M. S. Shinde
SM Sriramulu Naidu
B.R Panthulu
Kotayya Pratyagatma
Mahesh Kaul
Prabhat Mukherjee
Anant Mane
Ajoy Kar
Mrinal Sen
Gajanan Jagirdar
Nitin Bose
Phani Majumdar
Ramu Kariat
T. R. Sundaram
Adurthi Subba Rao
A. Bhimsingh
Bhupen Hazarika
Satyajit Ray
Uttam Kumar
Yash Chopra
Gopal Datt
Dilip Kumar
Baldev Raj Chopra
1. 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
2. SM Sriramulu Naidu
SM Sriramulu Naidu (1910 – 1976), who managed three film studios, deserves credit. He was named "Coimbatore Movie Mogul," implying a legendary mark he had established in the film industry. Munuswami, his father, was a station master when he was born in Tiruchi in 1910. Naidu used to work in his father's bakery. In 1936, he founded Central Studio in Coimbatore with his mates R.K. Ramakrishnan Chettiar, B. Rangaswamy, and Aamikannu Vincent. However, he left them in 1944 and established Pakshiraj Studios in 1945. At the beginning of the 1940s, Naidu decided to enter the film industry. Their first Tamil production, "Aryamala" (1941), was released at the Central Studios under Pakshiraja Films. This was his first movie as a co-director, and it was a huge success.
Malaikallan (195...
Date of Death:
1976
Gender:
Male
3. B.R Panthulu
Boodgur Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu is well-known as B.R.Panthulu. He was a successful Actor and Director. He was also into production. He directed Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies. He won many National awards and State awards for his films. He won “Afro-Asian Film Festival Award” for his most famous movie “Veera Pandiya Kattabomman”. Some of his legendary films include “Karnan” (1964), “Dil Tera Diwana” (1964). He is the director of the first color Kannada film “Sri Krishna Deva Rayalu”.
B R Panthulu hails from Kuppam, India. He was a teacher by profession before entering the film industry. He started his career as an Actor in the Kannada movie “Samsara Nauka&rd...
Date of Death:
08-10-1974
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
08-10-1974
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
4. Kotayya Pratyagatma
Born on October 31, 1925, in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, Kotayya Pratyagatma was an Indian film writer, executive, and maker known for his works in Bollywood and Telugu silver screen. He was wedded to Satyavati and had three children. One of his kids is K. Vasu, who is a director. Kotayya has a daughter name TejoLatha in Bangalore and a child in the US, Kalidas. His little girl Tejolatha's is named after him and occupied the proceeding with the legacy.
He worked briefly as a journalist and then turned to a movie career. He worked at Prajashakti magazine as a reporter and also as a Jwala, magazine editor. In 1961, he entered the film industry with his movie Bharya Bhartalu as a director and got him Silver Medal in the category of the best feature film in Telugu. Kotayya...
Date of Death:
08-06-2001
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
08-06-2001
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
5. Mahesh Kaul
Mahesh Kaul was an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter, born on April 10, 1911, in Jodhpur State, British India. He graduated from Moni College in Nagpur. He predominantly worked in the Bollywood industry and was well-known in Indian cinema. Initially, he started his career in the film industry as a lyricist and dialogue writer in Hindi films. Mahesh debuted as a Bollywood actor in Naya Sansaar in 1941, which starred renowned actors Ashok Kumar and Renuka Devi in the lead. Mahesh had previously worked as a bank branch manager and was a journalist by trade. He made a significant impression by playing a dialogue-role writer in another bilingual film, Mahatma Vidur, within the same career period. Debaki Bose directed the bilingual cinema drama Apna Ghar in 1942.
His debut film as a director in Hindi movies was Angoori in 1943...
