Gul Khan
Sadhana Sargam
Jayshree Talpade
Dalljiet Kaur
Sana Maqbool
Utkarsha Naik
Tuhina Vohra
Swati Chitnis
Pyumori Mehta
Madhura Naik
Sanaya Irani
Deepali Pansare
Abha Parmar
Shraddha Arya
Sabiir Ali
Lalit Mohan
Raju Singh
Rajesh Chadha
Nissar Parvez
Javed Ali
Aakash Pandey
Barry Dhillon
Vishesh Bansal
Rajesh Jais
Karan Singh Grover
Karan Goddwani
Sanjay Batra
Abhaas Mehta
Akshay Dogra
Barun Sobti
Ashok Saroj
Hrishikesh Gandhi
1. Gul Khan
Gul Khan is one of the leading Indian Television producer, director and writer. She is the co-creative head and co- producer of 4 Lions Productions. She has written and produced many television soaps such as Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon, which had 398 episodes and which was aired from 2011 to 2012.
Her other works include TV series Qubool Hai, Miley Jab Hum Tum, Arjun: Har Yug Mein Ayega Ek, Humse Hai Life, Suvreen Guggal, Geet and Humsafar. As a director she has worked for Rishtey- Kashish (2000) and Qubool Hai. She was brought up outside of India and is married to Gorky Max.
Gul Khan was born on March 5, 1974. Her place of birth is Delhi, India. She completed her studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in New Delhi, India. She is the co-founder of a...
2. Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974, she changed her name to Sadhana Sargam on advice given by Kalyanji Anandji, who had promoted her singing career.
Before starting her first playback chance in Tamil film, she had the privilege of singing along with other playback singers such as Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal, and Kavita Krishnamurthy. Sadhana has sung in many Indian languages for films, TV series and music albums. She is the only Indian playback singer who ha...
3. Jayshree Talpade
Jayshree Talpade is a film performer and lover of the dance floor, who lives up to expectations in Bollywood motion pictures and some other movies. Talpade started her profession in 1958 with the show ‘Goonj Uthi Shehnai’. She becomes famous when she began performing item dance moves in movies. At first, she needed to turn into a specialist Doctor, however destiny mediated when film executive Amit Bose cast her for the movie Abhilasha in 1968. After that movie, she moved her belly in 500 films. She has acted in different Indian dialects including, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Oriya, Malayalam, Kannada, Haryani, Marwadi, English, Bengali, Sindhi, Bhojpuri, Assami, Garyali, Punjabi, Rajastani, Marathi and Gujarati.
She shows her talent in front of an audience everywhere throughout the world wit...
4. Dalljiet Kaur
Born on 15th November 1982, Dalljiet Kaur is an Indian actress. She was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, and hails from an army background. Initiating her career as a model,she won the title of Miss Pune in 2004. Also, she reached till finale in several other beauty pageants, including Miss Maharashtra Queen, Miss Mumbai, and Miss navy. Later, she debuted in television career through the serial, Mansha, which used to air on Zee TV. Then, she appeared on various other shows, including ‘Aahat,’‘CID,’ and ‘Raat Hone Ko Hai.’
Her other popular projects include ‘Kulvaddhu,’‘Vikram Betaal ki Rahasya Gatha,’‘Is Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon,’‘Kaala Teeka,’ and ‘Choona Hai Aasman.’ Later, in 2008 she participated in Nach Baliye, a dance reality show, alon...
5. Sana Maqbool
Sana Makbul was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra and completed her higher education from National College. From her childhood, she had a passion for modeling and acting. After her college education, she decided to try modeling and worked as a model for a few years after which she got the opportunity to appear on T.V in a reality show aired in 2009 known as ‘MTV Scooty Teen Diva’ and in the same year, she also appeared in a musical series.
By the year 2010, she had received many offers to act in television serials, and she was played a character in a serial that was aired in 2010, known as ‘Ishaan: Sapano Ko Awaaz De.' In the subsequent years, she had the opportunity to act in three other serials and her performance in them were outstanding. By this time,...
6. Utkarsha Naik
Utkarsha Naik is an Indian television & film personality, who is best known for her much talked about roles in the serials such as ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ (2000), ‘Ssshhhh...Koi Hai’’ (2006) & ‘Apna Asmaan’ (2007). She has worked in some most famous serials of the Hindi television industry.
Her other noted appearances in the television series include her various portrayals in the serials such as ‘Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?’ (2011), ‘Madhubala- Ek Ishq Ek Junoon’ (2012), ‘Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi’ (2014) & ‘Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein’ (2011). She has acted along with some of the most famous stars of the Hindi television industry and portrayed a wide variety of roles in the family dramas.
Wit...
7. Tuhina Vohra
Tuhina Vohra is well-known the face of the Indian TV and Movie industry. She has currently essayed the role of the Gayatri Rathore in Star’s teen drama “ Nisha Aur Uske Cousins”, a serial based on the Indian joint family.
