Tanuja Chandra
Pooja Bhatt
Jaya Prada
Farah Khan
Bipasha Basu
Sushmita Sen
Manisha Koirala
Sunidhi Chauhan
Honey Irani
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Shubha Mudgal
Shobhaa De
Shilpa Shetty
Raveena Tandon
Namrata Shirodkar
Lara Dutta
Hema Malini
Dia Mirza
Asha Parekh
Amrita Arora
Alka Yagnik
Preity Zinta
Disha
Tanvi Azmi
Sudipti Parmar
Suchitra Pillai
Soni Razdan
Shilpa Shinde
Reema Lagoo
Priyanka Sharma
Pallavi Vinay Joshi
Neena Kulkarni
Kiran Bedi
Deeya Chopra
Mallika
Ila Arun
Anju Asrani
Sushmita Mukherjee
Anaida
Alka Verma
Farida Jalal
Roshni Chopra
Avika Gor
Tanuja Mukherjee
Kirron Kher
Mini Mathur
Jayati Bhatia
Sai Deodhar
Shilpa Shirodkar
Shraddha Nigam
Smita Bansal
Tina Kuwajerwala
Varsha Usgaonkar
Ashwini Kalsekar
Ratna Pathak
Aruna Irani
Rakhi Sawant
Joyce Arora
Pankaj Udhas
Harbhajan Singh
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Sunil Dutt
Prem Chopra
Prakash Jha
Karan Johar
Kader Khan
Farhan Akhtar
Anu Malik
Manoj Bajpayee
Sonu Nigam
Gulshan Grover
Vivek Oberoi
Shyam Benegal
Shiamak Davar
Saurabh Shukla
Satish Kaushik
Sanjay Khan
Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Dutt
Rahul Bose
Naseeruddin Shah
Nagesh Kukunoor
Milind Soman
M. F. Husain
Mahesh Bhatt
Kundan Shah
Kumar Sanu
Ken Ghosh
Johnny Lever
Jagjit Singh
Dino Morea
David Dhawan
Bappi Lahiri
Arshad Warsi
Arbaaz Khan
Anil Kapoor
Aftab Shivdasani
Adnan Sami
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Mohinder Amarnath
1. Tanuja Chandra
Tanuja Chandra is a director and a writer hailing from Lucknow. She is the sibling of Vikram Chandra, a famous writer, and Anupama Chandra, a film critic. Also, she is the daughter of Kamna Chandra, a famous screenwriter. Tanuja started her career by working as a television journalist for Star Plus Channel. She improved her career by directing Zameen Aasmaan, followed by 'Mumkin’. Her next attempt was a big leap towards success. She ventured onto the big screen.
Her screenplay for 'Dil To Pagal Hai' was a success. She worked with Mahesh Bhatt for 'Zakhm' and the film was a moderate hit. When she ventured into the field of direction, her success rate started going down the lane. 'Dush...
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54
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Female
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54
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Female
2. Pooja Bhatt
This chubby star of Bollywood had a different style of acting. Nevertheless it was appreciated to an extent. Pooja Bhatt, daughter of famous director Mahesh Bhatt, gave up her dream of becoming an astronaut, to take up a career in acting.
Pooja Bhatt debuted in her father’s directorial venture Daddy, when she was just a teen. It was a typical Bhatt film and revolved around a girl trying to alleviate her father from the clutches of alcohol. Later, this duo offered ‘Dil Hai Ke Maanta Nahin’ where Aamir Khan played the male lead. This film was an adaptatio...
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52
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3. Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada is a renowned Indian actress and politician. She was born as Lalita Rani on April 3, 1958, in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh to Krishna Rao, a financier of Telugu films and Neelaveni. She enrolled in a dance and music classes at her tender age by her mother. Jaya acted in several Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi films. From the year 2004 to 2014, she has been a part of the Member of Parliament from Rampur. At 14, she made a dance number during the annual function at her scho...
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66
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Female
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66
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Female
4. Farah Khan
Farah Khan is an Indian film actress, producer, director and a choreographer. She was born on January 9, 1965 in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Menaka, sister of screenwriter and actress, Honey Irani and Daisy Irani. She is also the sister of film actor and comedian Sajid Khan and the cousin of film personalities Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Farah was married to Shirish Kunder, a film writer, producer, director, composer and the editor of her directorial film Main Hoon Na in 2004. The two have worked together in films like Jaan-E-Mann, Tees Maar Khan and Om Shanti Om. She gave birth to triplets, composing of one boy and two girls in year 2008. <...
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59
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Female
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59
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Female
5. Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu, born in January 7,1979 in Delhi, is a Bengali beauty. Bipasha started her career as a successful fashion model. In 1996, Bipasha won a Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest followed by the Ford Models Supermodel of the World contest. In 2001,she made her debut in Bollywood by starring in a supporting role in the movie Ajnabee alongside Akshay Kumar. She won the Filmfare award for Best Female Debut in 2001. Bipasha’s first leading role was in the movie Raaz opposite Dino Morea. She was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actress award for her role in Raaz. Bipasha is a successful actress having starred in top-grossing films like – No Entry, Phir Hera Pheri, Jism, Dhoom 2 and Race.
Her role in...
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45
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Female
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6. Sushmita Sen
What is the essence of being a woman? her winning question in 1994 Miss Universe Beauty Pageant held in Manila, Philippines. She shattered the viewer and judges when she delivered her answer outstandingly.
Born Sushmita Sen in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India on November 19, 1975. A crowned Miss Universe, model and actress. She was the first Indian to bring home the title Miss Universe. She successfully reigned not just as a beauty title holder but also in Bollywood. She first appeared in the movie “Dastak” in 1996. This was then followed in 1997 with the movies “Zor’ and “Ratchagan.” Her movie offers continued to roll and made her first film awards as “Best Supporting Actress”...
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48
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Female
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48
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Female
7. Manisha Koirala
Manisha Koirala, is a Bollywood actress of Nepalese origin. She was born on 16 of August 1970 in Kathmandu, Nepal. She is the daughter of Nepal’s politician, Prakash Koirala and is the granddaughter of Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala who was the Prime Minister of Nepal during the late 1950s.
Initially she wanted to be a doctor, but performing a modelling assignment paved her way to becoming an actress. Apart from Hindi, she has acted in several other languages. She made her acting debut through the Nepali movie, ‘Pheri bhetaula’ which was released in 1989. Her Bollywood debut was in the year 1991 with the movie ‘Saudagar’. The movie was a top grossing drama, which helped Manisha to establish herself as one of the leading ladies...
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53
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Female
8. Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan, a very famous Indian playback singer, was born in August, 1983 in New Delhi, India. She has a younger sister named Suneha. Sunidhi studied at the Greenway Modern School in Delhi. She later shifted to Mumbai with her family to pursue her career as a singer. She started singing at the age of 4. She participated at a Singing Contest called ‘Meri Awaz Suno’ in 1996 at the age of 13 and became the Champion. Since then she entered into the world of playback singing. Her first playback was in the film ‘Shastra’ in 1996. Singing for the movie ‘Mast’ gave her fame and the first breakthrough. She sang in a number of Indian dialects like Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, etc. She has also recorded songs in English, Urdu and Nepa...
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40
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Female
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9. Honey Irani
Honey Irani is an actress and screen writer. She was born on 17th January 1950 in Mumbai and she belongs to an Irani, Zoroastrian family. She got married to Javed Akhtar on 21 March 1972, but after some years they got divorce. They have two children a son Farhan and a daughter Zoya. They both are filmmakers. She began her career in Indian film industry as a child actress and accepted the character role in a film Chirag Kahaan Roshni Kahaan and another film Bombay Ka Chor. They have been working together in more than 72 films.When she got divorce, she was doing embroidery on sarees to support her family. She was a good writer of stories. So, she used to write stories but she at no time shares them to anyone. Af...
