Jomol
Rituparna Sengupta
Karisma Kapoor
KS Chithra
Vaishali Kasaravalli
Indrani Haldar
Mallemala Sundara Rami Reddy
Apurba Kishore Bir
Rajendra Singh Babu
Jayaraj
Girish Kasaravalli
A K Lohithadas
J. P. Dutta
Yash Chopra
M.M Keeravani
Suresh Gopi
Gunasekhar
Balachandra Menon
Hariharan
T V Chandran
Santosh Sivan
Rituparno Ghosh
Prakash Raj
Krishna Vamsi
Govind Nihalani
Shiamak Davar
Javed Akhtar
Raja Mitra
Kesari Harvoo
Kavi Pradeep
1. Jomol
Jomol is a known name in Malayalam film industry. Though she is a Christian, she rechristened her name as Gowri, owing to her wedding with Chandrasekhara Pillai. Her husband was initially her chat buddy. This couple is blessed with two children, Aarya and Aarja.
Jomol was busy during the latter half of the 1990s. She also endeavored into films as a child artist. She was born as Joma John. The 1997 flick Ennu Swantham Janakikutty fetched her Kerala State Awards in the best actress category. This film also won the best actress award in the Special Jury Mention cate...
Age:
42
Gender:
Female
Age:
42
Gender:
Female
2. Rituparna Sengupta
Rituparna Sengupta is as Indian actress who has contributed to Hindi and mostly Bengali cinema throughout her career. Born on 7th November, 1971, she was on her way to a Master’s degree in Modern History, when her education got interrupted by a golden chance to appear on screen. Her first role was in “Shwet Pathorer Thala” in 1992, directed by Prabhat Roy. Her entrance in the industry was a dazzling one, mainly because her debut role showed plenty of the negative side. Never attending any acting school or lessons, she claims her acting skills all arise from the active years of stage performances she has done in school.
Her profile is filled with numerous movies in Bengali and Hindi. In 2013, she entered Mollywood when she was casted by Sohanlal in his movie “Kadhaveedu”. The actress was compelled to the sensitive storyline of the film.
A...
Age:
52
Gender:
Female
Age:
52
Gender:
Female
3. Karisma Kapoor
Karisma Kapoor is a well known face from the family of the Kapoors. She is the daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita and the elder sister of Kareena Kapoor Khan. She was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai. She was invited to act in the Hindi movies at an early age of 17. After completing her schooling, this young artist stepped towards the acting field with lots of hope to conquer the hearts of the Indian fans. She visited Sophia College, only for a few months. Her debut movie was Prem Qaidi in the year 1991. Her grand success movie came in the form of Raja Hindustani with Aamir Khan. This movie presented her with the Filmfare Award for the Best Actress. 1997 was the best year in her career, as she received the National Award for the Best Supporting Actress in the movie Dil To pagal Hai. Dil To Pagal Hai was a romantic movie with big star...
Age:
49
Gender:
Female
Age:
49
Gender:
Female
4. KS Chithra
Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
5. Vaishali Kasaravalli
Vaishali Kasaravalli was born on 12 April 1952 in Gulbarga to theatre enthusiast parents Nirmala and Dr. Chitagopi. She was a well noted Kannada film actor, costume designer and television serial director. Vaishali Kasaravalli completed BA. Late Dr. B.V.Karanth initiated her to theatre. After her family moved to Bangalore, She acted in many plays including Jokumaraswamy, Hayavadana, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Natakakaarana Shdhaneyalli Aaru Paathragalu and many more. Vaishali Kasaravalli also directed Sevanthi Prasanga and translated many Marathi and Hindi classic works.
She started film career in 1972 with movie "Yaava Janmada Maitri" and later Professor Huchuraya in the same year. Her most popular and remarkable films are Akramana, Yarigu Helbedi,Hombisilu, Angaialli Apsare, Kraurya, Kittu Puttu, Swamy, Thabarana Kath...
