Hindi Awards 42nd National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

Venkatrama Reddy is the son of B Nagi reddy. He Reddy is a Tamil and Telugu film producer. He is also known for his writing. Uzhaippali is the film by Venkatraman reddy in which Rajnikanth was in the lead role. He was awarded the Nandi award for the film Bhargava Dweepan in 1994. Venkatrama Reddy is married to B. Bharathi Reddy. They both have one son and two daughters. Venkatrama Reddy’s father was awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke award for dedicating his life to Indian cinema in 1987. B Nagi reddy was the famed Vijay production. Reddy passed away due to surviving illness for a long time.

Sarbajit Sen is an Artist well-known cartoonist and filmmaker. His short graphic novels were published in India’s first graphic art magazine Drighangchoo. His first comic book, named the adventure of timpani, was exhibited in Switzerland. The company Comic con India re-launched the comic. His partition work was published by Yoda press. Sarbajit’s nonfiction Bengali comic Carbon chronicles, based on climate politics, was published in 2012 at the Kolkata book fair and translated into English. Sarbajit Sen has studied at Calcutta University in subject literature and contributes to comics, leading dailies regularly. Sarbajit Sen won a national award in 1994 for Best comics on Environment. Sarbajit’s film painting in Time also won the national award in 1995 for best film in art and culture.

Kamal Swaroop is the director as well as screenwriter of television and film. Swaroop began his acting career but traced the life of Dadasaheb Falke and played in workshops all over India. Kamal Swaroophas made a documentary based on the life story of dada saheb. The name of the documentary was Rangbhoomi. Rangabhoomi won the National award for the nonfeatured film. Swaroop is also famous for Om Dar Ba Dar with the help of the national development corporation of India. This film was premiered at the berlin film festival unfortunately it was never released in the country’s theatre, although the film was a major attraction on the festival circuit. The upgraded version of Om dar ba dar was released in 2014.

Kamal Swaroop has also worked on a full-length documentary like the battle of Benaras. Besides the role of director Kam...

Soumitra Sarkar is a talented singer from the entertainment industry. He is from Sydney, Australia. Soumitra is a Bollywood singer in Sydney. He is the lead singer of Saaz Band. He has done various shows and sung the blockbuster songs of Kishore Kumar, Arijit Singh, Kumar Sanu, Sonu Nigam, Shaan, and KK. His specialty is the songs of Kishore Kumar. He is trained in both Hindustani and Classical Music. Some of his shows are Bappi Lahiri- A Grand Tribute Live Bollywood Musical, Bollywood Dhamaka 2022 Live in Concert Sydney, Bollywood Dhamaka 2020 Live in Concert Soumitra Sarkar, Bollywood Dhamaka 2019 Live in Concert Soumitra Sarkar, Unity Bollywood Concert 2019. He also sings for charity, mehfils, and weddings.

Anoop Jotwani is a cinematographer who has worked predominantly in the Indian film industry. His films include ‘Dacait’ in 1987, directed by Rahul Rawail, starring Rakhee Gulzar, Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Suresh Oberoi, and Raza Murad; ‘Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai’ in 1987, directed and written by Jahnu Barua, starring Indra Bania, Purnima Pathak, Gaurav Bania, Shobhana Gogoi, and Hemen Choudhury; ‘Parinda’ in 1989, directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, starring Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Madhuri Dixit, and Anupam Kher; ‘Maya’ in 1993, directed by Ketan Mehta, starring Deepa Sahi, Farooq Shaikh, Raj Babbar, Shah Rukh Khan, and Shreeram Lagoo; ‘English, August’ in 1994, directed by Dev Benegal, starring Tanvi Azmi, Rahul Bose, Shivaji Satam, and Veerendra Saxe...

A S Laxmi Narayan is a sound engineer, sound editor, sound mixer, and audiographer. He is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He has provided sound design for so many movies like Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Sarkar (2018), 24 (2016), Papanasam (2015), Kaththi (2014), Thuppakki (2012), Ko (2011), Sivaji: The Boss (2007), Anniyan (2005), Muthamittal (2002), Aayitha Ezhuthu (2004), Indian (1996), Bombay (1995), Iruvar (1997), and 13B (2009). Laxmi Narayan has won National Film Award for the movies Kannathil Muthamittal (2002, Director: Mani Ratnam) and Kadhalan (1994, Director: S.Shankar). He has done the best audiography in both movies. He has also received the Tamil Nadu State film award and Kerala state film awards for various movies.