Tuhina is known for giving power packed performance in serials like “ Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo,” a serial based on the story of a downtrodden family of Bihar. She played the role of Laali's (Ratan Rajput) mother and gave a very heart-wrenching performance in this serial.
Born and raised in Delhi Tuhina was very active during her college days and participated in many drama festivals. She made her small screen debut in ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ (the first ever family soap opera of Indian TV indus...
8. Swati Chitnis
Swati Chitnis has been a part of both Hindi entertainment industry and Marathi entertainment industry for decades. She entered the acting industry when she was bright and young, and even though she is not young anymore, she still holds a spot in the industry.
She has been casted in many movies, such as Road to Sangam (2010) and Rajjo (2013). She played a supporting role in both of the movies, but due to her acting skills, her presence was felt on the screen.
As of late Swati Chitnis has been seen in a TV arrangement, named Sasural Simar Ka (25 April 2011 – Present), aired on Colors TV. The serial spins around two young ladies belonging to a middle class family, who are supposed to wed two siblings, yet because of some unforeseen happenings both the young ladies wed divorced grooms. In the seri...
9. Pyumori Mehta
Pyumori Mehta has been a popular face on Indian television ever since she started her work as an actor. Her most prominent roles can be traced back to Uttaran where she took over Pragati Mehra to play a very crucial role. This serial is on a life of a poor girl- Iccha who spends her life on all second hand stuff.
One might also have heard of her name from Kitni Mohabbat Hai where she featured in the second season which revolved around the story of two diverse families and individuals. Once again, Mehta’s performance was well appreciated here.
Her other popular work includes that in Ek Ghar Banaunga. She played the role of Vandana Nath here and the series aired on Star Plus. Her role as a typical Punjabi mother in a Sony TV project did a lot of good to her career.
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10. Madhura Naik
11. Sanaya Irani
Sanaya Irani is an Indian actress who majorly acts in Hindi TV serials and Bollywood films. She has also made a mark as a model and ad film actress. Sanaya was born and brought up in Mumbai and graduated from Sydenham College and was on her way to pursue a Masters degree in Business Administration when her mother advised her to take up a career in modeling and acting. She first broke into the scene of acting through Jagjit Singh’s song ‘Tumko Dekha To Yeh’.
Sanaya didn’t enter into television first but burst onto the scene by playing a small role of Bebo in the Bollywood blockbuster ‘Fanaa’. She then made her television debut with SAB TV’s widely watched serial ‘Left Right Left’ playing the character ...
12. Deepali Pansare
Deepali Pansare hails from Nasik, an engineering student, mostly getting involved in cultural activities and not in her studies. May be that’s why she has gained the place as a great serial artist in Tamil and Hindi. She made her screen debut in “Hum Ladkiyaan”, after which she did series like “Dil Mil Gaya” and “Shakuntala”. The response from the audience was unbelievably great for her, especially from the series Dil Mil Gayye. She has done a majestic role in “Devyani” series, which is a Tamil dubbed version that is showcased on Star Vijay. This is actually a Marathi series, and it has made her to gain lot of opportunities in Marathi films now. She has done many Marathi films like “Most Wanted”, “Parivarthan”, “Ek Duje Saathi” an...
13. Abha Parmar
Abha Parmar is an Indian artist who has played roles in various television shows and cinema movies. Abha Parmar was born on 11th of July. She struggled very much in his life, as her father died when she was just 5 years old. Her brother was the only one in his house who was an earning source of income. He made Abha go to school, but due to financial problems in the house, she had to leave the school. That’s why Abha is an uneducated girl due to bad economic conditions of their family. She was the only woman in the house to take care of her mother, because her mother was suffering from cancer.
Abha was one of the most beautiful girls in their society, so at the age of 21, Abha got married to a rich man. After that, she gave birth to his son. Two years later, her mother died due to her problem of cance...
14. Shraddha Arya
Shraddha Arya first came to prominence through the Tamil movie' Kalvanin Kadhali', where she played the supporting role of Tina. Later she won a part in Ram Gopal Verma’s Nishabd, also starring Amitabh Bacchan and Jia Khan. She has also been a part of several Telugu and Kannada projects, and is widely known in the South as well. Born on the 8th of August, Shraddha grew up in Delhi. She first started her career as a model, and later starred in a Punjabi Music video named ‘Soniye Heeriye’. In 2004, she also participated in ‘India's Best Ci-nestars Ki Khoj’. She struggled for a while, before finally bagging the role of Lakshmi and Kaanchi in the series, ‘Main Lakshmi Tere Aangan Ki’ along with Sudeep Sahir. This...
