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1. Priyanka Chopra

Born on 18 July 1982, Priyanka Chopra is an established actress and ex Miss World. She is also a talented singer. She is one of the richest actresses of Indian film industry and is a celebrated diva of Bollywood. Priyanka Chopra is bestowed with numerous credits; she has won the Filmfare awards 4 times and National Award once. Born in Jamshedpur, Priyanka’s parents were doctors in Indian Army. It was during the year 2000, that this actress stepped into the Femina Miss India contest and from then on her journey to success is in...

Date of Birth: 18-07-1982

Age: 41

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Female

Skills: Movie Actress

Biography About Priyanka Chopra

Date of Birth: 18-07-1982

Age: 41

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Female

Skills: Movie Actress

2. Tani Basu

Tani Basu is an Indian director. She worked for the Hindi film industry. She is known for her work in Bollywood movies. Tani worked as the writer in Barfi, as a producer in Detective Jagga, and as a director in Stories by Rabindranath Tagore. Barfi is a comedy, drama, romantic movie which hit the theatres on 14th September 2012. Directed by Anurag Basu, the film was a big hit in the Indian cinemas. The film has a star cast as Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D’ Cruz, Saurabh Shukla, and many more. Detective Jagga is an action, adventure, comedy movie which hit the theatres on 14th Jul 2017. TaniBasu worked as the producer of the film....

Gender: Female

Skills: Director

Biography About Tani Basu

Gender: Female

Skills: Director

3. Rekha Bhardwaj

Rekha Bhardwaj is a dynamic and versatile Indian playback singer who can perform in different genres like Bollywood, Sufi, Folk and Classical. She married the Indian Director, Producer and Music Director Vishal Bharadwaj. Her unique style of singing makes her stand out of the crowd. Born in a middle-class household in New Delhi, Rekha studied music at Hindu College, Delhi. She always desired to become a singer but was discouraged due to her husky voice. Rekha and her husband Vishal Bharadwaj studied in the same college. They met each other in their college annual day program. Music was common in both which created a bond between them and later they got married. Vishal believed and convinced her to start her caree...

Date of Birth: 24-01-1964

Age: 60

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Female

Skills: Singer

Biography About Rekha Bhardwaj

Date of Birth: 24-01-1964

Age: 60

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Female

Skills: Singer

4. Shreya Ghoshal

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Ben...

Date of Birth: 12-03-1984

Age: 40

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Female

Skills: Singer

Biography About Shreya Ghoshal

Date of Birth: 12-03-1984

Age: 40

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Female

Skills: Singer

5. Sunidhi Chauhan

Sunidhi Chauhan, a very famous Indian playback singer, was born in August, 1983 in New Delhi, India. She has a younger sister named Suneha. Sunidhi studied at the Greenway Modern School in Delhi. She later shifted to Mumbai with her family to pursue her career as a singer. She started singing at the age of 4. She participated at a Singing Contest called ‘Meri Awaz Suno’ in 1996 at the age of 13 and became the Champion. Since then she entered into the world of playback singing. Her first playback was in the film ‘Shastra’ in 1996. Singing for the movie ‘Mast’ gave her fame and the first breakthrough. She sang in a number of Indian dialects like Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, etc. She has also recorded songs in English, Urdu and Nepa...

Date of Birth: 14-08-1983

Age: 40

Star Sign: Leo

Gender: Female

Skills: Singer

Biography About Sunidhi Chauhan

Date of Birth: 14-08-1983

Age: 40

Star Sign: Leo

Gender: Female

Skills: Singer

6. Roopa Ganguly

Roopa Ganguly or Rupa Ganguly is well known for her memorable role as Draupadi in B. R. Chopra’s ‘Mahabharat 1988 TV Series’. Roopa a.k.a Draupadi as she is known was born in Kalyani (Kolkata) on 25th November 1966. She did her schooling from Beltala Girl’s High School and obtained a bachelors degree from Jogmaya Devi College, Calcutta University. She did a Malayalam film in the beginning of her days and shot to fame with Mahabharat in 1988 where she played the enigmatic Draupadi with such determination that till date people recognize her by that name. Roopa is a famous Bengali film actress and has done many films like - ‘Antarmahal’, ‘Yugant’, ‘Padma Nadir Ma...

