Hindi Tv Serial Satyajit Ray Presents - Cast & Crew

This versatile actress was born on the 17th of October in the year 1955, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was a very prominent actress and a news reader. She got lots of fan followers and made a huge impact as far as her acting was concerned. She was known for her splendid acting and sensible portrayal of the character that she was expected to depict.

Supriya Pathak is an Indian actress who has been reigning the screens of Hindi Cinema with her roles as supporting actress for a long time. She was born in January, 1961 in Mumbai. Supriya Pathak’s mom is the famous actress Dina Pathak . Her father, Baldev Pathak, had a tailoring shop named ‘Shriman’ near Gateway of India. The shop was very famous as it made clothes for the legendary actors Dilip Kumar and Rajesh Khanna. Supriya’s sister, Ratna Pathak Shah, is the wife of veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah. She did not have a good childhood. Her mom worked day and night, leaving her to stay at her uncle’s place. She did PhD in Competitive Dance. Supriya got married to actor and director Pankaj Kapur. Supriya is very introvert, simple and spiritual in nature. She is the follower of Radha Soami. Her husband is the center of her life. She first started acting in theatres before working in movies. She made debut with the film ‘Kalyug’ in 1981 and won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film. She received much praise for her performance in ‘Bazaar’ in 1982. Her role in the recent movie ‘Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela’ created an unforgettable image on the audience’s mind. She again won the Filmfare Award for this film as Best Supporting Actress. Supriya is a prominent face in TV Series as well. She is still remembered for her outstanding performance as ‘Hansa Parekh’ in the comedy series ‘Khichdi’ which was aired during 2002 to 2004. She even received Indian Telly Award for Best Actress in a Comic Role for this series. She was also seen in the TV series Chhanchhan telecasted on Sony TV. Supriya also appeared in a French film named ‘The Bengali Night’.

Sandip Ray is the only son of Satyajit Ray and Bijoya Ray, born on September 8, 1953. He is an Indian director and a music director, mainly working for the Bengali film industry. He was born in Kolkata and studied at South Point School and then from Patha Bhavan, Kolkata. Only at the age of 24, he started his journey as an assistant director on the sets of his father. He made his first directorial debut, Phatik Chand, in 1983, which received International Children’s Film Festival in Vancouver. Not only a director, but Sandip was also a noted photographer. He is best known for directing the Feluda series. His recent work was Professor Shonku o El Dorado.

Alankar Joshi or Master Alankar was a child artist in the Indian Film Industry. He worked as an actor during 1970s and early 1980s. He appeared in more than 100 Hindi movies. He grew popular because of Yash Chopra’s classic, “Deewar” (1955) where he played young Amitabh Bachchan. In the 70s and 80s he was one of the most sought child artists. He worked in many blockbuster hits like “Sholay” (1978), “Don” (1978), “Seeta Aur Geeta” (1972), “Dream Girl” (1977) and many more. He worked with most of the big production houses of Bollywood. He worked for famous directors like Yash Chopra, Chandra Barot, and Raj Kapoor.

Utpal Dutt is a Veteran in Indian cinema who was a popular theatre actor. He had acted in many Hindi movies too. He has acted over 100 movies in a career spanning over four decades. His most critically acclaimed and box-office successful films include ‘Bhuvan Shome’, Agantuk, Golmaal, Shaukheen, Amanush, Barsaat Ki Ek Raat, The Great Gambler. Although he acted in many Bengali plays, he took a keen interest in English theaters.

Biographies reveal bare details about the maverick filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Even today not much is known about this extraordinary filmmaker. But people still have a passion for doing research upon his classic films as he is an extraordinary filmmaker. Satyajit Ray was India’s first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award (Honorary Oscar) in 1992. He is also a recipient of the honorary doctorate by Oxford University ( after actor Chaplin). The government of India has awarded him ‘Padma Bhushan(1965) and  Dadasaheb Phalke Award(1985) and the highest civilian honour’Bharat Ratna’(1992) too. In 1992, he was even posthumously awarded the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement in directing at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The director was chosen once as No 7 in the list of list of "Top 10 Directors" of the world. 

