Pubali Chaudhuri
Prachi Desai
Shraddha Kapoor
Shahana Goswami
Abhishek Kapoor
Shujaat Saudagar
Farhan Akhtar
Ritesh Sidhwani
Marc Koninckx
Ehsaan Noorani
Loy Mendonsa
Shankar Mahadevan
Baylon Fonseca
Abhishek Banerjee
Anmol Ahuja
Arjun Rampal
Purab Kohli
Shashank Arora
1. Pubali Chaudhuri
Pubali has had two of her projects turn into chartbuster Bollywood films. Rock On! a flick about four friends who reunify to recreate their instants of fame as a rock band. The scheme released in the year of 2008 and was Pubali’s initial screenwriting exertion for the Hindi movie industry. The following release was tailed by Kai Po Che four years later and was narrated by Abhishek Kapoor who had steered Rock On! as well. Like Rock On! KPC is a tale about comrades, but the tone, temper, impression of the movie is absolutely dissimilar. It portrays the story of three friends, Govind, Ishaan, and Omi who start a guidance academy to create the nation’s next cricket sensation. Tailored from Chetan Bhagat’s story 3 Mistakes of My Life, the tale was set in Gujarat during the insecure times of the Godhra mutinies. The picture...
2. Prachi Desai
A true Virgo at heart, Prachi Desai was born at Surat, Gujarat, on the 12th of September, 1988 in a traditional Anavil family. She studied from St.Joseph’s Convent, Panchgani and presently resides in Mumbai with her mother and two siblings. Acting flowed in the family as her father and uncle were active participants in Gujarati plays. Prachi’s hobbies include acting, sports, listening to music and sketching.
She is the brand ambassador for cosmetic producing company- Neutrogena. Prachi shares a close relationship with friend and mentor Ekta Kapoor.
Prachi made her debut on television with the highly acclaimed role of Bani Dixit/Walia in the serial Kasamh Se aired on Zee TV. Thereafter she featured in the serial Kasautii Zindagi Kay and as a contestant on the Dance Reality Show – Jhalak Dikhla Jaa. In this contest,...
3. Shraddha Kapoor
Shraddha Kapoor, born on March 3rd, 1989, is a young emerging actress of Hindi Film Industry. She is the daughter of veteran actor Shakti Kapoor and niece of famous actress Padmini Kolhapure. Shraddha started her acting career in the year 2010 with a film called Teen Patti which had Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley and R. Madhavan in it. Though the film did not do well at the box office, her performance got some attention. Her second film was Luv Ka the End (a teen comedy), opposite Taaha Shah, which failed to perform at the box office but Shraddha’s performance in the movie was very well appreciated by the film critics. Even after giving two consecutive flops, Shraddha went on to take a major risk and cancelled her three-film contract with Yash Raj Films, signing a Mohit Suri directorial flick Aashiqui...
4. Shahana Goswami
5. Abhishek Kapoor
Abhishek Kapoor is a prominent Indian film actor-turned-writer and director. He was born on August 6, 1971. He is the cousin of Bollywood actor, Tusshar Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor of the Balaji Telefilms, and the nephew of the popular actor and producer, Jeetendra. Abhishek got married to a Swedish actress and model, Pragya Yadav, on May 4, 2015, in Iskcon Temple, Mumbai.
He made his entry as an actor in Vipin Handa’s film, ‘Uff! Yeh Mohabbat’, in the year 1996, opposite Twinkle Khanna in the lead role. The film failed to make it to the box office, and just when he thought his career was over, after acting in two more films, Ajay Kashyap’s Aashique Mastane and Bobby Raj’ ‘Shikaar’, he decided to pursue his passion to become a filmmaker.
He made his direc...
6. Shujaat Saudagar
Shujaat’s journey of filmmaking started a decade ago. He started his career from the bottom and steadily climbed the ladder up with guidance from his Mentor Mr. ‘Prahlad Kakar’ from the Genesis Film Productions. Shujaat once told the media that it was some experiences in life that he had had that made him find his calling in Filmmaking. He has been consistent in his efforts which played an integral part in building the brand for Sony TV and especially for SET MAX. These collaborations resulted in several awards from L.A. Awards and Gold Silver Promax Asia Awards too.
Pursuing his immense passion and dedication towards filmmaking, he ventured into the feature films with a 60-minute movie titled “Bali”. “Bali” was made by Studio One Productions of Star One. This movie rec...
7. Farhan Akhtar
One of the most recognized young director of Indian cinema. In fact, he is the most versatile person in the industry as of now. He is Farhan Akhtar, a film director, actor, singer, writer, producer, screenwriter everything you name it, he has it. Son of the famous writer Javed Akhtar & actress Honey Irani was born on 09 Jan, 1974 in Mumbai.
As he was growing, he found the film industry around him. At home, the atmosphere of arts, literature influenced him to become creative man. He did his schooling from Maneckji Cooper & Graduated from HR College, Mumbai. After then, he started his career in films, first as ass...