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74
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Female
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10. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a popular Indian actress and is a high-profile celebrity in India. She was born on November 1, 1973 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India to Krishnaraj, an Army Biologist and Brinda, a homemaker. She has one brother named Aditya Rai, an engineer-turned-producer, who produced her film Dil Ka Rishta in 2003. Her family shifted to Mumbai and she studied at Arya Vidya Mandir High School during her early years. She later attended Jai Hindi College and moved to DG Ruparel College in Matunga, where she scored 90% in the Higher Secondary School Certificate. During her teenage years, she trained in classical dance and music for 5-years. Initially, she planned to pursue a career in medicine, but it didn’t ...
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50
Gender:
Female
11. Shubha Mudgal
This famous Hindustani Classical singer, trained in Hindustani classical music went on to train in Kathak as well. She released songs and music albums that received raving reviews from the vast Indian Audience. A bit of recap before her career began, Shubha Mudgal trained in Allahabad, her hometown. She initially pursued Kathak and then switched over to training in Classical Hindustani Music because she felt her voice would suit that style better.
She later pursued her musical training in New Delhi under the guidance of Pandit Maudgalya, who performed a song in the national award winning animation film, Ek Anek Aur Ek Ekta. After all the training and educa...
12. Shobhaa De
Shobhaa was born on January 7, 1948.She was born in Mumbai in a Saraswat Brahmin Hindu Family. She was brought up in Mumbai, Girgaon India. She initially began her career as a Model. She also started her career as journalism by the year 1970.During her course she edited many magazines Society, Celebrity, stardust. Stardust Magazine was published by Mumbai-Magna Publishing Co ltd., which was began by the year 1971 by Nari Hira.
She was then popularly known as Shobhaa De because of the editorship. By the year 1980, she began the new Magazine section called Sunday Magazine for the section The Times of India. She always speaks about the fast life of Mumbai celebrities. By pres...
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76
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Female
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76
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Female
13. Shilpa Shetty
A model turned actress, producer, entrepreneur and now, mom, Shilpa Shetty has excelled in every field she’s touched so far. Born in the city of dreams, Bombay, started off as a model in the advertising industry with a Limca commercial. She went on to do more ad-films and pretty soon landed her first movie Baazigar (1993) directed by the popular duo Abbas-Mastaan, famous for their bone-chilling thrillers. The movie earned her Filmfare nominations for Best Actress in a supporting role and Lux new face of the year. These became the first of many awards she went on to receive in her career over the years. With over 40 movies on her tab, she has acted not only in Hindi but also in the languages of Telugu, K...
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48
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Female
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48
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Female
14. Raveena Tandon
Raveena Tandon is an Indian film actress who is known for doing some commercial cinema and then migrating to serious roles that gave her recognition as a serious actress. She made her superstar debut in film Mohra, which was supposed to be done by Divya Bharti. As Divya died, Raveena was the ultimate choice to play the role of the sexy girl, who did first item song’ Tu Cheez BariHai Mast Mast’. She was often paired with Akshay Kumar, and the duo became the most successful pair in Bollywood. She also made a hit pair with Govinda and did some blockbuster movies with the actor. Raveena made a sabbatical from films and did reject offers such as Dil To Pagal Hai, Gupt, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Virasat, w...
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51
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Female
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15. Namrata Shirodkar
Namrata Shirodkar clinched the Miss India title in 1993. She was born on January 22, 1972, in Mumbai She even represented India in Miss Universe beauty pageant and finished fifth. She has now settled down in Hyderabad after marrying Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu.
Her Bollywood journey took off with the release of film’ Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai’( 1998) with Salman Khan and Twinkle Khanna and there was no looking back for her since then. She established herself one of the hottest leading ladies of B-town, she thereafter appeared n supporting roles in many movies and had won many hearts.
She acted with leading stars such as Aja...
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52
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Female
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52
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Female
16. Lara Dutta
Lara Dutta is an Indian actress, model, movie producer and a former beauty pageant, winning Miss Intercontinental in 1997 and the Miss Universe title in 2000. Noted DJ and music composer, Nitin Sawhneyi, is one of her cousins. She was born in Ghaziabad, UP, India, on 16 April 1978. Her father is Punjabi, L K Dutta, a retired Indian Air Force Wing Commander, and her mother is an Anglo Indian, Mrs. Jennifer Dutta, who is Half Scottish. Lara’s elder sister Sabrina is with the Indian Air Force. She has another elder sister by the name Cheryl.
Her recent works include playing a role in ‘Abhi Nahi Toh Kabhi Nahi’, which is a movie produced by Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi, a former Tennis player of India. She has also been signed for the movie, ‘Si...
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46
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Female
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17. Hema Malini
Hema Malini is perhaps the only dream girl of the Bollywood. After Vyjanthimala had left Bollywood, she took steps to reach superstardom on her elegant looks and acting prowess. But she was also an actress who tried to act at the age of 15 in a Tamil film but she was rejected by Tamil Director Sridhar as she was very lean.
But her mother Jaya Chakravarty, who was eager to see Hema get her break in movies, succeeded in casting Hema opposite Raj Kapoor in ‘Sapnanon Ka Suadagar’ after director Sridhar’s rejection. Her debut film did not fare well in box office, but she did a negative role in Lal Patthar and portrayed a character of a widow in Andaz in 1971. ...
Age:
75
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Female
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75
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Female
18. Dia Mirza
Dia Mirza’s original name is Dia Handrich. Dia Mirza is an actress from India, and also a Model and Director cum Producer (recently). She was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Telangana). Her father Frank Handrich, a German interior designer and mother Deepa, a Bengali Hindu interior designer. She completed her schooling from Vidyaranya High School for Boys and Girls (based on the teachings of philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti) and Nasr School. Both the schools have located in Hyderabad. She also attended Stanley Junior College, Hyderabad, and got the bachelor’s degree in arts from Andhra Pradesh Open University. At the age of nine, her father died. Then, her mother got married to Ahmed Mirza. Later, she adopte...
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42
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Female
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42
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Female
19. Asha Parekh
Asha Parekh was born in October 1942 to a middle-class Gujarati family. Her career as an actress started when she was a child and played a role in Aasmaan at the age of 10. This started off her career, which spanned for over 40 years in the industry with on and behind screen roles. At the age of 16 she was casted alongside Shammi Kapoor in Nasir Hussain’s Dil Deke Dekho. The film was a major hit and helped establish Asha as a heroin in Bollywood. The success of the movie also prompted Hussain to sign her on for six more films. She was known in the industry as a glamour girl until director Raj Khosla signed her on for three films, which gave her a more serious role in which she excelled. The films included; Do...
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81
Gender:
Female
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81
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Female
20. Amrita Arora
Amrita Arora was born on 31st January 1981 in Chembur, Mumbai. She is a very prominent actress, model, Television Presenter and VJ too. She is active from the year 2002 until now. She got married with Shakeel Ladak in the year 2009. She has two children namely Azaan Ladak and Rayaan Ladak. Arora's debut Bollywood movie was 'Kitne Door Kitne Paas', which was apparently not that successful as far as the box office collection is concerned. Her first successful movie was 'Awara Paagal Deewana', an action comedy film. Amrita Arora was born to a Malayali mother and to a Punjabi father. Her sister is Malaika Arora Khan. In 2007, she had done cameo roles in movies like Om Shanthi Om, Speed and Red: The Dark Side. Amrita's project was Ek Tho C...
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43
Gender:
Female
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43
Gender:
Female
21. Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik is a very popular playback singer of the Bollywood film industry. She was born on March 20, 1966. She has been working in the Hindi film industry for three decades. She had bagged seven Filmfare awards out of the thirty five nominations at the Filmfare awards. It was for the best playback singer award category. Her singing is quite beautiful and she was felicitated by many icons. She came to the Bollywood industry as a singer at her early age. This gave her a lot of experience and she groomed herself as a consistent and su...
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
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58
Gender:
Female
22. Preity Zinta
Preity, also known as Preity Zinta is a famous Actress of Bollywood and Tollywood. She was born on 31 January 1975 in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. When she was 13 years old, her parents, Durganand Zinta and Nilprabha were involved in a car accident due to which she lost her father. Her mother managed to survive, however was bed ridden for 2 years as she was injured severely. Before entering in to movies, Preity has acted in a few commercials like Perk, Liril, etc. She made her debut in Bollywood with the movie ‘Dil Se’ followed by the movie ‘Soldier’ in the year 1998. Both the movies were superhits and she received good reviews for her performances in these movies. After these movies she entered the Telugu Film Industry where sh...