15. Sabiir Ali
Sabiir Ali is an Indian casting director who has worked in the Bollywood film industry. He lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He has worked as a casting director at Neways Casting, Wingman Pictures Pvt. Ltd., Studio BNM production house, Sphereorigins multi vision production house, casting head director at writer Galaxy film production house, and Playtime Creation. Sabiir Ali is known for his notable work in several films like Koi Laut Ke Aaya Hai, released in 2017, directed by Avhiroop Mazumdar; LuvUTurn, released in 2019; and Jai Shri Krishna, released in 2008, and this TV drama series won several awards like the Indian Telly Award for Best Historical/Mythological Series (2008) and the ITA Award for Best Historical/Mythological Serial (2008).
...16. Lalit Mohan
Lalit Mohan is a well-known Indian director and writer. Lalit is known for some of his brilliant works. Mohan is known for his predominant contributions to the Hindi film and television industry. Lalit has worked and has made some successful television serials, which created milestones. He began with his journey by assisting in the making of the famous serial Bidai, whichgot telecasted on Star Plus. He had also participated in many youth-based shows like Suvreen Guggal on Channel V and. Humse Hain Life.
He is extremely proud to have worked in these shows. He has also directed serials like Iss Pyaar Ko Kyaa Naam, Ishqbaaz, Behad 2, Kulfi Kumar Bajewala, and Qubool Hain. He believes in giving his best shows rather than working under pressure. He made his venture into filmmaking by directing his first debut film Hume Tumse Pyaar K...
17. Raju Singh
If the background score in Raaz 2 chilled your spine and kept you in the mysterious dark, or captivated you by the romantic music in ’Ek Tha Villain’ then thank Raju Singh, who treats music not only as his profession, but also something that teaches a way of life. He is an example of someone who breathes music. After being part of more than 300 Indian television serial projects, almost 30 ad-tunes and giving films the right mix, that they needed, his tunes have made young, as well as the old, sing and hum his compositions.
It seems that the music composer has taken the phrase ‘where words fail, music speaks’ a little too literally. Raju Singh is a music composer in the industry since 1993. He is the son of the veteran music sensation Charanjit Singh. He started his journ...
18. Rajesh Chadha
Rajesh Chadha is an Indian-Producer. He primarily works in the Hindi Film and TV Industry. Some of the TV Series in which he has worked include Criminal Justice, which released in 2019, Ghulaam released in 2017, Phir Subha Hogi, which released in 2012, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon, which released in 2011 and Yeh Ishq Haaye, which released in 2010.
...19. Nissar Parvez
Nissar Parvez is a director and producer from India. He has completed his degree of Bachelor’s in Mass Communication and Video Production from St. Xavier’s College. After that, he has done a Diploma in TV and Film Production from the same college. Nissar Parvez is well-known for the shows named “Shaheen” and “Sanjeevani” in which he has assisted Gul Khan.
A show named “Geet” which was telecast on Star One, and ran for over 470 episodes. At Indian TV Awards 2010, Nissar Parvez has won best director’s award for this show. A show named “Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Do?” was produced by him. Along with this, he has also produced and directed the shows like Humse Hai Life, Suvreen Guggal- Topper of the year, Arjuna, a...
20. Javed Ali
Javed Ali (Javed Hussain) was born in Delhi in 1982. He has been working as an Indian playback singer since 2000. Ali started his singing journey at a very early age with his father, who is a popular Qawwali singer named, Ustad Hamid Hussain. He is also a playback singer in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, and Tamil.
He has been singing since 2000, but his song “Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein” from the film Naqaab (2007) made him famous in Bollywood. After that, he sang hit song like Jashn-E-Bahaara from the Movie Jodha Akbar (2008). He also sang the song Guzarish (Ghajini) and Maula mere Maula (Arziyan). Javed started hi...
21. Aakash Pandey
22. Barry Dhillon
The Hindi and Punjabi writer, Barry Dhillon is well-known for his writings. ‘Kumkum: Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan,’ the TV series aired in 2002, was his debut television series as a writer. Although he wrote the script for only one episode, it brought him a great opportunity. Due to his excellent work, he got a chance to write scripts and dialogues for the other TV series, including ‘Kahi to Milenge,’ ‘Banoo Main Teri Dulhan,’ ‘Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon,’ etc. He has often worked with celebrities such as Pooja Rawal, Sushant Singh, Barun Sobti, etc. Also, the dialogues of Punjabi film ‘Mitti Na Pharol Jogiya’ were written by him.
...23. Vishesh Bansal
Vishesh Bansal is an extremely talented young kid who has worked at popular serials like Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha and Iss Pyar Ko Mai Kya Naam Doon. He is a cute little boy who is very much loved by each and every viewer. He is 6 years of age.
He made his debut in the television industry from the serial Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha. He played the character of Addu (Aditya Vishwas) in the serial. Addu is a crabby child whose father is dead. He was deeply affected by the death of his father. He misses his father so much that he feels bitter or indignant about the idea of having an alternate father. But it was his role as Aarav that made him popular.