Dr. Shriram Lagoo is an Indian actor who is known for being a character-specific or a method-actor. Lagoo originally from Satara completed his formal education at Fergusson College and graduated from the B.J.Medical College. He discovered his passion for drama and the theater during his college days, and joined Bhalba Kelkar’s “Progressive Dramatic Association.” Kelkar, a senior student at the same college Lagoo, attended, shared his like-mindedness, and penchant for acting. Later on, Lagoo pursued further specialization in his education field by taking up a course in ENT in Mumbai. He practiced medicine in Pune, Mumbai, and also continued training in various courses abroad. In the year 1969, Lagoo made his theater debut with the Marathi stage play “Ithe Oshalala Mrityu,” thus switching his mainstream profession into acting. He also worked briefly with Rangayaan, a theater company in Mumbai. Lagoo is renowned for his lead role in the well-known Marathi play “Natasamrat,” scripted by Kusumagraj.

Mohan Agashe is a theater based actor who predominantly takes an interest in stage and plays. He was introduced to films by Shyam Benegal, who made the only art-house film. The actor got a chance to play roles in movies like Bhumika, Manthan, Nishant and went to act in Govind Nihalini’s’ Aakrosh’ and Goutam Ghose’s film ‘Paar’ and Satyajit Ray’s film ‘Sadgati’ too. He acted in many films that were produced by National Film Development Corporation. In 1982 epic biographical film ‘Gandhi’ directed by Richard Attenborough, Mohan Agashe got a chance to play Tyeb Mohammed’s (Alok Nath) friend. After a series of art-house films, he chose commercial cinema too. His first commercial cinema was Yash Chopra’s ‘Mashal’ and then he went to act in the movies like "Trimurti", "Aks", "Gangajaal", "Rang De Basanti" etc.

Shashi Kapoor, a name that needs no introduction, is the son of Prithviraj Kapoor and brother of Raj and Shammi Kapoor, who are considered the legends in the Hindi film industry. Shashi Kapoor was born on 18th March 1938 in Calcutta. He is a producer, actor and a director who initially worked as the assistant director for the movies like ‘post box 999, guest house and Shriman Satyawadi’.  His presence was although noticed in the movie ‘Dharamputra’ (1961) in which he played the lead role for the first time; Shashi Kapoor had entered the industry long before that when he acted as the child artist during 1940’s. He did 116 films in his entire career with almost every big actress of that time, from dream girl Hema Malini to the talented Parveen Babi. He did few English films under Merchant ivory American productions. This Kapoor attended Don Bosco high school, Mumbai. Before entering the film industry he worked in the theatre for a long time. He was the assistant stage manager in theatre where he met English actress Jennifer Kendal who was also working as a theatre artist during that time. Both eventually fell for each other and tied knot in the year 1958. They have three children. In 1978 he set up his production house which produced movies like ‘Kalyug, Junoon, and Vijeta’. He is known to be a very choosy actor who accepted much selected roles. Lately he was seen in the movie ‘Jinnah’ (1998) based on the biography of Mohd. Ali Jinnah.  The actor got 55th Filmfare life time award. He was felicitated with some of the greatest awards like Padma Bhushan in 2011 and Dadasaheb award (2015), which is the highest award in Indian cinema.

Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior actors in the Indian film industry and he was born on 18th October 1950 in Patiala, Punjab. He is one of the few Bollywood actors to act in mainstream commercial English movies. The alumnus of National School of Drama was also a classmate of renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah of the 1973 class.