Age:
49
Gender:
Female
Age:
49
Gender:
Female
23. Disha
Disha is a Kannada television actress, known for her appearance as Vachana in the very popular Kannada drama serial, Kulavadhu, aired on Colors. She made a guest appearance in the award-winning talk show, Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai. She was born on 9 March 1992 in Bangalore, Karnataka. She has done her graduation from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. At a very young age, she started learning Bharatnatyam. She has also trained in different dance forms from Shivapriya Dance School. She participated in Karnataka Vaibhav, Singapore 2010.In 2012 she attended Karkataka Chitra Kala Parishath, Bangalore.She also auditioned for dance reality show Dance India Dance Season 4 in 2013. She was the winner ...
24. Tanvi Azmi
Tanvi Azmi is a multi-faceted media personality with her main area of concentration being acting in serials, movies and theatres. She can also be termed largely as a theatre personality. Tanvi Azmi (Nee Kher) was born in a Hindu Marathi Family to doctor parents Dr. Usha Kiran and Dr. Manohar Kher. She was brought up in a very liberated way and was well educated by her [parents whom according to Tanvi instilled a sense of liberty, self-confidence and individuality in her since her childhood days and thus has helped her to shape her in the person she is today. Tanvi Azmi aspired to be an actress since her childhood days but it is only upon completion of her studies, she started to take acting seriously and took it as a career option. After th...
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63
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Female
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25. Sudipti Parmar
Sudipti Parmar is a small screen actress. She was born on 1 May 1990 in Mumbai but was raised in Delhi. Therefore she got education from Delhi. She is not only a model and actress but an expert in Kathak Dance also. She is performing as Kathak Dancer for round about 13 years.She has variety of skills other than acting in TV shows. She has performed in many fashion shows and TV ads also. As an actress she has performed in hit serials like ‘Crime Patrol’ ‘Kyunki Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai’‘Kyunki Jeena Isi ka Naam Hai’ was a soap opera that was based on education. The basic concept was survival and welfare of children and mothers. Therefore it was a unique drama serial in term of subject and...
26. Suchitra Pillai
Suchitra Pillai, born in the year 1970, is an Indian actress, who gave her presence in the Bollywood and Hollywood industry. She also plays many roles including her acting, such as, as a model, veejay and as an anchor. She has completed her graduation in EEE. During her college days, she did modeling, where she met Raveena Tandon and became a good friend of her. During her school days, she was very much interested in movies and film industry. But soon after completing her graduation, she got settled in London after her marriage. But the marriage ended up with a divorce in seven years. Later, she married an engineer Lars Kjeldsen, at the age of 34 years in a Kerala tra...
Age:
53
Gender:
Female
27. Soni Razdan
She is an actress as well as a film director. She works in Bollywood industry. She was born in Birmingham, UK. She was born on 25 October 1956. Her mother was Gertrude Hoelzer and her father was N. Razdan who was a Hindu Kashmir pandit. She started her career from an English theater with john fowler’s “The collector”. She started her Hindi stage career with Satya Dev Dube’s adaption of “ No Exit” and “Band Darvaze”. She was then given a role of a character named “Sulochna” in a very hit TV series of that time “Buniyaad” which was used to premier on “Doordarshan” channel. Two other TV series in which she got the role was “Saahil” and “Gaa...
Age:
67
Gender:
Female
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67
Gender:
Female
28. Shilpa Shinde
Shilpa Shinde is a prevalent Hindi TV performing artist who presently lives up to expectations in the serial Do Dil Ek Jaan. In the year 2000, she began her acting career. She then used to work for Doordarshan and later got settled in as a brilliant TV artist. She played the lead protagonist role in a number of serials telecasted on Doordarshan. Some of her notable ones are Meher, Amrapali, Chidiya Ghar aired on Sab TV, etc.In the year 2002, it was the serial Amrapali, that gave her the much required break in acting career. She has additionally acted in several South Indian movies like "Shivani". She became popular for her role of Chitra in the serial Sanjeevani - A Medical Boon aired on Star Plus. She h...
Age:
46
Gender:
Female
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46
Gender:
Female
29. Reema Lagoo
Reema Lagoo is an Indian television and film actress who is the most popular, kind hearted and loving Maa of the Industry. The veteran actress has been around in the industry for around four decades and has won accolades for her work in both Hindi and Marathi film industry. Starting from her early films, Reema featured in the super hit flick 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak' as Juhi Chawla's mother. Since enacting the role of Salman Khan’s mother in the movie ‘Saajan’ and Maine Pyar Kiya, to enacting a major role in family drama films like Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! and Hum Saath-Saath Hain, which were big hits of their time, she has been widely appreciated by the audiences and her roles are still fresh ...
Date of Death:
18-05-2017
Age:
66
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
18-05-2017
Age:
66
Gender:
Female
30. Priyanka Sharma
There was a time when Priyanka Sharma was counted in struggling actresses and had to go for auditions being hopeless. Gone are those days and hopefully would not come back ever again. She has been a successful tv artist and seen the best days of the serials she has worked in. she is a very talented young actress who has acted in many serials and commercials including some of the best viewing serials like Jodha Akbar and Jeena Isi Ka Nam Hai. She has also been a lead character in some serials which is really appreciable for someone who is as young as her. ...
Age:
37
Gender:
Female
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37
Gender:
Female
31. Pallavi Vinay Joshi
Pallavi Joshi is an Indian model, producer, film and television actress. She started her career as an on stage performer at her early age. She started acting in the big screen as a child actress, appearing in films like Badla and the 1977 Bollywood film, Aadmi Sadak Ka. In 1979, she played as a blind kid in the film, Dada.From 1980’s to early 90’s, Pallavi acted in various films including the Rukmavati Ki Haveli and Vanchit. She played as Iti opposite Nirvana (played by Nitish Bharadwaj in the 1988 Hindi film, Trishagni. Pallavi made a special appearance in the film, Rihaee in 1988. She also donned the 1992 Hindi film, Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda under the direction of Shyam Benegal, where she played the role of Lil...
Age:
55
Gender:
Female
32. Neena Kulkarni
Neena Kulkarni is a Marathi stage actress who has established her worth in gold through many superb performances on Marathi stage and films. She was born in a family of doctors and both her parents are still practicing doctors.
She had been interested in acting since her childhood and took part in the skits and one act plays when she was as young as 9 years old. She was a regular in such programmes of Makrand society at Mahim in western suburbs of Mumbai where they used to live. Incidentally she still lives in the same society. She completed her graduation from Elphinstone College Mumbai with French as a major. After completing her BA, she took up acing on stage as a full time profession and in due ...
Age:
68
Gender:
Female
Age:
68
Gender:
Female
33. Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi is India’s highest ranking IPS woman officer. She is also a social militant who was born on June 9, 1949 in Amritsar, Punjab, India. She joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in year 1972 and became the very first woman to become an IPS officer and retired in December 2007. Kiran got the Bachelor of Arts degree from the Government College for Women in Amritsar. Then she receives a Master’s degree with the course, Political Science in Punjab University located in Chandigarh. Later, she took up Bachelor of Laws at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. Then she got a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences in the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Kiran's popularity increased immensely after she decided to ho...
Age:
74
Gender:
Female
34. Deeya Chopra
Deeya Chopra was born on May 17, 1983 and her parents are Ravi and Manju Chopra. She is a well known actress in Hindi television screen and has worked in a number of serials.She was interested in acting since her childhood and her interest became more intense when her elder sister Roshni joined acting in TV serials. Roshni is also a famous actress in Hindi TV serial world. Deeya started her acting career as Jhilmil in Anurag Basu's serial Love Story which was aired on SAB TV during 2007-08. her performance in the serial was much appreciated and she got a role in the next serial of DJ's creative Unit ' Left Right Left' where she acted as Cadet Vidya Saxena, a student of the Military Academy around which the sto...
