Anjali Marathe
Aranmula Ponnamma
Dolly Ahluwalia
Seema Biswas
Aparna Sen
Uttara Baokar
Benaf Dadachandji
Aalayam Sriram
Ileana Citaristi
Pramod K Nayak
Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Sunil Sukthankar
Sumitra Bhave
P Chandrakumar
Ricky Singh Bedi
Suresh Urs
Sabu Cyril
K S Sethumadhavan
Hamsalekha
Girish Kasaravalli
Aribam Syam Sharma
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Yash Chopra
Mani Ratnam
Aditya Chopra
S P Balasubrahmanyam
T V Chandran
Santosh Sivan
Rajit Kapur
P Bharathiraja
Amol Palekar
Shyam Benegal
Shekhar Kapur
Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Rajat Kapoor
Mithun Chakraborty
Madhu
Amit Khanna
Salam Karassery
Deepan Chatterji
Jwngdao Bodosa
Venki Sambamoorthy
Ashok Mishra
1. Anjali Marathe
Born in 1980, Anjali Marathe is an Indian singer from Maharashtra. Her mother, Anuradha Marathe, was a well-known singer who inspired her to choose the path of music and even gave her training in classical music. She launched an album called; Abhal Ek Rangveda Sanyasi" in 2013. At the tender age of 16, the immensely talented Anjali Marathe was honored with the National Film Award for the Best Playback Singer (1966) for singing the song Bhui Bhegalali Khol from Doghi, a Marathi film. Some of the well-known songs of Anjali Marathe are He Jeevan Sundar Aahe from Chaukhat Raja (1999), Bhui Bhegalali Khol from Doghi, Pritivachun Jagen from Majhe Mann Tujhe Jhale (2014), Udaseet Ya from Biscope (2015). Anjali first recorded her song from a Marathi film Olak Sangana at the early age o...
2. Aranmula Ponnamma
With the death of Aranmula Ponnamma at the ripe old age of 96, Malayalam cinema literally lost a “mother figure”. For none else had ever enacted so many motherly roles in her film career as did Ponnamma, and it may also be a record for world cinema. In fact, she had enacted the roles of screen mother for artistes who were several years senior to her, including the famous Prem Nazir, with the star once commenting that he may have addressed her as mother so many times more than he would have done for his real mother. Tragically, in her real life, she could not perform her role of mother as she would have liked it, since her daughter and son had both met with very untimely deaths. As she had also lost her husband subsequently, she had to spend her last days with her grand children and great grand children.
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Date of Death:
21-02-2011
Age:
110
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
21-02-2011
Age:
110
Gender:
Female
3. Dolly Ahluwalia
Dolly Ahluwalia is an actress, who became popular for her works as a costume designer. In 2001, she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for costume designing, and became a three-time National Film Award winner; twice for the category of Best Costume Design for her works in the films, Bandit Queen and Haider respectively and one as Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in the 2012 comedy drama film, Vicky Donor.
Dolly was born and raised up in Delhi and she has been very active in dramatics all through her years in St. Thomas. Then she studied at Delhi University, where she received a lot of trophies from the d...
Age:
63
Gender:
Female
Age:
63
Gender:
Female
4. Seema Biswas
She is very much popular by the name “Phoolan Devi”. Seema Biswas was born on 14 January 1965. She is one of the most popular theatre artists who born in Nalbari, which is in Assam. Seema Biswas completed her studies from Nalbari College in the field of Political Science. After completing her graduation in 1984 Seema, she joined Repertory Company of NSD. Afterwards, she has joined the famous National School of Drama in New Delhi.
Seema Biswas is still single, as she wants to enjoy her rest of the life without getting married. She is very much attached to her parents Meera and Jagdish Biswa.
She acted in many of the theatres and played several supporting and strong roles. She had also received the National Film Award for the Best Actress for the movie Bandit Queen in which she was awarded for the best role of Phoolan Devi in 1994. She h...
