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1. Aruna Raje


a/r/u/n/a/0/aruna-raje.png Aruna Raje was born in the year 1946 at the city of Pune, India. By profession, she is an Indian film editor and director popular for her works related to feminism and issues related to women in Indian Hindi Cinema (Bollywood). She used to be a tomboy and was fond of reading Shakespeare at the age of 13. She got...
Date of Birth: 1946
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1946
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Editor, Director

2. Soundarya Raghu


soundarya-old.jpg Soundarya Raghu was born on 18 July 1972. She was the producer of movies and a film star in India. She is mostly famous for her work in the cinema of Telugu. Even she has worked in some movies of Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Bollywood in the leading roles. As being the producer of the kannadian movie called ‘Dweepa’ in...
Date of Birth: 18-07-1972
Date of Death: 17-04-2004
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-07-1972
Date of Death: 17-04-2004
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Movie Actress

3. Manjula Ghattamaneni


manjula-ghattamaneni.jpg Manjula Ghattamaneni or also known as Manjula Swaroop is a Telugu film actress and producer. She was born in the year 1970 to Indira Devi and renowned actor, Krishna Ghattamaneni. Manjula is the sister of prominent film producer, Ramesh Babu, and popular Telugu actor, Mahesh Babu. She got married to Sanjay Swaroop, who is also a film actor and producer...
Date of Birth: 1970
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1970
Gender: Female
Language: Telugu
Skills: Producer

4. Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai


shobhana.png Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai known by the short name 'Shobana' is a well renowned Bharatnatyam artist and film actress. She is proficient in several languages such as English, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Tamil and worked in 200 such films. For her phenomenal performance in 1993's 'Manichitrathazhu' and 2001's 'Mitr, My Friend', she won two National Film Award for Best Actress. The...
Date of Birth: 21-03-1966
Age: 58
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-03-1966
Age: 58
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

5. Janaki Vishwanathan


janaki-vishwanathan.png Janaki Viswanathan is a ‘Tamil’ director. She is a notable alumnus of ‘Madras University’. She owns an M. Com degree in accounting from ‘Ethiraj College’, ‘Chennai’. She was initially a journalist, she progressed slowly into the films later. She worked for a TV network before she stepped into the film industry. She then dabbled in the documentaries she had. ‘Santosh...
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:

6. Bhanu Athaiya


b/h/a/n/u/0/bhanu-athaiya.jpg Born on April 28, 1929, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Bhanu Athaiya née Rajopadhye is an Indian costume creator. She has created a costume in more than 100 movies, since the 50s.She is the daughter of Shantabai and Annasaheb Rajopadhye. She is the third child among her seven siblings....
Date of Birth: 28-04-1929
Date of Death: 15-10-2020
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-04-1929
Date of Death: 15-10-2020
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

7. Sadhana Sargam


sadhana-sargam1.jpg Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974,...
Date of Birth: 07-03-1974
Age: 50
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-03-1974
Age: 50
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer

8. Beena Paul


b/e/e/n/a/0/beena-paul.png Born in 1961, Beena Paul is a renowned film editor of the Indian Cinema. She has given her contribution in ‘Malayalam’ films mainly. She was brought up in the city of ‘Delhi’ by her father A P Paul, who is a ‘Malayali’, and her mother, Sharada Paul, who is a ‘Kannada’. She had graduated in the field of ‘Film Editing’...
Date of Birth: 28-01-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-01-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Editor

9. Ananya Khare


Ananya-Khare.jpg Ananya Khare was born on March 16, 1968 in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India. She is an actress from Bollywood who performed on numerous popular movies on a supporting role, such as the Indian romantic drama film, Devdas on 2002 as Kumud Mukherjee and the 2001 Hindi film, 'Chandni Bar', where she got the Indian National Award for Best Supporting Actress....
Date of Birth: 16-03-1968
Age: 56
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 16-03-1968
Age: 56
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actress

10. Tabu


14-02-2017/tabu.jpg Tabu is a wonderful gift to the Indian cinema. She is a good performer in Tamil, English, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali and Telugu films. Tabu was born in Hyderabad to Rizwana and Jamal Hashmi. After her schooling, she went to Mumbai to do her graduation. She appeared in small roles in the Hindi films. Her official debut as a heroine is...
Date of Birth: 04-11-1971
Age: 53
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-11-1971
Age: 53
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actress

11. K. N. T. Sastry


26-09-2020/k.-n.-t.-sastry.jpg Kanaala Nanjunda Tirumala Sastry was born on 5th September 1945. He was a Telugu Film critic, producer, director, and litterateur. Though he spent most of his academic life in Kolar, seeking education in a Kannada medium school, he learned Telugu. He has also written a book in Telugu titled Apuroopa Chitraalu, which won him a national award. He is known...
Date of Birth: 05-09-1945
Date of Death: 13-09-2018
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-09-1945
Date of Death: 13-09-2018
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu

12. Gangadhar Mahambare


26-09-2020/gangadhar-mahambare.jpg Gangadhar Mahambare is a famous writer, poet, and lyricist. He was born on 31 January 1931. He worked as a librarian at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune for many years. He has written many songs and poems. The names of some of his published poems are Autorickshaw (Maintenance and Repair), Happy Birthday..., A Touch of Sublimeness (Co-Author...
Date of Birth: 31-01-1931
Date of Death: 23-12-2008
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Marathi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 31-01-1931
Date of Death: 23-12-2008
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Marathi
Skills: Writer, Poet

13. Satheesh Venganoor


26-09-2020/satheesh-venganoor.jpg Satheesh Venganoor is an immensely talented and experienced film director, studied at University College Thiruvananthapuram. He has worked majorly in the Malayalam film industry. His work got appreciated by the audience. People love the way he directs the movie. He has given many hits to the Malayalam film industry. Some of those are Kottaram Vaidyan, Moockuthy in the year 2004,...
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:

14. Buddhadev Dasgupta


16-08-2019/buddhadev-dasgupta.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 11-02-1944
Age: 80
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-02-1944
Age: 80
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

15. Goutam Ghose


goutam-ghose.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 24-07-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-07-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

16. K J Yesudas


k/0/j/0/y/e/k-j-yesudas.jpg Kattassery Joseph Yesudas shortly called as K J Yesudas is an exceptional Carnatic singer and playback singer in Indian Cinema. Born on Jan 10 in 1940, he is fondly called as Gana Gandharvan and Dasettan. He has set a record of recording more than 60,000 songs. He is born in a Roman Catholic family, in Kochi. His father was a...
Date of Birth: 10-01-1940
Age: 85
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-01-1940
Age: 85
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer, Musician

17. T V Chandran


T-V-Chandran.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 23-11-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-11-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

18. Neelakanta Reddy


15-11-2019/neelakanta-reddy.jpg Neelakanta, a Telugu film director, and screenwriter, hails from Kadappa,  Andhra Pradesh and since his childhood had a keen interest in the direction which led him to migrate to Chennai with the completion of his graduation. He has been awarded twice with National Awards, one for Best Screenplay and other for feature film “Show.”. Neelakanta always wanted to make films that...
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Telugu
Skills: Screenplay

19. Murali Malayalam


m/u/r/a/l/i/murali-malayalam.png Murali is a well-known Malayalam film actor who has also acted in Tamil films. Murali pocketed a National Award for playing the role of a communist freedom fighter in the 2002 movie, “Neythukaran.” Murali is considered to be one of the best actors to have blessed Malayalam cinemas and is revered for his character portrayals of playing the lead as...
Date of Birth: 25-05-1954
Date of Death: 06-08-2009
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 25-05-1954
Date of Death: 06-08-2009
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

20. Aribam Syam Sharma


19-04-2017/aribam-syam-sharma.png Aribam Syam Sharma was born on March 21st, 1936 at Imphal, Manipur. He started his career as a film director as well as a composer from the state of Manipur in India. He made his first appearance in The Manipuri movie Queen as an actor for the motion picture Matamgi Manipur. Besides acting, he directed his first show Lamja Parshuram...
Date of Birth: 21-03-1936
Age: 88
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-03-1936
Age: 88
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

21. P. Sheshadri


p/0/0/s/h/e/p.-sheshadri.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 23-11-1963
Age: 61
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-11-1963
Age: 61
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Director

22. Prakash Jha


14-03-2017/prakash-jha.png Prakash Jha, a director, film producer and screenwriter, was born on 27th of February 1952. ‘Prakash Jha Productions’ is his production venture. Hailing from Bihar, Prakash Jha went on to study B.Sc Honors in Ramjas College. Eventually he stopped studies and came to Mumbai, wanting to be a painter. As he was preparing for entrance exam for a course in...
Date of Birth: 27-02-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-02-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

23. Suresh Menon


Suresh-Menon.jpg Suresh Menon was born on 10th January 1967 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor, TV celebrity who features in Television, and stuns people, and he also actively does comedian based roles. Thus, with all these crowd pulling aspects, he stuns people with his mere screen presence. He became the apple of the eye of lots of...
Date of Birth: 10-01-1967
Age: 58
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-01-1967
Age: 58
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

