1. R Nagendra Rao
R. Nagendra Rao is an Indian director who worked for the Kannada film industry. He was born on 23rd June 1896 in Holalkere, Mysore. He was also an actor, producer, screenwriter, and occasional composer. Rao is known to be one of the most influential personalities in the South Indian film industry. He began his career at the age of 8 when he started playing as an actor in theatre, performing in different plays. Rao gained some popularity while working with A.V Varadacharya's Ratnavali Drama Company and Chamundeshwari Company in Mysore.
For his contribution to Indian cinemas, he was also awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976 and was also won Karnataka State Film Awards for Best Actor for his performance in the movie Hannele Chiguridaga in 1968. Ananda Bashpa in 1963, Shri Kanyaka Parmeshwari Kathe in 1967,...
Date of Death:
09-02-1977
Age:
127
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
09-02-1977
Age:
127
Gender:
Male
2. Ajoy Kar
Ajoy Kar was a known Indian cinematographer and film director. He is also popularly known as the Father of the back projection in Bengali cinema. To pursue his career as a professional photographer, Ajoy left college. Later, he picked up cinematography. In 1935, he graduated as an assistant photographer. He became a chief photographer at Indrapuri Studios in 1938. As a cinematographer, he debuted in Charu Roy’s Pathik in 1939. As an independent director, he debuted in 1951 in Jighansa. In his career as a director, he directed 26 films. One of his films, Saptapadi, was nominated for the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. His movie, named Malyadan, won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film in Bengali in 1981. He has shot some of the most memorable films in the history of Bengali films.
The first f...
3. Mohan Bhavnani
Mohan Bhavnani was an Indian director. His full name is Mohan Dayaram Bhavnani. He was born in 1903 in Hyderabad, Sind, British India, which is now in Pakistan. Mohan studied at the College of Technology, Manchester, in 1921-21. Then he pursued film-making in Germany at UFA in 1924. His wife’s name was Enakshi Rama Rao, an actress and acted in the film Shiraz in 1928. He started his career with an association with Kohinoor Film Company. He started his career with films like Cinema Ki Rani in 1925, Veer Bala in 1925, Bhamto Bhoot in 1926, and Pagal Premi in 1926. His early films focused on creating Sulochana, a star.
In 1927 he shifted to Imperial Film Company. In 1927 he gave one of the biggest hits of all-time Wildcat of Bombay in which star was again Sulochana. His other films include Naseeb Ni Lila, Gamdeni Gori, Khwab...
Date of Death:
30-12-1962
Gender:
Male
4. Brajen Baruah
Brajen Baruah was an Indian director and actor. He was born in 1925 and was popularly known for ‘Dr Bezbarua.’ His other significant movies include ‘Mukuta,’ ‘Sito Bahuto,’ ‘Opaja Sonor Mati,’ and ‘Lalita.’ His younger brothers, ‘Nip Baruah’ and ‘Ramen Baruah’, are also known director and composer respectively. Brajen was the director and the actor of the movie, ‘Dr Bezbarua,’ an Indian Assamese language thriller film. He cast himself in a double role. He debuted as music director in Nip Barua’s film ‘Smitir Parash.’ Baruah was an icon of the Assamese film industry. He died in 1972. Baruah received awards for Best Feature Film in Assamese for the movies ‘Upaja Sonar Maati’ and ‘Dr Bezbarua’ and a Cer...
Date of Death:
1970
Gender:
Male
5. P.L. Santoshi
P L Santoshi was born on 7th August 1916 as Pyarelal Shrivastav in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. He works as a writer and director in the Indian Film Industry, predominantly in Bollywood Industry. He has also worked within the Music Department in various films. His journey in Bollywood started due to his occurrence in one film as a dialogue writer. And since then, he has worked in the industry. He has worked in great movies. Some of them are- ‘Khidki’ released in 1948, ‘Qawwali ki Raat’ in 1964, ‘Dil hi Toh Hai’ in 1963, ‘Holiday in Bombay’ in 1963, ‘Nai Maa’ in 1960, ‘Barsaat ki Raat’ in 1960, ‘Sabse Bada Rupaiya’ in 1955, ‘Chalis Baba ka Ek Chor’ in 1953 and many more. He has worked with prominent persons from the film industry, suc...
