Hindi Awards 59th National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

Iram Ghufran is an Indian film director. She was born in Delhi. Her work had been displayed in multiple international film festivals, such as the Berlin Film Festival and World Social Forum. She has won several awards for her documentary film There Is Something in The Air. These include the National Award. She holds a Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi. Iram has also directed the famous documentary Benegal’s New Cinema, released in 2014. The story revolves around Shyam Benegal’s films. She is also the editor of the movie, Let Them Blossom, released in 2012 and directed by Amrita Dasgupta.

Mamta Murthy is a well-known screenplay writer and director of the Bollywood industry. She also got an award at the Mumbai International Film Festival for the best documentary in 2012. She has given us a documentary named Fried fish, chicken soup, and a premiere show which was a cinematic excellence. This movie gained a lot of recognition and was especially loved by everyone. Another documentary that she made was titled Bread and Belonging, a film about food, culture, and migration through the perspective of Goa's unique bread Pao. Bread and Belonging unfold three stories of people dealing with migration, changing culture, and the ever-present need to earn a living and cycle in this race. In her profession, 

Acknowledged for her documentaries A Drop of Sunshine and The Monks Who Won The Grammy, Aparna Sanyal is an Indian filmmaker who has a National Award in her kitty. Born and brought up in India, Aparna Sanyal did part of her schooling at St. Joseph’s Convent High School in Patna and later joined Mother’s International School in Delhi. Since school, Aparna Sanyal actively took part in dramatic and cultural events. She has also been a member of her school magazine’s editorial board. In 1997, she joined Hindu College, University of Delhi, to pursue her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics. As always, apart from academics, she also excelled in extra-curricular activities.

Post her Bachelor’s degree completion, Aparna Sanyal enrolled herself in A.J.K. Mass Communica...

Multiple National Award-winning Indian director and Producer Kavita Bahl is a journalist turned filmmaker. Coming from a family of teachers, Kavita Bahl developed a sense of responsibility since her early days. She did her Master of Arts degree in World Literature from Delhi University. Upon graduating in 1991, she joined as a journalist for Indian Express. She got married to Nandan Saxena, a journalist turned filmmaker. As a news correspondent, she worked on investigative stories from the North-East Indian states.

After seeing the situation in the northeast of India, Kavita Bahl decided to quit her five-year-old job to become the voice of the people. Post leaving the job as a journalist, Kavita Bahl and her husband, Nandan Saxena, began a production house in the name Top Quark Films in...

Known for her unique and unconventional approach, Renu Savant is a two-time National Award-winning Indian director. Apart from direction, she has also ventured in the fields like writing, editing, and cinematography. Based on Mumbai, an open-minded parent who encouraged her to take up the things she desired, brought Renu Savant up. After completing her school studies, she pursued her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai. Further, she did her Master’s degree in English Literature at the University of Mumbai.

Initially, Renu Savant chose journalism as her career path and worked as a journalist in Indian Express. She juggled various jobs like Lecturer, Researcher, and even assisted personalities like Chetan Datar, Madhushree Dut...

National award-winning actress Leishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi is one of the talented actresses in Indian cinema. Leishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi, popularly called Tonthoi, was born on 17th October 1986 Leishangthem Lbungomacha Singh and Leishangthem OngbiLeibaklei Devi in a village called Chingkhu in Khundrakpam, Manipur. She loved keeping herself occupied since young. Be it sports or music or dance, Tonthoi gave her hundred percent in every field. Her parents wanted her to make a profession out of her education, but Tonthoi love for art made her take up a diploma course in dance from J N Manipur Dance Academy.

She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from D.M. College of Commerce in Manipur. She has also been a part of her University’s football team. Tonthoi has tak...

Madhusree Dutta is a filmmaker, novelist, and curator born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Jadavpur University in Kolkata and a master's degree in drama from the National School of Drama in New Delhi. In 1987, Dutta relocated to Mumbai. Dutta served one of the juries of the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) Shorts in 2015, Feminale: International Women's Film Festival, Cologne in 2006, Message to Man International Documentary Film Festival, St. Petersburg in 2001, and the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in 2009. She also served as the Chairperson of the jury of the SIGNS Festival of Digital Videos in 2014. MIFF (Mumbai International Documentary Festival) hosted her retrospectives in 2018; In 2008, she participated in the Persistenc...

