1. Urmila Kothare
Urmila Kanetkar Kothare, also known as Urmila Kothare, is an Indian actress who predominantly contributes to the Marathi television and cinema industry. She was born on 4th May 1986 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. She completed her schooling at Victoria High school. She pursued her BA degree in Mumbai’s St. Xavier’s College and a Master of Arts in Kathak. She also learned Odissi from Sujata Mahaprata in Bhubaneshwar. In 2011, she married Adinath Kothare, whom she met while shooting for her debut film Shubh Mangal Savdhan. They named their baby girl, Jiza. Her father-in-law Mahesh Kothare, is a film director, producer, and actor.
Her mother-in-law, Neelima Kothare, is a High court Advocate. Her hobbies include Dancing, Singing, Travelling, and Practicing Yoga. Sh...
2. Gulraj Singh
Gulraj Singh is a bright, up-and-coming singer and a music director in the Bollywood. He was born in Mumbai, though details about his parentage and personal life remain unknown. He attended Saraswathi Vidyalaya High School in Rabodi in Thane and completed his schooling from there. Gulraj has been hailed as a musical genius who has worked with many renowned musicians.
He has worked with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and AR Rahman. He has been a part of Rahman’s music concerts for a lenghty period of time. Gulraj has worked in movies like Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara in 2011, Ungli in 2014, and Fukrey Returns in 2017. Gulraj is primarily a music composer but has also acted as a singer and lyricist for various movies.
The recent movie in which he worked in was The Sholay Girl, a biography. He was the music composer for the movie. T...
3. Nandesh Umap
Nandesh Umap, also known as Nandesh Vithal Umap, is a well-known singer working in the Indian film industry, primarily Marathi. He is the son of legendary Marathi singer Late Shri. Loksahir Vithal Umap. Being from a music family, Nandesh was passionate about music from a very young age. Nandesh experienced his father’s dedication towards rich Indian and Folk Music and Culture. This encouraged Nandesh and his siblings to develop their music legacy and make a career. When he was 8, he performed with his father in various stages and international shows. He began writing songs, concepts, and plays. Some of his works are Mee Marathi and Sangeet Ka Mela. Nandesh made his debut in the industry with a Marathi play, “Rangaan,” for which he was felicitated by famous actress Late Mrs. Dina Pathak and popular actor Mr. ...
4. Adarsh Shinde
On 7th March 1988, Anand Shinde and Vijaya Shinde blessed with a singing gem. Yes, you got that right! The sensational singer Adarsh Shinde is now 33 years old and is busy recreating some phenomenal songs for this era. Adarsh belonged to a family with singing idols in their family history, right from his grandfather (Prahlad Shinde). Adarsh comes from a family with a prolific singing background.
At the age of ten he took a path towards singing and got his singing lessons from his Guru Shri Suresh Wadkar. Looking back at his debut years in 2014, Adarsh started off singing with his father (Anand) and uncle (Milind Shinde) in his first-ever album Priyatma. It was for the first time that the three embodiments of the Shinde family came together to sing a song. Ever since then, Adarsh has consistently risen as a profound singer. He d...
5. Swapnil Bandodkar
6. Anand Shinde
Anand Shinde is a Marathi Singer. He was born on 12 April 1965. His father was Prahlad Shinde also a Marathi Singer. He married Vijya. They have three children named Adarsh, Utkarsh and Harshad. He also has a brother Milind Shinde. Anand is also a receptionist of DR. Babasaheb Ambedkar Samaj Bhusan Award in 2019. Anand has sung more than 1000 songs. Anand hails from a musical background and inherited folk music from his father. Anand also established his name in Bollywood from his singing. Some of his songs are ‘Naad Ninaadala’ (2019)’, ‘ Kombdi Palai’, ‘Bhima tu Itka Dila Amha (2018)’, ‘limbu Mala Marila (1987)’. Some of his albums are ‘Dharmaantar (1999)’, ‘Budh Vihar (1996)’, ‘Yashoda Tujha Kanha (1998)’.
7. Suresh Wadkar
Suresh Ishwar Wadkar is a well-known playback singer. He sings in Hindi, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Konkani too. He has sung some devotional songs in many Indian languages. Though groomed for Indian classical music, He participated in the Sur-Singer competition in 1976 despite being a trained singer in Indian Classical Music. He not only did win the competition but also was offered the song,”Seene Mein Jalan” from one of the judges and music composers, Jaidev. He was recommended to Laxmikant-Pyarelal by Lata Mangeshkar as she was extremely impressed with him.
They also sang a duet, “Chal Chameli Bagh Mein” in 1981 For him the turning point in films was – Prem Rog (1982) after that he sang many songs for the R.K. Banner and was the first choice fo...
8. Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...
9. Adinath Kothare
Adinath Kothare or Adinath Mahesh Kothare was born on 13th may 1984.Presently aged 32 years he was born in Mumbai , Maharashtra to parents Mahesh Kothare and Medha Kothare. Adinath is a film actor, director and producer. His father is one of the most acclaimed actors and directors of the Marathi film industry. While Adinath has worked with Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd. as associate executive producer so also had worked with PVR as a management trainee- in film marketing. Adinath's first screen appearance was as a child artist in the Movie – Maza Chakula directed by Mahesh Kothare in the year 1994.
In the year 2013 he acted in a film directed by his father but it wasn’t his first one as an adult , the film was titled – Zapatlela 2 released on 7th June 2013. It did good in terms of busin...
10. Avadhoot Gupte
Avadhoot Gupte is a Maharashtrian, who juggles more than one talent. This versatile person is a Singer, Musician, Director, Producer, Anchor and the list goes on. Avadhoot was born and brought up in Mumbai. He is predominantly a music composer. Gupte made his first music album called as Paus in Marathi, which was released by the label Sagarika Music. The album was received well, and it fetched Gupte, the Best Composer Award, at The Alpha Gaurav Puraskar, in the year 2002. Avadhoot participated in the Music competition Saregama, organized by TVS. He won the championship, and this fame scaled up his career to a great height. After this success, he started singing and making music for several Marathi and Hindi movies. As an independent singer, he made the album Meri Madhubala, in Marathi, in the year 2003.
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