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A fashion stylist and costume designer, Anaita was born in 1972. She has been working as the Fashion Director of the well-known Indian magazine called The Vogue. She began her career with Elle Magazine in 1996 when it was first launched in India. Prior to Vogue India, she has also worked with L’Officiel India. Her work became popular in the Bollywood film Industry. She is notable for her magnificent work in several Bollywood films including the Dhoom series. All the three Dhoom films were blockbusters.

She is exclusively styling Deepika Padukone’s outfits for all her events. Styling is indeed her forte yet acting was also carried out decently by her. Her role in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge was a notable one where she played Kajol’s friend. Even Kal ho ...

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 ...

Tulsi Kumar is a playback singer from the family of T Series founder Gulshan Kumar. Gulshan Kumar had taken the music industry by storm when he used to re-make the old melodious songs of Lata Mangeshkar. Gulshan Kumar and Anuradha Paudwal had become the popular re-mix face in Mumbai. After Gulshan Kumar’s death, T series is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar. His daughter Tulsi Kumar is a playback singer. She has taken a keen interest in playback since her childhood and her dream became true when she was introduced by Himesh Reshammiya. Himesh had a soft corner for this singer as he had also grown up a music director due to T Series backing. Even Tulsi’s debut was under Reshammiya’s baton in ‘Humko Deewana Kar Gaye’ some time back. But she came to the spotlight with her ...

Rekha Bhardwaj is a dynamic and versatile Indian playback singer who can perform in different genres like Bollywood, Sufi, Folk and Classical. She married the Indian Director, Producer and Music Director Vishal Bharadwaj. Her unique style of singing makes her stand out of the crowd. Born in a middle-class household in New Delhi, Rekha studied music at Hindu College, Delhi. She always desired to become a singer but was discouraged due to her husky voice. Rekha and her husband Vishal Bharadwaj studied in the same college. They met each other in their college annual day program. Music was common in both which created a bond between them and later they got married.

Vishal believed and convinced her to start her career in singing. Her first song was ‘Ek Who Din Bhi’ from the movie Chichi 420 in 1997. Her...

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...

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...

Kalki Koechlin is a famous film actress, model and screenwriter, known for working in Hindi films. She was born on January 10, 1984, in Ooty, Tamil Nadu in India to Joel Koechlin and Francoise Armandie. Her father came to the country from Angers, France many years ago and met Francoise in Auroville, Puducherry. They are both followers of Sri Aurobindo. 

Later, they lived in the village of Kallaty near Ooty and started their own business. Initially, Kalki went to Hebron School in Ooty during her kindergarten and later moved to a school in Mysore for a short time, before going back to Hebron to finish her studies. Just like what her brother did, she went to Goldsmiths, University of London and took drama and theatre while working in Theatre of Relativity for the span ...

Dolly Ahluwalia is an actress, who became popular for her works as a costume designer. In 2001, she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for costume designing, and became a three-time National Film Award winner; twice for the category of Best Costume Design for her works in the films, Bandit Queen and Haider respectively and one as Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in the 2012 comedy drama film, Vicky Donor. 

Dolly was born and raised up in Delhi and she has been very active in dramatics all through her years in St. Thomas. Then she studied at Delhi University, where she received a lot of trophies from the d...

Mahi Gill aka Mahie aka Mahie Gill aka Rimpy Kaur Gill is an Indian actress of Bollywood fame, earning her eminence in the Hindi movie of 2009, “Dev.D” that was directed by Anurag Kashyap. She has played the role of Parminder ‘Paro’, one of the two love-interests of the protagonist in the movie, and won the 2010 Critics Award - Female - Best Performance, at the Filmfare Awards ceremony. (The other love-interest, Chandramukhi - Chanda - Leni, played by Kalki Koechlin, earned the half French half Tamil girl, the Best Supporting Actress at the same Awards.) Mahi was born in Chandigarh of Punjab, India, on 19th of December 1975, and her Zodiac sign is Sagittarius. She is 165 cm (5’5”) tall. At the Panjab University, Chandigarh, she has studied and earned her Masters in the...