Niharika Khan was born on November 21, 1996, in Jamshedpur, in the Indian state of Jharkhand. She did the bachelor degree in public relation and completed her HR from Seattle US. Her present residence is Mumbai. She has done costume designing in Bollywood. First, she started her work in a corporate set-up, and she hated it and also she did not attend classes of

jewellery designs but worked as design head in Tanishq in Banglore. And she started her career as a costume designer with the movie Khoya Khoya Chand (2007) and continued her works with many movies.

She got great fame for the movie Rock On. Then Yash Raj Films' Band Baaja Baaraat (2010) got her fame. She won the National award for the best costume designer for the movie Dir...

Neeta Lulla is a costume designer, having worked in over 300 films, since the 1990s, with noted filmmakers like Yash Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Subhash Ghai, Sooraj R. Barjatya, etc. She made her debut as a film costume designer with the film ‘Tamasha’ which had Kimi Katkar in the lead role. Neena started as an assistant to the former Indian fashion choreographer, Jeanne Naoroji, in the late 1980’s. After gaining some experience, she took up her career independently. After few films, she followed her career with Yash Chopra’s ’ Lamhe’, ‘Chandni’,’Darr’.

In her career spanning close to thirty years, she has received numerous awards. She won her first national award for her work in the film ‘Lamhe’...

Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress who was born in Poothamkurussy, Puthur of Kerala. Her birthday is 1st of January in 1978. Her parents are Saraswathy and P. R Balan. Her elder sister is Priya Balan and her second cousin is Indian actress Priyamani. She studied at a High School in Mumbai and in 1995, at the age of sixteen, she played the role of Radhika in the first season of Ekta Kapoor's TV series named “Hum Paanch”. In her teenage, she was inspired by Indian actress Shabana Azmi and Madhuri Dixit. She studied Sociology in St. Xavier's College and completed Master's in Mumbai University. She has appeared in several TV commercials and also she has starred in music videos. Vidya has briefly studied Carnatic music, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. She was listed as the "India's hottest vegetarian...

Shriya Sharma is a child actress and model who is loved for her peppy and cute gestures. This pretty little princess was first seen in Zee TV’s ‘Kanhaiya’.  Here, she acted in the lead role and this role brought her overnight success. After that, we saw her in ‘Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate’ where she played the role of herself. In 2004, Shriya was seen in the popular tele-serial ‘Kasautii Zindagii Kay’ where she played the role of Sneha. This cute and bubbly role of Sneha also fetched her many awards in the long run. Throughout her commendable acting career, Shriya had been seen in quite a number of Tamil, Telugu, Oriya and Hindi Flicks. She has worked with the Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh khan, Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi and RajniKanth.

The most remarkable f...

Roopa Ganguly or Rupa Ganguly is well known for her memorable role as Draupadi in B. R. Chopra’s ‘Mahabharat 1988 TV Series’. Roopa a.k.a Draupadi as she is known was born in Kalyani (Kolkata) on 25th November 1966. She did her schooling from Beltala Girl’s High School and obtained a bachelors degree from Jogmaya Devi College, Calcutta University.

She did a Malayalam film in the beginning of her days and shot to fame with Mahabharat in 1988 where she played the enigmatic Draupadi with such determination that till date people recognize her by that name. Roopa is a famous Bengali film actress and has done many films like - ‘Antarmahal’, ‘Yugant’, ‘Padma Nadir Majhi’, ‘Bariwali’, ‘Bidhatar Lekha’ and many more.

She has acte...

Reeja Rajagopal is the original name of Mallika, who is known for her character roles in Tamil films. Her understanding portrayal in Autograph, a 2004 Tamil flick, directed by Cheran, fetched her the Best Supporting Actress Award at Filmfare. The 2002 Malayalam flick Nizhalkuthu was her debut flick, in which she had a small role. It was Autograph which garnered Mallika the much-needed recognition. Later, she was busy doing roles in both Tamil and Malayalam. 

Other than the award for Autograph, Mallika is also credited with the Special mention from the Jury credit from the 59th National Film Awards for the 2010 flick Byari. This film...

Revathi is a popular south Indian actress, who has appeared in Hindi films too. Born as Asha Kutty, she changed her name to Revathi, for the stage. Right from the beginning of her career, she did not lose her popularity, because of her excellent performances. Mann Vasanai, directed by Bharathi Raja is her first movie. Pudhumai Penn was the movie that showed her in a different angle and she was praised for her performance. Pagal Nilavu is one of her top snatched films and in Aan Pavam she acted as a dumb girl, who lost her voice in an accident. In this film, she paired with Pandiya Rajan and the movie was a super hit. Kai Kodukkum Kai is the only film, she paired Rajini Kanth. She has acted with Kamal Hassan in a number of films, among which Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, Magalir Mattum, Thevar Magan and Punnagai Mannan are memorable. In Magalir ...

