Hindi Awards 61st National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

Geetanjali Thapa is a National Award winning Bollywood actress, who recently made news when she received the award for the Best Actress in the movie called “Liar’s Dice.” She was awarded in April 2014. The event is as fresh in her mind, as her first time in Bollywood. Not much is known about the actress, but what we know of her, she was born and brought up in Sikkim. She completed her schooling from Sikkim, and then went to Kolkata for graduation. During her stay in Kolkata, she had taken up modeling as well. She was the winner of Mega Miss North East held in Guwahati in 2007. Later she moved to Delhi for further studies.

The streak of acting was in her since she was a child. Geetanjali made her debut with a short English film “Myth” in 2006 when she was in school....

Gautami Gadgil is a veteran television actress who got fame with her role Aanchal for the television series Ghar Ek Mandir.

Gautami Gadgil is a veteran television actress who married his long time friend and colleague Ram Kapoor on 14th February 2003. She started modelling at the early age of sixteen and then she got a role in a proposed television serial for UTV. However, that project failed to take pace. Soon she got a role in a new serial Alag Alag which was telecasted on DD Metro. After that, she got a role in the television serial Patang that was aired on Doordarshan National television. Her major acting stint came with her role Aanchal for the television serial Ghar Ek Mandir which was a project of Balaji Telefilms and was produced by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, and Jeetendra. Ghar Ek Mandir was aired o...

Anjali Patil was born on 26th September, 1987, in Nasik, Maharashtra. She is a very prominent movie and drama actress. She had also done overseas movies which was a milestone in her career. She has been active in the film industry right from the year 2011 till the present and she belongs to the Hindu community. The best part about the actress is that she has done eleven movies in a very short span and out of which she had also given a guest appearance in the Hollywood movie namely Finding Fanny. With You Without You is a Srilankan movie and she had acquired an award in the overseas film Fest. At the age of fourteen, Anjali Patil had planned to do acting as her profession. So, she did her graduation in a cinema related field at the University of Pune.

She is a Bachelor’s graduate of Arts and she got the de...

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Veena Bakshi is an Indian Bollywod film director. Veena has worked in popular movies like The Coffinmaker and Dost. The Coffinmaker, which is a film on centred around the concept of death, is Veena’s latest film to hit the theatres in 2013. The Coffin Maker has Naseeruddin Shah as a carpenter who learns to live even as death, portrayed by black-suited Randeep Hooda, knocks on his door. Another notable film written and directed by national award winning director Veena Bakshi is Ittar. It brings together a powerhouse of talent on the big screen with the return of effervescent Deepak Tijori as the male lead and enormously talented National award winning actor Rituparna Sengupta.

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...

Pradipta Bhattacharyya, an Indian director, producer, editor, story writer, and screenwriter, was born on 4 December 1978 in Berhampore, West Bengal. In 1995, he went to J N Academy, Berhampore, and in 2004 to Roopkala Kendro. He has two brothers - Debangshu Bhattacharyya and Pramit Bhattacharyya. He lives in Kolkata and is seen more in Bengali Film Industry. With his aspiration for filmmaking, Bhattacharyya has completed fifteen years in the film industry gloriously. His interest in filmmaking took him to the world of documentaries, short films, feature films, and animation films.

He started his career in films in 2006 with 'You May Not Believe.' He was both the director and screenplay for it. Then in 2009, he was the writer of Habul & Co. Other works of Pradipta as a director are 'You May Not Believe,' in ...

Pradip Kurbah is an Indian Film Director. He is a self-taught director who is a pioneer filmmaker in Meghalaya and won National Film Award in 2014 and 2016 for his previous features as Best Film in Khasi Language. His films were Ri in 2013 and, Onaatah in 2015. Pradip has produced several movies in various dialects of Meghalaya. He has also directed more than 150 music videos in different languages. After doing movies on militancy and sexual assault, his next one is about life in a marketplace, premiered which won at South Korea’s prestigious Busan film festival. The movie has its India premiere at the MAMI festival in Mumbai, where we sat to chat with him about Meghalaya, music videos, and his mobile theatre.  

