Hindi Awards International Indian Film Academy Awards 2021 - Cast & Crew

'Payal Dev' is an Indian playback singer, who made her debut song entitled Ab Tojhe Jaane Na Dungi in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s epic historical romance film, Bajirao Mastani. Payal was born on February 26, 1989, and started training under her mother’s guidance, a classical singer. She had mastery on vocal exercises and graduated with a degree in Music.  

Jasleen Royal is a famous Indian singer, songwriter, and composer. She was born on 1st august 1991 in Ludhiana, Punjab in India. She is currently living in Mumbai, India. She can sing in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, and English as well. The first instrument she ever learned was the keyboard. She is a self-taught musician and completed her B.Com HONS from Hindu College, New Delhi. In 2009, she went on the first season of India’s Got talent and cleared through to semi-finals. She shone bright like a diamond with her abilities to play multiple instruments together like the keyboard, guitar, mouth organ, flute, and a tambourine while singing and was nicknamed ‘One woman band’ by the judges of the show.

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 2000. She made her entry into films through the Tamil film Tamizhan. Later she was offered roles in Hindi films and a couple were box office hits during her initial stages. The 2004 thriller Aitraz gained her the much needed appreciation as she earnestly portrayed the role of a seductress. Then she acted in Krrish and Don which were successful. 

Later she had her share of flops, but that was compensated by her portrayal in the 2008 film Fashion, directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. She went on to play unconventional roles and gained acknowledgment for her all-round acting. Chopra had a brief stint with stage shows and she had also penned for newspapers. She is also a good singer and her first single was released during 2012. 

Priyanka’s philanthropism is very well known and she supports child rights by being the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights. Whether it is girls’ education, women’s rights or environmental issues Priyanka voices her opinion. Chopra has a passion for penning short stories and poems. This diva has 11 awards to her credit. She is the only Indian to represent India in U.S. for a charitable cause. Priyanka has in fact proved that beauty queens are not just glam dolls; they are also talented.

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

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.

Taapsee Pannu is an actress and model of Indian origin. She is a beautiful and sexy actress. Her height is 5.6 Inches, and her star sign is Leo. She works as a software engineer, but she proceeds her career in modeling and then into the film industry. She did many South Indian movie, and also some Bollywood movies with famous actors and actresses. Taapsee Pannu was born in a Punjabi Family. Her Parents are Dilmohan Singh Pannu and Nirmala et Pannu. She has only one sister, Shagun Pannu. She passed out 12th standard Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Delhi. She did her graduation from Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology. She worked as a software engineer in a company. One of her contributions to the field of software development was an application made for iPhone by the name of ‘font swap’. She started from modeling. She got the opportunity to showcase her modeling skills in the talent show ‘Get Gorgeous’. Taapsee Pannu appeared in various television advertisements and at the Famine Miss India contest in 2008, she had also bestowed with many titles such as ‘Pantaloons Famine Miss Fresh Face’ title as well as the ‘Safi Famine Miss Beautiful Skin’ title. Some of the brands which she used to endorse after she had become a modelwereVardhman, World Gold Council, Havel’s, Airtel, Dabur, Tata DoCoMo, Pantaloons, Standard Chartered and Red FM. She came in the movie industry in 2010 in a debut film with K. Raghavendra Rao's. After this picture, she got three Telugu movie contract. Her next debut Tamil movie is Aadukalam. Her movie got six awards at 58th national film award ceremony.

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

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

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

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

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Zoya Akhtar has now become a household name prominently known for her movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as the most entertaining director. She is just three films old in the industry, but she earned applauses for her work; she bagged Filmfare award for best director in movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. She was born on 14th October 1972 to industry’s most renowned writer, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar and screenwriter Honey Irani. She had her schooling at Maneckji Cooper and completed her graduation at St. Xavier’s College.

