Anjalika Sharma
Madhusree Dutta
Flavia Agnes
Bhavatharini
Raveena Tandon
Asha Bhosle
K P A C Lalitha
Arun Khopkar
Gnana Rajasekaran
Vikraman
Supriyo Sen
Anup Dev
Soumitra Chatterjee
Salim Padiyath
P. V. Gangadharan
Vasiraju Prakasam
Ramoji Rao
Suresh Pai
P. Sheshadri
Udhaya Raj
Yusufali Kechery
Jayaraj
P Krishnamoorthy
K. Vijaya Bhaskar
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Sathyan Anthikad
Rajkumar Santoshi
Farouq Rattonsey
Cheran
V. Ravichandran
Goutam Ghose
H G Dattatreya
Rituparno Ghosh
P Bharathiraja
Amol Palekar
Apurva Asrani
Shyam Benegal
Shankar Mahadevan
Javed Akhtar
Anil Kapoor
T.N.Seetharam
Bappa Ray
1. Anjalika Sharma
Anjalika Sharma is a director, video producer, video editor, photographer, and writer based in San Diego, California, United States. She graduated from Cathedral and John Cannon School, Mumbai, with distinction in subjects like economics, Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology. She then pursued her Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Anjalika has completed her postgraduate diploma in Direction and Screenplay Writing from the globally acclaimed Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute, Kolkata, India. Due to her exceptional vision and storytelling ability, her thesis film, MeenaJha, received the National Award for Best Debut of a Director at the Indian National Awards in 2001.
Since moving to the...
2. Madhusree Dutta
Madhusree Dutta is a filmmaker, novelist, and curator born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Jadavpur University in Kolkata and a master's degree in drama from the National School of Drama in New Delhi. In 1987, Dutta relocated to Mumbai. Dutta served one of the juries of the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) Shorts in 2015, Feminale: International Women's Film Festival, Cologne in 2006, Message to Man International Documentary Film Festival, St. Petersburg in 2001, and the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in 2009. She also served as the Chairperson of the jury of the SIGNS Festival of Digital Videos in 2014. MIFF (Mumbai International ...
3. Flavia Agnes
Flavia Agnes is a woman who fights for the rights of women. She is an Indian Women's rights lawyer with expertise in marital, divorce, and property law. She lives and works in Mumbai. She became a lawyer at the High Court of Mumbai in 1988, and she has chaired the legal and cultural Centre for the barricade of women's rights, Majlis. She grew up in the village of Kadri, in Mangalore, living with her aunt. Her family lives in Aden, and she moved there. In Aden, she worked as a Typist. When her father died, she went back to Mangalore.
When she was 20 years old, she married a 12-year older man who disrespected and abused her. After 14 years of her marriage, she finally split her husband and gained their childr...
4. Bhavatharini
Bhavatharini is a Tamil singer and music composer. She is the daughter of famous music composer of south Indian cinema, Ilaiyaraaja. Noted music composers, Karthik Raja and Yuvan Shankar Raja are her brothers. Bhavatharini has won a National Award for Best Playback Singer Female for the film Bharathi in 2001. The song was “Mayil Pola Ponnu Onnu”, composed by her father, Ilaiyaraaja. She always sings under the direction of her father or brothers.
Bhavatharini has studied in Rosary Metric School in Chennai and she was the classmate of the famous singer Bhargavi. She made her debut as a singer in 1995 with the film Raasaiyya. The song she sang was a big hit. Bhavatharini usually sin...
Date of Death:
25-01-2024
Age:
47
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
25-01-2024
Age:
47
Gender:
Female
5. Raveena Tandon
Raveena Tandon is an Indian film actress who is known for doing some commercial cinema and then migrating to serious roles that gave her recognition as a serious actress. She made her superstar debut in film Mohra, which was supposed to be done by Divya Bharti. As Divya died, Raveena was the ultimate choice to play the role of the sexy girl, who did first item song’ Tu Cheez BariHai Mast Mast’. She was often paired with Akshay Kumar, and the duo became the most successful pair in Bollywood. She also made a hit pair with Govinda and did some blockbuster movies with the actor. Raveena made a sabbatical from films and did reject offers such as Dil To Pagal Hai, Gupt, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Virasat, w...
