1. Ayesha Takia
Ayesha is a Bollywood film actress, born on 10th April 1986. She was born in Mumbai to Nishit and Faridah. She started her career in modeling at the age of 15. Her first ad was for Complan and then went on to model for a couple music videos.
Her debut on the big screen came in 2004 in Taarzan: The Wonder Car. The movie was a romantic thriller and her role in it lead her to win IFFA and Filmfare's Best Female Debut Award. The same year Dil Maange More came out in which she played Shagun, one of Shahid Kapoor's love interests in the movie. She was nominated for Screen Awards, Most Promising Female Newcomer along with Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut.
Ayesha really showcased her acting skills in the 2006 hit Dor opposite Gul Panag. For her performance in the movie she won Best ...
2. Ahmed Khan
Ahmed Khan is a multi talented personality of the film industry. He is a choreographer, director and actor by profession. He is also a writer and producer, he wrote the script of the movie ‘Paathshala’, starring Shahid Kapoor and the film was also produced by Ahmed and his wife Shaira Khan. He lives in Andheri in Mumbai. He studied from The Bishop’s School, Pune, Maharashtra.
He is married to former model and now producer Shaira Khan. They got married a few years back. Ahmed has said many times that he has always believed in love at first sight and that is what happened when he met Shaira. Ahmed proposed to her few months after they met and within a few months they tied the knot. Shaira was just 18 years old when they got married. Ahmed has received many awards during his career and has many t...
3. Neeraj Vora
Neeraj Vora originally from Gujarat is a Film Director, Actor, Writer, Composer in Bollywood industry. As a director, he directed great films though he carved a niche for himself as a writer with the Perfectionist of Bollywood Aamir Khan through the Hindi movie Rangeela In 2000, he made his directional debut in a movie named “Khiladi 420” which didn’t do well.
Neeraj also directed Phir Hera Pheri, which was a blockbuster hit. He makes movies which entertains people of all age groups. His Phir Hera Pheri touched the hearts of all. He believes in doing work which is a “Complete Family Entertainment”. This comic writer and director got many awards which include Screen Awards for best dialogues and screenplay for Hera Pheri. A play named “AFLATOON” was written by ...
4. Anurag Kashyap
Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has established himself in Bollywood as a prominent director, producer, and screenwriter while even giving acting a try. A born and raised Uttar Pradeshi, Kashyap had keen interest in science and aimed to become a scientist. In an interview Anurag said that he had no dreams of going into the film industry and had all hopes of pursuing Zoology. He went on to say, this all changed in 1993 after he watched Bicycle Thieves, an Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film inspired him enough to give us becoming a scientist and move to Dehli to become a filmmaker.
Anurag got his first chance in the industry as a screenwriter for Auto Narayan when the initial script by Subramaniam was not working and Anurag was given a chance to rewrite it. He then wrote the sc...
5. Shahid Kapoor
Shahid Kapoor also identifies as the name Shahid Khattar. He is an Indian movie or film artist or say, actor. He was born in the year 1981, February 25. He is being honoured with the two Awards of Film fare from the four suggested nominations. The boy child of the actors Neelima Azeem and Pankaj Kapur, the junior Kapoor commenced his professional career by acting in some musical videos and commercial videos of television. He started his debut movie by playing the lead role in a romantic and passionate comedy movie, named “IshqVishk” in the year 2003. For the movie “IshqVishk”, Shahid won an Award of Film fare event for best male actor for a debut. Shahid Kapoor pursued it with playing the roles in the minor booming movies like as Fida in the year 2004 and movie Shikhar in the year 2005. Then, he was starring in ...
6. Sunny Deol
Sunny Deol is a film actor, director and producer. He is best known for his ‘Dhaai Kilo Ka Haath’ dialogue. He was born as Ajay Singh Deol, on 19th of October, 1956, in Sahnewal, Ludhiana, Punjab. He is the eldest son of veteran actor, Dharmendra, and his first wife, Prakash Kaur. Bollywood actor, Bobby Deol, is his younger brother.