Date of Birth: 25-11-1966

Age: 57

Star Sign: Sagittarius

Gender: Female

Skills: TV-Actress, Movie Actress

Biography About Roopa Ganguly

Date of Birth: 25-11-1966

Age: 57

Star Sign: Sagittarius

Gender: Female

Skills: TV-Actress, Movie Actress

7. Sumona Chakravarti

Sumona Chakravarti is an actress and a model born on June 24, 1988 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Sumona studied in Loreto Convent, Lucknow, Hiranandani Foundation School in Mumbai and graduated from Jai Hind College, Mumbai. She initiated her career as an actress in the movie 'Mann' in 1998 and then appeared in 'Vidyarthi' in 1999. She started playing in an English musical play opera in 2009. And then later worked in various ad films. Not everyone knows that Sumona’s debut film when she was a 12-years old was the Mann, an Amir Khan Movie in 1998. Then in 2010, she appeared as Manasi in Aakhari Decision. And in 2012, she acted in Barfi, an Indian romantic-comed...

Date of Birth: 24-06-1988

Age: 35

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Female

Skills: Model

Biography About Sumona Chakravarti

Date of Birth: 24-06-1988

Age: 35

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Female

Skills: Model

8. Anurag Basu

Anurag Basu is a jack of all trade Indian film/television director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. Initially starting his career in television in 1993 making his name common in the Indian household. Basu moved to directing films for the big screen in 2002-2003 and has various hits under his belt since. Born in an upper-middle class family in Bhilai to award winning theatre artists, Deepshikha Basu and Subrato Basu, Anurag had the passion for theatre in his blood. He initially wanted a career in engineering and was admitted to Jabalpur Engineering College. but dropped out after some time. He went on to complete his BSc degree in Physics from University of Mumbai. During his years in university his pass...

Date of Birth: 08-05-1974

Age: 49

Star Sign: Taurus

Gender: Male

Skills: Director

Biography About Anurag Basu

Date of Birth: 08-05-1974

Age: 49

Star Sign: Taurus

Gender: Male

Skills: Director

9. Ronnie Screwvala

Born in the city of Mumbai to a family of Parsi religion, Rohinton Soli Screwvala is an Indian philanthropist, entrepreneur, CEO, and founder of UTV Group, which included Bloomberg UTV, UTV Software Communications, etc. Since school time Ronnie had an interest in films and theater. He also acted in some skits in Bombay theater like Alyque Padamsee and Pearl. But he did not like working for others, so his stage career ended as he wished to initiate his business. Ronnie started on a small scale in the year 1981. He worked as a cable TV operator in the city Mumbai under the network company. It provided a video channel for three hours to people who lived in the Cuffe Parade area which is the affluent area of Mumbai. ...

Date of Birth: 08-09-1962

Age: 61

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Male

Skills: Producer

Biography About Ronnie Screwvala

Date of Birth: 08-09-1962

Age: 61

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Male

Skills: Producer

10. Siddharth Roy Kapur

Siddharth Roy Kapur is an Indian businessman, film producer and managing director of Disney India. He hails from a film background; his mother was a film choreographer and his brothers being well known film actors. His father was a Punjabi and mother, Salome Roy Kapur, was a Jew and former Miss India. He is a two time divorcee and is currently married to actress Vidya Balan. He finished his Bachelors in Commerce from the Sydenham College in Mumbai and got his MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), where he was a part of the hallowed Placement Committee. He joined UTV in 2005 as a senior vice president and headed the Marketing and Communications divisions. He let marketing progr...

Date of Birth: 02-08-1974

Age: 49

Star Sign: Leo

Gender: Male

Skills: Producer

Biography About Siddharth Roy Kapur

Date of Birth: 02-08-1974

Age: 49

Star Sign: Leo

Gender: Male

Skills: Producer

11. Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir Kapoor is a noted Indian film actor. He was born on September 28, 1982, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Rishi (Bollywood film actor, producer and director) and Neetu Singh (Bollywood actress). His grandfather, Raj Kapoor, is also a noted film actor, producer and director and was once called “The greatest showman of Indian cinema”. He has a sister named Riddhima, an interior and fashion designer. Ranbir, Karisma and Kareena Kapoor were first cousins. He studied at Bombay Scottish School, Mahim. During an early age, he admitted that he never had a close relationship with his father. Both his parents usually have constant arguments, which somewhat affect h...