Age:
59
Gender:
Female
Age:
59
Gender:
Female
5. Aparna Sen
A vetern filmmaker and actress, Aparna Sen has been in the industry for over half a century. Born on 25th October 1945 in Calcutta, she completed her Bachelor’s in Arts from Kolkata’s Presidency College. She showed an interest for films even before graduating as she appeared in Teen Kanay, a Satyajit Ray film, at just the age of sixteen.
As an actress Sen has appeared in over 62 films throughout her career, the last of which was in 2014’s Chotushkone. She has worked heavily in both Indian and Bengali films and received various prizes throughout her career including the Moscow Film Festival’s Best Actress award for her role in Mahaprithibi.
She debuted as a director in 1981 with 36 Chowr...
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
6. Uttara Baokar
Uttara Baokar is an Indian stage, television and film actress. She played prominent roles in a number of notable plays like Padmavati in Mukhyamantri, the Mena in the Mena Gujari, a mother’s role in the Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq and leading role of Umrao in “Umrao Jaan”. She was born on May 17th 1916 in Sangoli, Maharashtra, and started her career on Marathi stage.
In the year 1978, she directed Jaywant Dalvi’s play by Sandhya Chhaya, Hindi translation by Kusum Kumar. During the year 1984, she won sangeet natak akademi award and India’s national academy award for acting in Hindi theatre. She also played prominent roles in Marathi films Shevri, Doghi with Sadashiv Amrapurkar,Uttarayan, Restaurant with Sonali Kulkarani.
She studied acting in National School of Drama in Delhi under t...
Date of Death:
12-04-2023
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
12-04-2023
Gender:
Female
7. Benaf Dadachandji
Benaf Dadachanji is an Indian television and Hindi film actor and an ad model. Benaf Dadachandji was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on August 17, 1987. She is a Zoroastrian by religion. She came in front of camera at the tender age of 5. She was seen in 1992 in the Vicks Vapo Rub ad. Benaf then went on to feature in many popular commercials of popular and famous brands. In the year 1995, Benaf got her big break in the Hindi film industry in director Santosh Shivan’s film “Halo” where she played the role of Shasha. Then she starred in director Raj Kumar Santoshi’s ambitious project China Gate in the year 1998 as Lali opposite Bollywood’s big stalwarts like Om Puri. For her performance as Shasha in the film Halo she was awarded a special Jury award at the 43rd national film awards for her bubbly, refreshing, charming and natural portray...
Age:
36
Gender:
Female
8. Aalayam Sriram
Aalayam Sriram is an Indian film producer who worked predominately in the Tamil movie industry. He is the producer of the National Award-winning film Bombay released in 1995.
Born as S. Sriram, he was addressed as 'Aalayam' Sriram, as his production company is Aalayam Productions. Along with his long time friend, Mani Ratnam, who is a prominent director in Indian cinema, he started Aalayam Productions. Chatriyan (1990), starring actor Vijayakanth, was the first feature film produced by the production house. The picture still considered one of the best thrillers made in Tamil Cinema. The duo went on to produce some path-breaking movies such as Thiruda Thiruda and Bombay. The movie 'Bombay' gathered a lot of international acclaims for the director Mani Ratnam.
After the movie Bombay, Sriram and M...
9. Ileana Citaristi
Ileana Citaristi is an Odissi, Chhau dancer and Choreographer from Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. She has her origins in Bergamo, Italy. Her father is Severino Citaristi, an eminent politician in Italy. She has earned a PhD in Philosophy, specialising in a thesis on Psychoanalysis and Eastern Mythology. For five years, she did theatre in Italy. Under the guidance of Guru Krishnan Namboodar, she learned the art of Kathakali in Kerala. Citaristi moved to Odisha in 1979 and learned Odissi under the direction of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, a Padma Vibhushan Awardee.
Some of her renowned dance compositions are Echo and Narcissus, showcased in Bombay (1985); Maya Darpan, presented at Nehru Center in Bombay in April 1993; Yamuna (2005), Exploration and Tantra (2006), Mahanadi: and the Ri...