Wildlife and environmental filmmaker S Nallamuthuis a five-time National award winner. He is a director and a cinematographer who primarily works on directories. Subbiah Nallamuthu, popularly known as S Nallamuthu, is from Valliyur town in Tamil Nadu. He has a brother named Subbiah Arunan, who works in the Indian Space Research Organization. He attended St. Mary’s High School and did a three-year course on film technology, Cinematography, and direction at MGR Government Film and Television Institute in Chennai. Nallamuthu always had the passion for working in cinema. Still, under the insistence of his father, who is a headmaster, he had to join the Indian Space Research Organization as a cameraman and stayed for few years.

He filmed the landing of rockets, flamingos, and pelicans....

Pramod Purswane is a talented writer, producer, and director from the Bollywood film industry. His birthplace is Mumbai. He grew up in Mahim, Mumbai. He graduated in Law at Mumbai University in the subjects of History and Economics. In 1993, he did a post-graduation in Law from National Law College Bandra, Mumbai. His father was a Vice Principal at KJ Khilnani High School. Later, his father started a business of distribution of Hindi films in the Middle East, a geopolitical region. Pramod is a Proprietor (self-employed) in Funseekers since 2012.

In 2012, Pramaod debuted as a director in the documentary And We Play On. The film is about the Olympian Indian hockey player Vivek Singh, who played hockey from 1984 to 1990 and died due to cancer. It is also about Vivek's f...

Borun Thokchom is an Indian filmmaker whose film ‘The Silent Poet’ won a National Award in 2011. In many national and international film festivals, the film was nominated and won awards. He also collaborated with ‘NHK World’ in Japan on a WWII documentary series called ‘Battle of Imphal’. He also served as a Line Producer on Amazon Prime Video for ‘Kavithalayaa Productions' musical documentary series with AR Rahman. He is now filming ‘BATTLEFIELD’, a WWII-themed documentary film in Imphal.

Borun stated that he began shooting for the film ‘I Rise’ in the spring of 2015 and finished post-production five years later in December 2019. He claims that the most difficult aspect of becoming a documentary filmmaker is finding funds and that he could create this film i...

Vedant Desai is an Indian child artist, who is highly praised for his work in the movie named Chillar Party, which released on 11 July 2011 and the director of the film is Nitesh Tiwari. Vedant played the role of Silencer in it. He has also acted in a movie named David, which released in the year 2013. He mainly works in the Hindi Film and Hindi Television Industry. Being a child-artist, he focuses on his studies and acting career equally. 

Virendra Valsangkar is a well-known story writer and director of Marathi movies. From 1987 to 1991, he completed his graduation in Civil Engineering from the Walchand Institute of Technology. After his graduation, Virendra Valsangkar followed his passion and opted for filmmaking as his career. Virendra Valsangkar directed Vishnupant Damle: The Unsung Hero of Talkies, a docudrama. A. V . Damle produced the movie. The story is all about V G Damle. He is one of the members of the Prabhat Film Company. The film depicts how V G Damle commenced his path from a poor village boy and turned out to be one of the prominent personalities of the Indian film industry.

His journey started as a cameraman, director, producer, art director, sound recordist, etc. Some notable actors attached to this film are Hrishikesh Joshi, Ashwi...

Sankalp Meshram is an Indian filmmaker, producer, editor, and writer who has bagged five National Awards for editing and direction. Born in 1966 in Nagpur, Sankalp Meshram grew up in different places like Gwalior, Goa, Calcutta, Pune, and Mumbai. He did part of his schooling at The Frank Anthony Public School at Calcutta and remaining at Government Higher Secondary School at Panaji. Sankalp Meshram received his Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai. He further did his post-graduation in Law from Government Law College, Mumbai. In 1994, he pursued a specialization course in film editing from Film and Television Institute, Pune.

Sankalp Meshram began his journey in the film world as an editor. He has worked as an editor for several fea...

