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Hindi Awards 53rd National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

1. Pratibha Patil


26-09-2020/pratibha-patil.jpg   The 12th President of India, Pratibha Patil, is an Indian politician who is the first and only woman president of the country. Born to Narayan Rao Patil, a government prosecutor, and Gangabai on 19th December 1934, Pratibha Patil grew up in Nadgaon village in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. She is the only girl child among her five other siblings. Having lost her...
Date of Birth: 19-12-1934
Age: 90
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-12-1934
Age: 90
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Politician

2. Suman Haripriya


26-09-2020/suman-haripriya.jpg Suman Haripriya is an Indian film director, producer, and politician. She was born on 1 June 1979 in Guwahati, Assam. Her father is Jiten Chakravarty and her mother Bijoya Chakravarty was an ex-member of Parliament from Guwahati. She pursued a Master of Arts in Sociology from Jamia Millia Islamia. Suman also studied Diploma in Film and Television from Bharatiya Vidya...
Date of Birth: 01-06-1979
Age: 45
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 01-06-1979
Age: 45
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

3. Farida Pacha


26-09-2020/farida-pacha.jpg Farida Pacha is a director and producer born in 1972, Mumbai. She completed her graduation in sociology and anthropology. Farida has directed and produced mesmerizing films like My Name Is Salt in 2013; Watch Over Me in 2021; The Women In Blue Berets in 2012; Ripples Of Change, 2009; The Seed Keepers, 2005. She has got an MFA in filmmaking at...
Date of Birth: 1972
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1972
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

4. Iti Samanta


26-09-2020/iti-samanta.jpg   Iti Samanta - A prolific writer, National award-winning producer, editor of the magazines ‘The Kadambini’ and ‘The Kunikatha,’ a social worker, and whatnot. She is a woman who excels on all grounds. Born in 1970 to Nilimarani Samanta and Anadi Charan Samanta in Kalarabank Village in Cuttack of Odisha, Iti Samanta is the youngest of seven children. One of her...
Date of Birth: 1970
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1970
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer, Director

5. Jayamala


06-12-2019/jayamala.jpg Jayamala is a south Indian actress, who made her career in Kannada films. She made her entry in 1970s and the 1980s which are often considered to be the golden age of Kannada cinema. It was also the period that witnessed the birth of alternate cinema. Rajkumar and Vishnu Vardhan were then considered the two pillars of the Kannada film...
Date of Birth: 28-02-1959
Age: 65
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-02-1959
Age: 65
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Kannada

6. Shreya Ghoshal


s/h/r/e/y/a/shreya-ghoshal.png Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana...
Date of Birth: 12-03-1984
Age: 40
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-03-1984
Age: 40
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

7. Anna Singh


Anna-Singh.jpg Anna Singh was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She is a very popular Indian designer as far as the fashion is concerned. She did a lot of incredible designs that is highly beneficial for the Bollywood film industry. She had done the core design of the costumes of lots of famous heroines and it had made a significant impact as a...
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

8. Baradwaj Rangan


26-09-2020/baradwaj-rangan.jpg   One of the sought-after film critics in India, Baradwaj Rangan, is also an author. The National award-winning film critic is popular among the film audience for his upright and detailed film analysis. Baradwaj Rangan was born and brought up in Chennai. He went to St. John’s English School and Junior College. Since young, Baradwaj Rangan had a great attachment to...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Film Critic

9. Lalgudi Jayaraman


26-09-2020/lalgudi-jayaraman.jpg Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman (September 17, 1930, to April 22, 2013) was a Carnatic violinist, vocalist, composer in India. He's usually grouped with MS Gopalakrishnan and T. Krishnan as part of the trinity of Carnatic music. The Indian government awarded him Padma Bhushan in 2001. He inherited the love of Carnatic music from his father, V. R. Gopala Iyer. When he...
Date of Birth: 17-09-1930
Date of Death: 22-04-2013
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-09-1930
Date of Death: 22-04-2013
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Musician

10. Nilanjan Bhattacharya


26-09-2020/nilanjan-bhattacharya.jpg Nilanjan Bhattacharya is a renowned director, writer, and artist in India. Nilanjan has a fictional background but seeing people’s knowledge, mainly tribal people’s, made him enter the field of biodiversity. He visited various corners of the world to get to the depth of biodiversity. Nilanjan found that food is another element that is an unavoidable factor. It Is not just...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

11. Aryadan Shoukath


a/r/y/a/d/a/aryadan-shoukath.png Aryadan Shoukath is an Indian filmmaker and a politician. He had achieved awards both as a producer and a local politician. He had been around for 14 years of filmmaking. His father Aryadan Muhammed is a prominent political figure. Aryadan Muhammed is one of Kerala’s most senior Indian National Congress leaders (former Kerala State Minister of electricity). He graduated in...

