Hindi Awards 57th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

Anjuli Shukla is a film director and Indian cinematographer. She has also won National Award for Best Cinematography. She is the first, and the only woman to win that Award. She has won this Award for her film named “Kutty Srank.” “Happy Mother’s Day” directed by Anjuli Shukla is a movie by (CFSI) Children’s Film Society, India. It was the opening film at 19th International Children’s Film Festival India. Before making her debut film, Anjuli Shukla has worked with “Santosh Sivan” who is a director and cinematographer. She works as an assistant to him. She was born in Lucknow which is a city in Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) state of India.

Her family was not having any background or connection with the film industry. She comple...

Padma is an Indian actress and model. She was born on 28 February 1980 in Delhi and brought up in Punjab by her Tamil parents. She completed her schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad (Andhra Pradesh) and graduated from Loyola Academy, Alwal. She has a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and also a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar.

She also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law from National Law School of India University, along with possessing a Masters in Public Administration from New York University. She ventured into modeling hoping it would give way to a career in the film industry. She worked for a music album during her class 12th an...

Arundathi Nag is an Indian actress and theater person. She was born on 6th July, 1956 in New Delhi to a Maharashtian family and had three siblings. When she was a 10 year kid, her family shifted to Bombay. Arundathi had an immense passion about theater since her childhood. When she was a teen, she joined a theater group and she used to act in 40 shows in a single month, the shows used to be either in English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi. Arundathi acted in many Kannada and Hindi films. In 2005, for her acting in the Kannada film "Jogi", a blockbuster film, Arundathi won the best supporting actress award from the state government of Karnataka. She was again nominated for the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the super hit Bollywood movie "Paa...

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Hiren Bora is an actor turned filmmaker, story, and scriptwriter. He hails from Assam, India. 2009-10, he directed the film Basundhara (The Earth). It starred Barsha Rani Bishaya, Saurabh Hazarika and Iftekar Ahmed. The movie won the Rajat Kamal for Best Regional Film at the 57th National Film Awards 2009. In 2014, Bora directed a critically acclaimed film, Khobh (Anguish), starring Abhilash Borthakur and Harshita Utpal Das. The movie was screened at the 20th Kolkata International Festival (2015), 22nd Cairo Intertiol Cinema & Art for Children (2015), Habitat Film Festival, New Delhi (2015), 8th Intertiol Children’s Film Festival, Bangladesh (2015), and 3rd Kolhapur Intertiol Film Festival (2014).

In 2018, Bora directed Seema: The Story Untold, starring George ...

One of the successful filmmakers from Goa, Laxmikant Shetgaonkar, is multiple times National Award-winning director who is familiar for his works Paltadacho Munis and Baga Beach. Laxmikant Shetgaonkar was born and grew up in Cuncolim Village of Salcette district in Goa. His love for filmmaking made him pursue his graduation in Theatre Arts at Kala Academy in Goa. Then, for some time, he did theatre productions in Goa before moving to Delhi. In Delhi, Laxmikant Shetgaonkar served as the Actor-Teacher at the National School of Drama.

While he lived in Delhi, he got the opportunity to attend many film festivals. The world cinemas fascinated him, and he developed the desire to become a full-time filmmaker. So, with the dreams of becoming a director, Laxmikant Shetgaonkar moved to Mumbai and...

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...

Christien Tinsley is an American makeup artist and bio creator. His career started in Los Angeles at the age of 22. Within two years, he had a place in the makeup league and began to work as a makeup artist for films such as ‘The Grinch’, ‘Pearl Harbor’, ‘Swordfish’, and ‘Ocean’, ‘Work 11’ and more. He continued to develop a proprietary technology called prosthetic limb transplantation. He founded Christien Tinsley Studio, Tinsley Transfers Inc. and he also continues to work as a makeup supervisor and personal makeup artist. His makeup department works include ‘Chill Factor’ (prosthetic makeup effects artist: XFX), ‘Evil Hill’ (Short) (designer and creator: special makeup effects), ‘Nutty Professor II: The Klumps’ (spec...

RC Kamalakannan is a veteran visual effects supervisor. Born and raised in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, Kamalakannan is famous for his work in the movie 'Bahubali: The Conclusion.' Kamalakannan went to Gopalapuram Boys High School and completed his graduation from Guru Nanak College, Chennai. He started his career as an ENG photographer and U-Matic editor. The ace technician is also widely popular for his work in 'Magadheera''Yamadonga' 'Eega' and 'Puli.' Known for his technical skills, Kamalakannan has won several state and national-level awards for various films in various languages. Kamalakannan has also worked in a major VFX company named 'Makuta VFX.'

Music is the essence of Indian cinema. It is like magic that never fails to surprise us or even change our life. Subhash Sahu is a well-known sound engineer and a music composer of Bollywood and Hollywood too. From his childhood days, Subhash had wanted to become an actor. Despite of his family resisting him not to watch any films, Subhash, in his teenage days would hide from everyone and go watch theatre plays as that was the only source of fun. After participating in several plays, he was pretty confident about his acting skills. In his college days, Subhash worked under some directors as part-time assistants and tried to learn the art.

