Kanika Bajpai
Smita Jaykar
Vineeta Malik
Lekh Tandon
Jehangir Choudhary
Irshad Kamil
Naqsh Lyallpuri
Javed Ali
Chokkas Bhardwaj
Jojo Khan
Haider Ali
Parmeet Sethi
Govind Namdev
Kanawaljit Singh
Rajeev Verma
Sanjay Sharma
Ahmed Wasi
Awadh Narayan Singh
1. Kanika Bajpai
Kanika Bajpai is a talented Indian film actress, and she is majorly active in Bollywood. She has been recently seen in the film Phir Usi Mod par in the year 2019. She was a supporting actress, and she was cast as Ruby begum in the movie. The movie was premiered at the Berlin film festival in 2018, and she produced the movie under her home banner Kanika Multiscope. Kanika Bajpai's debut movie released on 8 March 2019 on the occasion of International Women’s Day This was also the last movie directed by the most talented director of classical cinema late Tandon. She is talented, and she seems to acquire a lot of success in the industry.
...2. Smita Jaykar
Smita Jaykar is a well known actress in Indian cinema that is prominently seen playing supportive roles. She was born and brought up in a Maharashtrian family and her native is Thakurdwar in Mumbai. She is married to Mohan Jaykar who is the son of respectful advocate Mr. Jaykak. She is famous for her renowned roles in several Marathi daily soaps and Bollywood movies. She started her career in 1995. She has done several Bollywood movies that make a long list in her notable career.
She was also appraised for her performance in a daily soap Yahaaan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli which was aired on Zee TV. She played the role of Abha’s (main lead) Mother aka Thakurain Chandra Prabh. The story revolved around a father daughter relation who believed in ethics and also where against woman who earn. The character of Smita Jayk...
3. Vineeta Malik
Vineeta Malik is a versatile Indian television actress. She is seen in both small and big screens. Her television career began with the movie “Escape from Taliban” in 2003. She plays the role of Abu in the movie. This movie is about an Indian movie who attempts to escape from Afghanistan and the oppressive Talibans. She also appeared in the Bollywood movie “Welcome To Sajjanpur” in 2008. She plays the role of Kamala’s mother, Kamala being the female lead. The story is about a humble man who falls in love with Kamala in the village, Sajjanpur.
Her next Bollywood movie was “Surkhaab” in 2012. She played the role of Jeet’s mother. Jeet is an Indian female, who follows her brother to Canada and falls prey to human trafficking. The movie shows the reality and presents the inhuman treatment of females.
Be...
4. Lekh Tandon
Lekh Tandon is primarily an Indian director but has played a few roles in films as well. He was born on 13 February 1929 in Lahore (British India). He completed his schooling from Khalsa High School, Lyalpur. His father’s friendship with Prithviraj Kapoor proved to be a fortunate thing for Lekh’s career. On a holiday to Bombay, he stayed with Kapoor and toured the studios. This experience with Kapoor inspired him to make his career in the industry. He started as a cameraman under V.N. Reddy and later became an assistant director to Kidar Sharma. The turning point in Lekh’s career came when F.C. Mehra gave him the chance to direct ‘Professor,’ a family comedy starring Shammi Kapoor, which was released in 1962. After giving a super hit debut film as a director, he made back-to-ba...
5. Jehangir Choudhary
Jehangir Chaudhary is an Indian cinematographer who worked for the Bollywood film industry. He worked in more than 20 Hindi movies and gained a huge amount of respect and reputation in the Hindi movies. Some of his work as a cinema cinematographer includes Sold in 2014, Aa Dekhen Zara in 2009, Bus Yun Hi in 2003, Mirch Masala in 1986, Ek Bar Kaho in 1980, Khuda Kasam in 1981, and many other films.
Chaudhari was also a nominee in the 2007 Filmfare award for best cinematography in the movie Being Cyrus which was released in 2005. He also won the National Film award in 1985 for best cinematography in the movie Holi which was also released in 1985.
...6. Irshad Kamil
Irshad Kamil is an Indian lyricist and poet who came to prominence with his work in Bollywood movies. He was born in Punjab as a Punjabi Muslim on 5 September 1971. After completing his Diploma in Journalism from Punjab University, he also completed a Ph.D. in contemporary Hindi poetry and a Post Graduation in Hindi language; he chose journalism as his career and joined a newspaper ‘Tribune’ in Chandigarh and covered entertainment and educational news. During this period, he also interviewed actors like Pooja Bhatt and Manoj Bajpayee. He then worked even in a Hindi newspaper and was involved in desk jobs. However, right from childhood, he had a unique sense to understand his life’s decisions and knew well how he has to choose his career. Soon, he left his journalism job and then did his Ph...
7. Naqsh Lyallpuri
Naksh Lyallpuri was born on February 24, 1928, and was a lyricist for Indian Ghazal and Bollywood films. Jaswant Rai Sharma, popularly known by his pseudonym Naqsh Lyallpuri, was born on February 24, 1928, in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad and present-day Pakistan) into a Punjabi Brahmin family. His father was a mechanical engineer. He disapproved of Jaswant's affinity for literature. The father-son relationship deteriorated after his mother died of chickenpox when he was eight years old, and his father remarried. In 1946, Sharma worked for a company called Publications and later moved to Lahore in search of work. After the partition of India, his family moved to Lucknow. Sharma later adopted the pseudonym 'Naksh' (meaning effect, symbol, or print) that accompanies his place of birth, following the tradition of Urdu poets, adding...
8. 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...
