Asha Bhosle
Lata Mangeshkar
Sharmila Tagore
Farida Jalal
Lalita Kumari
Shakti Samanta
Sachin Bhowmick
Aloke Dasgupta
Anand Bakshi
Manohari Singh
Rajesh Khanna
Abhi Bhattacharya
Asit Sen
Brahm Bhardwaj
Madan Puri
Ram Avtar
Ramayan Tiwari
Ratan Gaurang
Subhash Ghai
Sujit Kumar
Kishore Kumar
Govind Dalwadi
1. 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 their family. Asha had a big family with 4 sisters, including Asha, and one brother.
Asha made her debut at the age of 10 in 1943. She got a break to sing for a Marathi film, Majha Bal, and provided her vocals for the song "Chala Chala Nav Bala”. Her first song in Bollywood was “Saawan Aaya” for Chunariya in 1948. Asha began to work for various ran...
Age:
90
Gender:
Female
2. Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had formal training in music from her father. Her father ran a theater company in Mumbai, where she began to learn music with her father's grudging approval, and with whom she also sang a song. As her father was a conservative man, film music was not appreciated at her home. After the theater company was auctioned, her father died, and she assumed the financial responsibility by becoming an actress, first in Marathi and later in Hindi cinema, but in acting, she did not click. Later she surprised everyone with one of her solo number (Aayega Aanewaala) from the movie Mahal released in 1949. The song was screened on Madhubala...
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
3. Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore is a Bengali actress, who later shifted to the Hindi film industry, who was born on 8th December, 1944. Apart from being an actress, she stood as a member of Indian Film Censor Board for seven years. She was also chosen as UNICEF Goodwill ambassador from India. On the other hand, she was one of the jury members of Cannes Film Festival, 2009. She was recognized by the Government of India with the third highest civilian award of India, Padma Bhushan. She was familiar with her screen name Begum Ayesha Sultana. She is related to Rabindranath Tagore from her parental ancestors. She debuted her film career with under the direction of Satyajit Ray in the movie Apur Sansar, which was released in 1959. After the release, she took ...
Age:
79
Gender:
Female
4. Farida Jalal
Farida Jalal is a veteran film and television actress from India. She was born on March 14, 1949 at New Delhi. Farida was known for doing comedic roles but she also laid her hands to doing lead and supporting roles in more than 100 Bollywood films and has been part of the television industry for quite a long time. The actress started her career in 1960’s after winning the Filmfare’s United Film Producers Talent Hunt. She was luckily selected as finalists, together with Bollywood producer and actor, Rajesh Khanna. Farida got a film offer for the first time to do the film, Taqdeer which was offered by Tarachand Barjatya who is one of the audiences at that time. She gained her popularity after essaying a supp...
Age:
75
Gender:
Female
5. Lalita Kumari
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Gender:
Female
6. Shakti Samanta
Shakti Samanta, an eminent Indian film director, was born on January 13th, 1926 in Burdwan, West Bengal. He founded the most famous “Shakti Films” in 1957. He directed 37 films and was the producer for two. Shaki Samanta is one of those directors who have directed films from the time of black and white movies to coloured ones. He was not only famous for producing some outstanding films but also because of the songs in it. No wonder this famous director is the name associated with the famous versatile actor, Rajesh Khanna, who created history during that time. Personal Life: Shakti Samanta had two sons and two grandsons Ashim Samanta is one of them. Career: Shakti Samanta did his schooling from Deh...
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
7. Sachin Bhowmick
Sachin Bhowmick was born in West Bengal on 17th July 1930. He is a film director and is also a screenwriter and has written over 94 films. He is an excellent writer and also wrote for a Bengali magazine which wrote articles for the industry.
Sachin started his career in 1958 with writing the screenplay for ‘Nargis’ starred ‘Lajwanti’. He continued his work for movies like An Evening in Paris, Love in Tokyo, ‘Caravan’, ‘Dost’, ‘Golmaal’, Andar Bahar, ‘Karma’, ‘Nastik’, and ‘Saheb’, etc. Sachin wrote the story of “Main Khiladi Tu Anari”. The plot is about a police officer who is murdered by a drug dealer and ...
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
8. Aloke Dasgupta
Aloke Dasgupta is a North Indian classical sitar musician born in India on January 26, 1953. He resides in Torrance, California, in the United States. Dasgupta has performed with George Harrison, V.G. Jog, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Rolling Stones, and other artists. He holds a master's degree in ethnomusicology from San Diego State University. Aloke, who graduated with a master's in ethnomusicology from San Diego State University, had his stage debut at the New York Folk Festival in 1981, and the rest is history. He studied the sarod with Ali Akbar Khan. At eleven, he began learning with his late uncle Binoy Dasgupta before moving on to Pundit Jogesh Bannerjee, Professor Shiba Prasad Chakraborty, Smt. Kalyani Roy, and ult...
Age:
71
Gender:
Male
9. Anand Bakshi
Anand Bakshi was an old poet and lyricist with his popularity in the Hindi film industry. Anand Bakshi He was born in Rawalpindi, a part of India in 1930 which later got converted into a Pakistan city after independence in 1947. His mother died when he was five years old. Due to the partition of India and Pakistan, on October 2, 1947, Bakshi’s family shifted themselves to Delhi. Initially, Bakshi was in the Indian Army after completing his studies. In the free time, he used to write songs occasionally while working for the army. Bakshi initially tried to become a writer or a singer in the Hindi films, but later he found his talent in writing songs.
His first entry into movies as a lyricist was “Bhaala Aadmi” whi...
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
10. Manohari Singh
Manohar Singh is a well-known musician of Indian Film Industry. He worked in the team of R.D. Burman as the arranger of Film composer and used to play flute, trumpet, and saxophone. He was also known as ‘Manohari Da.’
As a Music composer, he worked with his childhood friend Basudeb Chakraborty most of the times and gave so many hit songs. This pair is known as Basu-Manohari. Later on, they worked along with Maruti Rao Keer, become the core of the team that took their band on top. Manohari belonged to the Nepalese family and born on 8 March 1931 in Kolkata.
His family indulged in music; his grandfather used to play the trumpe...
Age:
93
Gender:
Male
11. Rajesh Khanna
Born as Jatin Khanna on 29th December 1942, the charismatic actor renamed himself as Rajesh Khanna and shot to fame in Bollywood. He was a man of many talents – he worked as an actor, a director, and as a politician. However, he is best known as India’s original, first and foremost film superstar, with fifteen consecutive blockbuster hit movies within a mere three years. An enigmatic personality, he won over the hearts of millions of Indian women in his day, and charmed generations. Known as the King of Romance in Bollywood, he truly set a benchmark for romantic heroes in the coming eras of film and television. Charming to no end, he debuted in 1966 with the film Akhri Khat, and after that there w...
Age:
81
Gender:
Male
12. Abhi Bhattacharya
Abhi Bhattacharya is an Indian actor who acted in Bengali and Hindi movies, and has acted with noted directors like Guru Dutt, Bimal Roy, and Satyen Bose. He was even seen working with many films of Shakti Samanta including ‘Amanush', ‘Aradhana', ‘Anuraag', ‘Amar Prem’, and ‘Barsaat Ki Ek Raat'. Earlier, during the 50s and 60s, he had an illustrious career by working in films like ‘Jagriti’ (1954) and ‘Anuradha’ (1960). He also acted in movies of Tapan Sinha and Ritwik Ghatak.
Abhi worked in films like ‘Dosti’ and ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’ with Dharmendra, ‘Do Anjaane’ with Amitabh Bachchan, and ‘Im...
Gender:
Male
13. Asit Sen
Asit Sen was born on 24 September 1922 in Dhaka (now known as Bangladesh), Bengal in British India. His only son name is Partha Sen. He was a cinematographer, screenwriter and film director, who has worked both for Bollywood film Industry and Bengali film Industry. Asit Sen has directed many films in his career. A total 17 films have been directed by him both in Bengali and Hindi. He became popular for the films like Uttar Falguni which was released in the year 1963, Deep Jweley Jai in 1959, Mamta in 1966, Khamoshi in !969, Safar in 1970, and Anokhi Raat in 1968.
Asit Sen kick-started his career at new theaters in Kolkata as Assistant to Bimal Roy. In 1950, when Kolkata Fi...
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
14. Brahm Bhardwaj
Brahm Bhardwaj was one of the most popular actors of the Hindi Film Industry in the 50s. He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, in 1920. He appeared in over 200 films and marked his name in the industry with his fabulous acting. He was the first cast in the movie "Jai Shankar" in 1951, and the then famous director, Ishwarlal, directed the film. Bhardwaj then appeared in "Daaera" (1953), "Taxi Driver" (1954), "Bandish" (1955), "Ek hi Raasta" (1956), "Lal Batti" (1957), etc. He became more popular after appearing in some of the hit films such as Arzoo (1967), Spy in Rome (1968), and Anand (1971). He was mostly seen playing the roles of a judge, a doctor, and an advocate.
He got...
Gender:
Male
15. Madan Puri
Madan Puri played the evil men character in his acting career in Hindi cinema. And he totally stands out as the best of the baddies. He used to belong to a generation where villains used to show knife and get claps from audiences. But his character was downright evil ('Gumnam', 'Mr. X in Bombay', 'Blackmail' and even was drawn straight out of comic strips in films like "Vidhata" or "Amar Prem". He had an acting career that spanned over five decades and he went to act over 430 films in his career. Madan Puri was the best of the baddies in two phases of his career. The first phase was when he acted with Dev Anand and Manoj Kumar films. The second phase was when h...
16. Ram Avtar
Ram Avtar is a Bollywood character artist turned comedian. He is best known for the movies Teesri Manzil, Tumsa Nahin Dekha, Yaadon Ki Baaraat and much more. He initiated his career from the early 1930's and played character roles till early 1940's. Later, he changed into a comedian and gradually gained weight. Ram is well known for Nasir Hussain's movies. He played the role of a doctor in the movie "Tumsa Nahin Dekha". In the year 1964, he played the character of a hotel Manager in the film "April Fool."
Ram played a role in the movie Nagin in the year 1954. In the movie Teesri Manzil, he played the character of a laughing passenger, which got released in the year 1966. He portray...
17. Ramayan Tiwari
Ramayan Tiwari, a forename that did not just go to the history of Bihar's Hindi movie business, but has an ideal place. He debuted in the Bhojpuri flick of Bihar in his community also from his town. Not only this, his township is Bihar's first such village where a distinctive flick shooting took place for the initial time. Ramayan Tiwari was born in modes trencher household of Maner, a small hamlet in Bihar's capital Patna region. According to his grandson Sujit Tiwari, his granddad used to tell when the nation was free when he was born, he was about 30 years of age. Ramayan Tiwari, who struggled in the captivity of the British, had a disobedient nature since infancy and this was the cause that the artist began the Khilafat o...
Gender:
Male
18. Ratan Gaurang
Ratan Gaurang is a famous veteran Indian actor. His major works were all in Hindi. He contributed from 1949 to 1982 in the industry as an experienced and in- demand actor. In total, he did 103 films in his career, which includes many superhits like “ Teesri Kasam (1966), Sharabi (1964), Elaan (1971), Chalte Chalte (1976), Karz (1980), and Gopichand Jasoos (1982).”
In a supporting role, he featured in several other well-known films like “Barsaat (1949), Aandhiyan (1952), Pehli Jhalak (1955), Detective (1958), Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (1960), Anpadh (1962), Haqeeqat (1964), April Fool (1964), Teesri Kasam (1966), Hamraaz (1967), Aradhana (1969), Satte Pe Satta (1982), and many others.
He played a compl...
Gender:
Male
19. Subhash Ghai
Subhash Ghai is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer in the Bollywood film industry. He was born on 24th January 1945 to a family of Punjabis in Nagpur, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. He completed his Higher Secondary education in Delhi and also graduated with a commerce degree from Rohtak, in the state of Haryana. In the year 1963, he joined the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) by moving to Pune, Maharashtra. He got married in 1970 to Mukta Ghai. He stays with his wife and two daughters Muskaan Ghai and Meghna Ghai Puri in Mumbai.
Ghai’s Hindi cinema career started with minor roles in movies such ...
Age:
79
Gender:
Male
20. Sujit Kumar
Sujit Kumar was an actor and producer in Indian cinema. He was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh with the name Shamsher Singh. He acted in both Hindi and Bhojpuri movies during his career of 150 movies. He was seen onscreen from the 1960s till the 1980s. Post the 1990’s his primary focus was on production.
In his career in Bollywood, Sujit was mostly cast in suspense movies like 1965’s Ek Saal Pehle, and 1966’s Lal Bangla. He has acted in quite a few films in which Rajesh Khanna was the hero. These include 1969’s Aradhana and Ittefaq, 1970’s Aan Milo Sajna, 1993’s Haathi Mere Saathi, 1972’s Amar Prem and Mere Jeevan Saathi, 197...
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
21. Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who had no formal training in music world. The most easily recalled image of Kishore Kumar that comes in our mind is of his smiling with eyes. He was not just the singer, but a composer, actor and even a script-writer. He is also known for having lent his voice for innumerable hit songs for superstars like Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. At the age of 18, Kishore had set off to Mumbai with a passion for singing. His brother Ashok Kumar was already an established actor and he got a break to sing for Ziddi, which established the leading actor Dev Anand in the industry, but Kishore Kumar did not get any recognition. He acted ...
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
22. Govind Dalwadi
Bio coming soon......
Gender:
Male
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