In his generation, there were no specific courses meant for acting, so he had no other option but to choose sound engineering as that was the closest ...

Anup Dev is a re-recording mixer and sound supervisor. He has spent many years working in the Bollywood film industry with great names like Aananth Mahadevan, Rohit Shetty, Ajay Devgan, late Irfan Khan, and late Rishi Kapoor. In 2006 he won ZEE cine award for Best Re-Recording. Anup has worked as a sound mixer in Hip Hip Hurray in 1984, Mard in 1985, Janbaaz in 1986, Samundar in 1986, Nagina in 1986, Allah-Rakhda in 1986, Kalyug aur Ramayan in 1987, Shehenshah in 1988, Ganga Jamuna Saraswathi in 1988, Kaal Chakra in 1988, Clerk in 1989, Prem pratigyaa in 1989, Nighahen: Naagina part II in 1989, Chandni in 1989, Naqab in 1989, Swarg in 1990, Aaj ka Arjun in 1990, Agneekaal in 1990, Jai Shiv Shankar in 1990, Javani Zindabad in 1990, Farishtay in 1991, Kurbaan in 1991, Akayla in 1991, Phool aur Kaante in 1991, Panaah in 1992, Tehelka in 1...

Born in Kolkata, West Bengal, in 1974, Rupam Islam is an Indian Playback Singer. He has worked in Hindi and Bengali films as a lyricist, singer, and composer. Rupam was born in the family of musicians, and his musical journey began from a very early stage. He gave on stage live performances and was the chosen child artist for Doordarshan and Akashvani. After completing his education from Ashutosh College, Rupam worked as an English professor at Taki Boys Multipurpose School. Rupam started his band named ‘Fossils’ in the year 1998 and released the first album called Tor Bhorshotey.

He became the face of his band because of his fine skills as a vocalist, singer, and composer. Fossils released six albums that broke the records year after year. In 2007, RnB (Rupam and Bumpy) was released, which went on to be the most so...

P N Ramchandar Rao is an Indian director and screenwriter who worked in Telugu, Kannada and Tamil movies. He was born in Chadalavada, Tenali Taluk, Gundur district and brought up in Parlapalli Village, Nellore dist. He shifted his base to Chennai to enter into the cinema industry. In 1973, The South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce's Film Institute in Chennai announced the admissions for the acting course and PNR, who was only 18, went to Chennai to join the course.

He came to know that the entry age to join the course should be a minimum of 21 and PNR was shocked to see this, as he was just 18. Doondi, a senior producer, suggested him to meet P. Chandrashekar Reddy, a notable Film director, who hails from Nellore as PNR. With Doondi's guidance, PNR met P. Chandrashekar Reddy. He joined as an associate director...

Gokulam Gopalan has been named as A.M Gopalan, was born on 23rd July in the year 1944 in Vadakara, Kerala, India. He belongs to a decent family with father Chathu and mother Madhu. Gopalan has a wife and three children named Baiju Gopalan, Lijisha Gopalan, and Shabareesh Gopalan. Gopalan is an Indian film industry, film distributor and businessman. He preferably works in the Malayalam film industry. Gopalan acted in two films named Netaji and Client in the year 2017 and 2019 respectively. Gopalan was appointed as the leader of Sree Narayana Dharma Vedi and also as the president of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam.

Gopalan started with his career in the year 2007. He was starting producing from the movie Athisayan. Then after a year in 2009, Gopalan got another film as producer, which was Pazhassi raja. Likewise, he got the...

Poovankery Francis Mathews is an author from India who mainly writes in the Malayalam language and a screenplay writer who has worked in Malayalam TV and film industry. He has also won a National Award for his contribution to the industry. Along with a National Award, he has also won many other awards.

His debut film as a screenwriter was Thanthram which was released in the year 1986 starring Mammooty. He has also done many other movies like Puthran, Kutty Srank, Antichrist, and much more. For the year 2016, at Kerala State Film Awards, he was the member of the jury panel. He was born in a Christian family in Ernakulam, Kerala in India on 18th of February in the year 1960. His father’s name was Poovankery Francis, and his mother’s name was Mary Francis.

Hariharan is a veteran Indian film executive who has coordinated more than 60 Malayalam films. His striking works incorporate Parinayam, Pazhasi Raja, Oru Vadakan Veeragatha, Amrutham Gamaya, Sargam and Nakhakshathangal, which won him national and global acceptance. Hariharan was a student at the St. Thomas College, located in Thrissur. He has even attended the Universal Arts College, Kozhikode. He arrived in the Malayalam film industry in 1965. In 1979 another blockbuster motion picture Sarapanjaram was discharged with Jayan and Sheela. His movies, for example, Nakhakshathangal, Panchagni, Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, Valarthumrugangal, Sargam, Parinayam and Ennu Swantham Janakikutty have been inducted in the Indian Panorama of International Film Festival.

In the year 1993, the movie Sargam won him the State Award for the position...

