Tanuja Chandra
Shailja Kejriwal
Sutapa Sikdar
Gazal Dhaliwal
Jyoti Nooran
Sultana Nooran
Kirti Kolwankar
Maria Tharakan
Isha Sharvani
Neha Dhupia
Pushtiie Shakti
Ajay G Rai
Vikas Sharma
Kamna Chandra
Eeshit Narain
Vishal Mishra
Raj Shekhar
Pritam Das
Ravi Srivastava
Atul Mongia
Rajeev Surti
Tushar Kalia
Chandan Arora
Irrfan Khan
Brijendra Kala
Luke Kenny
Siddharth Menon
1. Tanuja Chandra
Tanuja Chandra is a director and a writer hailing from Lucknow. She is the sibling of Vikram Chandra, a famous writer, and Anupama Chandra, a film critic. Also, she is the daughter of Kamna Chandra, a famous screenwriter. Tanuja started her career by working as a television journalist for Star Plus Channel. She improved her career by directing Zameen Aasmaan, followed by 'Mumkin’. Her next attempt was a big leap towards success. She ventured onto the big screen.
Her screenplay for 'Dil To Pagal Hai' was a success. She worked with Mahesh Bhatt for 'Zakhm' and the film was a moderate hit. When she ventured into the field of direction, her success rate started going down the lane. 'Dushman’, her debut film as a director was a flop. After that film, many of her other films went u...
2. Shailja Kejriwal
Shailja Kejriwal is an eminent writer and producer in the film and entertainment industry, known for creating cutting-edge ideas and content in the Bollywood industry. Shailaja has completed her schooling from the Modern High School in Kolkata. She has an MA in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University. She has been a supreme name in the industry since 1998. Shailaja started as an SVP and Programming Head with Star India Private Limited in January 1998 and pulled out in March 2007. Shailaja is popularly known for presenting the idea of the anthology series Star Bestsellers on Star Plus and K dramas on Indian television in the early 2000s. She was an EVP for Content and Communications on NDTV Imagine for three years.
Shailaja has been a Chief Creat...
3. Sutapa Sikdar
Sutapa Sikdar is a dialogue writer working in the Indian film history. Her husband name is Irrfan Khan who is a well-known actor in Bollywood industry. Sutapa Sikdar is popular for working as a dialogue writer in the films like Supari, Shabd, and Khamoshi: The Musical. She has completed her education from NSD (National School of Drama) which is situated in New Delhi, India.
She was born in a Bengali Family. Her husband Irrfan has also studied at National School Drama. They both met there and fell in love in the year 1987. They got married on 23rd of February in the year 1995. They both have done marriage in a court in a simple way. They both have two sons named Babil Khan and Ayaan Khan who has acted in a movie named “Life of Pi.” Sutapa Sikdar was born in De...
4. Gazal Dhaliwal
Gazal Dhaliwal is an Indian screenwriter and entertainer, who has co-composed a few movies like Lipstick Under My Burkha, Qarib Single and Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga. She is likewise an open speaker and LGBTQ+ dissident, who has spoken transparently about being a transgender lady a few talks and in the media – most broadly in a scene of the Aamir Khan-drove television show, Satyamev Jayate. Gazal Dhaliwal experienced childhood in the city of Patiala in Punjab and was destined to Sikh guardians Bhajan Pratap Singh Dhaliwal and Sukarni Dhaliwal.
In a few meetings and talks, she specifies how for whatever length of time that she can recollect that, she generally felt like she was a young lady. In 2009, Gazal Dhaliwal came back to Mumbai and kept in touch with her first since forever motion picture conte...
5. Jyoti Nooran
Jyoti Nooran is a Punjabi Sufi singer and the sister of Sultana Nooran. The sister’s duo became popular around the country and internationally. They rose to fame after their performance of the super hit song Tung Tung at the MTV Sound Tripping. Jyoti was born on February 24, 1994 in Jalandhar, India.
Jyoti came from a family of musicians. She is the granddaughter of the late Bibi Nooran, who is a very popular Punjabi singer during her time. Her father, Ustad Gulshan Meer, trained her and her sister in the traditional Sufi Music for the past ten years and since then they have decided to stick on singing Sufi music only. Gulshan is also composing and arranging music for her daughter’s concerts and other performances.
Her sin...
