Hindi Awards 55th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

Bhavna Talwar is an Indian journalist turned film director. She has started her career as a journalist at the Asian age that covers film, theatre, and fashion. After that, she worked as an assistant director for eight years in an Ad film company. In fact, she started her career as a director with the movie Dharm (2007). Moreover, her debut movie has Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration at the 2007 National Film Awards. Her first movie stars Pankaj Kapoor and Supriya Pathak and the movie premiered as the closing film at the World Cinema Section in the 2007s Canes Film Festival.

Controversies with celebrities are common and this happened with Bhavna. Dharm her debut movie had selected in India’s Official Language Film submission for the 80 Academy Awards, but this movie ...

Ruma Sengupta is an Indian actress, known for her performance as Daiji in the Balaji Telefilms’ thriller drama, Kaahin Kissii Roz, which was aired on STAR Plus in 2004. She also donned few films including Rajat Kapoor’s Mixed Doubles in 2006 and Rahul Aggarwal’s Hindi comedy film, Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke in 2010. She also played the role of Beeji, the grandmother of Pooja Kumar’s character in the American TV miniseries, Bollywood Hero in 2009.

Besides acting, Ruma is also a Costume Designer for Bengali films like Nirmok, Krishnakanter Will (2007), Laboratory (2010), and Accident (2012). She earned the Silver Lotus Best Costume Design Award for her work in Krishnakanter Will. This 2017, Ruma has also worked as a Costume Designer for...

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 ...

The beautiful Shefali Shah is an actress of Indian origin. Born on July 1972, she belongs to Agra. However, she was born and brought up in Mumbai, where, her dream of being an actress came up. She belonged to a non-film background, her father working in RBI and mother being a homeopathy doctor. The actress found her way into Bollywood through daily soaps and her stupendous acting skills. She has worked in loads of Hindi movies. She made her debut in the drama Rangeela in 1995, sharing the silver screen with Urmila Matondkar and the perfectionist Aami Khan. The actress was seen in a crime movie Satya, where she played a supporting role. Some other movies, in which her acting skills were prevalent are Gandhi-My Father, Kuchh Luvv Jaisa.

Her role in ‘Waqt’ oppos...

Born with an inborn talent, Saroj Khan is one of the most well-known and eminent choreography in the Indian film Industry. She has produced many pieces of good work for around 2000 films. Talking about her earlier days, she along with her family migrated to India right after the partition. Her family was one among the orthodox one, but she turned out to be a freak. She started her career at a very tender age of 3 with the film Nazrana and also a background dancer. B. Sohanlal was her mentor and trained her very well.

Later she shifted to choreography, first as an assistant choreographer and later getting her break as an independent choreographer, with GeetaMeraNaam (1974). Her ladder of success was connected to Madhuri Dixit. With her, Khan choreographed TammaTamma, Ek do teen and Dhakdhakkarnelaga to name a few. After many yea...

Umashree is an actress and politician. She is a known face in the comic genre of roles. Having done over four hundred movies, this fifty seven year old actress joined politics in the year 2013. She became the Member of Legislative Assembly in Karnataka. 

Her movie career began way back in the year 1984 with an award winning supporting cast performance in Anubhava with Kasinath. She became a huge success with comedy roles that she essayed with simplicity. 

Her tele serials include, Musanje on Udaya T.V, directed by T.S.Nagabarana. Kicchu aired on ETV, directed by Chaitanya. She has also acted in Musanje Katha Prasanga on ETV directed by Prakash Belawadi. 

Having done innumerable movies, she has received many awards and recognition to her performances. She has won a lot of Best Actress Award...

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Basanth Kumar Patil is a well-liked filmmaker within the Indian movie industry, specifically in the Kanarese movie industry. He has worked in several well-liked films and has received appreciation for the same. A number of his works include ‘Dec One‘ by P. Sheshadri, ‘Bettada Jeeva’ by P. Sheshadri, ‘Kanasemba Kudureyaneri’ by Girish Kasaravalli, ‘Gulabi Talkies’ by Girish Kasaravalli, and more.