Nandan Saxena, a successful director with three National Film Awards in his kitty, is an Indian filmmaker, Director of Photography, and a former journalist. Nandan Saxena completed his schooling in N.C. Jindal Public School and attended Kirori Mal College, the University of Delhi, where he pursued his Bachelor’s in literature. Nandan Saxena completed his Master’s degree in English Language and Literature, General from Delhi University. He excelled in all sorts of extra-curricular activities and also, he served as the President of the Student Union for a year. As both his parents are teachers, Nandan Saxena firmly believed in being a catalyst to change the world.

So, despite studying literature, he took up journalism as his career. He worked as a television journalist for new...

Born in the year 1973, Spandan Banerjee is a self-made Indian director/filmmaker andproducer.He is the leading founding father of Overdose Films private limited. Spandan was born and brought up in Kolkata, India. He completed his undergraduate degree from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India. He showed enthusiasm in fine artwork from a very young age. He evolved as an artist from being and working as a young cartoonist for “The Statesmen” in 1990 to designing art for the “Satyajit Ray Society.”Further, he started his career in advertising,initially with Response India, Kolkata, and then later with a worldwide advertising agency, BBDO.

He was shortlisted among a few others for the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Award under the SCREEN Category. A f...

Manoj Barpujari is an Indian film critic, poet, and journalist who has received the National Film Award for Best Film Critic at the 59th National Film Awards. Born and brought up in Guwahati in Assam, Manoj Barpujari started his journey as a film critic during the early period of the 1980s. Manoj Barpujari’s writings predominantly centered on the prevalent social and political issues. But fascinated by the world of entertainment, he began writing about movies. Then, he joined the Assamese daily newspaper, Dainik Agradoot, as a full-time journalist and worked there for about three decades before deciding to quit his position as an Associate editor in 2015 to concentrate fully on cinema and related researches.

Other than Dainik Agraboot, Manoj Barpujari has also worked occasionally ...

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...

Vivek Wagh is a Hindi producer and director. In 2008, he worked as an executive producer in Checkmate, directed by Sanjay Jadhav, written by Sanjay Jadhav and Vivek Apte, and starring Sanjay Narvekar, Ankush Chaudhari, Swapnil Joshi, Sonali Khare, Ravi Kale, Priya Khopkar, and Rahul Mahendale. In 2015, he worked in Siddhant, directed by Vivek Wagh, written by Shekhar Dhavalikar, and starring Vikram Gokhale, Swati Chitnis, Kishore Kadam, Ganesh Yadav, Neha Mahajan, Devadhar Archit, Pravin Tarde, Prashant Tapasvi, and Sarang Sathaye. In 2017, he worked in Maza Bhir Bhira, directed by Yogesh Soman, Yogesh Vivek, and Vivek Wagh, starring Kshitish Date and Samidha Guru.

One of the best vocalists of India is Anand Bhate, who is known for his classical songs of the Marathi film ‘Balgandharva.’ Anand was born on 29 April 1971 in Pune. He has been contributing to Indian classical music since 1981. Music is in the genes of Anand because his great grandfather Bhate Buva was a prominent vocalist. In his initial years, Anand’s inclination towards classical music can easily be seen as he began his training from Chandrashekhar Deshpande and later Yashwantbua Marathe and Bhimsen Joshi taught him. At the age of 10, Anand performed Balgandharva’s Gayaki on All India Radio, Doordarshan, and received the title of Anand Gandharva. Hence, fame touched his feet from his debut performance.

He also performed in the US and traveled abroad. Anand got a chance to perform in var...

Abhijeet Gholap is a Marathi producer who produced many Marathi shows. Apart from making movies, he is also an entrepreneur. Abhijeet Sharadchandra Gholap was born on 1st January 1972. Currently, he resides in Cupertino, California, U.S. Abhijeet Gholap completed his bachelor's degree in Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune. He gained an M.Tech degree in biochemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Abhijeet Gholap did a degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

From 2002 to 2008, he worked at Roche Diagnostics. He was a co-founder and Board Member. From December 2018 to December 2020, Abhijeet worked for TiE as one of the Board Of Directors. TiE is in Silicon Valley, California, United States. Abhijeet entered as co-convener in TiEC in ...

Arun Chadha is an Indian director. He was born in Meerut, India. He did his graduation in Arts and then moved to the Film and Television Institute, Pune. Now he is residing in New Delhi with his family. Arun also has a film production house called Cine Pulse. Arun has won many national awards. In 2012 he won National Award for his film Mindscapes of Love and Longing, released in 2011. This film won its award for Best film on social issues. He received the first prize for best documentary film at the FAI Film Competition in 1995, India. On the Threshold was adjudged Best film at the International Video Documentary Film Festival on Science, Society & Development held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in 1995.

