2. Vidya Balan
Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress who was born in Poothamkurussy, Puthur of Kerala. Her birthday is 1st of January in 1978. Her parents are Saraswathy and P. R Balan. Her elder sister is Priya Balan and her second cousin is Indian actress Priyamani. She studied at a High School in Mumbai and in 1995, at the age of sixteen, she played the role of Radhika in the first season of Ekta Kapoor's TV series named “Hum Paanch”. In her teenage, she was inspired by Indian actress Shabana Azmi and Madhuri Dixit. She studied Sociology in St. Xavier's College and completed Master's in Mumbai University. She has appeared in several TV commercials and also she has starred in music videos. Vidya has briefly studied Carnatic music, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. She was listed as the "India's hottest vegetarian...
3. Raima Sen
Raima Sen is a renowned Indian film actress, who mainly works in the Bengali film industry. She was born on November 7, 1979, in Kolkata, West Bengal in India to Moon Moon Sen, a prominent actress, and Bharat Dev Varma, who belongs to the Tripura royal family. She is also the sister of Riya Sen and the granddaughter of the late Suchitra Sen, who are both popular actresses. Her paternal and maternal great grandparents belong to the affluent and renowned families in the country. She debuted in the Bollywood biographical film, Godmother, which was helmed by Vinay Shukla in the year 1999. The film became critically acclaimed, but her portrayal was unnoticed for the lead actress, Shabana Azmi. In 2001, she played as the daughter of Raveena Tandon in the drama film, Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence, where she ...
4. Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a classic filmmaker, who has given Indian audiences films like Parineeta, Munnabhai MBBS, 3-Idiots, PK and 1942-A Love Story. What distinguished him from other film maker was that, he always wanted to experiment cinema. Both in terms of his script and in terms of mise-en-scene, character development and pace of the film, we believe that most of his films were very successful in box-office. As an FTII student, he always wanted to learn by making his films; he selected films therefore like an intensive program. He has a reputation for being completely demanding during production and his moody, temperamental and control freaks always made him the perfect filmmaker before and behind the camera.
He had captured and shown the lovely romance (‘’1942-A Love story’’),which dates back to Brit...
5. Abhijat Joshi
Abhijat Joshi is a prominent Indian screenwriter, producer and director, known for working under the banner of Vinod Chopra Productions. He was born on December 1, 1969, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where he is also brought up. He came from a family of professors and he also works as a professor at the Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. He studied at the Shri H. K. Arts College, which is affiliated to Gujarat University. He got his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Texas in Austin. Besides English, he is fluent in speaking and writing the Gujarati language.
Abhijat also attended Shree Vidyanagar High School in Ahmedabad and joined the Gujarati drama competitions in school. He won several accolades for his brilliant talent in acting. He also likes playing cricket. He worked at CU Shah Arts and Commer...
6. Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.
In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By t...
7. Sanjay Dutt
July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of cinema Sunil Dutt and Nargis gave birth to the ‘Munna Bhai’ of Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt in Bombay. Almost all are aware that Sanjay Dutt’s life is like a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs in his personal as well as professional life. But this man has never lost hope and is still struggling to get into a normal life as he is behind the bars since 2013 because of the TADA case. He went to Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. In his teenage years, due to peer pressure, he started taking drugs. For almost nine years he took heroin and cocaine as drug intakes and after a long period he realized that he should quit it all and wished to live a normal life.
He took his father’s help wh...
8. Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan is a film celebrity born to actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer 'Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi'. He has two sisters, Soba, and Soha. Soha is a well-known actress in Hindi cinema. He was born in New Delhi on August 16, 1970. This actor made his debut with director Yash Chopra’s film Parampara, but the film did not do well in box office. He then acted with Akshay and Kajol in Yeh Dillagi, which majored him.
After this movie success, he got many offers as leading hero but all films failed to create any magic in the box-office. Only his mule-starter films fared well in box-office such as Kachche Dhaage (1999), Hum Saath Hain (1999). He had one solo hits with Preity Zinta (Kya Kehna). Saif got his best performance role for Hum Tum, which w...
9. Jimmy Shergill
Jimmy Shergill is a renowned Indian actor and producer in the big screen, known for working predominantly in Punjabi and Hindi movies. He was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh in India on December 3, 1972 to a Sikh family. His real name is Jasjit Singh Gill, the son of the popular painter, Satyajit Singh Shergill. He studied at St. Francis College in Lucknow in his early years before he shifted to Punjab and studied at The Punjab Public School. He also attended Bikram and Nabha College and Patiala’s Punjabi University. Jimmy has learned to act through his guru, Sri Harpal Singh. He went to Mumbai to pursue his career as an actor.
He started acting in the year 1996 through the critically acclaimed Hindi film, Maachis, a film that is based on the Punjab terrorism. Thi...
10. Jackie Shroff
Intro: Jackie Shroff is a well known Bollywood actor who also has presence on Indian television sector.
Jackie Shroff is a popular actor who has worked for more than 175 movies in various languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, and Punjabi. He was launched by Dev Anand in his movie Swami Dada in 1978. Subhash Ghai chose him for the movie Hero which became a huge hit and paved the way of success for Jackie Shroff in Bollywood. Some of his movies which became huge commercial success include Karma, Ram Lakhan, Izzat, Tridev, Rangeela, Saudagar, Angaar, Khalnayak, and Aina. He got his first Filmfare award for best actor for the movie Parinda which was released in 1989.
While Jackie Shroff is known for his work and success with Bol...