Age:
72
Gender:
Female
Age:
72
Gender:
Female
6. Indrani Haldar
Indrani Haldar is an Indian actress of Bengali origin known for her acting in Indian and Bengali television serials and films. She graduated from Jogamaya Devi College. She was engaged to Sanjeeb Dasgupta, a television actor, but later broke up. She is also a trained classical dance.
She started her acting career very early on after debuting as a child actress in television series Tero Parban.
Indrani has acted in several movies like Strings of Passions (2012), Takhan Teish (2010), Antim Swash Sundar (2010), Angshumaner Chhobi (2009), Chowdhari Paribar (1998), Raatporir Rupkatha (2007), Jara Brishtitey Bhijechhilo (2007), Aankush (2006), Asamapto (2005), Faltu (2005), Assassin (2004), Anandalok (2002), Debdas (2002), Saanjhbatir Roopkathara (2002), Bhairav (2001), Dekha (2001), Paromita Ek Din...
Age:
53
Gender:
Female
Age:
53
Gender:
Female
7. Mallemala Sundara Rami Reddy
Mallemala Sundara Rami Reddy was an Indian film producer, director, screen writer, lyricist, poet, artist and author who worked in the Telugu film industry and wrote Telugu books. He was born on 15th August 1924 in the Allimili village near Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and died on 11th December 2011 in Film Nagar in Hyderabad. He was known as Sahaja Kavi for the simplicity of his lyrics, having written about a few thousand songs like Haayi Haayi, Vennello Vinnanu and others. He held Gandhian views and campaigned for various social causes.
Mallemala was the husband of Sowbhagyamma and the father of the filmmaker Shyam Prasad Reddy, Bhatgavi and Sharada. Mallemala started his career as a photographer in Chennai but moved to Hyderbad to pursue a career in Telugu cinema by esta...
Date of Death:
11-12-2011
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
8. 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 Gandhi which released in the year 1982.
... Date of Birth:
1948
Gender:
Male
9. Rajendra Singh Babu
S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu is an acclaimed screenwriter, director, and producer in Kannada language. He is a veteran filmmaker and has scripted and directed many blockbuster movies that have the social impact in our society. Besides Kannada, he also has directed a few Hindi and Telugu movies but his basic love was directing Kannada movies. He also had a basic love for adaptation of books into cinema. He also had written some social issue-based films like ‘Bandhana’, ’Antha’, ‘Meri Aawaz Suno’ etc.
In the year 1997, his film 'Mungarina Minchu' won the President medal. His pronounced literary leanings have prompted him to frequently adapt the works of good novels or even best American or Italian movies like 'A Walk in the Clouds' or 'Four Steps in the Clouds&...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
10. Jayaraj
Born in Kottayam, Kerala to a middle-class family, Jayaraj (full name: JayrajRajasekharan Nair) is an Indian filmmaker who specializes in making Malayali films. He has a degree in Bachelors in Technology in Electronics and Communication. He attended the International Kerala Film Festival in Thiruvananthapuram, watching numerous world classics, which immensely inclined him towards directing films. Post Thiruvananthapuram, he has a meeting with one of the directors, Bharathan, who was his sister’s neighbor in Madras, Tamil Nadu.
The director was well impressed with him, so much that he appointed Jayaraj as his assistant director. Henceforth, from “Chilambu”, Jayraj went on to successfully become Bharathan’s assistant director in six more movies, som...
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
11. 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
12. A K Lohithadas
Popularly known as A.K. Lohithadas, his detailed work on Malayalam Cinema as a scriptwriter, playwright, director, and producer has bought him a lot of fame. He was born in Kerala on May 5, 1955. Writing a film story was his real passion, but he was unable to make a mark in that industry. In 1986, he made his debut in script writing in the Malayalam Theater, and his work was accepted by the legendary stage actor, Thoppil Bhasi. This recognition led him to bag a state award. Actor, Thilakan introduced him to Malayalam film director, K.G. George, but it didn’t help him in starting a film career. Although this did not do wonders, the latter gave Lohithadas, a core idea which then turned out to be the story of Kireedam. Sibi Malayil was also searching for talented writers when he came acr...
