Farah Khan
Gauri Khan
Alka Yagnik
Shreya Ghoshal
Sunidhi Chauhan
Vasundhara Das
Sushmita Sen
Amrita Rao
Geeta Kapoor
Rakhi Sawant
Kirron Kher
Tabu
Bindu
Sonu Thakur
Karan Malhotra
Shah Rukh Khan
Sanjiv Chawla
Ratan Jain
Abbas Tyrewala
Rajesh Saathi
Anu Malik
Ranjit Barot
Javed Akhtar
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Sonu Nigam
Shirish Kunder
Parikshit Lalwani
Sabu Cyril
Karan Johar
Manish Malhotra
Sanjeev Mulchandani
Sanjay Sharma
Allan Amin
Deven Munjal
Haresh Hingorani
Keitan Yadav
Amit Sharma
Boman Irani
Kabir Bedi
Kunal Kumar
Murli Sharma
Naseeruddin Shah
Nassar Abdulla
Praveen Sirohi
Sajid Khan
Zayed Khan
Bharat Shah
V Manikandan
Suniel Shetty
Charan Saluja
1. Farah Khan
Farah Khan is an Indian film actress, producer, director and a choreographer. She was born on January 9, 1965 in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Menaka, sister of screenwriter and actress, Honey Irani and Daisy Irani. She is also the sister of film actor and comedian Sajid Khan and the cousin of film personalities Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Farah was married to Shirish Kunder, a film writer, producer, director, composer and the editor of her directorial film Main Hoon Na in 2004. The two have worked together in films like Jaan-E-Mann, Tees Maar Khan and Om Shanti Om. She gave birth to triplets, composing of one boy and two girls in year 2008.
2. Gauri Khan
Born on Ocotber 8 1970, Gauri Khan (originally known as Gauri Chibber) is an interior designer, costume designer and a movie producer. She is happily married to Bollywood Superstar Shahrukh Khan. This couple are blessed with three children.
Gauri Khan collaborated with her husband in founding Red Chillies Entertainment. Main Hoon Na, directed by Farah Khan, is her first film as a producer and the film turned out to be the second biggest grossing film of that year. If one remembers, Gauri Khan had anchored a music show for MTV during the 90s, she has also the credit of being in the front page of the acclaimed Vogue magazine. She is even called by Vogue magazine as &...
3. Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik is a very popular playback singer of the Bollywood film industry. She was born on March 20, 1966. She has been working in the Hindi film industry for three decades. She had bagged seven Filmfare awards out of the thirty five nominations at the Filmfare awards. It was for the best playback singer award category. Her singing is quite beautiful and she was felicitated by many icons.
She came to the Bollywood industry as a singer at her early age. This gave her a lot of experience and she groomed herself as a consistent and successful singer. Alka Yagnik's songs were listed more than 20 times in the “BBC's “Top 40 Bollywood ...
4. 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 ...
5. Sunidhi Chauhan
6. Vasundhara Das
Vasundhara Das is better known as Shakalaka Baby in celluloid. She made the audience dance to her tune by her song ‘Shakalaka Baby’ which she had sung for music composer A R Rahman for Shankar’s film ‘Mudhalvan.' The song was featured on actress Sushmita Sen in the film. For this item song, she even got her first Filmfare award as a playback singer. But she is also a gifted Indian actress who made her debut in a Tamil film ‘Hey Ram’ opposite Kamal Haasan where she played the role of Mythili Iyengar as a wife of Kamal Haasan. For an actress to get a chance of debut role in Kamal Haasan’s film itself is a milestone in any actress career. But that was not everything for this actress. She got her biggest break in international filmmaker Mira Nair’s project &ls...
7. Sushmita Sen
What is the essence of being a woman? her winning question in 1994 Miss Universe Beauty Pageant held in Manila, Philippines. She shattered the viewer and judges when she delivered her answer outstandingly.
Born Sushmita Sen in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India on November 19, 1975. A crowned Miss Universe, model and actress. She was the first Indian to bring home the title Miss Universe. She successfully reigned not just as a beauty title holder but also in Bollywood. She first appeared in the movie “Dastak” in 1996. This was then followed in 1997 with the movies “Zor’ and “Ratchagan.” Her movie offers continued to roll and made her first film awards as “Best Supporting Actress” for the movie “Biwi No.1” from IIFA Awards, Star Screen, Zee Cine and Filmfare Awards. ...
