Sharmishta Roy
Kishori Ballal
Urmila Matondkar
Priyanka Chopra
Kareena Kapoor Khan
Farah Khan
Esha Deol
Rani Mukerji
Sunidhi Chauhan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Shilpa Shetty
Shabana Azmi
Ayesha Takia
Preity Zinta
Divya Dutta
Satish Gupta
Arun Bhairav
Dev Kohli
Sayeed Quadri
Shiraz Ahmed
Allan Amin
Abbas Tyrewala
Kunal Ganjawala
Hussain A. Burmawala
Yash Chopra
V. K. Murthy
Aditya Chopra
Aseem Bajaj
Vishal Bhardwaj
Vikram Phadnis
Udit Narayan
Uday Chopra
Nana Patekar
Karan Johar
Fardeen Khan
Anu Malik
Ajay Devgan
Paresh Rawal
Suniel Shetty
Kunal Kohli
Sonu Nigam
Zayed Khan
Anurag Basu
Shah Rukh Khan
Sanjay Dutt
Salman Khan
Riteish Deshmukh
John Abraham
Javed Akhtar
Hrithik Roshan
Himesh Reshammiya
David Dhawan
Arshad Warsi
Akshay Kumar
Abhishek Bachchan
Pankaj Kapur
Ashutosh Gowariker
Amitabh Bachchan
2. Kishori Ballal
Kishori Ballal is a Kannada Actress, whose birthplace is Mangalore of Karnataka. She Married Mr.Sripathi who was a Bharatha Natyam artist hailing from Mangalore in 1950. The Couple got trained from Dr. Siva Ram Karanth and Vysarya Ballal.They got a chance from Durga Khote Productions to enter advertisements. Kishori in the 1970’s played many leading roles in Marathi Plays which turned to Kannada versions also. Mega Serial “Ye Jo Hai Zindagi” made her get knocks from Kannada serial directors also. In 1984 Kishori was given the “Kannada Rajyothsava award” and “Kannada Nataka Academy Prashasthi.” She played the famous “Kaveri Amma” Character in Shah Rukh Khan’s Bollywood movie “Swades".
Director Ashutosh Gowrikar was impressed with her performa...
3. Urmila Matondkar
4. Priyanka Chopra
Born on 18 July 1982, Priyanka Chopra is an established actress and ex Miss World. She is also a talented singer. She is one of the richest actresses of Indian film industry and is a celebrated diva of Bollywood. Priyanka Chopra is bestowed with numerous credits; she has won the Filmfare awards 4 times and National Award once.
Born in Jamshedpur, Priyanka’s parents were doctors in Indian Army. It was during the year 2000, that this actress stepped into the Femina Miss India contest and from then on her journey to success is indeed commendable. She was the runner up in the contest and eventually won the Miss World title in 20...
5. Kareena Kapoor Khan
Kareena Kapoor is a super hit actress working in Indian cinema with a lots and lots of fan following. She was born in the year 1980 in Mumbai. She is one of the proud members of the legendary Kapoor family. Her parents are Randhir Kapoor and Babita. Her elder sister Karishma Kapoor is also an actress. Kareena did her schooling in Mumbai and later in Dehradun. Mithibai College in Mumbai was her Alma Mater. She has also gone to Harvard University in America to learn about Micro Computers.
She joined in the Law College and discontinued to get training in acting. She was trained by Kishore Namit Kapoor. Kareena holds the proud title of the highest paid Indian actress. Her debut was through the movie Refugee in the year 2000. Though the film did not earn a good name for her, 2001 was a super hit year for Kareena Kapoor. Her next two...
6. Farah Khan
Farah Khan is an Indian film actress, producer, director and a choreographer. She was born on January 9, 1965 in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Menaka, sister of screenwriter and actress, Honey Irani and Daisy Irani. She is also the sister of film actor and comedian Sajid Khan and the cousin of film personalities Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Farah was married to Shirish Kunder, a film writer, producer, director, composer and the editor of her directorial film Main Hoon Na in 2004. The two have worked together in films like Jaan-E-Mann, Tees Maar Khan and Om Shanti Om. She gave birth to triplets, composing of one boy and two girls in year 2008.
