Hindi Awards International Indian Film Academy Awards 2022 - Cast & Crew

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

Priya Saraiya is also known as Priya Panchal. Priya began singing at the age of six. She underwent her classical coaching from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Mumbai. The admired artist Jigar Saraiya is currently wedded to the singer. Lyricist Priya Saraiya believes this is the precise time for music. She learned her Hindustani Classical guidance from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya and from Trinity College of London, she learned Western music. Lately, the lyricist made some astounding tracks for movies like Bhoomi. Priya created the title song for Simran and tunes of Bhoomi --Trippy, Lag Ja Gale, and Kho Diya with her musician hubby Jigar. Well, this is not the only time the duo has got together collectively. They have cooperated earlier on Gulabi from the flick “Shuddh Desi Romance”. Priya wrote the lines of the track of Simran. It was her dream, and she was so convinced about Kangana’s role.

Kausar Munir is a prominent Bollywood screen writer and lyricist. She was born and raised up in Bandra, Mumbai in India. Music and songs has always been her passion. She studied at Xavier’s College in Mumbai, where she took an English Literature course.

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.

Shalini Vatsa is an Indian film and theater actress. She hailed from Patna, Bihar in India. She took her Plus 2 (Intermediate) at Patna Women’s College and later moved to Delhi to pursue higher education. She took her M Phil at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. While pursuing her studies, Shalini remains associated in several theater groups.

Gauhar Khan or Gauahar Khan or Gauahar Zafar Khan is known for her career as Bollywood actress and a model. She was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India and was born on 23rd August 1983 in a Muslim family, where she is one of the five siblings. She is the sister of famous television actress Nigaar Khan and the youngest of five sisters. She completed her schooling from Mount Carmel Convent High School, Lullanagar, Pune. 

Gauhar Khan has been doing modeling for Payal Jain, Neeta Lulla, Ritu Kumar, Manish Malhotra. She appeared in a number of advertisements for Bajaj Auto, Tanishq jewelry, Opel Car and Ford Ikon. In 2002, she was a contestant in Femina Miss India. She stood fourth and was honored with the title of Miss India Talented. She also appeared in the contest of Miss International in 2004. She made an appearance in music videos of Bombay Vikings, Hawa Mein Udti Jaye. In the year of 2009 she too was a contestant in the India’s famous celebrity show of Dance, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa in season 3 and she was the finalist on the show. She represented herself in the Television show The Khan Sisters in which her sister Nigaar Khan also participated. In 2013, she participated and won the famous Indian celebrity show Bigg Boss Season 7. She was a part of another reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi. She is currently hosting a singing talent show India’s Raw Star with Yo Yo Honey Singh.

Khan made her debut as an Actress in Bollywood in 2009 with the Yash Raj in Rocket Singh and her co-star was Ranbir Kapoor. She did small roles in various films such as Game (2011), and Ishaqzaade (2012). She did item number Naa Pere Kanchan Mala in Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. (2004), Nasha Nasha in Aan: Men at Work (2004), Parda Parda in Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010) and Jhalla Walla and Chakra Jawaan in Ishaqzaade (2012).

Earlier, she was involved with Nihar Pandya. She is currently dating Kushal Tandon, a co-contestant in Bigg Boss 7. They were also together in Song Zaroori Tha by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Sai Tamhankar is a popular Indian actress born in the year, 1986 on the '25th of June' in 'Sangli'. She studied at the 'Chintaman College of Commerce' which was where she started her initial career by taking part in street dramas as well as in the inter-college drama competitions. She then acted in the Hindi movie named as Ghaajini in 2008 with actor Amir Khan. Furthermore, she has acted in Rita as well as in ‘No Entry Pudhe Dhoka Aahey’ in 2012. 

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.

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.

Sanya Malhotra is an actress and choreographer and is new to the Bollywood industry. She is a professional ballet dancer. She is well-known for the recent blockbuster movie named “Dangal” which was released in the year 2016 starring Aamir Khan in the lead role. Sanya got popular for this movie only. She has played the role of Aamir Khan’s daughter in the movie. She has got this role after a lot of struggle. She has given many auditions. Now, she wants to work with Ranbir Kapoor. Sanya Malhotra was born in Delhi, India on 27th of February. Her height is 5’5 inches.