In 1998 he received Second Prize at FAI Film Competition for Temple of Goddess Earth. Arun received the golden conch awar...

Anand Patwardhan, a generous, humane documentary filmmaker also known as the father of Indian documentaries, was born on 18th February 1950 in Mumbai to a family of a businessman. Graduating from Mumbai University in 1970, upholding an English Literature degree, and further went to America and studied sociology through the Scholarship. The Ongoing Vietnam war influenced him to show concern for social and political changes and brought him into the documentary filmmaking journey. His first acclaimed documentary was in 1971, "Waves of Revolution", based on the Bihar Movement repressing the government for the years of corruption and atrocities, by students and peasants of the area.

The ordinary filmmaker deploys the glamorous aspects into their films, unconsciously bringing enormous fascination and aspirations into the sp...

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. Some of his prominent works include Valu(2008), Vihir(2009), Deool(2011), and Highway(2015). Umesh ...

Chinmai Chandranshuh( aged 21), born in Yamunanagar, Haryana, is an Indian actor who has worked in several films like Queen (2013), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), Chillar Party(2011), etc. His first Film was Chillar’s party starring Irfaan Khan and Ranbir Kapoor.

He did his schooling from Mukand Lal Public School, Yamunanagar and now he is studying in Deviprasad Goenka management college of media studies, Mumbai. He has also done several series like I’M Mature and Dosti ka Naya maidan. Recently he has seen in a youtube series Overtime which has released on 29th January. He has done advertisements for Swiggy, DairyMilk, etc.

Sherrey is a film director and screenwriter who has predominantly worked in the Malayalam film industry. Adimadhyantham, a Malayalam language movie that released on 13th December 2011and starred Sajitha Madathil, Mamukkoya, Master Prajith, was directed and written by Sherrey. It was the only Malayalam cinema that was selected as a competitor in the 16th International Film Festival of Kerala. The 2011 movie that marked his debut in the industry as a director won a Special Jury Award, Special Mention (feature film), in the 59th National Film Awards (2012). Adimadhyantham was later included for a non-competition screening and was screened in the festival under the "Malayalam Cinema today" section. It won the 14th John Abraham award for Best Malayalam film.

Before his debut as a director in Mollywood, ...

Vikram Gaikwad is an Indian makeup artist. He has worked in several movies like including Bollywood as well as other regional cinemas. He has won the National Film Award for best makeup artist twice for the Bengali film Moner Manush in 2010, also for his work and creativity in the Marathi film Balghandharva.

‘Dirty film’ released in 2011 factored in towards winning that prize. He is also known for a cameo role in the Marathi film Tukaram and Lokmanya Ek Yugpurush. Moreover, he is a screamingly talented, makeup artist. His works evoke “wow” from his audience and other people.

Dhurbajyoti Phukan is an Indian music composer and producer, popular amongst the audience for his work on the soundtracks of movies like Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Barfi, Dhoom 3, Jab Harry Met Seghal, etc. Mostly known for his predominant involvement in the musical albums of Bollywood movies, he is also referred to as DJ Phukan. Born on 17th June 1964 in Dibrugarh, Assam to Atulananda Phukan, a civil engineer, and Amriya Phukan, a housewife, Dhurbajyoti took advantage of the musical atmosphere at his home to turn music into career. Both his mother and grandfather used to sing professionally.

He is currently married to singer Shaswati Phukan. After completing his schooling from Moran Higher Secondary School, he took admission in Cotton College, Guwahati but soon shifted to Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati. In no...

Suveeran. K. P is an Indian Director and Actor. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. He is from Kozhikode, Kerala. He went to School of Drama in Calicut, Kerala, and The School of Performing Arts in Pondicherry, India. Suveeran worked for almost thirty plays and five short films. He also published many short stories and a novel.

Suveeran turned as a director in the Malayalam Film Industry with the film “Byari” (2011). The film won the National Film Award in the category of Best Film of the year 2011. The film also bagged a SAARC Best Feature Film Award. He also worked on a film named “Mazhayathu” which released in 2018. 

