Loveleen Bains
Tanusree Shankar
Madhumanti Maitra
Renu Saluja
Sarojamma
Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai
Neena Gupta
Shrabani Deodhar
Alka Yagnik
Pallavi Vinay Joshi
Durba Sahay
Dinesh Lakhanpal
Sachin Parekar
Jugal Debata
Upendra Trivedi
Ashoke Viswanathan
Vijay Tandon
Ashish Trivedi
K. Ravindranathan Nair
Mrinal Sen
Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Rajat Dholakia
Anwar Jamal
EV Ganesh Babu
Arun Khopkar
Venu Isc
Sunil Shanbag
Piyush Shah
Apurba Kishore Bir
Johnson Composer
Tahir Hussain
Indrajit Neogi
Navodaya Appachan
Murali Nair
H Sridhar
V.G Samant
Sasi Shanker
Paresh Mehta
Nagini Bharana
Richard S Castellano
Pankaj Advani
Ismail Merchant
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Sibi Malayil
Aribam Syam Sharma
Sri Rajan
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Satyajit Ray
Gulzar
Zafar Hai
Yash Chopra
T. S. Nagabharana
Suhas Sawant
Buddhadev Dasgupta
Mammootty
Goutam Ghose
K R Mohanan
Victor Banerjee
T V Chandran
Shashi Kapoor
Ketan Mehta
K J Yesudas
Fazil
Paresh Rawal
Mahesh Bhatt
Santhana Bharathi
Nooranad Ramachandran
Ravindra Peepat
Susant Mishra
Bappa Ray
1. Loveleen Bains
Loveleen Bains is a veteran costume designer based in Mumbai Maharashtra. She began her career as a costume designer in a movie titled In Custody (1994). Since then she has been the costume designer for movies such as Danish Girls Show Everything (1996), Gaatha (1997), Flammen im Paradies (1997), Such a Long Journey (1998), Dhundh (1999), Sarfarosh (1999), Jahan Tum Le Chalo (1999), Scribbles on Akka (2000), Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat (2001), Octave (2002), Danav (2003), God Only Knows! (2007), Hanan (2005), Shikhar (2005), Rang De Basanti (2006), Summer (2007), Jagjeet (2010), Mausam (2011), Bharat (2019), Jogi (2022). Bains has been nominated for various awards such as the Film Fare Award for Best Costum...
2. Tanusree Shankar
Tanusree Shankar is a renowned actress, dancer, and choreographer. Tanusree has worked in multiple film industries in about decades, including a few international films. Some of her international films are The Namesake in 2016 and The Waiting City in 2009; Tanusree Shankar was born on 16th March 1956 in Kolkata, West Bengal. Her father was a doctor in the Indian Army. Her spouse, the late Ananda Shankar, was a musician. In the 70s and the 80s, Tanusree was a prominent dancer in the Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts. Tanusree heads her dance academy, Tanusree Shankar Dance Company. Shankar has a unique style of choreography. Her style is a blend of traditional Indian classics with modern western ballet. He...
Age:
68
Gender:
Female
Age:
68
Gender:
Female
3. Madhumanti Maitra
Born in West Bengal, India, Madhumanti Maitra is a multi-talented individual. She has established herself as a prominent figure in the entertainment and TV industry, particularly as a TV news anchor, music producer, and movie producer, and she is also an English associate professor. She has completed her M.A. and Ph.D. Her passion for education led her to work as an English professor at Murlidhar Girls College, where she teaches and inspires her student. Her mom was a teacher. She got inspired by her school and college teachers and started teaching English. Her mom was a teacher too. As a TV news anchor, Madhumanti has captivated audiences with her eloquence and engaging presentation style.
Her expertise and experience have also ...
4. 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.
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
5. Sarojamma
Sarojamma, a Kannada actress, is the golden name in the list of great women of India. She died on 25th June 2016 at the age of 60 in a heart attack. Her full name was K.S Sarojamma. She is more popularly known as “the Hooch Queen Marimuthu” in Kannada cine world after the big success of the film “Upendra” and nicknamed as “marimuthu sarojamma.” She has acted in the character of “marimuthu,” a gritty and powerful underworld lady don. Upendra was her debut film and gave her success in the role of a lady-villain. In most of her films, she has acted as donned antagonist roles and became famous as a lady don. Kannada films got a new meaning of negative roles through her acting. She has acted mor...
6. Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai
Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai known by the short name 'Shobana' is a well renowned Bharatnatyam artist and film actress. She is proficient in several languages such as English, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Tamil and worked in 200 such films. For her phenomenal performance in 1993's 'Manichitrathazhu' and 2001's 'Mitr, My Friend', she won two National Film Award for Best Actress. The first film is a Malayalam psychological horror film based on cataclysm happened in Alummoottil Tharavadu, which is a famous Travancore family. The film turned out to be one of the most successful films in Alummoottil Tharavadu, which is a famous Travancore family. The film turned out...
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
7. Neena Gupta
Neena Gupta is a very popular and well-known figure to all. She is a successful movie and TV actress and also a director simultaneously. She was born in 4th July in 1959. Her work area is really extended. She played roles in different international films like- “Gandhi (acted as the niece of Mahatma Gandhi and released in 1982)”,“The Deceivers (released in 1988)”, Custody(released in 1993)” and others. In the movie named “Khalnayak” which was released in 1993, she was a co-actress with the glamorous heroine Madhuri Dixit. She has also stepped into the world of TV dramas and serials which was started with the miniseries named “Khandaan” in 1985. After that, she acted in several TV series and serials. She had worked as the host of the program ...
Age:
64
Gender:
Female
8. Shrabani Deodhar
Shrabani Deodhar is one of the top female directors of India. She had won National Film Award with the very first movie Lapandav, which was released in 1993. She is not just a director but also a screenwriter by profession. Born on 12th June 1962 to her doctor parents, she never underwent any formal training in filming. She always quotes that her husband Debu Deodhar is her inspiration to be in the film industry. Her latest work is Sata Lota pan Sagla Khota, which was released in November, 2014. She won many awards and nominated for many more awards for her directorial. She won Hollywood Award in 2000 for her movie Lekhru.
Presently, she is working for Dekhaa Jaayega, which is yet to be released. The cast included Om Puri, Manoj ...
Age:
61
Gender:
Female
9. 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
10. Pallavi Vinay Joshi
Pallavi Joshi is an Indian model, producer, film and television actress. She started her career as an on stage performer at her early age. She started acting in the big screen as a child actress, appearing in films like Badla and the 1977 Bollywood film, Aadmi Sadak Ka. In 1979, she played as a blind kid in the film, Dada.From 1980’s to early 90’s, Pallavi acted in various films including the Rukmavati Ki Haveli and Vanchit. She played as Iti opposite Nirvana (played by Nitish Bharadwaj in the 1988 Hindi film, Trishagni. Pallavi made a special appearance in the film, Rihaee in 1988. She also donned the 1992 Hindi film, Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda under the direction of Shyam Benegal, where she played the role of Lil...
Age:
55
Gender:
Female
11. Durba Sahay
Bio coming soon......
12. Dinesh Lakhanpal
Dinesh Lakhan pal is a multi-talented personality. He is a famous filmmaker, journalist, and creative writer. Dinesh has given many articles to newspapers and magazines of India and has also delivered biographies on famous Indian personalities. Lakhan pal also writes on socio-economic, socio-politic, agriculture, food, literature, and arts. He is also a good script writer. He is also known as the head of Mumbai’s production house. Lakhnal pal has completed the set of seventy documentaries. Dinesh has participated in many national-International events in different countries. He is honored with four International and two national awards....
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
13. Sachin Parekar
Sachin Parekar was a famous producer. He has worked as a producer in many films, such as Housewife, Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asta (2013), Shan (2006), Lapandav (1993), and Shejari Shejari (1991). Apart from this, he has also worked as additional crew in many films like Gadbad Gondhal (2020), Pipani (2012), Paulwaat (2011), 2014 Rajkaran (2011), Samudra (2010), Ranbhool (2010), Jogwa ( 2009), Adla Badli (2008), Hota Asa Kadhi Kadhi, Checkmate (2008), Nirop (2007), Bayo, and A Breath (2004). He received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film for his Marathi film Lapandav....
14. Jugal Debata
Jugal Debata is an Indian cinematographer. He is very famous for his cinematographic skills. He has worked as a cinematographer in several movies, including Badhu Nirupama, Andha Diganta, Kandhei, Indradhanura Chhai, Ahalya, Biswaprakash, Pua Mora Jagata Jita, Dharini, Aw Aakare Aa, Puja Pain Phulatie, and Tumaku Paruni Ta Bhuli. He has worked as director for the film Badhu Nirupama, in which Isha Bebarta, Debu Bose, Anu Choudhary, Sangita Das, and Aparajita Mohanty are in leading roles. He has also worked as a producer for films like Aashar Akash and Indradhanura Chhai. Indradhunura Chhai became very famous. He won the National Award in 1993. ...