 The new TV show. “Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi” demands Radhika to play the role of a Gujarati, happy go lucky girl. Apart from having to remould her life to the new and busy routine that onscreen acting demands, Radhika is coping well, as her character has well set ideologies, some of which match her own. Her relationship with her co-stars has also been very complementary as they are very open to helping her around the sets and showing her little tips and tricks. 

 Although the series is yet to air, Ekta Kapoor's confidence in the new talent has already garnered much excitement and the audience has already given a positive response and await the new chemistry between Shakti Arora and herself. Her sudden career change hasn’t stopped her from continuing her education, and she has decided to pursue her degree via correspondence. And although acting seems exciting, according to Radhika Madan, dance will always be her passion. It is after all, what makes her happy.

Manik Batra is a Hindi Sound Mixer and a Supervising Sound Editor/designer from Mumbai, India. He is a former student of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Manik has an experience of 10 years. He has worked over different departments including Ad films, Documentaries, Shorts, Web Series and Feature Films. He is popular for My Name Is Khan (2010), Shaitan (2011), Rakhta Charitra (2010), The Abeer Color. He has been a part of more than 50 movies.

Indian choreographer Vijay Ganguly, who was born in 1980, is best known for his work on the films Jagga Jasoos (2017), Andhadhun (2018), Stree (2018), and Love Aaj Kal (2018). (2020). For the song "Galti Se Mistake" in Jagga Jasoos, he also won the 2018 Zee Cine Awards for Best Choreography and the 2017 International Indian Film Academy Award for Best Choreography, he received the 2018 Filmfare Award for Best Choreography. His father, director Anil Ganguly, gave birth to Vijay Ganguly in 1980. He is Rupali Ganguly, an actress,' younger brother. As a young actor, Vijay Ganguly appeared in a few movies like Saaheb (1985), Sadak Chhap (1987), and Dushman Devta (1991). As an assistant choreographer, he began his career in 2005 with the movie Bunty Aur Babli. Subsequently, he worked as an assistant choreographer on movies like Taare Zameen Par (2007), Yuvvraaj (2008), and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011).

Avik is an Indian Cinematographer. He majorly works in Bengali and Hindi films. He was born in Kalimpong, West Bengal. He is married to Madhuja Mukherjee. He went at Film and Television Institute of India to study cinematography. He is a receptionist of three National Film awards for ‘Patalghar (2003)’, ‘Bhalo Theko (2004)’, and ‘Antaheen (2009)’. He also received Filmfare Award in 2021 for Best cinematography for ‘Gulabo Sitabo’. Some of his other works are ‘Asukh (1999)’, ‘Titli (2002)’, ‘Bunty Aur Babli (2005)’, ‘Khela 92008)’, ‘Sunglass (2013)’, ‘Kill Dil (2014)’, ‘Pink (2016)’, ‘October (2018)’, ‘Badla (2019)’, ‘Sardar Udham (2021)’, ‘Borunbabur Bondhu (2020)’, ‘The Violin Player (2016)’. 

The talented Jubin Nautiyal was born on 14th June 1989 in the city of Dehradun, Uttrakhand. He hails from a Brahmin family with roots in Jaunsar region. His father Mr. Ram Sharan Nautiyal is a politician as well as a businessman while his mother Mrs. Neena Nautiyal is a businesswoman as well. Jubin states that his father came from a small agricultural background and that he feels extremely proud that his father came so far starting from zero. He further says that he enjoys all the attention he gets considering the fact he has worked hard and that he doesn’t come from any ‘Bollywood family’ or has any ‘Bollywood connection.’ He did his schooling till the eighth grade from St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehradun. He continued school at Welham Boys’ school, Dehradun where he studied music as a subject and built his base in the teachings of Hindustani classical music. After completing his schooling, he enrolled in Mithibai College in Mumbai.

