Hindi Awards Global Indian Music Awards 2012 - Cast & Crew

The bubbly actress, born on 22nd October 1988, landed in the film industry quite accidently. The aspiring investment banker, who holds a triple honours degree, joined the Bollywood bandwagon as a public relations consultant with ‘Yash Raj Films’ and not as an actor.

However, it didn’t take much time for producer Aditya Chopra to find the talent hidden in her and made a three film contract with Parineeti, who got inclined towards building a career in acting during her days in the production house. Parineeti Chopra was born in Ambala, Haryana, to Punjabi parents and actress Priyanka Chopra is her cousin.

After completing her school education from ‘Jesus and Mary Convent School’ she moved to London at the ag...

Shilpa Rao is perhaps the youngest Bollywood singer who made her debut with her song “Tose Naina’ from the movie ‘Anwar’ which was composed by music director Mithoon. This singer was a discovery of music composer Mithoon. She got the chance to sing her debut song when she was studying in college. It is said that her father groomed up this singer when she was young. She had her first training from her father S. Venkat Rao who was a music graduate. 
 

Shilpa was born on 11 April 1984 in Jamshedpur. The singer found her initial opportunity by performing Live with singer Hariharan at different venues. She even won a national level hunt contest in New Delhi. It was Shankar Mahadevan, one of the judges in the contest, who advised her to ...

Saif Ali Khan is a film celebrity born to actress  Sharmila Tagore and cricketer 'Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi'. He has two sisters, Soba, and Soha. Soha is a well-known actress in Hindi cinema. He was born in New Delhi on August 16, 1970. This actor made his debut with director Yash Chopra’s film Parampara, but the film did not do well in box office. He then acted with Akshay and Kajol in Yeh Dillagi, which majored him. 

After this movie success, he got many offers as leading hero but all films failed to create any magic in the box-office. Only his mule-starter films fared well in box-office such as Kachche Dhaage (1999), Hum Saath Hain (1999). He had one solo hits with Preity Zinta (Kya Kehna). Saif got his best performance role for Hum Tum, which w...

Irshad Kamil is an Indian lyricist and poet who came to prominence with his work in Bollywood movies. He was born in Punjab as a Punjabi Muslim on 5 September 1971. After completing his Diploma in Journalism from Punjab University, he also completed a Ph.D. in contemporary Hindi poetry and a Post Graduation in Hindi language; he chose journalism as his career and joined a newspaper ‘Tribune’ in Chandigarh and covered entertainment and educational news. During this period, he also interviewed actors like Pooja Bhatt and Manoj Bajpayee. He then worked even in a Hindi newspaper and was involved in desk jobs. However, right from childhood, he had a unique sense to understand his life’s decisions and knew well how he has to choose his career. Soon, he left his journalism job and then did his Ph...

Ehsaan Noorani is one of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio, composing of three talented Indian musicians namely Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan himself and Loy Mendonsa. He is a popular music composer and guitarist. 

Ehsaan was born on October 12, 1963 in Hyderabad, India. He grew up in a place instilled with appreciation to different music genres at an early age. At 14, he started learning guitar under the teaching of Bismarck Rodriguez in Mumbai. During the mid 80’s, he attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), which is known as MI now. This became the turning point of his life as a musician as he slowly began to progress as a guitari...

Clinton Cerejo is an Indian singer and music producer. He has given his contribution in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil movies as a song composer. His work in the industry is a wide range, and it includes vocal arrangements, playback singing, background scores, production, music programming, and musical arrangements. He is known for his unique style of presentation. Famous singer and personalities such as Hugh Padgham, Roy Thomas Baker, Babyface, Trevor Horn, Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Arif Mardin, Roland Orzabal and much more have always insipid him. He was born in Mumbai and belonged to a family with people from the IT field who had no connection with the music. His father worked as an engineer in L&T Company, and his mother served as a French professor.

His brother lik...

A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud.  Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once upon a time in India.

He is known to be the Redefining Contempora...

Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...

Loy Mendonsa is an Indian pianist, musician, and singer. He is more renowned as the member of the trio group Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, which he co-founded with singer Shankar Mahadevan and guitarist-singer Ehsaan Noorani. His career initially began for Doordarshan productions, where he composed the theme song of “The World This Week” show. Before the formation of his trio group, Loy has worked with the Indian music great A.R.Rahman and Nadeem-Shravan.

After the release of the album “Rockford” by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, the trio made their debut in music composition in the Tamil movie “Aalavandhan”. However, it was not well received by the masses. But they marked their comeback in the blockbuster Dil Chahta Hai in 2001, where the...

Mohit Chauhan is a Bollywood playback singer. He was born on March 11, 1966 at Nahan, Himachal Pradesh, India. He was also a previous front-man of the band, Silk Route. Mohit is fluent in Pahari, Hindi and English languages. He went to St. Xavier’s School in Delhi and then he came to Himachal Pradesh to finish his studies. He graduated college with a Master of Science in Geology at Dharamsala College. 

Mohit doesn’t have any formal training in the field of music, but he sings well and he can play harmonica, flute and guitar. After graduating, he formed the Silk Route band in 1996. The band’s genre is Indian pop songs and they released their albums Boondein in 1998 and Pehchan. Silk Route’s Dooba Dooba was a success and the band received various awards in 1998. Later, Silk Route was disbanded. He made a comeback in 2005 with ...