Age:
40
Gender:
Female
35. Mallika
Reeja Rajagopal is the original name of Mallika, who is known for her character roles in Tamil films. Her understanding portrayal in Autograph, a 2004 Tamil flick, directed by Cheran, fetched her the Best Supporting Actress Award at Filmfare. The 2002 Malayalam flick Nizhalkuthu was her debut flick, in which she had a small role. It was Autograph which garnered Mallika the much-needed recognition. Later, she was busy doing roles in both Tamil and Malayalam. Other than the award for Autograph, Mallika is also credited with the Special ...
36. Ila Arun
Ila Arun is of the star sign Pisces being born on 14th March in Jaipur, Rajasthan where she was also brought up. Her siblings are Piyush Pandey, Prasoon Pandey, Rama Pandey and Tripti Pandey, none of them a part of the Bollywood business like their sister. Ila completed her education graduating from the Maharani Girls’ College in her hometown and is popular for acting and singing, mostly for the latter. Her strong, husky voice of earthy tones has proved her an incomparable singer in Rajasthani folk/folk-pop fusion songs while dabbling in other genres including classical music.
Apart from Hindi, she has sung songs in different languages including Tamil and Telugu. Ms. Arun’s steady rise to fame compris...
Date of Death:
15-03-1954
Age:
95
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
15-03-1954
Age:
95
Gender:
Female
37. Anju Asrani
Anju Asrani is a North Indian and she is from Surat, Gujarat. Her pet name is Guddi. Her mother tongue is Sindhi and she knows south Indian language Telugu as well. She likes dancing and reading books. She came to fame with Sirisha on ETV. She got her first chance at her college as a model and she did a movie which did not get released and till now, she has done more than 35 serials. She has a boutique and she likes to be an actress as well as a business-women. Anju Asrani is a brand conscious person and at the same time if she likes something she buys. She has 12 years of experience in acting.
She loves to work on serials as ‘this gets your acting skills to the tops’. She likes to do characters as dumb and blind...
Gender:
Female
38. Sushmita Mukherjee
Sushmita Mukherjee is a prominent film and television actress. She was born in Kolkata, India. She made her schooling at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. Sushmita was married to Sudhir Mishra, a film director and screenwriter. But they got divorced and she re-marries Raja Bundela, an actor, producer and a politician who belongs to the Bundela Rajput Royal Family. The couple has two kids. Sushmita appeared in character and comedic roles; she also did grey shaded characters. She was debuted as a film actress through the Hindi film, ‘Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin’ in 1987, where she bagged the role of Savita, a journalist. Later, she acted in films like Main Zinda Hoon, Pratikaar, Ghar Jamai, Khalnayak, Aadmi Khilona...
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Female
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39. Anaida
A Eurasian by birth, Anaida is of Greek and Persian descent. She is a double graduate, an accomplished painter, a gifted dancer and a talented pop and playback singer. She is also a noted performer, actor, writer/poet, director and producer. She is a multi-linguist and has earned her name in advertising conceptualizer and creative exponent of the fine arts as well.
Her first step in the entertainment industry was, when she won the Indian Dance Championship. She had taken part in numerous acting and choreographic competitions. Later, she got the job of a radio jockey and became the first ever FM radio jockey in India. She appeared the first time as a child artist in the movie, ‘Tum Karo Vaada’, which was released in 1993. She did ...
40. Alka Verma
Alka Verma is one of Bollywood’s beautiful actresses who has been in and out of the entertainment scene. Her cute and fair features give her face exactly what an advertisement would need to have that extra bit of wow. This is why Alka Verma has often been seen advertising in commercials for different products and brands. Alka is well-known for her role in one of the longest running Indian thriller Serials, C.I.D. It involves crime scene investigations and Alka Verma plays the character of sub-inspector Muskan Gupta (2006-2007). After she left the show, it came to the media’s attention that Alka had been offered a major role in a recently released Indian film called Unforgettable (2014). It i...
Gender:
Female
Gender:
Female
41. Farida Jalal
Farida Jalal is a veteran film and television actress from India. She was born on March 14, 1949 at New Delhi. Farida was known for doing comedic roles but she also laid her hands to doing lead and supporting roles in more than 100 Bollywood films and has been part of the television industry for quite a long time. The actress started her career in 1960’s after winning the Filmfare’s United Film Producers Talent Hunt. She was luckily selected as finalists, together with Bollywood producer and actor, Rajesh Khanna. Farida got a film offer for the first time to do the film, Taqdeer which was offered by Tarachand Barjatya who is one of the audiences at that time. She gained her popularity after essaying a supp...
Age:
75
Gender:
Female
Age:
75
Gender:
Female
42. Roshni Chopra
Roshni Chopra, an actress, TV presenter and a model, was born on November 2, 1980 in New Delhi, India. She is the real life partner of Siddharth Kumar Anand. Roshni was the winner of the reality show, Dil Jeetegi Desi Girl under NDTV Imagine. She became popular for her role as Pia in the soap opera, Kasamh Se. She studied at Our Own English High School, and became a presenter in Doordashan’s Fourth Umpire. In 2009, she was also one of the hosts in India’s Got Talent.
Roshni was also featured in Phhir in 2011 and became a host in Comedy Circus Teen Ka Tadka under Sony TV. She was also an anchor in Star Sports’ Heroes – Moments and Memories. Roshni also performed in Maut Ka Khel and also in an e...
Age:
43
Gender:
Female
Age:
43
Gender:
Female
43. Avika Gor
Avika Gor is an Indian Television Actress who was born on June 30, 1997 in Bombay, India. Her father is Sameer Gor, an insurance agent and her mother is Chetna Gor, a Homemaker. She studied at Ryan International School located in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was first seen in the Indian drama soap, “Balika Vadhu” – Kachchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishte as Anandi Jagdish Singh when she was still studying. She earned fame and received many praises and awards for her appearance in this serial.
Her real dream is to be a model and a B-town Actress. When she was a child, she attended different fashion shows and got the “Best Model Award” for Gini and Johnny in 2007. But she was happy to see her growing...
Age:
26
Gender:
Female
Age:
26
Gender:
Female
44. Tanuja Mukherjee
Tanuja is a popular Indian actress, who is also mother to Kajol and Tanisha Mukherjee, two well-known actresses in the film fraternity. She was born on the 23rd of September, in 1943. She has been most popularly known for her roles in movies like Baharein Phir Bhi Aayengi. The movie has an interesting plot of a reporter who gets thrown out of job on him exposing dangerous conditions at the work place. After a while he gets reemployed by the daughter of the deceased in the incident. The daughter seems to be more interested in the reporter than what concerns just journalism. She is unaware of the romantic relation between her younger sister and the reporter. The role of the younger sister is played by Tanuja. This movie released in 1966....
Age:
80
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Female
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45. Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher or Kirron Anupam Kher was Kiran Thakar Singh in real life. She was born on June 14, 1955 in Punjab, India and she was raised in Chandigarh. Because of her belief in numerology, she decided to alter her name from Kiron or Kiran to Kirron. She is a veteran Indian film and television actress. She is also a theatre artist and a television host who belongs to the Bhartiya Janata Party. She was voted in Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s Parliament. Kiran is the sister of Kanwal Thakar Kaur, a popular badminton player. She has a brother who died last 2003 and another sister who was married to a retired Naval Officer.
She studied in Chandigarh and graduated in the Department of Indian Theatre of Punjab U...
Age:
68
Gender:
Female
Age:
68
Gender:
Female
46. Mini Mathur
Mini Mathur was born in Mumbai on 21st August 1974. She completed her schooling from Delhi Public School R.K Puram; she completed her graduation with English literature from Lady Shriram College, Delhi University, and a business management degree certification from IMT, Ghaziabad.
She commenced her career as an advertising professional at J Walter Thompson, New Delhi. She got a modelling assignment from Ray ban sunglasses which excelled her modelling career further. She made her maiden entry in television as a host in show named “Tol Mol Ke Bol” later She joined MTV as a V.J. While working at MTV she made her international presence with Bombay Blush, a culture Indian show aired in United Kingdom. She presented two back to back se...
