1. Kersi Lord
Kersi Lord was a Film score composer, accordion player, and music arranger from 1949-2016. Lord had the talent of music from his family. Kersi’s father, mother, sister, and brother were musicians. His brother was a famous percussionist, his sister was a pianist, his father, Cowes Lord, was a percussionist, and his mother, Banubai Lord, was from a family of musicians. Kersi’s father had brought bongo and congo to the Hindi Film industry. Kersi’s Father is Dadasaheb Falke Award Winner. Kersi Lord was born in Mumbai on Valentine’s Day. At the age of 14, he started his Career. Kersi Lord had played bongos in the song Pyar ki ho Gayi jeet. Karsi used to accompany his father in the studio at that time. Naushad Ji enquired about Keris and permitted him to play bongos in the song. Kersi Lord joined orchestras and played several Latin-American instruments.
...2. Bhim Sain
Bhim Sain Khurana is a prominent Indian Filmmaker and animator. He was born on 24th November; 1936 in Multan, Pakistan. Bhimsain moved to Lucknow during the partition. He studied Fine Arts and Classical Music at Lucknow University. Then, he is working with Ram Mohan and Disney animator Clair Weeks as a background artist at the Films Division of India. Currently, he lives in Mumbai with his wife Neelam Khurana and sons Himaanshu and Kireet Khurana. Also, Neelam Khurana had worked as an executive producer on his feature film, Tum Laut Aao (1983; starring Ravi Baswani and Karan Razdan) and his documentary on Jamnalal Bajaj, Kathni Karni Eksi (1989). He also writes poetry, songs, paints, and composes music. His latest book, The Incomplete story of Indian Animation, was released at the 2016 Mumbai International Film Festival by veteran writer Kiran Shantaram and actor Jackie Shoff and was also released by Governor of Maharashtra C. Vidyasagar Rao. In 1970, he made his debut, and his first animation short, The Climb, which earned him the Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival. Lately, he has directed and produced several animations and ad films. Na, Ek-Do, Fire, Munni, Freedom is a Thin Line, Mehman, Kahani Har Zamne Ki, Business is People are some of his prestigious works which won him National and International awards and acclaim.
...3. Kireet Khurana
Kireet Khurana is an ambitious filmmaker, ad-film director, storyteller and animator. Kireet has done over 400 ad-film directions and 12 short films. Kireet was born on 25 October 1967 in Mumbai, India. Bhimsain, his father was an Indian animation pioneer. He was exposed to the animation films at the age of six. He completed his schooling from Jamnabai Narsee School and got a BA Degree with major in economics at Mumbai University. He went to Sheridan College in Canada to achieve honours in animation filmmaking. He established Climb Media and later, he came up with his animation wing called 2nz Animation Co.
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