Neha Kaul
Harshdeep Kaur
KS Chithra
Lata Mangeshkar
Avan Contractor
Soha Ali Khan
Pravishi Das
Waheeda Rehman
Urmilla Lal Motwani
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Arjun Mathur
Paran Bawa
Ronnie Screwvala
Gaurav Dhingra
Kamlesh Pandey
Binod Pradhan
A. R. Rahman
Prasoon Joshi
Aamir Khan
Blaaze
Daler Mehndi
Mohit Chauhan
Naresh Iyer
Nakul Kamte
Vikram Biswas
Samir Chanda
Mukesh Chhabra
Ganesh Acharya
Vikram Gaikwad
Prasad Sutar
Atul Kulkarni
Kunal Kapoor
Sharman Joshi
Anupam Kher
Chandan Roy Sanyal
Cyrus Sahukar
Lekh Tandon
Manmeet Singh
Mohan Agashe
Om Puri
R Madhavan
Steven Mackintosh
Adam Bohling
Arjun Bhasin
Ashish Pradhan
Manish Sharma
1. Neha Kaul
Neha Kaul is a Kashmiri born Mumbai settled Indian television actress. She is one of the few actresses in the industry who are naturally beautiful, and she gives the credit for this to her Kashmiri antecedents. She was first noticed in the TV serial Gulaal during 2010. The serial was originally telecasted on Star Plus but later on, shifted to Star Utsav. It was produced by Sunjoy Wadhwa and Comall Wadhwa and directed by Siddhartha Sengupta. Gulaal was the story of a young Gujarati girl who even after modest upbringing brings joy and happiness to all around her. It was the story of her struggle to make her life happy and also the lives of people around her and protecting herself against the onslaught by the society and evil persons in the name of traditions against widows.
2. Harshdeep Kaur
Harshdeep Kaur is an Indian playback singer who has been singing for Bollywood movies since 2003 and also a well known name in Sufi genre of songs. She rose to fame by appearing in reality musical programmed and even bagged the title ‘Sufi Ki Sultana’ form legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan for a program ‘ Lux Junoon – Kuch Kar Dikhaane Ka’ that was aired on NDTV Imagine in September 2008. She has also participated in ‘Home World Tour’ program organized by music maestro A R Rahman in 2010 and had toured all over USA, Canada, UK, South Africa. In 2014, she accompanied the maestro Rahman again for ‘Infinite Love Concerts’ in Singapore and Malaysia.
Harshdeep Kaur entered movie playback singing with her first song ‘Sajna Main Haari’ for film...
3. KS Chithra
Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...
4. Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had formal training in music from her father. Her father ran a theater company in Mumbai, where she began to learn music with her father's grudging approval, and with whom she also sang a song. As her father was a conservative man, film music was not appreciated at her home. After the theater company was auctioned, her father died, and she assumed the financial responsibility by becoming an actress, first in Marathi and later in Hindi cinema, but in acting, she did not click. Later she surprised everyone with one of her solo number (Aayega Aanewaala) from the movie Mahal released in 1949. The song was screened on Madhubala. Finally, Lata became a singing star overnight.
5. Avan Contractor
Avan is a skilled hairstylist who has worked on various award-winning projects like Gully Boy, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and Dangal. She has also worked with Vogue for the ‘Vogue Wedding Show BBlunt Masterclass.’ Her latest film in Bollywood is ‘Laal Singh Chaddha.’She is currently working in BBLUNT India. She is also known for the new Netflix release Eternally Confused and Eager for Love. She has also launched a new product line for hair styling under BBLUNT India. She has also worked as a hairstylist in Toofan, Made in Heaven, Dil Dhadakne Do, Bhaag Milka Bhaag, Taare Zameen Par, Dil Chahta Hai.
...6. 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...
7. Pravishi Das
Pravishi Das is an Indian actress, known for challenging support roles in movies like Rang De Basanti (2006), No Smoking (2007) and Saawariya (2007). She is proficient with many move outlines, which consolidate contemporary, old-style, semi-customary, hip-bounce, and freestyle, among others.