Age:
48
Gender:
Female
Age:
48
Gender:
Female
47. Jayati Bhatia
Jayati Bhatia is an actress that brought up her career with training in Theater from Delhi. Subsequently, she was offered roles in Ekta Kapoor’s famous serials in 1996. She has been working with Balaji films for 10 years now. She has worked in many serials like in Kahanni Ghar Ghar ki, she acted the role Dr. Shweta. She has acted on shows like Kutumb and Kasauti Zindagi ki also. She has also done three Sachinji’s serials which included Tu tu main main in which she was friends of Radha. In Jassi jaisi Koi nahi she was a friend of the lead of the serial Jassi and in Sinndoor tere naam ka, she was Titli mami. Presently, she is working in Mamta as Mishti.
Jayati did great work in theatre and she enjoyed going at that place. To her cr...
48. Sai Deodhar
Sai Deodhar is a popular television actress who is mostly seen acting in Hindi tele serials and also a socialite seen on quite often in page 3 circuits. Born in the year 1984 in Pune, Maharashtra, India SAI's father is Marathi and mom a Bengali and both are prominent theatre personalities. Sai at a very young age, debuted in the acting world with a Marathi film in the year 1993 produced and directed by her dad named Lapandav where she played sister to the main protagonist. After growing up and completing her studies, Sai moved to Mumbai from Pune tto start her career as a model but in due course and eventually landed up with one of the main lead that of a lady pilot in the hit and classic tele serial Saara Aakash opposite another new comer ...
Age:
40
Gender:
Female
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49. Shilpa Shirodkar
Born on 20th November, 1969, Shilpa Shirodkar was one of the most popular actresses in the 90s. She was born in Bombay. She came into the limelight after been adjudged the winner of the Miss India title in the year 1992. She has a sister named Namratha Shirodkar. Namratha Shirodkar is married to southern film superstar Mahesh Babu. Both of them started their Bollywood career at the same time. Her sister too was adjudged the winner of the Miss India title in the year 1993.Shilpa Shirodkar comes from a Marathi family background. Her grandmother Meenakshi Shirodkar was a famous Marathi actress. She started her Bollywood career with the 1989 movie “Bhrashtachar”. She played the part of a blind girl in the movie. H...
Age:
54
Gender:
Female
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50. Shraddha Nigam
Shraddha Nigam is a beautiful and extremely well-known Indian television actress. Her awesome looks, spectacular figure and wonderful acting skills made her a household name in the Hindi television industry. Shraddha had her debut with the TV-serial ‘Choodiyaan’. This serial marked the keynote of her career in the TV industry and right after this, there was no looking back for her. She rose to fame with her roles of Detective Krishna in ‘Krishna Arjun’. Here, her role of detective ‘Krishna’ was praised by critics and it supposedly ‘stole hearts’ of innumerable viewers. Right after that, she was casted in ‘Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat’, where she played the role of a bubbly and smart girl who was innocent at heart and loved her family....
Age:
44
Gender:
Female
Age:
44
Gender:
Female
51. Smita Bansal
Smita Bansal is the famous face of Indian Television. She has worked both on small screen and big screen. She was born on 21st Feb, 1977 in Jaipur. She got her education from India International School, Jaipur. She is married to Ankush Mohla (director) on 8th Dec, 2000. She is living a happy life with her two daughters and with a lovely husband.She came to Mumbai in 1997 and started her career as a model. She has worked in many serials and films. Talking about her role in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, she has played the role of Nivedita Kamal Agarwal. This show was aired on Star Plus. It grabbed the attention of domesticated women and it was the 2nd highest viewed show on Indian Television. It won several Indian Telly awards in dif...
Age:
46
Gender:
Female
Age:
46
Gender:
Female
52. Tina Kuwajerwala
Tina Kuwajerwala is a popular model and television serial actress who is more popularly known as the spouse of the successful television actor Hussain Kuwajerwala. Tina Kuwajerwala (Nee Darira) belongs from a traditional Hindu family who are mainly into business. Initially after completing her studies in fashion designing, Tina started off with her own exports firm taking over from her US based uncle. Sometimes later, she was called by a reputed production house for an audition for modelling. Tina thought to give it a try and after few initial assignments she started getting offers from many reputed brands. After doing modelling for sometimes,
Tina met Hussain Kuwajerwala and the two fell in love and decided to get married. But t...
Age:
46
Gender:
Female
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53. Varsha Usgaonkar
Famous as Rani Lakshmi Bai of Hindi television, Varsha Usgaonkar is a top Marathi actress of 90s. She is a Konkani and hails from Goa. She was born on 28th February 1968 and is daughter of A.K.S. Usgaonkar, who is the former deputy speaker of Goa. She has two sisters Dr. Mrs. Tosha Kurade and Mrs. Manish Tarkar. She is multitalented actress, who has worked in many Hindi television serials as well as in Marathi and Bollywood movies. She has also sung in a Konkani music album Roop Tujem Lalita Pixem with Ulhas Buyao.Playing lead role...
Age:
56
Gender:
Female
Age:
56
Gender:
Female
54. Ashwini Kalsekar
Ashwini Kalsekar is an Indian actress who is very famous for doing soap operas and films. She was born on January 22, 1970 at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She was the daughter of a bank employee, Anil Kalsekar. She graduated her Bachelor of Arts in Bombay on the year 1991. Ashwini pursued her theatre career on year 1991 to 1994 as a backup. Then from 1992 to 1993, she is a backup to Neena Gupta. She is also a trained theatre actress by Muzammeel Vakil in 1992 to 1995. Besides acting, she is also a good and trained dancer of Kathak. Ashwini was married twice. First is with theatre actor, Nitesh Pandey from 1998 to 2002. Second is with television and film actor, Murali Sharma.
Ashwini got her fame when she acted in the Indian histor...
Age:
54
Gender:
Female
Age:
54
Gender:
Female
55. Ratna Pathak
Ratna Pathak is an Indian actress who has been a part of many Indigenous & International Projects through various forms of acting. She is a popular Theatre artist, film & television actress and co-founder of a theatre group called ‘Motley Theatre group’. She is the daughter of yesteryear’s famous Bollywood actress ‘Dina Pathak’. Her younger sister ‘Supriya Pathak’ is also an actress. She is married to famous actor ‘Naseeruddin Shah’.
Ratna pathak is a multifaceted personality who graduated from the National School of Drama. She has done a lot of theatre and appeared in some art movies as well. She started her career in movies with the movie called &lsq...
Age:
67
Gender:
Female
Age:
67
Gender:
Female
56. Aruna Irani
Aruna Irani is an Indian actress who has acted in over 300 films, mostly doing supporting roles. She was born to a Parsi family on 18th August 1946 in Mumbai. Aruna has mixed origin of Irani Zoroastrian and Hindu background. She was the sister of famous filmmaker, Indra Kumar and actor, Adi Irani. She is married to film director, Kuku Kohli. Aruna Irani was first introduced in the film, Gunga Jumna in 1961. She was just 9 years old at the time when she played the role of Azra.
After that, she did small roles in several films such as Jahanara in 1964, Farz in 1967 and Upkar in the same year and Aaya Sawan Jhoomke in 1969. In 1968, she acted in Aulad along with the comedian, Mehmood Ali. Later, she also acted...
Age:
77
Gender:
Female
Age:
77
Gender:
Female
57. Rakhi Sawant
Rakhi Sawant, the well-known drama queen of the Indian TV industry, was born as Neeru Bheda on 25th Nov 1978. In the year 2014, she launched her political party and fought the Lok Sabha election. Her party fared very badly and as a consequence, she merged her party with the Republican Party of India (A).
The early life of Rakhi Sawant was never simple for this girl, in her childhood days she worked for a caterer to support her family and she used to get 50 Rs daily. She did her schooling from “Goklibai High School”, Vile Parle and went on to study arts at Mithibai College. Her debut movie was ‘Agnichakra’ and later she went to work on in many low bu...
Age:
45
Gender:
Female
Age:
45
Gender:
Female
58. Joyce Arora
Joyce Arora is an Indian socialite who is the mother of the duo of Malaika Arora and Amrita Arora. Joyce was born in a Christian family and spoke Malayalam at her home. Her original name was Joyce Polycarp. In Mumbai, Joyce met Anil Arora, a Merchant Navy employee. She fell in love with Anil after they continued to meet each other on different occasions. Later, Joyce decided to marry Anil, a Hindu-Sikh who hailed from Fazlika, Punjab.