8. Amrita Rao
Amrita Rao was born on June 7, 1981 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her sister is Preetika Rao and she is active in the film industry from the year of 2002. Amrita is a Bollywood actress and she had also acted in a few Telugu movies as well. Her debut movie is As Ke Baras (2002). Ishq Vishq (2003) movie had brought her fame to the audiences and then she got a huge fan following. Vivah (2006) is regarded to be the blockbuster movie and her acting was felicitated to the epitome of horizon. Sulemani Keeda movie got released in the year 2014. As of date, she had acted in about 17 movies.
She grabbed many prestigious awards in the award ceremonies. The awards include Star Screen Awards, Filmfare Awards, Zee Cine Awards, IIFA, Stardust Awards, Sansui Awards, GR8 Women Awards, Anandalok Awards, Sports World Awards, and Kolkatta Kalakar Awards...
9. Geeta Kapoor
Geeta Kapoor is a renowned choreographer who is judging various dancing competition shows on Indian television.
Geeta Kapoor is a popular television personality who started her career as a choreographer for stage shows, Bollywood movies, and television programs. She began as a choreographer at the age of fifteen when she joined the successful Bollywood choreographer Farah Khan who mentored her. Geeta Kapoor worked with Farah Khan as an assistant choreographer in various Bollywood projects, including Dil Toh Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Main Hoon Na, Kal Ho Na Ho, and Om Shanti Om. She also got some projects as a lead choreographer. She worked individually in shows, such as Fiza, Asoka, Saathiya, Heyy Babyy, Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, Aladin, Tere Naal Love Ho G...
10. Rakhi Sawant
Rakhi Sawant, the well-known drama queen of the Indian TV industry, was born as Neeru Bheda on 25th Nov 1978. In the year 2014, she launched her political party and fought the Lok Sabha election. Her party fared very badly and as a consequence, she merged her party with the Republican Party of India (A).
The early life of Rakhi Sawant was never simple for this girl, in her childhood days she worked for a caterer to support her family and she used to get 50 Rs daily. She did her schooling from “Goklibai High School”, Vile Parle and went on to study arts at Mithibai College. Her debut movie was ‘Agnichakra’ and later she went to work on in many low budget movies and did item numbers for them.
Her most famous danc...
11. Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher or Kirron Anupam Kher was Kiran Thakar Singh in real life. She was born on June 14, 1955 in Punjab, India and she was raised in Chandigarh. Because of her belief in numerology, she decided to alter her name from Kiron or Kiran to Kirron. She is a veteran Indian film and television actress. She is also a theatre artist and a television host who belongs to the Bhartiya Janata Party. She was voted in Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s Parliament. Kiran is the sister of Kanwal Thakar Kaur, a popular badminton player. She has a brother who died last 2003 and another sister who was married to a retired Naval Officer.
She studied in Chandigarh and graduated in the Department of Indian Theatre of Punjab University. She got married to Gautam Berry, a wealthy businessman from Mumbai. They had a son name S...
12. Tabu
13. Bindu
Glam Queen of 70's, Bindu was born to Gujarati parents on 17 Jan 1951 in Valsad district of Gujarat. When she was only 13 years of age, she underwent a tragedy as her father passed away. Being eldest, she took up the responsibility of the family and started to earn for the family. She started her career in films from a young age of 11 appearing in the blockbuster film “Anpadh”. She has acted in almost 160 films in her career span of 4 decades. In 1969, she did two blockbuster films with Rajesh Khanna “Ittefaq” and “Do Raaste” that made her one of the best actress of 70s.
Bindu was the most attractive in the Bollywood house of glamorous item girls of her times including Hema Malini and Helen of the 70s. She did...
15. Karan Malhotra
Karan Malhotra, a renowned director in the Indian Film Industry, Bollywood was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is also a screenwriter and a writer. His excellent direction led to the existence of movies like ‘Agneepath’ and ‘Brothers’. He is the son of Ravi Malhotra, and his wife is Ekta Pathak Malhotra.