Manmeet Singh and Harmeet Singh are the actor-turned musical duo known as Meet Bros. Manmeet Singh and Harmeet Singh were born on 10th September 1976 and 25th August 1980, respectively to Gulzar Singh Chandhoke and Nirupam Kaur. They were born and brought up in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. They completed their schooling at The Scindia School in Gwalior Fort and attended Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai. Their mother, Nirupam Kaur, made them listen to the yesteryear songs and fed them the essence of music. After completing second at the inter-school Kirtan competition, they enjoyed music more.

Diljit Dosanjh, born on 6 January 1984, in Jalandhar district, Punjab, India, is a Singer by profession. His genres being Bhangra and Punjabi, he has also acted in Punjabi movies. He is about to make his Bollywood début with Udta Punjab. He will be working with Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, and Alia Bhatt. Diljit does not belong to a musical family. His Father Balbir Singh Dosanjh is a Punjab railway employee and his mother, a Housewife. This heartthrob of young Punjabi's started singing Sikh music at local gurdwaras. In school, he often did Kirtans.

Jasbir Jassi is a renowned Punjabi actor and singer. He was born on February 7, 1970 at Dalla Mirjanpur Village in Punjab, India. Jasbir was raised up in a typical town in Punjab, India. He studied at Apeejay College of Fine Arts in Jalandhar and earned a masters degree in classical music. He used to play the harmonium when he was a child and was trained by V.S. Jolly and Sufiana’s Puran Shah Koti. He was born as a philanthropist and believes that music is a religion of being together. He is a first generation musician who joined several musical plays such as Sadha Bugdu Bulo. He got noticed for his performances for the North Zone Cultural Centre.

In 1993, the brilliant singer sang the Channa Ve Teri Channani. In the late 1980’s, Jasbir started recording in many Punjabi films and he also sang for albums like Balle Balbiro Balle, Dil Le Gayee, Kudi Kudi, Nishani Pyar Di, Just Jassi, Mukhda Chann Varga, Akh Mastani, Back with the Bang, Bhangra, Shaheed Bhagat Singh and Saawan. The song Dil Le Gayee Kudi Gujrat Di from the album Dil Le Gayee was a major success and brings him fame and popularity. His latest album, Dhol was released this 2014 and it includes five tracks including the Giddhe Vich, Dhol, Aari Aari, Patli Patang and Nakhra.

Jasbir has performed in more than 5000 shows around the world. He was also featured on Dhoom Macha De on NDTV Imagine and because of his vibrant performances, he earned the crown, ‘The Show Stopper’. He entered Bollywood after he sang the song, Laung Da Lashkara for the sports drama film, Patiala House, which stars Akshay Kumar in 2011. He also sang the song Mahiya for the English language film, Hope and a Little Sugar in 2006. Jasbir also composed the song, Pyar Mere Nu for the Hindi film, Dobara in 2004 where he received appreciation. The songs Mel Karade Rabba for the 2010 Punjabi film, Mel Karade Rabba and Ik Kudi Utte for the film, Munde U.K. De in 2009 was a major success.

He acted in his debut film, Khushiyaan in 2011, where he bagged the main lead role opposite Tisca Chopra. He also made a guest appearance in the Pakistani romance film, Heer Ranjha in 2013. He was also a jury in the musical reality show, Voice of Punjab 2 and in 2014, he played as a Government Officer in Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar.

Chirantan Bhatt is an Indian music composer who sets music for Bolllywod and Tollywood. He is known in the industry for his melodious hard rock music. He also has introduced two new talented young singers Sidharth Basrur& Tia Bajpai for his album ‘Haunted 3-D’. Chirantan Bhat is the son of Arun Bhatt a noted Gujarati filmmaker and grandson of famous producer and director of Hindi Cinema, Vijay Bhatt. Mission Istanbul (2008) is his first movie as a composer. After this film, he composed for many movies. Romantic songs in Bollywood have a typical feel and music director Chirantan Bhatt’s musical numbers is no different from that. Whenever there is demand for more melody, romance, emotions, we all look at today’s music composer Chirantan Bhat( earlier it was Pritam and Annu Malik). 