Date of Death:
02-06-1972
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
02-06-1972
Age:
113
Gender:
Male
6. Prabhat Mukherjee
Prabhat Mukherjee, born in 1917, was an Indian film director, writer and actor. He has worked in Bengali, Assamese, Odia, and Hindi cinema. He gave a start to his career with All India Radio. His debut film as a director was Maa(1956). He was featured in a cult film named Bicharak, alongside Uttam Kumar in 1959. This film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali. He directed and wrote the script for the Assamese Film, Puberun, released in 1959. It was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 1960. He made five Odia films, including Ratnakar, Nuabou, Jeevan Sathi, and Sadhana. He directed the biography film Shayar-E-Kashmir Mahjoor, based on Kashmiri Post, Ghulam Ahmed. He died in 1997 at the age of eighty.
...7. Anant Mane
Anant Mane is an Indian director who worked for the Marathi film industry. He is a great director who worked in more than 60 movies in Marathi cinemas. Anant was born on 22nd September 1915 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. During the 1960s to 1980s, he worked with music director Vasant Pawar and gave a lot of hit movies. Anant’s 1961 film Manini won the President’s Silver Medal for Best Regional Film of the Year.
Some of the popular movies in which he worked are Aai Ude Ga Ambabai, Asla Navra Nakoga Bai, Don Baika Phajeeti Aika, Gaav Tase Changle Pun Veshila Tangale, Gao Tasa Changla Pan Veshila Tangla, Totaya Aamdaar, and many others.
... Date of Death:
1995
Age:
108
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
1995
Age:
108
Gender:
Male
8. Ajoy Kar
Ajoy Kar was a known Indian cinematographer and film director. He is also popularly known as the Father of the back projection in Bengali cinema. To pursue his career as a professional photographer, Ajoy left college. Later, he picked up cinematography. In 1935, he graduated as an assistant photographer. He became a chief photographer at Indrapuri Studios in 1938. As a cinematographer, he debuted in Charu Roy’s Pathik in 1939. As an independent director, he debuted in 1951 in Jighansa. In his career as a director, he directed 26 films. One of his films, Saptapadi, was nominated for the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. His movie, named Malyadan, won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film in Bengali in 1981. He has shot some of the most memorable films in the history of Bengali films.
The first f...
9. Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen was a renowned and highly skilled Indian film director. Mrinal was born on 14 May 1923 in Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (currently in Bangladesh). Sen has directed various famous films like Raat Bhore, Neel Akasher Neechey, Baishey Shravana, Maitra Manisha, Ek Adhuri Kahani, Calcutta 71, Chorus, Mrigayaa, Kharij, Genesis, Antares, and the list continues. His core focus was on Hindi and Bengali films. Mrinal’s direction positively influenced the whole Indian cinema. He was the only director in India (along with Satyajit Ray) whose films received awards at the three biggest film festivals, Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival.
Mrinal’s priceless involvement led him to win India's two most prominent awards, ‘Padma Bhushan Award’ in 1983 and Da...
Date of Death:
30-12-2018
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
30-12-2018
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
10. Gajanan Jagirdar
Gajanan Jagirdar was a veteran Indian screenwriter, film director as well as a prominent Hindi and Marathi cinema actor. He was born on April 2, 1907, in the Amravati city of the Amravati district in Central Provinces of British India. The Indian cinema saw the rise of Jagirdar from the years 1942 to 1947 as a film director alongside Prabhat Films. The veteran passed away on 13 August 1988 at the age of 81 in Bombay (now, Mumbai), Maharashtra in India. His first encounters with the Bollywood industry was as a child actor. Before making his way to the Indian film industry, Gajanan Jigardar was a teacher.
Jagirdar started making waves in the industry as a Scenarist and an assistant director before becoming a full-time movie director in 1934 in Prabhat Film Company. He directed a 1934 film Sinhasan, which was his debut as a film d...
