Kiran Rao
Janani Ravichandran
Zarina Mehta
Anadil Hossain
Alka Yagnik
Sadhana Sargam
Bhanu Athaiya
Gayatri Joshi
Kishori Ballal
Farrukh Jaffar
Danish Aslam
Vinay Waikul
Ashutosh Gowariker
Deven Khote
Ronnie Screwvala
Srinivas Rao
Amin Hajee
Lalit Marathe
KP Saxena
Mahesh Aney
A. R. Rahman
Javed Akhtar
Hariharan
Kailash Kher
Udit Narayan
Vijay Prakash
Stephen Gomes
Hitendra Ghosh
S Sivakumar
Ashraf Khan
Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Sujeet Sawant
Bosco Martis
Caesar Gonsalves
Pinky Poonawala
Ballu Saluja
Cheragh Todiwala
Abbas Ali Moghul
Pankaj Khandpur
Shah Rukh Khan
Bachan Pachehra
Bhim Vakani
Daya Shankar Pandey
Lekh Tandon
Makarand Deshpande
Rahul Vohra
Rajesh Balwani
Rajesh Vivek
Shreyas Pandit
Smith Seth
M.G. Sathya
Ramesh Sadrani
Master Vignesh
Haroon Sheikh
Eknath Kadam
Peter Rawley
Raja Awasthi
Rich Petrelli
1. Kiran Rao
She is an Indian film producer, screen writer and director by profession. She was born on 7th Nov, 1973 in a royal family from Bangalore. Her paternal grand father was Raja of Wanaparthy. In Kolkata she attended Loreto House, then she moved on to Mumbai. She did her graduation in Mumbai from Sophia College for Women in the year 1995....
2. Janani Ravichandran
Janani Ravichandran is an assistant director and producer based in India. In 2004, he worked on Swades, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, written by M.G. Sathya, Ashutosh Gowariker, and Sameer Sharma, and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, and Kishori Ballal. In 2005, she worked on Iqbal, directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, written by Nagesh Kukunoor and Vipul K Rawal, and starring...
3. Zarina Mehta
Zarina Mehta is the maiden name of Zarina Screwvala. She is an Indian Producer. She was born in the year 1961 in the city of Washington D.C. in the world-dominant country United States of America. Along with her family, she moved to India at the age of eight. She completed her schooling from an all-girls school called J.B. Petit School...
4. Anadil Hossain
Anadil Hossain currently serves as the UNHCR High Commissioner's Principal Communications Advisor. She received her education from the University of Anglia. She was the founder and president of ‘Dillywood’ in 2004. ‘Dillywood’ had a solid commitment to charitable causes and had collaborated closely with Mira Nair on the AIDS crisis ‘JAAGO’, an Indian HIV/AIDS awareness film series financed by the...
5. Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik is a very popular playback singer of the Bollywood film industry. She was born on March 20, 1966. She has been working in the Hindi film industry for three decades. She had bagged seven Filmfare awards out of the thirty five nominations at the Filmfare awards. It was for the best playback singer award category. Her singing is...
6. Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974,...
7. Bhanu Athaiya
Born on April 28, 1929, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Bhanu Athaiya née Rajopadhye is an Indian costume creator. She has created a costume in more than 100 movies, since the 50s.She is the daughter of Shantabai and Annasaheb Rajopadhye. She is the third child among her seven siblings....
8. Gayatri Joshi
Gayatri Joshi is known for her portrayal of an Indian school teacher in the movie Swadesh. Even though, the Shah Rukh Khan Starrer film was much appreciated; it was the last appearance of Gayatri Joshi on the big screen. She notably won many awards for her performance in the movie Swadesh. Gayatri started off her career to fame, when she was...
9. Kishori Ballal
Kishori Ballal is a Kannada Actress, whose birthplace is Mangalore of Karnataka. She Married Mr.Sripathi who was a Bharatha Natyam artist hailing from Mangalore in 1950. The Couple got trained from Dr. Siva Ram Karanth and Vysarya Ballal.They got a chance from Durga Khote Productions to enter advertisements. Kishori in the 1970’s played many leading roles in Marathi Plays which...
10. Farrukh Jaffar
Farrukh Jaffar is an Indian actress, popularly recognized for featuring in Bollywood movies like Peepli (Live) (2010), Sultan (2016) and Swades (2004). Born and brought up in a family of zamindars in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, Jaffar is now mostly referred to as ‘Amma,’ as a tribute to the character she played in Peepli (Live) alongside Amir Khan. Lucknow...
11. Danish Aslam
Danish Aslam is an Indian film director from Mumbai, known for his directorial venture, a comedy-drama, Break Ke Baad. He was born on September 19, 1975, to the current IGNOU's vice-chancellor Professor Muhammad Aslam and Nuzhat Aslam. Before making his directorial debut, he worked as a second assistant director and assistant director for films like Swades, Salaam Namaste, Being Cyrus,...