She is able and puts in a lot of effort into her presentations. This demonstrates her wonderful execution in the recently referenced shows. She is an online life influencer and an open speaker. Being a typical Indian woman Sasha, generally, delineates testing, and dynamic, solid characters in the film are breaking the common contemporary demeanor about on-screen characters in the Indian Entertainment Industry.
She gets a huge amount of appreciation from the general populace and assesses alike. She is the perfect instance of a star b...
8. Waheeda Rehman
She took birth in a Tamil Urdu speaking Muslim family on 3 February 1938, in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu.Her dream was to become a successful doctor but due to circumstances of illness, she dropped this goal. But her parents were too supportive to her debut on silver screen. From the very childhood, she started learning dance forms, especially in the Bharata Natyam dance form. She made her debut into the Telugu industry via two films 'Jayasimha' (1955) and 'Rojulu Marayi'(1955). She also had a film made in Tamil called 'Kalam Mari Pochu'. All these films were a hit, but she got recognition from the song Eruvaaka Sagaroranno Chinnanna from Rojulu Marayi. At the success party of Rojulu Marayi, Guru Dutt observed her and presented her a film titled CID. she had one of the best debuts into ...
10. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Born on 7th July 1963, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is a screenwriter and filmmaker. Rang De Basanti and Baag Mika Baag are two of his acclaimed films. He has penned the script as well as directed the films Aks and Delhi 6. The issues surrounding the Mandal Commission of VP Singh inspired Mehra to direct Rang De Basanti.
Mehra never hesitates to voice his opinion on current issues, no matter they are done through films or in real life. He in fact condemned the Education system of India to give priority to scores. He also cited Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore in this regard. He told that Shakespeare would not have been a great...
11. Arjun Mathur
Arjun Mathur is an Indian actor and was born on 18th October, 1981, in London. He was brought up in Delhi, as his family shifted to India. Arjun Malhotra's father is an hotelier. Arjun completed his schooling from the British School, New Delhi. For higher studies he went to UK in Oaklands College, St Albans, and Hertfordshire and for acting training, he went to the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and also to Barry John’s institute. He played the lead role in "Bring on the Night", a T.V series aired in MTV channel and also appeared in the Paranormal show "Fearfiles" that is aired in Zee TV.
His career in Bollywood, like most of the stars, started with the post of an assistant director. He assisted in the Bollywood romantic movie “Kyun! Ho Gaya Na..." and the patriotic Bollywood films " Mangal Pandey: ...
12. Paran Bawa
Paran Bawa is an assistant director working for the film industry. His complete name is Parandeep Singh Bawa. He has been working on the making of films and T.V. series. He has been involved in the filmmaking industry since 2005. The first film with which he made a debut in the filmmaking industry was Mangal Pandey. He worked as a trainee assistant director for the film. Paran Bawa has around 21 film & TV series credits in his name, working as a second unit or assistant director. He has also worked as a director for the short film The Intruder. As an actor, he worked for two movies, Sold (released in 2014) and Bombay Summer (released in 2009).
...13. 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...
14. Gaurav Dhingra
Gaurav Dhingra is the Producer and Co-Founder at Jungle Book Entertainment Private Limited. He joined Jungle Book Entertainment Private Limited in the year 2012 and he is still working there. Jungle Book Entertainment is in Mumbai. Gaurav started Jungle Book Entertainment with Pan Nalin and they produce international movies and content for television.
The stories produced by Gaurav are excellent, enlightening, mysterious and beautiful. These stories are related to our lives and do not have any linguistic and geographical barriers. He also produces Bollywood movies that have new and innovative ideas. He has studied the taste of Indian people in movies and accordingly he produces amazing stories. Gaurav is also working with Oasis Motion Pictures Private Limited; he is the ...
15. Kamlesh Pandey
Kamlesh Pandey is an Indian Screenwriter. He works in the Hindi Film Industry as a Screenplay Writer. He also worked as a writer for a few Advertisements and Television Shows. He was born in Ballia in Uttar Pradesh. He is currently staying in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Kamlesh started as a copywriter for Hindustan Thompson Associates.