The greatest ideology on which this composer sets music is that he introduced soft rock instrumentation to add melody that always has smooth and relaxed feeling. This music director has been in the news for donning the composers’ hat for many popular songs in Bollywood and just now had made his debut in Tollywood too. Born and brought up un a family of film-makers, singer and musician Chirantan Bhatt rose to fame with hit songs like ‘Teri Meri Kahaani’, ‘Mission Mission’ and ‘Kabhi Na Kabhi. Sometimes we find his soundtrack is best, especially for a number ‘Nijamenani Nammani’ sung by Shreya Ghosal, which brings out’ Charukesi raga’ that revokes inexplicable emotion in our heart. In many of his composition we find even the opening “alaap” is always unmistakable. It is true sometime his composition is quite repetitive and we have heard umpteen songs that have similar arrangements. But definitely one would agree that every song of Chirantan has huge appeal and a passable number always. Today, Bhatt’s style means a composition that has a mix of melodious, rock and love songs. In future, we hope he will share more the evolving music scene in the country

Arko Pravo Mukherjee is a very famous music composer and has produced some wonderful and soulful songs in the recent past. He is a very multi-talented person as he not only composes music but also writes lyrics and sings too.  Arko was born in the city of Kolkata on 19 of May in the year 1983. He took birth to parents Dr. Apurba Kumar Mukherjee and Mrs. Mahasweta Mukherjee and was a very intellectual one.Arko did his education from Don Bosco School that was in Park Circus in Kolkata. His father always wanted him to become a doctor, so he pursued MBBS from Burdwan Medical College in the year 2007 and was declared a gold medalist.

IshQ Bector is an Indian-Canadian performer, singer, composer, songwriter, composer, Hip-Hop artist and producer.

IshQ was raised in Winnipeg, Canada. He studied acting at the Roshan Taneja film studio and Madhumathi's academy.

He has hosted several shows on popular youth channels like MTV, Channel V and B4U. He was also one of the several contestants of Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao.

IshQ also has sung produced and written music for Bollywood movies like Besharam, Pyar ke Side Effects, Shaadi Ke Side Effects, Dhoom 2, Race, Fight Club, Mission Istanbul, Hello, Allah Ke Banday and Ugly Aur Pagli. Also the music of the TV series Travel India and Culture was composed by IshQ.

He has also released several singles like Daaku Daddy, Ishq De, and Aye Hip Hopper. As a playback singer, he has sung in movies like Barssat. Kathputli, Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam, Money Hai to Hony Hai, Ugly Aur Pagli, Mission Istanbul, Hello, Allah Ke Banday, Krantiveer: The Revolution, Always Kabhi Kabhi, Bheja Fry 2, Happy Husbands, Besharam and Shaadi Ke Side Effects.

Some of the popular songs by IshQ are School Ke din, Nakhre, Mitra Nu, Nobody Like You, Chhote tera Birthday Aaya, Besharam, Harry's Not a Brahmachari, Kaala Jadu and Hello, Karle Gunah, Aawara Dil and Aai Aai Aai Hai.

Ace Bhatti, born in Nottingham, England on September 13, 1969. His birth name was Ahsen Rafiq Bhatti, but he changed his name to Ace Bhatti, because of how people mispronounced and made puns on his first name. Ace was also his nickname in his childhood.

Karsh Kale is a British-born, New York raised and based American musician, record producer, songwriter, film composer, and DJ. This music producer is regarded as one of the most dynamic artists on the international stage. He successfully can handle the worlds of classical and modern music, and yet can create a fusion of both western and Indian music in an artistic manner.

Raghu Dixit, born in Mysuru, Karnataka, is a famous singer, songwriter, music composer and producer who founded The Raghu Dixit Project, which is a platform for artists and musicians from various genres to create and showcase their talents. Dixit’s music is rooted in Indian culture and traditions, depicted in a contemporary form. Raghu Dixit is a master level Bharathanatiyam dancer. He studied microbiology and was working in Belgium as a scientist. He was always passionate about music, thus, he also played on a local radio station in Belgium. At the age of 24, he returned to India and worked as a technical writer in a software company for a year and a half.

