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Shilpa Navalkar is an actress cum writer, predominantly working in the Marathi film and TV industry. She was born on April 27th to the Indian politician Pramod Navalkar and his wife, Vandana. She has a sister named Reshma. Shilpa is married to Hrishi Deshpande. Together, they have a daughter named Kuhu Deshpande. She opened an ad agency, Aadyot Ad Films, with her husband. She has been into acting since her childhood. While studying electronics engineering, she participated in plays in college and later became a professional theatre artist. In 1999, Shilpa made her acting debut in the film Kairee, directed by Amol Palekar, and won the Debutant Award. She did an Indo-French film, Maya, in 2001. Shilpa bagged the lead role in the Marathi TV serial Bhagyavidhata.

Alka Yagnik is a very popular playback singer of the Bollywood film industry. She was born on March 20, 1966. She has been working in the Hindi film industry for three decades. She had bagged seven Filmfare awards out of the thirty five nominations at the Filmfare awards. It was for the best playback singer award category. Her singing is quite beautiful and she was felicitated by many icons. 

She came to the Bollywood industry as a singer at her early age. This gave her a lot of experience and she groomed herself as a consistent and successful singer. Alka Yagnik's songs were listed more than 20 times in the “BBC's “Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time”. Alka Yagnik was born in Kolkata on 20 March, 1966 to the Gujarati-Hindu parents. She started her singing career at the age of six while she had sung the song for the All India Radio, Kolkata. 

She came to Mumbai at the age of 10 as a child singer. She had sung 2482 songs in 1114 films as of date. Alka Yagnik has a soothing voice that manifests the song even better. She is the fifth most successful and prominent singer of Bollywood cinema. Her career in Bollywood has been more than three decades and she had pulled out pretty good in the duet numbers. She is a classically trained singer who had profound knowledge in it. Alka Yagnik had won a lot of awards in the prominent ones like Zee Cine Awards, Star screen awards, Filmfare, IIFA awards, Bollywood movie awards, etc. Alka Yagnik had been highly rewarded for having won a lot of Filmfare awards and got the maximum number of nominations. 

In the hundred years of Hindi cinema function, Alka Yagnik's song “Taal Se Taal Mila” from the movie Taal was voted as the best song of the century. This had been done by Fever 104, , Hindustan Times and DesiMartini. She has been active in the Cinema industry since 1980.

Sonali Bendre, the epitome of beauty and grace was born in Mumbai, on 1 January 1975, is a well known Indian Actress. She is also a remarkable Television personality and a model. She has showcased her talent in over 50 films of various categories like romance, comedy and even action. Not even in Hindi but the actress performed superbly in Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada films. In the famous Television shows like Indian Idol and India's Got Talent she was a unbiased judge too. She started her career as a model. To add to her fortune list , she was selected for Star Dust Talent Search.

July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of cinema Sunil Dutt and Nargis gave birth to the ‘Munna Bhai’ of Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt in Bombay. Almost all are aware that Sanjay Dutt’s life is like a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs in his personal as well as professional life. But this man has never lost hope and is still struggling to get into a normal life as he is behind the bars since 2013 because of the TADA case. He went to Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. In his teenage years, due to peer pressure, he started taking drugs. For almost nine years he took heroin and cocaine as drug intakes and after a long period he realized that he should quit it all and wished to live a normal life.

Anand Bakshi was an old poet and lyricist with his popularity in the Hindi film industry. Anand Bakshi He was born in Rawalpindi, a part of India in 1930 which later got converted into a Pakistan city after independence in 1947. His mother died when he was five years old. Due to the partition of India and Pakistan, on October 2, 1947, Bakshi’s family shifted themselves to Delhi. Initially, Bakshi was in the Indian Army after completing his studies. In the free time, he used to write songs occasionally while working for the army. Bakshi initially tried to become a writer or a singer in the Hindi films, but later he found his talent in writing songs.

