Hindi Tv Show Classic Legends Season 4 - Cast & Crew

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 her career as a Tamil actress and later became popular worldwide because of her magnificent work in Bollywood. Vyjayanthimala was born in Thiruvallikeni, one of the oldest neighborhoods of Chennai, near Parthasarathy Temple, in a Tamil family. She was the daughter of M.D. Raman and Vasundhara Devi. Vasundhara Devi was a Tamil actress who had been flooding all over Tamil cinemas in the 1940s and who made a blockbuster debut in the Tamil industry in a movie named Mangamma Sabatham. Out of all these, the interesting fact is that Vyjayanthimala called her mother by her first name since she mothered her at a very young age of sixteen. On the contrary, she called her father “Anna”- the Hindi meaning being “elder brother” since he was the eldest living member and that she heard everyone calling him Anna, so she picked up to call his father Anna. Primarily Vyjayanthimala got nourished in her childhood under the shades of her maternal grandmother Yadugiri Devi and Anna. Vyjayanthimala’s first on-stage performance was at Vatican City where her mother was an audience, and she was chosen to perform Indian Classical dance for Pope Pius XII, at the age of five. Vyjayanthimala completed her schooling from Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School, Presentation Convent, Church Park, Chennai. She learnt her Bharatanatyam, classical form of dance, under the training of Guru Vazhuvoor Ramiah Pillai and Manakkal Sivaraja Iyer taught her Carnatic music. Vyjayanthimala has had a roller-coaster ride in her career where she started with Tamil movies and then cracked the screens in Bollywood, which gained her a lot of success and fame. Even though Vyjayanthimala’s grandmother offended her getting into the film career for her fears that her education and dance would get hampered, Vyjayanthimala made her debut in Vazhkai (1949) under the direction of M.V Raman, who wanted to cast a new face for this particular script and proposed Vyjayanthimala’s face.

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 she was also given her name based on the name of a famous actress and dancer named Sadhana Bose who was supposed to be her father’s favorite actress as well. After moving to Mumbai, Sadhana’s mother home-schooled her until the age of eight years and after that she was able to continue her schooling without issues at “Auxilium Convent”, Wadala.

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 Badan and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki, as she was provided with a more versatile role in these titles. Along with Hindi films Asha also starred in a few Gujarati films throughout her career. 

In 2002, Filmfare presented Asha with a Lifetime Achievement award for her brilliant acting performances in over 90 films. She has received over 30 awards spanning over the 40 years of service in Indian cinema. 

She now focuses on her dance academy, Kara Bhavan, and has also made a hospital after her own name in Mumbai.

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 their family. Asha had a big family with 4 sisters, including Asha, and one brother.

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 the Bollywood film industry right from the year 1954 until the present. He is a very popular Indian music director. 

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 Best Music Director for the film Kora Kagaz.

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 duo frequently did ghosting for music directors. While Laxmikant got to learn violin, Pyarelal imbibed music skills. The first flick which had this duo composing music was Parasmani in 1963. The songs of the film were a smashing hit. In their career spanning more than 3 decades, they only worked with top notch singers. Possibly this duo had entertained the music lovers with the maximum number of compositions. They have been admirably nominated for 25 times in Filmfare, winning 7 awards. 

Sureel Kala Kendra was the place in which Laxmikant-Pyarelal first met. The Kendra was an initiative of Mangeshkar family. Since this duo had the financially pitiable background, Lata Mangeshkar introduced them to top notch music composers of that day. They got only insignificant opportunities and hence travelled to Chennai. But they again returned to Mumbai. This duo has assisted most of the music composers. Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar got only less money as pay when the duo was struggling. This pair of mesmerizing voice were sang under the composition of Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Kishore Kumar also sang several songs under the amazing direction of this duo. The flick Dosthi was a turning point in this duo’s career. 

During the 80s the music of Laxmikant-Pyarelal was not up to the mark as they focused more on numbers. The friendship of this duo was commendable and they maintained it till the death of Laxmikant during 1998. After that, Pyarelal composed music, without sacrificing the name Laxmikant-Pyarelal.

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 in the year 1916. His place of birth is Badaun, United Province of Agra and Oudh, during the British Era. Shakeel’s father’s name is Mohammed Jamaal Ahmed Sokhta Qadiri, who always aspired to see his son with a successful career. His love of poetry and philosophy developed and got majorly influenced by the environment of his surroundings.

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 poems and lyrics for multiple Indian cinema songs and scripts for various flicks. He started developing a knack for poetry at an early age of 12. In his early life, he took up a job of a clerk in a municipal office in the town of Shimla. He worked there till 1942. During this phase, he did a vigorous reading of books written by both Indian and Western authors. He continued to write poetry.

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 Ray a.k.a. Siddharth Ray.

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 is often identified as India’s greatest playback singer. He was credited with two National Awards.

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.

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.

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 Bengal to teach English at the Visva Bharati University in Shantiniketan.

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. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.

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. He did not attend any music classes. He also taught him selves to play the instruments. He decided to go Bombay to become a professional singer in 1950. He worked very hard in Bombay, both in learning, getting an opportunity in the industry, as well as to manage the daily expenses. He got his breakthrough from Vande Mataram song. He was called to sing it for the film. After this, he got many offers from several people.