Ranjana Pandey
M. S. Sheela
Shonali Bose
KS Chithra
Namrata Joshi
Gautam Pandey
Sumitra Bhave
Buddhadev Dasgupta
Pa Vijay
Kasinadhuni Viswanath
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Santosh Sivan
Samir Chanda
Manoj Tyagi
Mahesh Aney
Udit Narayan
Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Girish Kasaravalli
Shyam Benegal
Cheran
Yash Chopra
Mohan Krishna Indraganti
Madhur Bhandarkar
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Bobby Pushkarna
1. Ranjana Pandey
Ranjana Pandey is the one who has proved that women can do whatever she wants. She is a playwright, theatre, and television director. She was born in 1949 in Gwalior. She had completed her graduation in English Literature from Delhi University. She has also earned an MA degree in Mass Communication and a Diploma in Journalism. She is the teaching and training faculty of Jamia Millia Islamia. Later she went to Belgium to take training in puppetry. She took this training under Theatre Toone, Theatre Tilapia, and Théâtre du Péruchet.
In 1982, she established Jan Madhyam. This company uses puppetry for educational purposes. Weekly, Jan Madhyam organizes a show for youth, Chowkoo-Pili. This sho...
2. M. S. Sheela
M. S. Sheela is a leading classical vocalist, having displayed exemplary work in the field of devotional, light and classical music. An inspiration to many, she is a top rank artist of both AIR and Doordarshan. Known for her soulful voice, she is the first female artist, hailing from Karnataka to have a high rank in Carnatic and light music. She is also a trained dancer. Born in a musically acclaimed family, she received her first training from her mother, late Smt M N Rathna, a well-known veteran musician herself.
Receiving guidance and training under the supremely talented Sangeetha Kalanidhi Dr. R K Srikantan helped the then young vocalist, perfect her skill and she soon engaged in musical performances both within India and ab...
3. Shonali Bose
Shonali Bose, who was born in the year 1965, is a Bengali woman, who started her career in Indian film industry as Director, Producer and Screenwriter. She is well known for her film Amu that explores attacks on Sikhs in the year 1984 in Delhi.
Shonali was born in Calcutta, and she grew up in Delhi and Bombay. When she was a student at Miranda House, she has been an activist. She completed her Bachelors of Arts from Delhi University and Masters in Political Science from Columbia University, New York. She got married to Bedabrata Pain, who is a filmmaker.
For a year she had worked as an organizer at National Lawyers Guild and she directed a live community television in Manhattan. Her short films like Undocumented, Lifting ...
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
4. KS Chithra
Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tul...
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
5. Namrata Joshi
Bio coming soon......
6. Gautam Pandey
Gautam is a well-known wildlife filmmaker, director, and cinematographer from India. He learned filming techniques in Canada and had received national and international recognition for his work. He offers movie courses to his students. Gautam recently taught the basics of filmmaking and cinematography to the "Indian Border Security Force." Gautam Pandey's passion for naturalistic things goes beyond rewards. While growing up in a family of naturalists, he developed a passion for movie making from a young age. He is now concentrating on using films to raise wildlife awareness and record unusual animal behavior in the wild.
Gautam has been experimenting with advanced technology to push the frontiers. He devises ne...
7. Sumitra Bhave
Sumitra Bhave – a remarkable director, renowned producer, and a phenomenal scriptwriter with multiple National Awards in her kitty. No words could do justice to what she did for the film industry for over four decades. Born on 12th January 1943 in Pune, Sumitra Bhave grew up in Pune and completed her schooling. She did her Bachelor’s degree from Fergusson College in Pune. Sumitra Bhave is a double Master’s degree holder. She earned her first Master’s degree in Political and Science Sociology from Pune University and did her second Master’s at Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Following her education, Sumitra Bhave worked at All India Radio as a Marathi News ...
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
8. Buddhadev Dasgupta
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.
He completed his schooling from Dinabandhu School and is a graduate in economics from Scottish Church College; both are situated in Calcutta. He started his job as an economics professor at the University of Burdwan, Bardhaman and later taught at the City College in Calcutta.
He was a member of the Calcutta Film Society and the works of prestigious directo...