Date of Death:
13-08-1988
Age:
117
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-08-1988
Age:
117
Gender:
Male
11. Nitin Bose
Nitin Bose is a Director and producer. He is associated with the Hindi Cinema. He was born in Kolkata (The then Calcutta), and India. He was born on April 26 and in the year is 1897. He is also a cinematographer and storywriter by profession. His spouse name is Santi Bose. He did his education from Hindu School, Kolkata, and India. He has two children. Their name is Neeta Bose and Rina Bose. His father's name is Hemendra Mohan Bose, who was a Bengali entrepreneur. His mother name is Mrinalini. Nitin had a keen interest in photography. Upendrakishore Raychowdhury is the brother of his mother, Mrinalini. Satyajit Ray is the grandson of Upendrakishore. In the year 1921, Nitin had done a documentary as a director on the topic, Visit of Belgian Emperor.
Nitin has started his cinematography career from the film Punarjanma in the ...
Date of Death:
14-04-1986
Age:
127
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
14-04-1986
Age:
127
Gender:
Male
12. Phani Majumdar
Phani Majumdar was a legendary Indian film director. He worked in the Hindi film industry. He was one of his time directors to work abroad. He worked in the country of Singapore for a while. He was born on 28th of December in the year 1911 and died at the age of 82 on 16th of May in the year 1984. He belonged to a small town called Faridpur in East Bengal. He started his career in the year 1938 and successfully worked until the year 1986. He was married to Monica Desai, actress Leela Desai’s sister. He is known as one of the pioneering directors of Indian Cinema. He is prominent for his work on the film ‘Street Singer’ which was released in the year 1938. It casted K. L. Saigal in the lead role and was known for its hit song ‘Baabul Mora Naihar’.
He is also recognized for his work in Meena Kumari&r...
13. Ramu Kariat
Ramu Kariat is an Indian Film Director. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Ramu was born on the 1st of February in the year 1927. He was born in Engandiyur, Kerala, in India. He has a daughter whose name is Suma Devan. Ramu started his career in the Film Industry with the Malayalam Film Neelakkuyil (1954).
He then worked for more films like Mudiyanga Puthran (1961), Chemmeen (1965), Ezhu Rathrikal (1968), Maaya (1972), and many more. He got the All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film in 1954. He won the President’s Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Malayalam twice in 1954 and 1961. He won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1965. Ramu died on the 10th of February in the year 1979 in Trivandrum, Kerala.
... Date of Death:
10-02-1979
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-02-1979
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
14. T. R. Sundaram
Tiruchengodu Ramalingam Sundaram Mudaliar is an Indian Film Director, Actor, and Producer. He worked in the Malayalam Film Industry. He is commonly known as T. R. Sundaram. Sundaram was born on the 16th of July in the year 1907. He was born in Salem, Tamil Nadu. His father’s name is Ramalingam Mudaliar, a wealthy textile merchant.
He had his Textile Engineering from Leeds, England. He jointly emerged a production house named Angel Pictures with S. S. Velayutham. Ramalingam started his own production company The Modern Theatres Ltd. He won the Second Best Malayalam Feature Film in the year 1961 for the film Kandam Bechu Kottu.
... Date of Death:
30-08-1963
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
30-08-1963
Age:
116
Gender:
Male
15. Adurthi Subba Rao
Telugu film industry has tasted the direction of very few classics. Movies made by Adruthi Subba Rao are one of the finest pieces that Tollywood could ever watch. Born on 16th December 1912 in Rajahmundry, India he grew up in pure Telugu family background. Adruthi Subba Rao is not merely a cine director but he is a multi-talented human and has worked as a scriptwriter, cinematographer, producer and editor. During his mid 20’s he decided to be a cinematographer and against his parents will he attended St. Xavier’s college to pursue cinematography course.
After his studies, Adruthi Subba Rao didn’t succeed immediately but had to work in different branches of Hindi film industry. He did a part-time job in Bombay film lab, developed his skills and got few a...