Sandhya Kumar is a director by profession who has made unconventional documentaries and films since 2007. She has studied Films and Communication at Jamia Millia University and San Francisco Art Institute. Sandhya is a mother of two children. Sandhya’s films are delivered to audiences of different countries by showing them at various film festivals. The Pacific Film Archive, SF MOMA, Kathmandu and International Documentary, South Asian Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, and Short Film Festival of Kerala screen her films.

Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) and the Indian Foundation for the Arts (IFA) have given her grants, and Sandhya is also an ATSA fellow at South Asia’s ARThink. Sandhya Kumar’s movies include O Friend, This Waiting!, Memory of a Light, Hockey In My Blood, Koothu, and Light Falling On...

Christo Tomy, the youthful movie producer from Kerala, influenced 2014 when his short element movie 'Kanyaka' won the National Film Award for best first non-fiction movie of a chief. Recently, Tomy's film 'Kamuki' won the National Film Award for Best Non-Fiction Film Direction. The film manages the issue of teen pregnancy. Christo was cited saying, "The film prevailed regarding associating with the audiences on an enthusiastic level." 'Kanyaka' then again, managed the contention that emerges between a cloister adherent's very own advantages and the decrees set by the religious circle."

Christo's interest in film dates back to his adolescent years. He'd watch both Indian and foreign movies. Hungarian director István Szabó, who used non-linear storytelling and d...

Akanksha Sood Singh is an Indian director and screenplay writer. She is one of the award-winning filmmakers. Akanksha has a specialization in natural history and human interest and also is known for her detailing story-telling skills. She has work experience for two decades and has worked for all major networks everywhere, including short films and documentaries. She is India’s premier wildlife filmmaker and doubles up as a Line producer, writer, and researcher. Her laurels include three National Film Awards by the President of India. She uses strong stories, breathtaking visuals, and acknowledged experts to bring out narration on-screen from her life. Her work has been recognized at the highest level and has won many acclaimed awards, including Student Emmy and the National Film Awards.  

Deepti Kakkar is an Indian producer and director who produced and co-directed Katiyabaaz, a documentary on energy theft in India that received the National Award for Best Documentary – Investigative in 2014. The documentary had its world debut at the renowned Berlin International Film Festival and has since been screened in 50 festivals on five continents. At the Mumbai Film Festival, it also received the Best Indian Film award. FC Chechnya, a documentary on Chechen asylum seekers in Carinthia, Austria, was produced by her. Deepti was born in Delhi in 1986; she graduated from St Stephen College in 2006, then went on to study MA Global Studies History of Globalization at the University of Vienna (2007-2009), then the University of Leipzig, and finally Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Deepak Gawade is an Indian writer, director, and producer in the Bollywood industry. Deepak’s interest primarily rests as an executive director, but recently he has explored working as a director in the Indian film industry. His directorial debut was Heyro Party (2013), which won the National Award for Best Non-Feature Film on Family Welfare. Later in 2017, Gawade released his debut Marathi film, Idak: The Goat. The film depicted a man and a goat going on a journey and the inevitable friendship that followed. The film was even selected for the Cannes International Film Festival in 2018.

Since his primary interest was as executive director, he has produced some famous works doing the same, where he is known for producing movies like Ghajini (2008), Special 26 (2013), and M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016). He is a firm b...

Arjun Gourisaria is an Indian editor whose contribution in the field of entertainment is enormous. He has also worked as a director, producer, and instructor. He is from Kolkata, India, and is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He has worked for both the Hindi and Bengali entertainment industry. His first work was “Patalghar” (2003), a Bengali sci-fi and fantasy film. It is one of the very few Bengali sci-fi films ever made. The film received a lot of appreciation from the audience because of the ‘musicality’ of the film.

Next, in 2009, he worked as a producer and an editor for the film “Sthaniya Sambad.” This film depicts the story of a Bengali poet from the post-partition period in Kolkata. In 2012, Arjun worked as the chief editor of the Hindi film “Gulab...

Satish Manwar is an Indian writer and director. He celebrates his birthday on 30 th September each year. Satish belonged to the rural areas of Maharashtra but later moved to Pune for further education. He took a course in Drama at Pune University’s Center of Performing Arts or Lalit Kala Kendra. Satish and his fellow alumni of Pune University also run a theatre group known as Lalit Mumbai. Satish completed his Master’s in the year 1998 and started working as an assistant director and writer. After that, he has been directing movies in the Marathi Language.

