1. Vyjayanthimala
Vyjayanthimala Bali is very well known worldwide by just her first name Vyjayanthimala. She is an Indian film actress who was born on August 13, 1936. Besides settling her career in the industry, she has also been a great Bharatanatyam dancer, a Carnatic singer, and a choreographer. She also belongs to the category of the Member of Parliament. She started...
2. Sadhana Shivdasani
Sadhana Shivdasani was born in 1941 September 2nd and she was a well-known Indian actress in the 1960s as well as in the 1970s period. She is better known in this industry as Sadhana and she was a top star in the industry especially during this time period. She was born in Karachi, British India into a Sindhi family and...
3. 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...
4. Asha Bhosle
Asha is considered to be the second greatest female vocalist in India, second to only her sister the great Lata Mangeshkar. Born on September 8th 1933 in Maharashtra to Master Deenanath Mangeshkar, a classical singer and actor. Her father passed away when Asha was only 10 and she and her sister began to sing from an early age to support...
5. Anandji Virji Shah
Anandji Virji Shah was born in the year 1933 on the 2nd of March. He was born in the place of Kundrodi, Kutch of the state of Gujarat. His genre is basically making the film scores. This had indeed set out as a prominent style for Anandji Virji Shah as a music composer and director. He has been active in...
6. Kalyanji Virji Shah
Kalyanji Virji Shah is mostly known as Kalyanji from Kalyanji-Anandji duo. Kalyanji was born on June 30, 1928, to Virji Shah. Virji Shah was a businessman in Kutch, Gujrat. Later, to start a provision store he moved to Mumbai. He has a brother Anandji Virji Shah, they both are very famous Indian musicians. Kalyanji-Anandji has won the Filmfare Award for...
7. Laxmikant Pyarelal
Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarela l Ramprasad Sharma, popularly known as Laxmikant-Pyarelal in the music industry, were at the zenith of their profession during the 70s and 80s. Ek Do Teen and Jumma Chumma were the top charters during the late 80s. Laxmikant was born on 3rd November 1937 and Pyarelal on 3rd September 1940. Starting their careers in orchestra, this...
8. Shakeel Badayuni
www.nettv4u.com/celebrity/hindi/lyricist/shakeel-badayuni Shakeel Badayuni was a well-known and renowned Indian lyricist, writer, and prominent poet. Shakeel is known to enrich Urdu literature with his intensive poetries and writings. Shakeel was known for his predominant contributions to Hindi cinema. He is one of the people who contributed towards the upliftment of the Urdu culture. Badayuni was born on the 3rd of August...
9. Rajendra Krishan
Rajendra Krishan (also spelled as Rajinder Krishan) was an Indian lyricist, poet and screenwriter. He was born on 6th of June in the year 1919 in Jalalpur Jattan,in Gujrat district then part of British India (now a part of Pakistan). He died at the age of 68 on 23rd of September in the year 1987. He is known for his...
10. V Shantaram
Born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, on November 18, 1901, Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre alluded to as Shantaram Bapu or V. Shantaram, was a Marathi Indian movie producer, filmmaker and performing artist. He is from a Marathi Jain family and, he wedded thrice. He first married to Vimla and, they had three kids Saroj, Prabhat Kumar, and Charusheela, mother of performing artist Sushant...
11. Hemant Kumar
Hemant Mukherjee is a famous composer, singer, and producer, born on 16th June 1920 in Varanasi, British India. He is popularly known as Hemant Kumar. But unfortunately, he died on 26th September 1989 in Kolkata at the age of 69 years. His original birth name is ‘Hemanta Kumar’. He had sung songs in different languages like Hindi, and other languages; he...
12. Shashi Kapoor
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...
13. Rajendra Kumar
Born on 20 July 1929, Rajendra Kumar is a Bollywood actor. He entered the film industry during the year 1950. He worked in over 80 movies in his career of 40 years. The 1960s were favorable for him, since he was highly successful during that period....
14. Balraj Sahni
Sahni was born to Yudhishthir Sahni in 1913. He studied at Lahore University, where he completed his Bachelors in English Literature. His hometown was Rawalpindi. He held a Bachelors degree in Hindi also and went on to complete Masters in English. He worked in his family’s business at Rawalpindi, and later on married Damayanti Sahni. They, later on, shifted to...
15. Javed Akhtar
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....
16. Ravi
Ravi Shankar Sharma was an Indian music director whose contribution to the Malayalam and Hindi films can’t be spoken of or just typed. Ravi was born in Delhi to a poor family. He had to work as an electrician, to manage the daily expenses of the family. He grew up with a passion towards music, listening to his father’s bhajans....