He later worked for Grant Advertising Pvt. Ltd and Rediffusion Advertising Pvt. Ltd. He worked for many famous brands like Colgate, Maruti, Airtel, BPL, Telco, Eveready, and many more. Later, Kamlesh started his career as a writer in Films with Jalwa (1987). He later wrote the films chaalbaaz (1989), Khalnayak (1993), Shreemaan Aashique (1993), Laawaris (1999), Rang De Basanti (2006), Yuvvraaj (2008), Jazbaa (2015), and many more. Pandey also worked for Zee TV and Sony TV. He won a few Telly Awards for ...
16. Binod Pradhan
Binod Pradhan was born in Darjeeling, West Bengal. He is a Cinematographer by profession and has worked in both Indian and Nepali movies. He has the citizenship of both the countries. His father H.K. Pradhan owned a photo studio. He gave Binod his first box camera and he was fascinated with it. Binod used to capture black and white pictures and used to color them later using water colors. Soon, his father caught him and was amazed at his work. He displayed his work outside the studio. Seeing his interest, he soon rolled up working in the studio and later he started managing his father’s studio. Binod wanted to sharpen his talent, but this could never be possible in Darjeeling since there is no proper institute to train him.
Binod joined the three years course in FTII in Pune to learn cinematography. Durin...
17. A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud. Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once upon a time in India.
He is known to be the Redefining Contempora...
18. Prasoon Joshi
Prasoon Joshi is an Indian poet, writer, lyricist and also an advertising guru. He is also the President of the McCann Worldgroup in South Asia and the CEO of McCann Wordgroup in India. He won the Best Lyricist award at the Filmfare for two consecutive times from 2007 to 2008. In year 2014, he received the same award for the biographical sports drama film, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He also won the Best Lyricist award at the National Film Award twice; one for Aamir Khan’s drama film, Taare Zameen Par and another one for the historical war drama film, Chittagong.
Prasoon was born on September 16, 1971 in Uttarakhand, India and spent most of his childhood days in Almora. His father is D.K. Joshi, a PCS Officer and his mother is Sushma Joshi, a political science lecturer who has been part of the All India Radio for ove...
19. Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bollywood’s finest actor. He is a package for the Indian TV industry as he is a producer, director and actor an all-rounder kind of personality. Khan has an estimated net worth of $185 million. Aamir has born on 14th March, 1965 (aged 50) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did two marriages, first with Reena Dutta in 1986 they were together till 2002, than Kiran Rao came into his life, she is 42 years old, born in November, 1973, and they got married in 2005, now they both are living together happily in Mumbai. Kiran is from Bengaluru and also a director, screenwriter and producer.
Aamir’s father was Late Tahir Hussain, who was from a village Akhtiyarpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a screenwriter and director. Aamir is having 3 children today, one son Junaid and one daughter Ira from his...
20. Blaaze
Unlike foreign countries, India has produced a very few good rappers. Among them, very few have managed to achieve critical as well as commercial success. 'Blaaze' is one of them. Born on October 15, 1975, his birth name is Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman and originally belongs from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Apart from being a successful rapper, he is also a lyricist, producer, singer, musician, editor, and songwriter. His family belongs to the Brahmin community. However, since his father worked as an architect, the family traveled to several places. As a result, Blaaze's childhood passed in Kitwe, Zambia. He completed his higher education at Columbia College Hollywood, United States of America.
Rekha Srinivasan, his sister, is a ...
21. 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 ...
22. Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan is a Bollywood playback singer. He was born on March 11, 1966 at Nahan, Himachal Pradesh, India. He was also a previous front-man of the band, Silk Route. Mohit is fluent in Pahari, Hindi and English languages. He went to St. Xavier’s School in Delhi and then he came to Himachal Pradesh to finish his studies. He graduated college with a Master of Science in Geology at Dharamsala College.
