Hindi Awards 53rd National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

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 mother early in life, Pratibha Patil was brought up in the care of her aunt. She completed her schooling at R.R. Vidyalaya in Jalgaon, and as per the wish of her mother, she pursued double graduation in Political Science and Economics. She received her Master’s degree from Moolji Jeetha College. Besides academics, Pratibha Patil also shined bright in sports by winning many medals in Table Tennis. After venturing into politics, she decided ...

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 Bhavan, New Delhi. She has mostly worked in Assamese cinema. Her film Kadamtole Krishna Nache won The Best Film Award at the National Film Awards. Suman also directed films like Koina Mur Dhunia (2001), and Kokadeutar Gharjonwal (2002).

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 brothers, Achyuta Samanta, is an educationalist and founder of the institutes KITT and KISS. The death of her father pushed their family into poverty. Her mother single-handedly raised the seven kids amidst the hardships. Growing up, Iti Samanta found her peace and happiness through books.

She has been an avid reader since childhood and desired to become an author. Upon completing her primary school in the vi...

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 Southern Illinois University, USA. She has amazed people with her captivating work in documentaries. My name is salt, is her 1st distinctive feature film, which bagged her first appearance award at IDFA, Amsterdam. She worked on various educational, experimental, and documentary films. She got a national film award in 2006 because for her impressive work in ‘The Seed keepers.’ She has also worked on numerous social evils existing in society. 

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 Industry. Shankar Nag also made his own mark in that period and Jayamala was lucky enough to act with all versatile performers like Shankar Nag, Rajkumar, Ambareesh and Vishnu Vardhan. She acted over 40 films in a career spanning over 35 years. 

This actress was a multifaceted personality in the Kannada film industry. She was not only a leading lady in the eighties, but produced many award-winning artistic films too. Jayamala made indelible ...

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 of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became ...

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 whole. This apparently shows the quality of work she had done for the Hindi film industry. 

She had designed for many popular heroines like Katrina Kaif, who made a revolutionary appeal as a model in 2010. Her contribution also made the Commonwealth sports a grand success as far as the costume department is conce...

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 writing and cinema. But he chose to pursue Chemical Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He followed world cinema and read reviews about them to keep his mutual love for movies and writing. His life twisted upside down when he got chosen by the Advertising Agencies Association of India for a workshop.

Later, Baradwaj Rangan moved to the United States to complete his Master’s degree in Adv...

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 was 12, he began his music carrier as an accompanying violinist associated with Carnatic musicians before rising as a soloist. He has expanded the violin style by inventing new techniques designed to meetclassical music needsc in India and establish unique styles known as Lalgudi Bani. Jayaraman has configured several groups, tyrannos, Varnams and the dance composition, a mixture of Raga, Bhava, Rhythm, and Lyrical Beauty. The instrumental talent of Lalgudi is ...

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. In 1991, he began writing, reporting, and directing television news and other shows and films. In 1994, he launched "News and Entertainment Television" (NET), a television software & film production house. During the last twenty-five years, NET has produced over four thousand hours of television software. NET's official YouTube Channel named "o2india" was launched on August 15, 2021. It began with...

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 about the recipe, instead of more about how it is collected, consumed, and its relation with nature. So, he decided to research biodiversity through food and appreciate the relationship of Adivasis with forests, on which they highly depend.

One can say that Nilanjan’s idea is unique. He has opted for something very different and new from usual. He has been working on biodiversity for fifteen years. A few of his films and artworks include Joha...

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 Bachelor of Sciences from Marivanios College at Trivandrum in Kerala, India.

He is an active socio-religious reformer and ardently believes in religious tolerance as well as is deeply concerned with the social upliftment of the tribal people. He had initiated several pioneering programs in various fields such as health and education. In Nilambur Municipality (formerly panchayat) of Kerala, he is ...

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.

