She took birth in a Tamil Urdu speaking Muslim family on 3 February 1938, in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu.Her dream was to become a successful doctor but due to circumstances of illness, she dropped this goal. But her parents were too supportive to her debut on silver screen. From the very childhood, she started learning dance forms, especially in the Bharata...
Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had formal training in music from her father. Her father ran a theater company in Mumbai, where she began to learn music with her father's grudging approval, and with whom she also sang a song. As her father was a conservative man, film music was not appreciated at her home. After the theater company...
Madan Mohan Kohli born on 25thJune 1924 in Iraq (Baghdad) was the most regarded Indian music composer of the years 1950s-70s. He was the son of Rai Bahadur Chunilal, an Accountant General, and Bhagwanti Devi.He spent most of his early life in the Middle East. His family recurs to the native place of Chakwal, then in Jhelum locale of Punjab in...
Born on January 16, 1926, in Lahore, British India, Omkar Prasad Nayyar was an Indian musician, movie music composer, music producer, singer, and songwriter. He, at age 11, made his debut by playing the piano on All-India Radio. In 1949, he shifted to Mumbai and before long handled his first film task, composing incidental music for Krishan Kewal's Kaneez. Nayyar...
Sanjeev Kumar was born on July 9th, 1938 in Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay), India. His original name was Harihar Jethalal Jariwala. He was an actor by profession who worked in Bollywood. He moved to Surat after birth. His family again moved to Mumbai. He has three siblings- one sister and two brothers. Sanjeev didn’t get married ever. He was in a...
Manmohan Desai is an Indian film producer and director. He was born on February 26, 1937, in a Gujarati ancestry. His father, Kikubhai Desai, is also a film producer and the owner of the Paramount Studios (now known as Filmalaya). He studied at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai. His brother, Subhash Desai is also a producer during the 50s. He...
Dharmendra Singh Deol was born on 8th December 1935 in Punjab, India. He is considered to be an asset of the Indian film industry. He is an icon of the Bollywood film industry, and he has acted in movies that are indeed blockbusters. Currently, he resides in Phagwara, Punjab. He is a very popular actor as well as producer of...
Shankar Jaikishan is a duo musical composer in Bollywood who dominated the film industry for three decades. Â It is an unusual story of two classical musical composers who got united together as they had a personal liking for each other. Although Shankar Singh was born in Telangana and Jaikishan in Gujarat, they met each other in Mumbai in Prithvi Theaters...
Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king of romance’ in Indian cinema for directing films like kabhie Kabhie. Daag, Noorie, Silsila, Darr, Chandni, Lamhe, Dil To Pagal Hai, etc. Earlier, he made some serious and social films like Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dharmputra, and Ittefaq, etc. He was a trendsetter as a filmmaker. Yash Chopra gave Bollywood the...
Mehmood Ali is one of our greatest comedian actors, who had acted in over 300 Hindi films. Born on 29 September 1932, his memorable films include Kunwara Baap, where he acted with versatile actress Manorama from Tamil film. The story had a message on polio vaccination and was essayed on the backdrop of a newly born son who was rescued...
Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues....