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Hindi Awards 4th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. Rajbans Khanna


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Rajbans Khanna is a director who has given some masterpieces in the middle of the 1950s. Usha Rajbans Khanna is the wife of Rajbans Khanna. Samovar is the restaurant she owns. The restaurant is in Mumbai, and it is quite famous. In 1957 Rajbans Khanna directed the film Gotama The Buddha. Jeevan Sangram is a movie that was released in1974. Apart from directing, Rajbans Khanna produced this film. Shashi Kapoor, Radha Saluja, Jalal Agha worked in this film. Gulzar was the dialogue and screenplay writer.

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Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

2. Madhu Bose


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Madhu Bose is a film director, actor, Singer, Screenwriter in the earlier 1930s to ‘60s. He was born on 12th February 1900 at Calcutta. His parents are Kamala Dutt Bose and Pramath Nath Bose. His father played a major part of establishing the first soap factory in Calcutta. He received his education at Balok Bidyalay in Bolpur after some time in Shanthinikethan. His songwriting and acting skills was inspired by the great poet Rabindranath Tagore. He made him as a part of his play Valmiki-Prathiba where he was the creator of the skit. He later completed his studies at Vidyasagar College, Calcutta. His life was filled with struggles to achieve success. He started his career in the film industry by working at small jobs in short films. His talentfor acting came into the screen under Sisir Bh...

Date of Birth: 12-02-1900
Date of Death: 03-10-1969
Age: 124
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Writer, Director
Date of Birth: 12-02-1900
Date of Death: 03-10-1969
Age: 124
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Writer, Director

3. Tapan Sinha


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Tapan Sinha, one of the foremost Indian directors of his time was born on 2nd October 1924 and died on 15th January. 2009.He formed the legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen. Being primarily a Bengali filmmaker, he worked in both Hindi Cinema and Bengali Cinema, making films including Kabuli Wala, Louha Kapat, Sagina Mahato, Apanjan,Kshudhita Pashan, and children's films Safed Haathi and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Tapan Sinha began his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with the film production company New Theatres in Kolkata, then in 1950 he shifted to England, where he worked at Pinewood Studios for two years.

Before returning home to start his six-decade career in Indian Cinema, directing movies in Bengali, Hindi, and Oriya languages, covering genres in socia...

Date of Birth: 02-10-1924
Date of Death: 15-01-2009
Age: 99
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 02-10-1924
Date of Death: 15-01-2009
Age: 99
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

4. Sundaram Balachander


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Sundaram Balachander, known as S. Balachander, was an Indian musician, director, screenwriter, and composer. He was born on January 18, 1927, in Madras, British India. He started as a child artist in the Tamil cinema with Seetha Kalyanam in 1934, which he portrayed as a child musician in Ravana’s court. He also appeared in Rishyasringar and Araichimani. Later in 1948, he directed a film EnKanavar in which he starred in the lead role. The movie revolved around the male lead, his experiences as a son, a husband, and his desires as a human being.

In 1954, he directed a classic Tamil film-noir, AndhaNaal, which was a murder mystery set in the World War II era. It was the first-ever film noir of the Tamil film industry. He was a fine director who appreciated detective fiction and a famous musicologist. He believed that God sen...

Date of Birth: 18-01-1927
Date of Death: 13-04-1990
Age: 97
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 18-01-1927
Date of Death: 13-04-1990
Age: 97
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Director

5. Kidar Sharma


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'Kidar Sharma', whose birth name is Kidar Nath Sharma, born on April 20, 1920 was a film producer, director, lyricist, actor, and screenwriter of Indian nationality. He was born into a very poor family in Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan. He had three brothers and two sisters. However, two of his brothers named Vishwa and Ragunath, and one sister Taro died at a young age due to different diseases.

The last of them, Himmat Rai Sharma, became a renowned Urdu poet. Kidar studied at Baij Nath High School, Amritsar. From his school days, he was a creative child and would take a keen interest in photography, philosophy, painting, and poetry. After passing out from Baij Nath High School, he ran away from his family and came to Mumbai with the intention of finding work in the Hindi Film Industry.

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Date of Birth: 12-04-1910
Date of Death: 29-04-1999
Age: 114
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Date of Birth: 12-04-1910
Date of Death: 29-04-1999
Age: 114
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

6. Sombhu Mitra


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Born on August 22, 1915, in Calcutta (Kolkata), Sombhu Mitra was an Indian movie and stage on-screen character, recite, director, writer and an Indian theater identity. He is the son of Sharat Kumar Mitra, who is an employee at the Geological Survey of India and Satadalbasini Mitra. He had six siblings and Sombhu was 6th among them. He began his education in Chakraberia Middle English School and later proceeded to the Ballygunge Government High School in Calcutta, where he created spirit perusing Bengali plays and got to be distinctly dynamic in school shows. In 1931, he went on to join St. Xavier's College of Calcutta and soon began going to the nearby theater. In 1939, in North Calcutta, he joined the Rang Mahal Theater, trailed by spells at the Natya-Niketan, Minerva, and Srirangam separately.

Later, he joined Indian Peo...

Date of Birth: 22-08-1915
Date of Death: 19-05-1997
Age: 108
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director, Playwright
Date of Birth: 22-08-1915
Date of Death: 19-05-1997
Age: 108
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director, Playwright

7. B. S. Ranga


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B. S. Ranga was a photographer, producer, actor, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter in India. He has made several great films mostly in Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil language. Bindiganavile Srinivas Iyengar Ranga was born on 11 November 1917 in a village of the Kingdom of Mysore during British India called Magadi. Now, Mysore is in the Karnataka state of India.

Ever since he was a child, Ranga was attracted to art and did a lot of art related activities. He even met a lot of stage and art personalities and had interacted with them. He was drawn towards photography, and hence he chose to enter photography field as his profession. He has three sons and one daughter.

At the age of 17, Ranga sent some of the photography work that he...

Date of Birth: 11-11-1917
Date of Death: 12-12-2010
Age: 106
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Date of Birth: 11-11-1917
Date of Death: 12-12-2010
Age: 106
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada