Manjeet Maan
Smita Talwalkar
Renu Saluja
Brinda
Pooja Bhatt
Manju Warrier
Shabana Azmi
Alka Yagnik
Suhasini Mulay
P Shwetha
Ashoke Viswanathan
Manoj Punj
Jabbar Patel
Virendra Saini
Sanjay Kak
SB Satheesan
Sanjay Surkar
Apurba Kishore Bir
H Sridhar
Unni Vijayan
Rajeev Nath
Raja Sen
Shyamaprasad
D Ramanaidu
Dasari Narayana Rao
Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar
Buddhadev Dasgupta
R Parthiepan
Mammootty
Sreenivasan
Yash Johar
Vishal Bhardwaj
Vinay Shukla
Santosh Sivan
Rituparno Ghosh
Prakash Raj
Karan Johar
Ajay Devgan
Manoj Bajpayee
Baldev Raj Chopra
Jahnu Barua
Shyam Benegal
Mahesh Bhatt
Javed Akhtar
Venki Sambamoorthy
Ashok Mishra
Sanjeev Abhyankar
1. Manjeet Maan
Manjeet Maan is a popular Punjabi actress, producer, and director. She made her debut as an actress in 1986 with the film Gabhroo Punjab Da directed by Jagjit Gill. Manjeet played the role of Reshma in the movie. She shared the screen space with Gurdas Maan, Gugu Gill, and Rama Vij.
Manjeet is married to popular actor cum singer Gurdas Maan. The couple has a son, Gurikk Maan. Manjeet co-owns a movie production company with her husband, Gurdas. The production company Sai Production Private Limited had produced a lot of award-winning Punjabi films. She launched the company in 1998 with TV software. In 1999, they made Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh, directed by Manoj Punj. Gurdas and Divya Dutta played the lead roles. It got the...
Gender:
Female
2. Smita Talwalkar
Smita Talwalkar was a director, actress and producer in Marathi Cinema. She is well-known for her work like Tu Tithe Mee.
Smita Talwalkar was born on 5 September, 1954. Before her marriage, her name was Smita Govilkar. She got married when she was 17 years old. She has a son, Amber Talwalkar who is the director of the health club chain, Talwalkars. Amber got married to the famous Marathi actress, Sulekha Talwalkar. Smita also has one more daughter-in-law. She also is an actress, Purnima Talwalkar. Smita was suffering from ovarian cancer. It was diagnosed in 2010 and she was being cured with chemotherapy. However, she died at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai on 6 August 2014 at the ...
Date of Death:
06-08-2014
Age:
69
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
06-08-2014
Age:
69
Gender:
Female
3. 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
4. Brinda
Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer. Brinda dedicated all her life to choreographing and assisting various notable actors.
According to Brinda, she was not a good student in school and had an inclination towards extra-curricular activities like acting in plays and dance. She is not a highly educated person and has studied till class 12th only. Brinda l...
5. Pooja Bhatt
This chubby star of Bollywood had a different style of acting. Nevertheless it was appreciated to an extent. Pooja Bhatt, daughter of famous director Mahesh Bhatt, gave up her dream of becoming an astronaut, to take up a career in acting.
Pooja Bhatt debuted in her father’s directorial venture Daddy, when she was just a teen. It was a typical Bhatt film and revolved around a girl trying to alleviate her father from the clutches of alcohol. Later, this duo offered ‘Dil Hai Ke Maanta Nahin’ where Aamir Khan played the male lead. This film was an adaptatio...
Age:
52
Gender:
Female
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6. Manju Warrier
Manju Warrier is a South-Indian film actress, born on November 1, 1978, in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, to an accountant father and a homemaker mother. She completed her schooling from Chinmaya Vidyalaya and further from Chovva Higher Secondary School, both situated at Kannur. She graduated from SN College, Kannur. Manju was only seventeen when she made her debut in the film industry with ‘Sakshyam’, a classic Malayalam drama directed by Mohan.At the age of eighteen, she worked in ‘Sallapam’, a love story by Sundar Das. In the first three years of her career, she was awarded for her work in four major films. First is with the film ‘Ee Puzhayum Kadannu’, a drama t...
