YR Swamy
M. S. Shinde
Trivikrama Rao
Nemai Ghosh
Manhar Raskapur
Dinkar D Patil
Ram Gabale
Rajen Tarafdar
Radhu Karmakar
Tapan Sinha
Dasari Yoganand
Kamalakara Kameswara Rao
A. Bhimsingh
R Krishnan
S Panju
K. Asif
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Satyajit Ray
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Rajendra Kumar
Baldev Raj Chopra
1. YR Swamy
Y.R. Swamy was an Indian director and screenwriter. He made films in the Kannada cinema. He almost gave his 35 years to the Kannada cinema. He was born in 1927 in Chitradurga, Karnataka. His adopted father was Hanumappa Muniappa Reddy, a famous Indian filmmaker. During his active years in the Kannada cinema, he directed more than 35 films. Y.R. Swamy died in October 2002 in Pune.
He entered the cinema in 1950s. He started his film career, not as a director but as an actor. He played the role of Prahlad, a Brahmin boy in Indian scriptures. In the initial years of the 1950s, he assisted his adopted father. He made his debut as a director in 1953. He directed a Telugu film titled Pratigna. Afterwards, he directed movies in the Kannada language. He made films of the mytholog...
Date of Death:
21-10-2002
Gender:
Male
2. M. S. Shinde
Madhav S Shinde known as M.S Shinde was born on 1929 in British India. His wife name was Prafula Shinde. He was a film editor in the Bollywood film industry and has edited around 100 films in his career. The most popular film in which he has worked as an editor is Sholay which was released in the year 1975. He has also worked in many other films like Brahmachari, Shaan, Chamatkar, Seeta Aur Geeta, etc. He has been awarded the Award of Best Film Editor in Filmfare for the movie named Sholay. In the year 1960, he kick-started his career as an editor in the Bollywood films.
He has worked with many eminent personalities like Ramesh Sippy and G.P Sippy. Shinde has worked with Sippy’s production house for a monthly salary of Rs. 2000. He has edited 300000 feet of reel in...
Date of Death:
28-09-2012
Gender:
Male
3. Trivikrama Rao
Trivikrama Rao is the brother of N. T. Rama Rao (Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh). Trivikrama Rao is an Indian film producer and director in the Telugu film industry. He worked as a screenwriter as well. Rao co-produced forty feature films Trivikrama Rao was co-owner of National Art Theatre Madras. He also produced twenty films under Vijay Lakshmi Art Pictures and received the Best feature film award for the film Madrasa Kutumbam and Varakatnam years 1968-1969, respectively. Rao’s film Seetharama Kaylan received a certificate of merit in 1960, He has a collection of four National Film Awards, three Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards, and two South film fare Awards.
Trivikrama Rao was born in Palakonda village, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. His active years in the film industry were from 1953-1972. Rao...
4. Nemai Ghosh
Nemai Ghosh is an Indian photographer mostly known for working with Satyajit Ray. He was born on the 8th of May 1934 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He started his career as an actor in theatres in Kolkata with actor-director Utpal Dutt. He acted in a play called Angar (1959) about the exploitation of coal miners. His story of becoming a photographer is quite extraordinary. A friend of his owed Ghosh an amount of 240 rupees, which he settled with a lens. That’s how he got a camera, and the rest is history. He worked with Satyajit Ray for over 25 years as a still photographer. They first met in Rampurhat, West Bengal, where he was shooting “Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne” (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha) in 1968. After that, impressed by Nemai’s work, Ray asked him...
Date of Death:
25-03-2020
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-03-2020
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
5. Manhar Raskapur
Manhar Rangildas Raskapur was an Indian film director best known for his Gujarati films. He was born in Surat, Gujarat, India, in 1922. Before entering the film profession, he completed first year of college. Jogidas Khuman was the first movie, which he recreated twice. During the 1940s, he was the only person who constantly created Gujarati films, together with his producer, Champsibhai Nagda. Mehndi Rang Lagyo (1960), his second best-known picture, was a constant blockbuster.