Rishi Rich is a popular music producer. He was born as Rishpal Singh Rekhi in Croydon, England and he is based in London. He started his career in the Asian Underground until he earned worldwide popularity for his Bhangra tracks, Indian R&B fusion music, and Hindi remixes. He co-produced and worked with a variety of talented Asian artists in the UK. In 2003, he signed a management contract with the independent record label, 2Point9 Records.

Chandigarh-based Indian music producer, lyricist, and rapper, born on 18th December 1988 (age 31 years), Siddhartha Sharma, aka Dub Sharma, is largely known for his work in the Bollywood film "Gully Boy" and in composing the track “Azadi.” His first solo album, “Vyuh", was released in 2013, the same year in which he made his debut in the Tamil industry with the song "Rab Di” from the film David. Apart from being a music producer, lyricist, and a rapper, he is also an exceptionally good writer.

Naved Shaikh, aka Naezy, is a Mumbai based Indian Hip Hop Rapper born on 10th August 1993. He is largely famous for being portrayed by Ranveer Singh in the film Gully Boy. With the hit song ‘Birju’ from the film Hey Bro, he made his film debut in 2015. Naezy made his debut with the music video called “Aafat”, which released in 2014, followed by the 2015 breakout hit “Mere Gully Mein,” which he collaborated with Divine

Vishal Mishra was born in Kanpur, Utter Pradesh, India. Currently, he has settled down in Mumbai due to his profession. By profession, he is a screenwriter, director, Film critic, and he also likes to sing too. He was interested in designing, so he did his graduation from the very renowned NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Designing) and did his post-graduation in Fashion Marketing. He got married to Khyati Madan in the year 2010.

Varma Vijay is an Indian actor who was born on 8 January 1986 in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Vijay comes from a Marwari family based in Hyderabad. He started his acting career as a theatre artist in his hometown and acted in plays for two years before he applied at FTII and got accepted, but his parents were against that, lucky for him his friend funded him to go to FTII Pune.

Kumud Mishra is a well-known name in the arena of Indian theatre, due to his versatile acting talent. He got this knack from his father, who was a stage actor too. Also, two of his teachers in Belgaum Military School of Karnataka, Mr. Pathare and Mr. Janardhan embedded the love of acting in young Kumud and inspired him a lot, with their enthusiasm in conducting various stage plays at school. 

After completion of school education, he returned home at Bhopal and attended college there to do his graduation, with History and Political Science as major subjects. But here he got the scope to work on stage with various renowned theatre personalities and acted under the guidance of the expert stage directors, like Alok Nandan, Sachin Tiwari, John Martin and Irfan Saurabh. Later, he joined Prabhat Ganguly’s ‘The Little Ballet Theatre’, on behalf of which he participated in the Festival of India, in USSR in 1989. 

Then he decided to polish his skill of acting by doing a Diploma course in Acting from National School of Drama in 1990 – ’91. Consequently, he shifted to Mumbai, to try his luck there, in 1994. Here, he rose to fame by acting in several plays; among them the most notable ones are Medha and Zoombish by Ramu Ramanathan and Shakkar Ke Paanch Daane by Manav Kaul. His superb performance in Ramu Ramanathan’s play ‘Cotton 56 Polyester 84’ has earned him Best Play Award in 2006, from META.

Moreover, he has acted in Bollywood films, like Sardari Begum, 1971, Patiala House, Rock Star, Filmistaan, Raanjhanaa, Revolver Rani and very recently released Badlapur. Another of his film named Bangistan is waiting for release in this year.

Amaal Malik (D.O.B- 16 June 1991) is a music composer and playback singer in Bollywood who hails from a family of highly talented musicians. He is the son of Daboo Malik- a well-known face in the music industry, grandson of Sardar Malik, the brother of singer Armaan Malik and the nephew of the famous music director Anu Malik.

