Payal Ghosh
Divya Seth
Jinal Belani
Bharati Achrekar
Neha Kakkar
Dipti Mehta
Anju Mahendru
Shilpa Shinde
Neelaabh Kaul
Lalit Pandit
Uttank Vora
Paresh Rawal
Rishi Kapoor
Vir Das
Prem Chopra
Tiku Talsania
Kalapi Nagada
Azim Shaikh
Sanjay Chhel
Aishwarya Nigam
Amitabh Narayan
Daler Mehndi
Parthiv Gohil
Roop Kumar Rathod
Shahaab Alam
Vinit Gala
Ganesh Acharya
Sanjay Sankla
Mahendra Verma
Bhavin Patel
Venugopal
Ashwani Shukla
1. Payal Ghosh
Payal Ghosh is an Indian actress largely known for her work in Telegu film industry. She was born in Calcutta in on 13th November 1989. She completed her schooling in Kolkata at St. Paul’s Mission School and later from Scottish Church College where she did her graduation in Political Science from Scottish Church College. She gave her first audition for acting when she was a mere 17 for Sharpe’s Peril and bagged the role in the BBC telefilm. The role was small but it was the start of something big and after that she never looked back.
She did this role in the year 2008 and later joined Namit Kishore’s Acting Academy, where she got the stint to work in Telegu blockbuster ‘Prayanam’ where she was the lead role along with Manoj Manchu. The movie along with her ...
2. Divya Seth
Divya Seth is among the most prominent shining stars of silver screen today. Born on 2nd april, she rose to stardom and recognition nationwide through her very first Indian television soap “Hum Log” in which she played the ever darling role of Majli. The success and appeal of the role instantly resulted in series of never ending offers from various producers and labels. The coming years resulted in her huge success through most popular television serials like Daraar, Adhikaar and Abhimaan. All the three serials wrote new histories of success and popularity, with Divya Shah as the center of appreciation.
Sparsh was her last television serial in her first innings of showbiz which went on air in the year 1999. After Sparsh, she converted her attention completely to her new married life and later to the mother...
3. Jinal Belani
Jinal Belani is an Indian actress and model. She had been born and raised in glitzy city of Mumbai. Her date of birth is April 29, 1992, and she is 24 years old. Her star sign is Taurus. She has one elder sister. She is very close to her mother and looks at her as a source of inspiration. She is of Gujarati origin. Jinal completed her graduation in the field of Mass Media from the Mithibai College, after which she pursued her Master’s in Literature via distance learning program offered by the Mumbai University.
She was pretty active in the Drama Club at her college and began taking up acting seriously. She got her break into the world of glitz and glamor with her TV commercial advertisement of Dove in the year 2011. Her success in the ad world fetched her contracts with other brands such as Hawkins, Sahar...
4. Bharati Achrekar
Bharati Achrekar is not only a well-known name in the Indian TV industry but also of the film industry. She belongs to a very famous family. She is the daughter of Shri Amar Varma who was a very popular Hindi and Urdu writer and poet and Padmashree Smt. Varma who was the famous leader of Indian most popular classic Kirana Gharana.
She was born in the city of Mumbai and she started her education Hujurpaga School Pune. As she was blessed with the soulful voice that is the reason she won a lot of awards in school as well as in intercollegiate competitions.
...5. Neha Kakkar
Neha Kakkar is a prominent Indian comedian and playback singer; born on June 6, 1988 at Rishikesh, Uttarakhand in India. Neha is the sister of the popular playback singer, Sonu Kakkar. She and her family shifted to Delhi where she studied at New Holy Public School before she joined the second season of the reality show, Indian Idol in 2006. She became popular as the Indian version of Columbian singer, Shakira because of her brilliant singing style. Later, she got the chance to work with the renowned comedian, Kapil Sharma in the reality-based comedy show, Comedy Circus Ke Tansen.
Neha discovered her talent in singing when she was just four years old; and with her sister and brother’s encouragement, she started performing since her childhood by joining some singing competitions. She sang Phool Aur Kaante’s Maine Pyar Tumhi Se Kiya...
6. Dipti Mehta
Dipti Mehta is a New York born Indian actress, who, after completing studies, got her first job as a radio jockey in All India Radio and with FM section of Mumbai. She has been active in stage plays during her college days even. She is highly qualified film personality who has a bachelor and master degree and even completed her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona before stepping into cine world. She is also a qualified classical dancer in Bharatanatayam and Kathak. Dipti also appeared in a number of TV shows and even Bollywood films.
TV shows often become well-known for the actors who star in them. Zee Next’s Hum Tum is an example where...