15. Upendra Trivedi
Upendra Trivedi is a prominent actor and politician from the Gujarat film industry. He has the title of Abhinay Samraat. Upendra Trivedi started acting in his college life to earn money and pay for his education, His acting career began with the film Vanraj Chavdo and Mehdi Rang Lagyo. His turning point in his life with the film Jesal Toral, Upendra, was given the lead role by director Ravindra Dave. The movie was commercially successful. He played the role of Jadeja. Upendra Trivedi has earned the national award for the film on a novel by author Pannalal Patel. Upendra Trivedi entered politics in the year 1980. He won his first election in 1985, Got an INC ticket in 1990. In 1998 he won Gujarat legislative assembly as an independent can...
Date of Death:
04-01-2015
Age:
87
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
04-01-2015
Age:
87
Gender:
Male
16. Ashoke Viswanathan
Ashoke Vishwanathan is a Bengali director and filmmaker. He is head of the department of producing the film at Satyajit ray film and television institute. He also works as an occasional lecturer at Jadavpur University. Ashoke Vishwanathan has won two national awards and the Indira Gandhi award for the direction of Shunya. Lighthouse, The Ocean and the Sea was the award-winning documentary of Vishwanathan, which explains the relationship between Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, and Kalidas nag. His feature films and short films are included in the Indian panorama. In 1997, Vishwanath represented India on contemporary British writing at the Cambridge seminar.
Ashoke Vishwanatham was born in the year 1959. He is the son of actor...
17. Vijay Tandon
Vijay Tandon is an Actor, Writer and Film Producer. He was born on 13 March 1950 in Jagraon, Punjab, India. Vijay Tandon made his debut in the movie Maa Da Ladla (1973). His accomplishments include some awards like National Film Award for the Punjabi Film, Kachehri in 1994. He has also received Lifetime Achievement Award at Punjabi Cine Awards 2016 and PTC Punjabi Film Award 2017. In addition to it, he is well known for his acting, writing and film producing in Khatre Da Ghuggu (2020), Nanka Mel (2019), Teri Meri Jodi (2019), Lakeeran the Destiny (2018) and Sat Sri Akal (2008)....
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
18. Ashish Trivedi
Ashish Trivedi was born in Noida on January 8, 1991. He was born into a middle-class household and is the youngest of three siblings. His two older sisters adore him the most. Ashish Trivedi is an Indian actor and model. Ashish was a dentist before quitting his medical job to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. It was not simple for Ashish to find work in Mumbai, but he had never given up. With the Colors show Udaan, he made his television debut. In the series, he plays Prakash, a close buddy of the main lead, Sameer. Ashish received his first break on television with Udaan. He has a flexible body type and is a fitness enthusiast. He shed his weight from 98 kg to 74 kg. ...
Age:
33
Gender:
Male
19. K. Ravindranathan Nair
K Ravindranathan Nair is an Indian producer who worked for the Malayalam film industry. He was born in 1932 in Kollam, Kerala. Nair is a multi-talented producer, industrialist, and philanthropist who worked in more than 10 South Indian movies. He was born in a rich family who has a business in cashew production and export.
His interest in literature bought him to Malayalam cinemas and in 1967, he established General Pictures under which he produced his first films Anweshichu Kandethiyilla. Some of the movies in which he worked are Achani in 1973, Manju in 1982, Thampu in 1978, Anantaram in 1987, and many others....
Date of Death:
08-07-2023
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
08-07-2023
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
20. Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen was a renowned and highly skilled Indian film director. Mrinal was born on 14 May 1923 in Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (currently in Bangladesh). Sen has directed various famous films like Raat Bhore, Neel Akasher Neechey, Baishey Shravana, Maitra Manisha, Ek Adhuri Kahani, Calcutta 71, Chorus, Mrigayaa, Kharij, Genesis, Antares, and the list continues. His core focus was on Hindi and Bengali films. Mrinal’s direction positively influenced the whole Indian cinema. He was the only director in India (along with Satyajit Ray) whose films received awards at the three biggest film festivals, Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival.
Mrinal’s priceless involvement le...
Date of Death:
30-12-2018
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
30-12-2018
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
21. Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Bhupendra Nath Sakia was a prominent and one of the most liked writers and novelists in India. He was born on 20 February 1932 in Nowgong, Assam, India. Bhabendra completed his schooling in 1950 with the science stream. Later he did graduation with B.Sc. with Physics honors at the College of Gauhati University. Bhabendra was admitted to the Presidency College of Calcutta University to do post-graduation in Physics. He also achieved Ph.D. in Physics from the University of London and then did Diploma from the Imperial College of Science & technology.
