Shriya Sharma
Rekha Bhardwaj
Zarina Mehta
Sarita Patil
Dolly Ahluwalia
Shriya Saran
Vishal Bhardwaj
Ronnie Screwvala
Pankaj Kapur
Deven Khote
Ram Mirchandani
Abhishek Chaubey
Gulzar
Aalaap Majgavkar
Sukhwinder Singh
Nitin Wable
Samir Chanda
Aarif Sheikh
Deepak Dobriyal
Anil George
Avtar Sahni
Rahul Kumar
Rajesh Sharma
Samrat Mukherjee
Shlok Sharma
1. Shriya Sharma
Shriya Sharma is a child actress and model who is loved for her peppy and cute gestures. This pretty little princess was first seen in Zee TV’s ‘Kanhaiya’. Here, she acted in the lead role and this role brought her overnight success. After that, we saw her in ‘Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate’ where she played the role of herself. In 2004, Shriya was seen in the popular tele-serial ‘Kasautii Zindagii Kay’ where she played the role of Sneha. This cute and bubbly role of Sneha also fetched her many awards in the long run. Throughout her commendable acting career, Shriya had been seen in quite a number of Tamil, Telugu, Oriya and Hindi Flicks. She has worked with the Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh khan, Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi and RajniKanth.
The most remarkable f...
2. Rekha Bhardwaj
Rekha Bhardwaj is a dynamic and versatile Indian playback singer who can perform in different genres like Bollywood, Sufi, Folk and Classical. She married the Indian Director, Producer and Music Director Vishal Bharadwaj. Her unique style of singing makes her stand out of the crowd. Born in a middle-class household in New Delhi, Rekha studied music at Hindu College, Delhi. She always desired to become a singer but was discouraged due to her husky voice. Rekha and her husband Vishal Bharadwaj studied in the same college. They met each other in their college annual day program. Music was common in both which created a bond between them and later they got married.
Vishal believed and convinced her to start her career in singing. Her first song was ‘Ek Who Din Bhi’ from the movie Chichi 420 in 1997. Her...
3. Zarina Mehta
Zarina Mehta is the maiden name of Zarina Screwvala. She is an Indian Producer. She was born in the year 1961 in the city of Washington D.C. in the world-dominant country United States of America. Along with her family, she moved to India at the age of eight. She completed her schooling from an all-girls school called J.B. Petit School for Girls. She graduated with a degree of Bachelors of Arts in Economics from the esteemed St. Xavier’s College which is situated in Mumbai. She did her post-graduation from Mumbai’s Xavier’s Institute of Communications.
She holds a degree of masters in Marketing and Advertising. She currently lives with her husband Ronnie Screwvala in Breach Candy, Mumbai. Reading and Sipping Tea, and Sprite are her passions. Zarina is a board member of ASIA SOCI and also studi...
4. Sarita Patil
Sarita Patil is a producer who works in the Bollywood film and TV industry. Sarita is one of the most successful producers working in the industry right now, and she has never let anything hinder the progress of her career, despite being a woman in a career that is dominated by men. She has been a trailblazer for many future women producers.
She started her career in the film industry as the programming head of Zee in 1993 where she worked till 2000. After many successful stints in various companies, she is currently managing partner at Matchbox Shots.
...5. Dolly Ahluwalia
Dolly Ahluwalia is an actress, who became popular for her works as a costume designer. In 2001, she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for costume designing, and became a three-time National Film Award winner; twice for the category of Best Costume Design for her works in the films, Bandit Queen and Haider respectively and one as Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in the 2012 comedy drama film, Vicky Donor.
Dolly was born and raised up in Delhi and she has been very active in dramatics all through her years in St. Thomas. Then she studied at Delhi University, where she received a lot of trophies from the d...
6. Shriya Saran
Shriya Saran, the timeless beauty, is a much loved actor of the South Indian film industry who’s been reigning the world of cinema from nearly a decade. She’s acted in nearly 70 films in the languages of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English and Hindi and won a host of prestigious awards in all of her career.
A trained and expert traditional dancer, Shriya Saran was noticed in one of her dance videos and for the beauty that she was, movie offers came her way. Ishtam, the telugu film produced by Ramoji Rao was the first that she acted in and although the film didn’t really fare all that well, she was noticed. She was paired with bigger heroes like Nagarjuna and Tarun right after that when she acted in films like Santosham (with Nag) and Nuvve nuvve (first directorial of Trivikram Srinivas along side Tarun...