Arundathi Nag is an Indian actress and theater person. She was born on 6th July, 1956 in New Delhi to a Maharashtian family and had three siblings. When she was a 10 year kid, her family shifted to Bombay. Arundathi had an immense passion about theater since her childhood. When she was a teen, she joined a theater group and she used to act in 40 shows in a single month, the shows used to be either in English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi. Arundathi acted in many Kannada and Hindi films. In 2005, for her acting in the Kannada film "Jogi", a blockbuster film, Arundathi won the best supporting actress award from the state government of Karnataka. She was again nominated for the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the super hit Bollywood movie "Paa...

Jacqueline Fernandez is one of the top actresses in Bollywood today due to her brilliant acting & accent. She is a Bahraini-Sri Lankan Actress & Former Model. She graduated in Mass Communications from Australia & after returning to Sri Lanka she became a political reporter She has won the Miss Universe Sri Lanka Pageant in March 2006. In 2007, she appeared in Sri Lanka’s commercial music video for the first time. She used to anchor Lanka Business Report & used to write for Daily Mirror. Then she came to Mumbai on a modeling contract & there she got a role in Bollywood movie ‘Alladin’ (2009) directed by Sujoy Ghosh which gained huge success & she won an International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Award for Best Female Debut & StarDust “Exciting New Face”...

Supriya Pathak is an Indian actress who has been reigning the screens of Hindi Cinema with her roles as supporting actress for a long time. She was born in January, 1961 in Mumbai. Supriya Pathak’s mom is the famous actress Dina Pathak . Her father, Baldev Pathak, had a tailoring shop named ‘Shriman’ near Gateway of India. The shop was very famous as it made clothes for the legendary actors Dilip Kumar and Rajesh Khanna. Supriya’s sister, Ratna Pathak Shah, is the wife of veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah. She did not have a good childhood. Her mom worked day and night, leaving her to stay at her uncle’s place. She did PhD in Competitive Dance. Supriya got married to actor and director Pankaj Kapur. Supriya is very introvert, simple and spiritual in nature. She is the follower of Radha Soami. Her husband is t...

Zeenat Aman is a trendsetter and the most versatile actress in Bollywood by far. She has embraced some different roles and has broken the cliché in the most pleasing way. She has reigned over Bollywood for quite a time and has been the highest paid actress with Hema Malini from 1980-1986. She was known for her glamorous look and kinky roles on screen and has been in controversy for her love life. She has ruled as a sex siren in Bollywood for about two decades and is still ruling in our hearts with the courage and the hardships that she had to face in her life. She was born on November 19, 1951, to script writer Amanullah Khan (wrote scripts for ‘Pakeezah’ and Mughal-E-Azam) and Scindia in Bombay.

She had her schooling in Panchgani and went to the University of Southern California for further ...

Kavita Seth is a Hindi playback singer born in Uttar Pradesh. She was born on September 14, 1970. The singer even lends her voice in Ghazals and Sufi music. She was a disciple of Ustad Ahmed Ali Khan. She started her career by performing on All India Radio and Doordarshan. Kavitha Seth drew inspiration from works of Sufi poets and singer. Also, she has rendered many compositions and her voice often blends in the Sufi culture of the Indian subcontinent. In popular film songs, she won acclaim for the song of Iktara, which is from the movie Wake Up Sid and Tum Hi Bandhu from the film Cocktail.

Kavita has recorded several albums of her own for Times Music, Sa Re Ga Ma companies too. She has even won best playback singer in Filmfare for her song ‘Gunja Sa Ik Tara’...

Deepika Padukone is an Indian actress and model. She was born on 5th January 1986. Deepika is one of the most famous celebrities. She is working in Bollywood films and won two film fare awards. She is the daughter of the badminton trouper Prakash Padukone. Copenhagen was the birth place of Deepika. She was raised in Bangalore. She frolicked badminton in national level championship in her teenage but later on she switched her career from spots and became a model. In 2006 she did receive some offers for Indian films and did her film debut. In 2007 she did double role in her first Indian bestseller film Om Shanti Om. In the same year she won the film fare award for best female debut. In 2009 she performed in an Indian film Love Aaj Kal and in 2010 she acted in a drama Lafangey Parindey. Her performance in Ba...

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...

Kirron Kher or Kirron Anupam Kher was Kiran Thakar Singh in real life. She was born on June 14, 1955 in Punjab, India and she was raised in Chandigarh. Because of her belief in numerology, she decided to alter her name from Kiron or Kiran to Kirron. She is a veteran Indian film and television actress. She is also a theatre artist and a television host who belongs to the Bhartiya Janata Party. She was voted in Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s Parliament. Kiran is the sister of Kanwal Thakar Kaur, a popular badminton player. She has a brother who died last 2003 and another sister who was married to a retired Naval Officer. 