Before debuting as a director in 2012, he worked as an assistant director for ten straight years which included movies like Jodha Akbar and My Name is Khan. He debuted with the venture, ’Agneepath’ along with Karan Johar and his production house, Dharma Productions. In 2015, the duo returned with ’Brothers’, a story about two brothers who are up against each other fair and square in a tournament of MMA; this only took place after the audience went gaga over their ...
16. Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent Indian film actor, television personality and producer. He was born on November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India. He is often called as the ‘Baadshah of Bollywood’, ‘King Khan’ and ‘King of Bollywood’. The actor has done more than 80 films in Bollywood. He was cited as ‘The World’s Biggest Movie Star’ by the Los Angeles Times. Khan is also one of the wealthiest actors in the world, with over $400–600 million net worth. He also won several accolades including the 14 Filmfare Awards.
Khan went to St. Columba’s School in Delhi where he topped in studies and sports like football and hockey, where he got the Sword of Honour Award, a school’s highest award. He acted in several stage plays and ...
17. Sanjiv Chawla
Sanjiv Chawla also referred to as Bobby Chawla, is an Indian film producer and actor. He is the brother of Juhi Chawla and has worked in many films that hit the box office. He has been the former CEO of Red Chillies Entertainment, founded by Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan in 2003. It is a mega Indian film production company that diversifies into Film Production, Film Distribution, Red Chillies Colour, Red Chillies VFX, Kidzania, Red Chillies Advertising, and more.
With movies like Ashoka The Great, ChalteChalte, Main Hoon Na, Paheli, I’m Always Here, Om Shanti Om, Billu, and Ra.One that have performed well in the market, Sanjiv was successfully able to venture into the production avenue of the entertainment industry.
...18. Ratan Jain
Ratna Jain is an Indian producer who works predominately in Hindi film industry. Presently, he is working for Venus Worldwide entertainment private limited as the creative head. His family is also involved in the industry itself. He is the brother of the noted producer Ganesh Jain and has a son Raj Jain who works as a film distributor.
Girish Jain, Ramesh Jain, Umed Jain, Champak Jain and Bhawar Jain are also his brothers. Ratna Jain began his career with the movie Khiladi, in 1992. Directed by Abbas Burmawalla and Mustan Burmawalla the film revolves around the story of four people who decide to do a prank on one of the group member's father. The other three decide to kidnap her and ask for an amount. But the story turns when she is murdered, and doubt goes on the rest three.
The movie features Akshay Kumar and Ayes...
19. Abbas Tyrewala
Abbas Tyrewala is an Indian film director, story writer, screenwriter, dialogue writer, and lyricist. He was born on May 15, 1974. He has worked in Bollywood films, and Hindi dubbed films. Abbas was born in a poor Muslim family in Mumbai and brought up in the same.
His father owned a tire repair shop, and his mother was a housewife, both of them did everything for Abbas so that he can get a good education. Abbas got five awards out of which two were Zee Cine Awards, one Filmfare award, and two IIFA awards.
Abbas went to St. Xavier’s College at Mumbai, from where he did his graduation and he was also working on plays and songs. During his graduation, he was contacted by one of his friends for a Jingle writing which he accepted and wrote a jingle for Cinema extra bright tube light in a short time in 1993.
La...
20. Rajesh Saathi
A versatile and passionate filmmaker, Rajesh Saathi is an established name in the industry. Rajesh has a string of prestigious international and Indian awards and hundreds of unforgettable commercials for various companies - think Ranveer Singh calling India for Kotak 811, Mahendra Singh Dhoni in a gladiator avatar for the Snickers advertisement, Shah Rukh Khan sliding into a bathroom door, or Farah Khan, groove dancing to “jumping japang” song for IPL. Rajesh also wrote the screenplay for Shah Rukh’s blockbuster film “Main Hoon Na.”
Rajesh Saathi founded Kerosene Films, a film production company that has been in the industry for two decades and has made many memorable commercials. Kerosene Films was the production house of choic...