7. Vishal Bhardwaj
8. Ronnie Screwvala
Born in the city of Mumbai to a family of Parsi religion, Rohinton Soli Screwvala is an Indian philanthropist, entrepreneur, CEO, and founder of UTV Group, which included Bloomberg UTV, UTV Software Communications, etc. Since school time Ronnie had an interest in films and theater. He also acted in some skits in Bombay theater like Alyque Padamsee and Pearl. But he did not like working for others, so his stage career ended as he wished to initiate his business. Ronnie started on a small scale in the year 1981.
He worked as a cable TV operator in the city Mumbai under the network company. It provided a video channel for three hours to people who lived in the Cuffe Parade area which is the affluent area of Mumbai. The channel became famous, and craze grew among people there. In the year 1990, Ronnie found the UTV...
9. Pankaj Kapur
Pankaj Kapur is a prominent Indian actor and director who has shown his talent through various mediums such as theatre, television and film actor from Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is a screenwriter, director as well as an actor, a multi-talented personality. Pankaj has appeared in several acclaimed television serials and films. Some of his film roles that are remembered till date include characters of Inspector P.K. in Raakh, Dr. Dipankar Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut as well as Abba ji, (based on Shakespeare's King Duncan) in Vishal Bhardwaj's reworked copy of Macbeth; Maqbool .All of these three critically acclaimed roles received appreciation, and the actor got National Film Awards for the same. Pankaj along with his colleagues Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpai as well as Irrfan Khan are regarded as the "Walking Acting ...
10. Deven Khote
Deven Khote is the grandson of Veteran actress Durga Khote. Being in a household of great actors and actresses, who had a passion for acting, little Deven was very much intrigued by the same; he felt the same passion.
He did his early schooling from The Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai. When he was in the fourth standard, he got an opportunity to play a role in a play, “Barnaby.” That irked his interest in acting in general, and in theatre in particular.
It is his love for theatre that led him to spend most of his youth days acting in numerous plays. From the year 1980 to 1990, he presented himself in some plays including Death of a Salesman, Children of a Lesser God, Night of January 16th, Noises off, God and Death, All the King’s Men, A Streetcar Named Desire and the Wiz.
He graduat...
11. Ram Mirchandani
Ram Mirchandani is a National Award-winning Producer who predominantly works in Bollywood movies. Ram Mirchandani was born into an Indian family in Penang, Malaysia. After completing his school studies from Victoria Institution in Malaysia, Ram Mirchandani joined Jai Hind College in Mumbai and pursued his Bachelor's in Applied Science. However, after his degree completion, Ram Mirchandani joined Modi Entertainment Networks, a joint venture with Walt Disney Pictures and Fashion TV.
He worked as the Business Head and Senior Vice President. From 1996 to 2002, Ram Mirchandani produced various hit shows like ApnaApna Style on Zee TV, Colgate Top Stars in Doordarshan, Star Bestsellers in Star Plus, and Rishtey on Zee TV. He has also worked with Fashion TV India. Ram Mirchandani made his debut in filmmaking in 2003 after joining U...
12. Abhishek Chaubey
Abhishek Chaubey, an Indian Film Director was born on 30 March 1977, in Uttar Pradesh. He completed his schooling from Hyderabad in the year 1995. In college, he took a bachelor course in English Literature in Hindu College of New Delhi and graduated in 1998. As he had interest towards filming and communications, he studied Film and Television Productions in Xavier College of Mumbai and began his career towards direction.
Abhishek Chaubey was the assistant director in a fiction movie directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, ‘Makdee’, which released in 2002. The film has also been promoted in English as ‘The Web of Witch’. The movie was a comic thriller, and it comes under the category of children’s entertainment. It won second prize in ‘Chicago International Children’s Film Festiva...
13. 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...
14. Aalaap Majgavkar
Aalaap Majgavkar is an Indian film editor and sound designer, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Haider (2014), Talvar (2015), Kaminey (2009), Dedh Ishqiya (2014), etc. Mostly known for his dominant involvement in Bollywood movies and Hindi TV shows, he is the son of the late film director Baba (Pundalik) Majgavkar. Born on 7th December 1987 in Mumbai, he had to share his school life between Dehradun, Mumbai, and Pune. After graduating from Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, he started working at L.V. Prasad Film and Television Academy and completed his diploma in Television and Film editing and sound design with a gold medal. Since then, he has been a part of more than thirty major film projects.