12. Vinay Waikul
Vinay Waikul is an Indian director and scriptwriter, who predominantly works in the Bollywood film industry. He worked as an assistant director in many Bollywood films. Vinay Waikul directed The Test Case web series that premiered on Alt Balaji. He worked as an assistant director in the films, including Ghajini, Dangal, 3 Idiots, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Bas Ek Pal, Honeymoon Travels Pvt....
13. Ashutosh Gowariker
Ashutosh Gowariker was born 15 February 1964 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He graduated from Mithibai College with B.Sc. in chemistry. During his school days he participated in theatre performances, folk dances and music plays, which helped him acknowledge and improve his talent and led him to attempt to build his career in the film industry. Ashutosh Gowariker began his film career modeling in...
15. 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...
16. Srinivas Rao
Srinivas Rao is a popular TV cum Silver Screen artist. He is been called as Cheenu by his close friends. He made his debut as a child actor through the Vijay Kanth movie Sethupathi IPS. It was directed by P. Vasu. After few years Vasu introduced him in the debut movie of his son Shakthi called, Thottaal Poo Malarum. He...
17. Amin Hajee
Amin Hajee was born on January 1, 1970, and raised in Mumbai, and has an identical twin brother, Karim Hajee, who is also an actor.He entered the industry as a dancer in the 1980s andhas an impressive portfolio, being a writer, actor, director, and producer. He is famous for his role in the Academy Award-nominated Lagaan. As a writer, he...
18. Lalit Marathe
Lalit Marathe was born in Mumbai. He is a writer by profession and has not been a part of many flicks. Only three of his stories has been launched in the big screen and has created enough space for him in the industry; all the three films were immensely popular among the people. Lalit rose to limelight when his first...
19. KP Saxena
K.P.Saxena is one of the renowned satirists and writers of the city of NAWAB ‘Lucknow,’ His full name is Kalika Prasad Saxena. Earlier He was professor of Botany for few years in the Christian college and after that worked in the Indian Railway and retired as a station master and he was also indulges in writing magazines, newspaper, and channel...
20. Mahesh Aney
Mahesh Aney is an award-winning cinematographer. He has in his possession different brand advertisements including global brands such as Coca-Cola, Nivea, Johnnie Walker, etc. He has done his graduation and specialization in cinematography from Film and Television Institute of India. Anjali Aney is Mahesh’s wife. They have two children. A daughter named Aarti and a son named Aditya. Presently, he...
21. A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud. Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4...
22. Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues....
23. Hariharan
Hariharan is a renowned Indian singer, who sings mainly for Hindi and Tamil films. Born in 1955, he is a well-known Ghazal singer. He was also instrumental in bringing fusion music to India. Colonial Cousins is the name given to Hariharan’s band, wherein he collaborated with Lesle Lewis. This band was featured in many private albums. Not only this, they have...
24. Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from...
25. Udit Narayan
One of the famous playback singers of Indian Film Industry, who has sung more than 25,000 songs in more than 34 languages. He was born on 1 Dec, 1955 at Bhardaha Village in Saptari District, Nepal. He studied at P.B School, Rajbiraj (Nepal) upto class 10th and intermediate from Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus. Udit passed his initial life with struggles...
26. Vijay Prakash
Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force....
27. Stephen Gomes
Stephen Gomes is a famous sound mixer, sound editor, and sound designer who works primarily in the Hindi film industry. He completed his education at St. Stanislaus High School in Mumbai. He started his career as an audio-visual programmer at Son-E-Lummier in 1986. He worked there for around five years and then moved on to work with Purple Haze Studio...
28. Hitendra Ghosh
Hitendra Ghosh is an Indian sound designer who works predominately in the Hindi film industry. He is best known for his works in movies such as Swades, Jungle, and Rang De Basanti. Hitendra Ghosh is a two-time winner of a national award for Best Audiography for the films Ek Pal (1985) and Game (2011) and won the National award for...
29. S Sivakumar
S Sivakumar is an Indian audio engineer and sound mixer, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in the music departments of movies like Lagaan (2001), Rockstar (2011), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Swades (2004), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in Tamil and Hindi short films, TV series, dramas, theatres, and Kollywood movies, Sivakumar has been a prominent part...
30. Ashraf Khan
Ashraf Khan is a Pakistani actor who worked in the Urdu film industry. He is a versatile actor who was born on 17th February 1978 in Lahore, Pakistan, and currently living in Karachi. Ashraf is famous as a comedy actor and was mostly recognized for his role in the movie Dug Dugi. He worked on both stage, television, and films...
31. Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Nitin Desai is a notable art director and production designer in Bollywood; he is also a TV and Film producer. He was born in Mulund, Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did his schooling from Wamanrao Muranjan High School, Mulund. He learned photography from L S Raheja School of Arts and J J School of Arts. After which he made his entry into...
33. Bosco Martis
Born on 27 November 1974, Bosco Martis has completed his schooling from St. Joseph’s School, Mumbai and graduated from Mithibai College, Mumbai. Annual Day events at school became the breeding ground Bosco’s budding dance fever where he used to watch his football buddy, now his counterpart –Caesar performs and gets inspired by him....