21. Anu Malik
Anu Malik is considered as one of the most famous and successful music directors from film industry. He has also established his name as a singer. He began his career as a music director in 1977. He gave the music for the film Hunterwali. He became famous in 1990s by delivering the blockbusters like Baazigar,Janam and so on. We can say 1990 to 2000s was the golden period of his career. He was awarded a National Award for his phenomenal music for the film Refugee. His other blockbusters were Shah Rukh Khan starrer Mai Hoon Na and Baazigar . This movie gave him a Filmfare Award of Best Music Director. He has made a record of winning this trophy for 6 times. Anu Malik has given his versatile music for more than 350 films. He is considered as the most promising music director from the industry. So his songs like Garam Chaye Ki Pyali, Mehbo...
22. Ranjit Barot
RanjitBarot is a Film Score Composer as well a allrounder personality born around 1955 in England has hands on in an assorted arena of the music world. Usually a diversified and dynamic person started his career in the year 1995 with Oh Darling YehHai India and is working his charm till date in the music array.
Due to his mother Sitara Devi the then phenomenal Kathak dancer and father PratapBarot ...
23. 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...
24. Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Abhijeet was born in Kanpur and belongs to a Bengali family. He got his primary and secondary education from Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School, Kanpur, and got his higher secondary education from BNSD Inter College Chunni Ganj, Kanpur. In 1977, he did his graduation in commerce from Christ Church College, Kanpur. In 1970, he started singing on stage. He learned and developed his singing style by listening to Kishore Kumar’s songs. In 1981, he went to Mumbai to get a degree in chartered accountancy, but his passion towards music was very strong, therefore he started his singing career.
In the 1990’s, Abhijeet was a playback vocalist. His records became popular when he did a song in a film ‘Baaghi’, which was Anand-Milind’s composition. After Baaghi, he did many songs in di...
25. 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 l...
26. Shirish Kunder
Shirish Kunder is an Indian Film producer, director, writer, editor and composer. He was born on 24th of May 1973 in Mangalore. He lives in Mumbai and also grew up here. He completed his Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from Karnataka. He also studied Advanced Screenwriting from the University of Southern California.
After that he was working for Motorola for some time. Shirish later started his career into films. He started off with editing for movies. His editorial debut was Champion. However he got his share of appreciation and fame for editing Main Hoon Na, a Farah Khan film in 2004. He edited about 20 films in all and then made a move to directing. The movie Jaan-E-Mann was his debut film as a director. The film had actors like Salman AKA Bhaijaan, the Khiladi of B-Town Akshay and the Dimple quee...
27. Parikshit Lalwani
Parikshit Lalvani is a famous Indian sound editor, sound designer, DJ and the CEO of Creative Sound Design with an experience of more than 16 years. Parikshit was born on 27th August, 1977 in Juhu , Mumbai. He started his career as an engineer by taking a degree in Digital Electronics and working at PACE Communications.
His career took a next level when he worked on a fair light at the time and shifted his career to Amadeus as a Sound editor. He is quite popular in the industry for his skill to create or edit vehicle sounds by performing them with a CD player. He is so much dedicated to his work that his last watched movies with a clear memory was Waaris in 1988 and Dil To Pagal Hai in 1997,said a journalist.
He start...
28. Sabu Cyril
Sabu Cyril was born on January 27th in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.
He is a production designer in the Indian movie industry. Earlier, production designers were called as art directors.
He resides in Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai.
He was brought up in Kerala itself. He did his schooling from the same place and then went to Chennai to do his graduation in the Government College of Fine Arts, which was earlier known as Government School of Arts and Crafts. He did his Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from 1980 to 1985.
He worked part time as a graphic designer for names like Taj Hotels Group, Madura Coats and Welcome Hotels, in the period 1982 to 1988.
His career in art direction began in the year 1988. Sabu has worked in commercial films in the Hindi, Tamil, ...
29. Karan Johar
Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Sharukh, Salman, Kajol and Rani. This was a block buster hit and Karan Johar reached fame in his first m...
30. Manish Malhotra
His first professional costume design was for the Bollywood actress ‘Juhi Chawla’ in the movie ‘Swarg’, which was released a couple of decades ago. He won his first ‘filmfare costume award’, for the movie ‘Rangeela’ in 1995. It gave him much recognizance in Bollywood and paved his way for becoming film city’s ‘most sought after’ costume designer. He has also designed costumes for ‘the K...
