Nandita Das
Rasika Dugal
Swara Bhaskar
Sneha Khanwalkar
Vidya Shah
Rita Ghosh
Divya Dutta
Feryna Wazheir
Ila Arun
Rajshri Deshpande
Tillotama Shome
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Rishi Kapoor
Paresh Rawal
Purab Kohli
Ranvir Shorey
Swanand Kirkire
Nishith Dadhich
Shubham Sanjay Shevade
Kartik Vijay
Aditya Varma
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Meeraji
Raftaar
Rashid Khan
Shankar Mahadevan
Resul Pookutty
Sheetal Sharma
A Sreekar Prasad
Chandan Roy Sanyal
Danish Hussain
Gurdas Maan
Inaamulhaq
Javed Akhtar
Shashank Arora
Tahir Raj Bhasin
Vinod Nagpal
Nirang Desai
Sameer Dixit
Abhishek Tripathy
Shrikant Desai
1. Nandita Das
Nandita Das is an actress and director extremely popular in art cinema differentiating from the escapist Bollywood cinema that dominated the Bollywood for long. Her screen persona in films like Bawander, Earth 1947, Fire caught regional filmmakers eyes, and she acted even in English, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Oriya and Kannada languages too. The success of these films in Bollywood has paved the way for the development of the specialized cinema( the art- house cinema) in international film festivals that helped her to get audiences in the large cities and metro towns. She also acted in a Pakistani film, Khuda Kay Liye. This actress had never acted in films that produced a galaxy of commercial film stars. Hence, she was closely associated with Mrinal Sen, Deepa Mehta and Mani Ratnam.
2. Rasika Dugal
Rasika Dugal is an Indian actress, who predominantly works in the television industry. Yes, we are talking about your favorite, Zeenat in “Dariba Diaries” which airs on Epic Channel. Rasika was born on 17th January 1985, in Jamshedpur, and completed her schooling there. She went on to complete her Honors in Mathematics from Lady Shree Ram College, Delhi University. Later she did her Masters in Social Communications in Media, from the prestigious Sophia College, Mumbai. It was in Mumbai that she wanted to try her luck in acting. When she started getting offers, she also did a course in acting from FTII. It was a postgraduate diploma course.
Rasika got her first break in 2008, in a movie called “Tahaan.” The movie, as much as being a debut for Rasika, was a film that...
3. Swara Bhaskar
4. Sneha Khanwalkar
She is a famous Indian music director known for her work in Bollywood. Born on April 28, 1983, Sneha is 31 years old. She is a Marathi by origin but was born and brought up in Indore. Her family was greatly involved in the Gwalior Gharana of Hindustani Classical Music, so she learned music as a child. After completing her schooling her parents moved to Mumbai in 2001 aiming of her to join an engineering college, but Sneha had some other plans. At first, she joined animation leading to art direction and then to her childhood love - music. Thus, choosing music direction as her career.
In 2004, she worked in a film called “The Hope” which competed at the InternationalesFilmfest Emden in Germany. She also worked in the movie, “KAL- Yesterda...
5. Vidya Shah
Vidya Shah is a multifaceted personality of Indian origin. She is a singer, musician, social activist, and writer.Her full name is Vidya Subramanyam. Her family has a rich musical heritage, and she was drawn to the North Indian style of classical music early on. To pursue her passion for this genre of vocal music, she received training from renowned musicians such as Shanti Hiranand in Dadra, Thumri, and Ghazal, and Shubha Mudgal in Khayal Gayaki. Under her Guru's tutelage, she gained a diverse repertoire of Sufi and Bhakti music while training in Khayal Gayaki. During her stay in a tribal area of Western Madhya Pradesh, she also explored tribal music and developed a passion for folk music. She is an accomplished classical singer in her own right.
Vidya Shah started her musical journey at the age of 12 by studying South Ind...