Age:
51
Gender:
Female
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6. Asha Bhosle
Asha is considered to be the second greatest female vocalist in India, second to only her sister the great Lata Mangeshkar. Born on September 8th 1933 in Maharashtra to Master Deenanath Mangeshkar, a classical singer and actor. Her father passed away when Asha was only 10 and she and her sister began to sing from an early age to support their family. Asha had a big family with 4 sisters, including Asha, and one brother.
Asha made her debut at the age of 10 in 1943. She got a break to sing for a Marathi film, Majha Bal, and provided her vocals for the song "Chala Chala Nav Bala”. Her first song in Bollywood was “Saawan Aaya” for Chunariya in 1948. Asha began to work for various ran...
Age:
90
Gender:
Female
7. K P A C Lalitha
K.P.A.C Lalitha is known for her character Mayavathi Amma in the super hit comedy serial ‘Thattiyum Muttiyum.’ She is one of the finest Malayalam Cinema and Serials actors, known for her acting in very distinctive and versatile roles in hundreds of movies. She has won National Award twice for the movies Amaram (directed by her husband) in 1991 and Shantam in 2000. She has also won several state awards and many television awards.
In 2013, her autobiography Kadha Tudarum won the Cherukad award. She was born Maheshwari in 1947, in Alappuzha, Kerala, India. She is a part of the Malayalam Cinema Industry and Tele Serial Industry. She began her career at the age of 10 by acting in plays. Her first play...
Date of Death:
22-02-2022
Age:
76
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
22-02-2022
Age:
76
Gender:
Female
8. Arun Khopkar
Arun Khopkar is a director who was born in Bombay on November 5, 1945. Haathi Ka Anda (2002) and Tobacco Habits and Oral Cancer are among his films (1977). He has also won the Golden Lotus, the top National Film Award, three times for his short films. He has published articles on films and other topics in national and international magazines. In Marathi, his work on Guru Dutt earned a National Award for the best book on cinema. Arun Khopkar graduated from FTII with a degree in film direction in 1974, and his short films are exceptional. He uses different lighting, lensing, camera motions, and montage rhythm to bring out the right aspects in his films....
Age:
78
Gender:
Male
9. Gnana Rajasekaran
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...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
10. Vikraman
Vikraman is one among the popular directors in Tamil cinema, who directs different films from others. His debut movie was Pudhu Vasantham, which was a super hit movie with different story. Pudhu Vasantham had Murali, Raja, Charlie, Anand Babu and Sithara in lead roles. This film depicted a true friendship between 4 boys and a girl. He was the assistant of Parthipan in Pudhiya Padhai.
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Age:
58
Gender:
Male
11. Supriyo Sen
Supriyo Sen is an Indian film director. He lives in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Honestly, he worked as a journalist; then he became an independent filmmaker. He directed the short documentary Wagah has been screened at over 200 film festivals and was voted the third most well-liked short film within the world in 2009 by the German short film magazine. Also, he won the Berlin Today Award at the Berlin Film Festival. His two-hour documentary on the Partition of India Way Back Home is the first Indian documentary to be released commercially.
Sen is a Berlinale Talent (international young filmmakers’ program by Berlin Film Festival). He has served as a Juror at several film festivals, including the Busan Internation...
12. Anup Dev
Anup Dev is a re-recording mixer and sound supervisor. He has spent many years working in the Bollywood film industry with great names like Aananth Mahadevan, Rohit Shetty, Ajay Devgan, late Irfan Khan, and late Rishi Kapoor. In 2006 he won ZEE cine award for Best Re-Recording. Anup has worked as a sound mixer in Hip Hip Hurray in 1984, Mard in 1985, Janbaaz in 1986, Samundar in 1986, Nagina in 1986, Allah-Rakhda in 1986, Kalyug aur Ramayan in 1987, Shehenshah in 1988, Ganga Jamuna Saraswathi in 1988, Kaal Chakra in 1988, Clerk in 1989, Prem pratigyaa in 1989, Nighahen: Naagina part II in 1989, Chandni in 1989, Naqab in 1989, Swarg in 1990, Aaj ka Arjun in 1990, Agneekaal in 1990, Jai Shiv Shankar in 1990, Javani Zindabad in 1990, Farish...
13. Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee was born on January 19, 1935, in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. His films include The World of Apu (1959), Kony (1984), and Days and Nights in the Forest (1970). Deepa Chatterjee was his wife. He died in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on November 15, 2020. He was well known for his fourteen films with Oscar-winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray, with whom he collaborated. Soumitra Chattopadhyay was the first Indian film celebrity to receive France's highest honor for artists, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was also the recipient of India's highest film honor, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
Krishnanagar, in the district of Nadia in West Bengal, where he spent the first ten years of his childhood...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
14. Salim Padiyath
Salim Padiyath was born in 1958 in Kodungallur, Kerala. He did his graduation in Commerce, and after that, he began his career in cinema. He has directed many movies and documentaries. Salim Padiyath is an immensely talented director who has worked as an associate director with Kamal and M.T. Vasudevan Nair in almost 25 films.
He has directed a famous documentary Shre-e-Malabar which is about the freedom fighter Mohamed Abdur Rahiman. It shows the sacrifices he made for our country as a freedom fighter. Salim has also directed various Short Films and ad films. Gharaksharangal was written by Padiyath himself and was his debut feature film which won him the National Award for the Best Children’s Film in 2000.
Some of ...
Gender:
Male
15. P. V. Gangadharan
P. V. Gangadharan is a leading businessman and a well-known film producer in Malayalam film industry. He was born in Calicut in 1943. His father's name is P. V. Sami, who was a business tycoon and was also the founder of Kerala Transport Group of Companies.
His mother's name is Madhuri Sami. He is an eminent producer in Tamil and Malayalam film industry. His elder brother, P. V. Chandran is a managing director and editor of a famous Mathrubhumi newspaper. P. V. Gangadharan started the production company Grihalakshmi productions and till now more than 20 films had been produced under its banner. The movies produced by his company had been awarded with several awards and recognitions both at National and International level...
Gender:
Male
16. Vasiraju Prakasam
Vasiraju Prakasam is a film critic, producer, and journalist in the Indian film industry predominantly in Telugu cinema. He is also the producer of few television serials in the channel Doordarshan. Vasiraju Prakasam has produced some famous films such as Balaraju Katha, Kalam Marindi and Bapujee Bharatham. Vasiraju Prakasam was born in Andhra Pradesh, India.
He now resides in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Vasiraju Prakasam was invited as a jury member to evaluate the nominees in the category "Best Wring on Cinema" in the 54th National Film Awards. He was also a jury in the International Film Festival of India, Film Star Charity Cricket Association, and also International Children's Film Festival. For ...
17. Ramoji Rao
The head of Ramoji group, Cherukuri Ramoji Rao is an Indian businessmen, educationist, media entrepreneur, film producer and journalist.He was born on 16 November 1936 in Pedaparupudi, Madras Presidency. Having his roots from an agricultural family, he is a very simple yet loving soul. He is usually spotted in white safari, paired up with white shoes and socks which perfectly matches his persona. Ramoji group, a conglomerate, owns the ”Ramoji Film City,” which holds the Guinness World Record for being the largest film studio in the world. Along with this it covers Eenadu newspaper, ETV, Priya Foodsand Margadarsi Chit Fund. Ramoji Rao is also the chairman of the Dolphin chain of Hotels in Andra Pradesh.
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Age:
87
Gender:
Male
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18. Suresh Pai
Suresh Pai is a Hindi film editor working in Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. He is a freelancer and has an interest in Media and Marketing, Film and TV tech and Post Production. Suresh Pai has been an editor since 2000, and he has worked on over 35 feature films in Hindi including Snip!, Hawai Dada, Bheja Fry Masala, Jhankaar Beats, etc. Suresh Pai has won National Awards for the category "Best Editor" two times for his work in the movies "Snip!" in the year 2000 and "Page 3" in the year 2005.
He has worked in film production, screenwriting, commercials, entertainment, video production, post-production, short films, television series, and documentaries. He studied film editing in Pune. In 1994, Suresh ...
19. P. Sheshadri
P. Sheshadari was born on 23rd November, 1963 in Dandinashivara, Mysore. P. Sheshadari is a very popular Kannada Cinema Director. He also won many National Awards for his amazing films like Atithi, Tutturi, Bharath Stores and much more. He was born in Mysore, but he later shifted to Karnataka. The audience like and appreciate his work.
Other than films P. Sheshadari is into television as well. He is the director of many T.V series like Inchara, Maayamriga, Saakshi and much more. He has done the movie named Munnudi, which got released in the year 2000 and this is an amazing movie by him. Munnudi is about religions and customs and he also won the Social Issu...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
20. Udhaya Raj
Udhaya Raj is an actor who works predominately in Tamil film industry. He has been popular for his performances in various Tamil language films like imi ellam suagme, thalaivaa, etc. Udhaya debuted his career in the Indian cinema in the year 1998. He received all the guidance and training required from his father and brother who also work in the industry.