Two of his noteworthy movies are Gabricha Paus (2009) and Tuhya Dharma Koncha (2013). Gabricha Paus has won two awards and one nominee in the Vesoul Asian Film Festival in Grand Prize of The International Jury, INALCO Jury Awards, and Golden Wheel, respectively. T...

Parichit Paralkar was a student of the Indian Institute of architecture from 1995-1999, learning everything he is doing today. He went to I.E.S English Medium School Hindu colony Dadar East for his primary and secondary education. Parichit Paralkar hailing from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, has been an active member of the Bollywood industry for a long time. He has been designing and constructing sets on which we see our favorite movies being shot. Production and set designing isn't just art; it's the art of telling and representing a whole new world to the common public by their skills and imagination and trying to make them connect with the movie. He is known for his work as a production designer in Miss Lovely, A Flying Jatt, ABCD2, Raabta, Humpty Sharma ki Dulhaniya, and Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge. He was also the art director...

Rupankar is a singer-songwriter, playback vocalist, and actor from Bengal, born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on December 2nd, 1972. He had sung songs in contemporary Bengali films, such as "Dutta Vs. Dutta (2012), Chalo Let's Go (2008), Baishe Srabon (2011), Jaatishwar (2014), Chotushkone (2014), Monn (2018), and Aparajita Tumi (2012)." He is famous for his intense performances on stage as a performing artist. Rupankar is of the foremost recognized singers of Bengal at present. He came to the limelight with an immense fan following. Bagchi belonged to a Bengali family and had classical vocal training from his father, Ritendra Nath Bagchi, and "Rabindra Sangeet" from his mother, Sumitra Bagchi, at an early age. He learned classical music and modern songs from Sukumar Mit...

Sumitra Bhave – a remarkable director, renowned producer, and a phenomenal scriptwriter with multiple National Awards in her kitty. No words could do justice to what she did for the film industry for over four decades. Born on 12th January 1943 in Pune, Sumitra Bhave grew up in Pune and completed her schooling. She did her Bachelor’s degree from Fergusson College in Pune. Sumitra Bhave is a double Master’s degree holder. She earned her first Master’s degree in Political and Science Sociology from Pune University and did her second Master’s at Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Following her education, Sumitra Bhave worked at All India Radio as a Marathi News Reader. She associated herself with many organizations and also worked at Karve Institute of Social ...

Satyanshu Singh is a splendid National Award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, poet, and teacher. His versatility and creativity have taken him this way far successfully. Apart from writing, he is involved in some praiseworthy activities. He is best known for 'Tamaash,' a short film written, edited, produced, and directed by him and his brother Devanshu. This movie gained colossal recognition all around the world. Satyanshu Singh comes from an exclusive family with a rich artistic background. He was born and raised in a small town named Munger, Bihar, India. Since childhood, he has had a very impeccable and distinguished taste in music, literature, performing arts, and movies. Later, after completing high school, he went to Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, to pursue his graduate classes in the field of Medicine. After co...

Devanshu Singh is an Indian director, screenwriter, and writer. Maharashtra, India, is where he was born. Devanshu Singh has previously worked in the Bollywood entertainment industry, with his artwork appearing in Hindi language films. His short film Tamaash, which he wrote, produced, edited, and directed, has received several prizes at film festivals, including the Golden Elephant Trophy for Best International Short for Children's jury at the 18th International Children's Film Festival India (ICFFI) in Hyderabad. It was an official choice at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis got the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the River-to-River Florence Film Festival in Italy. The film Tamaash (signifies 'puppet' in Kashmiri) portrays a couple of days in the existence of Anzar, a helpless understudy boy who is regu...

Ruchir Arun is a two-time national award-winning director, writer, and an Assistant Director.

He was born in Kolkata. For his studies, Ruchir went to St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. He is a professional in the field of direction as he studied Film Making at Film and Television Institute of India.

Ruchir is known for the direction of the movie, Mandrake! Mandrake!, which premiered in 2013. The genre of the movie was Short, Drama, Family, and Fantasy. The movie won the award in the category of Best short fiction film. 

