Hindi Awards Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2023 - Cast & Crew

Rekha is probably among the most renowned and well-known personalities of Bollywood. With over 180 movies to her name, and a career spanning over 40 years, she is still recognized as the “Diva” of Bollywood. She is a Living Legend in true meanings, a style icon, an enigmatic beauty in its full form and the 70’s sex symbol. Rekha’s career path is full of success, turns, and controversies, but this vibrant personality has survived the test of all. Rekha was introduced to the screen in her early years, but her first lead role debut was in a Kannada film Operation Jackpot Nalli C.I.D 999 in 1969, which turned out to be a success. But she did not rest there. In the same year, she gave her first appearance in a Hindi film Anjana Safar. Although this film faced censorship problem due to a kissing scene and the release was delayed until 1979. “SawanBhadon” is considered her official debut in Bollywood. She had to learn Hindi for this film because it was not her mother tongue.”SawanBhadon” became a hit, sending Rekha’s reputation as an actor to the skies, but not completely for now. In an interview, Rekha pointed out that she was regarded as the “Ugly Duckling” of Bollywood early in her career because she was dark skinned and chubby, which was quite against the perceived beauty standards of that time. She also stated that this image of her motivated her to go through a transformation and make it big on merit. In the early 1980’s she won her first Best Actress award for the movie “Khubsoorat”. Her change in on-screen personality and role selection was widely recognized and her career prospects had begun to improve significantly. She starred with the great Bachchan for the first time in the movie “Do Anjaane”, and proved to be a big turn for Rekha. After this, the duo gave back to back hits like “Mr. Natwarlal or “MuqaddarkaSikandar”. This phase of her life is filled with controversies of her and Mr. Bachchan’s love scandal, and let’s not forget the “Silsila”, her most scandalous film, marking an end to the affair. Rekha was awarded the National Film Award for Best Actress for her leading and highly applauded performance in “UmraoJaan” in 1981. She went on to take on several different kinds of roles. From a betrayed wife in “Ek Hi Bhool” to a young single breadwinner in “JeevanDhara”, from a Lawyer in “MujheInsaafChahiye” to a supporting mother in “Vijeta”, Rekha has pleased her critics every time.

Intro: Neeti Mohan appeared on Hindi television while performing as a competitive singer and soon she won the hearts of millions with her performances. Now she is a celebrity singer with huge success.

A beautiful diva with a golden voice is how one can introduce Neeti Mohan, the dazzling young star. She first appeared with her golden voice on television for the musical programme Popstars which was aired on Channel V in the year 2003. She won the show and along with other winners, created a musical group Asma. Under the auspicious guidance of Shankar Mahadevan, she also represented the team of Shankar’s Rockstars on the musical competitive show Music Ka Maha Muqabala. This show was aired on Star One in the year 2009. Since then, she is a regular member of A.R. Rehman live shows performing all over the world.

After winning the hearts of Indian television viewers and specially of those who love to see talented voice compete with each others on musical competitive shows on television this beautiful girl also acted in a Bollywood movie. Her debuted Bollywood movie was Socha Na Tha which was a project of Dharmendra Production. In this movie, she played a supporting role against her co-star Abhay Deol.

In the year 2012, she performed for MTV Unplugged and recently, she appeared on the comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma as a celebrity. She is now a successful playback singer for various Bollywood projects. There is a long list of popular music numbers under her belt and she has won a number of awards including the Filmfare RD Burman Award as best singer in the year 2013.

Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress who was born in Poothamkurussy, Puthur of Kerala. Her birthday is 1st of January in 1978. Her parents are Saraswathy and P. R Balan. Her elder sister is Priya Balan and her second cousin is Indian actress Priyamani. She studied at a High School in Mumbai and in 1995, at the age of sixteen, she played the role of Radhika in the first season of Ekta Kapoor's TV series named “Hum Paanch”. In her teenage, she was inspired by Indian actress Shabana Azmi and Madhuri Dixit. She studied Sociology in St. Xavier's College and completed Master's in Mumbai University. She has appeared in several TV commercials and also she has starred in music videos. Vidya has briefly studied Carnatic music, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. She was listed as the "India's hottest vegetarian" in polls conducted by PETA in 2011 and 2012. In 2003, she commenced her career in feature film industry with the Bengali movie “Bhalo Theko”. “Parineeta” (2005) was her foremost Hindi movie. There she played the role of Lalita. Parineeta was a box-office hit and Vidya received the Filmfare best actress award in 2006, for her performances in Parineeta. Later, she appeared in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” (2006) co starred with Sanjay Dutt. In 2007, she appeared in romantic comedy film “Heyy Babyy”. Heyy Babyy is a remake of Hollywood film “Three Men and a Baby”. Vidya played the role of Isha Sahni and the movie became an overnight hit. She got the opportunity of working with director Aziz Mirza, in 2008. Aziz selected Vidya for the role of Priya, in “Kismat Konnection”. The victorious period of her career as a Hindi actress began in the year 2009. She appeared in five different successive films, including “Paa” (2009), “Ishqiya” (2010), “The Dirty Picture” (2011), Kahaani (2012). Her prominent acting skills in those roles recognized her in Hindi cinema. She has won the National Film Award for best actress (Dirty picture), five Filmfare Awards for Parineeta (2005), Paa (2009), The Dirty Picture (2011), and Kahaani (2012) and Ishqiya (2010), five Screen Awards and Padma Shri Award in 2014. Vidya Balan got married to Siddharth Roy Kapoor, the CEO of UTV Motion Pictures on 14th of December 2012 in Bandra, Mumbai.

Alia Bhatt is a trendsetting actress from Mumbai, India. Her date of birth was 15th March, 1993 and her parents are Mahesh Bhatt, who is a popular director and actress Soni Razdan. She is an actress cum singer wherein she had sung songs in her movies itself. Her debut film was as a kid artist in a thriller movie of Sangharsh in the year 1999. Her first movie as an adult happened out to be Student of the year (2012), a romantic drama. In the year 2014, she acted three blockbuster movies that were welcomed by a good opening record. 

Alia Bhatt has an elder sister namely, Shaheen. She had also been quite active in stage shows and she launched her own line of clothing for women. Alia Bhatt had studied at Jamnabai Narsee School IBDP and passed out in May 2011. Alia Bhatt had performed in prestigious award ceremonies so far like Maybelline, Garnier, and Coca Cola. 

In the year 2014, she had her association with the online fashion portal Jabong.com. She had also become the celebrity endorser for many products. In the year 2013, she was ranked 19 by the Times of India's Most Desirable Woman of 2012. In the same year, she was also ranked 1 for the Most Promising Female Newcomer by Times of India's Hotlist. Alia Bhatt had acted in 5 movies and 1 short film namely Going Home. Her future projects are Shaandar (2015), Udta Punjab (2016), Kapoor and Sons (2016). Alia Bhatt gave her splendid dance shows at various film award fests, which also includes the overseas function. It is very evident that she is also a part of the playback singing in Bollywood films. 

Alia Bhatt had won 5 awards and nominated for a couple of times for the movie Student of the year (2013). As a whole, she had won 12 awards for her acting. The awards include Big Star Entertainment, Lions Gold, Filmfare , Screen, Zee Cine, Satr Dust, and Star Guild. She had been nominated for the Best Actress award by IIFA Awards for the movie “2 States”.

Family Tree Of Complete Kapoor's Family

Tejaswi Prakash Wayangankar, an Indian television actress, graduated in Telecommunication Engineering is undoubtedly beauty with brains. She currently works infamous Television Series Swaragini, broadcasted on Colors TV. She has bagged one of the leading roles in this television drama series. Born on 10th June 1992 (age 23), this young actress brimming with talent, hails from a family of musicians, the talent indeed flows in her very veins. Her father Prakash Wayangankar is a singer; she finds him her true inspiration. She started her work in Sanskaar- Dharohar Apno Ki Season 2 where she played the role of a simple village girl named Dhara. She also did “26-12” which is a television show by Life Ok, based on the happening of 26/11, a crime story.