He currently won the 57th Filmfare Awards 2011, a correct commemoration of distinction in Indian Cinema held in Mumbai. He received it for the film Don 2 for The Best Sound Design. Created in Mumbai and possessor of Hearing Binaural.

He brags a fortune of understanding in recording, proofreading and combining sounds for action films. He is predominantly famous as a ground-breaking live recordist portraying resonances around the world. Positively Nakul Kamte is accredited with having appreciably helped the Film Industry (which initially favored to have to...

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, Vidhubala went on to become a leading actress in the Malayalam film industry. In a time when everybody was focused on getting into good colleges and getting well-paid jobs as soon as possible, Mr. Ambat was lucky to have a family that believed that he deserved to love what he did. So, despite extreme pressure, he went to the renowned Pune Film Institute. He had also got admitted into IIT, but instead decided to go the other way.

He spent the next few years working his hardest and ultimately, it all paid off, w...

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 documentary and a short length film, released in 2005. In the Toronto I. F. Festival, it had a world premiere. It even had a European Premiere. It happened in the Berlin I. F. Festival.

John and Jane was such a good movie that Ashim won the 2005 Best First Non-Feature Film by a Director National Filmfare Award. His next film came in the year 2012 titled Miss Lovely. This film was shown at the Cannes film festival in 2012. In the 61st National Filmfare Awards, the film Miss Lovely won several awards. Ashim won the National Film Award for ...

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 education, he was appointed as a Professor in Kannada Department, Bangalore University. In the year 2008, an honorary doctorate was given to Baraguru Ramachandrappa by Kuvempu University and Rani Channamma University, Karnataka. Also in the year 2011, Government of Karnataka bestowed him with the Pampa Award for his illustrious contribution to Kannada literature.

He has...

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 in the state of Maharashtra. Then as luck would have it he averted from the cloth business and initialized his work in printing press business specializing in Film Merchandise after moving to Mumbai from Devlali in 1979. Later on, he shifted to film distribution in 1988. An impressive distribution of 100 films was not enough for Sughand to propel himself to the mainstream cinema until Mani Ratnam’s Bombay (1995) which sky-...

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 the best feature film for the movie “Page 3”. He has also won the Filmfare award for be...

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 that aside it managed to hit he box office. He even practiced his acting skills under Thangar Ba...

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 directors such as Charlie Chaplin, Akira Kurosawa, and Roberto Rossellini inspired him to take up direction...

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 New York Institute of technology in Filmmaking.

He is well known for his movies like Parzania for which he was acknowledged as the best director by National Film Awards. He worked with his father in his advertising agency ‘Mora Ava’. He later worked as an assistant in Everest Advertising and as an assistant producer for Channel 4, London. He has made several documentaries, commercials and started the TV channel ‘TV Asia’. H...

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.

Parineeta, released in 2005, created an impact on the audiences. It was also famous actress Vidya Balan’s first movie. It was a musical drama film which was based on 1914’s Bengali novella by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay of the same name. Beside Vidya Balan, the movie featured the suave Saif Ali Khan and the versatile Sanjay Dutt. Pradeep got the Best Director accolade in National Film Awards for this movie. He also garnered a couple of other awards including those given for Best A...

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 of his films were very successful in box-office. As an FTII student, he always wanted to learn by making his films; he selected films therefore like an intensive program. He has a reputation for being completely demanding during production and his moody, temperamental and control freaks always made him the perfect filmmaker before and behind the camera.

He had captured and shown the lovely romance (‘’1942-A Love story’’),which dates back to Brit...

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 joined the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) by moving to Pune, Maharashtra. He got married in 1970 to Mukta Ghai. He stays with his wife and two daughters Muskaan Ghai and Meghna Ghai Puri in Mumbai.

Ghai’s Hindi cinema career started with minor roles in movies such as ‘Taqdeer (1967)’ and also ‘Aradhana’ in 1971. He played major roles in th...

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 1973, 1975, 1976 and 1977 respectively. His films and documentaries have been set in realistic contempo...

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. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.

In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By t...

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