Shreya Ghoshal
Vidya Balan
Dia Mirza
Priya Bapat
Rajkumar Hirani
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vir Chopra
Shantanu Moitra
Swanand Kirkire
Arshad Warsi
Sanjay Dutt
Shaan
Sonu Nigam
Vinod Rathod
Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Achyut Potdar
Chirag Vohra
Abhishek Bachchan
Arun Bali
Ashwin Mushran
Dilip Prabhavalkar
Hemu Adhikari
Jimmy Shergill
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Kurush Deboo
Rohitash Gaud
Saurabh Shukla
Anil Davda
Pranab Biswas
Subarna Ray Chaudhuri
1. Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.
...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" in polls conducted by PETA in 2011 and 2012. In 2003, she commenced her career in feature film industry with the Bengali movie “Bhalo Theko”. “Parineeta” (2005) was her foremost Hindi movie. There she played the role of Lalita. Parineeta was a box-office hit and Vidya received the Filmfare best actress award in 2006, for her performances in Parineeta. Later, she appeared in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” (2006) co starred with Sanjay Dutt. In 2007, she appeared in romantic comedy film “Heyy Babyy”. Heyy Babyy is a remake of Hollywood film “Three Men and a Baby”. Vidya played the role of Isha Sahni and the movie became an overnight hit. She got the opportunity of working with director Aziz Mirza, in 2008. Aziz selected Vidya for the role of Priya, in “Kismat Konnection”. The victorious period of her career as a Hindi actress began in the year 2009. She appeared in five different successive films, including “Paa” (2009), “Ishqiya” (2010), “The Dirty Picture” (2011), Kahaani (2012). Her prominent acting skills in those roles recognized her in Hindi cinema. She has won the National Film Award for best actress (Dirty picture), five Filmfare Awards for Parineeta (2005), Paa (2009), The Dirty Picture (2011), and Kahaani (2012) and Ishqiya (2010), five Screen Awards and Padma Shri Award in 2014. Vidya Balan got married to Siddharth Roy Kapoor, the CEO of UTV Motion Pictures on 14th of December 2012 in Bandra, Mumbai.
...3. Dia Mirza
Dia Mirza’s original name is Dia Handrich. Dia Mirza is an actress from India, and also a Model and Director cum Producer (recently). She was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Telangana). Her father Frank Handrich, a German interior designer and mother Deepa, a Bengali Hindu interior designer. She completed her schooling from Vidyaranya High School for Boys and Girls (based on the teachings of philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti) and Nasr School. Both the schools have located in Hyderabad. She also attended Stanley Junior College, Hyderabad, and got the bachelor’s degree in arts from Andhra Pradesh Open University. At the age of nine, her father died. Then, her mother got married to Ahmed Mirza. Later, she adopted her last step-father name as her last name.
...4. Priya Bapat
Priya Bapat born on 18 September 1986 is an Indian actress child to Sharad and Smita Bapat. She is known mostly for her work in Marathi television serials and Marathi movies. She started her acting career as a child actor in Dr. BabasahebAmbedkar in the role of younger Ramabai. She was later seen in the Marathi filmBhet again as a child actor.
...5. Rajkumar Hirani
Rajkumar Hirani is one of the ace director, screenwriter, producer in the contemporary Bollywood. He is one of the directors who distinctively portrays the reality of the society with a touch of sarcasm and humor. He was born and brought up in Nagpur, Maharashtra and did his graduation in Commerce since because his dad wanted him to be a charted accountant. But he was more interested in filmmaking. His life took a significant turn when he joined Film And Television Institute of India, in Pune where he joined an editing course.
...6. 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.
...7. Vir Chopra
Vir Chopra is a great Creative Head. He was the best version of his own. Elder brother Vir Chopra of Hindi film producer and director Vidhu Vinod Chopra went dead. Due to issues with covid-19, Vir Chopra left for their eternal abode on July 5. The accounts state that Vir visited the Maldives for a holiday while the epidemic was going on, and it was there that he contracted the deadly virus. According to sources, Vir Chopra reportedly arrived back in Mumbai two days after contracting the fatal infection. He was sent right away to H.N. Reliance hospital after landing in Mumbai. After being admitted, he was detained in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and received treatment for 21 days. According to the source, Vir Chopra passed away on July 5 and was cremated the next day.
...8. Shantanu Moitra
Shantanu Moitra is a music composer in Bollywood. He rose to popularity with films like ‘Parineeta’(2005) for which he received Filmfare R.D. Burman Award. After the success of ‘Parineeta’, his association with filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra was path-breaking one. He followed it up with Lage Raho Munnabhai’, ‘3 Idiots’ and ‘Eklavya: The Royal Guard' and 'PK'. He has also composed music for Shoojit Sircar’s two films ‘Shoebite’ and ‘Madras Café’. While ‘Shoebite’ remains an unreleased film still, ‘Madras Café’ got released.
...9. Swanand Kirkire
10. Arshad Warsi
Arshad Warsi is most popular for his role as Circuit in the super hit Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Born in to a Muslim family; he attended a boarding school and at the age of 14, this led to many struggles in his early life.