In 1955, he led Mulu Manek, a Rajput war tale movie in which he brought Marathi vocalist Shanta Apte to Gujarati cinema for the first time. Malela Jeev, a novel by Gujarati writer Pannalal Patel, was turned into a film in 1956. He directed ‘Kalapi’, a biopic of Gujarati poet Kalapi, in 1966. He led Miya Fuski 007, a children's movie, in 1...
Date of Death:
14-02-1980
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
14-02-1980
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
6. Dinkar D Patil
Dinkar D. Patil was born on 6 November 1915 in the village Benadi near Kolhapur in Bombay state; he passed away at 89 in Kolhapur.
He completed his schooling and then completed a BA in Literature from Kolhapur. He was also a college magazine editor.
He began his film career working as an assistant job in the Maharashtra Film Company owned by Baburao Painter at Kolhapur. Eventually, he became an associate director to Master Vinayak, and then, he transitioned himself to film director and scriptwriter.
He directed 35 films and wrote scripts for 62 films; his first movie was Mandir in 1948, and his last movie was Shivrayachi Soon Tararani in 1993. His era of filmography was from 1948-1993, in whi...
Date of Death:
21-03-2005
Age:
108
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
21-03-2005
Age:
108
Gender:
Male
7. Ram Gabale
Ram Gabale is an Indian director who worked for the Marathi film industry. He is famous for several social documentaries, children’s films, and television series. Gabale is originally from Kolhapur, Maharashtra, and shifted to Mumbai and started working with Rajkamal Studios.
After this, he started working in Prabhat Studios in Pune and directed his first movie Vande Matram starring late P.L. Deshpande and Sunita in 1948. Gabale is also a prominent position holder in Indian cinematic institutions including Film and Television Institute of India, Film City in Goregaon, and Films Division in Mumbai.
... Date of Death:
09-01-2009
Gender:
Male
8. Rajen Tarafdar
Rajen Tarafdar was a screenplay writer, director, and actor in the Indian Film Industry. He was born in 1917 in British India in the province of Bengal. He studied for a Bachelor’s degree in Popular Arts from the Government College of Art and Crafts in Kolkata. Initially, he worked in an advertising agency as a graphic designer. He entered the space of direction in 1957 with the movie Antarikhsha for which he also wrote the screenplay. In 1980, he made his acting debut with the Bengali film Akaler Shandhaney.
The films directed by him include Palanka, Jiban Kahini, Ganga, Agnisikha, Akash Chhnoa, and Nagpash. He won National Award in 1960 for his film Ganga in the category of Best Feature film and 1975 for Palanka. He was awarded the Bengal Film Journalist’s Association Award for Best Director for Nagpash (1988) and...
Date of Death:
23-11-1987
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-11-1987
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
9. Radhu Karmakar
Radhu Karmakar was a cinematographer and director of great repute. His claim to fame in Bollywood was his beautiful night sequence photography and high contrast lighting. He has worked with numerous luminaries. His long-term association with Raj Kapoor and R.K. Films is something about which almost everyone knows. He was born in Dhaka on 3rd June1919. In the film industry, he began his journey as a lab assistantat Radha Films in Kolkata in 1936. Later, he went on to become a camera assistant under the guidance of Jyotin Das. It was not until 1945 that he developed to be a cameraman. He got the opportunity to work with the director Nitin Bose for films such as ‘Drishti Daan,’ ‘Kismat Ki Dhani’ (1945), and ‘Milan’ (1946).
Then in the year 1951, his long...
Date of Death:
05-10-1993
Gender:
Male
10. 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
11. Dasari Yoganand
Dasari Yoganand was born on 16th April, 1922 in Madras. He passed away when he was of the age 84 in Chennai on 23rd November, 2006. He is a very eminent Film Director. His wife’s name is Hanumayamma. He is the proud son of Laxmi Bai and Venkata Das. D. Subbayya, a businessman, who adopted Yoganands.