He is the son of the well-acclaimed producer AL Azhagappan and is also the brother of the noted director Vijay. The actor married kirthika in August 2007. Udhaya started his career with the movie ini ellam sugame in 1998. Produced by his father himself the movie revolved around Arvind and Nandini's love story which is interrupted when another girl also falls in love with him...
Age:
33
Gender:
Male
Age:
33
Gender:
Male
21. Yusufali Kechery
Yusuf Ali Kechery was an Indian poet, director, film lyricist, and film producer from Kerala, who was born on May 16th, 1934. He was one of the most known poets of the of Malayalam poetry and received numerous awards including Kerala Sahitya Academy Award, Odakkuzhal Award, and Vallathol Award. Yusuf was born in 1934 in Trichur district of the City of Cochin. After getting his Bachelor's degree in Arts and Law, he began his career journey as a freelance writer and lawyer. Professor KP Narayana, who was a highly regarded scholar, was Yousuf’s Sanskrit teacher and taught him without any fee for four years.
Yusuf is remembered as one of the leading poetry artists of the Malayalam Poetry. Some of his significant poetry work...
Date of Death:
21-03-2015
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
22. 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”...
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
23. P Krishnamoorthy
P. Krishnamoorthy was born in Poompuhar town of Tamil Nadu, India. He is an art director, who has worked in the Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam film industries. He is also a production and costume designer. The director did his graduation from the Government College of Fine Arts (formerly Madras School of Art) in Chennai. He was a student of the batch from 1980 to 1985. He is active professionally since 1972. He has contributed in around 55 movies. The director gives credit for his entry in the movie industry to G.V. Iyer, the famous Indian actor and director. They both met for the first time in 1968. Iyer was about to direct a Kannada film titled Hamsa Geethe. The movie was based on a T. R. Rao novel. Iyer also produced the film. The film ...
Date of Death:
13-12-2020
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-12-2020
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
24. K. Vijaya Bhaskar
K. Vijaya Bhaskar is a well-known Telugu film director. He has been appreciated for almost all the films that he has directed. However, he is famous for his prowess in comedy-oriented films like Nuvve Kavali, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, and Manmadhudu. K. Vijaya Bhaskar is a native of village Avanigadda in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh.
At the age of ten, he was admitted to Sainik School, Korukonda. Since his childhood, he was inclined towards the film industry. He used to watch a lot of films and while doing that, he was very observant and always used to feel that some scenes could have been shot in a better way. After schooling, he joined the Indian Air Force...
Gender:
Male
25. M. T. Vasudevan Nair
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, eightee...
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
26. Sathyan Anthikad
Sathyan Anthikad is a film director who has even tried his hands at writing lyrics. He also has been an eminent screenwriter in Malayalam movies. He has a long association with Mohanlal, Jayaram, and even Mammootty. He has made 19 movies with Mohanlal, 17 movies with Jayaram, and eight movies with Mammootty. Hence, he has given the most successful movies in Kerala. He even tried to make some low-budget movies too and was moderately successful. He chose to direct ‘Pappan Priyappetta Pappan’ which was the 100th film of Mohanlal.
In 2015 Sathyan’s much-awaited film ‘Ennum Eppozhum’ created a buzz in the industry as it...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
27. Rajkumar Santoshi
Rajkumar Santoshi is an Indian filmmaker who shot to fame with Sunny Deol’s films. However, he had begun his career as an assistant to Govind Nihalani. He learnt filmmaking aspect from Govind. Rajkumar has assisted Govind Nihalani in his five films (notable are Ardh Satya & Vijeta).
Rajkumar Santhoshi was born to filmmaker P.L. Santoshi, who had given a break to actor Dev Anand, music director O.P. Nayyar and even had encouraged playback singer Kishore Kumar. His father was an assistant director for Raj Kapoor’s films Sargam and Barsaat Ki Raat.
