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Katrina Kaif is a prominent and very popular British-Indian model and film actress. She was one of the highest-paid actresses in the Bollywood industry and one of the most attractive personalities in India. She was born as Katrina Turquotte on July 16, 1983, in British Hong Kong to Mohammed Kaif, a business person and Suzanne Kaif, a lawyer, and social service worker. Her parents had a divorce when she was just a child and then her father moved to USA. She grows up without a father by her side, but she never complains and instead, she always feels grateful for all the wonderful things she has. Since then, her mother dedicates her life in working for social causes, which led them to relocate to several countries from time to time. Because of this, she and her seven siblings did a homeschooling with some tuto...

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...

Farah Khan is an Indian film actress, producer, director and a choreographer. She was born on January 9, 1965 in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Menaka, sister of screenwriter and actress, Honey Irani and Daisy Irani. She is also the sister of film actor and comedian Sajid Khan and the cousin of film personalities Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Farah was married to Shirish Kunder, a film writer, producer, director, composer and the editor of her directorial film Main Hoon Na in 2004. The two have worked together in films like Jaan-E-Mann, Tees Maar Khan and Om Shanti Om. She gave birth to triplets, composing of one boy and two girls in year 2008. 

Farah Khan is an Indian film actress, producer, director and a choreographer. She was born on January 9, 1965 in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Menaka, sister of screenwriter and actress, Honey Irani and Daisy Irani. She is also the sister of film actor and comedian Sajid Khan and the cousin of film personalities Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Farah was married to Shirish Kunder, a film writer, producer, director, composer and the editor of her directorial film Main Hoon Na in 2004. The two have worked together in films like Jaan-E-Mann, Tees Maar Khan and Om Shanti Om. She gave birth to triplets, composing of one boy and two girls in year 2008. 

Date of Birth: 09-01-1965

Age: 59

Star Sign: Capricorn

Gender: Female

Language: Hindi

Skills: Director, Movie Actress, Anchor

Biography About Farah Khan

Biography About Farah Khan

Date of Birth: 09-01-1965

Age: 59

Star Sign: Capricorn

Gender: Female

Language: Hindi

Skills: Director, Movie Actress, Anchor

Konkona Sen Sharma is a Bollywood actress hailing from Kolkata, West Bengal. She was born on 3 December 1979 in a Bengali family. She completed her schooling at the Calcutta International School and later moved to Delhi for a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Delhi University’s most prestigious college- St. Stephen’s. Cinema has already been existent in her genetic roots. Her mother, Aparna Sen, is a noted actress and director in Bengali cinema. Moreover, she is the granddaughter of Chidananda Dasgupta, a film critic who also established the Calcutta Film Society. In 1983, the four-year-old Konkona was first seen on the big screen in a Bengali film titled ‘Indira’. Her official Tollywood debut was in 2000 in ‘Ek Je Aachhe Kanya,’ for which she was awarded...

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 ...

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...

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...

Shimit Amin is a well-known director and is familar as the man behind the making of ‘Chak De! India’, one of the most well-received films in the history of Bollywood. Shimit Amin was born in the capital city of Uganda, known as Kampala. Although Shimit was born in the city of Kampala, his family later moved to the United States of America, where they got settled in Florida. As he grew up in the city of Florida, Amin had a natural inclination towards filmmaking and wanted to pursue it from a very young age. But he opted to follow his parents’ advice and pursued graduation in mathematics. 

After completing his graduation, Amin had fully dedicated himself to filming and worked hard to initiate and organize major film festivals of today such as &l...

Manas Choudhury is a Sound Designer and Production Sound Mixer. His full name is Manas Ranjan Chaudhury He was born in India. He is residing in India. He has the Indian nationality. He is among the epitome of Sound Mixing. He had started his business since 1998. She is active in the industry for around 20 years. Firstly he has started sound designing on locations for feature films. He did his first recording for film Saamar that has directed by Mr. Shyam Benegal. He did education in Film & Television Institute of India for Pune in the year 1993. He is a freelancer. He did the sound recording for 40 plus films. He did his works for Aisha in the year 2010, Dum Maaro Dum, Bubble Gum, and Mujhse Friendship Karoge in the year 2011, Matira Bandhana, Ajab Gajjab Love in the year 2012, Nautanki Saala and Ishkq in Paris in the year 2013, So...