Om Raut is an Indian director, producer and writer. He was born on 21st December 1981 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is famous for his award-winning film Lokmanya: Ek Yug Purush. Raut is the son of Bharatkumar Raut the former Maharashtrian Member of Parliament at the Rajya Sabha and Neena Raut the co-founder of Neena Raut Films. He is married to Preeti Kothari. Raut graduated from a film school at Syracuse University in New York, US. Raut made his Bollywood debut with the movie directed by Ajay Kartik, Karamati Coat in 1993 as a child artist. Raut worked at the MTV Network New York as a writer and director before returning to India. He joined the Valuable Group as the Vice President of Creative Business, the company which promotes UFO Moviez, India’s biggest digital cinema advertising platform and distribution channel.

Laxman Utekar is a new age Cinematographer working mainly in Bollywood industry. He also is a renowned Director & directed two critically acclaimed Marathi films until now. Utekar was born in a rural area of Maharashtra. He was very passionate about photography from a tender age. After completing his education, he decided to pursue a career in cinematography. Utekar was very talented & his style was unique from contemporary cinematographers. After shooting a few ads, Utekar got his first chance as a cinematographer in 2007 film Khanna & Iyer. Although the movie was a failure, his works with the camera caught the attention of many viewers.

Hussain Haidry is an all-rounder person. He is well versed in writing lyrics and writing poems. He has gained immense fame after his famous poem named 'Hindustani Musalmaan' went viral on all the platforms of social media. Hussain is born and brought up in Indore, India, and he is a Dawoodi Bohra. He has completed his schooling from Shri Satya Sai Vidya Vihar School. Later, for perusing his PGDM, he went to the Indian Institute of Management Indore, and here he worked as the Head of Finance in Kolkata in a Healthcare company. In the year 2015, he left his job and moved towards Mumbai to become a full-time lyricist and a screenwriter. As soon as he left his job in Kolkata, he started participating in spoken words Poetry Forms in Mumbai, such as the Poetry Club; Words Tell Stories, and Prithvi Caferati.

Abhishek Chaubey, an Indian Film Director was born on 30 March 1977, in Uttar Pradesh. He completed his schooling from Hyderabad in the year 1995. In college, he took a bachelor course in English Literature in Hindu College of New Delhi and graduated in 1998. As he had interest towards filming and communications, he studied Film and Television Productions in Xavier College of Mumbai and began his career towards direction.

Vasan Bala, born and brought up in Mumbai, India is a filmmaker and screenwriter. Movie making and script writing seem to be in his blood since both his father and grandfather were movie buffs. They introduced Vasan to movies like ‘Django,’ Mackenna’s Gold,’ ‘Ben Hur,’ ‘Enter the Dragon.’ His finished his graduation in commerce and took up law. However, he dropped out of law college and worked in various corporate jobs. He grew tired of this too, and finally quit in 2006. All this shuffling between jobs had made his passion take a backseat. After quitting, he had the chance to meet the famous director Anurag Kashyap. This meeting left him motivated, and throttled his ambition to become a filmmaker. He made his directorial debut with a Hindi crime thriller film called ‘Peddlers.’ It had Gulshan Devaiah, Nimrat Kaur, Kriti Malhotra in lead roles.

Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan is an Indian Film Director, Screen Writer and Dialogue Writer, who was born on 8^th October, 1975 and is well known for his internationally praised film Lahore.

A notable screenplay and dialogue writer, a sought-after lyricist, and a skilled actor – Sandeep Shrivastava is a man of many hats. Sandeep Shrivastava started his journey in the film industry as an actor. He appeared as a Village Sarpanch in the 1998 released film Samar. Also, he served as the Chief Assistant Director for the movie ‘Saaya’ and ‘Kabul Express.’ But later, he shifted his focus towards being a writer. He wrote and screenplay and dialogue for the action thriller movie ‘Ab TakChhappan’ featuring Nana Patekar. Further, Sandeep Shrivastava worked on the television series ‘Family Man’ and the video game ‘Ab TakChhappan: Fatal Encounter.’ He assisted with the dialogues for the John Abraham and Arshad Warsi starrer ‘Kabul Express.’ The 2009 film ‘New York’ is the work based on the script wrote by Sandeep Shrivastava and he also served as a dialogue writer for the picture. The film became a box-office hit.