7. Esha Deol
Esha Deol is an Indian film actress, who was born on November 2, 1981 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She is the daughter of Dharmendra and Hema Malini, who also came from the same industry. Her sister Ahana Deol is an Odissi dancer, while her step siblings are Vijeeta, Ajeeta, Bobby Deol and Sunny Deol. Bobby and Sunny were both successful actors as well. Esha studied at Mithibai College in Mumbai. She was keen about football and was a midfielder. Esha was also the captain of the football team in her school and she was represented at the state level. Like her sister Ahana, she is also a trained Odissi dancer under Guru Rabindra Atibuddhi and also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer.
Esha was debuted in the 2002 Bollywood romance-thriller film Koi Mere ...
8. Rani Mukerji
Rani Mukerji is one of the most celebrated Indian Actress, she has been at the helm of the Indian Film Industry for many years, and has garnered much love and appreciation for the characters that she has played. She hails from a film background, however, did not show much interest till the time she played a character in her father’s film Biyer Phool. She then played many roles before her major break came when Karan Johar signed him for the movie, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, the movie was a blockbuster and Rani reached a stage, where she found herself destined to be. In the movie, she shared screen space with her paternal sister and a phenomenal actress Kajol and the star Shah Rukh Khan. Her success has been remarkable, and the roles that she has played have been phenomenal. Rani came very close to marrying actor Abhishek Bachchan but som...
9. Sunidhi Chauhan
10. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a popular Indian actress and is a high-profile celebrity in India. She was born on November 1, 1973 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India to Krishnaraj, an Army Biologist and Brinda, a homemaker. She has one brother named Aditya Rai, an engineer-turned-producer, who produced her film Dil Ka Rishta in 2003. Her family shifted to Mumbai and she studied at Arya Vidya Mandir High School during her early years. She later attended Jai Hindi College and moved to DG Ruparel College in Matunga, where she scored 90% in the Higher Secondary School Certificate. During her teenage years, she trained in classical dance and music for 5-years. Initially, she planned to pursue a career in medicine, but it didn’t work out. She then took an architecture course at the Raheja College of Arts, but she decided to pur...
11. Shilpa Shetty
A model turned actress, producer, entrepreneur and now, mom, Shilpa Shetty has excelled in every field she’s touched so far. Born in the city of dreams, Bombay, started off as a model in the advertising industry with a Limca commercial. She went on to do more ad-films and pretty soon landed her first movie Baazigar (1993) directed by the popular duo Abbas-Mastaan, famous for their bone-chilling thrillers. The movie earned her Filmfare nominations for Best Actress in a supporting role and Lux new face of the year. These became the first of many awards she went on to receive in her career over the years. With over 40 movies on her tab, she has acted not only in Hindi but also in the languages of Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil.
Her television career started off with her p...
12. Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin and social activist. Shabana was born on 18, September 1950 in Hyderabad. Her father, Kaifi Azmi was an Indian poet while her mother Shaukat Azmi was a stage actress for the Indian People’s Theatre Asociation.
Both her of her parents was supporters of the Communist Party of India. She has a brother named Baba Azmi, who is a cinematographer. Shabana’s early childhood memories consist of high social activity of her parents and respect for human values.
Shabana did her schooling at the Queen Mary School situated at Mumbai. Following that she did her graduation in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College. Post-graduation, following her passion for acting, she opted for acting c...
13. Ayesha Takia
Ayesha is a Bollywood film actress, born on 10th April 1986. She was born in Mumbai to Nishit and Faridah. She started her career in modeling at the age of 15. Her first ad was for Complan and then went on to model for a couple music videos.
Her debut on the big screen came in 2004 in Taarzan: The Wonder Car. The movie was a romantic thriller and her role in it lead her to win IFFA and Filmfare's Best Female Debut Award. The same year Dil Maange More came out in which she played Shagun, one of Shahid Kapoor's love interests in the movie. She was nominated for Screen Awards, Most Promising Female Newcomer along with Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut.
Ayesha really showcased her acting skills in the 2006 hit Dor opposite Gul Panag. For her performance in the movie she won Best ...
