Hindi Awards 63rd National Film Awards - Cast & Crew

Ritika Singh is an actress born on the 16th of December in the year 1994. She is an Indian and acting is her main profession. She is also a master in mixed martial arts. Most of her acting career is based on Tamil films, though we can also see her in some Hindi movies as well as in some Telugu films. She represented India at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games and did very well. She also took part in the Super Fight League. She was offered a chance to play the lead role in S. K. Prasad’s movie in Tamil which was named Irudhi Suutru. This movie was also shot in Hindi as Saala Khadoos starring R. Madhavan and Ritika Singh.

The Tamil film also featured R. Madhavan as the head coach and lead actor. In the 63rd National Filmfare Awards ceremony Ritika got a special mention for her outstanding performance in the film Irudhi Suutru. Fro...

Rinku Rajguru is a Marathi film actress and is for her role in the blockbuster movie 'Sairat'. She was born on 3rd of June, in the year 2001 in Akluj, a town in the Solapur district of Maharashtra, India. She is 16 years old. She has acted in two movies as Archi ( Archana ). 'Sairat', which was a Marathi movie and its Kannada remake captioned “Manaus Malliage”. At this small age, she got her name mentioned at the 63rd National film awards for her mind blowing performance in 'Sairat'. She is expected to appear in a new Kannada movie called 'Banjo', soon. Her father Mahadev Rajguru and her mother, both are teachers. She was in the ninth standard when her first movie was released. Now she is in tenth standard.

She is currently studying in Jijamata Kanya Prashala School.Her parents told t...

Kalki Koechlin is a famous film actress, model and screenwriter, known for working in Hindi films. She was born on January 10, 1984, in Ooty, Tamil Nadu in India to Joel Koechlin and Francoise Armandie. Her father came to the country from Angers, France many years ago and met Francoise in Auroville, Puducherry. They are both followers of Sri Aurobindo. 

Later, they lived in the village of Kallaty near Ooty and started their own business. Initially, Kalki went to Hebron School in Ooty during her kindergarten and later moved to a school in Mysore for a short time, before going back to Hebron to finish her studies. Just like what her brother did, she went to Goldsmiths, University of London and took drama and theatre while working in Theatre of Relativity for the span ...

Preetisheel Singh is a famous make-up artist of the Bollywood industry. Specializing in prosthetic make-up, she gave us proof of her exquisite work in films such as Bajiroa Mastani, Haider, and Brothers. Preetisheel Singh was born and brought up in Pathankot. She did her schooling at the St Joseph’s Convent school and passed with flying colors. Preetisheel then moved to Dalhousie, whereby she studied at the Sacred Heart High college in Dalhousie. Afterward she decided to pursue her undergraduate in Punjab.

Preetisheel Singh started her Bachelor in Technology in Instrumentation and Electronics at the Adesh Institute of Engineering and Technology in Faridkot Punjab. Even if Preetisheel Sigh had her mind in engineering her heart was always in make-up. But at that time...

Saloni Dhatrak is an Indian production designer. She worked for the Hindi film industry. She was born in Mumbai and currently living in Mumbai only. Saloni completed her high school from St. John The Baptist High School and Junior College, Thane and completed her architecture from Dr. D Y Patil College of Architecture. She had also completed her Master in Construction Management from the University of Mumbai. Sonali had done some part-time jobs like Jr. Town Planner in Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, in Madhur Bhandarkar Production, Little Red Car Films, J P Dutta Films, T-Series, R S V P Movies and also an Architectural Designer in Ahmedabad Film City.

She worked in some Bollywood movies like Bajirao Mastani, Love Per Square Foot, Yaariyan, and Sanam Re. She won 3 awards for her work in the Hindi cinemas. She...

Juhi Chaturvedi is a screenwriter from India and had an advertising profession in Mumbai. She was born in the year 1975 in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. In her career she wrote scripts for Bollywood movies like Vicky Donor and Piku. In the year 2013, she won the Film fare award for the best story for Vicky Donor. She was felicitated with National Film Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Dialogues, and 2016 Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Piku. She graduated from Lucknow College Of Arts.

Chaturvedi started her career as a freelance illustrator with Times of India, Lucknow. After that she was shifted to Delhi in 1996, when she joined advertising with Ogilvy and Mather as an art director in 1999. Then she moved to the Mumbai office o...

Monali Thakur is a Kolkata-born playback singer and actress. Born in a musical family, Monali's father is a renowned Bengali Playback singer and her sister, Mehuli Thakur, is also a Playback singer. Monali's singing talent was initially recognized when she'd won the Best Playback Singer award at the 'Amandalok Awards', for the serial 'Sri Rama Krishna' at the age of 14. She'd been trained under Padma Shri Pandit Jagdish Prasad and Padma Shri Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty for Hindustani music. Monali's singing career started when she auditioned for Indian Idol 2 (the Indian version of Pop Idol) in 2005. Monali had been well acclaimed for her singing by the judging panel that included Anu Malik, Sonu Nigam, and Farah Khan.

She was placed ninth in the competition, but recognizing her ...

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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.

Master Gourav Menon is a child actor, who acted in many Malayalam Films. Even at the age of ten years, the little boy shows maturity and he has become such a much-in-demand child actor. The little actor has a list of films to flaunt, like the Monkey Pen, Polytechnic, Happy Journey, Homely Meals, Alif, Oru Vadakan Selfie, White Boys, Kumbasaaram and Nirnayakam. The Jayasurya starrer, Monkey Pen was his first successful film. He was noticed as Jugru, a boy with cherubic and gap-toothed face. The child actor said in an interview that he has been attending auditions since he was in third standard and that’s how he got his first break. After the success of his debut, there was definitely no turning back. The story of Philips and the Monkey Pen revolves aro...

Remo D’Souza, who is primarily an Indian dancer cum choreographer, is also an actor and film director. He was born on 2nd of April, 1972 in Jamnagar, Gujarat and was named as ‘Ramesh Gopi’. He changed his name, when he moved himself into Christianity religion. His wife’s name is Lizelle D’Souza. It is a very true fact that he struggled hard in his life to reach the celebrity place. He is primarily involved in choreography and choreographed several numbers of films as of now.

He took a place as judge in the most famous reality show of the country, ‘Dance India Dance’. He has also participated in several other dance shows as judge and guest judge. It was during his HSC board exams, he realized that he is not interested in studies anymore. D’Souza immediately left hi...

Srinivas Mohan is an India based visual effect designer and supervisor. He has worked in the almost various type of film industry whether it is Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada or Malayalam. He is the leader in the field of visual effects and has been hired by some of the highest budget film productions houses across the country. Born as Vadlamudi Srinivas Murali Mohan to a Telugu family, he was raised and brought up in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. After completing his schooling and graduation, he started working as a software programmer. He saw a colleague of his working on an animated logo, and it inspired him to work on it. From there his animation career started, and he began working on advertisement and television projects which finally landed him in films. He says that it took him ten years to change his ...

Himanshu Sharma had started his career by writing for TV shows. He was a script writer with NDTV for a health show. This successful writer started his career in Television. He began his career writing story for serials like Kkusum in Sony V and Bhootwala for SAB TV. After several years of writing scripts for TV serials, he gradually moved on to script writing for Bollywood films starting with the movie Strangers with Nandana Sen. Later on he wrote scripts for Raanjhanaa and Tanu weds Manu Series (2011 and 2015).  

After the success of these three films, he wants to evolve as a director now. The success of Tanu weds Manu Series made him to lure into film direction. Does th...

Jayasurya is a versatile actor who hailed from Kerala. Born in Thrippunithura in 1978, this actor has done varieties of characters in Malayalam films. He has also acted in a few Tamil movies. His parents are Mani and Thankam. His wife is Sarita and this couple has a daughter and a son. Oomapenninu Uriyadapayyan is the debut movie of Jayasuriya. Swapna Koodu with Prithviraj, Meera Jasmine and Bhavana gave him a reputation. His movie Pulival Kalyanam also earned more fans for him. Kilukkam Kilukilukkam was the next version of Mohan Lal movie Kilukkam, and Jayasuriya’s performance was applauded well. Shakespeare M.A Malayalam and De Inkottu Nokkiyae, Bus Conductor, Arabikatha are some of his blockbuster movies. Sankaranum Mohananum was the film by Jayasurya, in which he appeared in 20 different getups. Cocktail was ...

Varun Grover is a comedian, screenwriter, and even lyricist. The actor was born on 26 January 1980. Basically, he was a software engineer in a software firm in Mumbai, but he afforded to step down from the post and got connected with the film industry.

He was inspired to join film industry after he had seen ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’.  He won the best lyricist award at the at the 63rd National Film Awards held in New Delhi for the song 'Moh Moh Ke Dhaage' from 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha' movie. Even the singer Monali Thakur for the same song won female playback singing award. 

Grover used to write poetry in children magazines. Thus he was inclined to lyricist writing for movies too. He had to struggle to get writing assignments in movies, but he was successful in getting an assignment for TV se...

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

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

Date of Birth: 02-06-1943

Age: 80

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Tamil

Skills: Music Director

Biography About Ilaiyaraaja

Biography About Ilaiyaraaja

Date of Birth: 02-06-1943

Age: 80

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Tamil

Skills: Music Director

M Jayachandran is an Indian musician, music composer, and singer; he works in Malayalam Film Industry. Jayachandran was born on 5th April 1971 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His parents are Madhusudhanan Nair and Sukumari Amma. He took his Electrical Engineering degree from TKM College of Engineering. On 12th November 1995, he got married to Priya. At the age of 5, he started his training in the Carnatic music from Attingal Harihara Iyer and then under Perumbavoor G Raveendranath.

Then for 18 years he studied the music under Neyyattinkara Mohanchandran. He has won the Carnatic vocal competition for four consecutive years from 1987 at the Kerala University Youth Festival. He made his debut as a playback singer in the movie ‘Vasudha’ released i...

Sujeet Sawant or Sujeet Subhash Sawant is an Indian Production Designer for films, best known for his work in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 2015 epic historical romance film, Bajirao Mastani.

Sujeet honed his skills with an ample stunt in the advertising and graphic designs fields. He forayed in the film industry and has worked in films like Devdas (2002), Swades (2004), I am (2011), and Mirch (2012) to name a few.

He studied an Engineering course and became popular for outstanding aesthetics with a powerful logic and outstanding skills that render the vision of many film directors to sets that can rank from a hut to a palace, with an equal composure and a notable finish.

Sujeet, along with the two art directors of Bajirao Mastani, bagged an award at the Start Guild Awards for their outstanding work in the film....

Kishore TE was born on 24th March 1978 in Valavanur, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India and died on 6th March 2015 at the age of 36 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He was an Indian film editor and worked in Telugu, Kannada and Tamil films. He received the National Film Award for Best Editing for the movie Adukalam (2011). As an assistant editor, he joined two film editors named B. Lenin and V.T. Vijayan and worked in more than 70 Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. While editing Vettrimaran film, he suddenly swooned and was rushed to the hospital.

He was diagnosed with a blood clot. After reaching the hospital, he was undergone surgery but he never regained his consciousness, and he died. He got 3 awards for best editing and 1 nomination. He was Awarded in various award functions t...

Justin Jose is a sound engineer and sound mixer of Indian origin. He has worked in films of different regional languages like Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam. Justin Jose was born on 11th October,1980 in Thrissur, Kerala. He started working in the industry in the year 2003 and is still very active with his work. Justin did his graduation in Economics from St.Thomas College, Thrissur. After that, he received Diploma in Audio Recording from Chetna Sound Studio. He also received 4th-grade electronic keyboard from Trinity College of Music. He moved to Mumbai in 2003 and started working under Deepan Chatterjee.

The name of the company was QLabs as ADR Recordist. He became a premix engineer for feature films and became an independent re-recording mixer in the year 2008.He has been active since then. He has done r...

Sudeep Chatterjee is a well-known cinematographer in Bollywood. He was the man behind the camera for movies such as ‘Chak De! India’, ‘Iqbal’, ‘Dhoom 3’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’. Sudeep was born in the city of Kolkata in West Bengal. In his childhood, Sudeep always wanted to express and visualize art. His desire to visualize made him try a hand at painting but it didn’t work out for him. Later when he was in the 10th grade, Sudeep’s father gave him a camera as a gift.

Sudeep claims that the camera had helped him find himself and had finally found a way to fulfill his desire of expressing using visual arts. Even though young Sudeep couldn’t afford to get better cameras, he made the best out his camera. Seeing ...

Samuthirakani has carved a niche for himself in the Tamil cine industry not only as a director but also as an actor. He has tried his luck in screenwriting and voice-over too. One of his earlier films, Nadodigal, was a huge hit at the box office. It was released in the year 2009. Later, this movie was remade in three different languages. Samuthirakani has acted in numerous movies and is best known for his performance in the movies like ‘Sattai’, ‘Easan’, ‘Visaranai’, and ‘Subramaniapuram’.

When Samuthirakani entered the film industry, he wanted to be a great actor. He was discouraged in the beginning. Many people told him that he did not have looks and physique of what an actor has. He consoled himself that insults are a pa...

Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.

In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By t...

V K Prakash is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Praana (2019), Careful (2017), Nirnnayakam (2015), Natoli Oru Cheriya Meenalla (2013), Trivandrum Lodge (2012), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in Malayali short films, documentaries, TV shows, and Kollywood movies, Prakash has been a prominent part of the South Indian film and music industry for more than five years now. Over the years, he has been admired by the local critics and spectators on numerous occasions for his exceptional performances and albums as a film director.

The year 2014 was a crucial one for Prakash as he made her first portentous contribution on the silver screen with the film Punaradhivasam (2000), produced by NP Prakash, starring Nandita Das and Manoj K Jayan in lead roles. Si...

Soumendra Padhi is a movie director. He predominantly works in Bollywood. He was born in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He studied at the Sainik School, Bhubaneswar and Jeypore Public School. He completed his graduation from Utkal University. He pursued his IIT Training. After the completion of his studies, he worked in Hyderabad for an IT firm.