Date of Death:
07-09-1978
Age:
107
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
07-09-1978
Age:
107
Gender:
Male
6. Tapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha, one of the foremost Indian directors of his time was born on 2nd October 1924 and died on 15th January. 2009.He formed the legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen. Being primarily a Bengali filmmaker, he worked in both Hindi Cinema and Bengali Cinema, making films including Kabuli Wala, Louha Kapat, Sagina Mahato, Apanjan,Kshudhita Pashan, and children's films Safed Haathi and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Tapan Sinha began his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with the film production company New Theatres in Kolkata, then in 1950 he shifted to England, where he worked at Pinewood Studios for two years.
Before returning home to start his six-decade career in Indian Cinema, directing movies in Bengali, Hindi, and Oriya languages, covering genres in socia...
Date of Death:
15-01-2009
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
15-01-2009
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
7. Adurthi Subba Rao
Telugu film industry has tasted the direction of very few classics. Movies made by Adruthi Subba Rao are one of the finest pieces that Tollywood could ever watch. Born on 16th December 1912 in Rajahmundry, India he grew up in pure Telugu family background. Adruthi Subba Rao is not merely a cine director but he is a multi-talented human and has worked as a scriptwriter, cinematographer, producer and editor. During his mid 20’s he decided to be a cinematographer and against his parents will he attended St. Xavier’s college to pursue cinematography course.
After his studies, Adruthi Subba Rao didn’t succeed immediately but had to work in different branches of Hindi film industry. He did a part-time job in Bombay film lab, developed his skills and got few a...
Date of Death:
01-10-1975
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-10-1975
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
8. V Shantaram
Born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, on November 18, 1901, Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre alluded to as Shantaram Bapu or V. Shantaram, was a Marathi Indian movie producer, filmmaker and performing artist. He is from a Marathi Jain family and, he wedded thrice. He first married to Vimla and, they had three kids Saroj, Prabhat Kumar, and Charusheela, mother of performing artist Sushant Ray a.k.a. Siddharth Ray.
Shantaram at that point wedded on-screen character Jayashree and, they had three youngsters Tejashree, Marathi movie chief and maker Kiran and performing artist Rajshree. His third spouse, performer Sandhya starred opposite him in Do Aankhen Barah Haath and also the courageous woman of his movies, for example, Sehra, Jhanak Payal Baaje, Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli and Navrang.
His girl Madhura from his first marriage w...
Date of Death:
30-10-1990
Age:
122
Gender:
Male
9. Mehboob Khan
Mehboob Khan was a pioneer producer-director of Hindi cinema. He shot to international fame by making social epic ‘Mother India’ (1957) which was a nominee for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign film. He signed Nargis for the role of a suffering mother when she was just 26 years old, but the script required Nargis to perform a much -matured role on the screen. This film is also considered as the best film of Nargis Dutt to date.Â
Mehboob also supported the growth of film industry by setting up the Mehboob Studios in local Bandra area and brought out color films from his studio. Earlier, he set up his own production company ‘Mehboob Productions’ too. Soon, in 1946, he directed the musical hit ‘Anmol Ghadi’ which featured singin...
Date of Death:
28-05-1964
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
28-05-1964
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
10. Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Mukherjee is a film director, writer and producer in Bollywood. He is well known for giving a facelift to the career of Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Jaya Bhaduri, Rekha and Rajesh Khanna.Â
Hrishikesh was born in Calcutta on 30 September 1922. He began his career as an editor and assistant director under Bimal Roy. Much earlier, he was associated with Calcutta’s New Theatres (owned by B.N.Sircar) where he learnt camera techniques and editing part of filmmaking. Later he moved to Mumbai in 1952 and got associated with Bimal Roy and had associated with the editing of classics like ‘Do Bigha Zamin’, ‘Madhumati’ and ‘Devdas’. After working as an assistant director, he chose to become an independent director by making films like ‘Musafir&rsquo...
Date of Death:
27-08-2006
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
27-08-2006
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
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