Looking back to his academic records, one can easily say that Bhabendra was a bright person who scored the best at all levels of education. Bhabendra was offered to edit Assam...
Date of Death:
13-08-2003
Age:
92
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-08-2003
Age:
92
Gender:
Male
22. 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...
23. 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
24. EV Ganesh Babu
EV Ganesh Babu is an Indian film actor and director who predominantly works in the Tamil film and television industry. He was born on 17 November 1981 at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. Mr.Elangovan and Mrs.Vijayalakshmi are his parents. He completed his graduation in Tamil literature. He is married to Vanitha Ganesh Babu. He stepped into the world of Cinema as an actor with the Tamil film ‘Friends,’ co-starring Vijay and Suriya, directed by Siddique and produced by Appachan. He has appeared in some well-known films such as Anandhapurathu Veedu, Manathodu Mazhaikalam, Sivakasi, Pudhiya Geethai, Jaggubhai, Autograph, Raavan, Kabali, Kutty, Mozhi, and Bogan. He has directed movies like Thenpandi Singam and Yamuna. He has also appeared i...
Age:
42
Gender:
Male
25. 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
26. Venu Isc
Venugopal, also called Venu, is an Indian director, writer, and cinematographer. He predominantly works in the Malayalam industry. Venu is a founder member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), the first-ever in India.
Venu was born on August 26th, 1961 as the grandson of Karur Neelakanta Pillai, a Malayalam literature writer and founder of the Sahithya Pravarthaka Society. Venu’s mother, B. Saraswathy, is also a famous writer who has authored Indulekha. He married Beena Paul on August 26th, 1983. She is a film editor from the Mollywood industry. The couple has a daughter, Malavika. She works as the Outreach Programme Manager at the prestigious Cambridge University.
Venu graduated from the pres...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
27. Sunil Shanbag
Sunil Shanbag is a Theatre Director, Documentary filmmaker, and Screenwriter. He was born on the 7th of October 1956. He did his schooling from the Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh. He completed his graduation from the University of Mumbai. Sunil had no background or training in theatre, but he worked extensively with Satyadev Dubey, an Indian theatre director, playwright, actor, screenwriter, and film director. Satyadev considered him his foremost protege. In 1985, Shanbag founded, Arpana, a theatre company. In 2007, he directed the critically acclaimed Polyester 84, Cotton 56 which won three META awards at the Mahindra Theatre Festival.
He has since directed many plays and garnered love and attention from all over the worl...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
28. Piyush Shah
Piyush Shah is a cinematographer who works in the Bollywood film industry. Piyush is regarded as one of the finest camera workers in Bollywood. He has garnered himself huge praises from all over the country because of his immense talents behind the lens. Piyush graduated from the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India where he shot hundreds of short films and documentaries.
Piyush made his debut as a cinematographer on a documentary by Mani Kaul, Before My Eyes in 1989. The documentary is all about the beauty of Kashmir, how the landscape, visuals and sounds of the Kashmiri nature blend in together to form a perfect web soothing experience. In the same year, he also worked with Kaul again on the landmark documentary f...
29. 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
30. Johnson Composer
Johnson was a Malayalam score composer, singer and music director, who is popularly known as Johnson Master. He is best known for some famous movies like ‘Koodevide’, ‘Oru Minnaminunginte’, ‘Njan Gandharvan’, ‘Ponthan Mada’, and many more. He was regarded as one of the finest composers of the industry.
He is two-time National award and five times Kerala State Film Award receiver. He was born to a bank employee in Thrissur, Kerala. He did his schooling from Trichur and was a singer in the choir of St. Sebastian Church. He started learning Harmonium and Guitar from his friends while growing up.
He used to perform in many concerts with local groups. He used to sing in a female ...
Date of Death:
18-08-2011
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
18-08-2011
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
31. Tahir Hussain
Tahir Hussain was film producer who works primarily for the Indian Hindi industry. He has been universally acclaimed for his films like Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, caravan, etc. Tahir also was known as Mohammed Tahir Hussain Khan was born on 19th September 1938 in hardoi when it was under British provinces.
Tahir married Zeenat Hussain and became the father of Aamir Khan and Faisal Khan. Tahir also married Shahnaz Hussain and became the father of Farhat Khan and nikhat khan. Tahir also had the well-known producer, director and writer Nasir Hussain as his mentor.