14. Preity Zinta
Preity, also known as Preity Zinta is a famous Actress of Bollywood and Tollywood. She was born on 31 January 1975 in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. When she was 13 years old, her parents, Durganand Zinta and Nilprabha were involved in a car accident due to which she lost her father. Her mother managed to survive, however was bed ridden for 2 years as she was injured severely.
Before entering in to movies, Preity has acted in a few commercials like Perk, Liril, etc. She made her debut in Bollywood with the movie ‘Dil Se’ followed by the movie ‘Soldier’ in the year 1998. Both the movies were superhits and she received good reviews for her performances in these movies. After these movies she entered the Telugu Film Industry where she got to work with famous actos like Venkatesh and Mahesh Babu for the movies ‘Premante Idera’ and ‘...
15. Divya Dutta
16. Satish Gupta
A versatile artist, Satish Gupta is the celebrated Indian painter, sculptor, poet, writer, graphic artist, draftsman, wall painter, designer, calligrapher, and potter rolled into one. His work, which was awarded the Sanskriti Prize early in his career, has been refined through a deep exploration of mysticism and the Zen spirit and has been shown in more than 37 solo exhibitions in major national and foreign art galleries, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Dubai, Bahrain, Antananarivo, London, Paris, Altea, Murcia, Amsterdam, Ljubljana, Vancouver, Ottawa, San Francisco, New York, Washington, and Melbourne.
Wings of Eternity was a multimedia event that featured an aerial dance performance by the renowned dancer Isha Sherwani and live gestural calligraphy by the artist on stage, which was presented at the Royal Opera Ho...
17. Arun Bhairav
Arun Bhairav was born on January 8, 1975, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Until now, Arun Bhairav has worked in the Bollywood entertainment industry and his artwork has appeared in Hindi movies. His lyrics include that of Balle Balle (Bandhan). Bandhan (Sad version), Bandhan (Title Song), Chhora Phisal Gaya, Dil Leke, Ishq Vishq, Main Deewani Main Mastani, Tere Naina Mere Naino Ki, Tose Pyaar Karte Hain, and more. He was the lyricist for the movie Dhai Akshar Prem Ke (2000), directed by Raj Kanwar, which features Abhishek Bachhan and Aishwarya Rai Bachhan.
He did the compositing for the movie Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), directed by David Dhawan, featuring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Amrish Puri, and Satish Shah. He was the screenwriter, producer, and composer of the film Bachelor Party, directed by Ishaa...
18. Dev Kohli
Dev Kohli is an Indian film industry lyricist. He was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He started writing at the age of 10 inspired from his neighbor. He started learning in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. In his family, almost all members were in the military and he was expected to be in the military too. But he chose a different path and came to Mumbai at the age of 22.
He got his first break in movies by Shankar Jai Kishan. He wrote his first song for the movie ‘Lal Pathar’ and the song was “Geet Gata Hoon Main”. The movie was released in 1971 and the song became very famous. But even after writing such a hit song he was not recognized by the public. After that he struggled for almost 16 years to be recognized by the audience. He then got a chance from the film ‘Mene Pyaar Kiya’ by RajShri productions...
19. Sayeed Quadri
Sayed Quadri is an Indian poet who has worked as Bollywood lyricist too. He was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, and spent his entire childhood there. He completed his schooling from Govt. Boys School. He has a keen interest in writing since his childhood. He used to read a lot of books and poetry. He always used to attend cultural function held at his locality such as poetry, dance, and singing competitions. He has taken part in them too. He also love watching puppet show held at local fares. When he grew up he started taking part in these functions and used to narrate his hand-written poetries there. He was appreciated for his talent and got various offers from local magazines to write for them. He has won various competitions too. After completing his school, he decided to do his post graduation.
While he was in his college, he co...
20. Shiraz Ahmed
Shiraz Ahmed was born on 10 th March 1968 in Mumbai, India. He is a renowned film writer best known for writing the story, screenplay and dialogues for Indian Cinema. Shiraz has not done any professional course when it comes to writing scripts. He wrote scripts all by himself; he also has a knack for reading fiction novels. He has a collection of more than 2000 novels. Shiraz started with writing for a TV series called “Ab AyegaMaza” when Johnny Lever recommended his name to the producers of the show.
