1. Nutan
Nutan Bahl was an old Indian actress. She was born on 4 June in 1936 in Bombay. She appeared in many old Hindi films. She played as an actress for forty years career. She is one of the best actresses in the Hindi film industry. She is famous for playing many unconventional roles for which she received many awards and praises.
She started her career in 1950 when her age was just 14 for the film Hamari Beti. The film was directed by Shobha Samarth, her mother. After that, she played many famous roles in many other films like Nagina, Humlog in 1951. The movie that brought her fame and name was in 1955 was Seema. She also won Best Actress award in Filmfare Awards.
She then got many other offers to play the lead roles in their movies. Throughout the 1960s until late 1970s, she won the awards again four times...
2. Lalita Pawar
Lalita Pawar was a versatile actress in Indian Film history with more than 700 films in nearly 70 years in both Hindi and Marathi language. She was born on 18 April 1916 in Yevle, Nasik, Bombay Presidency, British India. Her Birth Name was Amba Laxman Rao Sagun which later became Lalita Pawar. She was the daughter of a well established silk marchent Laxman Rao Shagun.
She first married to Ganpatrao Pawar but their marriage had not last long as she came to know about the affair of her husband with her younger sister. After getting the divorce from her first husband, Lalita married to Rajprakash Gupta a film producer of Ambika studios, Bombay. Till her death, she was surrounded by her husband, son and her daughter-in-law.
Lalita made her debut in Raja Harish Chandra when she was only nine years ...
3. Shankar Jaikishan
Shankar Jaikishan is a duo musical composer in Bollywood who dominated the film industry for three decades. It is an unusual story of two classical musical composers who got united together as they had a personal liking for each other. Although Shankar Singh was born in Telangana and Jaikishan in Gujarat, they met each other in Mumbai in Prithvi Theaters ( then run by Prithviraj Kapoor). Both were working as music composer for the plays that were staged in the drama company Prithvi Theaters. While Shankar learnt to play Tabla, Jaikishan was expert in Harmonium,
Before joining Prithvi Theaters Shankar learnt Tabla from the nuances of Baba Nasir Khansahib and Jaikishan learnt harmonium from Visharad Wadilalji. They became experts in musical training. While they...
4. Bimal Roy
Bimal Roy was born on 12 July 1909 in Suapur, Eastern Bengal to a zamindar family. He was the director of Hindi cinema and the well-acclaimed filmmaker of all time Indian film industry. He was known for his realistic approach towards the film. He was the pride of Bengal, who won most of Filmfare award for the Best Director. He was the one who won International Film Award of Cannes Film Festival. He was from East Bengal, a part of Bengal province of British India and now the capital of Bangladesh. After Independence, he moved to India. He started his film career in the film industry named New Theaters Pvt. Ltd as an assistant cameraman. During that time, he worked with P. C. Barua in one of the hit movie Devdas in 1935.
He was a part of parallel cinema move...
5. Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor was a renowned actor, director, and producer of Bollywood cinema. He was given the title of “The Showman” as his film attracted a huge number of audiences from Asia and Europe. He was honored with the Padma Bhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to Indian cinema.
The Indian Film Industry gave him the title of Clarke Gable of India. His parents Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni Kapoor named him as Ranbir Raj Kapoor. He was born on December 14, 1924, in Peshawar province of Pakistan. He studied in Colonel Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun and then finished his graduation from St Xavier’s Collegiate School.
In 1935 at the age of 10 he made his debut with the movie ‘Inquilab’. He reached the pinnacle of success with his film ‘Neel Kamal’ in...
6. Mukesh Chand Mathur
Mukesh Chand Mathur (Mukesh) was a popular playback singer in Hindi cinema. He made a place for himself in his era along with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey. He is also regarded as the ghost voice for Raj Kapoor. Being born on July 22, 1923, in Delhi, Mukesh is the son of Zorawar Chand Mathur and Chand Rani. The singer had no formal training in singing but was born with the ability to sing a song. The singer was noticed by his distant relative, Motilal (a legendary actor), while Mukesh was performing in a wedding ceremony. Motilal took Mukesh to Mumbai and offered him a role of actor-cum-singer in the film, ‘Nirdosh’ (1941). Later, Mukesh got a chance to sing for one of Motilal’s films, ‘Pehli Nazar’, in 1945. Mukesh’s first song was &lsq...