Gauri Shinde
Alia Bhatt
Gauri Khan
Kausar Munir
Sunidhi Chauhan
Nandini Shrikent
Hemanti Sarkar
Ira Dubey
Karan Johar
Shah Rukh Khan
Laxman Utekar
Amit Trivedi
Ilaiyaraaja
Gulzar
Arijit Singh
Vishal Dadlani
Abbas Ali Moghul
Angad Bedi
Kunal Kapoor
Tahir Raj Bhasin
1. Gauri Shinde
Gauri Shinde is an Indian feature films and ad-films director who won the Filmfare award 2013 for her debut feature film English Vinglish as best debut director.
Gauri Shinde is an Indian director and ad-maker who came to limelight after the success of her debut feature film English Vinglish which was released in the year 2012. In the same year, she was nominated in list of ‘Bollywood’s 5 Best Directors of 2012’ by Rediff. Her schooling was completed in Pune and then she came to Mumbai for her internship with Sidharth Kak. She completed her graduation from Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication, Pune. She has worked with Bates Clarion and IBW as an ad-film maker. She has also worked with Lowe Lintas. After that, she went to United States to further her studies.
In 2001, she made a ...
2. Alia Bhatt
Alia Bhatt is a trendsetting actress from Mumbai, India. Her date of birth was 15th March, 1993 and her parents are Mahesh Bhatt, who is a popular director and actress Soni Razdan. She is an actress cum singer wherein she had sung songs in her movies itself. Her debut film was as a kid artist in a thriller movie of Sangharsh in the year 1999. Her first movie as an adult happened out to be Student of the year (2012), a romantic drama. In the year 2014, she acted three blockbuster movies that were welcomed by a good opening record.
Alia Bhatt has an elder sister namely, Shaheen. She had also been quite active in stage shows and she launched her own line of clothing for w...
3. Gauri Khan
Born on Ocotber 8 1970, Gauri Khan (originally known as Gauri Chibber) is an interior designer, costume designer and a movie producer. She is happily married to Bollywood Superstar Shahrukh Khan. This couple are blessed with three children.
Gauri Khan collaborated with her husband in founding Red Chillies Entertainment. Main Hoon Na, directed by Farah Khan, is her first film as a producer and the film turned out to be the second biggest grossing film of that year. If one remembers, Gauri Khan had anchored a music show for MTV during the 90s, she has also the credit of being in the front page of the acclaimed Vogue magazine. She is even called by Vogue magazine as &...
4. Kausar Munir
Kausar Munir is a prominent Bollywood screen writer and lyricist. She was born and raised up in Bandra, Mumbai in India. Music and songs has always been her passion. She studied at Xavier’s College in Mumbai, where she took an English Literature course.
After her studies, she wrote documentaries until television happened to her and wrote in Sony TV’s Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin. Films happened to her by chance, when director Vijay Krishna Acharaya, who was the script writer of Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin, offered her to work in the lyrics of the song Falak Tak Chal Saath Mere for his directorial film, Tashan in 2008. After this, she wrote for a song in the Hindi romance film, Anjaana Anjaani in 2010 and then, she received a call from Habib Faisal, who helmed the romant...
5. Sunidhi Chauhan
6. Nandini Shrikent
Nandini Shrikent has a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Communication Media (SCM) from Mumbai. Like most of the Casting Directors, Nandini joined the profession coincidently and in her case, it was Zoya Akhtar who played the role of giving Nandini a chance to explore as a Casting Director. Nandini had started as an Assistant Director but later, made a shift to Casting. She still assists the Directors and is well known in the Bollywood industry. Nandini is in this business from considerably a long time but it was that one internship she recalls, under Govind Nihlani in Takshak which helped her to make right choices in Bollywood.
Nandini was responsible for casting the entire cast for her first ever project for Farhan Akhtar’s Lakshya. It was her first gig and she had to cast all the soldiers...
7. Hemanti Sarkar
Hemanti Sarkar is an Indian film editor who works in Hindi films and documentaries. She has worked in Bollywood movies like English Vinglish, M Cream, Airlift, and many others. Hemanti hails from Kolkata in West Bengal. She started a film editing course at the Film Institute of India in Pune, Maharashtra in 1993. Hemanti made her Bollywood debut as an assistant editor with the movie Pardes, written and directed by Subhash Ghai. The film hit the screens on 8th December 1997 and won three Filmfare Awards in 1998. She was also the assistant editor of Godmother in 1999. Hemanti made her debut as an independent film editor for the movie “Sur: The Melody Of Life,” written and directed by Tanuja Chandra. The film hit the screens on 2002 and was nominated for a Filmfare Award and two Screen Weekly Awards.
Since then she has...
8. Ira Dubey
Ira Dubey is among the brightest, most talented young actresses in the country today. Born on August 1, 1984, Ira grew up in a family of actors and claims that theatre was imprinted in her personality. Her father, Ravi Dubey is the senior vice president and her mother, Lillete Dubey is an actress.
She has a sister named Neha, who is a former actress and is now a psychotherapist in Mumbai. Since her mom and aunts were completely immersed in theatre, she claims that theatre is a part of her. Ira did her schooling in The Cathedral & John Connon School in Bombay and then graduated from St. Xavier’s College.
She completed her higher studies at the Yale University in Filmmaking and creative field. Ira returned to India and struggl...
9. Karan Johar
Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Sharukh, Salman, Kajol and Rani. This was a block buster hit and Karan Johar reached fame in his first m...
10. 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 Biggest Movie Star’ by the Los Angeles Times. Khan is also one of the wealthiest actors in the world, with over $400–600 million net worth. He also won several accolades including the 14 Filmfare Awards.
Khan went to St. Columba’s School in Delhi where he topped in studies and sports like football and hockey, where he got the Sword of Honour Award, a school’s highest award. He acted in several stage plays and ...
11. Laxman Utekar
Laxman Utekar is a new age Cinematographer working mainly in Bollywood industry. He also is a renowned Director & directed two critically acclaimed Marathi films until now. Utekar was born in a rural area of Maharashtra. He was very passionate about photography from a tender age. After completing his education, he decided to pursue a career in cinematography. Utekar was very talented & his style was unique from contemporary cinematographers. After shooting a few ads, Utekar got his first chance as a cinematographer in 2007 film Khanna & Iyer. Although the movie was a failure, his works with the camera caught the attention of many viewers.
In 2008, he worked on a critically acclaimed short film named The Private Life of Albert Pinto. Utekar’s popularity started to rise and eventually he earned his first big bre...
12. Amit Trivedi
13. Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with symphonic orchestration.
He was also the first Asian to organize a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and became the first Indian to compose a complete symphony. He has won three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background score. He had also received the Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.
14. Gulzar
Gulzar is the pen name of the author, poet and popular lyricist Sampooran Singh Karla. He was born on the 18th of August in 1934 in Dina, Jhelum district of British India to parents Makhan Singh Karla and Sujan Kaur. His career kicked off under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His songwriting career began with the movie Bandini, released 1963, for the tunes composed by music director Sachin Dev Burman. From then on, he went on to write the lyrics for many memorable songs of the Bollywood industry. He worked with magnanimous music directors like R. D. Burman, S. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik to name a few. The work of the trio Maniratnam, A. R .Rahman and Gulzar is much remembered in the industry. He has also given dialogues and scree...
15. 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.
Pritam Chakraborty gave Arjit a chance and signed him for three films; Crook, Golmaal 3, and Action R...
16. Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani mostly known by duo name Vishal Shekhar in the music world. Vishal is an Indian film music director. He not only composes music in Hindi, but equally famous for composing music in Telegu, Tamil, or in Marathi. Actually dedication brings success to a person and Vishal Dadlani has justified his talent by giving various types of music. Vishal was born on 28th June 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He first came to the limelight when he composed the movie songs in the films ‘Jhanker Beats’, ’Dus’, ’ Bluffmaster’, ’Om Shanti Om’, ‘Bachna Ae Haseena’, ’Dostana’, ‘Anjana Anjani’ and many such famous filmy songs, the present genres caller tunes or ring tones. Vishal Dadlani was the vocalist of Mumbai based electronic band Pentagram. He worked jointly ...
17. 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 many more.
He was a part of recent projects like Genius, in the year 2018, Baa Baa Black Sheep, in the year 2018, and Amavas, in the year 2019. Moghul’s best works include Indian movies like Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, in the year 2001, and the 2004 film, Swades.
...18. Angad Bedi
Angad Singh Bedi is an Indian actor and model. He was born on 6th of February 1983 in New Delhi. He also plays cricket, and he bats right-handed. While growing up, he studied at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, and then after completing his education, he went on to study at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Because he was unable to tow the line of his father’s success as a cricketer, he ventured into modeling and also took up a career as an actor. Angad Bedi made his acting debut in a Malayalam short story ‘Kaya Taran’. He is currently doing a movie titled ‘The Little Godfather’.
Angad Bedi has also worked in many other Hindi films including Hi Nanna (2023), Chetan Bhagat, A Legal Affair, Ghoomer (2023), Lust Stories 2 (2023), Adipurush (2023), The List (2022)...
19. Kunal Kapoor
Born on 18th of Oct in the year of 1977 to a Punjabi family whose ancestors are from Punjab, Kunal Kapoor is one of the promising actors in Bollywood today. Kunal, who is nicknamed as Kunnu, hails from Mumbai, India. Kunal had been in a relationship with the great fame of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan’s niece, Naina Bachchan, who was an investment banker in London, now pursuing theater arts as her profession. They got married in Feb 2015. It was a private marriage with just their family members at Seychelles.
Kunal started the journey in his career by taking training under Barry John, who is the founder/director of ‘Theater Action Group’ and later on joined the theater group Motley, owned by the Padma Shri as well as Padma Bhushan title winner, Naseeruddin...
20. Tahir Raj Bhasin
Tahir Raj Bhasin Is an Indian actor. He is a good artist and has a Handsome look. He took his education at the University of Melbourne. Tahir Raj Bhasin was born in Delhi. His father is Punjabi, and Mother is Kashmiri-Maharashtrian. His father and Grandfather both were in Indian Air force, and his mother worked in an Aptech Computers company. His younger brother is also a pilot. He studies in the school Barry John Acting School. He did his undergraduate degree from Hindu College, Delhi University. He got his graduation degree from Australia from the College University of Melbourne. He also takes an alternative subject which are History, screen media, and Philosophy of a Film at the University of Melbourne. He hosted a show at the age of 18 only at news channel which is a campus talk show. At the age of 23 y...