6. Rita Ghosh
Rita Ghosh is a production designer and art director. She is known for Mission Majnu (2023), Drishyam (2015) and, Sonchiriya (2019). Drishyam (2015) stars Ajay Devgn, Shriya Saran and, Tabu. It was written by Jeethu Joseph and Upendra Sidhaye and, directed by Nishikant Kamat. Sudip Sharma and Abhishek Chaubey wrote Sonchiriya. It was directed by Abhishek Chaubey. Sushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi Pednekar and, Ashutosh Rana played the lead roles. Ghosh was nominated for the FOI Awards for Best Production Design for the films Sonchiriya (2019) and Manto (2018). She was the production director in Mission Majnu (2023). Shantanu Bagchi directed Mission Majnu. Parveez Sheikh, Aseem Arrora and, Sumit Batheja wrote Mission Majnu. Ghosh was also the production director of the TV series Khakee: The Bihar Chapter (2022). It stars Karan Tacker, Avinash...
7. Divya Dutta
8. Feryna Wazheir
9. Ila Arun
Ila Arun is of the star sign Pisces being born on 14th March in Jaipur, Rajasthan where she was also brought up. Her siblings are Piyush Pandey, Prasoon Pandey, Rama Pandey and Tripti Pandey, none of them a part of the Bollywood business like their sister. Ila completed her education graduating from the Maharani Girls’ College in her hometown and is popular for acting and singing, mostly for the latter. Her strong, husky voice of earthy tones has proved her an incomparable singer in Rajasthani folk/folk-pop fusion songs while dabbling in other genres including classical music.
Apart from Hindi, she has sung songs in different languages including Tamil and Telugu. Ms. Arun’s steady rise to fame comprised of creating multiple albums including Vote for Ghagra, Main Ho Gayi Sawa Lakh Ki, Banjaran, Nigod...
10. Rajshri Deshpande
Rajshri Deshpande is an Indian actress. She was a media planner before starting her acting career. She is trained in Sword Fighting, Kathakali, and Kalari Payattu. Rajshri has acted in the 2015 year film ‘Angry Indian Goddesses’ for which she was praised, and the film also was acclaimed on the international level; it won the first runner-up award at the People Choice Awards in TIFF and People Choice Award in Rome film festival.
Other Hindi films she has acted in are ‘Talaash’ and ‘Kick’ in a small roles. Rajshri played the double role in her Malayalam film ‘Haram’. She was lauded for her acting in the film. She has also acted in a Marathi film ‘Hou De Jarasa Ushir’ in 2012. Her upcoming film in 2016 is ‘El...
11. Tillotama Shome
Tillotama Shome is an Indian actress who is known for her performance in the movie Monsoon Wedding directed by Mira Nair. Shome was born in Kolkata. Since her father was in Indian Air Force, Shome was raised in different states. After completing her high school education, Shome went to Lady Shri Ram College ion Delhi. There she joined the Arvind Gaur’s theater group. She went to the United States for pursuing her post-graduation in educational theater from New York University. After completing her post-graduation, she worked as a teaching artist at the University of New York. She taught theater in a US Prison to third-degree convicts. She stayed in New York for four years. In 2008, she returned to India and took up a residence in Mumbai. She was approached by Mira Nair to feature in her film Monsoon W...
12. Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born in Budhana in Muzaffarpur district of Western UP on May 19, 1974. He grew up with seven brothers and two sisters in his native village. He is a science graduate from Gurukul Kangri University Haridwar and after completion of his graduation, he worked as a chemist in a factory for a short while. He did not like the job and hence leaving it proceeded to Delhi to find some other job which might interest him. As he could not find a suitable job in Delhi, he even worked as a watchman for his survival. Within a short while, he watched theatres and felt interested in it. He joined a theatre group and started studying the art of acting. He graduated in acting from National School of Drama in 1996 and relocated to Mumbai to pursue his career in acting.
On arrival in Mumbai, sustenance and survival became...
13. Rishi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor is an actor born in the prominent Kapoor family who has a long history of Hindi cinema where members of the family had careers as actors, producers or directors. Rishi Kapoor was born to veteran actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor on September 4, 1952, in Mumbai. Born with a silver spoon, it was not a difficult task for him to make a debut in films. Raj Kapoor gave him a chance to play a teenager, who was caught on the thin line of boyhood and adulthood in the movie Mera Naam Joker. The film fell flat in the box office, and Raj Kapoor was in massive financial loss.