She studied in Chandigarh and graduated in the Department of Indian Theatre of Punjab University. She got married to Gautam Berry, a wealthy businessman from Mumbai. They had a son name S...

Christien Tinsley is an American makeup artist and bio creator. His career started in Los Angeles at the age of 22. Within two years, he had a place in the makeup league and began to work as a makeup artist for films such as ‘The Grinch’, ‘Pearl Harbor’, ‘Swordfish’, and ‘Ocean’, ‘Work 11’ and more. He continued to develop a proprietary technology called prosthetic limb transplantation. He founded Christien Tinsley Studio, Tinsley Transfers Inc. and he also continues to work as a makeup supervisor and personal makeup artist. His makeup department works include ‘Chill Factor’ (prosthetic makeup effects artist: XFX), ‘Evil Hill’ (Short) (designer and creator: special makeup effects), ‘Nutty Professor II: The Klumps’ (spec...

Atul Raninga is a well-known Indian musician and composer. He was born on May 24, in Rajkot, Gujarat, India. Atul Raninga has worked in Bollywood and Kollywood. Atul Raninga worked in Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019), Sanju (2018), Saala Khadoos (Hindi), and knock out. He learned Indian Classical Music as well as Jazz Music. He has composed music for films like Sanju, 3 Idiots, PK, and Double Dhamaal. He is the winner of an IIFA and an IRAA award. He was nominated for the 13th Asian Film Awards. He has performed live music performances in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Egypt, the Netherlands, and other countries with performers such as Jagjit Singh, Asha Bhonsle, Hariharan, Rekha Bhardwaj, and others. At fusion music events, he also worked with Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bh...

Sham Kaushal is an action director. And veteran stunt coordinator who primarily works in the Hindi Cinema and is a recipient of multiple Filmfare and IIFA Awards. He made his directorial debut in the 1980s, and since he has directed several stunt sequences for over a hundred movies. Some of his masterpiece works are Dhoom 3 in 2013, Krrish in 2006, the action-thriller Kaminey in 2009, Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur in 2012, the biographical sports drama Dangal in 2016, and the epic historical romance Bajirao Mastani in 2015. He won several prestigious awards. Some of them are for Gangs of Wasseypur, Dangal, Bajirao Mastani, Krrish, etc. In recent times, His notable works are Padmaavat in 2018, Sanju in 2018, and Unda in 2019. Recently in 2021, he worked with the team of Pawan Kalyan in Nidhi Agarwal’s movie Hari Hara V...

Anup Dev is a re-recording mixer and sound supervisor. He has spent many years working in the Bollywood film industry with great names like Aananth Mahadevan, Rohit Shetty, Ajay Devgan, late Irfan Khan, and late Rishi Kapoor. In 2006 he won ZEE cine award for Best Re-Recording. Anup has worked as a sound mixer in Hip Hip Hurray in 1984, Mard in 1985, Janbaaz in 1986, Samundar in 1986, Nagina in 1986, Allah-Rakhda in 1986, Kalyug aur Ramayan in 1987, Shehenshah in 1988, Ganga Jamuna Saraswathi in 1988, Kaal Chakra in 1988, Clerk in 1989, Prem pratigyaa in 1989, Nighahen: Naagina part II in 1989, Chandni in 1989, Naqab in 1989, Swarg in 1990, Aaj ka Arjun in 1990, Agneekaal in 1990, Jai Shiv Shankar in 1990, Javani Zindabad in 1990, Farishtay in 1991, Kurbaan in 1991, Akayla in 1991, Phool aur Kaante in 1991, Panaah in 1992, Tehelka in 1...

Bishwadeep Chatterjee is an Indian-audio mixer, Sound Designer, and Sound Editor. He has worked on a lot of projects in the Television and Film Industry. He worked in the movie named Madras Café, which brought him the National Film Award for the Best Audiography. In the year 2013, he worked in Bajirao Mastani. In the year 2018, he worked in Uri: The Surgical Strike, and in the year 2018, he worked with the movie named Children Of The Soil.

