Hindi Awards 4th Filmfare Award - Cast & Crew

Suchitra Sen was a renowned and respected Indian film actress, mostly played characters in Bengali films. She is well known for her work in 'Saat Paake Bandha' which fetch her Silver Prize at 1963's Moscow International Film Festival. In 1963, she was awarded one of the India's highest civilian award ‘Padma Shree.’

Suchitra Sen was born in Bari village of Sirajgonj district of Bangladesh to Late Karunamoy Das Gupta. She is also the granddaughter of famous poet Rajanikanta Sen. She debuted in Bengali films in the year 1952 through ‘Shesh Kothay.’ However due to some reasons, the film went unreleased. Next to this, she appeared with Uttam Kumar in her second film 'Sharey Chuattor' which was a success. Suchitra, with this outs...

Nutan Bahl was an old Indian actress. She was born on 4 June in 1936 in Bombay. She appeared in many old Hindi films. She played as an actress for forty years career. She is one of the best actresses in the Hindi film industry. She is famous for playing many unconventional roles for which she received many awards and praises.

She started her career in 1950 when her age was just 14 for the film Hamari Beti. The film was directed by Shobha Samarth, her mother. After that, she played many famous roles in many other films like Nagina, Humlog in 1951. The movie that brought her fame and name was in 1955 was Seema. She also won Best Actress award in Filmfare Awards.

She then got many other offers to play the lead roles in their movies. Throughout the 1960s until late 1970s, she won the awards again four times...

Vyjayanthimala Bali is very well known worldwide by just her first name Vyjayanthimala. She is an Indian film actress who was born on August 13, 1936. Besides settling her career in the industry, she has also been a great Bharatanatyam dancer, a Carnatic singer, and a choreographer. She also belongs to the category of the Member of Parliament. She started her career as a Tamil actress and later became popular worldwide because of her magnificent work in Bollywood. Vyjayanthimala was born in Thiruvallikeni, one of the oldest neighborhoods of Chennai, near Parthasarathy Temple, in a Tamil family. She was the daughter of M.D. Raman and Vasundhara Devi. Vasundhara Devi was a Tamil actress who had been flooding all over Tamil cinemas in the 1940s and who made a blockbuster debut in the Tamil industry in a movie ...

Kanu Desai was born on 1907 in Bharuch, Gujarat. He was a painter and art director from India. Later, his family relocated to Ahmedabad to live with his maternal uncle. He volunteered during an Indian National Congress assembly in Ahmedabad in 1920, addressed by Mahatma Gandhi. He started learning painting with Ravishankar Raval in 1922. Later, in 1925, he was sent to Shantiniketan on a Gujarat Vidyapith scholarship to study under Nandalal Bose and as a result, was influenced by Bose and Rabindranath Tagore. In 1930, he participated in Gandhi's "Dandi March." He has painted several paintings that documented the event. He later began sketching silhouettes.

In 1937, he helped to adorn the INC session in Haripura. His artworks were published in Jeevan Mangal and Nritya Manjari. After designing book covers, he began d...

Radhu Karmakar was a cinematographer and director of great repute. His claim to fame in Bollywood was his beautiful night sequence photography and high contrast lighting. He has worked with numerous luminaries. His long-term association with Raj Kapoor and R.K. Films is something about which almost everyone knows. He was born in Dhaka on 3rd June1919. In the film industry, he began his journey as a lab assistantat Radha Films in Kolkata in 1936. Later, he went on to become a camera assistant under the guidance of Jyotin Das. It was not until 1945 that he developed to be a cameraman. He got the opportunity to work with the director Nitin Bose for films such as ‘Drishti Daan,’ ‘Kismat Ki Dhani’ (1945), and ‘Milan’ (1946).

Then in the year 1951, his long...

Amiya Chakrabarty is an Indian Director. He primarily worked in the Hindi Film Industry. He was born on 30^th November, 1912 in Bogura, Bengal, India. Besides being a director, he is also a screenwriter, and producer. Due to his hard work, and dedication he became the leading director of Hindi Cinema during the1950s.  Some of the movies  which he directed include Bandhan, which released in 1940. Anjaan, which released in 1941. Basant, which released in 1942. Jwar Bhata, which released in 1944. Mera Suhaag, which released in 1947. Girls School, which released in 1949. Gauna, which released in 1950. Badal, which released in 1951. He also  has the honor of receiving the 4^th Filmfare award. The name of his wife is Saraswati Shastri.

Born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, on November 18, 1901, Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre alluded to as Shantaram Bapu or V. Shantaram, was a Marathi Indian movie producer, filmmaker and performing artist. He is from a Marathi Jain family and, he wedded thrice. He first married to Vimla and, they had three kids Saroj, Prabhat Kumar, and Charusheela, mother of performing artist Sushant Ray a.k.a. Siddharth Ray.

Shantaram at that point wedded on-screen character Jayashree and, they had three youngsters Tejashree, Marathi movie chief and maker Kiran and performing artist Rajshree. His third spouse, performer Sandhya starred opposite him in Do Aankhen Barah Haath and also the courageous woman of his movies, for example, Sehra, Jhanak Payal Baaje, Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli and Navrang.

His girl Madhura from his first marriage w...

Shankar Jaikishan is a duo musical composer in Bollywood who dominated the film industry for three decades.  It is an unusual story of two classical musical composers who got united together as they had a personal liking for each other. Although Shankar Singh was born in Telangana and Jaikishan in Gujarat, they met each other in Mumbai in Prithvi Theaters ( then run by Prithviraj Kapoor). Both were working as music composer for the plays that were staged in the drama company Prithvi Theaters. While Shankar learnt to play Tabla, Jaikishan was expert in Harmonium, 

Before joining Prithvi Theaters Shankar learnt Tabla from the nuances of Baba Nasir Khansahib and Jaikishan learnt harmonium from Visharad Wadilalji. They became experts in musical training. While they...

Motilal was India’s first natural actor. The actor was born in Shimla on December 4, 1910. He is still remembered for portraying the role of ‘Chunni Babu’ in Bimal Roy’s Devdas, which he acted with Dilip Kumar. Since then he has been described as one of the best actors of all times in Indian cinema. Few actors followed his footsteps like Balraj Sahni, Yakub or even Nasseruddin Shah. But everyone lacked the spontaneity he had as an actor. He was effortlessly a natural actor that everyone felt he was not at all acting. That was his grace and credibility as an actor. He dodged the style of theatrical acting. It is noteworthy that previous actors like Sohrab Modi and Prithviraj Kapoor relied on theatrical acting. His natural acting had paved the way for actors like Dilip...

Raj Kapoor was a renowned actor, director, and producer of Bollywood cinema. He was given the title of “The Showman” as his film attracted a huge number of audiences from Asia and Europe. He was honored with the Padma Bhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to Indian cinema.

The Indian Film Industry gave him the title of Clarke Gable of India. His parents Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni Kapoor named him as Ranbir Raj Kapoor. He was born on December 14, 1924, in Peshawar province of Pakistan. He studied in Colonel Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun and then finished his graduation from St Xavier’s Collegiate School.

In 1935 at the age of 10 he made his debut with the movie ‘Inquilab’. He reached the pinnacle of success with his film ‘Neel Kamal’ in...