Hitendra Ghosh is an Indian sound designer who works predominately in the Hindi film industry. He is best known for his works in movies such as Swades, Jungle, and Rang De Basanti. Hitendra Ghosh is a two-time winner of a national award for Best Audiography for the films Ek Pal (1985) and Game (2011) and won the National award for Best Sound Recording for the movie Junoon in 1978.

Hitendra Ghosh was born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. His parents were art teachers at The Scindia School, so he completed his schooling in the same institution. Hitendra's father passed away when he was seven years old. His mother, the sole breadwinner of the family, took care of Hitendra throughout his childhood. When Hitendra was seventeen, she passed away.

He enrolled in an engineering college and joined a part-time work to compensate fo...

Thiagarajan Kumararaja is an Indian film and ad director and also a screenplay writer. He is born in the year 1976 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and bred in the same place. He works in the Tamil industry and is very famous for his contribution. Thiagarajan is a National Award winning filmmaker in the category of Best Film of a Director.

Just because he wanted to make films, he soon dropped the Visual Communication course from The Loyola College. He later started working as a photographer and writer. He was not good at studies. He used to like the subject only if the teacher was good, if not, then he did not study for that subject. In Class 12th, he flunked Mathematics; it was not an exciting subject for him. In his childhood, he used to stay at home because his parents t...

Satya Rai Nagpaul is an Indian cinematographer, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Aligarh (2015), Chauthi Koot (2015), Newborns (2014), The Owner (2012), Gattu (2011). Mostly known for his major involvement in Hindi TV series, short films, documentaries, dramas, and Bollywood movies, Satya has been a prominent part of the Indian film industry for more than ten years now.

The year 2011 was a vital one for Satya as he made his first decisive contribution on the silver screen as a film editor with the short drama film “The Masterpiece,” directed by Tanmay Singh. Since then, he has often been admired and applauded by numerous critics and spectators for the remarkable skills he showcases as a cinematographer and film editor, especially the smoothness in his filmed sequences and his humble ...

Sanath Menon is a child artist in the Indian film industry. He starred in one of the most liked children films of his times named ‘Chillar Party.’ It was an enriching experience for the kid, and he learned a lot from the renowned ensemble cast of the movie. The actor did the film in 2011 and received the ‘National Film Award for the Best Child Artist.’ The movie got directed by Vikas Bahl and Nitesh Tiwary and had the star cast of Aarav Khanna, Chinmay Chandranshah, Divji Handa, Irfan Khan, Rohan Grover and Sanath Menon in the leads. It narrated the story of a group of kids who enters the world of politics unintentionally to save one of their friends. Sanath always had the filmy keeda in him and his parents realized it on an early stage. With his good performance in studies on the one hand, he focussed on his ac...

Rohan Grover is a child actor in Hindi cinema. He appeared in the movie ‘Chillar Party’ which was a 2011 comedy film and family entertainer directed by Nitesh Tiwari and Vikas Bahl. With this film, he made a striking debut, and his performance was both fascinating and realistic.

His acting in the movie was amazingly emotional and humorous too. With his acting talent, the actor was able to relay the story with grace and conviction. This film had multiple child artistes. The film won the 2011 National Film Award for Best Children's Film.

The film was presented by Ronnie Screwvala reporting to the UTV Motion Pictures and Salman Khan by his SKBH productions. In this movie, Rohan Grover narrated the role of Ramashanker Iyer/Akram. It was a comedy film as eight child actors had their own identity and a nicknam...

Vishesh Tiwari is an Indian model and child actor. He celebrates his birthday on the 3rd of May. Vishesh studies in Ryan International School, Mumbai. Born and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra, the child developed an ardent interest in Cinema.

Vishesh began his acting career with commercial advertising and print shoots. He became the face of many advertising campaigns, including, Kurkure, Red Label, Vicks, Lifebuoy, Mirinda, and Puffcorn. At an early age, Vishesh developed a deep fascination for instrumental music. He loves to play drums and even took a diploma and an advanced diploma course in drumming.

Tiwari's love and passion for acting kept on increasing with every project he worked upon, leading to the path of success. In 2011, his hard work finally paid off when he bagged a role in the Bollywood Drama film, &quo...

N B Srikanth is an Indian Film Editor. He worked in the Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam Film Industries. Srikanth initially worked with K. L. Praveen, an award-winning editor who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam Film Industries. They were like partners. They also won a Tamil State Film Award for their work together in the film Saroja (2008). Srikanth started his career in the film industry as an editor with the Tamil film Chennai 600028 in the year 2007. He later worked as an editor for the films Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum (2009), Kaadhal Solla Vadndhen (2010), Mathil Mel Poonai (2013), Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (2013), Hello Naan Pei Pesuran (2016), Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven (2019), and a few more.