P.S. Vinod is an Indian born in Andhra Pradesh. He is a well-known cinematographer as well as director. He is one of the top 20 cinematographers in Tamil. P.S. Vinod has completed his graduation in Tamil Nadu from Television Institute. As soon as he completed his graduation, he started assisting well- experienced cinematographer Santosh Sivan. After that, director Vasanth signed him for his two coming movies Rhythm and Appu.These two films have become the success to P.S. Vinod and his team. Later P.S. Vinod did few films in Bollywood and which has become well -known movies in Hindi. P.S. Vinod second film in Hindi was Musafir, and he has also won the nomination for film awards for Zee, for Musafir movie. Some of his movie lists include Anima and Persona, Appu, Celluloid Man, David, Kadhal 2 Kalyanam, Musafir, Neal N Nikki, Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, Rhythm, Striker, Tees Maar Khan, Panjaa, Arrambam. Previously, Two Tamil movies are worked by P.S. Vinod, the gangster film Aaranya Kaandam and romantic comedy film Kadhal 2 Kalyanam.

Hariharan is a renowned Indian singer, who sings mainly for Hindi and Tamil films. Born in 1955, he is a well-known Ghazal singer. He was also instrumental in bringing fusion music to India. 

Colonial Cousins is the name given to Hariharan’s band, wherein he collaborated with Lesle Lewis. This band was featured in many private albums. Not only this, they have also composed music for a few movies in Hindi and Tamil. 

Hariharan is born and brought up in Mumbai and he is well-versed in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Hindi. Hariharan is the offspring of famous Carnatic vocalists H.A.S. Mani and Shrimati Alamelu. Hariharan inherited the music skills from his mother. Hindustani music was made known to him in his youth. Hariharan indeed, took great efforts to reach the position that he is in today; he used to practice singing for 13 hours. 

During the initial stages of his career Hariharan used to sing for television serials. After winning a prize in a competition at all India level Hariharan was offered to sing in the film “Gaman” by late music composer Jaidev. The song “Ajeeb Sa Neha Mujh Par Guzar Gaya Yaaron" from the film earned him recognition that he rightly deserved. 

The song “Thamizha Thamizha” from the movie Roja was an instant hit and Hariharan, who sung it was awarded the “Best Male Playback Singer” in the Tamil Nadu State Government Film Awards. 

Hariharan was introduced into the Tamil film industry by A R Rahman, who was also a newbie at that time. Since then, the duo created magic with soul stirring songs in films, including Minsara Kanavu, Jeans, Indian, Muthu, Taal, Mudhalvan, Iruvar, Indira, Rangeela, Alaipayuthey, Kannathil MuthamIttal, Sivaji etc. Hariharan is credited with the Padma Shri Award and has received National awards for a couple of times. Hariharan is the proud singer of around 700 songs. He had also sung in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi.

Sachet Tandon is an Indian lyricist, singer, and Music director. He mostly works in pair with Parampara Thakur and the couple is known as Sachet-Parampara. Sachet took birth on August 17th, 1989 in Lucknow. His star sign is Leo. Sachet completed his school education from St Fidelis College, Lucknow. He did his graduation from Lucknow University.

Manish Paul is an Indian television actor, host and a stand-up comedian. Manish was born and brought up in Delhi, did his schooling from Apeejay School and B.A. from College of Vocational Studies. After he shifted to Mumbai, he landed his first show as a host in Sunday Tango.

He was also a VJ with Zee Music and radio jockey with Radio city. He landed his acting debut as a ghost in Ghost Bana Dost. Manish also acted in several television serials like Radhaa Ki Betiyaan Kuch Kar Dikhayengi, Ssshhhh... Phir Koi Hai, Zindadil, Wheel Ghar Ghar Mein and Kahani Shuru with Love Guru and Kuchh Cook Hota Hai.

Manish Paul got noticed as a television host after hosting the popular show Saa Ree Gaa Maa Paa Chhote Ustaad and his appearance on the show Comedy Circus. He was the host of Dance India Dance Li'l Masters. He was a participant in celebrity singing show Star a Rockstar. He is currently co-hosting Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa's seventh instalment with Ranvir Shorey.