6. Sultana Nooran
Sultana Nooran was born in Jalandhar, Punjab. She is a singer and is inclined towards Sufi music. Sultana hails from a family of musicians. Her father Ustad Gulshan Mir trained her to achieve the true zest for music and its divinity. She has a sister named Jyoti Nooran, who is also attached to the musical tradition. Nooran’s grandmother Bibi Nooran was a popular Punjabi Sufi singer of her time in the 70’s. Sultana has been trained in traditional “Sufi Music” for the past ten years. Their family follows Sham Chaurasi Gharana and Mirasi traditions of music.
Her father composes the music and arrangements for Sultana’s concerts and live performances. The Nooran sisters appeared on the TV show “Nikki Awaaz Punjab Di” and were praised ...
7. 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...
8. 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...
9. Isha Sharvani
For a person who never gave importance to acting, the film Kisna by director Subhash Ghai is indeed a turning point. Subhash Ghai was impressed with Isha Sharvani’s dancing skills and immediately made her to cast in his own film Kisna, opposite Vivek Oberoi. Though the film was not a commercial success, it was appreciated for Sharvani’s dancing prowess. Who would forget Isha Sharvani in the Hide and Seek advertisement, dancing along another dancing sensation Hrthik Roshan?
From then on Sharvani took up dancing on stage; she also worked on some movies during 2006 and 2007. The 2006 Hindi film Darwaza Bandh Rakho had her playing the fema...
10. Neha Dhupia
Neha Dhupia is a Bollywood actress who began her career in modeling. She later appeared in a theatre too called Graffiti. And went to debut on the television series ‘Rajdhani’ in 2002. She appeared in a very few film, and she credits the acting craft with building her confidence and helped her overcome the confidence that the character that she played on screen.
She won Miss India title and even one amongst the ten top models in the world, Born and brought up in an army background, Neha received her degree in New Delhi. She was born in Kochi to a Punjabi Sikh family. Her mother was a homemaker while her father was in the Indian Navy. The actress made heads turn with her fearless and carefree look in the film she appeared so far.
11. Pushtiie Shakti
Pushtiie Shakti is a well-known Indian actress who rose to fame after gabbing the lead role as Mahi Talwar in the popular comedy drama series, Mahi Way on Sony Entertainment Television under Yash Raj Films’ productions in 2010.
Pushtiie first appeared in the blockbuster Bollywood coming-of-age romance film, Ishq Vishk in 2003. Later, she was cast in the comedy serial, Kareena Kareena on Zee TV. In 2005, the actress appeared as Chhoti in the 2nd season of the Balaji Telefilms and Zee Telefilms’ Hum Paanch on the same channel. She also donned the 2005 Hindi film, Koi Aap Sa Songs and the Bollywood romantic drama film, Barsaat: A Sublime Love Story which stars Bobby Deol and Priyanka Chopra. She essayed the role of Maithili on Sony Entertainment Television’s popular show, Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin; an Indian versio...
12. Ajay G Rai
Ajay G Rai is an Indian Bollywood producer who is currently living his dream and wants to be a good film producer. Ajay G Rai had produced two films in the Bollywood industry and he is remarkably safe and proficient. Ajay started working as a line producer in the year 1995 and collaborated with big ventures like Anurag Kashyap and helped him in movies like Dev D and Gulal to enhance his skills. He believes that the dominance of any film is its story. Ajay G Rai’s first debut film released in the year 2014 called “Mastram”. The movie is directed and written by Akhilesh Jaiswal and Gunjan Saxena under the banner of Bohra Bros Productions. The producer of the film is Ajay G Rai and Sanjiv Singh Pal.
The story is the fictional biography of a person who wants to be litterateur and currently is a pornographic writer...
13. Vikas Sharma
Vikas Sharma is an Indian producer, director, creative consultant, and creative director. He was born on September 13, 1979. Vikas Sharma’s place of birth is Chandigarh, Punjab, India. He finished his school education in Ludhiana, Panchkula (1992 – 1997). After that, he went to DAV College, Punjab University in Chandigarh, to pursue a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Humanities (2000 – 2002). He also did a master's diploma in Visual Communication from the Asian Academy of Film & Television. He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Punjabi languages.
Vikas Sharma was a co-distributed at Motion Pictures in Punjab and Rajasthan (Jan 2000 – Dec 2003). As an assistant director to Satish Kaushik, he worked under Boney Kapoor Productions in Mumbai fo...
14. Kamna Chandra
Born in Muzzafarnagar, Uttar Pradesh in India, Kamna Chandra is an eminent screenwriter who has gained fame and success in the film industry over the past few years. Kamna is very friendly, caring and charming person. She treats everyone well and is always good to others. Her presence is so charming one can’t help but feel comfortable around her. Kamna completed her schooling from MKP Girls College in Dehradun. Kamna’s family was an impoverished one, and her mother had to sell out a part of their land to educate her children.