34. Caesar Gonsalves
Caesar Gonsalves is a very famous Indian choreographer who works as a duo with Bosco Martis. Caesar was born on 23 February 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Both of them are famously known as Bosco-Caesar. Caesar is also the part owner of the Bosco-Caesar Dance Company, which has branches across including Mumbai and Kolkata. Caesar completing his secondary education at St....
35. Pinky Poonawala
Pinky Poonawala is a famous lyricist. Her mom took her to Kathak dance classes when she was around 3 yrs of age, she also performed on stage as a child artist and at around age 9, received Shankaracharya award in Pune for dance, that is her first memory of association with music through dance. As a child, she never understood...
36. Ballu Saluja
Ballu Saluja is an Indian-Editor. Along with being an editor, he is also a cinematographer. He mainly works in the Hindi-Film Industry. From the year 2000, he is highly active in the Hindi Film Industry and is also thinking about working in other industries. He is a hardworking, and dedicated person. He has acted in many films, some of them...
37. Cheragh Todiwala
Cheragh Todiwala is an editor, producer, and post-production manager based in Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra. He has completed his schooling in Saint. Joseph's School, Orlem Malad. Cheragh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Media Studies from R. D. National in Bandra. He worked as a film editor for many years before joining Red Chillies Entertainment as...
38. Abbas Ali Moghul
Abbas Ali Moghul is a Bollywood Action Director and a stunt coordinator. He has more than 200 films under his name, as of 2017. His career began with the movie Dil, in the year 1990. Ali has worked on projects like Judwaa, Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, Special 26, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, and...
39. Pankaj Khandpur
Pankaj Khandpur is a creative director and visual effects artist in Bollywood. He worked with VFX Company Tara Elxsi Visual Computing Lab as a creative director. But later on, he was roped in by yFX, the independent visual effects division of Yash Raj Films Studio. He has worked in movies like ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag,’ ‘Rang De Basanti,’ ‘Ek Tha Tiger,’...
40. Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent Indian film actor, television personality and producer. He was born on November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India. He is often called as the ‘Baadshah of Bollywood’, ‘King Khan’ and ‘King of Bollywood’. The actor has done more than 80 films in Bollywood. He was cited as ‘The World’s...
41. Bachan Pachehra
Bachan Pachehra is an actor by profession in the Indian film industry who works mainly in Bollywood films. He is usually seen in the supporting roles in many movies such as The Gatekeeper, Baromas, Fruit and Nut, Shuruaat Ka Interval, Rebellious Flower, Boond, Swades, and Ragini MMS 2. In “The Gatekeeper” of 2014, he worked under the direction of Atanu...
42. Bhim Vakani
Bhim Vakani used to practice drama since college days. When in college he took part in college play and then he started writing plays. As he grew more towards art, his persistence in acting took him to Mumbai. At first, it was difficult to get contacts but as he had a good number of friends, who were of the Gujrati...
43. Daya Shankar Pandey
Most people don’t figure out who the person is when they hear the name Daya Shankar Pandey. However, mentioning Goli of Lagaan fame will make you understand what a great actor he is. His versatile acting skills make him a favourite actor Ashutosh Gowariker. Some of his known works in Ashutosh’s movies are Swades, Pehla Nasha, Lagaan and Baazi. He...
44. 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...
45. Makarand Deshpande
Makarand Deshpande is an Indian actor and director who makes films predominantly in Hindi and Marathi. He is popular for playing pivotal supportive roles in many movies like Jungle, Sarfarosh, etc. He has directed more than five films and written 35 full-length plays and owns a theatre company in the name of ‘Ansh’....
46. Rahul Vohra
Having graduated from Université de Bourgogne, actor, director and producer, Rahul Vohra, has been in the entertainment business since the 1980's. His talent and acting prowess for the Indian cinema can be seen in films like ‘Saanjh’ (2000), Monsoon Wedding (2001), ‘Swades’ (2004), Little Box of Sweets (2005), Breaking News (2007). and Bheja Fry (2011)....
48. Rajesh Vivek
Rajesh Vivek is an Indian actor. He was born on 31st January 1949 in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. His parents are Raj Bahadur Upadhyay and Prem Kumari Upadhyay. He took Masters’ Degree in Ancient History and Archaeology from T D Degree College, Jaunpur. Rajesh started his career doing theater dramas as an actor. Shyam Benegal gave him a chance in his...
49. Shreyas Pandit
Shreyas Pandit is an Indian on-screen supporting character and voice artist. The most significant factor in an entertainer's reel is his nature of acting. Shreyas Pandit is an Actor character who has got amounts of it. I know. It appears to be so self-evident. You'd be shocked that throwing chiefs don't get understand his vision of acting....
50. Smith Seth
Smith Seth is an Indian actor, more of having North-Indian style in his accent.He is an incredibly sparkling child artist who started his screening talent at the age of six on his first movie Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega (2000). Subsequently his persistent ability to act made him, team up with big shots in cine industry and topped the box office...
51. M.G. Sathya
52. Ramesh Sadrani
53. Master Vignesh
54. Haroon Sheikh
55. Eknath Kadam
56. Peter Rawley
57. Raja Awasthi
58. Rich Petrelli