7. Anju Mahendru
Anju Mahendru is an Indian actress, born on January 11, 1946 in Dehradun. She became popular because of her past relationship with actor, Rajesh Khanna. Anju is Rajesh’s great love, and it was unknown to others that Anju took care of Rajesh until the day he dies. She was also temporarily engaged to Gary Sobers, a former cricket player. Anju was also a model when she was 13 years old. The Indian Urdu poet and lyricist, Kaifi Azmi discovered her talent and introduced her to Hindi film director, Basu Bhattacharya. In 1996, she was debuted in the film, Uski Kahani by Basu and this film is also Basu’s first directorial attempt. Anju has been part of films like the 1967 Hindi film, Jewel thief as Neena, Bhandhan in 1969 as Sonia Sharma and the 1970’s, Dastak. That time, Anju has never been a leading la...
8. Shilpa Shinde
Shilpa Shinde is a prevalent Hindi TV performing artist who presently lives up to expectations in the serial Do Dil Ek Jaan. In the year 2000, she began her acting career. She then used to work for Doordarshan and later got settled in as a brilliant TV artist. She played the lead protagonist role in a number of serials telecasted on Doordarshan. Some of her notable ones are Meher, Amrapali, Chidiya Ghar aired on Sab TV, etc.
In the year 2002, it was the serial Amrapali, that gave her the much required break in acting career. She has additionally acted in several South Indian movies like "Shivani". She became popular for her role of Chitra in the serial Sanjeevani - A Medical Boon aired on Star Plus. She has also made her presence felt by performing brilliant roles in serials like Hatim, Bhabi and the mo...
9. Neelaabh Kaul
Neelabh Kaul is an Indian cinematographer popularly known for his work in the Hindi film industry. Neelabh began his career in 2002 with the movie Chhal and has since worked on several Bollywood films. Neelabh is a well-respected and well-established individual in the film industry some of his movie credits include Janasheen (2003), Kisaan (2009), Jeena Hai Toh Thok Daal (2012), Bhaji in Problem (2013) and Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi (2017). His 2019 release includes Marrne Bhi Do Yaaron. His films have been very well-received and have won much appraise from the audience and this has led him to earn much fame in the recent decade.
...10. Lalit Pandit
11. Uttank Vora
Uttank Vora is an Indian musician and music composer. He is also known for his film score compositions. He is the second and the younger son of the musical legend, Late Pt. Vinayak Vora, the tar shehnai maestro. His brother, Neeraj Vora is an equally famous actor, scriptwriter, and director. He was born in the town of Bhuj in Gujarat. His mother, Premila Ben, was the source of support and inspiration that got both the brothers into the film industry even though their father was strongly against it. Due to his musical background, Uttank had been exposed to music right from a tender age.
He had been trained by his father, and he managed to beautifully mix the instrument of Tar Shehnai with is compositions and voice. Even then, he worked really hard and created a niche for himself as a music director and composer....
12. 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.
13. Rishi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor is an actor born in the prominent Kapoor family who has a long history of Hindi cinema where members of the family had careers as actors, producers or directors. Rishi Kapoor was born to veteran actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor on September 4, 1952, in Mumbai. Born with a silver spoon, it was not a difficult task for him to make a debut in films. Raj Kapoor gave him a chance to play a teenager, who was caught on the thin line of boyhood and adulthood in the movie Mera Naam Joker. The film fell flat in the box office, and Raj Kapoor was in massive financial loss.
Hence to tide over the financial crisis Raj Kapoor created teenage romance film Bobby with Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, which remains Rishi’s iconic film to date. Ris...
14. Vir Das
Vir is a stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his role in Badmaash Company and Delhi Belly. Vir was born in Dehradun, India on 31 May 1979 but lived in Africa. He did his studies from Indian Language School in Lagos, Nigeria and later got his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Theatre from Knox University, Illinois and after that got accepted into Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Vir got married to his longtime girlfriend, with whom he was in a relationship for five years, Shivani Mathur in October 2014. He first got to know his great talent of comedy at Knox, when he performed a one and a half hour show, called Brown Men Can’t Hump in Harbach Theatre of Knox. He reaped the fruits at Knox that he has sown at Knox in the form of a Richter Scholarship and won the Colton Performa...
15. Prem Chopra
Prem Chopra is a legend of Hindi cinema and he has acted in over 400 films. Prem Chopra has been in Bollywood since its inception. He has a long spanning film career of over 50 years. He has not only acted in Hindi films, but also in several Punjabi films. He has made a great contribution to Hindi films and has made a special place for himself in the hearts of many Indians.
Born on 23rd September 1935, Prem Chopra hails from a Punjabi family. He was born in Lahore. Prem holds a degree from Punjab University. Since his childhood, Prem was interested in histrionics and involved himself vigorously in college dramatics. Prem had special liking towards his sister Anju and tr...