Kamna was extremely attached towards Dehradun and liked living there. Kamna completed her graduation from the University of Allahabad located in Allahabad, India. Kamna had a liking towards Dehradun since her school days and loved the place because of its serenity and peaceful ...
15. Eeshit Narain
Eeshit is a well-known film cinematographer based in the financial capital of India, Mumbai. In 2014 he concluded his graduation in Film and Television Institute, Pune. Throughout the years, he has chipped away at a few shared and global activities that include short and feature-rich films, TV commercials, and event documentaries.His movies have made a trip to celebrations over the globe and won numerous honors, including the National Film Awards, Student Emmys (USA), Open Doors, and Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland).
Eeshit's first-ever Bollywood highlight discharge - 'Qarib Qarib Single.’ released in the year 2017 has got rave audits for its cinematography.An Indo German co-creation film, “Once Again,” in 2018was released in Europe and then on the global entertainment service provider, Netflix. Thi...
16. Vishal Mishra
Vishal Mishra was born in Kanpur, Utter Pradesh, India. Currently, he has settled down in Mumbai due to his profession. By profession, he is a screenwriter, director, Film critic, and he also likes to sing too. He was interested in designing, so he did his graduation from the very renowned NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Designing) and did his post-graduation in Fashion Marketing. He got married to Khyati Madan in the year 2010.
He always wanted to achieve something related to the field of Indian Cinema and hence started his career as a film critic and used to give reviews of various Bollywood movies. As his interest grew in giving reviews, he started a portal named “boxofficecapsule” and started posting all his reviews on it.
17. Raj Shekhar
Raj Shekar is a famous Indian Lyricist who works in the Bollywood industry. He wrote the lyrics for the Bollywood film Tanu weds Manu and its sequel Tanu weds Manu Returns, directed by Anand L Rai. Raj has also written numerous children’s stories. He was born on 22 September 1980 in a small village, Medhapura, Bihar. At first, he wanted to become a film director, and his parents supported his decision. He has completed his graduation in Hindi Literature from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University, while also completing his master’s from Delhi University. Raj has been active in the theatre as an actor, playwright and also director. He has written several popular children’s stories, like Roo Roo Raat, Five Little Monkeys, Being Wise etc.
Shekar has also played a cameo role in Bollywood films like Anwar and Ghancha...
18. Pritam Das
Pritam Das is an Indian Hindi sound designer, hailing from West Bengal, India. He is known for his work in movies like 'Secret Superstar,’ 'Fan,’ 'War,’ and many more blockbuster hits. His passion for the music box brings alive the story of the movies. He believes, understanding your forte, is the most important thing for sound designers and recordists.
His realistic sound designs have earned him some of the greatest blockbusters of recent times under his name. Pritam Das did his schooling from Malda Zilla School, followed by studying Physics at Malda College. He later earned his Post Graduate diploma in sound recording from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. Apart from films, he also works in the sound department of various web series and Television serials.
He has worked...
19. Ravi Srivastava
Ravi Srivastava is a Gujarati Art Director from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is famous for films like Life of Pi (2012), Lion (2016), and Extraction (2020). Ravi Srivastava has got three nominations and one win. The winning award is from the Art Directors Guild 2013 Awards for the category of “Excellence in Production Design” for the film Life of Pi.
He got nominations for Art Directors Guild 2017 for the film “Lion”, FOI Online Awards 2019 for the film Judgementall Hai Kya, and Filmfare Awards 2020 for the film Judgementall Hai Kya, all for the “Best Production Design.” Ravi Srivastava has also worked for various foreign and commercial advertisements, helping the team with designing and artwork. Since 2005, he has been managing his designa...
20. Atul Mongia
Atul Mongia shot to fame when the movie Love Sex Aur Dhoka was the talk of the town in 2010. This Casting Director cum Acting Workshop Trainer collaborated with Dibakar Banerjee, and the results were just great. Love Sex Aur Dhoka was released with fresh faces and Bollywood turned towards Atul Mongia. Atul, who also teaches acting and conducts various acting workshops for actors, is always reckoned for his iconic work.
Atul did not intend to be a Casting Director in the beginning but always wished to fraternize and be a part of the film industry. His aim was to become a Director, and he says he is working on his first directorial venture at present. He was an Acting Director at the Barry John Acting School in New Delhi, and his career in Bollywood starts from there. After investing almost fiftee...