Sailadhar Baruah was a notable Assamese film producer born in December 1941. He was born and brought up in Guwahati, Assam. His parents, namely, Shri Padma Dhar Baruah and Smt Makanrekha Baruah lived in North Guwahati, where Sailadhar was born. He never married and came from a family of four siblings; three brothers and one sister. Sailadhar Baruah completed his schooling at Cotton Collegiate Higher Secondary School and pursued his undergraduate degree in Science at Pragjyotish College in Guwahati.

He is most renowned for his pioneering contribution to Assamese Cinema as the producer of some of the masterpieces ever made, like Holadhia Choraye Baodhan Khai and Xagoroloi Bohudoor. He is widely recognized for his role in producing several critically acclaimed films, many o...

G P Vijaya Kumar, born in Kerala, India, is a producer who works for the Mollywood film industry under Seven Arts International Ltd. He has produced around thirty films since 1984.  His unique work made the people more thrilled, and now, he is the president of the Kerala film chamber. We can see his brilliant artwork in famous movies like Hero, Geethanjali. He talked about the changing taste of the people in the film industry during a virtual ‘In conversation’ session. This session was held at the 51st international film festival, Goa. He said OTT platforms are just making the film industry lucrative.

They are the source of making money with the small movies and shows, but they can’t replace the theatres. During this covid19 phase, people are missing more&...

Atanu Biswas, known for his proficiency in ‘Movie directory’, has had a very renowned profile in the Filmographic industry. He gave innumerable contributions to the Cinematographic Industry while associating with other great Directors/Filmmakers like Mr. Basu Chatterji, Joy Augustine, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and Shashi Ranjan. He acquired his master’s degree at Ness Wadia College and was an alumnus of ‘Film and Television Institute of India (FTTI),’ located in Pune. In 1994, Atanu Biswas Directed his very first movie, ‘a little war’, 35mm, 32min, in Hindi, which was about the importance of a relationship between two people in pursuit of their ambitions in life.

This acquired extensive consideration and acknowledgment throughout the Nation. For th...

Radhu Karmakar was a cinematographer and director of great repute. His claim to fame in Bollywood was his beautiful night sequence photography and high contrast lighting. He has worked with numerous luminaries. His long-term association with Raj Kapoor and R.K. Films is something about which almost everyone knows. He was born in Dhaka on 3rd June1919. In the film industry, he began his journey as a lab assistantat Radha Films in Kolkata in 1936. Later, he went on to become a camera assistant under the guidance of Jyotin Das. It was not until 1945 that he developed to be a cameraman. He got the opportunity to work with the director Nitin Bose for films such as ‘Drishti Daan,’ ‘Kismat Ki Dhani’ (1945), and ‘Milan’ (1946).

Then in the year 1951, his long...

Dr. Jabbar Patel (born June 23, 1942, in Pandharpur) is an Indian theatre and cinema director who works in Marathi. His 1973 performance of Vijay Tendulkar's play Ghashiram Kotwal is regarded as a Modern Indian Theatre classic. His father was a railway employee in India. He attended Haribhai Deokaran High School in Solapur for his early education. He graduated from B. J. Medical College in Pune with a doctorate in paediatric medicine. In Daund, near Pune, he and his wife, a gynecologist, run a clinic. They have two daughters. He is the director of great Marathi films such as Samna Jait Re Jait (Mohan Agashe, Smita Patil), Umbartha (Smita Patil, Girish Karnad), and Simhasan (Mohan Agashe, Smita Patil) (Nana Patekar, Shreeram Lagoo, Reema Lagoo) Mukta, Ek Hota Vidushak, and Musafir are some of his other films (Hindi).

Dr...

Tapan Sinha, one of the foremost Indian directors of his time was born on 2nd October 1924 and died on 15th January. 2009.He formed the legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen. Being primarily a Bengali filmmaker, he worked in both Hindi Cinema and Bengali Cinema, making films including Kabuli Wala, Louha Kapat, Sagina Mahato, Apanjan,Kshudhita Pashan, and children's films Safed Haathi and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Tapan Sinha began his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with the film production company New Theatres in Kolkata, then in 1950 he shifted to England, where he worked at Pinewood Studios for two years.