Ali Merchant is a popular TV actor. He was born on December 13th, 1984. His birth place is Mumbai. It was during his 17th year of age, he became the winner of 'Mr. Bombay'. He made his first appearance as actor in 'Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki' of Star Plus. He became popular through his acting in 'Ssshhhh… Phir Koi Hai' of Star Plus. Another series which brought him the popularity was 'Amber Dhara', telecasted in Sony TV. Then, he was seen in 'Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat', which was a TV series that was telecasted in Star Plus from the year 2008 to 2010.

During the year 2010, he was seen in 'Do Hanson Ka Joda', a soap opera that was broadcasted in NDTV Imagine. In 'Yeh Hai Aashiqui', Ali appeared in one episode. At present, he is a part of 'Yeh Rishta Ky...

Javed Jaffrey is a talented actor, dancer, comedian, voice actor, impressionist, VJ, an ad filmmaker, emcee and politician, who predominantly work in the Bollywood film and television industry. He was born on December 4, 1963, in Malliwala, Uttar Pradesh in India. Javed is the son of renowned film actor, 'Jagdeep', who is also famous for doing comic roles.

He debuted in the year 1985 in Subhash Ghai’s 'Meri Jung'. Aside from acting as the antagonist in the film, he showed off his talent in dancing to the tune of Bol Baby Bol Rock-N-Roll, which he also sang along with Kishore Kumar and S. Janaki. Since then, there is no looking back.

Javed has appeared in over 35 films. When Chanel V was launched, he built a platform for his talent and showed his remarkable mark of comedy on television during the 90...

Jaideep Sahni is an Indian screenwriter and lyricist known for his contribution in Bollywood. Born in 1968, Jaideep was brought up in New Delhi. In his school days, Jaideep could not understand the differences between the arts and science streams, as he loved these academic fields. Later, he opted for science subjects instead of arts. He continued his education at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar that is located in the state of Karnataka. Fondly known as JD during his college days, his friends considered him as an intelligent student who kept quiet in most of the time. He worked with NIIT Limited, a learning-based company as a computer engineer.

He turned his attention towards writing when he found Oscar-winning movie Gandhi’s screenplay in a New Delhi-based bookshop. He did not hesitate to become a lyricist afte...

Hindi cinema has undergone a great change in the past few decades and fashion designing is also undergoing a great facelift. The fashion designers and stylists think in a very innovative manner and come up with an entirely new look for Bollywood flicks. Now let’s take the film Main Hoon Na. Apart from the direction of Farah Khan, the beautiful choreography and peppy songs, it’s the costume designing that garnered the attention of the audiences. Amrita Arora had a completely new look with the costume designing of Sanjeev Mulchandani.

The IIFA award ceremony, which gives the award to an artist who has given excellent costume designs for the flick’s actors, didn’t fail to recognize the talent of Sanjeev Mulchandani; he got the award along with Karan ...

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...

Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king of romance’ in Indian cinema for directing films like kabhie Kabhie. Daag, Noorie, Silsila, Darr, Chandni, Lamhe, Dil To Pagal Hai, etc. Earlier, he made some serious and social films like Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dharmputra, and Ittefaq, etc. He was a trendsetter as a filmmaker. Yash Chopra gave Bollywood the angry young man Amitabh Bachchan and even crafted career of another superstar Shahrukh Khan.

During the early times of his career, Yash Chopra worked as an assistant to the director I.S. Johar and his sibling B.R. Chopra. He got his first break as a director in B.R. Chopra’s film Dhool Ka Phool. It was a mega hit followed by Waqt and Iftefaq. Later, he got separated from his brother B.R. Chopra and fo...

Amitabh Shukla is an Indian film editor. He has worked as an editor for various Bollywood movies. He has worked in more than 20 movies. His notable works include Chak De India, Singh Is Kinng, Bluffmaster, Chalte Chalte, Namastey London, Krrish. He has even won many awards for the movie Chak De India. He was born in Mumbai. He did his master's from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, in the subject of Business Administration. His major subjects were Finance and Systems. He further went to Film & Television Institute of India, in Pune and graduated from there. It is one of the prestigious institutes of learning filming, direction, editing and acting. Famous Bollywood personalities like Mithun Chakraborty, Prakash Jha, Danny Denzongpa, Jaya Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajkumar Hirani, Sanjay ...

Vinay Pathak is a well known face in the field of comedy in Indian movies and televisions. He showed us what comedy is in the true sense, without making it a jest. In this fast moving world of noise and bustle, people want to get a respite, want to enjoy, Vinay Pathak’s movie is the right choice for them. Vinay Pathak was born in Bhojpur, Bihar. He had his schooling from Vikas Vidyalaya, Ranchi. And completed his graduation from the Allahabad University. Thereafter,he joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and there only he developed his interest in acting. He is not only an actor of the day, but also a dialogue writer too.

He has been enamored by the audience, after the release ot he TV serial ‘Hip HipHurrey’, where he played the role of English teacher as Vinny Sir. He ...

Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Sharukh, Salman, Kajol and Rani. This was a block buster hit and Karan Johar reached fame in his first m...

           His first professional costume design was for the Bollywood actress ‘Juhi Chawla’ in the movie ‘Swarg’, which was released a couple of decades ago. He won his first ‘filmfare costume award’, for the movie ‘Rangeela’ in 1995. It gave him much recognizance in Bollywood and paved his way for becoming film city’s ‘most sought after’ costume designer. He has also designed costumes for ‘the K...

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 ...

Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent Indian film actor, television personality and producer. He was born on November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India. He is often called as the ‘Baadshah of Bollywood’, ‘King Khan’ and ‘King of Bollywood’. The actor has done more than 80 films in Bollywood. He was cited as ‘The World’s Biggest Movie Star’ by the Los Angeles Times. Khan is also one of the wealthiest actors in the world, with over $400–600 million net worth. He also won several accolades including the 14 Filmfare Awards.

Khan went to St. Columba’s School in Delhi where he topped in studies and sports like football and hockey, where he got the Sword of Honour Award, a school’s highest award. He acted in several stage plays and ...

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...

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 ...

Rajiv Menon is one of the most acknowledged, talented cinematographer in India. He was born and brought up in Kerala, Kochi in a singing influential family as his mother Kalyani Menon was a famous Tamil and Malayali playback singer. From cinematography to script writing to Ad films making, Menon has excellence in every pursuit, On 5th, may 2006 he launched a filmmaking institute in Chennai called “Mind Screen Film Institute,” where the first specialized course to be offered is ‘Learning Cinematography.'

Rajiv Menon joined the Film and Television Institute of Chennai in 1981, to study cinematography. In 1984, he went to America to train under cinematographer Garret Brown, best known for his invention of the Stead cam. He started off ...

This handsome actor was born as the son of Nitin Mukesh and as the grandchild of the legendary singer Mukesh brought up in a singer family, no one knew he could become an actor in Bollywood films. Neil Nitin comes from a musical family where his father, playback singer Nitin Mukesh, his grandfather Mukesh Chand Mathur is all musically inclined. 

Legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar had named Mukesh’s grandson Neil after the astronaut Neil Armstrong. He was born on January 15, 1982. He has acquired a degree in Mass Communication from a college in Mumbai. He had a keen interest in acting from early age. During his college vacation, he did take part in a workshop of acting and trained himself...

Hrithik Roshan with his unimaginable dance moves is praised as the Dance God of Bollywood, is the only son of Bollywood Director/Actor/Producer Rakesh Roshan. He is considered the most hard working personality when comes to the profession. As a kid he had stammering problem and it doesn’t stop him from moving ahead to this position. Hrithik who is fondly called as duggu by his family also worked in few bollywood movies as a child artist and the notable one was with Superstar RajiniKanth where he played the role of Our Thalaivar’s Son.

Hrithik later wanted to be a director, joined in a film academy without his fathers concern. He assisted Rakesh in the blockbuster Karan Arjun starring Salman Bhai and SRK!! In 2000, when Rakesh Roshan came up with the script for Kaho naa.. Pyaar Hai.. SRK was first asked to play the r...

Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and his birth name is ‘Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia’. He is a great Bollywood actor who has acted in more than 100 movies. He is also a producer and martial artist. He has won The Filmfare awards a couple of times. He started off his career as an actor in 1990s, where he had stricken with action based movies initially. He has been greatly appreciated for his drama, romance and comic roles. He is considered to be the only Bollywood actor whose net box office collection is 20 million rupees. He has done a lot of dangerous stunts in movies without a body double. This did gain a name for him as 'Indian Jackie Chan'.

In the year 2008, Akshay Kumar was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of law by the University of Windsor for his contribution in acting. This was a huge pride f...

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...