The show was aired in 1994. For 6 years he went on to write mostly for TV shows rather than movies. His first movie as a screenwriter was Dadagiri starring MithunChakraborty in 1997. Shiraz then worked in the following movies: Humraaz (2002), Ja...
21. Allan Amin
Allan Amin is a renowned action director predominantly working in Bollywood, Tollywood and Mollywood film industries. He is the recipient of The Filmfare Award for best action in 2001, 2004, 2006 respectively for Mission Kashmir (2000), Qayamat: City Under Threat (2003) and Dus (2005). Critics applaud him for his unique style & creativity. Allan is working in this field for around 25 years.
Allan is the son of famous action director of yesteryears, A Gani Amin of Ganga Jamuna, Nagin & Raaj Tilak fame. Allan quit a course of electronics engineering to pursue the career of his dream. Allan’s first project was an ad film for Tata Tea. He continues doing more ad films & His choreographic ability of directing the action sequences caught the attention of many...
22. Abbas Tyrewala
Abbas Tyrewala is an Indian film director, story writer, screenwriter, dialogue writer, and lyricist. He was born on May 15, 1974. He has worked in Bollywood films, and Hindi dubbed films. Abbas was born in a poor Muslim family in Mumbai and brought up in the same.
His father owned a tire repair shop, and his mother was a housewife, both of them did everything for Abbas so that he can get a good education. Abbas got five awards out of which two were Zee Cine Awards, one Filmfare award, and two IIFA awards.
Abbas went to St. Xavier’s College at Mumbai, from where he did his graduation and he was also working on plays and songs. During his graduation, he was contacted by one of his friends for a Jingle writing which he accepted and wrote a jingle for Cinema extra bright tube light in a short time in 1993.
La...
23. Kunal Ganjawala
Kunal Ganjawala is a noted Indian playback singer. He is popularly known for singing mostly Hindi and Kannada songs. Kunal was born on April 14, 1972. In his, childhood days he never knew that he wants to sing. He always wanted to be either an actor or a chartered accountant. In his college days during college events, he realized that he could sing well when he won many competitions. His parents constantly supported him to sing and go further in a singing platform. He completed his graduation from St. Peter's School, Mazagaon. To improve his skills, he started learning music from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan under Sudhindra Bhaumick. His first assignment was a jingle Doodh Doodh.
Since he was working with Barot, he believes that he was taken seriously by music directors. In 2002, he got his first break in Bollywo...
24. Hussain A. Burmawala
Hussain Burmawala is the brother of Bollywood’s hit director duo Abbas-Mustan. He is the editor of their films. The three brothers are from Surat in Gujarat, and all three began their careers in Gujarati cinema. Their family was in the business of furniture, but that did not interest any of them. Their uncle, S.D Kura used to edit Hindi movies, and that is how they got introduced to editing and direction. The three brothers can often be seen wearing shirts and trousers that are white in color. Hussain has edited a total of a hundred films independently. These movies vary from Hindi to Gujarati to regional cinema. He makes sure that his brother’s films do not waste any time, money or effort. He also advises them on how to reduce the wastage of money on cameras or shots that are not necessary. The...
25. 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...
26. V. K. Murthy
Venkatarama Pandit Krishnamurthy (V. K. Murthy) was a seasoned cinematographer who was associated with legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt. It is Murthy’s black and white photography remains iconic photographs in Guru Dutt’s all films. The magic of light and shadow in these black and white photography for songs like ‘Waqt Ne Kiya Keya’, ’Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye’, or ‘Sathiya Need Nahin Ayeegi’, etc.
This creative photographer through camera lens did create an impact even in many international film festivals. Even today Guru Dutt’s ‘Pyasa’ and Kagaz Ke Phool’ remains world’s best films. Without proper equipment, Murthy created visual magic on screen, and some of his shots of the black and white e...
27. Aditya Chopra
Aditya Chopra is an Indian film director, scriptwriter and producer. He directed the movies Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in 1995, then Mohabbatein in 2000 and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in 2008. He is currently the Chair Person of YRF group which has thrived for solid 45 years in the Multi-National film industry.