Before returning home to start his six-decade career in Indian Cinema, directing movies in Bengali, Hindi, and Oriya languages, covering genres in socia...

Nandan Kudhyadi is a cinematographer and director from India. Nandan Kudhyadi has won three honors for his superb cinematic representation in the docu-drama on the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Mathematician and his Legacy at the seventh National Science Film Festival. The festival was held in Kolkata between February 14 and 18 by Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization under the Department of Science and Technology and the National Council of Science Museums. The film received The Bronze Beaver Award and Technical Excellence Award too. The same film had received the Jury Award at the India International Science Festival 2016 in December. Kudhyadi, an FTII graduate, has directed over 65 documentaries. His documentaries have received top national awards and have appeared at film festivals worldwide, including Cinem...

Satheesh Venganoor is an immensely talented and experienced film director, studied at University College Thiruvananthapuram. He has worked majorly in the Malayalam film industry. His work got appreciated by the audience. People love the way he directs the movie. He has given many hits to the Malayalam film industry. Some of those are Kottaram Vaidyan, Moockuthy in the year 2004, and much more.

Kottaram Vaidyan is the movie where the story is about the person who gets to know that her daughter will get married to a person who will have a short life than the series of acts following this thing occur. In the movie Moockuthy, they show the life of a twelve-year-old boy and what struggles he faces to survive.

The latest movie which Satheesh directed is Kochaniyan. This movie is about the lives of one of the families who live...

Anand Patwardhan, a generous, humane documentary filmmaker also known as the father of Indian documentaries, was born on 18th February 1950 in Mumbai to a family of a businessman. Graduating from Mumbai University in 1970, upholding an English Literature degree, and further went to America and studied sociology through the Scholarship. The Ongoing Vietnam war influenced him to show concern for social and political changes and brought him into the documentary filmmaking journey. His first acclaimed documentary was in 1971, "Waves of Revolution", based on the Bihar Movement repressing the government for the years of corruption and atrocities, by students and peasants of the area.

The ordinary filmmaker deploys the glamorous aspects into their films, unconsciously bringing enormous fascination and aspirations into the sp...

Gnana Rajasekaran is an Indian filmmaker. He is also a screenwriter and playwright. He was born on 23 January 1953 in Vellore District, Tamil Nadu. He is also a retired IAS officer. His parents were Gnanaprakasam and Sharadambal, and both of them were teachers. He graduated from Sacred Heart College with BSc in Physics. He attained a master's degree in physics at Presidency College, Chennai. He worked as a technical officer after he graduated from the Intelligence Bureau in Mumbai. In 1985 he got married to Sakunthala Chidambaram. He was allotted the Kerala Cadre in 1983 to the Indian Administrative Service. He published an allegorical book Yanai Kuthirai Ottagam before beginning his career in film-making.

His debut film Mogamul is based on the novel written by Thi. Janakiraman. He also directed various short films lik...

OK Johnny worked as a media activist, writer, documentary director, and also a film critic, who was born on 22nd August; 1957 in Sultan Bathery, Wayanad. He completed his education from Sultan Bathery, Payyannur, and Mysore. He used to do research independently in South Indian history, since 2002. He was not only a journalist but also has directed nine documentaries with the state and won many national awards. He directed his first film, “The Trapped,” which was created by the President for his outstanding anthropological film. “Silent's Creams in a Village Chronicle” was his second film which won the President's Award for Best Film in 1997, which features social issues and the Kerala Sansthan Award (2015) for the Best Documentary Film. He has also directed a biographical documentary called Portrait of C...

He is one of the national award-winning Malayalam film director and screenwriter. Before this, he worked as an assistant professor in the direction and film television institute of India Pune. He is also a professor of St. Joseph college of communication. He has a son Sidharth Siva who is a reputed award-winning actor and director. His movie as a director was Ormaynde Theerangalil in 1994.

This is one of the best films in 1994 and earned a national award. Other films directed by him are Vembanad and Palathulliperuvallam. Both the films received a special jury award at Kerala state film awards. His son is a talented young director cum actor who also received national awards for his three films. His first film was Jalarekha in 1980. He also directed a few television serials and documentaries.

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 career with “36, Chowrangee Lane”. He got in association with many path-breaking films such a...