Date of Death:
01-10-1975
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
01-10-1975
Age:
111
Gender:
Male
16. 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
17. Bhupen Hazarika
Bhupen Hazarika, born on September 8, 1926, was a talented Indian singer, filmmaker, lyricist, poet, and musician. He was born to Shantipirya and Nilakanta Hazarika in Sadiya, Assam. The couple had ten children including Bhupen. His father would migrate to different cities in search of better job opportunities.
Their mother was the first one who introduced all of them to music from a very young age. He has completed his education at Sonaram High School, Dhubri, a Government High School and Tezpur High School.
When Bhupen was ten years old, the family was staying in Tezpur. Jyotiprasad Agarwala, and Bishnu Prasad Rabha, who are Assam's noted music artist and poet respectively, spotted him at a function where he was singing Sri Madhabdeva and Srimanta Sankardeva's songs...
Date of Death:
05-11-2011
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
05-11-2011
Age:
97
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. Uttam Kumar
Uttam Kumar was matinee idol of Bengali cinema. He was a super star and super actor that Bengali cinema has ever produced. The actor has not been 35 years present in the screen, but he remains the evergreen romantic protagonist whose charm cannot wither still with time. There is still a craze for Uttam Kumar’s films in Kolkata just because his films have attained mythical status and his memories still continue to haunt the viewers.
He was an iconic figure of Indian cinema. He was an actor who could go deep into the character, and there will never be another Uttam Kumar in Indian cinema. He was one of the eminent actors that Indian cinema has ever produced. Many of us knows that he was a flop star when he made a debut in cinema. He was struggling actor. He even work...
Date of Death:
24-07-1980
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-07-1980
Age:
97
Gender:
Male
20. Yash Chopra
Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king of romance’ in Indian cinema for directing films like kabhie Kabhie. Daag, Noorie, Silsila, Darr, Chandni, Lamhe, Dil To Pagal Hai, etc. Earlier, he made some serious and social films like Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dharmputra, and Ittefaq, etc. He was a trendsetter as a filmmaker. Yash Chopra gave Bollywood the angry young man Amitabh Bachchan and even crafted career of another superstar Shahrukh Khan.
During the early times of his career, Yash Chopra worked as an assistant to the director I.S. Johar and his sibling B.R. Chopra. He got his first break as a director in B.R. Chopra’s film Dhool Ka Phool. It was a mega hit followed by Waqt and Iftefaq. Later, he got separated from his brother B.R. Chopra and fo...
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
21. Gopal Datt
Gopal Datt is an Indian actor; he works in Hindi Film and Television Industry. Gopal made his debut in the films by the film ‘Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai’, released in the year 2001; he played the character Hrithik.
Later he acted in the big hit of the year 2003, ‘Tere Naam’ starring Salman Khan. The other two films he has acted in are ‘Filmistan’ (2012) and ‘Samrat & Co.’ (2014).
He has acted in the TV mini-series of TVF, the channel on Youtube, the series was named ‘TVF Pitchers’ (2015); he played the role of Rastogi. He has appeared in 3 episodes of the series.
Gopal Dutt has worked in many other web series, short films and movies like Case Toh Banta Hai, Vikra...
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
Age:
59
Gender:
Male
22. Dilip Kumar
Muhammad Yusuf Khan was born on the 11th of December in year 1922. Dilip Kumar was born in Peshawar. He is a Bonafide personality with his unique style and aura. He is an Indian Bollywood Actor. This magnificent industry gave him the name of TRAGEDY King. He started his career in the year 1944 with his movie Jwar Bhata, which did not score well at the box office, but as the actor believes failure is the first step to success, he did not lose hope, and with his wor,k he got the title of TRAGEDY KING. He got his recognition and popularity from the film Jugnu released in the year 1944. He was cast with Noor Jahan in Jugnu. 1949 released Shabnam was a big hit and another hit movie released in the same year named Andaz with Raj Kapoor and Nargis.
This was a film based on the ...
Date of Death:
07-07-2021
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
07-07-2021
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
23. 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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