Siddhant Chaturvedi is an Indian film industry actor and model. He is best known for his role MC Sher in the movie ‘Gully Boy’. This musical drama was released on February 2019 and was directed by Zoya Akhtar. He joined this film just 22 days before the start of shooting. He was first recognized from the web series ‘Inside edge’ on Amazon in 2017. This series was nominated at International Emmy Awards for Best Drama Series. In 2016, he appeared in ‘Life Sahi Hai’, a comedy web series. He was born in Ballia, a district in Uttar Pradesh. When he was five years old, he moved to Mumbai along with his parents.

Vicky Kaushal is a famous Indian movie actor. He was born in Mumbai and has been raised in Mumbai since then. He was born to Shyam Kaushal, who is an action director and stunt coordinator in various films. He has worked in films like Slumdog Millionaire, 3 Idiots and Bajrangi Bhaijaan. He also has a brother in Sunny Kaushal who is linked to the film industry and has assisted in directing in movies like Gunday. He did his early education in Mumbai and later graduated with Electronics and Telecommunication engineering degree. He had various job options but decided to follow his father’s footsteps and entered the film industry. He started doing theatre and joined an acting workshop under Kishore Kapoor. He is born and brought up as a total Punjabi and lives his life the same way. He did various theatre plays with the group of Manav Kaul andNaseeruddin Shah. He continued to grow in stature and gained much more experience working in theatre. He did various small stints in movies like Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana and Bombay Velvet. He also did a short film named Geek Out, where he played the role of a Geek. In 2010, he assisted Anurag Kashyap in Gangs of Wasseypur. The movie with its violent and direct approach was an instant hit.

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.

This Vicky donor worked as radio jockey, Video jockey, television anchor, host, actor, lyricist, singer, theatre actor anything left… huhh ya reality show contestant in Roadies too is Ayushmann the multi talented.

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 the greatly booming family entertaining movie, “Vivah” of Sooraj R. Barjatya in the year 2006. Shahid Kapoor received nominations for an event of Film Fare Awards. For the Best Leading Actor for representing a disturbed Entrepreneur in the romantic comedy movie “Jab We Met” of Imtiaz Ali released in the year 2007 and for the role of twin’s brother in the thriller movie “Kaminey” of Vishal Bhardwaj in the year 2009. From the year 2010 to the year 2013, Shahid Kapoor is featured in the sequence for the flops in the box office that directed for his career setback. Then, the action movie “Rajkumar” in the year 2013 is established as his first professional success in the three years. Shahid Kapoor played the role of the Hamlet in significantly highly praised movie “Haider” of Vishal Bhardwaj in the year 2014. For the movie” Haider”, Kapoor won quite a few of Awards that involve the Award of Film fare event for the best Actor. Shahid Kapoor is very fond of bike and cars. Black Range Rover Vogue, white Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar XK RS are one of his favorite collection. He loves to go for a ride on his favouite bike Harley Davidson. During his free time, he prefers reading books and dancing. He is very fond of collecting different types of watches and love travelling. Recently, he got married to a Delhi- based girl Mira Rajput on 6th July 2015.

Sujoy Ghosh born in Kolkata had his schooling at St. James School at Bhowanipore. He migrated to London at the age of 13 and did his engineering there. He has also earned the Business degree from Manchester University. As a professional, he worked as South Asia head of Reuters Media division. Sujoy Ghosh made debut as a director in 2003 with 'Jhankar Beats' which was the tribute to great R.D. Burman.

Apoorva Mehta created a name for himself, solely, by his eccentric and unique outlook on Bollywood. As the CEO of a major production firm, the young producer impressed people with his flair and resourcefulness. At a considerable young age, he carved a promising future for Indian cinema through his work. The production team of Dharma Productions felt blessed under his guidance and adapted themselves according to the growing needs of films with optimism.

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'.

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 movie, itself. This film won the National Award for the Best Entertainment Film. It has also bagged eight Awards from Filmfare including the Best Director and Screen Play. Kabhie Kushi Kabhi Gham, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, My Name Is Khan, Student Of The year and Gippi are the films directed by Karan Johar. He has produced many hit films including Kal Ho Na Ho, Wake Up Sid and I Hate Love Stories. Karan Johar has also acted in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, apart from his assistant direction. He has also performed as a costume designed for the popular celebrities like Sharukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan. Koffee With Karan was the popular show hosted by Karan Johar, which made him popular among the TV audience. This program got aired for four seasons till 2014. He was also a part of the show Jalak Dikhhla Jaa, judging the participants along with Madhuri Dixit.

