Aruna Bhatia
Nandini Shrikent
Kirti Kolwankar
Maria Tharakan
Nithya Menen
Sonakshi Sinha
Taapsee Pannu
Vidya Balan
Kirti Kulhari
Roohani Yagnik
Theia Tekchandaney
Akshay Kumar
Jagan Shakti
Anil Naidu
Ravi Varman
Amit Trivedi
Sandeep Sharad Ravade
Karan Mally
Chandan Arora
Parthib Dutta
Rajat Barmecha
Sharman Joshi
Karnail Singh
1. Aruna Bhatia
Aruna Bhatia is an Indian film producer. She; was born in 1943, Punjab. She; was the mother of famous Bollywood Superstar Akshay Kumar. Aruna started her own production house named Hari Om Productions in Mumbai. She; produced many movies and most of them were super hit. Her movies earned a lot of money and the box office collection was good. She produced movies like Singh is King in 2008, Kesari in 2019, Chumbak in 2017, Naam Shabana in 2017, Rustom in 2016, Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Of Duty in 2014. Patiala House in 2011 and Suryawanshi in 2021. Unfortunately, she passed away at the age of 78 years on 8 September 2021 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
...2. Nandini Shrikent
Nandini Shrikent has a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Communication Media (SCM) from Mumbai. Like most of the Casting Directors, Nandini joined the profession coincidently and in her case, it was Zoya Akhtar who played the role of giving Nandini a chance to explore as a Casting Director. Nandini had started as an Assistant Director but later, made a shift to Casting. She still assists the Directors and is well known in the Bollywood industry. Nandini is in this business from considerably a long time but it was that one internship she recalls, under Govind Nihlani in Takshak which helped her to make right choices in Bollywood.
Nandini was responsible for casting the entire cast for her first ever project for Farhan Akhtar’s Lakshya. It was her first gig and she had to cast all the soldiers...
3. Kirti Kolwankar
Kirti Kolwankar is a Bollywood costume designer born in Chiplun, a cultural background village of Maharashtra. She completed her education in fashion technology form J. D. Institute, Mumbai. Kirti has worked as a costume designer for many movies in 2018, Such as MUKKABAZ, BADHAI HO, YAMALA PAGLA DEWAANA PHIR SAY.
She is also associated with Ayushman, Kriti starrer film BAREILY KI BARFI. In her inspiring journey from costume assistant to costume designer, she worked with many famous personalities. She started her career as an assistant to Farzine Khambatta. Also, she worked with Hollywood designer Lorraine Kinman as an Assistant for Cheetah Girls (Indian Crew). In 2013, she started her job at Phantom (2013-14).
She is currently working with B.R film, as a wardrobe assistant, and with Jar pictures as a costume designer fr...
4. Maria Tharakan
Maria Tharakan is a Costume designer and Costume supervisor, well known for her work in movies like “Bareilly Ki Barfi,” “Qarib Qarib,” and “Pela Adhi Akshar”. She has been part of Indian Film Industry since 2010. She has been part of costume designing team in many Bollywood movies, short movies, such as “My sun sets to Rise Again,” “Fitoor,” “Singh is Bling,” “Bombay Velvet,” “Bangistan,” ”Ek Tha Tiger,” “The Dirty Picture,” “F.A.LT.U.,” and many more.
She started as an assistant costume designer in the movie “Band Baaja Baraat,” directed by Maneesh Sharma, starring Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma Kohli, and Ranjit Batra. This movie won awards for Best Film, Best Costume Design, Best Sto...
5. Nithya Menen
Born on April 8, 1988 Nithya Menen is indeed a star to reckon with. She has worked in South Indian films, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Hailing from Calicut, she was brought up in Bangalore. Before joining films, she passed Journalism from Manipal Institute of Communication. Though, she wanted to do a course in Cinematography things didn’t fructify. After working as a child artiste in the film Hanuman, she did a film with Mohanlal during the year 2008. This got her many accolades and she was nominated in the category of Best Supporting actress.
During one of her entrance exams Nithya met director Nandini, who was instrumental in making Nithya ...