He was awarded Best Anchor award for Dance India Dance Li'l Masters in 2011. He had appeared in guest role in Tees Maar Khan but he made his big screen debut with Mickey Virus.

Rishab Shetty is a Kannada film actor and director. He was born on July 7 in Keradi Village, Kundapur, Karnataka. He studied film direction at the Government Film and TV Institute in Bangalore and started his career as an Assistant Director to A.M.R. Ramesh in the 2006 bilingual drama film, Cyanide. Afterward, he assisted Arvind Kaushik in a television series before he made his acting debut in the Kannada film, Tuglak (2012), which Kaushik also directed. In 2013, Shetty did a small stint as a police officer in Pawan Kumar’s romantic psychological thriller film, Lucia.

Varun Dhawan, a new comer entered Bollywood with his professional acting and dancing skills withmovie ‘Student of the year’. His father David Dhawan is a well-known movie director. He was born on 24 April 1987 in Mumbai. He has done his degree in business management from Nottingham University, UK. He has worked as assistant director with Karan Johar in ‘My Name Is Khan’. ‘Student Of The Year’ with Siddharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt. , Varun got the Best Debut Award for Male in 2014. In this movie he played a rich guy to play the role of ‘Rohan Nanda’. Film critics praised him as a talented, hardworking guy. His charming, fun loving guy image make him Prince Charming.He played leading role in ‘Main Tera Hero’ a Telugu remake and showed his genetic comedy talent to critics. In his next film ‘Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania’ co starred with Alia Bhatt was a big hit of the year. While playing some comedy roles in these movies Varun came back with crime thriller Badlapur and gave a message to become a stable actor who can justify every role given to him. In this movie he took revenge after 15 years.

Recently his movie ABCD 2 released with co- starrer Shraddha Kapoor showcasing complete dance talent of him.

Dhawan Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Anupam Kher is a very popular actor, director, and producer of the Bollywood film industry. His place of birth was Shimla of Punjab and currently, he is living in Himachal Pradesh. His date of birth was 7th March 1955, and he hails from Kashmir. He got married to Kirron Kher in the year 1985. His brother Raju Kher is also a very famous actor cum director. The best part of Anupam Kher is that he got cast in more than hundred movies, and he is known to make this immense record.

Born on May 18, 1988, Zain Imam is an Indian television actor. He is known for his role in the TV series Tashan-e-Ishq. Zain was born and raised in Delhi. He completed his graduation from Amity International School. After completing his graduation, he went to graduate school for completing his MBA. After that, he did a nice cushy job but then moved to Mumbai to start his career as an actor. He started his career as a model, later he moved to the television industry. He started his television career with the show Kaisi Ye Yariyaan in the year 2015. The show was an Indian television series which was based on the story of five boys and their super amazing band named FAB5. Zain played the role of Abhimanyu in the show. He played the role of an antagonist who falls in love with a protagonist. After sometime his character dies of cancer. The show was aired on MTV and became a huge hit. Zain’s acting skills were recognized by everyone. His performance in the serial Kaisi Ye Yariyaan attracted the attention of many producers and directors towards him. After that, he was approached by Zee TV for the show Tashan-e-Ishq. Tashan-e-Ishq is a romantic television series produced by Essel Vision Productions. The show has achieved much success on the Indian Television Network. Zain plays the role of Yuvraaj in the serial. The show is based on the story of a Punjabi family and contains all the elements like comedy, family-drama, and love. Zain is still working with Zee TV in the shown Tashan-e-Ishq.

Ranbir Kapoor is a noted Indian film actor. He was born on September 28, 1982, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Rishi (Bollywood film actor, producer and director) and Neetu Singh (Bollywood actress). His grandfather, Raj Kapoor, is also a noted film actor, producer and director and was once called “The greatest showman of Indian cinema”. He has a sister named Riddhima, an interior and fashion designer. Ranbir, Karisma and Kareena Kapoor were first cousins. He studied at Bombay Scottish School, Mahim. During an early age, he admitted that he never had a close relationship with his father.