Chopra has written scripts for acclaimed films like Veer-Zaara in 2004, Fanaa in 2006, Band Baaja Baaraat in 2010,Ek Tha Tiger in 2012, Jab Tak Hai Jaan in 2012 and Dhoom Trilogy in 2004, 2006 and 2013 respectively. Chopra has also produced films like Kabul Express, Chak De India, Rocket Singh and Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Chopra started his film career at a tender age of 18, as an assistant director.
Chopra has produced films that have collected more than two hundred crores in Indian Rupees. His company ha...
28. Aseem Bajaj
Aseem Bajaj (formerly known as Ashim Prakash Bajaj) is an Indian Cinematographer. Born in Bihar, India to the academician, theatre director and ex-director of National School of Drama – Ram Gopal Bajaj, Aseem completed his schooling in 1993. He was greatly blessed to be born in the house of a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1996) and Padma Shri winner (2003). Aseem is fondly referred to as Guddu or Bajju in the film industry.
He started his career by working in theatre under the banner ‘Nirmaan Kala Manch’ for two years. He worked in renowned plays during this short time like Jasma Odhan, Bakri, Bidesia, etc. In 1992 he trained to become a stage manager in National School of Drama, New Delhi for three months. He also started his work in the area of lighting, acting, backstage work and music composition under the ...
29. Vishal Bhardwaj
30. Vikram Phadnis
Before becoming today’s famous fashion designer, Vikram Phadnis actually started his career as a choreographer. He had a wonderful and inspirational journey towards his big goal in the fashion industry. He was resolute about not remaining just another struggler on the border of the glamor world. His determination paid off; he is now considered among India's leading designers. Surprisingly enough, Vikram Phadnis has not received any formal training in fashion design.
However, his creations now seize the major shares of the wardrobes of many big names in India’s glamor industry. He maintains retail stores in Mumbai, Delhi, and Hyderabad. The popular label sells Indian and western wear for men and women. He is at the moment an expert in the ...
31. Udit Narayan
32. Uday Chopra
Born on 5th January, 1973, This actor is the son of late Mr Yash Chopra and brother of filmmaker Aditya Chopra. He made his debut as an actor in Mohabbatein (2000), who became a big hit at the box office and he became a known face after this.He also starred in 2004 in the action thriller in Dhoom 3 and it's sequels Dhoom 2 (2006) and Dhoom 3 (2013). Charas: A Joint Operation (2004), Neal N Nikki (2005), Pyaar Impossibleare some of the films that failed to make an impression among audience.Apart from acting, He has worked as a Producer, Screenwriter and Assistant Director in number of films under Yash Raj banner. Along with his mother Pamela Chopra and brother Aditya Chopra, He is working as the CEO for YRF Entertainment.Grace of Monaco (Biography on Grace Kelly) starring Nicole Kidman and The Longest ...
33. Nana Patekar
Nana Patekar is a popular Indian actor who was born in 1st January in 1951. He is also a successful filmmaker and writer simultaneously. He was born in the place named Murud-Janjira which is located in Raigad district in Maharashtra. His parents are Dinkar Patekar and Sanjana Patekar. Nana Patekar studied Applied Arts at the Sir J.J Institute in Mumbai. From his college life, he was attracted to acting and he did attend the inter-college dramatics. He also loved to sketch. His journey in the film industry started in 1974 with the film named ‘Garman’. After that, he acted on several movies like “Mohre(1987)”, “Salaam Bombay(1988)” and so on. But, he came to the gossip headline by his acting in the film “Parinda” which was released in 1989. He appeared as a villain in that movie. As the rec...
34. Karan Johar
Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Sharukh, Salman, Kajol and Rani. This was a block buster hit and Karan Johar reached fame in his first m...
35. Fardeen Khan
Fardeen Khan is a former film actor, known for doing Bollywood films. He was born on March 8, 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. His mother is Sundari while his father, Feroz Khan, is also a film actor, editor, producer and director from Bangalore. He is the nephew of prominent actors Akbar and Sanjay Khan and the cousin of Zayed and Suzanne Khan. He studied at Jamnabai Narsee in Juhu and graduated Business Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was trained in acting in Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute. Fardeen got married to Natasha Madhvani, the daughter of Mumtaz, a former Hindi actress, on December 14, 2005 in Mumbai. In 2012, Natasha had a miscarriage, but after a year, they had their first baby born in London and they named it Diani Isabel...