Shantanu Mukherjee is a very popular singer and known by the name of Shaan. He was born on September 30, 1972. His grandfather Jahar Mukherjee was the lyricist, his father Manas Mukherjee was the late music director, and his sister Sagarika is a singer. Shaan lost his father at the age of 13 after that his mother became a singer and took the responsibility of the entire family.

Shaan is very talented Indian playback singer who can sing in so many languages like Kannada, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Bengali, and Hindi as well as he is a TV host. He hosted some popular TV reality shows like STAR Voice of India 2, Star Voice of India, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Also, he has sung various Pakistani songs.

Shaan is known as the most versatile singer, and he is very famous for singing melodio...

Sabu Cyril was born on January 27th in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.

He is a production designer in the Indian movie industry. Earlier, production designers were called as art directors.

He resides in Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai.

He was brought up in Kerala itself. He did his schooling from the same place and then went to Chennai to do his graduation in the Government College of Fine Arts, which was earlier known as Government School of Arts and Crafts. He did his Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from 1980 to 1985.

He worked part time as a graphic designer for names like Taj Hotels Group, Madura Coats and Welcome Hotels, in the period 1982 to 1988.

His career in art direction began in the year 1988. Sabu has worked in commercial films in the Hindi, Tamil, ...

Balki (popularity known as R.Balakrishnan), an Indian screenwriter, filmmaker, and Chief Creative Officer of Lowe Lintas (advertising agency) was born in Bangalore, Karnataka. Balakrishnan got married in 2007 to Gauri Shinde film director of highly acclaimed ‘English Vinglish’ (2012).

He always had a love for film making and even applied to the Madras Film Institute for a course in the same but walked out of the interview as he did not like the panel. He started doing a course in Masters In Computer Application (MCA), but was thrown out of the college due to low attendance.

 His career started when he was 23 with Mudra. Some of his major contributions include "Jaago re" ads for 'Tata Tea', "Daag Achche Hain" for 'Surf Excel', and the &q...

C.K. Muraleedharan is a well-known Malayalam Cinematographer. He is born and brought up in Kerala and has made a huge contribution to Indian Cinema. He comes across as a very meticulous person. He started his career filming documentaries and has shot episodes of various Doordarshan Programmes. He has filmed hundreds of documentaries for channels in India, BBC and the Film Board of Canada. In an interview with Indian Express, he spoke about how his engagement with cinema started from his college days, and that’s when he decided to make a career in the film industry.

He took admission in an institute in Pune to pursue his dreams. Originally, he wanted to become a director but ended up being a cinematographer. He has a daughter named Karthika Muraleedharan, who recently bagged a role in Amal Neerad’s untitled movie. Sh...

Shantanu Moitra is a music composer in Bollywood. He rose to popularity with films like ‘Parineeta’(2005) for which he received Filmfare R.D. Burman Award. After the success of ‘Parineeta’, his association with filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra was path-breaking one. He followed it up with Lage Raho Munnabhai’, ‘3 Idiots’ and ‘Eklavya: The Royal Guard' and 'PK'. He has also composed music for Shoojit Sircar’s two films ‘Shoebite’ and ‘Madras Café’. While ‘Shoebite’ remains an unreleased film still, ‘Madras Café’ got released. 

After Parineeta Shantanu scored music for a Bengali film ‘Antaheen’. But the film released very late in 2009...

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...

Ayan Mukherjee is the son of actor Deb Mukherjee and the grandson of Sashadhar Mukherjee, who established Filmalaya Studios in Mumbai and rolled out super hit films such as Love in Simla (debut film of Sadhana), Ek Musafir Ek Hasina, Dil Deke Dekho, etc. from Filmalaya. Ayan acted in Hindi and Bengali movies. Ayan is also the nephew of yesteryear actor Joy Mukherjee, who acted in many hit movies, especially Sadhana and Love in Simla. He is the cousin of Kajol and Rani Mukherjee. 

Ayan was born in Kolkata on 15 August 1983. He was a dropout from higher studies in college and joined as an assistant to Ashutosh Gowariker when he was making ‘Swades’. Later, he assisted Karan Johar in ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’. Soon, he took a break from filmmaking and wrote the screenplay for ‘Wake...