Date of Birth: 28-09-1982

Age: 41

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor

Biography About Ranbir Kapoor

Date of Birth: 28-09-1982

Age: 41

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor

12. Sanjeev Dutta

An Indian writer, Sanjeev Dutta, is well-known for his writings. His career as a writer initiated from the eminent drama television series Khwhish, which was aired in 1999. ‘Yaariyan,’ ‘Baaghi 3,’ ‘Super 30,’ etc. are some other notable films for which he has written the scripts. Apart from writings the scripts of various films, he has written the dialogues of acclaimed movies ‘Page 3, ‘Life in a Metro,’ etc. The writer has worked with a lot of the celebrities of Bollywood, including Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, etc. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his writings. ...

Gender: Male

Skills: Writer

Biography About Sanjeev Dutta

Gender: Male

Skills: Writer

13. Ravi Varman

Ravi was born in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. By profession, he is a cinematographer. Also, he penned the script and directed one movie. He has got some nominations and awards for his brilliant works. With a connection to the South Indian movie industry, he also has worked in Bollywood, and his work won acclamation. His great zeal for literature helped him to create a magazine (online) named Yavarum Kelir. His interest in photography is linked to the death of his mother, who he lost at a very young age. He grew up watching movies, but he never thought that he will make his career in the film industry. Ravi has been a part of various languages movies like Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English. He has done some TV commercial...

Date of Birth: 03-05-1972

Age: 52

Star Sign: Taurus

Gender: Male

Skills: Screenplay Writer, Writer, Director, Producer, Assistant Director, Cinematographer

Biography About Ravi Varman

Date of Birth: 03-05-1972

Age: 52

Star Sign: Taurus

Gender: Male

Skills: Screenplay Writer, Writer, Director, Producer, Assistant Director, Cinematographer

14. Pritam Chakraborty

When it comes to Bollywood music, Pritam Chakraborty is one of the most prominent figures in the Indian music industry. More commonly known as just “Pritam”, he is song composer, singer as well as an energetic live performer. Starting his career in 2001, his areas of excellence is a wide range of genres. From Pop to Jazz, Techno to Sufi music, Pritam is a highly capable individual. Born in Kolkata, on 14th June, 1971, Pritam got his early music training from his father’s music school for children. His urge towards music can be seen in his early life when Pritam joined a music school after completing college. He formed two bands as a youngster, and also managed to release a cassette to his credit from the second band. He is a graduate Soun...

Date of Birth: 14-06-1971

Age: 52

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Skills: Music Director

Biography About Pritam Chakraborty

Date of Birth: 14-06-1971

Age: 52

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Skills: Music Director

15. Swanand Kirkire

Swanand Kirkire is a multi-talented personality of Bollywood. He is an actor, lyricist, writer and singer. He was born in 1970 in Indore, India. He belongs to a Marathi-speaking family. His father, Chintamani, and mother, Neelambari, were both classical singers. Swanand, however, had no formal training on singing. His father worked at a public bank and his mother worked at a university. He spent his childhood in Indore and then move to Delhi, where he completed his graduation in Commerce. After graduation, he got a marketing job of selling Eureka Forbes Vacuum Cleaner. Later, he graduated from the National School of Drama in 1996. He started acting in theatre afterwards. He was a crazy about films and used to bunk schools for seeing movies....

Date of Birth: 1970

Gender: Male

Skills: Lyricist

Biography About Swanand Kirkire

Date of Birth: 1970

Gender: Male

Skills: Lyricist

16. Arijit Singh

Most famous for his songs in Aashiqui 2, Arijit Singh has established himself as a prominent playback singer and music programmer. He was the runner-up in Fame Gurukul, a singing competition, in 2005. He then went on to win another singing reality show, 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil.Born in 1987 in West Bengal, Arjit was trained in classical music by his aunt and mother. He had a passion for music from an early age and his parents decided to get him a professional trainer, Rajendra Prasad Hazari for classical music and Dhirendra Prasad Hazari to train him at tabla. His teachers encouraged Arijit to try out for Fame Gurukul in 2005 and chose to promote the Indian classical music genre. P...