31. Sanjeev Mulchandani
Hindi cinema has undergone a great change in the past few decades and fashion designing is also undergoing a great facelift. The fashion designers and stylists think in a very innovative manner and come up with an entirely new look for Bollywood flicks. Now let’s take the film Main Hoon Na. Apart from the direction of Farah Khan, the beautiful choreography and peppy songs, it’s the costume designing that garnered the attention of the audiences. Amrita Arora had a completely new look with the costume designing of Sanjeev Mulchandani.
The IIFA award ceremony, which gives the award to an artist who has given excellent costume designs for the flick’s actors, didn’t fail to recognize the talent of Sanjeev Mulchandani; he got the award along with Karan ...
32. Sanjay Sharma
Sanjay Sharma is a director who is propelling the entertainment milieu to greatness. Sharma’s expertise is exciting to watch. Sanjay Sharma is making waves in the film industry due to his contribution to the splendor of blockbusters. Sanjay always ensures the entertainment of the viewers. Sanjay Sharma’s activities in cinema are catapulting it to higher heights of glory. Sanjay Sharma makes his debut in the entertainment industry, through the movie titled “Military Raaj.” “Military Raaj” release occurred on the 27th of February 1998. “Military Raaj” is in the Hindi Language, and Director Sanjay Sharma ensures the supervision of this work of art. Sanjay Sharma gains experience, as he collaborates with superstars like Prem Chopra, Aditya Pancholi, Pooja Bedi, and Mithun Chakraborty. Produce...
33. Allan Amin
Allan Amin is a renowned action director predominantly working in Bollywood, Tollywood and Mollywood film industries. He is the recipient of The Filmfare Award for best action in 2001, 2004, 2006 respectively for Mission Kashmir (2000), Qayamat: City Under Threat (2003) and Dus (2005). Critics applaud him for his unique style & creativity. Allan is working in this field for around 25 years.
Allan is the son of famous action director of yesteryears, A Gani Amin of Ganga Jamuna, Nagin & Raaj Tilak fame. Allan quit a course of electronics engineering to pursue the career of his dream. Allan’s first project was an ad film for Tata Tea. He continues doing more ad films & His choreographic ability of directing the action sequences caught the attention of many...
34. Deven Munjal
Deven Munjal is a Hindi TV actor. He hails form Punjab and has been in the industry for last three or four years only. He came to the limelight form the TV serial 'Ghar Ki Baat Hai' where he acted as the husband of Jayati Bhatia. The serial was the first production of Shahrukh Khan's Red Chillies' idiot Box. It was written by Kanika Dhawan and directed by Anant Mahadevan.
Ghar Ki Baat hai was a situational comedy serial with Deven acting as Bhupinder Ahluwalia. The character of his wife Dolly Ahluwalia was portrayed by Jayati Bhatia and his son Happy was played by Jay Thakkar. The other family in the serial was Yagnik family consisting of Rajdeep (played by Sumeet Raghavan) and Radhika by Juhi Babbar. The Punjabi family of Ahluwalias was depicted as a very colourful family and the lad...
35. Haresh Hingorani
Haresh Hingorani and Keitan Yadav originally met Shah Rukh Khan in 2003 when he was documenting Paheli, where they deliberated an idea about making an initiative under the support of Red Chillies Showbiz. They produced a superhero flick, clearly containing SRK and red chilies. VFX was born three years afterward. The pair began work on the striving Fan –determined because it had SRK, frolicking dual roles as Aryan Khanna the megastar and also Gaurav Chandana, a 24-year old infatuated fan.
Hingorani and Yadav decided to use a mix of prosthetic and VFX to get the right look for Chandana and expended around six months in R&D beforehand the actual film began. The movie Fan saw the active participation of over 250 performers from red chilies. VFX and an extra150 chipped in as the corporation decided to subcontract the rotos...