9. Chokkas Bhardwaj
Chokkas Bhardwaj is a producer, art director, and vital member of the art department of many movies. In 1994 he was part of the movie 1942: A Love Story. In this movie, Chokkas worked as a location manager. After this, in 1996, he worked in the art department in the film Diljale. In this movie, Ajay Devgan and Sonali Bendre were on the main cast list. Apart from this movie in 1998, he again worked in the same department in the movie Kareeb. In this movie, Bobby Deol and Rani Mukerji were the notable cast members. In later years he worked as an Art director in many movies.
In 1998 he worked in Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa as an art director. In1999 he came up with Hello Brother and Thakshak, in 2004 with Bardaasht, and in 2005 with Blackmail and Siskiyaan. However, his direction in the art genre did not stop. In 2006 he...
10. Jojo Khan
Jojo Khan is a Bollywood head choreographer, writer, and director and Broadway music director. He started his career during the early 90’s through her breakthrough in Ek Do Teen, along with Saroj Khan. Later, he joined the group of Saroj and started performing for more than a decade now.
In 1993, he choreographed for the Bollywood film, Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja. This was followed by a series of films, from which he worked as an assistant choreographer including, Baazigar, Dilwale, Anjaam, Yeh Dillagi, Dilbar, I’m the Expert, You’re The Novice, Amaanat, Suhaag, Aatish: Feel The Fire, Raja, PremGranth, Loafer, Ghatak: Lethal, Return of Jewel Thief, Judaai, Koyla, Ishq and a lot more.
He started to work as an indepen...
11. Haider Ali
Pakistani cricketer, Haider Ali made his first-class debut in September 2019. He was selected for the Pakistani team as an international cricketer on 1 September 2020. Earlier in 2019, he was named in the Pakistani squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup, which was held in Bangladesh. He was named the vice-captain for the his team playing Under-19 World Cup in 2020, with Pakistan going against Afghanistan in this tournament.
For the 2020–21 season, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) awarded Ali with a central contract for the newly created Emerging Players category. In June 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic, he was named in a 29-man Pakistan squad for a tour to England. However, on 23 June 2020, Ali tested positive for COVID-19, making him one of three players from the squad from Pakistan to have tested positi...
12. Parmeet Sethi
Parmeet Sethi came to limelight as Kuljeet in the super hit film DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge). The film starred some big names in the Bollywood such as Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Anupam Kher, Amrish Puri, and Farida Jalal amidst others. Character of Kuljeet, an arrogant alpha male betrothed to the heroine Simran (Kajol) and competes with Raj the protagonist played by Shahrukh Khan. The Indian film director as well as TV actor completed his education in Mumbai from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics. On the 30th June 1992, Parmeet married his live-in partner Archana Puran Singh. The couple was in a live-in relationship for several years before they tied the knot. Archana Puran Singh too is a film and TV actress. The couple has two sons together, Aaryamann and Ayushmaan. In terms of his fami...
13. Govind Namdev
Govind Namdev is known for his villainous characters in Bollywood movies. However, he has worked in some significant television serials too.
Govind Namdev is a veteran actor who has performed a good number of character roles in Bollywood movies. He has also worked for some television serials and shows and he has also made a name in movies of regional languages. It should be noted that in his debut movie Shola Aur Shabnam, Govind Namdev played a negative role of a corrupt cop. While he has played some positive character roles too, but one can say that mostly he has played negative or antagonist roles. An alumnus of National School of Drama New Delhi, he has performed some notable theatrical works too. Some of the popular theatre dramas for which Govind Namdev has worked includes Tughlak ...
14. Kanawaljit Singh
Kanwaljit Singh is an Indian Television and film actor born on 21st October 1944 in Uttar Pradesh. He comes from a Sikh family of Saharanpur. He got married to Anuradha Patel. After completing his graduation he joined Film and Television institute of India in Pune. He made his Bollywood debut from the movie Daastan-e-Laila Majnu. After that he was seen in the movie Hum Rahe Na Hum, both of his movies did not do good business. After this failure he turned to Television industry and started to make his career in Television industry.
He got offer from Ramesh Sippy’s drama Buniyad in which he played the role of illegitimate child as Satbir. His role in Buniyad was appreciated by the audience and gave him limelight. After Buniyad he was approached to popular TV dramas Saans, Family no. 1, Dard and Siski. He chos...
15. Rajeev Verma
Rajeev Verma is a veteran Indian actor who works mainly in film and television. He was born on June 28 in the municipality of Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh, India. He graduated Architecture in Bhopal University and later, he took a Masters in Urban Design in Delhi’s School of Planning and Architecture. During his second year in college, he started working on theatre and subsequently ventured on films and television. He has been acting for more than 20-years and he mostly portrayed fatherly roles in his films. He started acting in television through the 1987 television series, Chunauti which was aired on DD National.
His character as the school principal received positive reviews from the audience. He was also part of Doordarshan’s Aasman Ne Jo Likha, Mujrim Hazir and Kaise Kahoon. In...
16. Sanjay Sharma
Sanjay Sharma is a director who is propelling the entertainment milieu to greatness. Sharma’s expertise is exciting to watch. Sanjay Sharma is making waves in the film industry due to his contribution to the splendor of blockbusters. Sanjay always ensures the entertainment of the viewers. Sanjay Sharma’s activities in cinema are catapulting it to higher heights of glory. Sanjay Sharma makes his debut in the entertainment industry, through the movie titled “Military Raaj.” “Military Raaj” release occurred on the 27th of February 1998. “Military Raaj” is in the Hindi Language, and Director Sanjay Sharma ensures the supervision of this work of art. Sanjay Sharma gains experience, as he collaborates with superstars like Prem Chopra, Aditya Pancholi, Pooja Bedi, and Mithun Chakraborty. Produce...