Tariq Khan was Tahir's nephew, and he too was involved in this business. Tahir Hussain belonged to the family of rohilla Pashtun of yousufzai and had also been rel...
Date of Death:
02-02-2010
Age:
85
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
02-02-2010
Age:
85
Gender:
Male
32. Indrajit Neogi
Indrajit Neogi is an Indian sound recordist. He is married to Armin Jamshedji and has a son, Rian Neogi. Indrajit was born in Kolkata. He pursued Science and was an outstanding student who got an A-grade in everything. He studied at the Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapeeth at Purulia, a reputed academic institution located in West Bengal. He was selected in IIT Kharagpur and earned an honors degree in Physics. Despite having a heavily credential academic background, Indrajit was interested in theatrics from an early age. This passion landed him enrolling at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.
He specialized in sound at the FTII and graduated from there. In 1980, he kicked off his professional caree...
Gender:
Male
33. Navodaya Appachan
Navodaya Appachan was a film producer and director in the Malayalam Film industry. Appachan was a man of vision who changed the dimension of Indian cinema and took it to the next level. Navodaya Appachan was born February 6, 1924, in the Pulinkunnoo village of Alleppey district in Kerala. His real name is Malliampurackal Chacko Punnose. Appachan graduated from the St. Xavier’s College in Pallayamkottai, Tamil Nadu. Appachan came into the field of cinema because of his elder brother Kunchakoo, a producer-director in Malayalam Cinema. Appachan was the first person in Malayalam film industry to make a cinemascope film. He directed and produced the film ‘Thalacholi Ambu.’ He owned his own production house 'Navodaya Stud...
Date of Death:
23-04-2012
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-04-2012
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
34. Murali Nair
Murali Nair is an Indian Screenplay Writer and Film Director. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Murali was born on the 10th of January in the year 1966. Murali was born in Anandapuram, Kerala. Murali graduated with a Master of Science degree in the specialization of Geology. Murali later worked for a company in Mumbai. Murali made his debut in the Film Industry with the film Tragedy of an Indian Farmer (1993). He then worked for films such as Coronations (1995), Marana Simhasanam (1999), Pattiyude Divasam (2001), Stories on Human Rights (2008), and a few more. His film Marana Divasam was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the year 1999. ...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
35. H Sridhar
H. Sridhar was a renowned sound engineer, whose primary job is to enhance an audio by editing or adjusting it using modern sound technology. He was born in Kerala, India. He worked as a Chief Audio Engineer in Media Artists Chennai.
He was a graduate in mathematics and was interested in electronics. Since he had learned the basics of music, he decided to take up the career of sound engineer by keeping his interests in mind. He started his career in 1958 but achieved recognition with his movie Rangeela in the year 1955.
After that, he worked on more than two hundred films in various languages. Some of them are the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, Aayutha Ezhuthu, Connections, Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities, Dasavathaara...
Date of Death:
01-12-2008
Gender:
Male
36. V.G Samant
V G Samant is an Indian animator and director, considered to be the pioneer of Indian animation. He received his diploma in painting and drawing in 1957. In 1959, he joined the Cartoon Film Unit of the Films Division, graduating to become its first Chief Animator. He directed the musical short animation “Tree of Unity” (1972), which was critically acclaimed for spreading awareness about the lives of trees. He infused life in the characters of “Prakriti Ke Niyam” (1997), directed by B.R. Shendge.
The movie, which highlighted the importance of nature in the lives of humans and animals alike, was honored with the National Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film.
The same was bestowed upon Saman...
37. Sasi Shanker
The late Sasi Shanker is an Indian film director, who have worked in Tamil and Malayalam film industry. He was born in 1957. His directorial debut film, Narayam, was released in 1993 with Murali and Urvashi in the main lead roles. Narayam got him a National Film Award for Best Movie on Social Issues. He had directed 11 films in Tamil and Malayalam. His first commercial attempt was in the year 1995 with Punnaram; a Malayalam film, starring Kalpana and Jagathy Sreekumar in the lead roles. This was followed by few more films like Manthramothiram (1997), Guru Sishyan (1997), and Mr. Butler (2000).
His biggest success came in the year 2002 with another Malayalam film entitled Kunjikoonan. The film stars Dileep and Navya Nair in the le...
Date of Death:
10-08-2016
Gender:
Male
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38. Paresh Mehta
Paresh Mehta is a renowned film actor and producer who has been working predominantly in the B-town. His three most famous films are ‘Mere Genie Uncle’ (2015), ‘My Father Iqbal’ (2016), and ‘Baap Vechvano Chhe’ (2017). Mere Genie Uncle is a three-dimensional film wherein Tiku Talsania who pulls over a double role, one of a Genie and the other of a character called I M Patel.