Lucky Ali is a famous Indian singer, who was born as Maqsood Mahmood Ali. He is a Songwriter and a Composer. He is also an Actor and a Philanthropist. He is known for his hobbies such as Farming and Horse Breeding, so he can be mentioned as a Farmer and a Horse Breeder as well. Being born into a family of great artistic talents, he has inherited a lot of artistic skills in his blood for singing as well as acting, not to mention his music composing skills. Renowned comedian of Bollywood, Mehmood, is his father. His mother, Mahelaka, is the sister of the famous Bollywood actress, Meena Kumari. His father is ‘part Afghani-part Bengali’ from his mother’s side. Of the eight children in his family, Lucky Ali is the second. One of his brothers Manzoor Ali is a Bollywood actor too. Over the years, he has got his hands soiled in many fields including horse breeding. He has worked in an oilrig off the coast of Pondicherry in South India, and was into carpet selling. He is a farmer too. He is into organic farming and supports organic methods widely. Lucky Ali has spent his childhood days mostly away from his family due to his father’s busiest shooting schedule. Once, after coming back from a boarding school, he has identified his father, who came to receive him, as the great comedian ‘Mehmood’, not realizing that it was his own father. He has studied in many education centers, including Maneckji Cooper Education Trust School at Mumbai. He has studied at the Bombay Scottish School there as well. Then at Mussoorie, he has continued his studies in Hampton Court School, and also at Saint George’s College there. At Bangalore, he has studied at the Bishop Cottons Boys’ School. Meaghan Jane McCleary a.k.a Masooma, who is actually from New Zealand, was his first wife who has starred in the video of his debut album ‘Sunoh’ in the song, ‘O Sanam’. Tasmia and Ta'awwuz are their two children. The Parsi girl Inaya is the second wife of Lucky Ali, and she has a girl named Sara with her. He married again for the third time, this time it is to Kate Hallam, who had won the Miss England title and who was working as a model. Together, this couple has a son; his name is Dani. Lucky Ali is a religious person and his favorite is the Quran being recited. He believes religion is but a personal regimen that a spiritual seeker uses to connect to his Creator. His father wrote the script of ‘Dushman Duniya Ka’, meaning, Enemy of the World, a movie that was actually influenced by Lucky Ali’s tête à tête with marijuana. Manzoor, who is the younger brother of Lucky Ali, stars in this movie. The plot of the movie is about a young man, who is a drug abuser by the name, ‘Lucky’. In the final scenes, this young man will murder his own mother and then go on a rampage to obliterate everything that stands in his path and around his place, eventually to be killed by his own father’s hands. When asked about the movie, Lucky said and was quoted as, ‘feeling the story was totally lacking in hope’. Having said that, he has not declined the offer to sing his first song, and the film has his song in it. Lucky Ali has debuted with his album ‘Sunoh’, and it was a prompt success that made him one of the established singers in the Indian Music Industry. He has won ‘Screen Awards’ for the year 1996, and the ‘Viewers' Choice Award of Channel V’ in 1997, for ‘Sunoh’ in the category, ‘The Best Pop Male Vocalist’. For a total of 60 weeks, it listed on the MTV Asia Charts. His later albums were not up to the success of his debut. Lucky is also a self-taught guitarist. As for his vocals, he is famous for his distinct style, the voice seemingly that of an untrained person, described rather as ‘husky’, and the ballad style of singing. He is specialized in using such themes in his albums, like, Solitude, Freeness, Insignificance of Life, and a soul that is mostly interested in wandering away all the time. His playback-singing debut was with the movie ‘Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai’. In 2001, at the Forty-sixth Filmfare Awards presentations, he was honored with ‘The Best Male Playback Singer Award’ for ‘Na Tum Jaano Na Hum’, a song in that same movie. He has also appeared in Bollywood movies; ‘Kitaab’ in 1977 and ‘Hamare Tumhare’ in1979 in the 70s, ‘Trikaal’ in1985 in the 80s, ‘Yehi Hai Zindagi’ 1997 in the 90s, ‘Kaante’ and ‘Sur - The Melody of Life’ both in 2002, and ‘Kasak’ in 2005, are some of the movies starring Lucky Ali. He took a break in acting and resumed it by starring in the movie ‘Good Luck’ in 2008. His work associations include that of composers such as, six times National Film Awards winner Vishal Bhardwaj, and A.R Rahman from Chennai, along with the duo Vishal and Shekhar. He has also done good works, composing with Rajiv Bhalla of ‘O Teri’ fame, and Michael McCleary, known as Mike McCleary and Mikey McCleary from Chennai, who is presently a New Zealander, and also with Prashant Pillai, the Malayalam Music Producer.