10. Pramod K Nayak
Pramod K. Nayak is an Indian cinematographer who hails from Thane, Maharashtra. He has been working in Bollywood movies and TV series as a cinematographer for over 18 years. Before working in Bollywood, he worked in news and current affairs for two years. He completed his Bachelor's degree in liberal arts and science in 1995.
He is a very talented cinematographer who can handle all sorts of cameras and can do lighting for every situation because of his experience working as a cinematographer. He has worked in some of the critically acclaimed hit movies of Bollywood, such as Shree (2013), Purple Skies (2014), Secret Superstar (2017), Torbaaz (2017), and Poorna (2020), feature films such as Zanzeer and Filmistaan, and popular TV series such as Prayashchit (2011), Sshhh...
11. 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 Assamese monthly magazine, Prantik, and children’s magazine, Xafura. During his time, Jyoti Chitrab...
Date of Death:
13-08-2003
Age:
92
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-08-2003
Age:
92
Gender:
Male
12. Sunil Sukthankar
Sunil Sukthankar was born on May 31, 1966, in Karad, India, and has been a part of the filmmaking team with female filmmaker Sumitra Bhave since 1985, winning honors for their work on social issues and feminism. Sunil Sukthankar is a Marathi filmmaker who primarily works in the Marathi cinema and theatre. Sukthankar and Bhave have collaborated in fourteen feature films, over fifty short films, and four television series written by Bhave.
He earned his bachelor's degree in commerce from Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce in Pune. He went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. Anuttar was the title of his first film. Sukthankar authored and directed various plays and street plays. Sukthankar was introduced to Bhave by her daughter while making her maiden short film Bai after...
Age:
57
Gender:
Male
13. Sumitra Bhave
Sumitra Bhave – a remarkable director, renowned producer, and a phenomenal scriptwriter with multiple National Awards in her kitty. No words could do justice to what she did for the film industry for over four decades. Born on 12th January 1943 in Pune, Sumitra Bhave grew up in Pune and completed her schooling. She did her Bachelor’s degree from Fergusson College in Pune. Sumitra Bhave is a double Master’s degree holder. She earned her first Master’s degree in Political and Science Sociology from Pune University and did her second Master’s at Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Following her education, Sumitra Bhave worked at All India Radio as a Marathi News Reader. She associated herself with many organizations and also worked at Karve Institute of Social ...
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
14. P Chandrakumar
P Chandrakumar is a Malayalam film director. He was born and brought up in Kollengode, Palakkad district in Kerala. He used to perform Kathakali in front of tourists in Kollengode. Vasu Menon the founder of Vasu films Company, recognized P Chandrakumar as the Kathakali performer at Kollengode Palace, and he invited him to film industry; this was the breakthrough incident of his life. In 1971 P. Bhaskaran directed Ummachu, in which P.Chandrakumar was the assistant director; this was the beginning of his career when he was only 14 years old.
He was introduced to Madhu in the sets of Ummachu, who later on produces and acted in many films directed by P Chandrakumar. Before becoming a director, he worked under the assistance of 13 other directors. His first debut film as a director was a black and white movie, “Manassoru Mayil...
15. Ricky Singh Bedi
Ricky Singh Bedi, also known as Sandeep Singh Bedi, was born on the 13th of February in the year 1974. His birthplace is Patiala in Punjab, India. He is a professional film producer. Apart from being a producer, he also holds the position of CEO in Passion Film Company. He is also the co-founder of Elements group. Elements is based in Mumbai and Delhi. When Ricky was awarded the Cannes Corporate Media and TV Award, he became the first ever Indian Producer to have been felicitated with that award. He is also a recipient of the International Business Award. He has been awarded the Business Award for his contribution to the corporate world.
He became the first ever Indian producer to have won the award and that too in consecutive years 2015 and 2016. Passion Film Company was founded in the year 2009 and Ricky is the CEO of the com...