...15. Sukhwinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh, an asset to the Bollywood Music Industry, was born on 18th July 1971. He is a playback singer, who is quite active from the year 1992 until the present. There are a huge number of his fan followers, and he is gifted with an incredible voice. Apart from any element in any aspect of film making, songs sung by him made a phenomenal difference in its success. He has sung some outstanding numbers in the Bollywood film industry in the late nineties.
He is the singer of a couple of miraculous songs namely "Chaiya Chaiya" from Dil Se movie, and "Jai Ho" from the Oscar award winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. For these couple of songs, he won national award for its unbelievable hit and success. He was completely into singing at the age of eig...
16. Nitin Wable
Nitin Wable is an art director. He is associated with the Hindi cinema, aka Bollywood Film Industry. He has Indian Nationality. Nitin is also a production manager by profession. He generally handles the art department in the crew section. Nitin has done several films in his art direction career. He made his debut as an assistant art director from project ‘Dil Se' in the year 1998. Then he did Mast in the year 1999, Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa in the year 2000, Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai in the year 2001, Makdee in the year 2002, Uuf Kya Jaadoo Mohabbat Hai in the year 2004, The Blue Umbrella in the year 2005, Krrish and Omkara in the year 2006, and Guru in the year 2007.
Others are Delhi-6 in the year 2009, Mausam and Teen Thay Bhai in the year 2011, Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela in the year 2013, Badlapur Boys in the year 2014,...
17. Samir Chanda
Samir Chanda was a popular Indian director and production designer, who was born in 1957. He worked in the Indian cinema industry, including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali. He was well-known for his work in movies like Yoddha (1992), Dil Se (1998), Omkara (2006), Rang De Basanti (2006), Guru (2007), and Raavan (2010).
Samir also directed a Bengali movie, Ek Nadir Galop (2008) featuring popular actor Mithun Chakraborty. It went ahead as the Indian entry for the African, Latin American and Asian Competition segment of the International Film Festival of India’s 38th edition, in Goa. Samir was given the National Film Award for Best Direction (Art) four times, which include Shyam Benegal directed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005).
Samir was a trained painter coming from Government College of C...
18. Aarif Sheikh
Film editors are an essential part of the filmmaking process, but they're often overlooked since they work behind the scenes. Editing is one of the other things that we understand from the cinema. Editor Aarif Sheikh is a national award-winning editor associated with movies like ‘Drishyam’, ‘Noor’, ‘Baadshaho’. ‘D-Day’, ‘Haider’, ‘Phanthom’ etc.
When we talk about cinema, what comes in our mind is acting, cinematography, BG score, music etc. but nobody knows what work has been done in post-production stages. Aarif Sheikh has directed and was an editor for a 2009 Bollywood film ‘Let's Dance’ that stars Gayatri Patel, Ajay Chaudhary and Aquib Afzal in the lead roles.
He was expert even in editing song and dance sequence from ...
19. Deepak Dobriyal
Deepak Dobriyal is a talented theater and film actor who has appeared in many successful Bollywood movies. He was last seen in the romantic comedy- ‘’Tanu Weds Manu’’ &’ Tanu Weds Manu Returns’- and is the most versatile actor of the current generation. Since this actor is from a theater, he has the high-octane energy to do any serious villain role, which are often challenging and needs a lot of rehearsal before the camera.
‘Omkara’ was indeed a classic film that helped to sharpen his acting skills through hard work and dedication required in the movie industry. Known for his subtle mannerism, this versatile young actor had played varied villainous and comic roles in Hindi cinema enthralling the audience with his ...
20. Anil George
Anil George is an Indian actor. He is known for his roles in Mardaani, The Blue Umbrella, etc. Anil started his career as an actor in 1999 with the movie ‘Kabhi Paas Kabhi Fail’. This comedy/family movie was directed by Virendra Saini. Anil shared the screen with actors like Tom Alter, Sanjay Mishra, Manoj Pahwa, Deepti Naval, Dilip Dhawan, Naseeruddin Shah, Sajeel Parakh, and Saurabh Shukla. The movie was released on 1st January 1999. His second movie ‘Hu Tu Tu’ was released on 22nd January 1999. The movie was directed and written by Gulzar. It was Gulzar’s last movie as a director.