There were some cultural differences between their respective faiths, but the couple put them aside and got married in the early 70s’. She had worked at The Indian Express, one of the most-read newspapers in India. With...
Gender:
Female
59. Pankaj Udhas
The King of Ghazals, Pankaj Udhas was born on 17th may 1951 in Rajkot, Jaipur. His whole family is into the world of music. He had studied in Sir BPTI Bhavanagar.His family moved to Mumbai and Pankaj pursued his degree at ST. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He also got trained in Indian Classical Vocal under the tutelage of Master Navarang. He started his career with the first ghazal album titled " Aahat " in 1980 and subsequently recorded many hits like "Mukarar" in 1981, “Tarrannum” in 1982, “Mehfil” in 1983, Pankaj Udhas Live at “Royal Albert Hall” in 1984, “Nayaab” in 1985 and “Aafreen” in 1986.Udhas became, even more, famous af...
Date of Death:
26-02-2024
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
26-02-2024
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
60. Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh is a popular and most talented cricket player. This prominent Indian player is fondly known by several names, such as Bhajji, Bhajju and Bhajjipaa. His fans outside India have given the nickname, Turbanator. Bhajji is predominantly a right arm Bowler in the team. He uses the technique, off-break to bowl. Harbhajan Singh Plaha is from Jalandhar district in Punjab.
He is an expert when it comes to spin bowling and has taken the second highest wickets in test matches, only next to the veteran Srilankan Player Muttiah Muralitharan. In the year 1998, Harbhajan started his stint in the field of Cricket by playing in a One Day International match.
Though he had played a fair game, his career did not shoot up beca...
Age:
43
Gender:
Male
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61. Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a classic filmmaker, who has given Indian audiences films like Parineeta, Munnabhai MBBS, 3-Idiots, PK and 1942-A Love Story. What distinguished him from other film maker was that, he always wanted to experiment cinema. Both in terms of his script and in terms of mise-en-scene, character development and pace of the film, we believe that most of his films were very successful in box-office. As an FTII student, he always wanted to learn by making his films; he selected films therefore like an intensive program. He has a reputation for being completely demanding during production and his moody, temperamental and control freaks always made him the perfect filmmaker before and behind the camera.
He had captured a...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
62. Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt was a great actor, director, producer, and politician. He was named Balraj Dutt at his birth on 6th of June, 1929, in Khurd village, Jhelum district, Punjab province, British India. His father departed from this world when Dutt was only five years old. His family moved to a small village called Mandauli in Yamuna Nagar district that is in Haryana after the Partition of India. After this, Dutt moved to Lucknow, where he spent time till he graduated.
After this, he moved to Bombay, joined Jai Hind College for his undergraduate studies and started working at the city’s BEST transport division. Sunil Dutt worked in the oldest radio station in South Asia called...
Date of Death:
25-05-2005
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-05-2005
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
63. Prem Chopra
Prem Chopra is a legend of Hindi cinema and he has acted in over 400 films. Prem Chopra has been in Bollywood since its inception. He has a long spanning film career of over 50 years. He has not only acted in Hindi films, but also in several Punjabi films. He has made a great contribution to Hindi films and has made a special place for himself in the hearts of many Indians.
Born on 23rd September 1935, Prem Chopra hails from a Punjabi family. He was born in Lahore. Prem holds a degree from Punjab University. Since his childhood, Prem was interested in histrionics and invo...
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
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64. Prakash Jha
Prakash Jha, a director, film producer and screenwriter, was born on 27th of February 1952. ‘Prakash Jha Productions’ is his production venture.
Hailing from Bihar, Prakash Jha went on to study B.Sc Honors in Ramjas College. Eventually he stopped studies and came to Mumbai, wanting to be a painter. As he was preparing for entrance exam for a course in painting, Prakash Jha watched the movie Dharma, and thus developed a passion for film making. The year 1973 saw him joining the Film And Television Institute of India, Pune, in order to study editing. But unfortunately the studio was shut down and thus Prakash returned to Mumbai and earned his living.
Initially Prakash Jh...
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
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65. Karan Johar
Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Shar...
Age:
51
Gender:
Male
66. Kader Khan
Kader Khan was born on 12 November, 1937 in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father named Abdil Rehman is from Afghanistan while his mother named Iqbal Begum is from India. Kader Khan is an actor and writer. Kader Khan obtained a Master's Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Institution of Engineers in India. After completing his education, he started working as professor of Civil engineering in M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering in Byculla.
Khan wrote and acted a play on College’s Annual day function. Dilip Kumar was very impressed after watching his acting...
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
67. Farhan Akhtar
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 Coope...
Age:
50
Gender:
Male
Age:
50
Gender:
Male
68. Anu Malik
Anu Malik is considered as one of the most famous and successful music directors from film industry. He has also established his name as a singer. He began his career as a music director in 1977. He gave the music for the film Hunterwali. He became famous in 1990s by delivering the blockbusters like Baazigar,Janam and so on. We can say 1990 to 2000s was the golden period of his career. He was awarded a National Award for his phenomenal music for the film Refugee. His other blockbusters were Shah Rukh Khan starrer Mai Hoon Na and Baazigar . This movie gave him a Filmfare Award of Best Music Director. He has made a record of winning this trophy for 6 times. Anu Malik has given his versatile music for more than 350 films. He is considered a...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
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69. Manoj Bajpayee
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 st...
Age:
55
Gender:
Male
70. Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Musta...
Age:
50
Gender:
Male
71. Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Kumar is Bollywood’s most sought-after villain who did over 400 films in his career till date. He was born on September 21, 1955. He is one of the actors who made a switch from Bollywood to Hollywood.
He worked in Hollywood projects such as Marigold, Desperate Endeavors, Braking Waves, Blind Ambition and Sweet Amerika. For his performance in the Desperate Endeavors, he got the best actor award in Houston Film festival. He is one of the few villain actors who despite having cast in stereotype roles, switched to playing some meaningful characters in Indian cinema. For his role as Bhati for ‘I am Kalam’, he was awarded Star Dust best actor award but ...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
72. Vivek Oberoi
Vivek Anand Oberoi's birth was on 3rd September 1976 (age-39) in Hyderabad, Telangana to father Suresh Oberoi and mother Yashodhara Oberoi. He also has a nickname named 'Rockstar'. Vivek did his schooling from Hyderabad Public School, Hyderabad and Mayo College, Ajmer. After school, he studied at Mithibai College,Juhu. He often used to take a public bus to his college. He has a Master's Degree from New York University for Film acting, USA. Before coming to the acting career, he worked as a scriptwriter and bought his first car with the money he made from that, but his first car was a Jeep gifted to him by his father.He made his debut with Ram Gopal Verma's Company in 2002 and backed two Fi...
Age:
47
Gender:
Male
73. Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a renowned Indian director and screenwriter. He created, what is today referred to as ‘middle cinema’. His work has widely received critical acclaim in India as well as in the International Film Circuit. He was born on 14 December 1934 in Secunderabad. He is a cousin of Guru Dutt. His paternal grandmother and Guru Dutt’s maternal grandmother were sisters. His career began in advertising in the year 1959. He was initially a copywriter. Over the years, he slowly rose to the position of a creative head. He directed over 900 advertisements before focusing his faculties on film-making. Benegal is known for films like Ankur, Nishant, Manthan and Bhumika, which were released in 197...
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
74. Shiamak Davar
Shiamak Davar, the well-known Choreographer of Indian origin, is the one who first introduced the western dance form in India. The dancer is born to Nani Davar and Puran Davar. Born and brought up in Mumbai, with siblings Shireen Davar and Darab Davar, the dance lover had early dreams of having dance as a career. He has known as the ‘guru of contemporary dance’ in India. He recently choreographed the dance numbers in Mission Impossible 4. The contemporary dance guru has choreographed many award functions such as the Filmfare Awards and the IIFA Awards. He has worked and made actors like Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan and Sushant Singh Rajput dance to every beat possible. The dancer and...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
75. Saurabh Shukla
Saurabh Shukla was born at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in the year 1963 on 5th March. He is a versatile personality who started from theater & reached to Bollywood where he tried his hands in Direction, Screenplay writing along with his Acting. At the age of two, he left Gorakhpur & moved to Delhi. He completed his schooling & later did his graduation from Khalsa College in Delhi. In 1984, he kickstarted his career as a professional with his entry into the theater. Shekhar Kapur gave him the debut role in Bandit Queen.