On June 6, 2011 the serial Is Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon started featuring actors such as Varun Sobti and Sanaya Irani & Barun Sobti. Varun p...
24. Rajesh Jais
Rajesh Jais is originally a theatre actor with a profound presence in the Hindi TV & Cinema. He has been working in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. His initial most noted appearances were in the series ‘Shanti’, where he acted along with other budding actors & actresses such as Yatin Karyekar & Mandira Bedi.
During his student life, he was actively involved in extracurricular activities such as skits and plays. He always dreamt of making a career in the entertainment industry due to his natural bent towards the arts, acting & music. He later made this aspiration a reality, as he is an alumnus of the National School of Drama (1988-91), Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
He has been an avid lover of Indian classical music and placed in the category of ...
25. Karan Singh Grover
Karan Singh Grover is a famous Indian actor who is predominantly acting in commercials and television serials. He was born into a Sikh family from Haryana and moved to the Gulf for most of his formative years and spent a total of twelve years there before moving back to India. He did most of his schooling from the International Indian School of Dammam.
In 2000, he started pursuing a Hotel Management degree from IHM, Mumbai. Karan was a multi-talented guy who was also into music passionately and even formed his band called the ‘Thousand Decibels.' Post graduation he moved in with his family in Muscat, Oman and worked at the Sheraton group of hotels as a marketing executive. But, his true love lay in acting, and he wanted to return to India. He w...
26. Karan Goddwani
He loved dancing from an early age, and practiced a lot by im-itating Hrithik Roshan. He is also a qualified audio engineer. Later he shifted to Mumbai to continue his studies and experiment with acting, which was certainly the right move as he is now a well loved youth icon. He played the lead role in “Chhal Sheh Aur Maat” on Colors but his debut was in “Jugni Chali Jalandha...
27. Sanjay Batra
Sanjay Batra is a TV actor. He is most famous for his roles in many of the television serials. He made his appearance in ‘Kesar’, which was a serial that was telecasted on STAR Plus. This was based on young girl’s life. During 2008 to 2012, he made his appearance in ‘Chotti Bahu’, a television opera which was aired in Zee TV. He has appeared in ‘Jyoti’, which was a soap opera, that was telecasted on Imagine TV from the year 2009 to 2010.
In addition, he acted in ‘Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?’ a soap opera, which was telecasted on Star Plus from 2011 to 2012. He has also made his appearance in ‘Mrs Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein’, which was telecasted in Zee TV from 2011 to 2013. At present, he is acting in ‘Balika Vadhu’, whi...
28. Abhaas Mehta
The name Shyam is all we need to say about this person. Yes, he is our own Shyam, the one who made his mark on screen for his role as Shyam in the TV serial, “Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon”. His character was so perfect and realistic that he use to get hate mails from the audience in large, and was disappointed at first that he is being hated for his on screen character, but later learned that his work is so well and this is Indian audience who take on screen characters so seriously that they forget it's just acting and not real at all. Later, he adapted to it and was happy that his work is so strong and is given so much importance.
Personal Life: Abhaas Mehta is from Mumbai, and he studied law after completing graduation. Abhaas was a tennis practitioner as he wanted to do a course in sports ...
29. Akshay Dogra
Akshay Dogra of Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon fame who played cousin brother of Arnav Singh Raizada in the serial.
Personal Life: Akshay Dogra born on 21 September, 1981 is from Delhi, India he is brother of Ridhi Dogra from the serial Maryada Lekin Kab Tak of star plus. Akshay started his career working off screen for sometime it is then he realized he should face camera and try onscreen too and made his start on screen in the serial 12/24 Karol Bagh on Zee Tv. Akshay is married to his longtime girlfriend whom he dated for six years before marriage. He met his lady love when he used to go for Commerce tuitions in his hometown Delhi. Akshay wanted to do engineering but as he did not qualify for engineering he opted commerce thus he met his then girlfriend now wife this is what we call destiny....
30. Barun Sobti
Barun Sobti is a Commercial Model, Film and TV actor. He was born on August 21, 1984 in New Delhi, India.
He was known for playing the lead role as Arnav Singh Raizada in the romantic comedy soap “Iss Pyaar ko Kya Naam Doon?” in which he was paired opposite Sanaya Irani in which she portrayed as Khushi. He was acclaimed and received many awards for his role in this serial such as “Favorite Jodi”, “Favorite International Jodi”, “Favorite Naya Sadasya” and “Most Stylish Sadasya” in Star Parivaar Awards. Then he got the award for the “Best Actor in a Lead Role” in The Global Indian Film and TV Honors, “Favorite TV Drama Actor” and “Favorite On-Screen Jodi” in People’s Choice Awards Indi...
31. Ashok Saroj