Hence to tide over the financial crisis Raj Kapoor created teenage romance film Bobby with Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, which remains Rishi’s iconic film to date. Ris...
14. Paresh Rawal
The Padma Shri award winner who shot to fame with his role in the 1986 blockbuster film ‘Naam’, which told the story of a poor family that struggled to make ends meet, was born on 30th May 1950 in Mumbai. He completed his graduation from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai. Rawal made his debut in the film industry through the movie ‘Holi’ in the year 1984 but it was his next film, ‘Naam’, which brought him all the fame and attention as an actor. Success followed him, and he acted in over hundred films during 1980s and 1990s. Such was his versatility, that he has done roles from lead actor to Main villain. He did the role of main villain in most of his movies and he was considered as a character actor during those days.
15. Purab Kohli
Purab Kohli is an Indian model, Video Jockey (VJ) and TV and movies actor. His birth date is 23 Feb, 1979. He had done his schooling in various schools such as The Bishop’s and St Stanislaus in Pune. He also left his dream of becoming a pilot and finally went into modeling. He has been working in the industry since 2003. His first TV show was Hip Hip Hurray that was telecasted on Zee TV in which he played the role of Mazhar. Then he worked in a travel show which was Gone India in which he used to go at many places in India in limited budget and gained popularity from it. He also did work as a VJ for Channel V. After came music show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar where he hosted the show, besides that he also hosted the show Terra Quiz as well for National Geographic Channel.
Also he had worked in advertisem...
16. Ranvir Shorey
Intro: Ranvir Shorey is a popular Indian movies actor who has also worked as a host and presenter of various television programmes of different genre.
Ranvir Shorey is an experienced actor and VJ who has worked for a number of highly appreciated movies. He has also established himself as a successful television programme host and presenter. He started his acting career in 2002 with the Bollywood movie Ek Choti Si Love Story opposite Manisha Koirala. In 2003, he appeared in movie Jism and in 2004; he played a significant role in the movie Lakshya. Some other critically acclaimed movies for which he worked are Traffic Signal, Bheja Fry, and Mithya. He also appeared in a number of commercially successful movies such as Singh is King, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., Dasvidani...
17. Swanand Kirkire
18. Nishith Dadhich
Nishith Dadhich is a Bollywood producer and an actor from Pune, Maharashtra, India. He started his career with UTV Motion Pictures as an Assistant Line Producer. Nishith started acting in Bollywood movies and later assistant produced & produced several Bollywood films. In 2003, Dadhich was cast in the role of ‘Bantul’ for the romantic-fantasy film “Jajantaram Mamantaram,” directed by Saumitra Ranade.
The story was about a man who lands up on an island, realising he’s the giant there. The movie got a lot of appreciation and was a hit at the Box Office. In 2010, Dadhich was in production management as a Manager for an Indian-Marathi film, “Mumbai Pune Mumbai,” directed by Satish Rajwade and was a hit at the theaters.
The artist acted in several Bollywood films, his recognized ...
19. Shubham Sanjay Shevade
Shubham Sanjay Shevade is a well-known movie buff. He has his origins in the cultural heritage of India to the world entertainment capital of Los Angeles, California. His screenplays and films earned broad recognition and praise at several film festivals and screenplay competitions. He completed his schooling at St. Xavier's High School, Nagpur, and Savitribai Phule Pune University. He has a Bachelor's in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University and a Diploma in Education, International Film Business, and Development from the Producer's Guild of America - West. He finished his master’s in Fine Arts - MFA, Film and Media Production from New York Film Academy.
He has worked with several companies. He worked as the head of the video production, events coordinator, and cu...
20. Kartik Vijay
Kartik Vijay is an Indian television, and film cinematographer known for his work in movies such as Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola, Anwar, and Taxi No. 9211, among many others. Vijay has also shot more than more than 300 commercials which were also telecast at the Cannes Festival.
Vijay is a Mumbaikar and pursued his education in Graphic Designing and Advertising at The Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Arts in Mumbai. Vijay started his career in 2000 by assisting in the production of popular television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Ryan Murphy’s drama, Nip/Tuck, and Daniel Voll’s mystery-thriller, Threat Matrix. However, Vijay received recognition for his work in shorts films such as the Dominic Koletes-directed, This Woman&rsqu...