Ritesh Sidhwani was born in Mumbai on January 1, 1973. He had no formal education on filmmaking, yet he turned himself as a producer of Bollywood films and runs Excel Entertainment (an Indian film studio) in Mumbai, which was jointly created by Javed Akhtar’s son Farhan Akhtar, and Ritesh Sidhwani in the year 1999. So far the duo had released 14 blockbuster films under Excel Entertainment banner. 

One of the most recognized young director of Indian cinema. In fact, he is the most versatile person in the industry as of now. He is Farhan Akhtar, a film director, actor, singer, writer, producer, screenwriter everything you name it, he has it. Son of the famous writer Javed Akhtar & actress Honey Irani was born on 09 Jan, 1974 in Mumbai. 

As he was growing, he found the film industry around him. At home, the atmosphere of arts, literature influenced him to become creative man. He did his schooling from Maneckji Cooper & Graduated from HR College, Mumbai. After then, he started his career in films, first as assistant director & then director. His first directorial debut was Dil Chahta Hai in 2001 which received critical acclaim as well as commercial success. After then he did not see back & made other movies like Lakshya in 2004, Don in 2006, Rock On in 2008. He got two national awards, one for Dil Chahta Hai & another for Rock On for direction & production subsequently. 

He portrayed the character Milkha Singh, in the year 2013 in his biographical feature film, for which he got positive reviews as an actor & it, is his best performance yet, which also earned him Filmfare Award for Best Actor. He considers Robert Di Niro as his inspiration for his life & career & respects his parents for the heritage he got & continues to do better work. He has a production company named Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. established with Ritesh Sidhwani. 

He directed a 12 min short film named Positive, 2007 based on HIV-AIDS, to create awareness about the problem. He did sing for Rock On which showed his versatility. He has also launched a social campaign named MARD – Men against Rape & Discrimination.

Anubhav Sinha was born on 22nd June 1956 in Jamalpur of Bihar state, India. He is a very experienced and prominent Bollywood movie director who had given many successful movies in the industry. He completed his school in the place of Kalagarh of Garhwal. He did his class eleven and twelve in the place of Varanasi. As far as his graduation is concerned, he pursued an Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from a popular University of Aligarh. 

After the completion of his graduation, he was very keen and enthusiastic to turn out to be a film director of Hindi cinema. This was considered to be a wild decision as in he got to switch over from an entirely different field to that of having become a Bollywood actor. This drift is a big deal and he made it up quite successfully by having accomplished many hit movies in the box office collection. 

His prominent works include Dus, Tum Bin, and most likely acquired success was Ra One which was a revolutionary movie indeed. He got into the Engineering arena for about a couple of years in New Delhi. Later, he switched over to Mumbai wherein which he began his directorial debut. Before functioning as a prominent director, he worked as an assistant director for Pankar Parashar. 

After the wholesome experience, he drifted to direct the Zee Television channel. A couple of his shows, namely Shikasht and Sea Hawks were a huge hit and this brought about his fame. His recent film that got released in the year 2011 was Ra One and it saw an exquisite collection at the Box Office collection. Finally, he landed up as a proprietor of the production house namely Benaras Media Works. His company sign up for producing the movies and Television shows that are quite popular.

Kabir Singh Chowdhry is an Indian director, producer, and editor born on 28 November 1985 in Chandigarh, Punjab. He studied Anthropology at St. Xavier’s in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Later, he pursued a career in Visual Anthropology. At the South Asian International Film Festival 2011 in New York, his 42-minute film Good Morning won the grand jury prize for best narrative short. He took part in The Last Act, India's first collaborative feature film, in December 2012. He served as the creative producer of the critically acclaimed movie Mukti Bhawan in 2016, which had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.