Age:
50
Gender:
Male
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16. Suresh Urs
Suresh Urs is an Indian movie editor, who works mainly in the South Indian cinema. He has worked in over 700 movies and 40 documentaries and TV shows. Suresh is mostly known for his collaboration with directors like Mani Ratnam, Girish Ratnad, Shankar Nag, T. S. Nagabharana, P. Vasu, Bala, Girish Kasarvalli, Saran and Baraguru Ramachandrappa. Suresh got the National Film Award for Best Editing work in movie Bombay (1995).
He received many state awards which include several Karnataka State Film Awards and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. Suresh also honored to win the Karnataka State Rajyotsava Prashasti, which is a Lifetime Achievement Vishnuvardhan Award from Karnataka Government in 2014.
... Gender:
Male
17. Sabu Cyril
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, ...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
18. K S Sethumadhavan
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...
Date of Death:
24-12-2021
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-12-2021
Gender:
Male
19. Hamsalekha
He is an instrumentalist, dialogue and screenplay writer, and a composer. He is an Indian, who works in the field of cinema predominantly in the South Indian region. He has contributed through his works in more than 300 movies. He is known for his tremendous work in Kannada films. He has been accorded a National Award and six Filmfare Awards. He is considered one of the vital icons responsible for the change and the craze among fans for the Kannada flicks. He is the pioneer in writing lyrics and composing music which directly appeals to the youth and inspires them. He started to fuse the folk and western music together.
He brought them to the mainstream cinema which was loved and appraised by the audiences. He has also given many newcomers an opportunity to show their ta...
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
20. Girish Kasaravalli
Girish Kasaravalli took birth on December 3, 1950. He is a director of the Kannada Cinema World. He is well known as one of the pioneers of Kollywood. His films like Thaayi Saheba, Tabarana Kathe, Ghatashraddha and Dweepa won the ‘National Award for Best Feature Film’ more than three times. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2011 for his contribution to the world of Cinema. Girish is a gold medalist from the Film and Television Institute of India. He directed a film, Avashesh and it was awarded the National Award for Best Short Fiction. Girish has to his credit thirteen National Film Awards. He was born in Kesalur village in Tirthahalli Taluk of Shimoga District to Lakshmi Devi and Ganesh Rao. The animatic presenter, Ravi Belagere has come forward and told that Girish’s official name is Girish K...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
21. 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 weeks in the cinema industry. He continued his direction for further more films in income with the fou...
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
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22. 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 Prize (FIPRESCI) was offered to him six times with great honour. For his work in Indian Cinema, he was h...
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
23. 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 a mega hit followed by Waqt and Iftefaq. Later, he got separated from his brother B.R. Chopra and fo...
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
24. Mani Ratnam
Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker deeply rooted to mainstream Indian cinema. His all films have garnered commercial success. This great filmmaker successfully combined features of both art and commercial cinema, an early example of this was ‘Roja’( a love story that gets lost in country’s terrorism issues), which was both a commercial and critical success. It paved the way for a new wave in Indian cinema too. Man Ratnam became thus one of India’s most successful filmmakers, who also reflected the changing middle-class-ethos (Alaipayuthey).
He also built plots on revenge attitude in Thalapathi movie or even matched a suitable tale of a gangster lord in the slums of Bombay( Nayakan). Though he got noticed from ‘Mouna Rag...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
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25. Aditya Chopra
Aditya Chopra is an Indian film director, scriptwriter and producer. He directed the movies Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in 1995, then Mohabbatein in 2000 and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in 2008. He is currently the Chair Person of YRF group which has thrived for solid 45 years in the Multi-National film industry.
Chopra has written scripts for acclaimed films like Veer-Zaara in 2004, Fanaa in 2006, Band Baaja Baaraat in 2010,Ek Tha Tiger in 2012, Jab Tak Hai Jaan in 2012 and Dhoom Trilogy in 2004, 2006 and 2013 respectively. Chopra has also produced films like Kabul Express, Chak De India, Rocket Singh and Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Chopra started his film career at a tender age of 18, as an assistant director.
Chopra has produced films that have collected more than two hundred crores in Indian Rupees. His company ha...