Age:
45
Gender:
Female
Age:
45
Gender:
Female
7. Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin and social activist. Shabana was born on 18, September 1950 in Hyderabad. Her father, Kaifi Azmi was an Indian poet while her mother Shaukat Azmi was a stage actress for the Indian People’s Theatre Asociation.
Both her of her parents was supporters of the Communist Party of India. She has a brother named Baba Azmi, who is a cinematographer. Shabana’s early childhood memories consist of high social activity of her parents and respect for human values.
Shabana did her schooling at the Queen Mary School situated at Mumbai. Following that she did her graduation in Psychology from S...
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
8. 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
9. Suhasini Mulay
Suhasini Mulay is popular for Marathi films and mother roles in most of the Bollywood films. Of late, he has performed in Hindi TV serials also. She was born in Patna, aon 20 November 1950. She spent her childhood in Patna where she got early education. She is brought up by her mother because her father died when she was only 3 years of age. She adopted interest in acting from her mother, Vijaya Mulay.
She has properly joined showbiz in 1965 when she was chosen as a model for a commercial ad. Then, she was signed for a film ‘Bhuvan Shome’ in 1969. It was a blockbuster film but she did not pursue acting as profession and left for Canada where she joined McGill Univers...
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
Age:
73
Gender:
Female
10. P Shwetha
P. Shwetha is an upcoming talented and young Tamil actress who predominantly appeared in Tamil movies as child artiste and has also appeared as a contestant and guset on few Tamil reality and celebrity chat/talk television shows. Born and brought up in Chennai, Tamilnadu, P.Shwetha completed her studies and graduated from the Anna University, Chennai. Till date P. Shwetha has appeared in 5 Tamil movies all of them directed and made by the acclaimed and veteran director Santosh Sivan. Shwetha made her debut in the year 1998 with the critically acclaimed and award winning Tamil movie direted by Santosh Sivan Malli in which she plays the child a girl named Malli who sets on an adventour and a dangerous mission in order to cure her best friend’...
Gender:
Female
11. 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...
12. Manoj Punj
Manoj Punj was an award-winning director and screenplay writer who worked in Punjabi movies. He was born on 15th June 1970. Manoj was a graduate of arts. He is an experienced theater artist who worked in stage plays in Chandigarh. After completing his graduation, he joined Prof PS Nirola in making documentary films and films for corporates. After gaining experience, he moved to Mumbai to start his career in the cinema industry. He assisted many directors in the movie and TV industries. Later, he directed TV programs and then Punjabi movies.
In 1999, Manoj directed Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh. Manjeet Maan produced the film, which had Gurdas Maan and Divya Dutta in the lead roles. In 2002, he directed Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai, a...
Age:
53
Gender:
Male
13. Jabbar Patel
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 Lago...
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
14. Virendra Saini
Director & cinematographer Virendra Saini completed his diploma in cinematography in 1976 from FTII. He worked with top directors, including Mani Kaul, Sai Paranjpye, Kundan Shah, Vinod Chopra, and Bhimsain. In 1990 he received the National award for Best Cinematography for Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro.' In 1999 he directed Kabhi Pass Kabhi Fail, which got him the National Award for the Best Children's Film. Virendra Saini won two awards, one as a cinematographer and the other as a director. ...
15. Sanjay Kak
Sanjay Kak is an Indian director who worked for the Hindi film industry. He was born in 1958 and was a multi-talented author, activist and filmmaker. After being born in a Kashmiri Pandit family he lived in Delhi and work in many movies which are based in New Delhi. Sanjay completed his studies from University of Delhi and was famous for his documentary film movement it and one of his famous project name The Cinema of Resistance.
Some of his popular work in films include A house and Home in 1983, Red Ant Dream in 2013, Jasn-e-Azadi in 2007, Harvest of rain in 1995, In the Forest Hangs a Bridge in 1999, and many others....
16. SB Satheesan
SB Satheesan is a Malayalam singer. Satheesan spent his childhood in Chemboor, Venjaramoodu, Kerala. He opened his career as a tailor. He owns a tailoring shop named S.B. Stitchings at Chembur. He was introduced to the Malayalam film industry by producer Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
The first film in which he functioned as a costume designer was Kathapurushan, released in 1995. Films in which he has worked are Ring Master, it got released in 2014 and was directed by Rafi Martin; Ennum Eppozhum, the 2015 movie was produced by Sathyan Anthikad; Mili was released in 2015 and was produced by Rajesh Pillai; Motorcycle Diaries, the movie was released in 2016 and was dir...
17. Sanjay Surkar
Sanjay Surkar (19 August 1959 - 27 September 2012) was a Marathi film director. Rao Saheb (1996), Tu Tithe My (1998), and Gharber (1999) won three National Film Awards for Best Film in the Marathi category. In addition to films, Sarkar also worked in television and theater. Sarkar was born on August 19, 1959, in Deoli, Wardha district of Maharashtra. He lived in 1983. He graduated from Commerce College.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in fine arts from Nagpur University, specializing in dramatics. He entered the entertainment industry by Sarkar Theater. Bringing him to Nagpur, he worked with many stages and acted during school and college days. He had been involved in several plays for children in Nagpur. ...
Date of Death:
27-09-2012
Age:
64
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
27-09-2012
Age:
64
Gender:
Male
18. 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
19. 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
20. Unni Vijayan
Unni Vijayan is an Indian film editor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like "The Blueberry Hunt" (2016), Lessons in Forgetting (2011), Uncaging The Body (2006), Mansarovar (2004), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in Hindi TV shows, short films, documentaries, and Bollywood movies, Unni has been working in the film industry for more than ten years now.
The year 2001 was a crucial one for Unni has he made his first portentous contribution on the silver screen with the TV series C.A.T.S. In 2011, he went on to serve as the main director of the drama film Lessons in Forgetting, starring Adil Hussain, Roshni Achreja, and Raaghav Chanana. It is as highly rated as 7.8 on IMDb....
21. Rajeev Nath
Rajeev Nath was born in the year 1951 in the Changanassery district of Kerela, India. He is a South Indian film director by profession. He started his career as one in the year 1976. After completing his studies at University level, he decided to enter the field of film direction. Initially he shot a short film with the help of a 16mm camera. He liked working this way so he decided to make it his professional camera. Then in the year 1976, he directed a film named ‘Thanal’ individually. The movie was well appreciated and got a lot of critical acclaims. He is mainly famous for directing Malayalam movies.
His debut film also made him win the Kerela State Film Award under the category of best director. The lead actor in ...
22. Raja Sen
Raja Sen is an Indian Film and Television Director. He works in the Bengali and Hindi Film and Television Industries. Raja was born on the 10th of November in the year 1955. He was born in West Bengal, India. He is married to Papiya Sen. They have two daughters. Raja Sen made his debut in the Film Industry with the Bengali Film Damu (1996).
He worked in more films such as Atmiyo Swajan (1999), Desh (2002), Krishnakanter Will (2007), Moubone Aaj (2011), Colnel (2012), and many more. He also worked for some Tv serials such as Kolkata Kolkata, Samparka, Anirban, Anjuman, and a few more. He also worked on a few documentaries. He is three times National Award winner....
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
23. Shyamaprasad
Shyamaprasad is an eminent screenwriter, director, and actor in Malayalam cinema. Although he had made a very few films, his art and meaningful cinema has always had a sweet flavor. His notable films include ‘Agnisakshi’, ‘Akale’, ‘Arike’ and ‘Ore Kadal’. He always made his movies based on some novels. Novels had inspired him a lot, and he tried to create a literary masterpiece in celluloid.
Since film and novels are two different media, hence he always had urged people not to compare his films with the novel as he had tried to be as close in spirit to the work which inspired him a lot. For instance, ‘A...