Basanth is also an associate actor and a distributor. He was conjointly elected as the president of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) for the second time. During an interview, he said, “I can hold on to the arrogance of the folks that have supported him, take into thought all the producers, directors, and can aid for the trade, and that my first priority is the developmen...

Sharad Goyekar is the winner of the 55th National Award for Best Child Artist in 2009 for Tingya. The film is based on the life of a kid and his adoration and kinship with his bull. Other than Goyekar, the film included Shahir Vitthal Umap, Sunil Deo, Chitra Nawathe, Ajit Gawande, Tarannum Pathan, and Inesh Chauhan. Tingya also provided the little child with the opportunity to experience the world beyond his village. He was present when the film was initially screened in Pune. He had never been to a city before. Tingya's success brought Goyekar instant fame, but it didn't lead to more work. He didn't get any movies, and he couldn't finish his academics like other kids. Goyekar had to drop out of school when he was in Class 6.

He went on to Shramjivi School in Pimpri Chinchwad to further his education. Howev...

Director & cinematographer Virendra Saini completed his diploma in cinematography in 1976 from FTII. He worked with top directors, including Mani Kaul, Sai Paranjpye, Kundan Shah, Vinod Chopra, and Bhimsain. In 1990 he received the National award for Best Cinematography for Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro.' In 1999 he directed Kabhi Pass Kabhi Fail, which got him the National Award for the Best Children's Film. Virendra Saini won two awards, one as a cinematographer and the other as a director. 

Gnana Rajasekaran is an Indian filmmaker. He is also a screenwriter and playwright. He was born on 23 January 1953 in Vellore District, Tamil Nadu. He is also a retired IAS officer. His parents were Gnanaprakasam and Sharadambal, and both of them were teachers. He graduated from Sacred Heart College with BSc in Physics. He attained a master's degree in physics at Presidency College, Chennai. He worked as a technical officer after he graduated from the Intelligence Bureau in Mumbai. In 1985 he got married to Sakunthala Chidambaram. He was allotted the Kerala Cadre in 1983 to the Indian Administrative Service. He published an allegorical book Yanai Kuthirai Ottagam before beginning his career in film-making.

His debut film Mogamul is based on the novel written by Thi. Janakiraman. He also directed various short films lik...

Supriyo Sen is an Indian film director. He lives in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Honestly, he worked as a journalist; then he became an independent filmmaker. He directed the short documentary Wagah has been screened at over 200 film festivals and was voted the third most well-liked short film within the world in 2009 by the German short film magazine. Also, he won the Berlin Today Award at the Berlin Film Festival. His two-hour documentary on the Partition of India Way Back Home is the first Indian documentary to be released commercially. 

Sen is a Berlinale Talent (international young filmmakers’ program by Berlin Film Festival). He has served as a Juror at several film festivals, including the Busan International Festival, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, DMZ Documentary Festival (Korea), Eagle Awar...

B Ajithkumar is an indian editor and director, who predominantly works in the malayalam film industry, having revised the scripts for more than sixty movies in the past two decades. Born and raised in kothamangalam, kerala in 1973, he graduated from the film & television institute of india in pune, maharashtra.

He is recognized for undertaking projects that mostly focus on either exploring the human psyche or tackling a prevalent social issue. He made his debut as an editor with nandakumar kavil’s “maanthrika veena” (1999). Gradually working his way up the success ladder, his career culminated when he edited the script for adoor gopalakrishnan’s drama “nizhalkuthu” (2002).

The movie was based on the recesses of the human conscious and brought ajithkumar the kerala state film award...

Sushil Rajpal is an Indian producer and a director. The Film and Television Institute of India alumnus has directed some Bollywood movies. He also won a National Award in 2009 for his direction in the film Antardwand. He took birth in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India on 9th August 1963.

His other works include Old Monk, Laga Chunri Me Daag, Dikhsha, etc. The cinematographer has also directed a TV series of the name, Lootera: Bandits of British India. He took birth in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India on 9th August 1963.