Asees Kaur is an Indian Playback Singer. She works in the Hindi Film and Music Industry. Asees was born on the 26th of September in the year 1988. She was born in Panipat, Haryana.

Most famous for his songs in Aashiqui 2, Arijit Singh has established himself as a prominent playback singer and music programmer. He was the runner-up in Fame Gurukul, a singing competition, in 2005. He then went on to win another singing reality show, 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil.

Born in 1987 in West Bengal, Arjit was trained in classical music by his aunt and mother. He had a passion for music from an early age and his parents decided to get him a professional trainer, Rajendra Prasad Hazari for classical music and Dhirendra Prasad Hazari to train him at tabla.  His teachers encouraged Arijit to try out for Fame Gurukul in 2005 and chose to promote the Indian classical music genre.

Pritam Chakraborty gave Arjit a chance and signed him for three films; Crook, Golmaal 3, and Action Replayy. He made his debut singing “Phir Mohabbat” for Murder 2 in 2011. This kickstarted his career as a playback singer and led to him singing songs such as; “Raabta", “ Duaa", and “Phir Le Aya Dil", earning nominations for the latter two in Mirchi Music Award With the release of the hit song “Tum Hi Ho” Singh became a common household name. The song helped him win nine awards from various award shows. He has since sung.

Arjit is known as a down to earth, hardworking singer. His hobbies include badminton and writing.

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.D. and was given the offer to teach. But his refusal to become a teacher proved a turning point in his life. He met producer and director Lekh Tandon, who came to Chandigarh to shoot for TV and was looking for a writer. On Tandon’s advice, he came to Mumbai and started writing for TV. Dissatisfied with his career in TV again, he left behind his journey as a writer and was a lookout for a job as a lyricist in the film industry. 

Tanishk Bagchi is an Indian music composer and singer. He is 5'-7" (170 cms) tall and weighs about 60kg (152 lbs). He has brown eyes and dark black hair. His hometown is Kolkata, West Bengal. He went to Scottish Church Collegiate School, Kolkata, India. As a child, he was never interested in music. His father Nandakumar Das learned guitar from various points. Then he came to Kolkata and met his mother, who used to play Hawaiian guitar. Tanishk believes that music brought his parents together. Tanishk’s father began his career with composer Salil Choudhury and further collaborated with famous celebrities like Satyajit Ray, R.D. Burman, and Illayraja. Tanishk made his debut stage performance with a guitar when he was only 8.

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.

Pankaj Tripathi is an acclaimed Indian film actor who has appeared in some of Bollywood's movies including Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1, Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2, Agneepath. He was born in a Bihari Brahmin kin in a small village of Belsan near town Gopalganj in the state of Bihar. Pankaj’s parents were farmers and didn’t have accessibility to modern means of communication. The village that he belongs to until today does not have access to television. In fact, it is surprising that the nearest theatre too is about 25 kilometers away from the village. His parents are farmers. He did theatre in his college days in Patna for close to 4 years before joining National School Drama. A produce of National School of Drama, Tripathi also appeared in a small role in Agneepath. He is one of the most underrated actors of Bollywood. He has done excellent work in the directorial guidance of Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur. In fact, He is considered as one of jewels of Indian cinema. Some of the other films accredited to caliber include Run as Cameo appearance, Apaharan as Gaya Singh's Crony,  Omkara as Kichlu,  Mithya as Tipnis,  Valmiki Ki Bandook (short) as BDO Tripathi, Dharm as  Suryaprakash, Raavan, Aakrosh, Chillar Party as Secretary Dubey, Agneepath as Surya, Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 and Part 2 as Sultan Qureshi,  Dabangg 2 as filawar, ABCD – Any Body Can Dance as Vardha Bhai(Minister), Fukrey as Pandit, Maazii as Rathiji, Gunday as Lateef, Doosukeltha as Dilleeswara Rao, Singham Returns as Altaf and Isshaq Mallang as Chuttan Shukla. He was also seen in TV series Powder as Naved Ansari.