Date of Death:
28-06-2009
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
28-06-2009
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
13. J. P. Dutta
Jyoti Prakash Dutta ( J.P. Dutta) is a Bollywood film producer and director. He was born on October 3, 1949, in Bombay. He is married to noted Bollywood actress Bindiya Goswami whom film industry compares to Hema Malini for her look and screen presence; she had acted in films like ‘Shaan’, ‘Gol Maal’,’Takkar’ etc. They have two daughters Nidhi and Siddhi.
J. P. Dutta was born in a Punjabi Brahmin family and is the son of filmmaker O.P.Dutta who penned story for films like ‘LOC Kargil’, ‘Border’ and even assisted in writing for additional dialogues for films like ‘Chirag’ ‘Do Raaste’, etc. J. P. Dutta came to limelight for directing patriotic films.
In 1993, h...
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
Skills:
14. 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
15. M.M Keeravani
M.M. Keeravani is an established Music Director and a singer in Telugu Film Industry. He is the cousin of the hit Director S.S. Rajamouli. He is known as M.M. Kreem is Bollywood and Marakathamani in Tollywood. S.P. Balasubramanyam and K.S. Chitra have sung the maximum number of songs for his composition.
M.M. Keeravani was born in Kovvur, in Andhra Pradesh. He is coming from an artistic family. His brother Kalyani Malik is also a Tollywood Music Composer. He started his musical career in the year 1987, by joining as an Assistant under Composer K.Chakravarthy. In this period, he also got trained under the expert Lyricist Veturi. Keeravani made his debut through the film Kalki in the year 1990. Unfortunately, that movie got shelved, and the music was also not noted by the ...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
16. Suresh Gopi
Malayali by birth, Suresh Gopinath, also known as Suresh Gopi, is a homebound film actor and also shows keen in music, and is a singer by profession too. Suresh was born into a Hindu Nair family. He was born in Kollam to Gopinathan Pillai and Gnanalakshmi Amma. Suresh has featured in about 200 Malayalam Films. The movie Kaliyattam in the year 1997 had got him the National Film Award for the best actor category. Later on, he became the host of the show named Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran, which was aired on Asianet.
This show was very popular in the year 2012. He was seen in T.P. Balagopalan M.A in the year 1986, where he was given the role of a prospective groom. Since then he was seen in many of the villainous and supporting roles. After acting for man...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
17. Gunasekhar
Gunasekhar is a literature enthusiast, a theatre artist and now an Indian film Director and Screenwriter. He was born on 2nd June 1964 in Narsipatnam, Visakhapatnam. Since he was a child he had an interest in literature and he also wrote short stories. As he developed an interest for theatre, he started taking part in different plays and writing plays. Keeping in mind his movie buff, he moved to Chennai to pursue a career in the same. He worked under various writers and directors.
He was an Assistant writer under Kasi Viswanadh and then as an Assistant Director under D.V. Narsaraju and Director Kranthi Kumar. He gave his Directorial Debut, Lathi in 1992 and won Andhra Pradesh Nandi Award for the Best Directorial Debut. His next directed flick was Sogasu Chooda Tharama, w...
Age:
45
Gender:
Male
18. Balachandra Menon
Balachandra Menon has various feathers to his caps including actor, distributor, director, script writer, music composer, singer, producer and editor. He predominantly concentrates on Malayalam cinema. The 1980s and 90s were heydays in his career. He has the credit of gaining the National Award for his good performance as a lead actor in the 1998 flick Samaantharangal. This flick is also his directorial venture.
Menon has the credit of introducing actors and actresses in the Malayalam film industry including Shobana, Maniyan Pillai Raju, Annie, Karthika and Nandini. His films that set the cash registers ringing during the early 1980s were Chiriyo ...