Yoganand learned photography from D. Subbayya and became an amazing photographer. He loves to direct plays and dramas very much. When he was in Machilipatnam he met Yadavalli Nageshwara and Tugala Chalapathi Rao. Later he went to Bangalore to study radiology and then he went to Chennai to lend a hand to his father in the year 1939. After the death of his father, he joined Banerjee of Newton Studios. He also started working with the very popular cinematographer M.A ...
Date of Death:
23-11-2006
Age:
102
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-11-2006
Age:
102
Gender:
Male
12. Kamalakara Kameswara Rao
Kamalakara Kameswara Rao is an acclaimed and noted director of 1950-1960’s classic movie era. Pictures related to our mythology bounce into the theaters rarely nowadays. But once upon a time, there were few Telugu movie makers, skilled technicians, and scriptwriters who put so much of their life into making mythological movies.
Kamalakara Kameswara Rao is one of those legends who did everything he can just to bring soul to our gods, goddesses, and so many traditional characters. The industry used to affectionately and respectfully call Kamalakara Kameswara Rao as “Pauranika Brahma” for his incredible contribution to the lore pictures then times. Born at Bandar on 4th October 1911, Kamalakara Kameswara Rao completed his Bachelor of Arts in Noble College,...
Date of Death:
29-06-1998
Age:
112
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
29-06-1998
Age:
112
Gender:
Male
13. A. Bhimsingh
Born on October 15, 1924, in Rayalacheruvu, Andhra Pradesh, A. Bhimsingh was an Indian movie producer, editor, maker, and author who worked in the Tamil cinema. He got hitched to Sona, who was the sister of Krishnan, in 1949. One of his eight kids, B. Lenin turned out to film editorial manager, and another child, B. Kannan is a cinematographer, known for his regular coordinated efforts with P. Bharathiraja. Bhimsingh, later on, got married to performing artist Sukumari (1959) and had a child with her.
He was a well-known director, who made commercial movies in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam dialects. He is also known for directing TV serial Vizhudhugal. Bhimsingh started his vocation in Telugu magazine as a journalist. In the 1940s, he began his film c...
Date of Death:
16-01-1978
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
16-01-1978
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
14. R Krishnan
R Krishnan is one among the acclaimed directors in Tamil Cinema during the 40s to 80s. Krishnan was born on 18th July 1909 in Chennai. He is one among the popular duo Krishnan – Panju. He started his career as a lab in charge of Kandhan Studios, which was later renamed as Pakshiraja Studios. The studio was in Coimbatore. Both Krishnan and Panju were working together for the film Araichimani alias Manuneethi Chozhan in 1942. The film was directed by PK Raja Sandow and the shooting was going in Kandhan Studios.
During the shooting, Krishnan and Panju became best buddies. After watching their dedication in their work, Raja Sandow, wanted them to shine as directors. He provided them with an opportunity to direct a film in 1944. Poompavai is their first film together. After a couple of years, they directed Pan...
Date of Death:
17-07-1997
Age:
114
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
17-07-1997
Age:
114
Gender:
Male
15. S Panju
S Panju is the popular film director and he is always referred with his partner “R Krishnan” as Krishnan – Panju. Panju was born on 24th January 1915 in Umayalpuram in Kumbakonam. His birth name was Panchapakesan. Born in a Brahmin community, Panju was against the communal indifference and denied wearing the holy rope, worn by the Brahmins. Krishnan and Panju jointly directed more than fifty films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi.
Before they started working together, Panju worked as an assistant to “Ellis R. Dungan” and PK Raja Sandow. Besides working as an assistant, Panju had worked as an editor for a few films. He was credited as Panjabi while working as the editor . In 1942, Panju and Krishnan worked under Raja Sandow for the movie, Araichi Mani. It was the time, where they came to know tha...