Age:
52
Gender:
Male
26. 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.
Other than Telugu and Tamil SPB has sung in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada too. SPB also tried his luck a...
Date of Death:
25-09-2020
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-09-2020
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
27. 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 ‘Alicinte Anveshanam’. This feature was nominated in the Locarno International Film Festi...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
28. Santosh Sivan
Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is a film director, producer, and cinematographer, of the Indian cinema. Santosh is an FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) graduate and has so far has done 41 documentaries and 45 feature films. Not only is he a founding associate of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), but also is the bigger of the highest number of Director of Photography (DOP) award in India. Sivan is the first ever Cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific area to achieve an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) fellowship.
He has as many as five National Film Awards for cinematography to his name, four of which are for Best Feature Film Cinematography. Till date, he has achieved 11 National Film Awards for his outstanding work in Indian cinema. ...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
29. Rajit Kapur
Rajit Kapur is a famous Indian actor most known for his award-winning portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 1996 film, ‘The Making of the Mahatma.’ And the detective television series, ‘Byomkesh Bakshi’ based on the character created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay the series was directed by Basu Chatterjee, the series was so popular that Rajit said, that people often mistaken him to be solving a murder mystery even when he visited a restaurant.
Rajit Kapur won the National Film Award for the Best Actor in the 1996 film The Making of the Mahatma, and his role was highly acclaimed both by the critics and the people. He was awarded as the Best Actor in the Kerala State Film Award for his film Agni Sakshi in the year 1999. He was also awarded as the Best Actor in the Imagine India Film Festival, Spain for Best Actor for his film Do Paise Ki Dhoop...
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
30. P Bharathiraja
Director P Bharathiraja is a popular person, who ruled the Tamil cinema industry once. He is one among the super directors of Indian film industry, who produced many talented actors to the Film industry. He has given many super heroes and heroines to the Tamil film industry including R. Radha, Karthik Muthuraman, Radhika Sarathkumar, K Bhagyaraja, Rathi Agnihothri, Revathi, Ranjitha and many more. He has directed Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. His son Manoj was introduced by him in the film Tajmahal alongside Riya Sen. But he did not shine well in the film industry. Right from his debut movie 16 Vayathinile, starred by Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Sridevi, till his latest venture Annakodi, he has made different stories and scripts that had a lot of acting scope to the performers.
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
31. Amol Palekar
Amol Palekar was born on 24th November, 1944 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood and Marathi actor, producer and director. He had been active from the year 1971 in the cinema world. He had made a huge mark as an artist in the Hindi and Marathi industry. He had got the Filmfare's Best Actor Award for the movie Gol Maal (1980). He got married with Chitra. As far as his studies are concerned, he studied Fine Arts at the Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai. He began his profession as a painter. With painter as a profession, he made many wonders as he conducted seven events revolving around his works and he also took part in several multiple people shows.
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
32. Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a renowned Indian director and screenwriter. He created, what is today referred to as ‘middle cinema’. His work has widely received critical acclaim in India as well as in the International Film Circuit. He was born on 14 December 1934 in Secunderabad. He is a cousin of Guru Dutt. His paternal grandmother and Guru Dutt’s maternal grandmother were sisters. His career began in advertising in the year 1959. He was initially a copywriter. Over the years, he slowly rose to the position of a creative head. He directed over 900 advertisements before focusing his faculties on film-making. Benegal is known for films like Ankur, Nishant, Manthan and Bhumika, which were released in 1973, 1975, 1976 and 1977 respectively. His films and documentaries have been set in realistic contempo...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
33. Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur is a renowned Indian actor, director, and producer.He was born on 6 December 1945, in Lahore, which was then part of British India. His father, Kulbhushan Kapur, was an eminent doctor. His mother was Sheela Kanta Kapoor, who was the sister of actor Dev Anand. Shekhar was the only son of his parents. He also had three sisters. Shekhar went to school at the Modern School in New Delhi and later studied Economics at the prestigious St. Stephen’s College. When he was of 22 years, he became a Chartered Accountant with ICAEW in England. In the starting of his career Shekhar worked for big Oil Company, then he moved to the UK in 1970 and spent few years working as a consultant. Shekhar started his acting career in the 1975 Bollywood movie ‘Jaan Hazir Hai’ and ‘Toote Khilone&rsq...