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
9. Pa Vijay
P Vijay (Pa Vijay) is a Tamil poet and film lyricist, who wrote the award-winning lyrics for the song’’ Ovvoru Pookalume’’ in Cheran's Autograph in Kollywood film industry. This lyricist had an extensive impact on Tamil cinema and was considered to be a gem writer of many songs that had featured in many movies. This poet and lyricist-writer were born in a middle-class family where his mother was a school teacher, and his father worked as a spinning master in a textile mill in Coimbatore. The actor was born in Coimbatore on 20 October 1974 and did his MA Literature in Tamil from Annamalai University. This poet was a discovery of director K Bhagyaraj, who was his family friend. He was associated with K. Bha...
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
Age:
49
Gender:
Male
10. Kasinadhuni Viswanath
Kasinadhuni Viswanath is a famous south Indian film actor, writer, director. He is from Repalle, Andhra Pradesh. Kasinathuni Viswanath’s father’s name was Subrahmanyam and mother’s name was saraswathamma. He married Jaya lakshmi and he has 3 children and their names are Ravindhranath, Nagendhranath and Padhmavathi. And he has 4 grand children: pranav, hema, swarna, and naren. His mother tongue is Telugu and he can speak Telugu, Tamil, and English. He is having 57 years of working experience in film industry. He got many awards like Nandi awards, National-film awards, Filmfare awards, etc. He did many hit films like shankara baranam, sagara sangamam, etc. He had done many bollywood films like sargam, san...
Date of Death:
02-02-2023
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
02-02-2023
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
11. Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni is a director predominantly working in the Marathi Film Industry. He was born on 6th December1976, in Pune, Maharashtra. Umesh holds a Bachelor of Commerce(B.Com) degree from Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce. In 2004, he passed out from FTDI, Pune.
Umesh made his directorial debut in the 2008 drama “Valu.”Girish Kulkarni, Veena Jamkar, Jyoti Subash, and Atul Kulkarni played prominent roles in the movie. The flick released on 25th January 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. Umesh received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 2011 for his motion-picture “Deool.”
Umesh has directed several movies that have been critically acclaimed and commercially successful....
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
12. Santosh Sivan
Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is a film director, producer, and cinematographer, of the Indian cinema. Santosh is an FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) graduate and has so far has done 41 documentaries and 45 feature films. Not only is he a founding associate of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), but also is the bigger of the highest number of Director of Photography (DOP) award in India. Sivan is the first ever Cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific area to achieve an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) fellowship.
He has as many as five National Film Awards for cinematography to his name, four of which are for Best Feature Film Cinematogr...
Age:
60
Gender:
Male
13. Samir Chanda
Samir Chanda was a popular Indian director and production designer, who was born in 1957. He worked in the Indian cinema industry, including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali. He was well-known for his work in movies like Yoddha (1992), Dil Se (1998), Omkara (2006), Rang De Basanti (2006), Guru (2007), and Raavan (2010).
Samir also directed a Bengali movie, Ek Nadir Galop (2008) featuring popular actor Mithun Chakraborty. It went ahead as the Indian entry for the African, Latin American and Asian Competition segment of the International Film Festival of India’s 38th edition, in Goa. Samir was given the National Film Award for Best Direction (Art) four times, which include Shyam Benegal directed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
14. Manoj Tyagi
Manoj Tyagi is one of the famous directors and screenplay writers in Indian Film Industry. He was born in the year 1974 and brought up in Delhi. He is an MBA graduate and has worked for corporate companies like Xerox, Canon, ABN AMRO bank, which is in Mumbai. Manoj Tyagi started off his career as a screenplay writer in the film industry as a co-writer for Madhur Bhandarkar's movie ‘Satta which was critically acclaimed but did not receive a commercial success. Over a period, he wrote screenplay to movies like Aan: Men at Work, Page 3 (2005), Mumbai Salsa, Corporate (2006) and Jail (2009). All these movies were a hit at the box office.
He won the National award for best screenplay and a national award for...