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
24. D Ramanaidu
Guinness Book of World Records holder Daggubati Ramanaidu was born on 6th June 1937. He is the initiator of ' Suresh Productions' who individually produced more than 150 movies in 13 different languages, and therefore secured a place in the world book of records.
D.Ramanaidu was born into an agricultural background in a small village in Andhra Pradesh. He got his education from the same village and graduation from 'Presidency College,' Chennai. His father forced him to go Chennai and toil with movie producers. Before coming to this line, he had a business of rice- mill and later bricks producer initially and later he got them shut.
Date of Death:
18-02-2015
Age:
87
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
18-02-2015
Age:
87
Gender:
Male
25. Dasari Narayana Rao
Dasari Narayana Rao is an Indian cinema director who has mainly worked in Telugu movies and has credit to some Bollywood movies too. He was born on 4 May 1947 in Palakol, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has done his graduation in BA and had an interest in acting and directing since then. He has performed in many drama competitions. Most of the films he has done in his career have laid emphasis on corruption, gender discrimination and injustice.
He has done over 150 films as a director and also produced 53 films. He got married to Dasari Padma, producer and they have a son, Arun Kumar Desai, who is an actor. In his early life, he had launched a newspaper, Udayam, which got very famous...
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
26. Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Nitin Desai is a notable art director and production designer in Bollywood; he is also a TV and Film producer. He was born in Mulund, Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did his schooling from Wamanrao Muranjan High School, Mulund. He learned photography from L S Raheja School of Arts and J J School of Arts. After which he made his entry into films. Nitin started his career by assisting art director Nitish Roy for the TV serial, Tamas (1987); he was the fourth assistant to Roy.
Before joining Roy, he went to Mumbai’s Film City Studios, where he switched to 3D world of art direction from 2D format of still photography. He further worked for TV series as ‘Kabir’ and &l...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
27. Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar
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 Aryab...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
28. 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
29. R Parthiepan
Radhakrishnan Parthiepan is a renowned actor, cinema producer, and director of Tamil origin. Born in a moderate family in Chennai, Parthiepan’s journey to success wasn’t an easy one. Reportedly, he was even rejected for films early due to his non-hero looks. He worked in many odd jobs, including a dubbing artist for which he used to get 6000 rupees per month.
Parthiepan finally managed to assist the talented director K. Bhagayraj, following which he ventured into the South Indian Film industry with his directorial project Pudhiya Padhai, where he also played the lead. The film was a critical and as well as a commercial success. Following this, ...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
30. 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
31. Sreenivasan
Actor Sreenivasan is a Malayalam actor who had ruled the regional cinema graph for over 25 years and has earned the credit of having acted in over 200 films so far. But he never attributes his success even once for the quantity of films that he had done so far. He is an actor who lacked star appeal always. Instead of relying on his looks, he concentrated more on his talent that helped him carve a niche in Mollywood. He could perform any character on screen whether it is a villain role or a comedy role which drew a parallel recognition when compared with the ranks of superstars.
His comedy role gave Malayalam cinema some of its finest films. Though...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
32. Yash Johar
The founder of Dharma Production, Yash Johar was born on 6 September 1929 in Amritsar.
He was married to Hiroo Johar and is the father of the well known Bollywood director and producer Karan Johar. This legend started his career with Sunil Dutt’s production house “Ajanta House” in 1952 and since then, he has delivered one hit film after another. His name has been associated with famous films like ‘Mujhe Jeene Do’ which released in 1963 and ‘Ye Raste hai Pyaar Ke’ in which the famous Sunil Dutt performed as an actor. His banne...