Earlier he did many plays & also joined NSD Repertoire Company as an actor. Satya, that was directed by Ram Gopal Verma proved to be the film...
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
76. Satish Kaushik
An active actor, filmmaker & producer as well. He was born in Haryana, India on April 13th, 1956. This actor has marked his presence in the comic roles since his entry in Bollywood, He worked with the prominent actors of his time & is active yet in Bollywood. After completion of graduation from National School of Drama in 1978, he made his entry in the Filmmaking as an Assistant Director of the movie “Masoom” that won the Filmfare Award for “ Best Film Critics”, directed by Shekhar Kapoor. Masoom was his first movie as an actor too. He bagged two Filmfare Award in the category of Best Comedian for his role in Ram Lakhan & Saajan Chale Sasural. He tried his hands as Director...
Date of Death:
09-03-2023
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
09-03-2023
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
77. Sanjay Khan
An actor, director, and a producer Sanjay Khan is most famous for his role in The Sword of Tipu Sultan. He has acted in various films, Haqeeqat being his debut. He worked as an actor till 80s and later ventured as a director-producer. Sanjay was born in Bangalore in a Muslim liberal family. He is married to Zarine Katrak, a well-liked model of the 1960s. Feroz Khan, an established actor of those times, is Sanjay’s elder brother. Sanjay has three daughters and a son. His eldest daughter Farah is married to DJ Aqeel,
Simon married to the managing director of D’décor and Sussanne who was married to Hrithik Roshan but the couple has recently parted their way...
Age:
83
Gender:
Male
Age:
83
Gender:
Male
78. Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta is an Indian filmmaker who has even produced and written various movies like Jung and Zinda which have been successful at the box office. He was born on 23rd October 1969. Just like people with the same name jell up together, Sanjay Gupta is very close to Sanjay Dutt. They are very dear friends and so Sanjay Gupta has cast Sanjay Dutt as an actor in thirteen movies. This shows their friendship and the bond they share.
The hit film directed by Sanjay Gupta, Jung released in 2000, also starred Sanjay Dutt along with the beauty queen Shilpa Shetty as lead roles. He has been directing films since 1992 and still amazes people with his work, an...
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54
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79. Sanjay Dutt
July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of cinema Sunil Dutt and Nargis gave birth to the ‘Munna Bhai’ of Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt in Bombay. Almost all are aware that Sanjay Dutt’s life is like a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs in his personal as well as professional life. But this man has never lost hope and is still struggling to get into a normal life as he is behind the bars since 2013 because of the TADA case. He went to Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. In his teenage years, due to peer pressure, he started taking drugs. For almost nine years he took heroin and cocaine as drug intakes and after a long period he realized that he should quit it all and w...
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64
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Male
80. Rahul Bose
Rahul Bose, who is an actor, director, writer and playback singer was born on 27th July 1967. He was born in Kolkata and then later shifted to Mumbai. His parents are Rupen Bose and Kumud Bose. He has an elder sister whose name is Anuradha Ansari. She is married to Tariq Ansari, the director, and owner of Mid-day Multimedia. Even as a child, Rahul had been interested in different plays and also participated in various co-curricular activities in school. He was interested in varieties of sports such as rugby, boxing and also obtained cricket training under Ali Khan Pataudi. He began his acting career in plays, and then in advertisements. His first stage play was when he was only six years old where he played t...
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56
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Male
81. Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and associated with theater. He had treated art-cinema as his serious endeavor requiring the dedication, discipline, and integrity. Throughout his career, he subjected his own acting to a process of rigorous artistic self-analysis and reflection. He was the discovery of filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who introduced actors like Shabana, Om Puri, Smita Patil and others in the Indian cinema. Undoubtedly, this actor has acted in some serious films such as Sparsh, Paar and Iqbal( three national awards). For his performance in Paar, he received the best actor in the Venice Film Festival. His growth even in art-cinema was slow, as he had acted in women-oriented films of Shabana Az...
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74
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82. Nagesh Kukunoor
Nagesh Kukunoor was born in Hyderabad to Kusuma Sudarshan and KS Naidu. He completed his high school education at Montfort School, Yercaud. He has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad and a master’s degree in the same field from Georgia Institute of Technology. After this, he started working at Trinity Consultants in Texas and then Atlanta as an Environmental Consultant. During this period, he attended various workshops in the film. Later, at Warehouse Actor’s Theater in Atlanta he studied acting and direction. He stepped into the film industry in the year 1995, with a short film, One Culture At a Time of which he was the director, producer, and scre...
Age:
57
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Male
83. Milind Soman
Born on 4th November 1965, Milind Soman is a supermodel of India. He is also involved in acting and production. Having born in Scotland, he stayed in England till his seventh year. Later, he came to India with his family. He was a swimmer and represented India at national level. This helped him to become a model. During 1995, Milind Soman was seen in the music album Made in India alongside Alisha Chinai. This was one of the best acts of his career. After working as a model for some time he was the lead artiste in Caption Vyom, ...
Age:
58
Gender:
Male
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58
Gender:
Male
84. M. F. Husain
Maqbool Fida Husain is the full name of MF Hussain. He is definitely India’s cherished artists. He is a
successful painter and his paintings mostly depict Indian women. He also gets involved in controversies
often. Other than painting MF Hussain is also acclaimed for drawing, film-making and writing.
Born on 17 September 1915 in Pandharpur, MF Hussain is also associated with the Indian Parliament.
His mother died at his very young age and eventually his father got into married life again. Hussain
pursued his basic education at Indore. He was interested in painting since his childhood. He got the skills
of calligraphy and got himself trained with Kufi Khat. At this time he also got involved in poetry. At the
age of 20 he shift...
Date of Death:
09-06-2011
Age:
108
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
09-06-2011
Age:
108
Gender:
Male
85. Mahesh Bhatt
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt created a niche for himself as a screenplay, writers and even director as his movies dealt with emotion, pain, sufferings, exploitation and even trauma that was not very regular in arts or commercial cinema. His films always had focused women empowerment( Arth, Kaash, Sir, etc.). Arth and “Saaransh; remains his best film till date. His film story was mostly inspired from his own life.
For instance, Smita Patil’s character in Arth was inspired from his relationship with Parveen Babi. His films “Janam” and “Naam” also had depicted his personal feelings of being born as an illegitimate child. He was born on September 20, 1948 to Hindu father (Nanabhai Bhatt) and Muslim...
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
86. Kundan Shah
Kundan Shah is an Indian director and scriptwriter known for his comedy cults such as the film “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro” and the television series “Nukkad.” He obtained his Diploma in 1976 from the “Film and Television Institute of India” (FTII) in Pune, in direction. He started assisting Saeed Mirza on the sets of Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai in 1980 and the following year he also assisted Robin Dharamraj in “Chakra.” Shah also created a documentary titled Vision of the Blind, for the Films Division of India, in ’81.
However, his breakthrough in the industry arrived in the name of “Jaane Bhi Do...
Age:
76
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Male
87. Kumar Sanu
Having chaired over 17,000 songs in the last 27 years inclusive of diverse languages and creating over 8000 new musical pieces, every Indian household and fans around the globe are familiar with the Iconic Kumar Sanu.
He also bossed the music industry in India in the 1990s where he pocketed “The Best Playback Singer” title for a record period of 5 years in successionOriginally named Kedarnath Bhattacharya, by his vocalist and composer father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, he grew up in Kolkata, India and was encouraged to pursue singing and playing table by his father. He graduated in Commerce from Kolkata University and often used to perform small-t...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
88. Ken Ghosh
Ken Ghosh is a Bollywood Director who started his career with Ishq Vishq starring Shahid Kapoor. It was this movie which is also responsible for bringing Shahid Kapoor to the Film Industry. Ken and Shahid share a friendly bond ever since. Ken is also known for his movies like Fida which was released in 2004 and this too has Shahid Kapoor along with Kareena Kapoor Khan and Fardeen Khan in it.