8. Ritesh Sidhwani
Ritesh Sidhwani was born in Mumbai on January 1, 1973. He had no formal education on filmmaking, yet he turned himself as a producer of Bollywood films and runs Excel Entertainment (an Indian film studio) in Mumbai, which was jointly created by Javed Akhtar’s son Farhan Akhtar, and Ritesh Sidhwani in the year 1999. So far the duo had released 14 blockbuster films under Excel Entertainment banner.
Ritesh was a childhood friend of Farhan and had scored well in box-office. Currently, Excel Entertainment has a tie-up with a Dubai company (Riva Group) to launch Excel Media. The JV will enable to develop and launch original content including games, webisodes and animation for television. Over the years, the Bollywood industry has evolved over the decades.
...9. Marc Koninckx
Marc Koninckx is a Belgium Cinematographer well known for his work in “Rock On 2,” “A Far off place," and many more. He is a member of the A.F.C., French society of Cinematographers, and also the member of the S.B.C. (Society of Belgian Cinematographers). He was born in Brussels, Belgium. He completed his education from RITCS, Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound, Brussels.
After completing his studies, he immediately started working as an Assistant Cameraman, and then his career picked up a pace, making him camera and Steadicam operator. He started as an assistant cameraman. He worked in White, a movie based on the novel “Dutch ‘The White’,” referring to the blond man, directed by Robbe De Hert, starring, Eric Clerckx, Blanka Heirman, and Willy Vandermeulen.
He, th...
10. Ehsaan Noorani
Ehsaan Noorani is one of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio, composing of three talented Indian musicians namely Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan himself and Loy Mendonsa. He is a popular music composer and guitarist.
Ehsaan was born on October 12, 1963 in Hyderabad, India. He grew up in a place instilled with appreciation to different music genres at an early age. At 14, he started learning guitar under the teaching of Bismarck Rodriguez in Mumbai. During the mid 80’s, he attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), which is known as MI now. This became the turning point of his life as a musician as he slowly began to progress as a guitari...
11. Loy Mendonsa
Loy Mendonsa is an Indian pianist, musician, and singer. He is more renowned as the member of the trio group Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, which he co-founded with singer Shankar Mahadevan and guitarist-singer Ehsaan Noorani. His career initially began for Doordarshan productions, where he composed the theme song of “The World This Week” show. Before the formation of his trio group, Loy has worked with the Indian music great A.R.Rahman and Nadeem-Shravan.
After the release of the album “Rockford” by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, the trio made their debut in music composition in the Tamil movie “Aalavandhan”. However, it was not well received by the masses. But they marked their comeback in the blockbuster Dil Chahta Hai in 2001, where the...
12. 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...
13. Baylon Fonseca
Baylon Fonseca is a Production Mixer & Sound Designer for Films, Ad Films, & Documentaries. In his point of view, sound designing is the aesthetic & artistic art of finding the right balance of sound between the elements of dialogue, music, effect, & ambience which supports the visual thereby subconsciously transporting the audience into the world.
He has worked as a Production Mixer, Sound Designer, Sound Editor, and Film Mixer all rolled into one. He is known for working with some big personalities in film, commercials, and documentary world. Some of his famous works can be seen in Noblemen (2019), Luka Chuppi (2019), and Aun (2019), and many more.
...14. Abhishek Banerjee
Abhishek Banerjee is a writer and actor in Indian cinema. He has worked even in Bengali movies. It was for a movie 'Ashbo Aar Ekdin', a Bengali film went on the floors from December 2011, he began his writing journey. He was the co-writer of the story along with Dr. Kalyan Bose who was a producer and Abhijit Das Gupta who was the director.
The film starred Abir Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee, RupaGanguly, ArindamSil, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Ridhima Ghosh, Alokananda Roy.It was for another web series 'Permanent Roommates', he was the casting director for the episode '"The Parents"' which was directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra and DiswapatiSamrk. The show was telecast on February 14.2017.
He was also part of a movie Ajji which was a Hindi language drama film directed by DevashishMakhija. I...
15. Anmol Ahuja
Anmol Ahuja is a Casting Director and an amazing assistant Director. Casting Director plays a very important role in any movie because he should get someone who can fit into the role completely. Casting Director should know the capabilities of the person and whether the person would be able to do the role or not. Anmol is a very good casting director.
Anmol Ahuja generally works with Abhishek Banerjee as casting director. People know him for the movie Dirty Picture which got released in the year 2011; he was the casting director in the movie and did a great job as all the characters were according to the role. He is the casting Director of the movie Gabbar Is Back which got released in the year 2015, Bombay Talkies which got release in the year 2013 and the movie Margari...
16. Arjun Rampal
Amit Rampal is an Indian Actor, Host, Producer and a model who played his role in various Cinema movies and Television shows. He was born on 26th November 1972 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India in the family of Amarjit Rampal and Gwen Rampal. Amit did his schooling from St. Patrick School in Maharashtra where his mother was also a Teacher. He is very intelligent and talented boy from his childhood and he is very naughty guy. He is very hard worker, spiritual, self-confident, smart, team spirit, patient, serious, self-motivated guy. And these are the life skill reasons behind his success in his career as an Actor. He started dreaming as his career as Cinema Actor when he was just 10 years old. He was also a good anchor and stager performer in his school time. He did his graduation from Amity School of Drama, India. He is married to Meh...
17. 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...
18. Shashank Arora