Sushil grew up in his hometown and studied at Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Pakki Bagh in Gorakhpur. He went to Ranchi to complete his high school from Vikas Vidyalaya, Ranchi. Later, he went to Delhi University and graduated from Hansraj College.

As a teenager, he shot on a black-n-white roll of his Agf...

Sheetal Vinod Talwar is a popular Indian and International film producer. He is a famous film producer and is known for producing outstanding movies. Sheetal Vinod Talwar has produced several movies. Sheetal Vinod Talwar is the chairman and managing director of Vistaar Group and WSG Entertainment. He has produced the movie named The Eichmann Show in 2015. It is a historical drama. The story focuses on how Adolf Eichmann tortured the Jews and led them to the deathbed.

It was a documentary film based on Adolf Eichmann. He also produced a popular film titled Romans in 2017 starring Orlando Bloom. The film revolves around the life of a man who has suffered from child abuse and how he has been coming up with his past.

He has produced many films like Broken released in 2016 starring Morjana Alaoui and Mel Raido, and Jago: A L...

Sabu Cyril was born on January 27th in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.

He is a production designer in the Indian movie industry. Earlier, production designers were called as art directors.

He resides in Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai.

He was brought up in Kerala itself. He did his schooling from the same place and then went to Chennai to do his graduation in the Government College of Fine Arts, which was earlier known as Government School of Arts and Crafts. He did his Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from 1980 to 1985.

He worked part time as a graphic designer for names like Taj Hotels Group, Madura Coats and Welcome Hotels, in the period 1982 to 1988.

His career in art direction began in the year 1988. Sabu has worked in commercial films in the Hindi, Tamil, ...

Arindam Chaudhuri was born on 8th December, 1971. He is the son of Malayendra Kisor Chaudhuri, who was the founder of IIPM (Indian Institute of Planning and Management), in 1973. He is married to Rajita Chaudhuri. Arindam did his Masters in Planning and Entrepreneurship from IIPM. He is now the Honorary Dean of Economic Research and Advanced Studies Centre of IIPM. His company’s net worth is Rs. 533 crore. He was also the member of the Consultative Committee of 2004, which worked for the Planning Commission of the Indian Government. Arindam is also the founder of the Planman Consulting. It is a knowledge center, which provides information about the world, business, society, etc. It also takes many initiatives to educate the youth. He is the co-owner of the Super Series Motor Sports League...

Shanker Raman is a renowned Indian cinematographer and producer, as well as a writer.

Among all his talents, he has put his skill of cinematography to the maximum use. People credit him with working on various successful movies such as Peepli (Live), Rocky Handsome, ‘Frozen’, and ‘Autumn’. Peepli (Live) was produced by famous Bollywood couple, Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, and directed by Anusha Rizvi. It was a satirical comedy movie, which explored the theme of farmer suicides in India, as is a grave problem in the current scenario.

Other films in which he has worked as a cinematographer are ‘Fireflies’, ‘Patang’, You Say Party: Lonely’s Lunch, and Sarah + Dee. Not only pictures, but he has also lent his time and energy for TV documentaries such as Bang...

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 animatic presenter, Ravi Belagere has come forward and told that Girish’s official name is Girish K...

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 Prize (FIPRESCI) was offered to him six times with great honour. For his work in Indian Cinema, he was h...

Shimit Amin is a well-known director and is familar as the man behind the making of ‘Chak De! India’, one of the most well-received films in the history of Bollywood. Shimit Amin was born in the capital city of Uganda, known as Kampala. Although Shimit was born in the city of Kampala, his family later moved to the United States of America, where they got settled in Florida. As he grew up in the city of Florida, Amin had a natural inclination towards filmmaking and wanted to pursue it from a very young age. But he opted to follow his parents’ advice and pursued graduation in mathematics. 

After completing his graduation, Amin had fully dedicated himself to filming and worked hard to initiate and organize major film festivals of today such as &l...