36. Anu Malik
Anu Malik is considered as one of the most famous and successful music directors from film industry. He has also established his name as a singer. He began his career as a music director in 1977. He gave the music for the film Hunterwali. He became famous in 1990s by delivering the blockbusters like Baazigar,Janam and so on. We can say 1990 to 2000s was the golden period of his career. He was awarded a National Award for his phenomenal music for the film Refugee. His other blockbusters were Shah Rukh Khan starrer Mai Hoon Na and Baazigar . This movie gave him a Filmfare Award of Best Music Director. He has made a record of winning this trophy for 6 times. Anu Malik has given his versatile music for more than 350 films. He is considered as the most promising music director from the industry. So his songs like Garam Chaye Ki Pyali, Mehbo...
37. Ajay Devgan
Ajay Devgn is an Indian film actor. He is perhaps Hindi cinema’s one of the most talented actor today. He has received two national awards and two Filmfare awards so far. But this talented actor was shamed by critics in the entertainment industry because of his looks. But Ajay has proved all of them wrong. Today, he adds weight to his status as an actor or even as a star but back in the day when he made his debut with film ‘ Phool Aur Kaante’ (1991) many industry people dared to say that he would not make it in the industry due to his looks.
His next film ‘Jigar’ too was successful. Later many successful films followed in his career (Dilwale, Suhaag, Vijaypath). He was then given Mahesh Bhat’s film ‘Zakhm’ for which he received the National Film Award for best act...
38. Paresh Rawal
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.
39. Suniel Shetty
Suniel Shetty, a renowned Bollywood actor, was born in August, 1961 in Mulki, India. His relatives and close friends know him by the name ‘Anna’. He is an actor, producer and a TV presenter. He is well known for his action films. His first film was ‘Balwaan’ which established him as an action hero. He became popular with his film ‘Mohra’ where he played the character of Vishal in this action packed film. Some of his noted films are: Dilwale (1994), an action film, ‘Border’ (1997), a film about the India-Pakistan war in 1971, ‘Hera Pheri’ (2000), a comedy and ‘Dhadkan’ (2000), a romantic drama. He acted in a Tamil movie also. He also appeared in the English movie ‘Don’t Stop Dreaming’ in 2007.
...40. Kunal Kohli
One of the prominent faces in the industry of Bollywood is that of Kunal Kohli. He is a director, writer, producer as well as a chef by profession. Kunal’s mother’s name is Yash Kohli, who was a huge Shashi Kapoor fan. Hence, she chose the name Kunal for her son, after Shashi Kapoor’s son, Kunal. Yash Kohli is always mistaken by people for Dev Anand’s nephew, Yash Kohli, who is a producer. Kunal tied the knot with Ravina Kohli, the director of the well-appreciated TV series, ‘Koffee with Karan’. She was also a part of Yash Raj TV. The duo, after their 12 years of marriage, adopted a baby girl. She has been named Radha by Kunal.
Kunal is famous for his film, ‘Fanaa’, which released in 2006 and starred Aamir Khan. He started his career in the late 1990’s as a ...
41. Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record l...
42. Zayed Khan
Zayed Khan aka Zayed Abbas Khan is the son of the Indian actor Sanjay Khan and interior designer Zarine Khan. He comes from a family of well known names in Bollywood like Feroz Khan, Fardeen Khan and his elder sibling Suzanne Roshan. He completed his schooling from Welham Boys' School, Dehradun, and later the Kodaikanal International School, Kodaikanal. This Bollywood Khan has even attended the London Film Making Academy.
He made his Bollywood debut for a movie called ‘Main Hu Na’ starring Shahrukh Khan and Sushmita Sen in 2004. This movie was a massive hit at the box office and even bagged him a nomination for the ‘Best Supporting Actor&rsquo...
43. Anurag Basu
Anurag Basu is a jack of all trade Indian film/television director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. Initially starting his career in television in 1993 making his name common in the Indian household. Basu moved to directing films for the big screen in 2002-2003 and has various hits under his belt since.