36. Keitan Yadav
Keitan Yadav is a visual effects supervisor. Yadav with his outstanding skills flavors the Bollywood. Yadav is also the Chief Operating Officer and VFX Producer at Red Chillies Entertainment. Red Chillies Entertainmentswhich is headed by Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan is a company that is surging ahead in the Global Entertainment Industry. Keitan Yadav is basically from Mumbai and lives in Mumbai only. He has done his early education from Sir Cowasgir High School (1977 - 1988), Mumbai, India.
He has done his higher education, that is,graduation in Commerce from the University of Mumbai. He has done Masters in Diploma in Software Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He has also done Diploma in CAD (Computer Aided Designing) from Singapore. He has also...
37. Amit Sharma
Amit Sharma is an Indian movie, short films and commercial advertisements director. He along with two other partners runs Chrome pictures. He first came into limelight from his very famous Google reunion advert. It featured childhood friends divided and sent apart following the partition between India and Pakistan. It had a very intense impact on both the countries. Within two days of its release, the video was seen by over 1.6 million peoples. The advert was mainly to show how important Google search engine can be in real life. The advert went completely viral. And from here, Amit Sharma, the director’s career started. After this, he directed The Silent National Anthem. This advert was released by Big Cinemas and Mudra Group on 61st Indian Independence Day.
The vi...
38. Boman Irani
Boman Irani is a well known name today in the Bollywood industry with a strong audience support for his studied comic roles tinged with traces of villainy in many cases. His entry into the industry was, however, much later in life when he was already 41. In fact, his route to film acting was laced with diverse previous occupations. Along with his love for photography, which many people are not aware of, he had a nascent fondness for acting too, but was never very open about it. It was ultimately Shiamak Davar who facilitated this and got him to audition for the veteran theatre personality Alyque Padamsee. Once the acting bug caught on with him, there was never a looking back. He swiftly established himself not only as one of the leading theatre personalities but also one who was clearly acknowledged by many as a prodigy. Theatre it was...
39. Kabir Bedi
Kabir Bedi is well known Indian television and film actor who had worked in multiple continents like US, many countries of US and India in all the formats i.e. Movies, Television and theatre. He has good command in multiple languages and also very much popular in Italy. His well-known and recognized performances includes but not limited to are role of Emperor Shahjahan in Taj Mahal, pirate in European TV miniseries named as Sandokan, and playing a villainous role in famous James Bond movies named as Octopussy.
He was born in family of freedom fighter where by his father is author and philosopher and his mother is British woman, who take part in ordination in Tibetan Buddhism. He began his career from the theater and progressed to be one of the leading personalities in bollywood. His growth can be judged by th...
40. Kunal Kumar
41. Murli Sharma
42. Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and associated with theater. He had treated art-cinema as his serious endeavor requiring the dedication, discipline, and integrity. Throughout his career, he subjected his own acting to a process of rigorous artistic self-analysis and reflection. He was the discovery of filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who introduced actors like Shabana, Om Puri, Smita Patil and others in the Indian cinema. Undoubtedly, this actor has acted in some serious films such as Sparsh, Paar and Iqbal( three national awards). For his performance in Paar, he received the best actor in the Venice Film Festival. His growth even in art-cinema was slow, as he had acted in women-oriented films of Shabana Azmi or Smita Patil. Later, he was chosen to play lead roles in films of Sai Paranjpye’ Sparsh, ...
43. Nassar Abdulla
Nassar Abdulla is the star of the big screen who is apparently a model turned actor. His way to the Bollywood Industry stated with Page 3 by Romesh Thapar at 1st January, 1959. Later, he was seen in many movies like Dil Aashna Hai, Swabhiman, Mitr, Ssssssh?, 36 China Town and many more remarkable films. The latest one is “Gandhi to Hitler” where is played the role of Albert Speer; though this film could not make the cut at box office, yet it is always appreciated for the performance of the star cast as well as the thought and hard work that they had used for making the movie.
There are many facts about Nassar Abdulla which are left to be untold; one of them is his desire to play a comic role at the big screen. Confessed almost two years back, Nassar apparently wanted to play a comic role that pars the standar...
44. Praveen Sirohi
Praveen Sirohi is an actor who works in both Bollywood and Indian television. Praveen started off his journey into the entertainment industry as a model. His good looks and confidence were highly appreciated making him a suitable choice for advertisements by various different brands. Gradually his popularity started to increase and he became a common name in the industry.