In 2006, he shifted to Mumbai to get formal training or filmmaking and animation, after which he joined Code Red Films as an assistant director. He also parallelly directed short films, documentaries, and music videos. He was a software engineer who turned to a movie director. In 2006, he made his debut with Budhia Singh - Born To Run, originally titled Duronto that starred Manoj Bajpayee, Tillotama Shome.

The movie is based on a true story. It is about India's youngest maratho...

Shobu Yarlagadda was born in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is an Indian film producer. Shobu is the relative (son-in-law) of director K. Raghavendra Rao. Prakash Kovelamudi has been in brother-in-law in relation. Shobu preferably works in the Telugu film industry. He did his both primary and secondary studies at his hometown. Shobu is a graduation degree holder in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, in the year 1992. In the year 1995, he got admission into Texas A&M University in the field, Agricultural Engineering.

He worked almost a year and a half, in California Air Resources Board, Greater Los Angeles Area, as Air Resources Engineer. Shobu builds and developed the Arka Media works with Prasad Devineni in the year 2001. He started offici...

Kabir khan is a very much renowned director of Bollywood. His directorial skills were appreciated across the world when his second movie New York was released. Born in 1971, Kabir khan has always been creative and new with his work. He hails from Hyderabad but completed his education in New Delhi. Kabir Khan's career graph has taken few versatile turns in terms of what he worked on.

He began his career with Discovery Channel as a cinematographer. He got to work on a documentary film called Beyond the Himalayas, as a cinematographer. Direction for this Documentary film was done by Gautam Ghosh. After this rich experience, Kabir wanted to do something completely different and on his own. So he made a documentary film called "The forgotten Army", which was on the basis of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. With this, he gai...

This is where he met other like-minded people like Anurag Kashyap and now he is the editor of the blog. Since he liked the movies made by UTV Pictures, he applied for the post of UTV Spot boy. But he ended up being recruited into the digital marketi...

Born on 24th February 1963, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an acclaimed Indian multi-faceted personality; he is a producer, director, screenwriter, and music director. He studied at the Film and Television Institution of India. The middle name Leela is from the name of Bhansali’s mother, Leela.

During 1999, Bhansali commenced SLB Films, his production house. Bhansali kickstarted his film career by assisting Vidhu and Vinod Chopra. The flicks he worked as an assistant include 1942: A Love Story, Kareeb, and Parinda. The 1996 flick Khamoshi: The Musical was the first directorial venture of Bhansali. This film had Manisha Koirala and Salman in the lead roles. The film showcased Manisha's efforts to reach out to her deaf and dumb parents beautifully. This flick was well received critically and garnered the Filmfare Critics Awar...

Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a producer. He was born as Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Salman is referred to as one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. His father is Salim Khan who is also an actor and a screenwriter while his mother is Sushila Charak (Salma Khan). He graduated from St. Stanislaus High School in Mumbai. Prior to this, he went to Scindia School, Gwalior together with his brother, Arbaaz Khan. He also studied at Elphinstone College.

Salman started his acting career in year 1988 through the Hindi film, ‘Biwi Ho To Aisi’, where he played as the younger brother of Farooq Sheikh, followed by a breakthrough performance in his first leading role in the musical romantic film, ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ in 1989...

Manoj Kumar was born as Harikrishna Goswami. He was born on 24 July, 1937 in Lahore, Punjab, India (Now Pakistan). After India – Pakistan Partition his family fled to Delhi, when he was 10. He did his graduation in Hindu College, University of Delhi. After his graduation he went on to pursue a career in acting. He is an award winning Indian actor and also a director in the Bollywood.

He changed his name as Manoj Kumar, after the Character name of Dilip Kumar in the film ‘Shabnam’. He was a great admirer of Actor Dilip Kumar. His debut movie was ‘Fashion’, which was released in the year 1957. His career steeped steadily through the years. He is known for his hand on the face gesture and his patriotic roles he played in many of his movies. Following his retirement from movies he entered politics and joined Shiv...

A film director and a screenwriter S.S. Rajamouli was born as Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli in Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana. He is well known for his hit films like Magadheera, Eega and Baahubali: The Beginning. He started off directing daily soaps in Telegu for Eenadu Television working under K. Raghavendra Rao. His debut as Film director was Student no.1 in 2001 which turned out to be a blockbuster. His next venture was after a long gap of two years, Simhadri, which also received rave reviews. His third flick Sye was based on a game of rugby and for this, he joined hands with K.K. Senthil Kumar. This film received appreciation from all over and was a hit. His next movie was Chatrapathi, which again touched the audience’s heart with the music by M.M. Keeravani and screenplay by Senthil Kumar. He ...

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