21. Rajeev Surti
Rajeev Surti; a zoology student pursuing to complete his Masters makes a huge turn in his life by taking a chance of proving himself as a choreographer. Rajeev has taken training from choreographer Zubin on Jazz, contemporary and Bharatnatyam. He took training in Hip hop from Alvin Ailey dance school (Manhattan) and Faith (New York). Ganesh Hegde, vaibhavi Merchant, Raju Khan taught him Bollywood Style. A passion for dance and choreography made him a master of various kinds of dance forms such as Indian folk, classical, krumping, b-boy, hip hop, break dancing, popping, locking, ballet, salsa, tango, jive to name a few.
He has choreographed in the following movies: Don The Chase Begins Again (2006), Zinda (2006), Baabul (2006), Namastey London (2007), Khanna and Iyer (200...
22. Tushar Kalia
Tushar Kalia is an Indian dancer, and choreographer specialized in Kalari, Contemporary dance, and Mayurbhanj Chhau. His first chance to choreograph in Bollywood got provided by producer Karan Johar, in the film Ae Dil hai Mushkil. Tushar was born in Chandigarh but now is permanently living in Mumbai, India. This boy’s career got started under the guidance of Shri Santosh Nair and Brandy Leary (for Ariel technique dancing). His Guru Shri Santosh Nair is the director of “Sandhya unit of Performing Arts.” Tushar worked on television in many reality shows as participant, stage director, as well as judge.
He appeared in Jhalak Dikhla Jaa 6 (Year: 2013, Role: Participant), Jhalak Dikhla Jaa 7 (Year: 2014, Role: Participant), India’s Got Talent 6 (Year: 2015, Role: Stage Director), India’s Got Talent 7 (...
23. 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...
24. Irrfan Khan
Irrfan Khan is a noted Bollywood actor who started his career with various Indian television series. His noted Bollywood movies include The Warrior, Maqbool, Haasil, Paan Singh Tomar, Gunday, Rog and The Lunchbox. At the very early stage of his acting career, he acted in various television serials like Barat Ek Khoj, Chanakya, Sara Jahan Hamara, Chandrakanta, Banegi Apni Baat, Star bestsellers, Anoo Goonj and Sparsh.
His early film credits include Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Such a Long Journey. Although these movies were critically appreciated, it did not propel him to success.
His first major Bollywood break was Rog, which caught the attention of critics and also attained commercial success. His 2007 flick Metro also gave him a widespread commercial and critical success. For his role in the movie, h...
25. Brijendra Kala
Born in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, Brijendra Kala is a very talented though underrated artiste and he stepped into mainstream cinema during the year 2005 with the film “Haasil”. The movie had Jimmy Shergill in the lead and it was a success. Brijendra Kala donned the character of a new vendor in the movie. He had also acted in successful movies, including “Jab We Met” and “Agneepath”. In Jab We Met he took up the character of Taxi Driver and his performance was recognized. Some of his other famous movies include “ Karthik calling Karthik”, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, “Paan Siingh Tomar”, “Bhootnath Returns” etc.
Though Brijendra Kala acted in minor roles he made his presence felt. His recent work was in “PK” wherein he enacted the role of a vendor at th...
26. Luke Kenny
Luke Kenny has been the face of music in India for over two decades now. He is the most bankable VJ in India. In one word to sum up his talent in video jockeys performance, it would be easy and simple if we mention that Luke Kenny was the first male VJ for music channel V. That is his introductory as VJ in India. He joined VJ clubs as he worked as Video Jockey in between 1993-1995. Later, he again rejoined his service as VJ in Channel V in early 2005, when he presented the show titled ‘Luke’s After Hours’. In this program, he selected a section of music videos that he played on the channel. He was always attracted to glamor world since his childhood days. He was a drop out of college in 1991 and tried to become a dancer.
He joined his dancing career as ...
27. Siddharth Menon
Siddharth Menon is a Malayalam singer and actor. He was born in Mumbai to the Keralite couple Sheela Pariyadath and Sathyanathan. In his childhood days when he grew up in Mumbai, Siddharth participated in a lot of competitions and cultural programs and even won many prizes in singing. He belonged to a middle-class family and though he was very much interested in singing like every other parent Menon's dad Sathyanathan also wanted him to get a decent education. So Siddharth worked hard and graduated from a reputed University majoring in commerce.
Immediately after that, the singer wanted to learn music professionally, so he attended the Music Conservatory which was discovered by the maestro of India, A.R. Rahman and it is located in Chennai. He then got an opportunity...