He is also known for his first assistant director in the movie, Island City (2015). Before directing a movie or a short film, he wanted to do justice by expressing the right emotion in the right scenario. In 2015-16, Ruchir met Pocket Aces, which is an animated channel.

On their firs...

Somnath Awghade is a child actor. He became famous for his role in Marathi movie Fandry. The movie was directed by Nagaraj Manjule. Somnath Avghade received the National Award for Best child actor for his spectacular performance in the movie. Somnath was born in Kemp village of Solapur, in Maharashtra, India. His father is Lakshmana and mother is Jayashree. He has an elder brother named Ravi and a sister named Ambika. He did his schooling in Kem’s rajabhau Vidyalaya Kendra. At an award function, Nagaraj saw Somnath playing a music instrument, and then he decided to cast him for the role in movie Fandry. He refers to Nagaraj as Anna kaka. Initially, Somnath was afraid of acting, and he used to hide under the water tank of his village. Nagaraj and his team convinced him to play the role.

Anurag Saikia, is an Indian film composer, music director, and instrumentalist from Assam. He is known as the youngest music composer. He was awarded Rajat Kamal’s Best Non-feature Film Music Direction for Film Yugadrashta, a short Assamese language film. He also worked as music director in recent movies of Bollywood ,including Article 15 and Thappad. Anurag Saikia belongs to Moran in Assam.

He completed his education from Cotton College, Guwahati. During college time, he met some musicians of Assam. Then he decided to study music in Chennai as he wanted to know more about Tamil culture and their music. Anurag belonged to a family of musicians. His father was known as the scholar and contribution of folk music of Bihu. His mother was a classical singer too. His Aunty worked as a radio Artist. Anurag studied in a prestigio...

Sriram Dalton is a Director, Producer, Editor-in-Chief, and Writer. He primarily works in the Hindi Film Industry. He was born on 25th August 1979. He is born and brought up in Jharkhand, India. He is married to Megha Dalton. The name of his father is Rajeshwar Singh and his mother is Indra Devi. Some of the movies which he has directed include OP Stop Smelling your Socks which released in the year 2010, The Lost Behrupiya, (this movie has won the award for the best art and culture film, in 61st National Film Awards) and Spring Thunder which is yet to get released.

He has also worked for the social cause. In the year 2018, he has started an initiative for saving the rivers and the trees,‘Jal Jungle Zamin Humara Hai’. He has taken this initiative to a huge extent that he started a proces...

Shubhashish Bhutiani is an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter and, scriptwriter. He was born on 21 July 1991. The film entitled, MuktiBhawan marked his directorial debut. The film is based on family and relationships. He has won National Film Award- Special Mention for directing “MuktiBhawan” at 64th National Film Awards. Mumbai lad, Bhutiani was merely 21 when he scribed and directed Kush, his film for his undergraduate course at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

It is set against the background of the 1984 awful riot. His UG film betrayed his sensitivity and his proficiency as well. It also fetched him many awards or laurels. Venice International Film Festival, the National Award for Best Production Film and near 25 International awards. Kush was selected for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Live Action S...

Nihar Ranjan Samal is the sound designer hailed from Odisha, India. He completed his education from Film and television institute of India, Pune. Nihar is well known for his work in the most controversial film of 2018, PADMAVAT. He also worked for the film BAJIRAO MASTANI (2015) as a sound designer. He is in the list most talented sound designers in Bollywood.

His struggle to set his name in the top, is not easy, when he decided to work in the film industry has to overcome the opposition from his family. If there are a strong will and circumstances, you will make a path, Nihar’s first original single XPLAIN with Times Music crossed 1 Million views in a very short period. Another show, Dil Hai Hindustani (star plus) was in the list of Top 10 India’s most watched shows.

He won the National Award, as the best s...

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.

Rajesh Touchriver was born at Idukki, Kerala to a Malayali family. Originally named as M. S. Rajesh by his parents, he changed his name as Rajesh Touchriver after he started his journey in the film industry. With the zeal to pursue his career in movies, Rajesh had worked for the National School of Drama at Delhi as a designer in 1995. Within three years, Rajesh Touchriver had made almost thirty plays in English, Telugu and, in his mother tongue Malayalam. His enthusiasm to understand more about pictures and the key working skill sets, Rajesh Touchriver completed his Masters in Visual language from the Wimbledon College of Arts in London.