He has acted in the commercial advertisements of some highly successful brands which include beverage company Coca-Cola, Kit-Kat chocolates etc. Praveen did several short but strong roles in Bollywood films.
He played the role of Vivek in the very successful Bollywood film named “Mai Hoo Na”, released in 2004, starring the most famous Shahrukh Khan as the lead actor. In the same year, he acted in another movie named “Ab Bas!”.
45. Sajid Khan
Sajid Khan is a Bollywood director, producer and even actor. He was born on November 23, 1970. Before making debut as an actor and director, he was a popular TV host who claimed recognition in TV medium. Since the early days of television, he gained popularity as talk show hosts and was among the most popular personalities in the medium.
Sajid Khan’s sister is Farah Khan, who made her break as the director with Shahrukh Khan film’ Om Shanti Om’, and also a renowned choreographer in Bollywood. Sajid became popular as a judge for Nach Baliye Season 5 and Nach Baliye Season 6 in Indian television. The actor made a cameo appearance in films like, 'Main Hoon' and Happy New Year. Sajid Khan's mother Menaka is the sister of Honey Irani and Daisy Irani, former child stars. Her father is Kamran Khan.
<...46. Zayed Khan
Zayed Khan aka Zayed Abbas Khan is the son of the Indian actor Sanjay Khan and interior designer Zarine Khan. He comes from a family of well known names in Bollywood like Feroz Khan, Fardeen Khan and his elder sibling Suzanne Roshan. He completed his schooling from Welham Boys' School, Dehradun, and later the Kodaikanal International School, Kodaikanal. This Bollywood Khan has even attended the London Film Making Academy.
He made his Bollywood debut for a movie called ‘Main Hu Na’ starring Shahrukh Khan and Sushmita Sen in 2004. This movie was a massive hit at the box office and even bagged him a nomination for the ‘Best Supporting Actor&rsquo...
47. Bharat Shah
Bharat Shah is a Bollywood film distributer, producer, and diamond merchant. He holds the banner of VIP films to finance films. He has produced many big movies of Bollywood which includes Devdas that released in 2002 and casted actors Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit, Dil Se that released in 1998 which also starred Shahrukh Khan and amongst others were Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta, Rascals that released in 2011 and starred Sanjay Dutt, Kangana Ranaut, and Ajay Devgan. In the year 2013, he also acquired the distribution rights of the film B.A. Pass directed by Ajay Bahl and starred Shilpa Shukla. He was also nominated once for BAFTA Film Award and won Golden Lotus Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment in the year 2003 for the film Devdas.
48. V Manikandan
V. Manikandan, an Indian cinematographer, was born on January 13, 1968, at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. His brother is a National Awardee Artist, V. Jeevananthan, for his book Thiraicheelai on Cinema at the National Film Award 2010. He has filled in as the cinematographer for various significant box office hits in Hindi and Tamil. He is an acclaimed advertisement film cinematographer with more than 3,000 promotion movies to his credit. He began his profession in Tamil films. His debut film was ‘Atharman’ (Tamil) in 1994. In the next two years, he worked in Tamil movies ‘Sarigamapathani’ (1995), ‘Sengottai’ (1996), and ‘Mr. Romeo’ (1996).
Manikandan likewise released an album Sree Rudra in 1995. In 1997 his cinematography appeared in a Malayalam motion picture ‘As...
49. Suniel Shetty
Suniel Shetty, a renowned Bollywood actor, was born in August, 1961 in Mulki, India. His relatives and close friends know him by the name ‘Anna’. He is an actor, producer and a TV presenter. He is well known for his action films. His first film was ‘Balwaan’ which established him as an action hero. He became popular with his film ‘Mohra’ where he played the character of Vishal in this action packed film. Some of his noted films are: Dilwale (1994), an action film, ‘Border’ (1997), a film about the India-Pakistan war in 1971, ‘Hera Pheri’ (2000), a comedy and ‘Dhadkan’ (2000), a romantic drama. He acted in a Tamil movie also. He also appeared in the English movie ‘Don’t Stop Dreaming’ in 2007.
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