He began working as a salesman at the age of 17 but had shown interest in dancing. His interest changed in to a profession as he joined the Akbar Sami’s Dance group, which started his choreography and dancing career.
Arshad’s film career began in 1996 when he was offered a role by Amitabh Bachchan’s production house film Tere Mera Sapne. He was then provided with numerous roles but none of them were too successful. He became a prominent actor after starring opposite Sanjay Dutt in Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Filmfare Awards. Warsi poured his heart out in the role and it paid off as it lead to the many film offers for him. He was signed in supporting roles for Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya and of course the sequel to Munna Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai.
Along with his successful career, Warsi became a family man when he married Maria Goretti in 1999. The two have two children, a son and a daughter.
...11. 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.
...12. Shaan
Shantanu Mukherjee is a very popular singer and known by the name of Shaan. He was born on September 30, 1972. His grandfather Jahar Mukherjee was the lyricist, his father Manas Mukherjee was the late music director, and his sister Sagarika is a singer. Shaan lost his father at the age of 13 after that his mother became a singer and took the responsibility of the entire family.
...13. Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record label owned by Gulshan Kumar, his first break came in 1990 when he did playback singing in the movie called Janam. In 1995 he started hosting the popular musical TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, after which he delivered the famous single Acha Sila Diya Tune for the film Bewafa Sanam. Some of his famous tracks are Sandese Aate Hai from the movie Border (1997), Ye Dil Deewana from the movie Pardes (1997). In 1999 he released his debut album Deewana, he also sang the title track for the movie Kal Ho Na Ho. As an individual composer he has worked on movies like Singh Saab The Great, Sooper Se Ooper and Jal. Nigam has contributed in Britney Spears track I Wanna Go, and has also released a track in the album The Beat of Our Hearts as a tribute to Michael Jacskon. In his small acting career he has acted in films like Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahaani, Love In Nepal and Kaash Aap Humaare Hote. Nigam is married to Madhurima and also had a son named Neevan.
...14. Vinod Rathod
15. 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 films. Nitin started his career by assisting art director Nitish Roy for the TV serial, Tamas (1987); he was the fourth assistant to Roy.
...16. Achyut Potdar
Achyut Potdar is India’s dexterous and finest actor in the TV industry. Right now he is 81 and still serving film industry and TV productions. He was born on August 22nd, 1934 in the famous city Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. He hails from a Marathi Brahmin family. He did his studies from Indore, all his schooling, graduation and post graduation is done from Indore only. He is a university medal holder in major economics of the 1961 batch. He was also a professor at Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh.
...17. Chirag Vohra
Chirag Vohra is a prominent Indian film and television actor, model and a theatre artist. He was born and bought up in Mumbai. Ever since childhood, his dream is to become an actor so he joined different plays and several inter-collegiate contests. Then he moved to theatre and now, he is into television serials. He was known for doing comedic and supporting roles.
He gained his popularity and fame by appearing in several films like the 2001 Gautham Menon’s film, Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein. Chirag also acted in the movie, Kucch To Hai in year 2003. He was seen in the true to life Bollywood crime drama film, Jaago in 2004. In 2005, he acted in the box office biographical film, Mangal Pandey: The Rising. Chirag also made a special appearance in the Hindi film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai in 2006. He played as Arjun in the Hindi comedy film, Heyy Babyy in 2007. This film is a remake of the popular film in Hollywood, Three Men and a Baby. Chirag was also part of the Bollywood film, Billu in 2009. And then, he acted in the Bollywood film, Tere Bin Laden in 2010, under the production of Walkwater Media and directed by Abhishek Sharma. He essayed the role of Lateef, an editor in Pareshan.
Aside from acting in the silver screen, Chirag was also an excellent theatre artist. He was popular for his appearance in the Gujarati play, Master Phoolmani. He bagged the role of Phoolmani, the male lead actor who wishes to become a woman and have his own child. His acting in the plays Gandhi Ke Godse and Umesh Shukla’s Krishan vs Kanhaiya was notably remembered. Chirag also did some advertisements such as Ponds and Choloromint. He also acted in various Gujarati and Hindi television serials. He was seen in the 1995’s Balaji Telefilms’ Hum Paanch on Zee TV and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saraswatichandra on STAR Plus.
In 2012, Chirag played the role of Bhaiya in the comedy series, Bhai Bhaiya Aur Brother on SAB TV opposite with actress, Shweta Chaudhary. Bhaiya and his family will move to Mumbai. He is the peacemaker in his family. This is the same year where he also appeared in Hats Off Productions’ Comedy Family Ki Family Comedy on Life OK, where every episode highlights various gags portrayed by different actors like Rajeev Mehta, Rajesh Kumar and a lot more.
...18. Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan, or Abhishek Srivastava, is a very well known famous celebrity in the Indian film industry. He is the son of Bollywood’s biggest iconic stars, Amitabh Bachchan, who made more than 100 films in his acting career and won over 30 awards. Abhishek is also known by the name Junior B. He was born on February 5th, 1976, in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
...19. Arun Bali
20. Ashwin Mushran
Ashwin Mushran has gained his fame in Bollywood as an actor and voice over artist. Born in Mumbai on 19th May 1972, Ashwin is known to be the Hindi Adam Sandler due to him dubbing Sandler’s role in Hindi dubbed Adam Sandler movies.