Rajpal Yadav, the hilarious Indian movie actor, acknowledged for his outrageously comic villainous roles in most of his films. He comes from a small town Kundra situated in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, on 16th March 1971,. He came from a simple family that didn’t know much about the film industry. During a film shoot in Canada, while enjoying the sweet delight of an ice-cream, he met Radha, who is now his wife. And after talking over the phone from Mumbai, for several months, Radha finally moved to Mumbai.

The Padma Shri award winner who shot to fame with his role in the 1986 blockbuster film ‘Naam’, which told the story of a poor family that struggled to make ends meet, was born on 30th May 1950 in Mumbai. He completed his graduation from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai. Rawal made his debut in the film industry through the movie ‘Holi’ in the year 1984 but it was his next film, ‘Naam’, which brought him all the fame and attention as an actor. Success followed him, and he acted in over hundred films during 1980s and 1990s. Such was his versatility, that he has done roles from lead actor to Main villain. He did the role of main villain in most of his movies and he was considered as a character actor during those days. 

The 1994 hits ‘Woh Chokri’ and ‘Sir’ won him the national award for best supporting actor and ‘Sir’ won him the Filmfare award for best comedian. He received nationwide recognition as villain through his negative roles in Telugu blockbusters like ‘Kshana Kshanam’, ‘Money’ etc. He was considered as a character actor until his role in the 2000 hit ‘Hera Pheri’ which gave a turn in Paresh Rawal’s career. ‘Hera Pheri’ told the story of a witty Marathi landlord who rents his apartment out to bachelors. He started taking either lead or the main protagonist roles in many of the mainstream Bollywood films that followed. Rawal received wide recognition and appreciation for his role in ‘Hera Pheri’, and his acting in the film was considered as the major contributing factor to the movie’s success. Many comedy numbers followed and Paresh Rawal’s roles in all those movies got the best feedback. 

 He is also a renowned actor in Gujarati drama industry, and his latest play ‘Dear Father’ was a hit. He has also produced several successful TV soaps including ‘Teen Bahuraniyaan’ of ‘Zee TV’. Paresh Rawal is also into politics and won the parliament election from Ahmedabad East constituency to become the Member of Parliament for BJP in 2014. He is married to the 1979 Miss India and actress Swaroop Sampat and has two sons, Aditya and Aniruddh.

Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath is the original name of Rakesh Roshan. Born on September 6, 1949, he tried his luck in production, direction and acting. The 70s to 90s were heydays in his career. 
Rakesh is reputed for directing flicks starting with K. He launched his son Hrithik Roshan with the 2000 flick Kaho Na Pyar Hai which was the blockbuster of the year. A promising star was born in Indian cinema that year. His commendable works are Khoon Bhari Maang, Khudgarz, Karan Arjun, Kishen Kanheiya, Kaho Na Pyar Hai, Koi Mil Gaya, Krrish, etc. Kaho Na Pyar Hai and Koi Mil Gaya fetched him Filmfare Awards for Best Director. Kaho Na Pyar Hai is recorded in Limca Book of Record for fetching the most number of awards. 

Hrithik Roshan with his unimaginable dance moves is praised as the Dance God of Bollywood, is the only son of Bollywood Director/Actor/Producer Rakesh Roshan. He is considered the most hard working personality when comes to the profession. As a kid he had stammering problem and it doesn’t stop him from moving ahead to this position. Hrithik who is fondly called as duggu by his family also worked in few bollywood movies as a child artist and the notable one was with Superstar RajiniKanth where he played the role of Our Thalaivar’s Son.