This started his life as a movie maker. In 2002, Rajesh Touchriver had released his debut film “In the Name of Budha” based upon the real life incidents happened in Sri Lanka due to...

Bishwadeep Chatterjee is an Indian-audio mixer, Sound Designer, and Sound Editor. He has worked on a lot of projects in the Television and Film Industry. He worked in the movie named Madras Café, which brought him the National Film Award for the Best Audiography. In the year 2013, he worked in Bajirao Mastani. In the year 2018, he worked in Uri: The Surgical Strike, and in the year 2018, he worked with the movie named Children Of The Soil.

From TV Soap writing to becoming an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, born on 26 September 1980, in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Anand Gandhi has worked as a producer, script writer, director, cinematographer and currently working as a CEO of ‘Memesys Culture Lab’, a Mumbai-based Studio. He began his career when he was 19, as a scriptwriter for some of the famous TV Soaps in India in the early 2000’s. He wrote dialogues for the first 82 episodes of the prominent TV Serial “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi”. ‘Kyunki..’ and “Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii” , where some of his work fields for which he wrote screenplay. No doubt this person was one of the backbones of many successful Hindi daily Soaps. He then moved away from his television career to write and direct many critically acclaimed play...

Ashim Ahluwalia was born in Mumbai in 1972. He is a very talented person. He is a film director. Not only that, but he is also a producer and a script writer. He has been active in the film industry since 1999 till present. His debut as a director was in a movie named John and Jane, which was a documentary and a short length film, released in 2005. In the Toronto I. F. Festival, it had a world premiere. It even had a European Premiere. It happened in the Berlin I. F. Festival.

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

V.J. Sabu Joseph is a renowned film editor in the Tamil film industry. Although he started his journey in the year 2002 by working as an associate film editor with veteran film editors- J. N. Harsha, and Anthony- his first project as an independent editor was for the movie ‘‘Aanmai Thavarael’ (2011).

V.J. Sabu hails from an orthodox Christian family, who had nothing to do with cinema, and Sabu Joseph began learning visual communication as he wanted to follow a different path in his career for which he received full support from his family. With his family’s full support he entered the film industry and learned to edit.

It was in the year 2002; he entered the film industry when manual editing was getting translated into the digital platform, Sabu got an opportunity to learn manual editing from Udh...

P. Sheshadari was born on 23rd November, 1963 in Dandinashivara, Mysore. P. Sheshadari is a very popular Kannada Cinema Director. He also won many National Awards for his amazing films like Atithi, Tutturi, Bharath Stores and much more. He was born in Mysore, but he later shifted to Karnataka. The audience like and appreciate his work.

Other than films P. Sheshadari is into television as well. He is the director of many T.V series like Inchara, Maayamriga, Saakshi and much more. He has done the movie named Munnudi, which got released in the year 2000 and this is an amazing movie by him. Munnudi is about religions and customs and he also won the Social Issue Award for this film at the 48th National Film Awards held in the year 2000. He did the movie Atith...

Nagraj Manjule is an Indian film director, writer, and producer, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Fandry (2013), An Essay of Rain (2017), Sairat (2016), Naal (2018), etc. Mostly known for his pre-dominant involvement in the Marathi cinema, plays, and TV shows, he is also a recognized poet who has been awarded the Bhairuratan Damani Puraskar for his book titled Unhachya Kataviruddha consisting of poetry in Marathi. Born on 24th August 1977, Nagraj was brought up in Jeur Village near the Solapur district of Maharashtra.

After graduating from the University of Pune with an M.A. in Marathi Literature, he completed his master’s from New Arts, Science and Commerce College, Ahmednagar in communication. In a bizarre turn of events, he was forced into getting married at the age of ...

Kabir Suman is a singer, musician, poet, journalist, music director, political activist, songwriter, and an occasional TV presenter and actor. The Jack-of-all-trades was also elected a member of Parliament from the year 2009 to 2014 by the Jadavpur Constituency of Kolkata. But he is most famous for the controversies surrounding his past five marriages and divorces as well as his don’t-have-a-care-in-world womanizing attitude.