Mohit doesn’t have any formal training in the field of music, but he sings well and he can play harmonica, flute and guitar. After graduating, he formed the Silk Route band in 1996. The band’s genre is Indian pop songs and they released their albums Boondein in 1998 and Pehchan. Silk Route’s Dooba Dooba was a success and the band received various awards in 1998. Later, Silk Route was disbanded. He made a comeback in 2005 with ...
23. Naresh Iyer
Naresh Iyer is once again a popular face, but mainly due to his singing talent. This 34 year old singer hails from Mumbai. There is no end the number of hit songs he has produced over the years. Likewise, he owns a series of awards that have been rightfully given to him. His contribution to Bollywood has been tremendous.
In spite of having a degree in Commerce, Iyer decided to study Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music. His career has just looked forward from then on.
He got recognition from A.R. Rahman in the reality talent show which was called Channel V’s Super Singer. His beautiful rendition of Roobaroo, which was an A.R.Rahman composition for the movie, Rang De Basanti, won his a lot of accolade. He went on to win the national award for the Best Male Playback.
24. Nakul Kamte
Nakul Kamte is known for his handiwork on Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001). Rang De Basanti (2006) and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) are some of his other works. Nakul Kamte is one of the peaks influential and presented sound designers in the Indian Film Production.
He currently won the 57th Filmfare Awards 2011, a correct commemoration of distinction in Indian Cinema held in Mumbai. He received it for the film Don 2 for The Best Sound Design. Created in Mumbai and possessor of Hearing Binaural.
He brags a fortune of understanding in recording, proofreading and combining sounds for action films. He is predominantly famous as a ground-breaking live recordist portraying resonances around the world. Positively Nakul Kamte is accredited with having appreciably helped the Film Industry (which initially favored to have to...
25. Vikram Biswas
The singer, composer, and foley artist, Vikram Biswas, has mostly worked in Hindi movies. He is among the busiest personalities of the Bollywood film industry. Vikram initiated his career in 1998 from the notable movie Deep Impact in which the singer acted as a post- production sound artist. He then presented his artwork as a foley artist for various other movies Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, etc.
Also, he has worked as a sound effects editor and sound designer for the acclaimed movies Ek Din 24 Ghante, Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao, Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena, etc. He has worked with almost every personality of Bollywood, including Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, etc. Currently, Vikram is busy writing dialogues for the crime-drama movie ‘Shaurya: It Takes Courage To Make Righ...
26. Samir Chanda
Samir Chanda was a popular Indian director and production designer, who was born in 1957. He worked in the Indian cinema industry, including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali. He was well-known for his work in movies like Yoddha (1992), Dil Se (1998), Omkara (2006), Rang De Basanti (2006), Guru (2007), and Raavan (2010).
Samir also directed a Bengali movie, Ek Nadir Galop (2008) featuring popular actor Mithun Chakraborty. It went ahead as the Indian entry for the African, Latin American and Asian Competition segment of the International Film Festival of India’s 38th edition, in Goa. Samir was given the National Film Award for Best Direction (Art) four times, which include Shyam Benegal directed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005).
Samir was a trained painter coming from Government College of C...
27. Mukesh Chhabra
Mukesh Chhabra was born on 27th May 1980 in Mumbai of Maharashtra state. He is a very popular actor as well as a director, and he is the director of acting workshop too. He is active in the Bollywood film industry right from the year 2000 until the present. He also works in casting the actors for the movies and came up with successful casts as a whole. He did casting for prominent movies like Chillar Party, Kai Po Che, Gangs of Wasseypur, and D-Day. They were commercially successful movies, and the casting is quite apt and perfect.
He did graduation in the Delhi University, and he initially worked as an assistant director in the domain of casting. His first movie as a casting director happened with the movie Chintuji. Chillar Party follows this, and his work got recogniz...
28. 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 ...
29. Vikram Gaikwad
Vikram Gaikwad is an Indian makeup artist. He has worked in several movies like including Bollywood as well as other regional cinemas. He has won the National Film Award for best makeup artist twice for the Bengali film Moner Manush in 2010, also for his work and creativity in the Marathi film Balghandharva.