He started his movie career in 1976 with the Marathi film ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’ directed by K.Hariharan. The movie was based on a play with the same name and it got success both commercially and critically. His career graph saw the coming of critically acclaimed art films such as ‘Bhavni Bhavai’, ‘Sadgati’, ‘Ardh Satya’ etc. and he was one of the major stars to do art films at that time along with well-known actors like Naseeruddin Shah, and Shabana Azmi. His reputation sky rocketed with his unconventional roles in many films during the 80s such as ‘Aakrosh’ and ‘Disco dancer’. Puri became famous for his versatility and personality, and went on to act in films in many domestic and foreign industries. Be it Hollywood blockbusters like ‘Gandhi’ or ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ or regional hits like ‘A.K. 47’, Puri left a unique zeal on every role he did.

If he was known for his personality and his unconventional roles in the movies, he proved the world that he could handle any kind of role with an envious ease with the TV series ‘Kakkaji Kaheen’ and ‘Sutradhaar’ where he did comedy characters. He was honoured by the government of India with Padma Shri award and he also received ‘Order of The British Empire’. He is currently working for the movie ‘Chapekar Brothers’ in which he will be playing Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

Puri Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Amol Palekar was born on 24th November, 1944 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood and Marathi actor, producer and director. He had been active from the year 1971 in the cinema world. He had made a huge mark as an artist in the Hindi and Marathi industry. He had got the Filmfare's Best Actor Award for the movie Gol Maal (1980). He got married with Chitra. As far as his studies are concerned, he studied Fine Arts at the Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai. He began his profession as a painter. With painter as a profession, he made many wonders as he conducted seven events revolving around his works and he also took part in several multiple people shows.

Anupam Kher is a very popular actor, director, and producer of the Bollywood film industry. His place of birth was Shimla of Punjab and currently, he is living in Himachal Pradesh. His date of birth was 7th March 1955, and he hails from Kashmir. He got married to Kirron Kher in the year 1985. His brother Raju Kher is also a very famous actor cum director. The best part of Anupam Kher is that he got cast in more than hundred movies, and he is known to make this immense record.

Annu Kapoor or born as AnilKapoor, is an Indian movie actor, TV and radio presenter who were born on February 20, 1956 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has an almost similar name with the actor, Anil Kapoor, so in 1982 he decided to change his name to Annu Kapoor. He was trained in the National School of Drama in New Delhi, India in 1976.

In 1979, he first appeared as a stage actor and he was noted for his appearance in Ek Ruka Hua Faisla under the direction of his brother, Ranjeet, in 1982. Shyam Benegal, an Indian director who made Annu’s debut film, Mandi in 1983.

Annu was also part of the serial, DD National (DD1) in 2007 and performed in the black comedy film, 7 Khoon Maaf as Inspector Keemat Lal. The Golden Era – With Annu Kapoor is the melancholy show about the Indian cinema, specifically Bollywood Music. He was the radio presenter in the 92.7 Big FM station with his show called, Suhaana Safar with Annu Kapoor.

His career traversed for over 30 years. He has done TV serials, game shows and performed in Bollywood cinema. He also hosted the STAR One’s singing contest, Antakshari – The Great Challenge. Annu played an Obsessive-Compulsive physician in the Bollywood comedy-drama, Vicky Donor, in 2012, which became a renowned critically acclaimed film and gave him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2013, he appeared as Sir Yograj Khanna in the Bollywood action comedy film, Yamla Pagla Deewana 2, under the direction of Sangeeth Sivan.

Annu came from a family connected with art and nationalism. He was the son of the poet, Shabnam Kapoor, who was one of the very few people that mastered Urdu, Arabic, and Persian languages. She was also articulate in languages like Punjabi, Gujarati, Marwadi, Marathi, and some other dialects. Annu has four sons and has been married twice.

He also directed various plays and films such as the Abhay (The Fearless) that received the National Film Award for Best Children’s Film and V. Shantaram Award in 1994. He was also the Aao Jhoomein Gaayen on SAB TV, a musical talent competition for kids and the Gaan Gaao Taaka Naao on Kolkata.

Annu have done several films from 1983 to 2014 and Television appearances such as Close Up Antakshari, Quile Ka Rahasya, Idea Jalsa, Junoon Kuch Kar Dikhane Ka and a lot more.