K.P.Udayabhanu was born on June 6, 1936, at Tharoor, Palakkad District, Kerala India. His parents are N.S.Varma and Ammu Nethyaramma. His father was a businessman in Singapore, so he spent his childhood in Singapore. His nephews were a music scholar and Freedom Fighter. They are K.P, Appukutta Menon, and K.P.Kesava Menon.

At the age of seven, he returned to India. He learned music under the guidance of several famous artists by joining in Thyagaraja Sangeetha Vidhayala located in Kalpathy. His guidance artist is Palghat Mani Iyer, Palghat Sriram Bhagavathar, M.D.Ramanathan, Krishna Iyer and Vishwanatha Iyer. He married Vijaya Lakshmi, a singer in 1970. They had one son Rajeev Udaya Bhanu. At 1956, he started his career as an All India Radio Announcer. He worked there for...

Born in Thrissur, Kerala, M.M.Ramachandran, popularly known as ‘Atlas Ramachandran’ is the chairman of the Atlas Jewelry. He established the Atlas Group in the 1970s and went ahead to have the first gold showroom in Kuwait City in 1981.

He later founded establishments in diverse fields such as Atlas Health Care in health care and Atlas Gold Townships in real estate. He has not left behind advertising and photography and founded several studios in its favor.

At one point, Atlas Group had a turn over of 3.5 billion Dirhams with gold showrooms in Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Ras Al Khaimah, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India. Atlas Ramachandran is the son of late V.Kamalakara Menon who was a renowned poet.

He is married to Indira Ramachandran and has a son named Sreekanth and daughter named Manju who is a doctor by prof...

Bishnu Khargoria is an Indian actor who is well known for his immense contribution to the Assamese film industry. His work in films and theatricals have made him the recipient of many prestigious National Awards. He started his career in the movies as a child actor in the early 70s’ when Assamese cinema had begun to make an impact on the Indian entertainment sector. His work in cinema saw him cast in over 30 movies in which his performances were highly acclaimed.

His talent for acting came naturally to him, and his every act was a work of perfection. He is associated with many prominent Assamese movies like, ‘Bohu Door (1995),’ ‘ Adajya (1997),’ ‘Pratighaat,’ and ‘Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence.’ He also enacted several lead roles in mobile theatre and stage productions...

Goutam Halder was associated with Nandikar theater group that had its base in Kolkata. The theater group started its first show in the 1960s and found a strong commitment from young theater personalities. In the beginning, there were plays based on English literature and later on, they carried out plays of Rabindranath Tagore too. 

But this stage actor did also venture into film direction and made notable critically acclaimed movies like Bhalo Theko in 2003 that featured actress Vidya Balan and actor Soumitra Chatterjee in lead roles. This film fetched him special Jury award at the national film festival. This film also fetched best cinematographer and sound designer award at the 51st national film festival.

Actress Vidya Balan received magazine ‘Anandlok’ award for her debut in this movie. In the year ...

Hari kumar is an Indian director and film script writer. His works of direction are generally seen in the Mollywood or Malayalam film industry. His career in the Malayalam cinema industry spans almost more than thirty years. He has won many nominations and awards for his works, even at international fests. He started his career as a director in the year 1981 with the film Aambalppoovu. He also was a part of the story writing team of the movie. The film Snehapoorvam Meera released in the year 1982. For this movie, he did the direction, story, and screenplay.

The year 1985 had one of the most famous and loved Malayalam film releases, Ayanum, which featured stars like Madhu, Srividya, Mammooty, and Innocent. Harikumar was the man who directed this wonderful film. He also directed the film Sukrutham, which featured Malayalam cinema...

Mahesh Mahadevan was an Indian music composer and music director predominantly working in the Tamil film industry in the 1990s. Mahesh Mahadevan has composed about 250 famous advertising jingles. He was the composer of the Regal Blue jingle. Mahesh Mahadevan has also made music for about six of multi-language motion pictures which became very successful. He was born in October 28th in Bengaluru in Karnataka, India and passed away in October of the year 2002. He was diagnosed with cancer and was under cancer counseling for about a decade before his demise. He fought cancer bravely for about 14 years. Mahesh Mahadevan was very active in motivating cancer patients to approach medication with a positive attitude. The friends of Mahesh Mahadevan founded the Mahesh Memorial Trust (MMT) in the year 2002 after his demise.