Gulzar is the pen name of the author, poet and popular lyricist Sampooran Singh Karla. He was born on the 18th of August in 1934 in Dina, Jhelum district of British India to parents Makhan Singh Karla and Sujan Kaur. His career kicked off under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His songwriting career began with the movie Bandini, released 1963, for the tunes composed by music director Sachin Dev Burman. From then on, he went on to write the lyrics for many memorable songs of the Bollywood industry. He worked with magnanimous music directors like R. D. Burman, S. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik to name a few. The work of the trio Maniratnam, A. R .Rahman and Gulzar is much remembered in the industry. He has also given dialogues and scree...

Born on 27 November 1974, Bosco Martis has completed his schooling from St. Joseph’s School, Mumbai and graduated from Mithibai College, Mumbai. Annual Day events at school became the breeding ground Bosco’s budding dance fever where he used to watch his football buddy, now his counterpart –Caesar performs and gets inspired by him.

Soon, by trying to copy him and doing some homework, Bosco began dancing within the confined walls of his house. He dodged the options of pursuing football or becoming a flight purser to settle finally on his passion for being his career. Though it is hard to believe, Bosco never had any formal dance training whatsoever and claims to have developed his talent by watching international stars.

Date of Birth: 27-11-1974

Age: 49

Star Sign: Sagittarius

Gender: Male

Language: Hindi

Skills: Choreographer

Biography About Bosco Martis

Biography About Bosco Martis

Date of Birth: 27-11-1974

Age: 49

Star Sign: Sagittarius

Gender: Male

Language: Hindi

Skills: Choreographer

Vishal Dadlani mostly known by duo name Vishal Shekhar in the music world. Vishal is an Indian film music director. He not only composes music in Hindi, but equally famous for composing music in Telegu, Tamil, or in Marathi. Actually dedication brings success to a person and Vishal Dadlani has justified his talent by giving various types of music. Vishal was born on 28th June 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He first came to the limelight when he composed the movie songs in the films ‘Jhanker Beats’, ’Dus’, ’ Bluffmaster’, ’Om Shanti Om’, ‘Bachna Ae Haseena’, ’Dostana’, ‘Anjana Anjani’ and many such famous filmy songs, the present genres caller tunes or ring tones. Vishal Dadlani was the vocalist of Mumbai based electronic band Pentagram. He worked jointly ...

Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004....

Caesar Gonsalves is a very famous Indian choreographer who works as a duo with Bosco Martis. Caesar was born on 23 February 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Both of them are famously known as Bosco-Caesar. Caesar is also the part owner of the Bosco-Caesar Dance Company, which has branches across including Mumbai and Kolkata. Caesar completing his secondary education at St. Joseph’s School in Juhu and his graduation from Mithibai College in 1990. Caesar started his career as a backup dancer for ace choreographer Farah Khan. Caesar is a fan of hip-hop dancing style. During one of his dance shoot, Prahlad Kakkar found him talented and asked him to choreograph for the commercials which included the star batsman Sachin Tendulkar. Caesar finds Prabhudeva as the best dancer with whom Caesar has worked in the ind...

Boman Irani is a well known name today in the Bollywood industry with a strong audience support for his studied comic roles tinged with traces of villainy in many cases. His entry into the industry was, however, much later in life when he was already 41. In fact, his route to film acting was laced with diverse previous occupations. Along with his love for photography, which many people are not aware of, he had a nascent fondness for acting too, but was never very open about it. It was ultimately Shiamak Davar who facilitated this and got him to audition for the veteran theatre personality Alyque Padamsee. Once the acting bug caught on with him, there was never a looking back. He swiftly established himself not only as one of the leading theatre personalities but also one who was clearly acknowledged by many as a prodigy. Theatre it was...

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...

Who will ever forget this remarkable face in Bollywood? We have same answer..."The Silencer!" or rather "Chatur". A real-life character as they say that you already encountered while staying a boarding house. It could be your roommate, or his character could also be you. A student that is always being bullied because of his accent and unfamiliar with the Hindi language, and also a very irritating character that almost turned to become the antagonist. However he successfully played this role with outstanding dedication and skills. We saw ourselves within his character. Excreting a "soundless-fart" but can be dreadful to others.

His real name is Omi Vaidya. Born January 10, 1982 and raised from Yucca Valley-California, United States. What was he then before his one-night-stardom?

He's a...