6. Sonakshi Sinha
Sonakshi Sinha is a well-known Indian Actress. She is the daughter of veteran actors Shatrughan Sinha and Poonam Sinha. Her father is now a politician from Bharitya Janta Party. She was born on 2 June 1987 in Mumbai. She has two brothers Luv and Kush. She did her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir, Mumbai and graduation from Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University, Mumbai in Fashion Designing.
Sinha first worked as a costume designer and designed costumes for movie ‘Mera Dil Leke Dekho’. She did Modeling before moving to the big screen and walked the ramp in Lakme Fashion Week, 2008 and 2009.
She made her acting debut in the Salman Khan co-starred Dabangg, which turned out to be a huge success. For this role she had to lose almost...
7. Taapsee Pannu
Taapsee Pannu is an actress and model of Indian origin. She is a beautiful and sexy actress. Her height is 5.6 Inches, and her star sign is Leo. She works as a software engineer, but she proceeds her career in modeling and then into the film industry. She did many South Indian movie, and also some Bollywood movies with famous actors and actresses. Taapsee Pannu was born in a Punjabi Family. Her Parents are Dilmohan Singh Pannu and Nirmala et Pannu. She has only one sister, Shagun Pannu. She passed out 12th standard Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Delhi. She did her graduation from Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology. She worked as a software engineer in a company. One of her contributions to the field of software development was an application made for iPhone by the name of ‘font swap’. She s...
8. Vidya Balan
Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress who was born in Poothamkurussy, Puthur of Kerala. Her birthday is 1st of January in 1978. Her parents are Saraswathy and P. R Balan. Her elder sister is Priya Balan and her second cousin is Indian actress Priyamani. She studied at a High School in Mumbai and in 1995, at the age of sixteen, she played the role of Radhika in the first season of Ekta Kapoor's TV series named “Hum Paanch”. In her teenage, she was inspired by Indian actress Shabana Azmi and Madhuri Dixit. She studied Sociology in St. Xavier's College and completed Master's in Mumbai University. She has appeared in several TV commercials and also she has starred in music videos. Vidya has briefly studied Carnatic music, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. She was listed as the "India's hottest vegetarian...
9. Kirti Kulhari
12. Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and his birth name is ‘Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia’. He is a great Bollywood actor who has acted in more than 100 movies. He is also a producer and martial artist. He has won The Filmfare awards a couple of times. He started off his career as an actor in 1990s, where he had stricken with action based movies initially. He has been greatly appreciated for his drama, romance and comic roles. He is considered to be the only Bollywood actor whose net box office collection is 20 million rupees. He has done a lot of dangerous stunts in movies without a body double. This did gain a name for him as 'Indian Jackie Chan'.
In the year 2008, Akshay Kumar was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of law by the University of Windsor for his contribution in acting. This was a huge pride f...
13. Jagan Shakti
Jagan Shakti is an Indian director and writer. He directed Mission Mangal (2019). He also wrote the story of Mission Mangal. R. Balki and Saketh Kondiparthi wrote the script for Mission Mangal. It stars Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menon, and Sonakshi Sinha. He was one of the assistant directors of Thuppakki (2012). Thuppakki stars Joseph Vijay, Kajal Aggarwal, Vidyut Jammwal, and Sathyan. A.R. Murugadoss directed Thuppakki. Shakti was the associate director of Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty (2014). A.R. Murugadoss directed Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty. It is Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Freddy Daruwala, Sumeet Raghavan, and Govinda.
Jagan Shakti was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Director, Best Original Story and, Best Debut Director for Mission Mangal. He was also nominated for th...
14. Anil Naidu
Anil Naidu is an Indian producer. Other than being a producer, he is also a director, and an editor. He has spent a long time in the advertising world and was also a co-producer of Amitabh Bachchan’s films “Paa” and, Akshay Kumar’s films “Mission Mangal” and “Padman.” He also took part in the editorial team of the movies like, “Dear Zindagi,” “Shamitabh,” “English Vinglish.” He worked for the advertising world for a long time and then later entered the world of feature films. His work technique and working methods won millions of hearts. Later he passed in October 2020 due to a massive heart attack, and his companions offered condolences through writings.