Rajkumar Santhoshi was born in Chennai from his father&rsq...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
28. Farouq Rattonsey
Farouq ttonsey is a veteran producer of the Hindi Film Industry. He has produced only one film till now which is Zubeidaa. The film released in the year 2001. The picture was a super duper hit and did very well at the box office. After this movie, he has also worked with the movies namely, Tehzaab in the year 2003, and Kaminey in the year 2009. In both the pictures; Tehzaab and Kaminey, he received some special thanks from the working committee of the picture. Farouq has excellent interactive skills and has a very creative mind, which was seen in the film Zubeidaa. Zubeidaa is a 2001 Indian movie which is a direction of Shyam Benegal and is written by Khalid Mohammed. It features Rekha, Karishma Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, Surekha Sikri, Raj...
29. Cheran
Cheran was born on December 12, 1970, in Pazhaiyurpatty, Melur. His father Pandian was a Projector Operator in Vellalur touring theater and his mother Kamala was a primary school teacher. He has two sisters. He is a Tamil, film Director.
From early childhood, he had a keen interest in Dramatics. Initially, he started off his career as a Production Manager in some movies. He even worked as an assistant director under Director K.S. Ravikumar in ‘Puriyaadha Pudhir.’
He finally made his directional debut in ‘Bharathi Kannamma’ in 1997 through Producer Henry. The film met with a lot of controversies but keeping t...
Age:
53
Gender:
Male
Age:
53
Gender:
Male
30. V. Ravichandran
The Crazy Actor, Ravichandran is an actor, director, producer, music director and editor known for his work in Kannada Cinema. He was born on 30th May 1961. He was born to N. Veeraswamy, a film producer and Pattamal. He married Sumathy on 14th February 1986. He has two sons Manoranjan and Vikram, and a daughter Geethanjali. Ravichandran’s debut as an actor was Khadeema Kallaru (1982) in which he played the negative role when he was 21 followed by Chakravyuha (1983).
After doing numerous roles as a supporting actor, he was the lead in his directorial debut that was a Kannada cinema Blockbuster, Premaloka (1987) a romantic comedy with Juhi Chawla. His has his productio...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
31. Goutam Ghose
Gautam Ghose is a special man. He has won numerous awards, and his work has been appreciated across cultures and boundaries. He is the most celebrated Bengali Film Director. He is known for his films, and has won numerous National and International Awards for his performance. To say the least, he has won 16 National Awards and many Filmfare Awards. He remains the single Indian to have won the prestigious "Vittorio Di Sica” Award, in Italy.
Goutam Ghose, born on 24 July 1950 belongs to Calcutta, India. His mother Santana and father Prof. Himangshu Kumar Ghose has played a huge role in making him the man he is today. His early schooling days were at St John’...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
32. H G Dattatreya
The two times national award winning actor for supporting roles Dattanna alias HG Dattatreya was working in Air Force, but was interested in acting. He is one of the actors, who are highly qualified and also held a position as a principal in the management academy of HAL. Acting was his passion and so, he continued to do films regardless of awards. Although awards are definitely an encouragement for the actor, but to continue his journey in over 90 films that spanned over 26 years is indeed a remarkable feat. Although he chose to take up supporting actor role or even in character roles, he is known for his versatile performances in Kannada film industry.
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
33. 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
34. 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 ...
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
35. 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 ...
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
36. Apurva Asrani
Based in Mumbai, Apurva started off his career as a film editor while also giving directing and screenwriting a try. Born on 21st March 1978 he began his career in television as an assistant for Bpl Oye! on Channel V in 1995. In an interview he said that he worked anywhere from 17 to 20 hours on editing the show. He continued working for various shows and serials including Sajid Khan’s El TV and serials for Plus Channel. He began editing films at the age of 19 with Ramgopal Varma’s Satya. He won a Filmfare award for his work in Satya. Apurva was praised for his editing work in the film Chhal, which received rave reviews from critic. He then edited Anupam Kher’s film Om Jai Jagadish, which was Kher’s debut...
Age:
46
Gender:
Male
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37. 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
38. Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to...
Age:
57
Gender:
Male
Age:
57
Gender:
Male
39. 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
40. Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for ...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
41. T.N.Seetharam
If T.N Seetharam can be described in one word, then versatile comes to the mind for his admirers across Karnataka. He is an actor, director, script writer and producer of a number of films and television serials. He has also been credited with introducing fresh faced TV stars who then went on to become successful actors in their own right.
T.N.Seetharam was born on 6th December 1948 in Gauribidanur, Kolar in Mysore district. He is a double graduate in Science and Law. During his college days, Seetharam developed a keen interest in plays and decided to pursue his career in arts and drama. His association with P Lankesh landed him a role in the national award winning movie Pallavi....
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
42. Bappa Ray
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