Anjalika Sharma
Madhusree Dutta
Flavia Agnes
Bhavatharini
Asha Bhosle
Raveena Tandon
K P A C Lalitha
Arun Khopkar
Gnana Rajasekaran
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
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
K. Vijaya Bhaskar
Farouq Rattonsey
Sathyan Anthikad
Cheran
Rajkumar Santoshi
V. Ravichandran
Goutam Ghose
Vikraman
Amol Palekar
Rituparno Ghosh
Apurva Asrani
P Bharathiraja
Shyam Benegal
Javed Akhtar
Shankar Mahadevan
Anil Kapoor
T.N.Seetharam
H G Dattatreya
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...
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:...
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,...
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,...
5. 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...
6. 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...
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...
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...
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...
10. 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,...
11. 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,...
12. 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...
13. 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....
14. 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....
15. 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....
16. 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...
17. 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,...
18. 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....
19. 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...
20. 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...
21. 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...
22. 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...
23. 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....
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....
25. 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,...
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...
27. 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....
28. 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). ...
29. 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...
30. 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....
31. 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...
32. 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...
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...
34. 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....
35. 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...
36. 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...
37. 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....
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...
39. 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...
40. 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....
41. 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...
42. Bappa Ray