It is a comedy movie with the hidden message of love and affection for kids. Out of these, his most celebrated work is ‘My Father Iqbal’. The film ‘My Father Iqbal’ is based on a real-life story wherein an engineer from Jammu and Kashmir’s Patient With Disability section juggles between various...
39. Nagini Bharana
Nagini Bharana is an Indian-Actress, costume designer and Producer. She primarily works in the Kannada Film Industry. Her father T. S Nagabharana is a famous director in the Kannada Film Industry. She has acted in the movie Nimaans. In this movie, she has performed a supporting role. The movie named Vasundhara, is produced by Nagini which released in the year 2014. This movie is directed by her father. In the movie named Allama, she was the costume designer....
Gender:
Male
40. Richard S Castellano
Richard S. Castellano, full name, Richard Salvatore Castellano was born on September 4, 1933. He was an Italian-American Actor. He is well known for his Oscar-nominated role in Lovers and Other Strangers and subsequently as Peter Clemenza in the Godfather. He was previously a construction company manager then he got into the New Yiddish Theatre. He did not stop there and broke into movies. He made an impactful gangster performance and acted as typecast on screen. Richard was born to an Italian Catholic Family in Bronx, New York. As told by Richard’s widow, he was the nephew of Gambino Crime Family boss Paul Castellano. Richard acquired worldwide fame for the character he played in “Lover and other Strangers” in the year...
Date of Death:
10-12-1988
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-12-1988
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
41. Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani is a world-famous Snooker and Billiard player. He was born in Pune on 24th July 1985. He spent his early childhood in Kuwait. Later he shifted to Bangalore, India. He did his schooling from Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore. He completed his graduation in Commerce from Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College. His talent and interest in Billiard were first recognized by his brother Dr. Shree Advani, who himself is a sports psychologist.
His brother introduced him to a former Snooker Champion Arvind Savur and, and he agreed to train Pankaj. Arvind provided him the best training and in a very less duration of time, their efforts gave them the fruitful results. When he was only twelve years, he won his first title. He w...
Age:
38
Gender:
Male
42. Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant was an Indian Director and Producer whose full name was Ismail Noormuhammad Abdul Rahman born in Mumbai. He was the son of a textile dealer named Noormohamed Haji Abdul Rehman who was the leader of the Muslim League, and he didn’t go to Pakistan during the partition. He learned languages like Gujarati, Urdu from his family and Arabic and English at his school. At the young age of nine years, he delivered a speech based on the partition which won hearts of millions of people. Because of connections his family had in the society, he became friends with a then Bollywood actress Nimmi, who became his motivation to rise to stardom in the world of Theatres. He joined St. Xavie...
Date of Death:
25-05-2005
Age:
87
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-05-2005
Age:
87
Gender:
Male
43. Majrooh Sultanpuri
Majrooh Sultanpuri was born in Sultanpur on October 1, 1919. He is an Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter. His birth name is Asrar Ul Hassan Khan. He was born in Uttar Pradesh and belongs to Tarin Pashtun family. His father was a policeman. As his father was not able to afford expensive schools, he did not receive English education. So, he went for ‘Madarsa Education.’ He completed Dars- e-Nizami in both Persian and Arabic. It was a seven course, and he went on to be an Alim. He then went to Takmeen-Ut-Tib College of Unani in Lucknow.
In 1938 he graduated and struggled to become an Hakim. The Ghazal he recited in Sultanpur became famous and got apprecia...
Date of Death:
24-05-2000
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-05-2000
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
44. Sibi Malayil
Sibi Malayil is an acclaimed director in Malayalam movies and known for his work which is pure melodrama. He has provided many popular melodramatic movies in the 1980s and 1990s. Sibi was a second unit director for director ‘Fazil’ in a movie named ‘Virinja Pookkal' (1980) which had ‘Shankar’ and Poornima Jayaram in the lead roles.
In the year 1982, he assisted in directing Jijo Punnoose for a movie 'Padayottam' which had Prem Nazir, ‘Madhu’, ‘Mammootty’, ‘Mohanlal’ and ‘Shankar’ in the lead roles. In 1983, he was an associate director for the movie 'Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku'. It was baby ‘Shalini’&rsqu...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
45. 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
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46. Sri Rajan
Sri Rajan is an Indian film director, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in the movie Affair (2015). Mostly known for his pre-dominant involvement in Tollywood movies and TV shows in Telegu, Sri has frequently been praised by the critics for his eye for details and the transitions in his sequences. Based in South India, Rajan had to work for quite a long time as a theatre artist before eventually getting opportunities in the film industry. In 2015, he made his first notable contribution on the silver screen with the Telegu romantic thriller film Affair, starring Dhanraj and Prasanthi in lead roles, produced by Tummalapali Rama Satyanarayana....
47. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Born into a family in Kerala, Adoor Gopalakrishnan started doing amateur plays at a young age. Later, he wrote and helmed few plays. His interest in this field was imbibed in him by his family. He had studied Economics, Political Science and Public Administration at Gandhigram Rural University in 1961. Then he studied screenwriting and filmmaking at the Pune Film Institute. His debut film was Swayamvaram, which became a milestone in the history of the Malayalam cinema. The film won four National Awards including Best Script, Best Film, Best Actress and Best Director. His third film Elippathayam fetched him the British Film Institute Award for Most Original and Imaginative Film in 1982. The International Film Critics Priz...
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
48. 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
49. 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
50. Zafar Hai
Zafar Hai is an Indian filmmaker and writer. He is the uncle of Hollywood actor, producer and director Tabreez Noorani. Hai has been in the industry for more than three decades. He won the National Film Award for Best Promotional Film in the year 1972, for his film “Destination India”. His next call to fame was as the director of the celebrated film “The Perfect Murder” in 1988, which was based on the 1964 novel of the same name by British crime fiction writer HRF Keating and starred Naseeruddin Shah. He won the National Film Award yet again in 1993 for the film “Timeless India”. In 2004, while making a movie on Jamshedji and JRD Tata, Hai decided to heed to the call of his...
51. Yash Chopra
Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king of romance’ in Indian cinema for directing films like kabhie Kabhie. Daag, Noorie, Silsila, Darr, Chandni, Lamhe, Dil To Pagal Hai, etc. Earlier, he made some serious and social films like Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dharmputra, and Ittefaq, etc. He was a trendsetter as a filmmaker. Yash Chopra gave Bollywood the angry young man Amitabh Bachchan and even crafted career of another superstar Shahrukh Khan.
During the early times of his career, Yash Chopra worked as an assistant to the director I.S. Johar and his sibling B.R. Chopra. He got his first break as a director in B.R. Chopra’s film Dhool Ka Phool. It was ...
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
52. 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:
53. Suhas Sawant
Suhas Sawant is an Indian playback singer, known for his deep bass voice, and have lent his vocals to both Marathi and Bollywood film songs. He first gained public attention, as a contestant in the Marathi version of SA RE GA MA PA and was one of the first participants (Team: Bangdoos) in the popular television singing contest, ‘K for Kishore’ broadcast on Sony TV.
Educated at the University of Mumbai, his song ‘Zinda’ from Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, which he sang along with Siddharth Madhavan, is his most popular and recognized hit song. He covered the Hindi version of the song ‘Sajna’ for the Marathi film Ticha Umbartha in 20...
54. Buddhadev Dasgupta
Born in British India in a Vaidya family, Buddhadeb Dasgupta is a filmmaker, screenplay writer as well as an author. His father was a doctor, and he has eight siblings. At the age of 12, he shifted from his hometown Anara in Southern West Bengal to Calcutta for prospects of education.
He completed his schooling from Dinabandhu School and is a graduate in economics from Scottish Church College; both are situated in Calcutta. He started his job as an economics professor at the University of Burdwan, Bardhaman and later taught at the City College in Calcutta.
He was a member of the Calcutta Film Society and the works of prestigious directo...
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
55. Mammootty
Muhammed Kutty Ismail Paniparambil is the original name of Mammootty, the Malayalam superstar. Having working in more than 300 movies he is still a star to reckon with, in Malayalam film industry. Apart from acting, he was also a lawyer. Currently he is busy with philanthropic works too.
Born on 7th September 1951, Mammootty also donned the role of a producer. He has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada, other than Malayalam films. He garnered the National Award for his acting skills, thrice in his career. He shares this feat with veteran actor Kam...
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
56. Goutam Ghose
Gautam Ghose is a special man. He has won numerous awards, and his work has been appreciated across cultures and boundaries. He is the most celebrated Bengali Film Director. He is known for his films, and has won numerous National and International Awards for his performance. To say the least, he has won 16 National Awards and many Filmfare Awards. He remains the single Indian to have won the prestigious "Vittorio Di Sica” Award, in Italy.