He was born as Suman Chattopadhyay in a Bengali Hindu-Brahmin family on 16th of March in the year 1949. His parents were Sudhindranath and Uma Chattopadhyay, who lived in Cuttack, Odisha at the time of his birth. At the age of 5, his family moved from Cuttack to Kolkata and there he spent most of his youth. His spent his early life getting trained in classical music under the tutelag...

Rajeev Ravi is an Indian cinematographer from the state of spices, Kerala. He is also a well-established film producer and a director. Though he is from Kochi, yet he studied and completed his graduation from the Film and Television Institute of Pune in the year 1997. He was the one to start his career slowly and gradually. Initially, he worked as an assistant cinematographer and assisted in the Malayalam film ‘Pranayavarnangal’ which was released in the year 1998.

The director of the movie was Sibi Malayil. Rajeev learnt a lot under him and then in 2001 he tried his hand independently in the Bollywood industry. He worked as the cinematographer for the movie Chandni Bar by Madhur Bhandarkar (the movie depicted the gritty life of the underworld and dance bars of Mumbai, it was a multi-starrer movie)....

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...

Anil Radhakrishnan Menon was born in Ottappalam, Kerala, India. He was the son of his father Radhakrishnan Palat and mother, Jayashree Palat. He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown. Anil got is a graduation degree holder. The whole family then got shifted to Mumbai. He started his career with small things. He started his journey by directing some commercial ads. Later, when he became a master in it, he shifted from small ads to big. Anil made the famous brand’s commercial TV ads. After his keen hard-work and dedication towards his work, he got an opportunity to work in the film industry in the year 2013. Then he directed a movie North 24 Kaatham, his first-ever directorial film. This movie starred Fahadh Faasil and Nedumudi Venu as the lead roles of the film. The release of this movie was itself a huge t...

Shantanu Moitra is a music composer in Bollywood. He rose to popularity with films like ‘Parineeta’(2005) for which he received Filmfare R.D. Burman Award. After the success of ‘Parineeta’, his association with filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra was path-breaking one. He followed it up with Lage Raho Munnabhai’, ‘3 Idiots’ and ‘Eklavya: The Royal Guard' and 'PK'. He has also composed music for Shoojit Sircar’s two films ‘Shoebite’ and ‘Madras Café’. While ‘Shoebite’ remains an unreleased film still, ‘Madras Café’ got released. 

After Parineeta Shantanu scored music for a Bengali film ‘Antaheen’. But the film released very late in 2009...

Na. Muthukumar is a poet, lyricist, writer and novelist, who writes in Tamil. He is famous for writing scripts and songs for Tamil films. Na. Muthukumar was born on 12 July 1975 in a small village named ‘Tirur’ near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. His Father, Mr Nagaraj was a Tamil teacher.Mr Nagaraj always maintained a collection of 5000 books throughout his life, and after he had passed away, this collection was preserved by his son in his office. Also, his mother passed away when he was merely four years old. Muthukumar reminisces that he acquired most of the knowledge of his life from his father’s book collection. Also, to help others he has plans to open a library where everybody could access those books. Na. Muthukumar began his career with a dream to be a director. So, he started working...

Gulzar is the pen name of the author, poet and popular lyricist Sampooran Singh Karla. He was born on the 18th of August in 1934 in Dina, Jhelum district of British India to parents Makhan Singh Karla and Sujan Kaur. His career kicked off under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His songwriting career began with the movie Bandini, released 1963, for the tunes composed by music director Sachin Dev Burman. From then on, he went on to write the lyrics for many memorable songs of the Bollywood industry. He worked with magnanimous music directors like R. D. Burman, S. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik to name a few. The work of the trio Maniratnam, A. R .Rahman and Gulzar is much remembered in the industry. He has also given dialogues and scree...

Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran was born in a Sri Lankan Tamil family on the 20th of May 1939 and passed away on the 13th of February 2014. He was a cinematographer, film editor, director and a screenwriter. He has worked in some Indian film industries but mostly worked in the Tamil film industry. BaluManhendra had developed an interest in photography in his early years, as he graduated as a gold medallist in cinematography from FTII in Pune he first started his career as a cameraman.