Having completed his Bachelor of Arts from University of Dehli in English Literature he went on to study acting in London at the Drama Studio London. Ashwin initially started in television commercial roles, which led to him being picked up for The Great Indian Comedy Show, a cult television show. The show was a half hour comedy show, which consisted of stand-up comedy and skits. His popularity increased due to the show and he was casted in featured films from there on.
Ashwin first hit came in 2006 in Lage Raho Munna Bhai. He played "Hari Desai" alongside Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi’s, "Munna Bhai" and “Circuit". The movie was well received and was a sequel to the blockbuster hit Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. He has since been featured in 16 films but has yet to capture a leading role. Along with acting Ashwin has done voice-overs for over 300 projects. These range from television commercials to Hollywood movies being dubbed in Hindi. He is the official voice for Chinese actor, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and U.S. actor, Adam Sandler.
Ashwin is currently married to Rebecca Vaz.
...21. Dilip Prabhavalkar
Well known Marathi theater actor Dilip Prabhawalkar had left his impact in stage, films and television circuits in Indian cinema. Besides acting in Marathi, he played minor roles in Hindi and Telugu languages too. Apart from acting, he left his indomitable impression in the field of literature as an author too. He has been an author of many plays and children’s story books. He became quite popular for portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 2006, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s classic film Lage Raho Munna Bhai.
He also did a cameo role as Rao Saab in the film Sarkar Raj, which had Amitabh Bachchan playing the role of a don. He also did another cameo role in Sharukh Khan’s Paheli. Although these roles were minor, it fetched him a good critical appreciation. In addition, he essayed the role of a senior citizen facing a day-to-day common man’s problem in a Marathi TV serial Shriyut Gangadhar Tipare. The versatile actor was associated with the troupe of Ratnakar Malikar’s troupe and had performed in all the plays staged by the group. Some of the notable character that he portrayed in Marathi TV screen includes the character of Chimanrao which was based on a series of short story by CV Joshi. It was telecast in the year 1979 when TV programmes were in black and white. This Marathi comedy serial still haunts the Marathi viewers. After his successful stage performances in Lobh Nasav Hi Vinanti in 1991 that was based on a story by Vijay Tendulkar, the actor had never turned back. It was this stage performance that pulled him to stage acting career and thereafter he transformed his acting potentiality for many films, and television serials. He is the veteran theater personality in Marathi stage, who was born on 4th August, 1944. His career graph illustrates that he has acted over 6 Hindi films and 16 Marathi Films and 8 TV serials, which are notable. A sought-after actor has worked with many leading directors like Amol Palekar, Raj Kumar Hirani and Ram Gopal Varma in his long career. Even at a senior age, his spirit of acting never seems to fade away!
...22. Hemu Adhikari
Dr. Hemu Adhikari is a veteran actor as well as scientist. He is a very talented personality who has left a mark not just in the Indian Film Industry and theater but also in the field of science too.
...23. 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.
...24. Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Proudly known for his role as the ingenious bald villain “Shakaal” inspired by James Bond’s Blofeld, Kulbhushan Kharbanda personifies the versatility in the Bollywood industry.
...25. Kurush Deboo
26. Rohitash Gaud
Popularly known by his character name, Mukundilal Gupta in Sab TV’s show Lapataganj, Rohitash Gaud is another senior actor of the television industry. He has received several awards for his role of Mukundilal including Indian television academy award, Sab TV award and Zee Gold Awards.
As of now he is portraying the role of Vishnu in Sony Pal’s show Khushyon Ki Gullakh Ashi. Beside television industry, he has additionally worked in various Bollywood movies. He marked his debut with the biopic film Veer Savarkar in 2001. Though he has worked on several Bollywood movies, the majority of them has been just cameo appearances. He worked with actor Irfan Khan in the movie Pratha. He played the role of Manoj Vajpai’s brother in the 2003 movie Pinjar. He has acted in both the installments of Munnabhai series. In the first installment he played the role of “nariyal pani waala” whereas in the second installment, he played the part of Cuckoo, Boman Irani’s secretary.
Some of his other notable films are One Two Three, Matrubhoomi, Sun Zara and the latest being A Wednesday. In the movie A Wednesday, he played the part of a Muslim terrorist Ikhlaque Ahmad. He also made cameo appearances in movies like 3 Idiots and Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge. He played the role of Javed Jaffrey’s servant in the former, whereas a bank manager in the latter.
...27. Saurabh Shukla
Saurabh Shukla was born at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in the year 1963 on 5th March. He is a versatile personality who started from theater & reached to Bollywood where he tried his hands in Direction, Screenplay writing along with his Acting. At the age of two, he left Gorakhpur & moved to Delhi. He completed his schooling & later did his graduation from Khalsa College in Delhi. In 1984, he kickstarted his career as a professional with his entry into the theater. Shekhar Kapur gave him the debut role in Bandit Queen.
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