Goutam Ghose, born on 24 July 1950 belongs to Calcutta, India. His mother Santana and father Prof. Himangshu Kumar Ghose has played a huge role in making him the man he is today. His early schooling days were at St John’...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
57. K R Mohanan
K R Mohanan is a very famous director who had done multiple jobs as a writer and art director as well. His contribution in Malayalam films has been much appreciated from the beginning. He is born in 1947 in Thrissur district, India. He did his graduation from FTII in Pune. He is much recognized for his contribution towards documentaries and short films. He worked for many years in "Kerala Films Development Corporation". He is someone who believes in quality than in quantity. He managed to direct only 3 films till now but those 3 have been extremely impactful movies. His first movie Ashwathama - 1978, is a recap of the same character Ashwathama in Mahabharath. But this is re-narrated in the recent cine...
Age:
76
Gender:
Male
Age:
76
Gender:
Male
58. 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
59. T V Chandran
T. V. Chandran is a Malayalam film director whose films belonged to art-house audiences in the large Indian cities or even to film buffs on the international circuit. Most of his films in which he had acted had only achieved fair amount of success at the box-office. Sometimes he appeared in other regional cinemas too which balanced elements of art and popular cinema together. It is for his love for art cinema in Malayalam film industry that helped the art cinema grow further.
In the year 1989, he directed a film &...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
60. Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor, a name that needs no introduction, is the son of Prithviraj Kapoor and brother of Raj and Shammi Kapoor, who are considered the legends in the Hindi film industry. Shashi Kapoor was born on 18th March 1938 in Calcutta. He is a producer, actor and a director who initially worked as the assistant director for the movies like ‘post box 999, guest house and Shriman Satyawadi’. His presence was although noticed in the movie ‘Dharamputra’ (1961) in which he played the lead role for the first time; Shashi Kapoor had entered the industry long before that when he acted as the child artist during 1940’s. He did 116 films in his entire career with almost every big...
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
61. Ketan Mehta
He was born in 1952 and is a director by profession, who has directed may documentaries and TV serials. His birth place is in Gujarat, studied in Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (Delhi) and obtained his bachelor’s in movie direction from Film and Television Institute of India (Pune).
During his career span, he created 10 films, 7 documentaries along with 2 television serials "Captain Vyom" and "Mr. Yog". His direction consists of laughter, humor, love, revolt & rebellion. After graduation he got linked with Research Organization as an onscreen producer. This was an excellent experience for him. His 1st film was “Bhavni Bhavai” a Gujarati film which brought him acclaim. His movies have been nominated for various International Film Festivals. “Mir...
62. 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
63. Fazil
Director A.M. Fazil has various roles to his credit, including filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. Though his father dreamt of his son to become a doctor, Fazil was mainly interested in extracurricular activities during schooling. He did a post-graduation in Economics. Fasil has directed around 30 movies. He debuted in the Malayalam film industry with the film Manjil Virinja Pookkal. Incidentally, it was also the first movie of Mohanlal. Fazil has the credit of introducing some of the big stars in the Southern film industry; he introduced Mohanlal, Nadhiya, Baby Shalini and Kunchacko Boban. Also, Nagma and Khushboo were introduced to the...
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
64. 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
65. Mahesh Bhatt
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt created a niche for himself as a screenplay, writers and even director as his movies dealt with emotion, pain, sufferings, exploitation and even trauma that was not very regular in arts or commercial cinema. His films always had focused women empowerment( Arth, Kaash, Sir, etc.). Arth and “Saaransh; remains his best film till date. His film story was mostly inspired from his own life.
For instance, Smita Patil’s character in Arth was inspired from his relationship with Parveen Babi. His films “Janam” and “Naam” also had depicted his personal feelings of being born as an illegitimate child. He was born on September 20, 1948 to Hindu father (Nanabhai Bhatt) and Muslim...
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
66. Santhana Bharathi
Santhanabharathi is a famous actor, director of Tamil movies and television serials. His face and acting style fits any character from humorous ones to villainous ones. Hence, Santhanabharathi is well accepted by directors of movies as well as television serials. He has done number of memorable performances and directed some wonderful films.Santhanabharathi originally wanted to be a director. He was doing the homework for that and din't get the right opportunity, even after working for a superb director like Sridhar. At that time, he joined with his friend Vasu and started looking for offers. Finally, they got a movie by name “Panneer Pushpangal” in the year 1981. That movie is a super hi...
67. Nooranad Ramachandran
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68. Ravindra Peepat
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69. Susant Mishra
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70. Bappa Ray
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