Balu Mahendra had married three times, his first wife was Akhileshwari who was the mother of his first son and in the year 1980 his second wife actress Shoba had committed suicide ending their relationship and also putting BaluMahendra and Akhileshwari in prison for four months as they were living in India Illegally. In ...

Sooraj Venjaramoodu was born on 30th June, 1976 in Kerala. He is an Indian actor, television presenter, and comedian. He has acted in over 250 films. His father is a retired soldier and, his mother is a housewife. Sooraj began his career as a stand-up comedian. He was successful in this and was most famous for his mockery of the Thiruvananthapuram accent. At first, when he started his acting career, he was not well- accepted by the audience.

His first movie was 'Jagapoga.' This film received a lot of bad reactions. Later, he started playing minor roles in movies as a Bus conductor, Rasika, and Rasathanthram. His role that got his attention was Thuruppugulam in 2006. Apart from that, he has appeared in many movies such as Hallo, Chotta Mumbai, Classmates, Pachakuthira, etc.

Throughout his acting career, Sooraj re...

Chandrakant Kulkarni is a Marathi actor, director and playwright. He was born on 15 October 1963 in Marathwada (Maharashtra) to a poor family deriving their living from farming. It was his mother’s strong resolve to get a good education for her children that made the family move to Aurangabad and allowed him to complete his schooling. His zest for language won him many awards in debate competitions and more. He went on to do his graduation from the Government College in Aurangabad. Here, he was fortunate to be a part of ‘Jigisha’, a theater group which was became quite famous in the Marathi film and theater industry.

On a quest to enter the film industry, he moved to Mumbai and soon enough, in 1991, emerged as the director of all the three plays - Chandralekha's 'Rang Maza Vegla', ...

Raj Kumar Yadav, also known as Rajkummar Rao, started his Hindi film career from the movie, Love Sex aur Dhokha, in the year 2010, but the movie that got him critical and public acclaim was Kai Po Che, for which he received the Filmfare Award for the Best Supporting Actor, in the year 2013. He has not looked back since then, and has received Filmfare Best Critics Award for Best Actor and National Film Award for the depiction of the lawyer, Shahid Azmi, in the movie, ‘Shahid’, that released in the year 2013. Since then he has starred in numerous Hindi films, and has established a unique style of acting and an intense position in the industry.

Rajkummar Rao hails from Gurgaon, Haryana, and started playing characters since he was in 10th class. After completing his schooling from Gurgaon, Rajkummar graduated from Delhi...

Jahnu Barua, an Assamese Filmmaker, born on 17 October in Guwahati, Assam. He is known as the pioneer of Assamese Artistic Cinema. He pursued Bachelor in Science from B. Barooah College of Guwahati and took Diploma in Film Direction from FTII (Film & TV Institute of India) in Pune. He got married to Gayatri, (a filmmaker) who inspired him to become a filmmaker too. Oyu barua is the name of their son. We can say that he is an ‘all-rounder’ because he is a Director, Producer, Writer & Editor. He directed, produced and edited many films like ‘Aparoopa’ (1982), ‘Firingoti’ (1992), 'Tora' (2005), etc. As a Writer, he worked in films such as ‘The F Cycle’ (1974), ‘Ek Kahaani’ (1986), ‘Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara’ & ‘Tora’ (2005), ‘Mumbai Cutting’ (2011).

Date of Birth: 17-10-1952

Age: 71

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Hindi

Skills: Director

Biography About Jahnu Barua

Biography About Jahnu Barua

Date of Birth: 17-10-1952

Age: 71

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Hindi

Skills: Director

Subhash Kapoor is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his satirical comedy films like Phas Gaye Re Obama and Jolly LLB. Kapoor started off as a political journalist after he did his MA in Hindi literature and was covering news events in northern part of India during the 1990s time period. In 2001 he directed a short film that won critical acclaim after which there was no turning back for him and he started making short films, advertisement commercials and shifted to Mumbai in 2006 to pursue the career of a director. Kapoor’s debut as director came in 2007 with the movie Say Salaam India which bombed at the box office. In 2010 the comical satire Phas Gaye Re Obama which was his second venture won critical acclaim and commercial success. The movie was based on the world wide recession havin...