21. Aditya Varma
Aditya Varma is an Indian artist working as a filmmaker, DOP (director of photography) and photographer. He was born in Tirupati, a small town in Andhra Pradesh, India. He shifted to Delhi, and from there, he relocated to Mumbai for his filmmaking career. There in Mumbai, he worked as DOP shooting films, advertisements and music videos. He also worked on the shooting of short films and campaigns. Aditya Varma began his own business and a company by the name “ElementsbyAV” in 2020, where he used to focus on the creation of cinematics. Besides doing DOP and photography work, Aditya Varma is also on the verge of becoming the author of a photo book called ‘Brown.’ He has also worked on the making of films like Namdev Bhau (dir. Dar Gai) and Kia and Cosmos (dir. Sudipto Roy). Aditya Varma worked for the making of mus...
22. Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani poet and writer based in Urdu and Punjabi. He was one of Pakistan's most famous Urdu writers. Faiz was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and bagged the Lenin Peace Prize. He was born in Punjab, British India. Faiz studied at Government as well as Oriental College. He continued to serve the British Indian Army.
After Pakistan's independence, Faiz became the editor of the Pakistan Times and a key member of the Communist Party, and was arrested in 1951 on suspicion of a plot to overthrow the Riakut government and replace it with a left-wing government. Released four years later from the prison, Faiz became a prominent member of the Progressive Writer Movement and became an adviser to the Butt government before being expelled to Beirut.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born on February 1...
23. Meeraji
Meeraji was a famous Urdu poet and lyricist born on 25 May 1912. His original name was Mohammad Sanaullah Dar, and Meeraji was his penname. Meeraji was born in a Kashmiri family and lived his early life in Kucha Sardar Shah, Lahore. His father, Munshi Mohammad Mahtabuddin, was a railway engineer. Meeraji started writing in his school days. He translated several works of Sanskrit poets as he is highly interested in Hindu Mythology. He adopted his pen name from a girl in his school, Meera Sen, with whom he fell in love deeply. He failed in Matriculation, and against his father’s wish, he started working for the magazine Adni Duniya for Rs 30/month. Meeraji had left his family and went to live as a wanderer, making his livelihood by selling songs.
Meeraji worked in All India Radio, Delhi, and Adabi Duniya, Lahore. He also wr...
24. Raftaar
RAFTAAR was born on November 16, 1988 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His real name is Dilin Nair. He is a popular Indian rapper. His stage name is Raftaar. Although his hometown is Thiruvananthapuram; he has settled in Delhi with his family. He is the single child of his parents. His father worked as a steward in The Indian Railways, and his mother was a receptionist. Raftaar had a very hard time in school. His classmates and teachers discriminated against him. His obsession with music started when he was in class ninth.
One of his friends gave him a CD full of songs by Eminem and Linkin Park and that’s when he decided to become a rapper one day. He struggled a lot to get where he is today. Initially, he experienced a lot of difficulties. He used to train students in dancing at an institution. It was his way to make some ...
25. Rashid Khan
Rashid khan is a classical vocalist known for his mastery in classical music. He was born in Badayun on 1st July 1966. He is a stage performer are rarely sang for movies. His most notable movie song was in “Jab We met” named “AogeJub tum”. Rashid khan is the great grandson of the legendary UstadInayat Hussain Khan who is also the founder of the Rampur-SahaswanGharana. Since his early years, Rashid has been trained in the classic genre. Under the supervision of his grand uncle, UstadNissar Khan, Rashid was proclaimed by PanditBhimsen as the “assurance for the future of Indian vocal music”.
He did not have interest in the music in his early years, even though he gave his first stage performance at the age of 11. He was n...
26. Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...
