brought him all the fame and attention as an actor. Success followed him, and he acted in over hundred films during 1980s and 1990s. Such was his versatility, that he has done roles from lead actor to Main villain. He did the role of main villain in most of...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
33. Mehul Kumar
Mehul Kumar is a renowned director of Hindi movies. In addition to directing, Mehul Kumar has been instrumental in numerous projects as an executive producer. He has helped bring many actors like Govinda, Raj Kumar, Amitabh, Nana and even Madhuri famous in cinema house. Obviously he has been a producer who exhibited his creativity as a good director too. Mehul Kumar did his job perfectly well as a director, at least for a while for his continuous projects such as Kohram, Krantiveer, etc. That is why Amitabh Bachchan Corporation wanted Mehul to direct a film’ Kohram’ for them. Mehul Kumar was also a screenwriter, so he has more correctly pegged himself as writer-turned-director too. The obvious rea...
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
34. Rajiv Rai
Rajiv Rai is a multifaceted legend in the field of Hindi Cinema. He was born in the year 1955, in Mumbai. He has been a Writer, Editor and a Director in several number of films. Rajiv was born to Gulshan Rai, a great Film Producer in the late nineties. He has predominantly produced the films of the popular Yash Raj Chopra and the films of his son. Rajiv first entered into Bollywood, in the year 1985 by directing a flick, titled Yudh.
The film had Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff in the lead and was produced and distributed by Gulshan Rai’s company, Trimurti Films. He then started multitasking by writing and directing movies. He has given several Bollywood blockbusters s...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
35. 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
36. Vidhu Vinod Chopra
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 a...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
37. Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bollywood’s finest actor. He is a package for the Indian TV industry as he is a producer, director and actor an all-rounder kind of personality. Khan has an estimated net worth of $185 million. Aamir has born on 14th March, 1965 (aged 50) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did two marriages, first with Reena Dutta in 1986 they were together till 2002, than Kiran Rao came into his life, she is 42 years old, born in November, 1973, and they got married in 2005, now they both are living together happily in Mumbai. Kiran is from Bengaluru and also a director, screenwriter and producer.Aamir’s father was Late Tahir Hussain, who was from a village Akhtiyarpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a scree...
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
38. Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and his birth name is ‘Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia’. He is a great Bollywood actor who has acted in more than 100 movies. He is also a producer and martial artist. He has won The Filmfare awards a couple of times. He started off his career as an actor in 1990s, where he had stricken with action based movies initially. He has been greatly appreciated for his drama, romance and comic roles. He is considered to be the only Bollywood actor whose net box office collection is 20 million rupees. He has done a lot of dangerous stunts in movies without a body double. This did gain a name for him as 'Indian Jackie Chan'.
In the year 2008, Akshay Kumar was awarded an Honorary D...
Age:
56
Gender:
Male
39. Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for ...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
40. Salman Khan
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 perfo...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
41. R. D. Burman
Rahul Dev Burman, better known as Pancham by the film fraternity, is a famous Bollywood music director who introduced a western style of music in Indian cinema. He is the son of veteran music director Sachin Dev Burman and his wife, Meera. R D Burman filmography can be found here. The music composer was born in Calcutta on 27 June 1939. It is said that he has derived his name from the fifth note of Indian scale (musical scale). His crying in childhood always resembled the fifth note of Indian scale (music), so his parents called him ‘Pancham.'
This music director dominated the film industry during 1970’s. He was influen...
Date of Death:
04-01-1994
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
04-01-1994
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
42. Shammi Kapoor
Shammi Kapoor: - 'Elvis Presley' of India. Shammi Kapoor was born to Prithviraj Kapoor, the patriarch of the Kapoor family who’s been an important part of Bollywood movies and to Ramsarni Mehra Kapoor as Shamsher Raj Kapoor on October 21, 1931, in Bombay Presidency, British India. He was the second of three sons born to Prithviraj Kapoor. Shammi Kapoor’s father was one of the pioneers of Indian theatre and Hindi movies. Ever since his birth, Shammi Kapoor was interested in film and theatre. He was brought up in Peshawar, Pakistan and Kapoor Haveli in Kolkata. After his education, he joined his father’s New Theatres Studio. After few months, he entered the film industry as a juni...
Date of Death:
14-08-2011
Age:
92
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
14-08-2011
Age:
92
Gender:
Male
43. Nana Patekar
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 ...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
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44. Sooraj Barjatya
Sooraj Rajkumar Barjatya, also known as Sooraj Barjatya is born on 22nd February 1964, in Mumbai. He is an Indian Filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and distributor. He is predominantly working in the Indian Cinema. He has attended the St. Mary’s School in Mumbai and The Scindia School in Gwalior. He got married to Vineeta Barjatya in the year 1986. He has three children. Barjatya also owns a restaurant named Spice and Sweet, located in Bandra. He began as an assistant director to Mahesh Bhatt. He made his debut as a director, at the age of 24, with the movie Maine Pyar Kiya, in the year 1989. It was a movie based on friendship and love, with Salman Khan. The move was a huge hit in the box office and th...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
Skills:
45. A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud. Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once up...
Age:
57
Gender:
Male
Age:
57
Gender:
Male
46. Shakti Kapoor
Personal life: Shakti Kapoor was born in Delhi, India as Sunil Kapoor. He was the second child among the four children of his parents Mr. Sikanderlal Kapoor and Ms. Susheela Kapoor. He resided in Karol Bhag, Delhi. He married Shivangi kohlapure (Padmini kohlapurei’s elder sister) in the year 1982. He has two children, a son Siddhant Kapoor and a daughter Shraddha Kapoor. Career: Shakti Kapoor was famous because of his mischievous activities in his early childhood. He was passionate about cricket, and it also won him admission in Kirori Mal College, Delhi University. After graduation, Shakti took to modelling. He tried his luck into acting and this is how he received the opportunity to be a student of Fi...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
47. Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent Indian film actor, television personality and producer. He was born on November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India. He is often called as the ‘Baadshah of Bollywood’, ‘King Khan’ and ‘King of Bollywood’. The actor has done more than 80 films in Bollywood. He was cited as ‘The World’s Biggest Movie Star’ by the Los Angeles Times. Khan is also one of the wealthiest actors in the world, with over $400–600 million net worth. He also won several accolades including the 14 Filmfare Awards.
Khan went to St. Columba’s School in Delhi where he topped in studies and sports like football and hockey, where he...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
Skills:
48. Kumar Sanu
Having chaired over 17,000 songs in the last 27 years inclusive of diverse languages and creating over 8000 new musical pieces, every Indian household and fans around the globe are familiar with the Iconic Kumar Sanu.
He also bossed the music industry in India in the 1990s where he pocketed “The Best Playback Singer” title for a record period of 5 years in successionOriginally named Kedarnath Bhattacharya, by his vocalist and composer father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, he grew up in Kolkata, India and was encouraged to pursue singing and playing table by his father. He graduated in Commerce from Kolkata University and often used to perform small-t...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
49. Javed Akhtar
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 dur...
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
50. Jackie Shroff
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...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
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