Ranveer Singh Bhavnani is an Indian movie actor who had no filmy links to make a Bollywood career. This handsome hunk is a carbon copy of Disney's Tangled Flynn Rider (Hollywood actor). Ranveer Singh is one of our brightest stars who rose to his heights through dedication, hard work, and perseverance. He always had an inclination for performing arts, But this actor needed the luck to launch his film career. Yash Raj films invited the struggling actor to audition for their next film, and Ranveer won the part of lead hero in the surprise 2010 hit ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’.

Born on 23 April 1969, Manoj Bajpai is first a Bollywood actor, though he has acted in a couple of southern films. He has been appreciated by several critics for his good performances. His noteworthy performances were in the films Bandit Queen, Pinjar, Aks, Satya and Gangs of Wasseypur. He has got various Filmfare awards and also many National awards.

Manoj Bajpai is a graduate in history. Before entering into acting Manoj was a teacher. He tried his luck in theater, but was rejected four times. Later, he worked in a theater Barry’s Drama School. His acting career started with a serial in Doordarshan. Later he performed in a minute role in Dastak . He was the male lead in the film Dil Pe Mat Le Yar and went on to act in small roles in Bandit Queen, Droh and Kaal. Then it was Satya that helped him reach stardom. His acting skills gained wide recognition; he was credited with several awards for this role. In this film he acted as a gangster. He also received various awards for Aks. Shool, Daud, Zubeidaa, Pinjar, Road etc. were some the films he acted. His Telugu film Happy was also a film in which he gained recognition.

Manoj has often portrayed offbeat roles and he was widely appreciated for that. His character in the film Rajneeti also received praise and actress Katrina Kaif who also acted in the film explicitly expressed her respect for him by touching his feet. Gangs of Wasseypur is another important film in his career wherein he received accolades for his performance.

Manoj Bajpai is motivated by a couple of Marathi films and he frankly admitted that.

On the personal front, Bajpai is wedded to Shabana Raza, better known as Neha in Bollywood. If one remembers she had acted in the films Fiza and Kareeb.

Bajpai Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

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.

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.

Shoojit Sircar is an Indian film producer and director born in Kolkata, India. Shoojit is from a Bengali family in Barrackpore from where he completed his schooling.

He directed Bollywood movies like Yahaan released in 2005, Vicky Donor in 2012, Madras Cafe 2013 and Piku 2015, which were all praised, by critics and audience alike. He was appreciated for his art of direction after every film of his. He was also into ad filmmaking and has created award-winning commercials. Having worked with almost all leading agencies in India for products of all categories reflects how versatile he is as a director.

The director, however still has his roots into theatre. He still gives the credit of who he is to theatre. He said that being really involved in plays for pure passion and no money has made him who he is. He worked at Act One a theatre group in Delhi to which he gives credits of his success.

He won the best director award at Osian film festival 2005 for his directorial debut Yahaan, which is commendable.

Shoojit also won the title for best film director in 2014 at 20th Life OK Screen Awards. He is currently filming his next film Agra Ka Daabra and has also announced 1911 to be his yet another film. He said that 2 things that make him really happy are spending time with his family and writing with his friend and writer Juhi Chaturvedi. His wife Jhuma is his biggest inspiration.

Kabir khan is a very much renowned director of Bollywood. His directorial skills were appreciated across the world when his second movie New York was released. Born in 1971, Kabir khan has always been creative and new with his work. He hails from Hyderabad but completed his education in New Delhi. Kabir Khan's career graph has taken few versatile turns in terms of what he worked on.

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.  

In his mid-twenties Basu began his career on the set of popular show Tara working as an assistant director. He went on to direct various serials such as X-Zone and Saturday Suspense both of which are thrillers. Basu was set to make his directorial film debut with Kucch To Hai but left half way through the production and was replaced. He then worked with Mahesh Butt’s production company and directed Saaya and Murder. He directed the critically acclaimed, Barfi starring Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. The film received 13 nominations at the 58th Flimfare Awards and took home 7 including Best Film. He is set to release Jagga Jasoos later in the year which is a romance-comedy starring Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor.

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.

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