Born in an upper-middle class family in Bhilai to award winning theatre artists, Deepshikha Basu and Subrato Basu, Anurag had the passion for theatre in his blood. He initially wanted a career in engineering and was admitted to Jabalpur Engineering College. but dropped out after some time. He went on to complete his BSc degree in Physics from University of Mumbai. During his years in university his passion for cinema drove him to work and assist in numerous level in the television and film industry. &...
44. Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent Indian film actor, television personality and producer. He was born on November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India. He is often called as the ‘Baadshah of Bollywood’, ‘King Khan’ and ‘King of Bollywood’. The actor has done more than 80 films in Bollywood. He was cited as ‘The World’s Biggest Movie Star’ by the Los Angeles Times. Khan is also one of the wealthiest actors in the world, with over $400–600 million net worth. He also won several accolades including the 14 Filmfare Awards.
Khan went to St. Columba’s School in Delhi where he topped in studies and sports like football and hockey, where he got the Sword of Honour Award, a school’s highest award. He acted in several stage plays and ...
45. Sanjay Dutt
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.
He took his father’s help wh...
46. Salman Khan
Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a producer. He was born as Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Salman is referred to as one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. His father is Salim Khan who is also an actor and a screenwriter while his mother is Sushila Charak (Salma Khan). He graduated from St. Stanislaus High School in Mumbai. Prior to this, he went to Scindia School, Gwalior together with his brother, Arbaaz Khan. He also studied at Elphinstone College.
Salman started his acting career in year 1988 through the Hindi film, ‘Biwi Ho To Aisi’, where he played as the younger brother of Farooq Sheikh, followed by a breakthrough performance in his first leading role in the musical romantic film, ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ in 1989...
47. Riteish Deshmukh
Riteish Deshmukh is the son of a politician, late Vilasrao Deshmukh, who was chief minister of Maharashtra for some terms as a Congress, party member. Riteish was born in Mumbai on December 17, 1978, to Vaishali Deshmukh and Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Riteish has two brothers, Amit and Dheeraj Deshmukh. As his father and mother used to grace many Filmfare award ceremonies, it was quite natural for this actor to fall in love with cinema at a young age. Though he hails from a political family, Riteish made his name as a popular hero in Bollywood and went on to become acclaimed star by his dedication and hard work.
Riteish, who made his debut with newcomer Genelia D'souza in 'Tujhe Meri Kasam' in 2003 and married her, ultimately in 2...
48. John Abraham
Like some of our sexy stars, John Abraham has had his personal ups and downs. One thing is sure, this handsome star was on every Bollywood hot icon list. 90 percent of us would have to admit that John Abraham was and still is the best sex symbol. John Abraham was born on 17th December 1972. He was a famous model before making debut in films. Over the years, he has become an actor and producer of Hindi films. Very recently, he has launched his own production company which oversees and executes the making of the film. Today, the actor has star power, the influence of the top-tier actors, publicists and writers and directors who help him in running his own production home named ‘John Abraham Entertainment’, which has produced films like 'Vicky Donor’, 'Madras Café' and...
49. Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.
Javed has two children, Zoya...
50. Hrithik Roshan
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.
Hrithik later wanted to be a director, joined in a film academy without his fathers concern. He assisted Rakesh in the blockbuster Karan Arjun starring Salman Bhai and SRK!! In 2000, when Rakesh Roshan came up with the script for Kaho naa.. Pyaar Hai.. SRK was first asked to play the r...
51. Himesh Reshammiya
Intro: Himesh Reshammiya got his stardom after winning success as a story writer, producer, screenplay writer and music composer for various television serials.
Himesh Reshammiya is known for his singing skills and as a music composer; he has gained a reputation; however, his career started with the television industry and television became the platform of his rise. He started his career as a music composer, screenplay writer and story writer for various television series’ which were telecasted on Zee TV. Among the popular television series for which Himesh Reshammiya wrote stories and composed music Dum Dama Dum, Amar Prem, Andaz, Ashiqui, and Jaan were very popular serials. In addition to it, he was also the producer of many television serials including Amar Prem and Andaz.