Date of Death:
06-04-1984
Age:
109
Gender:
Male
16. K. Asif
Karimuddin Asif famously known as K Asif was a film producer, director, and screenwriter in the Hindi film industry. He was known for his directorial work in the Hindi epic motion picture, Mughal-e-Azam (1960). He was born as Asif Karim to Dr.Fazal Karim and Bibi Ghulam Fatima on 14 June 1924 in Etawah, United Province. He moved to Bombay at a very young age and started off as assistant to his uncle, filmmaker and actor S. Nazir and his sibling Sikander Begum, wife of actor, producer and director Nazir Ahmed Khan. He started his career with a movie called “Phool”. Phool” had Prithviraj Kapoor, Durga Khote and Suraiya in various roles. His next venture was not a directorial one, but a production one. He produced a film called “Hulchul” and “John day”.
He was honourably me...
Date of Death:
09-03-1971
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
09-03-1971
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
17. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was also well-known as K. A. Abbas. Abbas was an Indian screenwriter, film director and novelist. He had also served as a Hindi, Urdu, English journalist. He has widely contributed to the most popular Hindi movies like Do Boond Pani, Saat Hindustani, Shehar Aur Sapna, Pardesi His movie were widely appreciated by everyone and hence he was honoured with the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film on National Integration, His movies were even nominated at the Cannes Film Festival.
He is measured as one of the most significant personalities whose movies were appreciated worldwide and he was the one who motivated everyone to showcase their special talent on an international platform. He used to write them for the column Last Page one of the longest and most-read columns featured in the Bomba...
Date of Death:
01-06-1987
Age:
109
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-06-1987
Age:
109
Gender:
Male
18. Satyajit Ray
Biographies reveal bare details about the maverick filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Even today not much is known about this extraordinary filmmaker. But people still have a passion for doing research upon his classic films as he is an extraordinary filmmaker. Satyajit Ray was India’s first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award (Honorary Oscar) in 1992. He is also a recipient of the honorary doctorate by Oxford University ( after actor Chaplin). The government of India has awarded him ‘Padma Bhushan(1965) and Dadasaheb Phalke Award(1985) and the highest civilian honour’Bharat Ratna’(1992) too. In 1992, he was even posthumously awarded the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement in directing at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The director was chosen once...
Date of Death:
23-04-1992
Age:
103
Gender:
Male
19. 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.
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
20. Rajendra Kumar
Born on 20 July 1929, Rajendra Kumar is a Bollywood actor. He entered the film industry during the year 1950. He worked in over 80 movies in his career of 40 years. The 1960s were favorable for him, since he was highly successful during that period.
Rajendra Kumar was not inclined towards playing hero roles and hence, he started his film career as an assistant director. After having tried his luck as an assistant director to H. S. Rawail, he took up acting. The film, ‘Jogan’, established Rajendra Kumar as a star to reckon with. He acted in a supporting role in ‘Mother India’, and the film was a huge success.
The film, ‘Ghooj Uthi Shehnai’, showcased his romantic acting skills and he was the lead hero of the film. The film was a success. Several of his films celebrated...
Date of Death:
12-07-1999
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
12-07-1999
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
21. Baldev Raj Chopra
Baldev Chopra had faced a lot of problems in his early career. He had to leave his home place, Lahore after riots broke out at the time of independence. He was working on his new production with a story by I.S Johar but had to abandon it because of the ensuing ruckus. He was born in Ludhiana and studied at the University of Punjab in Lahore. He received an M.A there. There was a monthly magazine about films called Cine Herald. He worked as a journalist there at the start of his career and took over it and ran it until 1947. India was partitioned into India and Pakistan after peace prevailed, and he moved to Delhi in 1947. His first successful production, Karwat, in 1948, turned out to be a flop at the box office. His first direction, Afsana, was a hit and earned him his long due fame.
Date of Death:
05-11-2008
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
05-11-2008
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
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