He has two sisters, Vijayta and Ajeeta, who are currently settled in California. He also has two half-sisters, Esha Deol and Ahana Deol, from his father’s second marriage to actress, Hema Malini. Sunny studied theatre and acting in England and joined Old Web Theatre in Birmingham before joining Bollywood.
He began his career with the hit film Betaab in the year 1983 which also featured debutante actress Amrita Singh. He was felicitated with the Filmfare Awa...
7. 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.
8. Arbaaz Khan
Born in a family that has strong ties in the film industry, it wasn’t too long before Arbaaz Khan jumped into Bollywood. Born in 1967, he started his career as an actor and then decided to switch to the production aspect of films later on.
Arbaaz had big shoes to fill with his older brother, Salman Khan, being a superstar actor. He has held many leading and supporting roles in movies throughout his acting career. He is well known for his supporting roles in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na in which he appeared with his brother Sohail Khan and Dabangg 1 and 2 in which he worked with his other brother Salman Khan. He is currently working on a comedy film, Kis Kisko Pyaar Karu, alongside Kapil Sharma from Comedy Nights with Kapil.
2010 was a great year for Arbaaz as he ...
9. Vivek Oberoi
Vivek Anand Oberoi's birth was on 3rd September 1976 (age-39) in Hyderabad, Telangana to father Suresh Oberoi and mother Yashodhara Oberoi. He also has a nickname named 'Rockstar'. Vivek did his schooling from Hyderabad Public School, Hyderabad and Mayo College, Ajmer. After school, he studied at Mithibai College,Juhu. He often used to take a public bus to his college. He has a Master's Degree from New York University for Film acting, USA. Before coming to the acting career, he worked as a scriptwriter and bought his first car with the money he made from that, but his first car was a Jeep gifted to him by his father.He made his debut with Ram Gopal Verma's Company in 2002 and backed two Filmfare awards for Best Debut Male and Best Supporting Actor. Though Ram Gopal Verma considered him t...
10. Jackie Shroff
Intro: Jackie Shroff is a well known Bollywood actor who also has presence on Indian television sector.
Jackie Shroff is a popular actor who has worked for more than 175 movies in various languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, and Punjabi. He was launched by Dev Anand in his movie Swami Dada in 1978. Subhash Ghai chose him for the movie Hero which became a huge hit and paved the way of success for Jackie Shroff in Bollywood. Some of his movies which became huge commercial success include Karma, Ram Lakhan, Izzat, Tridev, Rangeela, Saudagar, Angaar, Khalnayak, and Aina. He got his first Filmfare award for best actor for the movie Parinda which was released in 1989.
While Jackie Shroff is known for his work and success with Bol...
11. Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Kumar is Bollywood’s most sought-after villain who did over 400 films in his career till date. He was born on September 21, 1955. He is one of the actors who made a switch from Bollywood to Hollywood.
He worked in Hollywood projects such as Marigold, Desperate Endeavors, Braking Waves, Blind Ambition and Sweet Amerika. For his performance in the Desperate Endeavors, he got the best actor award in Houston Film festival. He is one of the few villain actors who despite having cast in stereotype roles, switched to playing some meaningful characters in Indian cinema. For his role as Bhati for ‘I am Kalam’, he was awarded Star Dust best actor award but lost the award in supporting role although he as nominated for the same in the national film festiva...
12. Om Puri
Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior actors in the Indian film industry and he was born on 18th October 1950 in Patiala, Punjab. He is one of the few Bollywood actors to act in mainstream commercial English movies. The alumnus of National School of Drama was also a classmate of renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah of the 1973 class.
He started his movie career in 1976 with the Marathi film ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’ directed by K.Hariharan. The movie was based on a play with the same name and it got success both commercially and critically. His career graph saw the coming of critically acclaimed art films such as ‘Bhavni Bhavai’, ‘Sadga...