Ouseppachan is well-known music composer in the Indian film industry, who is mainly seen to be doing background scores as well as the music for Malayalam films as well as for few of the Hindi films. Mechery Louis Oseppachan was born on 13th September 1955, in Thrissur. Ouseppachan had been interested in music and had a flair for it from his early days itself. The inborn talent in him came out as melodious songs played on his violin. This great musician started his journey with this simple string instrument. He had joined certain troops and bands after his formal education was over. He was seen to play the violin in the troop “Voice of Thrissur”, which is popular music troop of the time. Ouseppachan’s violinist skills were greater than ever. From doing music for troops, he ...

Manna Dey is one of the greatest Indian classical singers who had training from his paternal uncle Sangeetacharya Krishna Chandra Dey ( K.C. Dey). He was instrumental in making Manna Dey’s career in Mumbai. K. C. Dey was a popular actor-singer-composer of New Theatres in Kolkata. When New Theaters closed down, K C Dey moved to Mumbai and Manna Dey accompanied him. Manna Dey had left for Mumbai with his uncle to make a career in singing but understood his pronunciation in Hindi was a major barrier to fetch him the singing career, hence he became assistant to music director for S D Burman and even H P Das. But he continued taking training from classical stalwarts, Ustad Aman Ali Khan and Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan. Manna Dey got his first break to sing a song with Suraiya at the tender age of 11, ...

      He is a well-known personality in the Indian film industry, especially for the work he has directed such as ‘Niro...

Rituparno Ghosh(1963-2013) was a profound actor, director, writer, and lyricist in the Bengali FIlm Industry. He was born in Kolkata to a Bengali Hindu family on 31 August 1963. Sunil Ghosh, father of Rituparno Ghosh was a painter and a documentary film maker. He attended South Point School in and earned an Economics degree from Jadhavpur University, Kolkata. He worked as a creative artist in an advertising agency, Response India. He became famous in Kolkata for his effective slogans and appealing one liners. He earned fame with his most notable ad campaigns, ‘Sharad Samman' and ‘Bongo JibonerAngo' for antiseptic ointment, Boroline and mango drink, Frooti respectively.

In the year 1990, he made a documentary "VandeMatram" on...

Priyadarshan Soman Nair is a famous Director, Producer and screen writer. He is awarded the Padma Shri Award by the government in 2012. He has worked for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi cinema in his career since 1984. Although he began his career from Malayalam movies, he is recognized for his comedy films in Bollywood. He is an extremely versatile director and has films in almost every genre. Priyadarshan was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He graduated from University College in his home town with a M.A in Philosophy.

He was a book worm in his teenage days, and soon he started writing scripts and acts for Akashvani. His first big chance came as an assistant director when his friend Mohanlal got into movies. In 1984, Priyadarshan released his fi...

Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004....

Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...

Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. 

His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for about twenty five successful years. As right now, he is quite busy working in the international movi...

Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bollywood’s finest actor. He is a package for the Indian TV industry as he is a producer, director and actor an all-rounder kind of personality. Khan has an estimated net worth of $185 million. Aamir has born on 14th March, 1965 (aged 50) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did two marriages, first with Reena Dutta in 1986 they were together till 2002, than Kiran Rao came into his life, she is 42 years old, born in November, 1973, and they got married in 2005, now they both are living together happily in Mumbai. Kiran is from Bengaluru and also a director, screenwriter and producer.

Aamir’s father was Late Tahir Hussain, who was from a village Akhtiyarpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a screenwriter and director. Aamir is having 3 children today, one son Junaid and one daughter Ira from his...

Prasoon Joshi is an Indian poet, writer, lyricist and also an advertising guru. He is also the President of the McCann Worldgroup in South Asia and the CEO of McCann Wordgroup in India. He won the Best Lyricist award at the Filmfare for two consecutive times from 2007 to 2008. In year 2014, he received the same award for the biographical sports drama film, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He also won the Best Lyricist award at the National Film Award twice; one for Aamir Khan’s drama film, Taare Zameen Par and another one for the historical war drama film, Chittagong.

Prasoon was born on September 16, 1971 in Uttarakhand, India and spent most of his childhood days in Almora. His father is D.K. Joshi, a PCS Officer and his mother is Sushma Joshi, a political science lecturer who has been part of the All India Radio for ove...

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