Vivek Khatkar is an Indian film producer. He is a professional Electronics & Telecommunication Engineer in Mumbai. He is the producer of the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Hindi sports film, Lahore (2010). The film earned the Indira Gandhi Award at the 57th National Film Award in 2009. Khatkar also bagged the Best Debut Film of a Director Award in the same event. His family was into real estate business and Lahore was their first foray in the filmdom. Vivek was still in his 2nd year in engineering course when he did the film that made him earned major awards, including the Special Jury Award at the 2009 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. He is also the founder of InnoTom, a software company based in Gurgaon, India.

Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan is an Indian Film Director, Screen Writer and Dialogue Writer, who was born on 8^th October, 1975 and is well known for his internationally praised film Lahore.

 Nothing is available about the director’s family background and education qualifications. He was born on 8^th October in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. He entered Bollywood as an actor in the movie named as Siskiyaan.

Released on 30^th September 2005 it is a Hindi thriller. The plot of the film revolves around things that happen when a stranger meets a woman who had a painful past. Sanjay did not act in any other movie.

Further, he was seen as a Director, Screen Writer, Story Writer as well as Dialogue Writer of the movie, Lahore. Lahore is a Hindi sports film that released on 19 March...

He is a renowned Indian film personality; he was born on September 22, 1966, in Mumbai (Maharashtra). He studied visual communication and graphics design at J.J school of Arts. He has been working as a successful graphic designer, copywriter and creative designer with a leading advertisement agency. He is married to Meghana Jadhav. She is a producer as well. They have a child Atharva Jadhav. As a great director his first two movies were 'Natrang' in 2010 and 'Balgandharva' in 2011. His first film portrayed traditional folk art of Maharashtra, and another was a biographical film on Narayana Shripad Rajhans.

His debut movie Natrang earned over 70 million in the first three weeks of its release. Both the films got immense love by the Indian audience; he seems to be an educator through his movies. All his movies bri...

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: The Forgotten Hero (2005).

Samir was a trained painter coming from Government College of C...

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...

Balki (popularity known as R.Balakrishnan), an Indian screenwriter, filmmaker, and Chief Creative Officer of Lowe Lintas (advertising agency) was born in Bangalore, Karnataka. Balakrishnan got married in 2007 to Gauri Shinde film director of highly acclaimed ‘English Vinglish’ (2012).

He always had a love for film making and even applied to the Madras Film Institute for a course in the same but walked out of the interview as he did not like the panel. He started doing a course in Masters In Computer Application (MCA), but was thrown out of the college due to low attendance.

 His career started when he was 23 with Mudra. Some of his major contributions include "Jaago re" ads for 'Tata Tea', "Daag Achche Hain" for 'Surf Excel', and the &q...

 Pandiraj is a Tamil film director and producer whose arrival into Tamil cinema was felicitated by a National award for the best screenplay in his debut project, Pasanga.

Pandiraj grew up in Puddukottai in Tamil Nadu, but relocated to Chennai, after having completed his formal education in the city where he was born. Initially, he worked for director K.Bhagyaraj, as his office attendant, while also chalking out short stories for Bhagya,   the weekly Tamil magazine. Knowing the competition in today’s world, especially in the cinema world, Pandiraj had to invest immense labor to gain recognition, and pocket a decent amount of work. He assisted notable directors like Chimbu Devan, Cheran, and Thangar Bachan, on various projects. The year 2009 marked Pandiraj...

M.Sasikumar is a versatile cine artist. He juggles between direction, production, and acting. He made his debut in Kollywood as a Director through the original, suburban film Subramaniapuram (2008). The movie was rendered on a small budget and made heads turn because of the new script. Sasikumar graduated from Vellaichamy Nadar College, Madurai, majoring in Business Administration. His uncle A. Kandaswamy, the producer of the film Sethu, made him the Assistant Director for the movie, under the prominent Director Bala.

In the sets of Sethu, he became a friend of Ameer, who was also an Assistant Director. Sasikumar then worked as the Assistant Director under Ameer, in the movies Mounam Pesiyadhe (2005) and Raam (2002). In the year 2008, his debut film Subramaniapuram was released and received rave reviews. T...

Guinness Book of World Records holder Daggubati Ramanaidu was born on 6th June 1937. He is the initiator of ' Suresh Productions' who individually produced more than 150 movies in 13 different languages, and therefore secured a place in the world book of records.

D.Ramanaidu was born into an agricultural background in a small village in Andhra Pradesh. He got his education from the same village and graduation from 'Presidency College,' Chennai. His father forced him to go Chennai and toil with movie producers. Before coming to this line, he had a business of rice- mill and later bricks producer initially and later he got them shut.

In 1963, Ramanaidu collaborated with his pal and produced 'Anuragam' w...

Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with symphonic orchestration.

He was also the first Asian to organize a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and became the first Indian to compose a complete symphony. He has won three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background score. He had also received the Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.

Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with symphonic orchestration.

He was also the first Asian to organize a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and became the first Indian to compose a complete symphony. He has won three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background score. He had also received the Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.

Date of Birth: 02-06-1943

Age: 80

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Tamil

Skills: Music Director

Biography About Ilaiyaraaja

Biography About Ilaiyaraaja

Date of Birth: 02-06-1943

Age: 80

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Tamil

Skills: Music Director

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...

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...