Date of Birth: 25-04-1987

Age: 37

Star Sign: Taurus

Gender: Male

Skills: Singer

Biography About Arijit Singh

Date of Birth: 25-04-1987

Age: 37

Star Sign: Taurus

Gender: Male

Skills: Singer

17. Mohit Chauhan

Mohit Chauhan is a Bollywood playback singer. He was born on March 11, 1966 at Nahan, Himachal Pradesh, India. He was also a previous front-man of the band, Silk Route. Mohit is fluent in Pahari, Hindi and English languages. He went to St. Xavier’s School in Delhi and then he came to Himachal Pradesh to finish his studies. He graduated college with a Master of Science in Geology at Dharamsala College. Mohit doesn’t have any formal training in the field of music, but he sings well and he can play harmonica, flute and guitar. After graduating, he formed the Silk Route band in 1996. The band’s genre is Indian pop songs and they released their albums Boondein in 1998 and Pehchan. Silk Route’s Dooba Dooba was a success and the ban...

Date of Birth: 11-03-1966

Age: 58

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Skills: Singer

Biography About Mohit Chauhan

Date of Birth: 11-03-1966

Age: 58

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Skills: Singer

18. Nikhil Paul George

Nikhil Paul George is guitarist, record producer, singer, arranger and composer; he is an Indian settled in London. He has composed and arranged many Bollywood movie songs. Some of the films he has worked in are ‘Shaadi ke Side Effects’, ‘Ferrari Ki Sawaari’, ‘Dhoom 3’, ‘Race 2’, ‘Players’ and a few more. He came into limelight with the film ‘Barfi’ in which he sang two songs ‘Main Kya Karoon’ and ‘Aashiyan’. Nikhil with Shalmali Kholgade sang the song for the film ‘Maazii’; the song was titled ‘Zindagi’. His latest work has been for the song ‘Nazde...

Gender: Male

Skills: Composer, Singer, Vocalist

Biography About Nikhil Paul George

Gender: Male

Skills: Composer, Singer, Vocalist

19. Rajat Poddar

Rajat Poddar is a Bollywood Art Director, who is known for his inventive and ingenious visuals in Movies. He has also been the Production Designer for more than twenty flicks. Rajat started his stint in the field of Cinema, in the year 2003, through the thriller film Saaya starring John Abraham. He has worked with many famous Directors and Actors such as Anurag Basu, Priyanka Chopra, Soha Ali Khan, Irrfan Khan and so on. No Problem (2010), Shaapit: The Cursed (2010), Awarapan (2007), Murder (2004) are some of the movies in which Rajat was the Art Director. Rajat Poddar was the man behind the beautiful visuals in the critically acclaimed film Barfi, which released in the ye...

Gender: Male

Skills: Art Director

Biography About Rajat Poddar

Gender: Male

Skills: Art Director

20. Aki Narula

Aki Narula was a Fashion Designer born in Kolkata in 1968. He studied in La Martiniere School in Calcutta. He finished schooling in 1987. He studied Commerce at the St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata. He designed Clothes for College Plays, Rock Concerts, and College Fests in College. He worked as a management trainee for ten months with the Lintas group. He then went to study Communication Course at the Arizona State University. He then came back and worked in a cost accountancy program in 1992. But his passion for designing made him abandon his Accounting and Management jobs. Aki added his unique designs to the dress his mother bought for him. Thus, he became a designer for him and his family. A tailor used t...

Date of Birth: 1968

Gender: Male

Skills: Fashion Designer

Biography About Aki Narula

Date of Birth: 1968

Gender: Male

Skills: Fashion Designer

21. Akiv Ali

Delhi based film editor and director Akiv Ali was born in 1981. He worked as an editor, director and film actor in his 26 years of career. He entered in Bollywood as a film editor for the film Kaash Aap Hammare Hote on 2003. Akiv also tried acting for film Rog (2005), which is edited by him. In his struggling day he got chance to worked as an editor for many film including Saaya (2003), Murder (2004), Tumsa Nahi Dekha (2004), Zeher (2005), Kalyug (2005), Gangster (2006), Life in a Metro (2007), Kites (2010), I Hate Luv Storys (2010) etc. He also does film editing for blockbuster films like Agneepath (2012), Barfi (2012), Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani (2013), Kabil and Sonu ke Titu ki Sweety (2018). He made a debut as a director i...

