1. Soha Ali Khan
Soha Ali Khan was born into a royal family. She is the daughter of 'Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi' who is the Nawab of Pataudi and former cricketer. Her mother Sharmila Tagore is an actress and the Chair of the Indian Censor Board. She is sister of actor, Saif Ali Khan, the famous Bollywood actor and has an elder sister Saba Ali Khan who designs fashion jewelry.
Her first movie in the industry was, Iti Srikanta released in 2004. It was a Bengali movie. The first Hindi movie she did was Dil Maange More. Till now she has done 25 movies. Her film Rang De Basanti received critical acclaim and won many awards including National award for most popular film. She won the Best Supporting Actress award for the role she played in the same movie.
Prior to acting Khan obtained a Mas...
2. 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...
3. Kay Kay Menon
Kay Kay Menon or K.K. Menon or Krishan Kumar Menon is an Indian actor. He was born on 2nd October 1966 in Kerala, India. His zodiac sign is Virgo. His family shifted to Mumbai when he was only 6 years old. His father was popularly known as “Cashier Menon”. His childhood was spent in Ambarnath. He did his schooling from St. Joseph’s High School. He did his graduation in physics from Mumbai University. He is a post graduate in business management from University of Pune. He is a good Ghazal singer. He married to a bollywood and television actress “Nivedita Bhattacharya”. In his private life he is very reserved and prefers to spend most of his time with his family.
He initially worked in many a...
4. 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.
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6. Nishikant Kamat
Nishikant Kamat is a famous director of Indian films. His first movie was Dombivali Fast, a Marathi film where MadhavApte a middle-class bank employee, who is very honest and will abide by the law all the time face injustice and corruption in his life.
This was a story of Nishikanth Kamath and Sanjay Pawar starring Sandesh Jadhav and Shilpa Tulaskar in lead roles. Later it was remade in Hindi and Tamil also and got an amazing response there. In Marthi, this film became a blockbuster and Nishikant became a famous personality after his first film. It was recognized on of the biggest Marathi film at that time.
In 2006, this film got the National Film Award as a Best Feature film in Marathi. Nishikant Kamat also acted in a Marathi fi...