Shahid Kapoor also identifies as the name Shahid Khattar. He is an Indian movie or film artist or say, actor. He was born in the year 1981, February 25. He is being honoured with the two Awards of Film fare from the four suggested nominations. The boy child of the actors Neelima Azeem and Pankaj Kapur, the junior Kapoor commenced his professional career by acting in some musical videos and commercial videos of television. He started his debut movie by playing the lead role in a romantic and passionate comedy movie, named “IshqVishk” in the year 2003. For the movie “IshqVishk”, Shahid won an Award of Film fare event for best male actor for a debut. Shahid Kapoor pursued it with playing the roles in the minor booming movies like as Fida in the year 2004 and movie Shikhar in the year 2005. Then, he was starring in ...

Jackky Bhagnani is a talented actor in the Bollywood industry He is the son of Bollywood producer Vashu Bhagnani He was born on the Christmas day: 25th December in Kolkata, West Bengal & he belongs to a Sindhi family. He completed his schooling at St. Teresa High School & Graduation from H.R College in Mumbai. At the age of 19, he realized that he should pursue his career in acting & asked his dad to produce a movie for him. Thus, he made his debut with ‘Kal Kisne Dekha’ (2009) movie produced by his dad vashu. Though this film didn’t work well at the box office, he won the IIFA “Star Debut of the Year” Award & Star Guild Award for “Best Male Debut” for this film in 2010. He has also did roles in a few films such as ‘Ajab Gazabb Love’ (201...

Sukhwinder Singh, an asset to the Bollywood Music Industry, was born on 18th July 1971. He is a playback singer, who is quite active from the year 1992 until the present. There are a huge number of his fan followers, and he is gifted with an incredible voice. Apart from any element in any aspect of film making, songs sung by him made a phenomenal difference in its success. He has sung some outstanding numbers in the Bollywood film industry in the late nineties.

He is the singer of a couple of miraculous songs namely "Chaiya Chaiya" from Dil Se movie, and "Jai Ho" from the Oscar award winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. For these couple of songs, he won national award for its unbelievable hit and success. He was completely into singing at the age of eig...

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...

Imtiaz Ali, is a well-known multi talented Indian Film Director, Actor, Producer and Writer who was born on 16th June, 1971. He was born and brought up in Jamshedpur. He finished his primary education from ‘St. Michaels High School’, Patna and secondary and higher education from ‘D.B.M.S English School’, Jamshedpur.

Later he got into ‘Hindu College, University of Delhi’ and was the member of the theater group of the college. He has also done a diploma course from the ‘Xavier Institute of Communication’, Mumbai. Imtiaz Ali started his career as a writer and director of T.V shows like ‘Imtehaan’which aired on Star Plus and ‘Naina’ and ‘Kurukshetra’ for Zee TV.

In 2004, he acted in the film ‘Black Friday’ a...

Govinda is a popular Bollywood star who is known for his spontaneous dancing steps and comic timing.

Govinda is a popular actor of Indian cinema who has gained a lot of popularity because of his dancing abilities and comic roles. His debut film was Ilzaam in 1986 which was a commercial success. Since then, he has worked for more than 165 Hindi movies. Some of his successful comedy movies include Love 86, Hatya, Raja Babu, Aankhen, Coolie No. 1, Hero No. 1, Shola Aur Shabnam, Jodi No. 1, Saajan Chale Sasural, Dulheraja, and Hasina Maan Jayegi.  Some of his recent successful movies include Life Partner, Partner, Raavan, and Bhagam Bhag. He also performed in villainous roles for the movies Shikari (2000) and Kill Dil (2014).

Govinda has gained name on television too. He ...

Vivek Anand Oberoi's birth was on 3rd September 1976 (age-39) in Hyderabad, Telangana to father Suresh Oberoi and mother Yashodhara Oberoi. He also has a nickname named 'Rockstar'. Vivek did his schooling from Hyderabad Public School, Hyderabad and Mayo College, Ajmer. After school, he studied at Mithibai College,Juhu. He often used to take a public bus to his college. He has a Master's Degree from New York University for Film acting, USA. Before coming to the acting career, he worked as a scriptwriter and bought his first car with the money he made from that, but his first car was a Jeep gifted to him by his father.He made his debut with Ram Gopal Verma's Company in 2002 and backed two Filmfare awards for Best Debut Male and Best Supporting Actor. Though Ram Gopal Verma considered him t...

Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has established himself in Bollywood as a prominent director, producer, and screenwriter while even giving acting a try.  A born and raised Uttar Pradeshi, Kashyap had keen interest in science and aimed to become a scientist. In an interview Anurag said that he had no dreams of going into the film industry and had all hopes of pursuing Zoology. He went on to say, this all changed in 1993 after he watched Bicycle Thieves, an Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film inspired him enough to give us becoming a scientist and move to Dehli to become a filmmaker.    

Anurag got his first chance in the industry as a screenwriter for Auto Narayan when the initial script by Subramaniam was not working and Anurag was given a chance to rewrite it. He then wrote the sc...

Amol Gupte was born in 1962 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a prominent screenplay writer, actor and a director as well. He is particularly regarded for his work in the Bollywood movie 'Taare Zameen Par', which got released in the year 2007. He did as a creative director and a screenplay writer. He did acquire the movie and its concept along with his wife Deepa Bhatia. He had also been the chairperson for the Children's film society right from 2012 till now. As right now, he has directed three movies and worked as a screenplay writer for three movies.

He acted in movies like Singham Returns, Bheja Fry 2, Stanley Ka Dabba, Urumi, Phas Gaye Re Obama, Kaminey, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, and Holi. He had acquired a lot of awards for his hard work in acting. This also does include for his art of direction and screenplay. He p...

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...

Sharman Joshi was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Gujarati Brahmin family. He comes from a family of Gujarati and Marathi theatre actors. He is the son of Arvind Joshi, a popular name in Gujarati theatre and his aunt, sister as well as cousins, are known Gujarati and Marathi theatre actors. Sharman Joshi’s sister is Mansi Joshi, who is married to Rohit Roy, and both are TV actors and are recognized for the roles they have played. His spouse is Prerana Chopra, the daughter of Prem Chopra and Uma Chopra. He has three children, an elder girl Khyana and twin boys, Varryan and Vihaan. Apart from starring in some hit films in supporting as well as leading roles, he has himself done theatre for a few years. His play, ‘All The Best’, in which he plays a deaf boy did 550 shows in about three years...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rishi Kapoor is an actor born in the prominent Kapoor family who has a long history of Hindi cinema where members of the family had careers as actors, producers or directors. Rishi Kapoor was born to veteran actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor on September 4, 1952, in Mumbai. Born with a silver spoon, it was not a difficult task for him to make a debut in films. Raj Kapoor gave him a chance to play a teenager, who was caught on the thin line of boyhood and adulthood in the movie Mera Naam Joker. The film fell flat in the box office, and Raj Kapoor was in massive financial loss. 

Hence to tide over the financial crisis Raj Kapoor created teenage romance film Bobby with Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, which remains Rishi’s iconic film to date. Ris...

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.

Both his parents usually have constant arguments, which somewhat affect him as a child. These experiences urged him to search for an outlet in films. After he had completed ...

Born on 7th July 1963, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is a screenwriter and filmmaker. Rang De Basanti and Baag Mika Baag are two of his acclaimed films. He has penned the script as well as directed the films Aks and Delhi 6. The issues surrounding the Mandal Commission of VP Singh inspired Mehra to direct Rang De Basanti. 

Mehra never hesitates to voice his opinion on current issues, no matter they are done through films or in real life. He in fact condemned the Education system of India to give priority to scores. He also cited Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore in this regard. He told that Shakespeare would not have been a great...

Rajkumar Hirani is one of the ace director, screenwriter, producer in the contemporary Bollywood. He is one of the directors who distinctively portrays the reality of the society with a touch of sarcasm and humor. He was born and brought up in Nagpur, Maharashtra and did his graduation in Commerce since because his dad wanted him to be a charted accountant. But he was more interested in filmmaking. His life took a significant turn when he joined Film And Television Institute of India, in Pune where he joined an editing course.

His early years were quite tough as he was not getting any major breakthroughs in the Bollywood which made him switch to the ad filmmaking and one of the famous advertisement he made was of ‘Fevicol” with a tag line of ...

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is a renowned singer worldwide. He was born on 9 December 1973 in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

He is famous for his melodious voice and is nephew of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He is very popular in Bollywood and Lollywood and has been active from the last few years. His numerous albums have been released and loved by music lovers. He got his early training from Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan who also was his uncle, after that he joined his group at 15 years age. In 1985, he went to UK with group his uncle and sang solo qawwalis at a Birhingam concert.