...15. Ravi Varman
Ravi was born in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. By profession, he is a cinematographer. Also, he penned the script and directed one movie. He has got some nominations and awards for his brilliant works. With a connection to the South Indian movie industry, he also has worked in Bollywood, and his work won acclamation. His great zeal for literature helped him to create a magazine (online) named Yavarum Kelir. His interest in photography is linked to the death of his mother, who he lost at a very young age.
He grew up watching movies, but he never thought that he will make his career in the film industry. Ravi has been a part of various languages movies like Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English. He has done some TV commercials, albums and short films.
For the movie ‘Barfi’, he got four awards and one for...
16. Amit Trivedi
17. Sandeep Sharad Ravade
Sandeep Sharad Ravade is a Hindi art director and production designer who has worked predominantly in the Bollywood film industry. He has worked as an associate art director in ‘Tum Bin…: Love Will Find a Way’ in 2001, ‘Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai’ in 2003, ‘Musafir’ in 2004, ‘Ten’ in 2005, ‘The Curse of King Tut's Tomb’ in 2006, ‘Tathastu’ in 2006, ‘Singh Is King’ in 2008, ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ in 2009, ‘3 Idiots’ in 2009, ‘Housefull’ in 2010, ‘Guzaarish’ in 2010, ‘Rockstar’ in 2011, ‘Agent Vinod’ in 2012, ‘Housefull 2’ in 2012, ‘Cocktail’ in 2012, ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ in 2013, ‘Highway’ in 2014, ‘Lekar Hum Deewan...
18. Karan Mally
Karan Mally is a casting director working predominately for Hindi film and television industry. Currently, he is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra and is working as a casting director at Indian and international films for motion picture and films. Karan Mally was born in Bangalore and later on shifted to Mangalore in 1986. He completed his studies from St.Joseph pre-University College and shifted to Mumbai to pursue his career in the industry. He worked as a casting assistant for Illuminati films. Later on, he worked as an actor for Ashutosh Gowariker productions since February 2014 but only for a year. He has also been working for Nandini Shrikant since October 2012 under the banner of kabiku productions.
Besides all these, he also worked for a year for dharma productions as a casting associate. He again worked as a casting directo...
19. Chandan Arora
Chandan Arora is an Indian cinema personality who is serving as a director and editor in Bollywood. Chandan obtained his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Bombay University in 1991. His subject was “Business Administration and Management”.Arora is fluent in five languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, and Marathi. Chandan started out as an assistant director in the year 1989. Later, he was an assistant of Kishore Kapadia, a cameraman.
In 1994, Chandan got a job at Star Movies India where he held the position of an associate producer. His debut Bollywood movie was Mast. In 2001, Ram Gopal Varma entrusted him with the task of editing his film Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya. Chandan earned fame when he was the editor of Company (2003). Critics conside...
20. Parthib Dutta
Parthib Dutta is well-known for his work as the production manager of movies such as Pagalpanti (2019), The Family Man (Season 1) (2019), and Made In Heaven (Season 1) (2019), as well as Junglee (2019), Romeo Akbar Walter (2019), Aarya (2020), and Raanjhanaa (2013) Monsoon Shootout (2013), Mission Mangal (2019). Supervisor of post-production, filmmaker, and visualizer based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. His short film has been screened at the 41st Sehsuechte Students Film Festival in Potsdam, Germany, and the Dakine Fest 2012 in Bucharest. He has prior Post Production Supervisor experience from working for several organizations, including HOPE Productions, D2R Films Private Limited, Junglee Pictures Limited, Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., Zee Entertainment, and Panorama Studios Pvt. Ltd.
Parthib Dutta is well-known for his work as th...
21. Rajat Barmecha
Rajat Barmecha emerged to the Bollywood circuit with his role in the Hindi movie ‘Udaan,’ released in 2010. The movie showcased the struggle of a small town boy and how he battles his dreams from his father. The movie was highly acclaimed both by the audience and the critics, which was directed by Vikramaditya Motwane. Rajat also won a nomination for Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the movie.
Rajat was born on April 24, 1989, in Ladnun, Rajasthan and did his schooling from Bal Bharti Public School, Delhi. His two siblings Ritu and Vicky are also part of the film Industry. While Ritu has given hits in t...