1. Sandhya Shantaram
Sandhya Shantaram is a prominent actress of Hindi and Marathi films. She is the third wife of renowned filmmaker and producer, V. Shantaram, who also discovered him after the latter got married to her sister, Jayashree (actress). Later, when Jayashree and Shantaram parted ways, Sandhya got married to him and had a daughter named Madhura (wife of Jasraj, an Indian classical vocalist).
She made her acting debut in the Marathi film, Amar Bhoopali, which was produced and directed by V. Shantaram. In the next phase of her acting career, Sandhya appeared in most of her husband’s films including Parchhain (1952), Teen Batti Char Raasta (1953), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957), Navrang (1959), etc.
2. Kamini Kaushal
Kamini Kaushal is a popular film and TV actress. She was born at Lahore, in 16 January 1927. Her father was a professor in “Government College Lahore, British India.” She had done her graduation from Kinnaird College in Lahore. She married to her brother in law because her sister passed away leaving behind very young children.She had started her carrier as stage actress in Delhi. She has performed as Radio artist also. Then there was a great boost in her carrier as an artist when she performed a notable role in the film “Neecha Nagar” by Chetan Anand, in 1946. Neecha Nagar’s story was based on the difference and distance between the rich and poor in the society.She has performed with ...
3. Dharmendra
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 films. He got into politics as well, and he is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
He got married to Parkash Kaur in the year 1954 and was blessed with four children. He also married the prominent actress namely Hema Malini in the year 1980 and then had two children. The names of his children are Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol, Ajeeta Deol, Vijayta Deol,...
4. Actor Manoj Kumar
Manoj Kumar was born as Harikrishna Goswami. He was born on 24 July, 1937 in Lahore, Punjab, India (Now Pakistan). After India – Pakistan Partition his family fled to Delhi, when he was 10. He did his graduation in Hindu College, University of Delhi. After his graduation he went on to pursue a career in acting. He is an award winning Indian actor and also a director in the Bollywood.
He changed his name as Manoj Kumar, after the Character name of Dilip Kumar in the film ‘Shabnam’. He was a great admirer of Actor Dilip Kumar. His debut movie was ‘Fashion’, which was released in the year 1957. His career steeped steadily through the years. He is known for his hand on the face gesture and his patriotic ...
5. Asrani
Govardhan Asrani, simply known with the pet name Asrani, is a popular Bollywood veteran actor. He was born on 1st January, 1941 in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Asrani's father had a small carpet shop. He had four sisters and three brothers. Since childhood, Asrani never had interest in business and also he was very bad in mathematics. He completed his schooling from St. Xavier School and received graduation from Rajasthan College, Jaipur. To pay for his education, he worked as a voice artist in the all India Radio. He had a passion about acting. Asrani learnt acting in Sahitya Kalbhai Thakkar for two simultaneous years from 1960 to 1962 and after his training; he shifted to Mumbai to seek opportunity in acting career. In accidental meeti...
6. Satish Shah
Satish Shah is a Hindi and Marathi TV actor. He rose to fame with his role in the 1980’s sitcom show Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi directed by Kundan Shah and Manjul Sinha. He appeared in many Bollywood films through the 1980s, 90’s and 2000’s followed by his appearance in the famous television show Sarabhai vs Sarabhai.
Satish Shah was born on 25th June, 1951 in Bombay, Maharashtra. His first mainstream movie was “Arvind Desai ki Ajeeb Dastaan” followed by “Toofani Takkar” released in 1978. Some of his famous roles include Dilawar in Umrao Jaan (1981), Vidyasagar in Aag aur Shola (1989), Anand Rastogi in Gharwali Baharwali (1989), Ajit Singh in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge&n...
7. Rakesh Pandey
Rakesh Pandey born in Himachal Pradesh was once a very handsome looking actor of Bhojpuri cinema. A Younger generation remembers him for playing the role of Ayub Khan’s father in “Dil Chahta Hai.” He was the most famous actor of Bhojpuri cinema along with Sujit Kumar and Padma Khanna.
He also acted as the main lead in many Hindi movies like Sara Akash (which was based on Rajendra Yadav novel and directed by Basu Chatterjee) Anokha Daan, Rakhwala and as a character artist in ‘Woh Main Nahin’, ‘Abdullah’,’ Zindagi Aur Toofan’ but the role for which he was most recognizable was of ‘Prakash’ the generous f...
8. Dheeraj Kumar
Dheeraj Kumar belongs to the era when television was just about widening its appeal to the motley TV audience of those days, fed on the governmental dose of “Krishi Darshan” and the like. With winds of change slowly gathering momentum within Mandi House, came typical soaps catering to the then prevailing genres like mythological anecdotes and stories of yester year heroes. It was in this latter slot in 1984 that Dheeraj Kumar with his own production house Creative Eye, launched his serial “Kahan Gaye Woh Log”. This narrated lesser known facets of our freedom fighters, syncing very well with what mandarins at DD felt was good fare to be beamed to TV homes.
9. Pankaj Dheer
Pankaj Dheer is an Indian television, film actor, and director who predominantly acts in Hindi serials and movies. He was born and brought up in the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He has acted in several TV shows and films but what brought him to the pedestal of fame is his colossal role of Karna in the portrayal of the Hindu epic, ‘Mahabharatha’ in the year 1988-1990. He became a household name in North India after this role.
He had a rather modest debut to his career acting in the movie ‘Sookha’ in the year 1983. But he went on to clinch the role of Karna in the ‘Mahabharata’ TV show that aired from 1988-1990. Since th...
10. Mukul Dev
Mukul Dev was born in Khatri Punjabi family. His father was a formal police commissioner of Delhi. He is a brother of a famous mode and actor “Rahul Dev” he completed his schooling from “St. Columba’s School, Delhi in 1998. Mukul is trained Pilot from “Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi”. He started his career from small screen television serial named “Mumkin”.
He plays a character named “Vijay Pandey”. His worked is appreciated and he got his first break in silver screen from movies “Dastak”. He played a character of A.C.P Rohit Malhotra were Miss Universe “Susmita sen” is in lead actress. Later he worked in many regional language movies like P...
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