12. Umesh Aggarwal


26-09-2020/umesh-aggarwal.jpg Umesh Aggarwal is an Indian director and documentary filmmaker. He is also the founder of News & Entertainment Television (NET). He finished his school education at Harcourt Butler School, New Delhi. After that, Umesh Aggarwal took his Bachelor’s degree at Delhi University. In 1985, Umesh Aggarwal began working in the Indian Television Industry. He learned my craft on the job....
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

13. Madhu Ambat


m/a/d/h/u/0/madhu-ambat.png Madhu Ambat was born on 6th March 1949 to Prof. K Bhagyanath and Smt. Ambat Sulochana. The Ambat family was an incredible group of individuals, with a father that quit being a professor to pursue his love for magic as full time career and a sister who grew up to be an incredible actress. Not only this, his younger sister,...
Date of Birth: 06-03-1949
Age: 75
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 06-03-1949
Age: 75
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

14. Nakul Kamte


n/a/k/u/l/0/nakul-kamte.png Nakul Kamte is known for his handiwork on Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001). Rang De Basanti (2006) and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) are some of his other works. Nakul Kamte is one of the peaks influential and presented sound designers in the Indian Film Production....
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:

15. Ashim Ahluwalia


a/s/h/i/m/0/ashim-ahluwalia.png Ashim Ahluwalia was born in Mumbai in 1972. He is a very talented person. He is a film director. Not only that, but he is also a producer and a script writer. He has been active in the film industry since 1999 till present. His debut as a director was in a movie named John and Jane, which was a...
Date of Birth: 1972
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1972
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

16. Baraguru Ramachandrappa


b/a/r/a/g/u/baraguru-ramachandrappa.jpg Baraguru Ramachandrappa is a well acclaimed Indian writer in Kannada language and has contributed to Kannada Film Industry as a script writer and Director. He has also established himself as a successful Documentary filmmaker. Baraguru Ramachandrappa was born on 18th October 1947 in the Village Baraguru, Tumkur District, Karnataka. His mother was Kenchamma and father was Rangadasappa. After completing his...
Date of Birth: 18-10-1947
Age: 77
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-10-1947
Age: 77
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada

17. Jhamu Sughand


jhamu-sughand.png Jhamu Sughand was an award-winning and acclaimed film producer and a distributor who produced some magnificent award-winning movies such as Lagaan (2001), Satya (1998), Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Aks (2001). But before all this, before Jhamu Sugand could make a dent in the film-making business, he was absorbed in his family cloth trading business in Devlali his hometown...
Date of Birth: 1951
Date of Death: 26-05-2008
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1951
Date of Death: 26-05-2008
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Producer

18. Manoj Tyagi


16-12-2020/manoj-tyagi.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 1974
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:

19. Cheran


26-03-2017/cheran.png 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....
Date of Birth: 12-12-1970
Age: 54
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-12-1970
Age: 54
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil

20. 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

21. Rahul Dholakia


rahul-dholakia.jpg Rahul Dholakia, born in Mumbai, is a Bollywood director, screenplay writer, and producer. His parents are Raksha and Parry Dholakia, and he also has an ender sibling, Moha. He completed his schooling in Mumbai from Champion school and Jamnabai Narsee School. He pursued his degree in Bachelor of Science in Mumbai from St. Xavier’s College. He did his Masters from...
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

22. Pradeep Sarkar


15-08-2019/pradeep-sarkar.jpg Born on April 30th, 1955 Pradeep Sarkar is best known for his debut directorial venture Parineeta. Besides being a director, Pradeep also endeavored into writing and production. He kickstarted his career in Bollywood through Vinod Chopra Productions owned by Vidhu Vinod Chopra....
Date of Birth: 30-04-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-04-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

23. Vishal Bhardwaj


Vishal-Bhardwaj.jpg The most outstanding of a successful film producer, director, writer, screenplay writer, music composer and playback singer, is Vishal Bhardwaj, who has successfully crossover in India and abroad by his versatile genius. He is a blissful child of goddess Saraswati. He was born on 4th August, 1965 in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh. His father Ram Bhardwaj, a poet and lyricist is...
Date of Birth: 04-08-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-08-1965
Age: 59
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

24. Vidhu Vinod Chopra


16-01-2019/vidhu-vinod-chopra.jpg Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a classic filmmaker, who has given Indian audiences films like Parineeta, Munnabhai MBBS, 3-Idiots, PK and 1942-A Love Story. What distinguished him from other film maker was that, he always wanted to experiment cinema. Both in terms of his script and in terms of mise-en-scene, character development and pace of the film, we believe that most...
Date of Birth: 05-09-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-09-1952
Age: 72
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer

25. Subhash Ghai


s/u/b/h/a/s/subhash-ghai.jpg Subhash Ghai is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer in the Bollywood film industry. He was born on 24th January 1945 to a family of Punjabis in Nagpur, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. He completed his Higher Secondary education in Delhi and also graduated with a commerce degree from Rohtak, in the state of Haryana. In the year 1963, he...
Date of Birth: 24-01-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-01-1945
Age: 79
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Writer, Producer

26. Shyam Benegal


Shyam-Benegal.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 14-12-1934
Date of Death: 23-12-2024
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-12-1934
Date of Death: 23-12-2024
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director, Screenplay

27. Amitabh Bachchan


a/m/i/t/a/b/amitabh-bachchan.jpg Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A....
Date of Birth: 11-10-1942
Age: 82
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-10-1942
Age: 82
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

28. Ramakant Gaikwad


26-09-2020/ramakant-gaikwad.jpg Bio coming soon......
Date of Birth: 13-05-1988
Age: 36
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-05-1988
Age: 36
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer, Musician