The friends w...

B. Lenin (Bhimsingh Lenin) is primarily a Tamil film editor who has also worked as a writer and film maker. Apart from Tamil movies, he has worked in Malayalam and Hindi films. His career as an assistant editor started in 1979 with Uthiripookkal by director J. Mahendran. He worked as assistant editor with his father in many films before he debuted as an independent editor. He has also worked as a lab technician and he is an experienced sound engineer. During the decades of 1980s and 1990s, he partnered with his old assistant V. T. Vijayan and worked with him in over 100 Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu films, including Geethanjali, Nayakan, and Anjali and Kadhalan, for which they were honoured with the National Award for best editing.

Lenin has won five Nation...

Sabu Cyril was born on January 27th in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.

He is a production designer in the Indian movie industry. Earlier, production designers were called as art directors.

He resides in Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai.

He was brought up in Kerala itself. He did his schooling from the same place and then went to Chennai to do his graduation in the Government College of Fine Arts, which was earlier known as Government School of Arts and Crafts. He did his Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from 1980 to 1985.

He worked part time as a graphic designer for names like Taj Hotels Group, Madura Coats and Welcome Hotels, in the period 1982 to 1988.

His career in art direction began in the year 1988. Sabu has worked in commercial films in the Hindi, Tamil, ...

K. S. Sethumadhavan is a famous screenwriter and film director in India dedicating his works to Malayalam movies. Madhavan is famous for his movies in Tamil, Oriya, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi also. Some of the landmark films directed by him are Yakshi, Odeyil Ninnu, Achanum Bappayum, Anubhavangai Palichakal, etc. He won 9 Kerala State Film Awards and 10 National Film Awards. He was born in the city of Palakkad in the state of Kerala. His mother's name was Lakshmi and father's name was Subrahmanyam. Initially, he worked as an assistant director.

He later worked with many directors like A. S. A. Swamy, L. V. Prasad, and Nandakarni. The first movie for which he worked as a film director was the Singhalese film named "Veera Vijaya" in the year 1960. "Jn...

Dev Benegal is a screenwriter and director and is famous for his debut film English, August (1994) and he won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English. He has directed many films and documentaries over the years and won several awards.

Dev was born to Som Benegal and and Suman Benegal in Bombay. His father was a theatre director and mother,a house wife. Shyam Benegal is the elder brother of Som Benegal. Dev was brought up in Delhi and later shifted to Mumbai to build his career. He pursued his further studies in Cinematography in New York University of Film for two years.

Dev assisted his uncle Shyam Benegal in making films like Kalyug (1980) and Mandi (1983). He directed a lot of famous short films like Kalpavriksha: The Tree of Life (1988), Anantaupam: The infinite Forms...

S. Kumar is an Indian cinematographer known for his work behind the camera for movies such as "Boeing Boeing", "Ayalvasi Oru Daridravasi", "Chithram", "One 2 Ka 4", "Kerala Café", "Pattalam", and among many others.

S. Kumar started his career in 1978 with the Ashok Kumar-directed low-budget film, "Thiranottam", featuring actors such as Ravi Kumar and Sattar. The early 80s saw Kumar as the cinematographer in the Ashok Kumar-directed "Thenum Vayambum", and in Priyadarshan’s comedy, "Poochakkoru Mookkuthi", which garnered recognition and catapulted his career. In 1985, Kumar did the camera work for the Priyadarshan-directed "Onnanam Kunnil Oradi Kunnil", the Shankar starrer "Akkare Ninnoru Maran&qu...

M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned writer and director. He is famous for Kadavu, Oru Vadakkan Veergatha, and several other movies. He has written about 54 screenplays for movies and did direction for about seven movies. He has been rewarded by several awards for his direction, screenplay and for his novels.

Nair was born on 9 August 1933, in a small village of Kudallur in Kerala. Vasudevan won his first award at the age of 20 when he wrote a short story in Malayalam for Best Short Story Writing Competition held by The New York Herald Tribune in 1953.

Nair penned down his first novel Naalukettu in 1958 and won the prestigious Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Since then he has written about eight novels, eighteen short stories, three children literature, two plays, three essays and three travelogues. He is hon...