He also worked for a few Malayam Films like Oru Nanna Katha (2010), Pickles (2011), and Second Show (2012). H...

Baylon Fonseca is a Production Mixer & Sound Designer for Films, Ad Films, & Documentaries. In his point of view, sound designing is the aesthetic & artistic art of finding the right balance of sound between the elements of dialogue, music, effect, & ambience which supports the visual thereby subconsciously transporting the audience into the world.

He has worked as a Production Mixer, Sound Designer, Sound Editor, and Film Mixer all rolled into one. He is known for working with some big personalities in film, commercials, and documentary world. Some of his famous works can be seen in Noblemen (2019), Luka Chuppi (2019), and Aun (2019), and many more.

Haresh Hingorani and Keitan Yadav originally met Shah Rukh Khan in 2003 when he was documenting Paheli, where they deliberated an idea about making an initiative under the support of Red Chillies Showbiz. They produced a superhero flick, clearly containing SRK and red chilies. VFX was born three years afterward. The pair began work on the striving Fan –determined because it had SRK, frolicking dual roles as Aryan Khanna the megastar and also Gaurav Chandana, a 24-year old infatuated fan.

Hingorani and Yadav decided to use a mix of prosthetic and VFX to get the right look for Chandana and expended around six months in R&D beforehand the actual film began. The movie Fan saw the active participation of over 250 performers from red chilies. VFX and an extra150 chipped in as the corporation decided to subcontract the rotos...

Keitan Yadav is a visual effects supervisor. Yadav with his outstanding skills flavors the Bollywood. Yadav is also the Chief Operating Officer and VFX Producer at Red Chillies Entertainment. Red Chillies Entertainmentswhich is headed by Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan is a company that is surging ahead in the Global Entertainment Industry. Keitan Yadav is basically from Mumbai and lives in Mumbai only. He has done his early education from Sir Cowasgir High School (1977 - 1988), Mumbai, India.

He has done his higher education, that is,graduation in Commerce from the University of Mumbai. He has done Masters in Diploma in Software Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He has also done Diploma in CAD (Computer Aided Designing) from Singapore. He has also...

Anjan Dutt is an Indian film director, actor, singer and songwriter as well. He was born on 19 January 1953 to a Bengali family and the mountains of North Bengal. His father was a solicitor and wanted him to make a career in law. He had his basic schooling from St. Paul's School, Darjeeling and came to Kolkata for further studies. He did his Post graduation in English literature, from the University of Calcutta, in India. It was during his University days when he began to work in theatres with thespian Badal Sarkar. He was inspired by his friends to take acting seriously as a career option. He began first by joining a group called 'Open Theatres' at the end of 1970s. Here they used to perform plays on the works of renowned English drama writers like Peter Weiss, Jean Genet, and Sartre, etc.

The group was inspired fr...

Ashvin Kumar is an Indian director, producer, and writer, whose prominent works include a number of feature-length films, documentaries, and short films. He was born in Kolkata in 1973 to well-known fashion designer and Padma Shri awardee Ritu Kumar and Shashi Kumar. He has won 2 National Awards along with various film festival awards. He was the youngest Indian director, at the age of 32, to be nominated for an Academy Award. He was the first to be nominated for the European Film Academy and now is a voter of BAFTA and European Film Academy. Ashvin Kumar did his schooling in Kolkata at the La Martiniere Kolkata Modern School and also at The Doon School, Dehradun.

He was a member of the Shakespeare Society at St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, Goldsmith’s University, London where he completed a bachelor’s degre...

Mayookh Bhaumik is an Indian Music Composer. He worked in Bollywood, Bengali, and Hollywood Film Industries. Mayookh was born in New York. He went to St. Xavier’s Collegiate School in Kolkata, West Bengal. Mayookh is a Tabla Player, Music Composer, and EDM Artist. He started working for films with Herbert (2005). He later worked for more films such as Footsteps (2006), Dwando (2009), Egaro (2011), Laptop (2012), Room No. 103 (2015), and a few more. Mayookh won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for his film Bengali film Laptop in the year 2015. He has a YouTube channel where he keeps uploading videos of him playing the Tabla.