Anil was cast in the movie along with the legendary Nana Patekar, Tabu, Sunil Shetty, Shivaji Satam, Suhasini Mulay and Kulbhushan Kharbanda among others. The movie won a Filmfare award in 2000. In 2005, he did The Blu...
21. Avtar Sahni
Avtar Sahni is one of Indian’s foremost theatre personalities. He has directed and acted in several leading dramatic productions throughout his career. Sahni comes from the town of Ambala, Haryana. His fervor for the finer arts, particularly in the line of theatrics, secured him a spot in the prestigious National School of Drama. He graduated in 1984 with a specialization in direction and spent the following year studying ‘Interaction between traditional performing arts and modern theatre' in Manipur under a fellowship grant. He founded the group ‘ART’ - Actor’s Repertory Theatre in the year 2004. The theatre troupe sought to add unique features to the Indian drama scene and create a platform for artists to showcase their talents.
He has directed over 45 plays with various theatre groups all ar...
22. Rahul Kumar
Rahul Kumar is a well-known Indian actor who started his acting career at a very young age. He was born on September 9, 1995 in Almora, Uttarakhand, India to Suresh Kumar and Geeta Devi. His father is in search for a job so the family moved to Gurgaon. Right now, Suresh works in the Chancellor Club while Geeta works as a beautician. Rahul later moved to the city to pursue his acting career and luckily, he was given the chance to be part of the industry.
He continued working on theatre and at the same time as a child actor in the 1999 Hindi film, Chandaal Atma where he bagged the role of Chandan Das. He also acted as a child artist on Vishal Bhardwaj’ The Blue Umbrella as Tikku, a village boy in 2005. Later, Rahul acted as the son of Ishwar Langda Tyagi (played by Saif Ali Khan) in another Vishal Bhardwaj’ cri...
23. Rajesh Sharma
Rajesh Sharma is an Indian actor. His work is predominant in the Malayalam film industry. He was born on 1st December 1973 in Kollam, Kerala. He finished his education in drama from the centre for performing arts at Sopanam Kalakendram, Kollam, in 1996. His career was started as a drama artist, with his work diversifying over fifty dramas.
His 2001 play Ambalapravu saw him getting the Best Actor Award constituted by Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi. He has also received honors for other plays like Makkalkoottam and Section 302-Murder. He made his debut in the Malayalam film industry in 2005. His most popular works include Annayam Rasoolum, Oru Vadakkan Selfie, and Loham.
...24. Samrat Mukherjee
Samrat Mukherjee is an Indian actor born on the 29th of May 1978. He hails from the city of joy, Kolkata. Samrat is from the Mukherjee-Samarth family tribe of Bollywood. His paternal grandfather, Sashadhar Mukherjee, was a producer and supreme supporter of Filmalaya Studios in Amboli, Mumbai. He is the brother of Sharbani Mukherjee. His cousins are the renowned actresses Kajol, Rani Mukerji and Tanisha and movie director Ayan Mukerji.
Samrat appeared in the film Ram Aur Shyam with Manek Bedi. He was a part of a withdrawn movie by Vishal Enterprises called "Nehle Pe Dehla" which was first named Namak Halaal in 1996, the movie starred Shatrughan Sinha and Manek Bedi, directed by Sikander Bharti. He also appeared in the racked film, Chiragdeep International's "Ujala"(1996) Starring Shatrugh...
25. Shlok Sharma
Shlok Sharma is a popular Indian director in the Hindi cinema. The talented director also works as a producer and a screenwriter. He entered the world of cinema just after completing his secondary education. He was passionate about making a career in filmmaking. His first short film was released in the year 2010. The movie was named ‘Tubelight Ka Chand’. He also worked as a writer in his first step to the cinema. This debut of Shlok Sharma won the best short film award at the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart in the year 2011. He was the production assistant in Vishal Bhardwaj’s movie ‘The Blue Umbrella,’ which was released in the year 2005. He continued working with Vishal Bharadwaj for his upcoming movie ‘Omkara.’
His talent impressed the famous director Anurag Kashyap. He was later call...