P. Unnikrishnan, the playback singer, needs no introduction to music lovers. His voice is equally suitable for classical music, film music, devotional music and even light music. The actor has sung many devotional songs of Lord Ganesha, Lord Ayyappan, Lord Venkateswara, and Devi among others. This singer is a disciple of Dr. S. Ramanathan.  

Unnikrishnan has balanced both classical music and light music well and never allowed him to get carried away for just compulsion of cinematic glamor. Unnikrishnan had the capacity to reach higher levels, provided he did not get lost in star value. That is why many bring comparison with famous K J Yesudas. 

This Carnatic vocalist was born on July 9, 1964, in Palakkad, Kerala. He, however, did his schooling and college studies in Chennai. He even worke...

Vairamuthu is a very famous Tamil writer, poet, and lyricist. His full name is Vairamuthu Ramasamy. He was born on 13th July 1953. He was born in a middle-class family to Ramasamythevar and Angammal in Mettur. His family moved to Vadugapatti, Theni in Tamil Nadu when he was four years old. He is famous by the pen name Kaviyarasu or Kaviperarasu. He got married to Ponmani Vairamuthu and had two children, Madhan Karky Vairamuthu, and Kabilan Vairamuthu. He got inspiration from the Tamil and Rationalist movements in the 1960s that enthused him to pursue a career as a writer. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. As a speaker and a poet, he was highly praised as the best in his college.

His first publication was an initial anthology Vaigara...

Born in Bengaluru, Vijay Raghavendra is an Indian Actor, who mainly works in Kannada films. He began his life as a child star and eventually worked in profuse films as the male protagonist. In 2013, he won the first enlightenment of Bigg Boss (Kannada). He has been married to Spandana since 2007.

Raghavendra is the son of prominent Kannada movie theater producer, S. A. Chinne Gowda. The famous veteran Kannada entertainer, Dr. Rajkumar, is his uncle, and at variance, the famous actors relish Shiva Rajkumar and Puneet Rajkumar to be his cousins. Vijay Raghavendra began his life as a scanty in the big screen movie, ‘Chalisuva Modagalu’ (1982), starring his uncle Rajkumar, and Ambika. His next movie, ‘Chinnari Mutha’, became a colossal success, and he became a household appoint in Karnataka....

V.T. Vijayan is a renowned editor in the Tollywood film industry and has also worked on a few Hindi Films. His nephews are also associated with the industry, one is a movie director, and another is an actor. 

Vijayan has to his credit around a hundred Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi films. He has also worked on one English movie named Ele, My Friend. His most known works are Anniyan, Hindustani, Velayudham and Nayak: The Real Hero. He has won a National Film Award for Best Editing for the film Kadhalan in 1995. 
 

Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar is a multitalented figure in the cultural domain of South India. He is a renowned writer (having written screenplays, dialogues, and stories), director, producer, columnist, and a lyricist. He was born on 15th August 1951 in a village named Nagathihalli in Mandya district, Karnataka. Since the very beginning, he had an inclination towards literature and so, he mastered in Kannada literature from the Mysore University. His first profession was of a Kannada professor at the Mysore University itself. Soon, he became a successful intellectual and literary figure, having authored many novels and short stories (publishing them as a collection), for which he won the Aryabhatta Awards.

He entered the film industry in 1986 with ‘...

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 cinematic way. This story is about a young man with a fearful curse to live on earth for the next 3000 y...

Jay Borade was a Mumbai-based choreographer who was born nearly in 1937 and started his career from 1981-2013. Jay Borade worked with renowned film directors like Sooraj Barjatya, Babbar Subhash, Kalidas, Imtiaz Punjabi, Partho Ghosh, Vinod K. Verma, and many other directors.

He choreographed the dance for all famous celebrities. Jay did a lot of movies, starting with his career movies Jay did were- Kudrat in 1981; Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki in 1984; Maine Pyaar Kiya in 1989; Baaghi: A Rebel For Love in 1990; Suryavanshi in 1992; Hum Aapke Hai Kaun in 1994, Veergati in 1995; Hum Saath Saath Hai; We Stand United in 1999; Uljhan and Gadar: Ek Prem Katha in 2001; Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon in 2003; Anjaane: The Unknown in 2005; Vivah in 2006; Chanchal in 2008; Kahin Hai Mera Pyar and Sangam in 2014. Jay Borade worked with many stars ...