16. Tiku Talsania
17. Kalapi Nagada
Kalapi Nagada was born on January 19 1981, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Cinekorn Entertainment was founded by Indian film producer and distributor Kalapi Nagada. Among his notable film distribution credits is the 2017 historical heist movie Badshaho. Along with this, he was a producer of Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi, a romantic comedy from 2017. Organization Nest Developers, led by Mr. Kalapi Nagada, was established to coordinate and oversee the infrastructure and investment initiatives in the area. A director of Raj Overseas Private Limited, Nest Suburban Developers Private Limited, and Cinekorn Entertainment Private Limited, Kalapi Vinit Nagada, currently works for three businesses.
According to Kalapi Nagda, CEO of Cinekorn, the company wants to make a name for itself by producing movies, web series, and new material. The ...
18. Azim Shaikh
Azim Shaikh is an Indian film director. He started his career in theatre, where he worked on and off stage. He then moved to television. He worked as assistant director and assistant production manager on Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage (2002), Devdas (2002), Maine Dil Tujhko Diya (2002), Shabnam Mausi (2005), The Fall (2006), Awesome Mausam (2016), Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi (2017), Jia Aur Jia (2017), Sargana (2018), and The Legend of Peacock (2018).
He was the assistant production manager for other works, Border Hindustan Ka (2003), Sivaji (2007), and Lamhaa: The Untold Story of Kashmir (2010). As a director, his works include short films Ring (2018) and Family Shoes (2020) and music videos of songs like ‘Man Bawra Ye’ by singer Kavita Seth and Danish Sabri (2022), ‘Saheba: Tasveer Ishq Ki’ by singer Aaria L...
19. Sanjay Chhel
Son of Chhel Vayeda, a household name in art direction and production designing, Sanjay Chhel is a writer and a director. He was born on 14th October in Dwarka, Gujarat. He is a talented dialogue and script writer and has also directed films.
He wrote the script for the famous film, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and the TV series on channel Zee, Hum Sab Baarati. He is also a columnist in Gujarati Dailies like Phulchaab, Gujarat Guardian, etc. Some of his famous works are, Rangeela, Yes Boss, Kismat Konnection, Partner, Krishna Cottage, etc.
His most recent venture to be released in mid-2016 is a Bharat Patel Production, Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi.
Since his father was an art director and worked with many theater producers, he was inspired to write his first play, Ubhi Chavi Adi Chavi, which became a huge success. His...
20. Aishwarya Nigam
Aishwarya Nigam is an Indian singer. He was born on 4th July 1989.He has sung many songs for Bollywood films. He is well-known for the song “Munni Badnaam Hui” from the movie ‘Dabangg’. He got many awards for the song.
He got famous after winning the singing reality show ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’. The place where he was born is Muzaffarpur in Bihar. His mother was a lecturer in Mukherjee Seminary and his father was a manager in Punjab National Bank. He got his primary and secondary education from the prestigious school Muzaffarpur Sun Shine Prep High School. He passed his childhood in New Colony Sherpur in Muzaffarpur.
Nigam took part in music contest ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’ and another competition named as ‘Ek Main Aur Ek Tu’ in 2006 for Zee TV. On 24 June 20...
21. Amitabh Narayan
Amitabh Narayan is a singer, who mainly works in the Hindi film industry. He also works in the other language films like Tamil. Amitabh Narayan was born on 25th August 1984, at Muzaffarpur in the state of Bihar. He came from the middle-class family. His father is an advocate and mother, a housewife. Amitabh Narayan has one sister and one brother. He wanted to be a singer, so he shifted from Muzaffarpur to Mumbai. Amitabh Narayan has been one of the final competitors in Sony TV’s Reality show Indian Idol. In the year 2008, he had been the finalist in ‘Amul voice of India’ reality show for singing. Amitabh Narayan has been an immense fan of famous Hindi actor Amitabh Bachan and Abhishek Bachan. He completed his schooling at Muzaffarpur and graduation at the University of Mumbai in the year 2006. Then he tried to get a c...
22. Daler Mehndi
Daler Mehndi, also known as Daler Singh, is a well-known singer, song writer, and musician known for his energy filled Punjabi pop songs. He is one of India’s best and earliest pop icons to set the trend of fusing Punjabi folk and pop music together.
He is the man behind the most listened to Indian pop song, ‘Bolo Ta Ra Ra’. Born as Daler Singh, he was born on August 18th in the year 1967 in the city of Patna in Bihar. He was born into a family of musicians and was a prodigy as he made himself recognized at a very young age of 13.
He had run away from his hometown to Gorakhpur seeking to be trained by Late Ustad Rahat Ali Khan Sahab. After forming his group of a musician in the year 1991, he competed and came second ...