Age:
78
Gender:
Male
Age:
78
Gender:
Male
34. Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Saeed Akhtar Mirza is a screenwriter and director. He is known for Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai, which was released in 1980, then four years later another hit film- Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! in 1984, then Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro in 1989 and six years later Naseem in 1995, which grabbed two National Film Awards in 1996. He also directed television serials like Nukkad in 1986 and in 1988 Intezaar, which was a hit on television. He was born on 30th of June 1943 in Bombay. He decided to become a screenwriter and took to documentary filmmaking at the beginning of his career but later got into films with Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan in 1978, which was about the mental trauma a youth went through after he found himself struggling in the midst of feudal money culture. Then in 1980 followed his very acclaimed wo...
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
35. Rajat Kapoor
Rajat Kapoor was born on 11 th February 1961, in Delhi, India. He is an actor, director, and screenwriter by occupation. He is married to Meena Agarwal and has two children, Rabia, and Vivan. Rajat Kapoor is a 54 years old actor, director, and screenwriter, born in Delhi.
He was mesmerized by the magnificent grandeur of the film industry and decided to choose his career as in actor at the young age of 14. His first experience in acting was when he joined a theater group called Chingari, in Delhi in 1983. He later pursued his passion even further by moving to Pune to attend the Film and Television Institute of India. After graduating, he debuted in parallel cinemas. His first parallel cinema was Khayal Gatha.
Even...
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
36. Mithun Chakraborty
When we talk about the few legends in the Indian film Industry then it becomes inevitable to take the name of Mithun Chakraborty; more commonly known as Mithun Da. His real name is Gouranga Chakraborty, and he was born on 16th of June 1950. He is not only an actor, but also a producer, singer, social worker, entrepreneur, and writer. In addition, he is also a member of the Rajya Sabha Parliament. It was the year 1976 when Mithun Chakraborty made his debut with the art house drama called Mrigayaa. The fact that he won the first National Award of his life right from his debut film gives a sheer proof of his supreme talent. But, it was not the end; after winning the National Award for Best Actor for the art house drama, he won two more National Film Awards.
Mithun Chakraborty started as a dancer, which hel...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
37. Madhu
Madhu is an ace, noted and prominent lead actor of the 60’s and 70’s of the Malayalam movies. He is an actor, director and producer of the malayalam film industry.
He owned a film studio named 'Uma Film Studio' and also has recieved the Padhmashri award. He was born on September 23, 1933 in Gowrishapattom, Travancore, British India to Keralite parents R. Parameshwaran Pillai and Thankamma. His father was the mayor of Travancore, British Raj India at the time of his birth. This legend began his career in the Malayalam movie industry in the year 1963 and is still going strong with his work at the age of 80.
He married Jayalakshmi and together they have a daughter named Uma. Before starting his career in the movies, Madhav...
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
38. Amit Khanna
Amit Khanna is very well talented small screen actor, producer, lyricist, and a writer. He had worked for Reliance for a couple of years and then he resigned and concentrated more on writing. He wanted to start his career in small screen, thus he moved to Bombay and then produced for Dev Anand’s Nevkatan films.
He then produced films like Man Pasand starring Dev Anand, Tina Munim, Girish Karnad and Mehmood and Sheeshey Ka Ghar starrIng Raj Babbar and Padmini Kolhapure. Most of his shootings were with Bappi Lahiri and Rajesh Roshan with whom he shared good relations.
In 1995, he produced first Indian English series "A mouthful of sky." He was a Chairman of Reliance Entertainment and was president for tw...
Age:
39
Gender:
Male
39. Salam Karassery
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...40. Deepan Chatterji
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...41. Jwngdao Bodosa
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...42. Venki Sambamoorthy
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...43. Ashok Mishra
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