Hansal Mehta is an Indian writer, director, producer and actor. He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He started his career in the year 1993 by directing TV serials. His first serial was a cookery show, hosted by Sanjeev Kapoor on Zee TV; the show was ‘Khana Khazana’. He also directed the TV serials ‘Amrita’ in 1994, Yaadein in 1995, Lakshya in 1998 and many more. Mehta made his directorial debut film in 1999, named ‘Jayate’.

Later he directed films on different themes; he was praised with handling and showing different topics in a subtle way. He directed films like ‘Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!’ in 2000, ‘Chhal’ (2002), ‘Woodstock Villa’ (2008) and a few more. His 2013 released film ‘Shahid’, star...

Ganesh Acharya is an Indian choreographer, who is mainly seen in Hindi films. His father Gopi was also a choreographer in Bollywood. When Ganesh Acharya was ten years old, his father died. His sister was at Cuttack and he went there and learnt basic dance from his sister. Later, he joined as an assistant to Kamalji, the famous choreographer. At the young age of 12, he started his own dance troupe. Anaam was his first film as a choreographer. It was released in 1992 and Ganesh Acharya was 21 years, when he became a choreographer for films.

He got the Best choreographer Award for the film Lajja in the year 2001. He has also won the Zee TV Award for the best Choreographer for the movie Khaki in 2004. In 2007, his movie Omkara bagged him with the Filmfare Award. He became very famous and the popular Bollywood stars are comfortable ...

Saurabh Shukla was born at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in the year 1963 on 5th March. He is a versatile personality who started from theater & reached to Bollywood where he tried his hands in Direction, Screenplay writing along with his Acting. At the age of two, he left Gorakhpur & moved to Delhi. He completed his schooling & later did his graduation from Khalsa College in Delhi. In 1984, he kickstarted his career as a professional with his entry into the theater. Shekhar Kapur gave him the debut role in Bandit Queen.

Earlier he did many plays & also joined NSD Repertoire Company as an actor. Satya, that was directed by Ram Gopal Verma proved to be the film in which his role could not be sidelined. Anurag Kashyap & Saurabh Shukla wrote the story of th...

Born on 7th July 1963, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is a screenwriter and filmmaker. Rang De Basanti and Baag Mika Baag are two of his acclaimed films. He has penned the script as well as directed the films Aks and Delhi 6. The issues surrounding the Mandal Commission of VP Singh inspired Mehra to direct Rang De Basanti. 

Mehra never hesitates to voice his opinion on current issues, no matter they are done through films or in real life. He in fact condemned the Education system of India to give priority to scores. He also cited Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore in this regard. He told that Shakespeare would not have been a great...

Raja Chaudhary was born on 23 rd July 1975, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is an actor, producer and reality television star by occupation. He has been involved with film and television industry since 1997. He married Sakshi Tiwari in 1998 and divorced her in 2007. He also has a daughter with Shweta, named Palak.

Later, he married Shveta Sood in 2015. Raja Chaudhary, a 40-year-old is a Bhojpuri actor. He was involved with the television industry from an early age of 22. He started his career by working in some regional Bhojpuri movies and television shows. Among all his Bhojpuri films, Saiya Hamar Hindustani, where he played the villain, was the most popular and it affected his personal life as well because he met Shweta Tiwari on the sets of that m...

Fahad Mustafa or Sunny Tunio is a popular Pakistani model, actor and producer. He was born on June 26, 1983 in Karachi, Pakistan. He is the son of Salahuddin Tunio who is also a Pakistani actor. He got married to Sana in year 2005 and they have a daughter named, Fatima Mustafa.

Fahad aims to be a dental practitioner but fate has something in store for him. He joined the limelight of the showbiz industry and become very successful on the career that he chooses. He first appeared in Sheeshay Ka Mahal in year 2002 and although, it failed to make a success, the actor continues with his journey. Fahad has done Haal-e-Dil, Pul Siraat, Bahu Rani, Masuri and Ae Dasht-e-Junoon. He got his first major break in the drama series, Veena in 2008 and since then, he successfully tur...

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