52. David Dhawan
Born on 16th of August 1955, David Dhawan has always been considered one of the finest Indian film directors. Mostly known for his comedy movies, he and actor Govinda shared a very strong professional relationship, which still continues. David Dhawan completed his higher studies from the FTII, Pune (Film and Television Institute of India). He was born in Jalandhar, which is in Punjab. However, as his father got transferred to Kanpur, David Dhawan also had to move to Kanpur, where he completed his 12th standard from the Christ Church College.
Though David Dhawan initially wanted to be an actor, but later he dropped the plan only to become an editor. After taking editing as his option, he slowly got into directing movies. Hs first breakthrough came in the form of “Aakhen”. This movie tur...
53. Arshad Warsi
Arshad Warsi is most popular for his role as Circuit in the super hit Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Born in to a Muslim family; he attended a boarding school and at the age of 14, this led to many struggles in his early life.
He began working as a salesman at the age of 17 but had shown interest in dancing. His interest changed in to a profession as he joined the Akbar Sami’s Dance group, which started his choreography and dancing career.
Arshad’s film career began in 1996 when he was offered a role by Amitabh Bachchan’s production house film Tere Mera Sapne. He was then provided with numerous roles but none of them were too successful. He became a prominent actor after starring opposite Sanjay Dutt in Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Film...
54. Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and his birth name is ‘Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia’. He is a great Bollywood actor who has acted in more than 100 movies. He is also a producer and martial artist. He has won The Filmfare awards a couple of times. He started off his career as an actor in 1990s, where he had stricken with action based movies initially. He has been greatly appreciated for his drama, romance and comic roles. He is considered to be the only Bollywood actor whose net box office collection is 20 million rupees. He has done a lot of dangerous stunts in movies without a body double. This did gain a name for him as 'Indian Jackie Chan'.
In the year 2008, Akshay Kumar was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of law by the University of Windsor for his contribution in acting. This was a huge pride f...
55. Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan, or Abhishek Srivastava, is a very well known famous celebrity in the Indian film industry. He is the son of Bollywood’s biggest iconic stars, Amitabh Bachchan, who made more than 100 films in his acting career and won over 30 awards. Abhishek is also known by the name Junior B. He was born on February 5th, 1976, in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Abhishek is the husband of the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. She won the title of Miss World in 1994. Aishwarya is also a famous actress of the Bollywood industry who grabbed many awards in her career like Filmfare Awards, and IIFA Awards, also being awarded with the Padma Shri Award. Two years back, Abhishek and Aishwarya had a baby girl, which they named Aaradhya Bachchan. Aishwarya and Amitabh are the most influential Indians, as announced by Times ...
56. Pankaj Kapur
Pankaj Kapur is a prominent Indian actor and director who has shown his talent through various mediums such as theatre, television and film actor from Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is a screenwriter, director as well as an actor, a multi-talented personality. Pankaj has appeared in several acclaimed television serials and films. Some of his film roles that are remembered till date include characters of Inspector P.K. in Raakh, Dr. Dipankar Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut as well as Abba ji, (based on Shakespeare's King Duncan) in Vishal Bhardwaj's reworked copy of Macbeth; Maqbool .All of these three critically acclaimed roles received appreciation, and the actor got National Film Awards for the same. Pankaj along with his colleagues Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpai as well as Irrfan Khan are regarded as the "Walking Acting ...
57. Ashutosh Gowariker
Ashutosh Gowariker was born 15 February 1964 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He graduated from Mithibai College with B.Sc. in chemistry. During his school days he participated in theatre performances, folk dances and music plays, which helped him acknowledge and improve his talent and led him to attempt to build his career in the film industry. Ashutosh Gowariker began his film career modeling in commercials by GovindNihalani and Jenny Pinto.
His debut was in 1984 in the film Holi where he played the role of RanjeetPrakash.In the next years he acted in several films, such as Naam, Chamatkar, West Is West, Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro, Goonj, Gawahi, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Vazir and Sarkarnama. Ashutosh Gowariker acted in TV serials as well, such as Kachchi Dhoop, C.I.D. and Circus. Soon after t...
58. Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.
In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By t...