23. Parthiv Gohil
Parthiv Gohil is an Indian playback singer. He is from Gujarat. Gohil was born in Bhavnagar, a town in Saurashtra region. He is from a musical background. Gohil has worked in many Bollywood movies as a playback singer. His father was the one who introduced him to the music world. His grandfather had a great passion for music as well. Parthiv started with his training in music when he was only 10. Smt. Bhanuben Solanki, a renowned classical singer, was Gohil’s first mentor. He won ‘Pandit Omkarnath Thakur Competition’ when he was just 14.
He was also trained under Zia Faruddin Dagar who is a descendant of the legend Tansen. He even worked and learned from great music personalities like ‘Sultan Khan’, ‘Hariprasad Chaurasia’, &lsquo...
24. Roop Kumar Rathod
Roop Kumar Rathod is a trained classical playback singer who can conquer even innumerable hearts even with non-film music too. He was a born singer with an intuitive sense of beauty, charm and grace. His soft voice and profoundly artistic subtle method of singing conquered countless music lover souls. His one song from Border (Sandese Aate Hai) became the evergreen song of our soldier who work on borders to save the motherland.
His soft silken voice suited even songs in Tamil, Kannada and Bengali movies too. He also has sung songs in Bhojpuri, Oriya, Assamese and Gujarati languages too. He had sung a song from Veer Zara’ Tere Liye’ which had a melodious tune of Madan Mohan and it was a duet with Lata Mangeshkar. Roop Kumar Rathod’s typical genre was ghazal ...
25. Shahaab Alam
Shahaab Alam is a sound engineer, sound designer, and sound mixer who works at various companies. He started his career in the 2014 film Gang of Ghosts. Shahaab completed his BTech, Civil Engineering studies at Jamia Millia Islamia Institute from 2000 to 2004. He did his masters from 2005 to 2009 in Sound Design at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He worked as a sound designer for various other films such as Raid (2018), Tara vs Bilal, Hungama 2, Section 375, Youngistaan, Roy, Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi, Naam Shabana, Operation Romeo, Khuda Haafiz (2020), Akelli, 24 (2013) and Blur.
...26. Vinit Gala
Vinit Gala is an Indian Sound engineer who has worked in several Bollywood movies and series. Vinit has also worked in Post Production Facility in various movies. He made his debut as dubbing editor in the year 2010 in the movie Wrong Side of Town. Then he started working as a sound engineer. In the year 2013, he worked as stock effects editor in the movie Jal.
He has also worked as a sound editor trade mix in the movie Mastram. In the year 2014, he has been a part of the TV series Yudh. His recent works include Dafan, Undekhi, and Golkeri.
...27. Ganesh Acharya
Ganesh Acharya is an Indian choreographer, who is mainly seen in Hindi films. His father Gopi was also a choreographer in Bollywood. When Ganesh Acharya was ten years old, his father died. His sister was at Cuttack and he went there and learnt basic dance from his sister. Later, he joined as an assistant to Kamalji, the famous choreographer. At the young age of 12, he started his own dance troupe. Anaam was his first film as a choreographer. It was released in 1992 and Ganesh Acharya was 21 years, when he became a choreographer for films.
He got the Best choreographer Award for the film Lajja in the year 2001. He has also won the Zee TV Award for the best Choreographer for the movie Khaki in 2004. In 2007, his movie Omkara bagged him with the Filmfare Award. He became very famous and the popular Bollywood stars are comfortable ...
28. Sanjay Sankla
Sanjay Sankla is an Indian film editor who is known for his work in ‘ Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham’ (2001), ‘ Kal Ho Naa Ho’ (2003), ‘ Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ (1998), ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’ (2006), ‘Race Of Hearts’ (2008). Sankla started his career as an assistant editor to David Dhawan in late 90's. His debut movie as assistant editor was Gola Barood (1989), an action film starring Shatrughan Sinha and Chunky Pandey, directed by David Dhawan.
He worked in ‘Swarg’ (1990), ‘Jurm’ (1990), ‘Aashiqui’ (1990), ‘Baaghi: A Rebel For Love’ (1990), and Aag Ka Gola (1990) as an assistant editor in the editorial department. Sankla's debut movie as an editor was ‘Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin’ (1991), an Indian Hindi film.
...29. Mahendra Verma
Mahendra Verma is an Indian stunt co-ordinator, popular amongst the audience for his work in movies like Yaraana (1995), Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), Auzaar (1997), Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge (2002). Mostly known for his involvement in Bollywood movies and action sequences, this talented professional has been working in the industry for more than thirty years now.
Apart from being involved as a stunt co-ordinator, Mahendra has also contributed to the silver screen as an actor and assistant director. In 1987, he made his debut as an actor through Ajay Kashyap’s thriller movie Naam O Nishan, featuring Shashi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, and Amrita Singh. His last acting credit dates back to 2004.
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