Date of Death:
26-06-2004
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
26-06-2004
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
33. Vishal Bhardwaj
The most outstanding of a successful film producer, director, writer, screenplay writer, music composer and playback singer, is Vishal Bhardwaj, who has successfully crossover in India and abroad by his versatile genius. He is a blissful child of goddess Saraswati. He was born on 4th August, 1965 in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh. His father Ram Bhardwaj, a poet and lyricist is a government official. At his young age Vishal came to Delhi for completing his education, and there he nourished his musical passion. Bhardwaj started his career by playing harmonium for less known Ghazal singers in Delhi Pragati Maidan at food fairs. Thereafter he came into the contact of R V Pandit, who offered him a job in his music company. But his destiny was something ...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
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34. Vinay Shukla
A well-known name in the field of writing, direction is the producer of the film ‘Godmother’,yes, he is Vinay Shukla, whose films are distinctly different from others not only for the success at the box-office but also for garnering critical acclaim and prestigious awards .He was associated with this performing art when he was 9 years old and began participating in radio plays at ‘Akashwani’, Jaipur. This creative passion of Vinay led him into the theatre, during his college, university days. He found the most powerful medium to express his views and talents and that is Cinema.
His famous movies are ’Ship of Theseus’, in which he had acted and for the story and d...
Gender:
Male
35. 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 Cinematogr...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
36. 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....
Date of Death:
30-05-2013
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
37. 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 e...
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
38. Karan Johar
Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Shar...
Age:
51
Gender:
Male
39. Ajay Devgan
Ajay Devgn is an Indian film actor. He is perhaps Hindi cinema’s one of the most talented actor today. He has received two national awards and two Filmfare awards so far. But this talented actor was shamed by critics in the entertainment industry because of his looks. But Ajay has proved all of them wrong. Today, he adds weight to his status as an actor or even as a star but back in the day when he made his debut with film ‘ Phool Aur Kaante’ (1991) many industry people dared to say that he would not make it in the industry due to his looks.
His next film ‘Jigar’ too was successful. Later many successful films followed in his career (Dilwale, Suhaag, Vijaypath). He was then given Mah...
Age:
55
Gender:
Male
Age:
55
Gender:
Male
40. Manoj Bajpayee
Born on 23 April 1969, Manoj Bajpai is first a Bollywood actor, though he has acted in a couple of southern films. He has been appreciated by several critics for his good performances. His noteworthy performances were in the films Bandit Queen, Pinjar, Aks, Satya and Gangs of Wasseypur. He has got various Filmfare awards and also many National awards.
Manoj Bajpai is a graduate in history. Before entering into acting Manoj was a teacher. He tried his luck in theater, but was rejected four times. Later, he worked in a theater Barry’s Drama School. His acting career st...
Age:
55
Gender:
Male
41. Baldev Raj Chopra
Baldev Chopra had faced a lot of problems in his early career. He had to leave his home place, Lahore after riots broke out at the time of independence. He was working on his new production with a story by I.S Johar but had to abandon it because of the ensuing ruckus. He was born in Ludhiana and studied at the University of Punjab in Lahore. He received an M.A there. There was a monthly magazine about films called Cine Herald. He worked as a journalist there at the start of his career and took over it and ran it until 1947. India was partitioned into India and Pakistan after peace prevailed, and he moved to Delhi in 1947. His first successful production, Karwat, in 1948, turned out to be a flop at the box off...
Date of Death:
05-11-2008
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
05-11-2008
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
42. Jahnu Barua
Jahnu Barua, an Assamese Filmmaker, born on 17 October in Guwahati, Assam. He is known as the pioneer of Assamese Artistic Cinema. He pursued Bachelor in Science from B. Barooah College of Guwahati and took Diploma in Film Direction from FTII (Film & TV Institute of India) in Pune. He got married to Gayatri, (a filmmaker) who inspired him to become a filmmaker too. Oyu barua is the name of their son. We can say that he is an all-rounder because he is a Director, Producer, Writer & Editor. He directed, produced and edited many films like ‘Aparoopa (1982), Firingoti (1992), 'Tora' (2005), etc. As a Writer, he worked in films such as The F Cycle (1974), Ek Kahaani (1986), Maine Ga...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
43. 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 197...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
44. 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
45. Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her dur...
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
46. Venki Sambamoorthy
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47. Ashok Mishra
Bio coming soon......
48. Sanjeev Abhyankar
Bio coming soon......
Age:
54
Gender:
Male
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