He debuted in Bollywood from Mann Ki Lagan song from movie Paap. He had performed at various worldwide famous venues like Wembley Arena and Manchester Arena. He collaborated and also contributed in various Hollywood sound tr...

Johnny Lever is an Indian comedy actor who came to prominence with film actor Govinda’s films. As actors like Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor had reached a zenith in their career, it was actor Sunil Dutt who had spotted this actor in a stage (show of Amitabh Bachchan and music composer Kalyanji Anandji) and advised him to take up comedy roles seriously. He is one of the comedians who appear truly funny to make us laugh. He is also known for his wits and smarts and appears to make intelligent jokes and poke fun in many films. After Govinda was overshadowed by the prominence of Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan in the film world, Johnny Lever could make audiences laugh by using his physical appearances even in many Khans movies. He dislikes present talk comedy shows on TV and feels comedy is someth...

Named Muhammad Atif Aslam when he was born, he is famously known as Atif Aslam. He started off his career as a pop singer in Pakistan and has made his way into Bollywood as a playback singer. He has also made cameo appearances in Indian films along with starring in Pakistani film Bol in 2011. 

Born in Wazirabad, Pakistan Atif moved to Rawalpindi where he pursued his studies. He moved back to Lahore and attended Punjab College from where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree. Asif was an avid cricket fan and hoped to play cricket for the Pakistani national team but when that didn’t pan out he began singing. He formed a band, Jal, and recorded his first song “Aadat” spending his own money. The song became an instant hit online and was one of the biggest hit at the time. He released his first album Jal Pari whi...

Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. 

His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for about twenty five successful years. As right now, he is quite busy working in the international movi...

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 ...

Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bollywood’s finest actor. He is a package for the Indian TV industry as he is a producer, director and actor an all-rounder kind of personality. Khan has an estimated net worth of $185 million. Aamir has born on 14th March, 1965 (aged 50) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did two marriages, first with Reena Dutta in 1986 they were together till 2002, than Kiran Rao came into his life, she is 42 years old, born in November, 1973, and they got married in 2005, now they both are living together happily in Mumbai. Kiran is from Bengaluru and also a director, screenwriter and producer.

Aamir’s father was Late Tahir Hussain, who was from a village Akhtiyarpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a screenwriter and director. Aamir is having 3 children today, one son Junaid and one daughter Ira from his...

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 ...

Prasoon Joshi is an Indian poet, writer, lyricist and also an advertising guru. He is also the President of the McCann Worldgroup in South Asia and the CEO of McCann Wordgroup in India. He won the Best Lyricist award at the Filmfare for two consecutive times from 2007 to 2008. In year 2014, he received the same award for the biographical sports drama film, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He also won the Best Lyricist award at the National Film Award twice; one for Aamir Khan’s drama film, Taare Zameen Par and another one for the historical war drama film, Chittagong.

Prasoon was born on September 16, 1971 in Uttarakhand, India and spent most of his childhood days in Almora. His father is D.K. Joshi, a PCS Officer and his mother is Sushma Joshi, a political science lecturer who has been part of the All India Radio for ove...

Kay Kay Menon or K.K. Menon or Krishan Kumar Menon is an Indian actor. He was born on 2nd October 1966 in Kerala, India. His zodiac sign is Virgo. His family shifted to Mumbai when he was only 6 years old. His father was popularly known as “Cashier Menon”. His childhood was spent in Ambarnath. He did his schooling from St. Joseph’s High School. He did his graduation in physics from Mumbai University. He is a post graduate in business management from University of Pune. He is a good Ghazal singer. He married to a bollywood and television actress “Nivedita Bhattacharya”. In his private life he is very reserved and prefers to spend most of his time with his family.

He initially worked in many a...

Irrfan Khan is a noted Bollywood actor who started his career with various Indian television series. His noted Bollywood movies include The Warrior, Maqbool, Haasil, Paan Singh Tomar, Gunday, Rog and The Lunchbox. At the very early stage of his acting career, he acted in various television serials like Barat Ek Khoj, Chanakya, Sara Jahan Hamara, Chandrakanta, Banegi Apni Baat, Star bestsellers, Anoo Goonj and Sparsh.
His early film credits include Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Such a Long Journey. Although these movies were critically appreciated, it did not propel him to success.

His first major Bollywood break was Rog, which caught the attention of critics and also attained commercial success. His 2007 flick Metro also gave him a widespread commercial and critical success. For his role in the movie, h...

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...

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