27. Resul Pookutty
28. Sheetal Sharma
Sheetal Sharma is a Bollywood costume designer who has worked in films such as Airlift (2016), Raees (2016), and Stree (2016). Sheetal Sharma was born in Mumbai on June 1, 1984, to Iqbal Chand and Kamlesh Sharma. As his father was a colonel in the Indian Army, he went to various schools. Sharma enrolled in a hotel management program but did not finish it. He earned his bachelor's degree in arts from KC College in Mumbai. He earned a bachelor's degree in fashion technology from Wigan and a master's degree in period costumes from London. He spent some time working in a call center. After his performance in Ashim Ahluwalia's Miss Lovely (2012), he became famous. Miss Lovely, Raees, Airlift, Manto, Stree, Kesari, Judgemental Hai Kya, and Bala are his most well-known films. In 2019, he won the Filmfare Award for Best Costume...
29. A Sreekar Prasad
Akkineni Sreekar Prasad, also called Sreekar Prasad, is an Indian film developing capable, known for his works in the Indian film industry. He works unpreventably on Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and English movies. His received National Film Award for Best Editing, for his exceptional work on the part motion picture Firaaq (2008), composed by Nandita Das.
He was joined into Limca Book of Records as People of the Year, 2013 for his pledge to the Indian film in a couple of lingos and moreover for holding a record making collection of eight National Awards which includes a Special Jury Award. He was a graduated class in Literature from the University of Madras.
He took in the specialty of film modifying from his father in Telugu films. Notwithstanding the way that he started with Telugu films, he rose to national acknow...
30. Chandan Roy Sanyal
Chandan Roy Sanyal is a star of both Hindi and Bengali language films. He was born in Delhi and belongs to a Bengali family.Graduated with a degree in Mathematics, he initialised acting in a theatre in Britain, and his first film role was in Hindi, as the revolutionary Batukeshwar Duttin RakeyshOmprakashMehra’s 2006 Rang De Basanti. His “Big Break” came in 2009, asa gambler and race-fixer Mikhail in the crime thriller Kaminey, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. The film was a hit in India and a commercial success in other countries, and was recognised as one of the best films all around the globe.
After one Bengali (Mahangar@Kolkata) and two Hindi (the comedy F.A.L.T.U. and the drama Tell Me O Kkhuda) movies, he had another success as the cynical Ronojoy in the year 2012 in the Bengali dram...
31. Danish Hussain
Early Life
Before carving a mark on the cultural and artistic realm of our nation, Danish Hussain started his career as a banker, which was roughly 16 years ago. He spent his evenings in the theatre after the day’s work, a life which lasted for three years. He eventually quit the job and started doing theatrical plays, after which a series of powerful encounters sky-rocketed him through various phases of the genre, eventually paving the way for his success and triumph in theatricality.
Career as a theatre artist
He performed his first two major plays with Barry John, which granted him instant recognition from other artists, who invited him to their shows. Wh...
32. Gurdas Maan
Gurdas Maan is known for giving Punjabi Music a facelift at the global level. He started his career with his hit number 'Dil Da Mamla Hai' in 1981, and there was no looking back. He has a huge fan base in countries like Houston, Washington, San Francisco that whenever he gets a chance to perform in those countries, even foreigners reach the stadium in advance.
His old songs have perfect melody, and his old tracks like 'Akhiyaan Udeek Dian' and 'Chaklo Chaklo' are still popular. Gurdas Maan was born in Punjab (Giddarbaha village) on January 4, 1957. This singer is a multifaceted personality as he is a singer, choreographer, lyricist, and actor.
Gurdas Maan even showed his acting talent in Punjabi films, su...
33. Inaamulhaq
Inaamulhaq is a prominent Indian actor, director and screenwriter. He was born on November 14, 1979, in Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, India. They are nine in the family and even if they are not financially stable, his father, whom he called Babuji, ensured that all of them will attain academic education. He is married to Shibli and they have a son named Ivaan. He graduated Arts before doing a post graduation at the National School of Drama (NSD) and started stage performance at the age of twelve. He took several theatre workshops in Delhi University so he can earn and pursue acting in Mumbai. However, after two years, he was not able to obtain money and decided to borrow from a friend. He participated in Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) and acted in the lead roles for some stage play...
34. 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. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.
Javed has two children, Zoya...
35. Shashank Arora
36. 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...
37. Vinod Nagpal
38. Nirang Desai