1. Jaya Bachchan
Born on 9th April 1948 Jaya Bachchan is an Indian artiste, who is also a politician. A noteworthy point is that, she is a former student of the Film and Television Institute of India. She is married to the legend of Bollywood, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. Her daughter-in-law is the former Miss World and Bollywood heartthrob Aishwarya Rai.Â
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Jaya Bachchan entered into the film industry with the film Mahanagar when she was a teenager. Later, her first film as an adult was Guddi, which won her the acclaim which she deserved. This film was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and later Mrs. Bachchan worked with him in many films. During that time she performed in Hindi films; she m...
2. 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 ...
3. Konkona Sen Sharma
Konkona Sen Sharma is a Bollywood actress hailing from Kolkata, West Bengal. She was born on 3 December 1979 in a Bengali family. She completed her schooling at the Calcutta International School and later moved to Delhi for a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Delhi University’s most prestigious college- St. Stephen’s. Cinema has already been existent in her genetic roots. Her mother, Aparna Sen, is a noted actress and director in Bengali cinema. Moreover, she is the granddaughter of Chidananda Dasgupta, a film critic who also established the Calcutta Film Society. In 1983, the four-year-old Konkona was first seen on the big screen in a Bengali film titled ‘Indira’. Her official Tollywood debut was in 2000 in ‘Ek Je Aachhe Kanya,’ for which she was awarded...
4. Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh(1963-2013) was a profound actor, director, writer, and lyricist in the Bengali FIlm Industry. He was born in Kolkata to a Bengali Hindu family on 31 August 1963. Sunil Ghosh, father of Rituparno Ghosh was a painter and a documentary film maker. He attended South Point School in and earned an Economics degree from Jadhavpur University, Kolkata. He worked as a creative artist in an advertising agency, Response India. He became famous in Kolkata for his effective slogans and appealing one liners. He earned fame with his most notable ad campaigns, ‘Sharad Samman' and ‘Bongo JibonerAngo' for antiseptic ointment, Boroline and mango drink, Frooti respectively.
In the year 1990, he made a documentary "VandeMatram" on...
5. Raja Narayan Deb
Raja Narayan Deb is an Indian music director and composer. He has worked in both Bollywood and Bengali Film Industry. His music is very famous and is listened to many times by the people. He is a member of the 'Shobhabazar Rajbari,’ and he is also the member of the famous Bangla band 'ParishPathar'. Raja Narayan is a professional Piano, Harmonium, and Keyboard player.
As a music director, he directed few songs such as Khela (2008), Clerk (2010), Noukadubi,and Kashmakash in the year 2011, Kidnapper and Mukti in 2013 and many more in the line. Raja Narayan as a background music composer, composed few songs likeMy Story (2008) for a Malayalam movie, Life express (2010), Bawal in 2015. He also sang a song titled 'Abohoman' in 2010. He recorded his music under record labels like Saregama, Amara Muzik, Assur...
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7. Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and associated with theater. He had treated art-cinema as his serious endeavor requiring the dedication, discipline, and integrity. Throughout his career, he subjected his own acting to a process of rigorous artistic self-analysis and reflection. He was the discovery of filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who introduced actors like Shabana, Om Puri, Smita Patil and others in the Indian cinema. Undoubtedly, this actor has acted in some serious films such as Sparsh, Paar and Iqbal( three national awards). For his performance in Paar, he received the best actor in the Venice Film Festival. His growth even in art-cinema was slow, as he had acted in women-oriented films of Shabana Azmi or Smita Patil. Later, he was chosen to play lead roles in films of Sai Paranjpye’ Sparsh, ...
8. Tota Roy Chowdhury
Tota Roy Chowdhury is a Bengali actor, born on June 9th in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. His height is 5’8. Tota's first appearance on the screen was in the year 1996, and from then he was the most prominent person to appear on the big screen. Later he started to appear even on a small screens like doing different television shows. Tota used to maintain his body a lot with the perfect diet, which keeps him healthy. His spouse is Sharmili Roy Chowdhury. He was brought up by Irish-Catholic brothers. Tota studied at the Goethals Memorial School, and he won different shields during his schooling, He also won the Athlete shield. Tota did his graduate in St. Xavier’s College; the primary aim was to join the Indian army, for which he started his training in the in 2nd year of college.
But his fate demanded something dif...