Date of Birth: 1981

Gender: Male

Skills: Director

Biography About Akiv Ali

Date of Birth: 1981

Gender: Male

Skills: Director

22. Akash Khurana

Akash Khurana is a noted actor, screenwriter, media personality and an entrepreneur. He is one of those actors who are very well read. He went to St. Francis De Sales School, Nagpur for his schooling. He did his engineering in Mechanical stream from NIT Rourkela, which is one of the prestigious engineering colleges in India. Later, he went to XLRI, Jamshedpur for his post-graduation in Business Management. He didn’t stop there. He went ahead and completed his M.Phil and subsequently a PhD in Social Sciences from another college of repute, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Then he joined Nimbus Communications, Mumbai as ‘Chief Creative Officer’ and worked there for some time. He has also been visiting f...

Gender: Male

Skills: Screenplay Writer, Director, Movie Actor

Biography About Akash Khurana

Gender: Male

Skills: Screenplay Writer, Director, Movie Actor

23. Ashish Vidyarthi

Ashish Vidyarthi is a renowned Indian film performer. He is mainly popular because of his acting dominatingly in Bollywood and Telugu silver screen. He was entitled with “National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor” in 1995. Ashish was conceived in Hyderabad. He was the son of Reba Vidyarthi, an eminent Kathak dance specialist of Bengali style and Govind Vidyarthi, a renowned cinema identity on Malyali stages. Ashish got his surname from his father, who assumed the surname "Vidyarthi" as a tribute to opportunity contender Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi who passed on in Kanpur mobs during the partition of India.He moved to Delhi in 1969 and joined the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Mehta Vidyalaya, where he won recognition for his exhibitions ...

Date of Birth: 19-06-1962

Age: 61

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Skills: Villain

Biography About Ashish Vidyarthi

Date of Birth: 19-06-1962

Age: 61

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Skills: Villain

24. Haradhan Bandopadhyay

Haradhan Bandopadhyay is a Bengali actor; he worked in both television and films. He was born on 6th November 1926 in Kushtia, Bengal. He took primary education in Kushtia Municipal School in East Bengal (present Bangladesh). He graduated from City College, Kolkata. Later he worked in a factory named Gun & Shell; after that he started working at an insurance company and stayed there till his retirement. He was involved in freedom struggle movement for which he was jailed for a while. Bandopadhyay started his acting career by doing plays. He made his debut with the film ‘Devdut’, released in 1948; Atanu Bandopadhyay directed the film. Later he worked with no...

Date of Birth: 06-11-1926

Age: 97

Star Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor

Biography About Haradhan Bandopadhyay

Date of Birth: 06-11-1926

Age: 97

Star Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor

25. Saurabh Shukla

Saurabh Shukla was born at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in the year 1963 on 5th March. He is a versatile personality who started from theater & reached to Bollywood where he tried his hands in Direction, Screenplay writing along with his Acting. At the age of two, he left Gorakhpur & moved to Delhi. He completed his schooling & later did his graduation from Khalsa College in Delhi. In 1984, he kickstarted his career as a professional with his entry into the theater. Shekhar Kapur gave him the debut role in Bandit Queen. Earlier he did many plays & also joined NSD Repertoire Company as an actor. Satya, that was directed by Ram Gopal Verma proved to be the film...

Date of Birth: 05-03-1963

Age: 61

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor

Biography About Saurabh Shukla

Date of Birth: 05-03-1963

Age: 61

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Skills: Movie Actor

26. Uday Tikekar

Uday Tikekar is an Indian actor who is known for his long- term association with the Marathi & Hindi Theatres with his equally active association with television & movies. Uday started off his journey in the world of acting with his works in the Marathi Theatre. Being a Marathi, he was comfortable playing different roles carrying varied dimensions. He stretched his feet with his acting endeavours in the Hindi Theatre & main stream Hindi entertainment world. Some of his very famous Hindi movies include the big names such as ‘Tumsa Nahin Dekha’ (2004), ‘Murder’ (2004) and ‘Barfi!’ (2012). He played roles of some varied lengths in these movies. He has been acti...