Neel Dutt was born on March 7th, 1979 at Kolkata West Bengal in India. Neel completed his first primary education from Mr. Pirate’s private school. He completed his high secondary education from Saint Augustine’s Day School. In 2002 the University of Kolkata he received masters in English literature. In 1993 when it was in Middle School his father started his career as a Lyrics writer in Bengali. He helped his father in English music combining with his guitar. In modern Bengali music show that was the first time a father and a son a combined for the music.

He learned music from his father from the age of thirteen for playing guitar that helps him to express his music and as well as a studio session. They both performed several live shows and ...

Gurvinder Singh was born in Delhi in a Sikh family. He is an Indian movie Director and has made mainly Punjabi cinemas. His Chauthi Koot and Anhe Ghore Da Daan are the most famous Punjabi films that made him a successful Director. Gurvinder was into painting, arts and Photography in his childhood. He studied film direction in Pune at the Film and Television Institute of India.

He graduated in 2001 when he felt a strong desire to work in Punjabi movies. He believes that Punjab has a rich heritage that needs exploration. He applied at the Indian Foundation for the Arts. With the grants, he documented oral narratives and folk ballads. In 2003, he released Pala, his first short film documentary. He traveled in the Malwa region in Punjab extensively from 2002-2006 to grasp more knowledge on Punjab. He got an insight...

Girish Pandurang Kulkarni is very widely recognized for his National Award. He won a National Award which made him very widely famous. Girish Pandurang Kulkarni is an Indian film actor and also interested and a very talented writer, and also a producer. Girish Pandurang Kulkarni is currently known for his Marathi films such as the hit movie Valu which was also tagged as "The Wild Bull" and also the movie famously called as Vihir which was also tagged as "The Well" and also the super hit movie called "Deool-The Temple" and also Gabhricha Paus- The Damned Rain.

Girish Pandurang Kulkarni also released a movie in Hindi called ugly just recently. Girish Pandurang Kulkarni was born in Maharashtra, India. Girish Pandurang Kulkarni was brought ...

Sarkunam is an Indian film director. He has mainly worked in Tamil film industry. He debuted with the movie Kalavani in 2010 followed by Vaagai Sooda Vaa in 2011, Naiyaandi in 2013 and Chandi Veeran in 2015. He is known for the work in the movie Vaagai Sooda Vaa for which he even won the National Film Award in the category of Best Feature Film in Tamil. In 2014, he founded "A Sarkunam Cinemaz" his own production company. He started his career as an assistant director in Tamil movies. He has worked with Tamil director A.L Vijay. He made his debut with the movie Kalavani in 2010. The movie was produced by Nazir. The film was a romantic comedy based on a village life. The movie featured Ganja Karuppu, Oviya, Ilavarasu, Saranya Ponvannan, in lead roles. The movie was a huge hit in the theaters and gro...

K L Praveen whose full name is Kuchipudi Latha Praveen is a famous Indian film editor who has worked with many notable directors. Praveen mainly works in the Kollywood industry and has showcased his editing skills in many popular movies and has received accolades for the same. The Andhra Pradesh born editor wanted to pursue a degree in Bio-Technology when he was 17 but unfortunately the number of seats was already full for the course. He had an entire year on his hand and didn't wish to waste that time without doing anything productive. As a result, he started learning to edit in some studios. Most of his family members including his father used to work in the movie industry, but he had a lack of interest to work there.

His father worked for a Telugu Satellite Channel named ETV and Praveen did a four month ...

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...

P Madan is an Indian film producer, who established the production banner, Escape Artists Motion Pictures. In 2010, he was debuted as a producer in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s musical romantic drama film, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa. The following year, he has produced the critically acclaimed Tamil mystery dramedy film, Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai, which was screened at the 2011 Toronto International film Festival and bagged a National Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Though this film was a hit, P Madan considered his next film, Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga (2013), as his major breakthrough and a turning point in his film career.

Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga earned positive reviews from the critics and audiences. It also completed 100 days in several theaters in Tamil Nadu and had a Kannada re...

Suseenthiran was born in 1978 and his parents named him as 'Sureshkumar Nallusamy'. Later during his childhood days, he changed his name and now is popularly known as 'Suseenthiran.' Suseenthiran is a National movie director and dramatist. He ascends his recognition with the 'Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu.'

Suseenthiran belongs to a small village called Kanakkanpatti in Pazhani. He always wanted to be a director like his father and his uncle. His family never appreciated his dream. They believed that making films was a waste of time as his father made many movies but none of them got released.