Age:
70
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Distributor,
Editor,
Screenplay Writer,
Writer,
Director,
Movie Actor,
Artists,
Lyricist,
Music Director
Age:
70
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Distributor,
Editor,
Screenplay Writer,
Writer,
Director,
Movie Actor,
Artists,
Lyricist,
Music Director
19. Hariharan
Hariharan is a renowned Indian singer, who sings mainly for Hindi and Tamil films. Born in 1955, he is a well-known Ghazal singer. He was also instrumental in bringing fusion music to India.
Colonial Cousins is the name given to Hariharan’s band, wherein he collaborated with Lesle Lewis. This band was featured in many private albums. Not only this, they have also composed music for a few movies in Hindi and Tamil.
Hariharan is born and brought up in Mumbai and he is well-versed in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Hindi. Hariharan is the o...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Skills:
20. 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
21. 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
22. Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh(1963-2013) was a profound actor, director, writer, and lyricist in the Bengali FIlm Industry. He was born in Kolkata to a Bengali Hindu family on 31 August 1963. Sunil Ghosh, father of Rituparno Ghosh was a painter and a documentary film maker. He attended South Point School in and earned an Economics degree from Jadhavpur University, Kolkata. He worked as a creative artist in an advertising agency, Response India. He became famous in Kolkata for his effective slogans and appealing one liners. He earned fame with his most notable ad campaigns, ‘Sharad Samman' and ‘Bongo JibonerAngo' for antiseptic ointment, Boroline and mango drink, Frooti respectively.
In the year 1990, he made a documentary "VandeMatram" on...
Date of Death:
30-05-2013
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
23. Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004....
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
24. Krishna Vamsi
Krishna Vamsi or also known as Vamshiramya, is an Indian film choreographer, producer, and director of Telugu films. He was born on July 27, 1962, in Tadepalligudem, India. He attended Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University. On June 12, 2003, Krishna got married to actress, Ramya Krishnan and they were blessed with a son named, Ritwik. He made his directorial debut with the 1995 musical hit Telugu film, Gulabi, starring Maheswari and J.D. Chakravarthy in the lead roles.
The following year, he directed the Telugu romance film, Ninne Pelladata, which was produced by actor, Nagarjuna Akkineni, who also starred in the film. Ninne Pelladata gained the National Film Award for Best Fiction Film in Telugu, while Krishna bagged his first Filmfare Award for Best Director. In 1997, he direct...
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
25. Govind Nihalani
Born on 19 August 1940, Govind Nihalani hails from Karachi. He is a multi-faceted personality; he is a director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and works for Hindi cinema. He is the proud winner of six National Awards and five awards at Filmfare. He had penned the script for a Hindi film Drohkaal in 1996, which was later modified by Kamal Haasan for a Tamil film Kurithipunal. This film went on to become the official entry of India for the Academy Awards. Nihalani cultivated interest in Hindi films since his school days. Aakrosh is the directorial debut film of Nihalani. This film revolves around a real happening. Om Puri, Smita Patel, Naseerudin Shah and Amrish Puri are the star cast of the film. This film gained recognition at the International Film Festival. Through this film Nihalani was considered to be a serious filmmaker...
Age:
83
Gender:
Male
26. Shiamak Davar
Shiamak Davar, the well-known Choreographer of Indian origin, is the one who first introduced the western dance form in India. The dancer is born to Nani Davar and Puran Davar. Born and brought up in Mumbai, with siblings Shireen Davar and Darab Davar, the dance lover had early dreams of having dance as a career. He has known as the ‘guru of contemporary dance’ in India. He recently choreographed the dance numbers in Mission Impossible 4. The contemporary dance guru has choreographed many award functions such as the Filmfare Awards and the IIFA Awards. He has worked and made actors like Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan and Sushant Singh Rajput dance to every beat possible. The dancer and choreographer were born in the year 1961 and had a passion for dance from the very childhood. Despi...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
27. Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.
Javed has two children, Zoya...
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
28. Raja Mitra
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...29. Kesari Harvoo
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...30. Kavi Pradeep
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... Date of Death:
11-12-1998
Age:
109
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
11-12-1998
Age:
109
Gender:
Male
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