Gender:
Male
Gender:
Male
15. Mahesh Aney
Mahesh Aney is an award-winning cinematographer. He has in his possession different brand advertisements including global brands such as Coca-Cola, Nivea, Johnnie Walker, etc. He has done his graduation and specialization in cinematography from Film and Television Institute of India. Anjali Aney is Mahesh’s wife. They have two children. A daughter named Aarti and a son named Aditya. Presently, he lives in Mumbai. He has shot some of the main brands in India. Till date, he has shot over a thousand commercials. They include Coca-Cola, Johnnie Walker Golf, Cinthol Soap, Onida TV, Vicks, and Nivea Cream.
He has received awards for filming commercial films for Pepsi, Nestle Maggie Noodles, Tata Steel, Kellog’s, and Feviqik...
Gender:
Male
16. Udit Narayan
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 and got a chance to sing in Nepali Radio, meanwhile he also sang songs in Maithli, Bhojpuri and Nepali in 70s. After singing for Radio Nepal, He moved to Bombay on music scholarship to get training in classical music from Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan . He got his first chance to sing for a movie Unees Bees in 1980 , composed by Rajesh Roshan. His dream came true when he also sang a song with his ideal Moh...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
17. Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Haradhan Bandopadhyay is a Bengali actor; he worked in both television and films. He was born on 6th November 1926 in Kushtia, Bengal. He took primary education in Kushtia Municipal School in East Bengal (present Bangladesh). He graduated from City College, Kolkata. Later he worked in a factory named Gun & Shell; after that he started working at an insurance company and stayed there till his retirement.
He was involved in freedom struggle movement for which he was jailed for a while. Bandopadhyay started his acting career by doing plays. He made his debut with the film ‘Devdut’, released in 1948; Atanu Bandopadhyay directed the film. Later he worked with no...
Date of Death:
05-01-2013
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
05-01-2013
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
18. Girish Kasaravalli
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 to the world of Cinema. Girish is a gold medalist from the Film and Television Institute of India. He directed a film, Avashesh and it was awarded the National Award for Best Short Fiction. Girish has to his credit thirteen National Film Awards. He was born in Kesalur village in Tirthahalli Taluk of Shimoga District to Lakshmi Devi and Ganesh Rao. The anima...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
19. 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
20. 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
21. Yash Chopra
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 angry young man Amitabh Bachchan and even crafted career of another superstar Shahrukh Khan.
During the early times of his career, Yash Chopra worked as an assistant to the director I.S. Johar and his sibling B.R. Chopra. He got his first break as a director in B.R. Chopra’s film Dhool Ka Phool. It was ...
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
22. Mohan Krishna Indraganti
Mohana Krishna Indraganti is a famous Indian movie director. He is famously known and prevalent in the Telugu film industry. His introduction to the film industry was with the film ‘Grahanam’ in the year 2005. He won 11 awards for his acting in the film, which includes the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director, among many others. The film was likewise showcased as a signature at the International Film Festival of India in the year 2005. He was born in Tanuku in Andhra Pradesh. He finished his graduation for the Master of Fine Arts degree, which he got from York University. He was born to an Andhra family. His parents are a mother, Indraganti Srikanth, father, Janaki Bala. His grandparents were authors. So he h...
Age:
52
Gender:
Male
Age:
52
Gender:
Male
23. Madhur Bhandarkar
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 he found out a treasure trove of movies and made the most of the opportunity to study film-making. He initially worked as an assistant with some filmmakers and eventually got the chance to work as an associate director to Ram Gopal Varma for the film Rangeela (1995). He also played a cameo in this movie. After some years, he made his directorial debut with the movie Trishakti, which wa...
Age:
55
Gender:
Male
24. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Born into a family in Kerala, Adoor Gopalakrishnan started doing amateur plays at a young age. Later, he wrote and helmed few plays. His interest in this field was imbibed in him by his family. He had studied Economics, Political Science and Public Administration at Gandhigram Rural University in 1961. Then he studied screenwriting and filmmaking at the Pune Film Institute. His debut film was Swayamvaram, which became a milestone in the history of the Malayalam cinema. The film won four National Awards including Best Script, Best Film, Best Actress and Best Director. His third film Elippathayam fetched him the British Film Institute Award for Most Original and Imaginative Film in 1982. The International Film Critics Priz...
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
25. Bobby Pushkarna
Bio coming soon......
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