This movie could not make much noise at the Box Office. In 2010, once again the Ken and Shahid duo delivered a film called Chance Pe Dance and this time it was a fresh face, Genelia who starred opposite Shahid. Ken, however, has only these three movies to his credit as a Director. If we trace his projects, we see a long break between Fida and...
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57
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Male
Age:
57
Gender:
Male
89. Johnny Lever
Johnny Lever is an Indian comedy actor who came to prominence with film actor Govinda’s films. As actors like Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor had reached a zenith in their career, it was actor Sunil Dutt who had spotted this actor in a stage (show of Amitabh Bachchan and music composer Kalyanji Anandji) and advised him to take up comedy roles seriously. He is one of the comedians who appear truly funny to make us laugh. He is also known for his wits and smarts and appears to make intelligent jokes and poke fun in many films. After Govinda was overshadowed by the prominence of Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan in the film world, Johnny Lever could make audiences laugh by using his physical appearanc...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
90. Jagjit Singh
Jagjit Singh is ‘Ghazal King’ in Indian music. His fantastic rendition, bass voice, and perfect diction made him popular in every home. This singer ushered a new era of Ghazal singing in the country. His songs such as ‘Woh Kaagaz Ki Kashti’(film Aaj) and ‘Tumko Dekha Toh Yeh Khayal Aaya’ (film Saath Saath), ‘Hoshwaalon Ko Khabar Kya’ (film Sarfarosh) benefitted numerous films too and brought melody back to films. His one song’ Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe in Ho’ is an immortal song. As a singer, he was influenced by Hindi film songs since his childhood.
He used to hear various songs in radio and sang them occasionally...
Date of Death:
10-10-2011
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83
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Male
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Date of Death:
10-10-2011
Age:
83
Gender:
Male
91. Dino Morea
Dino Morea is a die-hard Bollywood actor and a former Model. He was born to an Italian father and an Anglo-Indian mother. Dino spent his first eleven years of life in Italy. Then, his family moved back to Bangalore, India. He has attended Clarence High School and Bangalore Military School. Morea graduated from St. Joseph College, Bangalore. Dino’s elder brother is Nicola Morea, and younger brother is Santino Morea. Morea fans are insane for his dimple and his cute face. Apart from acting, he has involved himself in business also. With his brothers, he co-owns a restaurant. Dino has a lot of interest in modeling, so soon after completing graduation he started his modeling career. He has participated in the prestigio...
Age:
48
Gender:
Male
Age:
48
Gender:
Male
92. David Dhawan
Born on 16th of August 1955, David Dhawan has always been considered one of the finest Indian film directors. Mostly known for his comedy movies, he and actor Govinda shared a very strong professional relationship, which still continues. David Dhawan completed his higher studies from the FTII, Pune (Film and Television Institute of India). He was born in Jalandhar, which is in Punjab. However, as his father got transferred to Kanpur, David Dhawan also had to move to Kanpur, where he completed his 12th standard from the Christ Church College.
Though David Dhawan initially wanted to be an actor, but later he dropped the plan only to become an editor. After taking editing as his option, he slowly got into di...
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68
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93. Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri is a famous Music Composer of India. Born on 27 November 1952 in a Hindu Bengali background, at Kolkata, Bappi Lahiri was instrumental in the popularization of Disco music in Indian films. Namak Halaal, Disco Dancer, and Sharaabi are the songs of the 1980s that made him popular. Both the parents of Bappi were working in the music industry. Bappi fostered the intention to become an international name in his childhood. He was just three years old when he played Tabla. His parents trained him in singing. The 1972 Bengali flick “Daadu” was the first movie for which Bappi composed music. At that time, Bappi was just 19.
On his personal front, Bappi was married to Chitrani in 1977 an...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
94. Arshad Warsi
Arshad Warsi is most popular for his role as Circuit in the super hit Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Born in to a Muslim family; he attended a boarding school and at the age of 14, this led to many struggles in his early life. He began working as a salesman at the age of 17 but had shown interest in dancing. His interest changed in to a profession as he joined the Akbar Sami’s Dance group, which started his choreography and dancing career. Arshad’s film career began in 1996 when he was offered a role by Amitabh Bachchan’s production house film Tere Mera Sapne. He was then provided with numerous roles but none of them were too successful. He became a prominent actor after starring...
Age:
56
Gender:
Male
95. Arbaaz Khan
Born in a family that has strong ties in the film industry, it wasn’t too long before Arbaaz Khan jumped into Bollywood. Born in 1967, he started his career as an actor and then decided to switch to the production aspect of films later on.
Arbaaz had big shoes to fill with his older brother, Salman Khan, being a superstar actor. He has held many leading and supporting roles in movies throughout his acting career. He is well known for his supporting roles in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na in which he appeared with his brother Sohail Khan and Dabangg 1 and 2 in which he worked with his other brother Salman Khan. He is currently working on a comedy film, Kis Kisko Pyaar Karu, alongside Kapil Sharma from Co...
Age:
56
Gender:
Male
96. Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for ...
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
Age:
67
Gender:
Male
97. Aftab Shivdasani
Aftab Shivdasani is an actor and producer of Indian film industry. He is known best for his humouristic characters in comedy flicks like MASTI, KYA KOOL HAIN HUM and GRAND MASTI. He is 37 years old, born on June 25th, 1978 in the glamour city Mumbai, Maharashtra.
His father’s name is Prem Shivdasani and mother is Putil Shivdasani. They are basically from Sindhi origin. Afsana Shivdasani is his elder sister. In 2014, Aftab tied a marriage knot with Nin Dusanj. She is also an artist and a philosopher.
Aftab Shivdasani is ready to do any character. He has worked in more than 32 films and did many advertisements. He came to the film line in 1987 as a child artist in the movie MR. INDIA, the movie ...
Age:
45
Gender:
Male
Age:
45
Gender:
Male
98. Adnan Sami
Adnan was born on august 15,1973. He is keenly interested in music. He is presently married to Roya Faryabi in 2010. Before this, he did two marriages, but because of less understanding, he got divorced from both his wives Sabah Galadari and Zeba Bakhtiar. He got a baby from his first wife Zeba too.
Adnan is not only a singer but a composer, actor and television presenter also. He appeared in a Pakistani Urdu movie Sargam in the year 1995 which is directed by Sayeed Noor. This film was a great hit. Adnan acted in this movie with her wife Zeba Bakhtiar. The film is so good that it won so many awards in the category of Best Film, Best Director, Best Script Writer, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Musician. Adnan wo...
Age:
50
Gender:
Male
Age:
50
Gender:
Male
99. Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Abhijeet was born in Kanpur and belongs to a Bengali family. He got his primary and secondary education from Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School, Kanpur, and got his higher secondary education from BNSD Inter College Chunni Ganj, Kanpur. In 1977, he did his graduation in commerce from Christ Church College, Kanpur. In 1970, he started singing on stage. He learned and developed his singing style by listening to Kishore Kumar’s songs. In 1981, he went to Mumbai to get a degree in chartered accountancy, but his passion towards music was very strong, therefore he started his singing career.
In the 1990’s, Abhijeet was a playback vocalist. His records became popular when he did a song in a film &ls...
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
Age:
65
Gender:
Male
100. Mohinder Amarnath
Mohinder Amarnath or Mohinder Amarnath Bahrdwaj in real life was born on September 24, 2950 in Patiala, India. He was known as Jimmy and he is a former cricketer and presently a cricket analyst. He is the son of the late test cricketer, Lala Amarnath. His brothers Surinder and Rajinder Amarnath are also from the cricket industry. Mohinder was the ‘Man of the Series’ in 1983, this is when India got their very first World Cup Cricket award in England. He was also the best batsman in opposition to the express pace. Mohinder started in 1969 in a competition against Australia. He was the quick-bowling all rounder at that time. Then he became the top order batsman who primarily plays at number 3 for his country. Mohinder was known ...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
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