24. Farhan Akhtar


28-09-2017/farhan-akhtar.jpg One of the most recognized young director of Indian cinema. In fact, he is the most versatile person in the industry as of now. He is Farhan Akhtar, a film director, actor, singer, writer, producer, screenwriter everything you name it, he has it. Son of the famous writer Javed Akhtar & actress Honey Irani was born on 09 Jan,...
Date of Birth: 09-01-1974
Age: 51
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-01-1974
Age: 51
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

25. Ritesh Sidhwani


Ritesh-Sidhwani.jpg Ritesh Sidhwani was born in Mumbai on January 1, 1973. He had no formal education on filmmaking, yet he turned himself as a producer of Bollywood films and runs Excel Entertainment (an Indian film studio) in Mumbai, which was jointly created by Javed Akhtar’s son Farhan Akhtar, and Ritesh Sidhwani in the year 1999. So far the duo had released...
Date of Birth: 1973
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1973
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

26. Javed Akhtar


Javed-Akhtar.jpg 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....
Date of Birth: 17-01-1945
Age: 80
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-01-1945
Age: 80
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

27. Nitin Chandrakant Desai


08-02-2017/nitin-chandrakant-desai.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 09-08-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 09-08-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Art Director

28. Udit Narayan


u/d/i/t/0/n/udit-narayan.jpg One of the famous playback singers of Indian Film Industry, who has sung more than 25,000 songs in more than 34 languages. He was born on 1 Dec, 1955 at Bhardaha Village in Saptari District, Nepal. He studied at P.B School, Rajbiraj (Nepal) upto class 10th and intermediate from Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus. Udit passed his initial life with struggles...
Date of Birth: 01-12-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-12-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer

29. Atul Kulkarni


Atul-Kulkarni.jpg Atul Kulkarni was born in the year 1965 in Karnataka. Basically, he has the ethnicity of Maharashtra and his family moved to Maharashtra and there he completed his schooling. He is a graduate from D. A. V College. His career started as a theatre artist and he married his co-artist Geetanjali. He was interested in the theatre performances and joined...
Date of Birth: 10-09-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 10-09-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Movie Actor

30. B. Lenin


b/0/0/l/e/n/b.-lenin.jpg B. Lenin (Bhimsingh Lenin) is primarily a Tamil film editor who has also worked as a writer and film maker. Apart from Tamil movies, he has worked in Malayalam and Hindi films. His career as an assistant editor started in 1979 with Uthiripookkal by director J. Mahendran. He worked as assistant editor with his father in many films before he...
Date of Birth: 15-08-1947
Age: 77
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-08-1947
Age: 77
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Editor, Writer, Director

31. Madhur Bhandarkar


madhur-bhandarkar.png Madhur Bhandarkar is an Indian film director, writer, and producer. He is known for his realistic filmmaking and has received critical acclaim for his work. He was born on 26 August 1968 in Mumbai. He got a job in a video cassette library in Khar, a Mumbai suburb, where he supplied video cassettes on a bicycle. It was here that...
Date of Birth: 26-08-1968
Age: 56
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 26-08-1968
Age: 56
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

32. Jyoti Sarup


j/y/o/t/i/0/jyoti-sarup.jpg Jyoti Sarup is an Indian film and serial director. He is also a producer. He was born on 20 August 1954 in New Delhi. He got Diploma Degree from National School of Drama. The director completed his Engineering from Film and Television Institute of India. Jyoti Sarup came to Mumbai to try his luck as an actor in 1978....
Date of Birth: 20-08-1954
Age: 70
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-08-1954
Age: 70
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

33. Ashutosh Gowariker


22-09-2017/ashutosh-gowariker.jpg Ashutosh Gowariker was born 15 February 1964 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He graduated from Mithibai College with B.Sc. in chemistry. During his school days he participated in theatre performances, folk dances and music plays, which helped him acknowledge and improve his talent and led him to attempt to build his career in the film industry. Ashutosh Gowariker began his film career modeling in...
Date of Birth: 15-02-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-02-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Actor

34. Aamir Khan


Aamir-Khan-Video.jpg Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bollywood’s finest actor. He is a package for the Indian TV industry as he is a producer, director and actor an all-rounder kind of personality. Khan has an estimated net worth of $185 million. Aamir has born on 14th March, 1965 (aged 50) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did two marriages, first with...
Date of Birth: 14-03-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-03-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Actor

35. Girish Kasaravalli


17-06-2017/girish-kasaravalli.png 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...
Date of Birth: 03-12-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-12-1950
Age: 74
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Director

36. Yash Chopra


yash-chopra.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 27-09-1932
Date of Death: 21-10-2012
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-09-1932
Date of Death: 21-10-2012
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

37. Vinod Anupam


26-09-2020/vinod-anupam.jpg Bio coming soon......
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer, Author, Poet