‘Dirty film’ released in 2011 factored in towards winning that prize. He is also known for a cameo role in the Marathi film Tukaram and Lokmanya Ek Yugpurush. Moreover, he is a screamingly talented, makeup artist. His works evoke “wow” from his audience and other people.
...30. Prasad Sutar
Prasad Vasant Sutar is a famous Indian producer and visual effects supervisor, designer, and coordinator active in the Bollywood film industry. He completed his schooling at Shri Vani Vidya Shala High School and also completed a course in animation and VFX in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is working in the Hindi and Marathi language entertainment industry. At the start of his career, he started as a CGI Animator and compositor, Prasad Sutar later worked as Visual Effects Supervisor and Digital Artist at CMM Studios for two years in 1997. He joined Maya Entertainment in 2000 as Visual Effects Supervisor and worked there for three years. From 2004 to 2012, he worked at EFX and Pixion. CCL as Visual Effects Supervisor and Director.
Prasad Sutar was the head of the VFX at Reliance Mediaworks Ltd. and later co-founded the NY VFXWaala, a d...
31. Atul Kulkarni
32. Kunal Kapoor
Born on 18th of Oct in the year of 1977 to a Punjabi family whose ancestors are from Punjab, Kunal Kapoor is one of the promising actors in Bollywood today. Kunal, who is nicknamed as Kunnu, hails from Mumbai, India. Kunal had been in a relationship with the great fame of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan’s niece, Naina Bachchan, who was an investment banker in London, now pursuing theater arts as her profession. They got married in Feb 2015. It was a private marriage with just their family members at Seychelles.
Kunal started the journey in his career by taking training under Barry John, who is the founder/director of ‘Theater Action Group’ and later on joined the theater group Motley, owned by the Padma Shri as well as Padma Bhushan title winner, Naseeruddin...
34. Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher is a very popular actor, director, and producer of the Bollywood film industry. His place of birth was Shimla of Punjab and currently, he is living in Himachal Pradesh. His date of birth was 7th March 1955, and he hails from Kashmir. He got married to Kirron Kher in the year 1985. His brother Raju Kher is also a very famous actor cum director. The best part of Anupam Kher is that he got cast in more than hundred movies, and he is known to make this immense record.
He is an actor who acted in Hollywood movies as well, and he got absolute accreditation for it. In fact, he won many prestigious awards for it, and it includes five Filmfare awards for doing comical roles in movies. Apart from this honor, he got a huge pride after receiving the Padma Shri Award from...
35. Chandan Roy Sanyal
Chandan Roy Sanyal is a star of both Hindi and Bengali language films. He was born in Delhi and belongs to a Bengali family.Graduated with a degree in Mathematics, he initialised acting in a theatre in Britain, and his first film role was in Hindi, as the revolutionary Batukeshwar Duttin RakeyshOmprakashMehra’s 2006 Rang De Basanti. His “Big Break” came in 2009, asa gambler and race-fixer Mikhail in the crime thriller Kaminey, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. The film was a hit in India and a commercial success in other countries, and was recognised as one of the best films all around the globe.
After one Bengali (Mahangar@Kolkata) and two Hindi (the comedy F.A.L.T.U. and the drama Tell Me O Kkhuda) movies, he had another success as the cynical Ronojoy in the year 2012 in the Bengali dram...
36. Cyrus Sahukar
Cyrus Sahukar was born to Behram Sahukar, a colonel in the Indian Army and Nimeran Sahukar, a Punjabi writer in Army camp at Mhow, Indore on August 6, 1980. he did his schooling form St. Columbia School Delhi and started acting in plays at the age of six. He was also a good singer and sang for his school band. He was part of Senior Literacy Mission Programme in his school which performed one act plays and educational skits for prisoners in Tihar Jail. During this period, he also performed in a play by Barry John 'Haroun and the sea of stories' which was written by Salman Rushdie. At the age of 15 years, he performed in a musical show' Thank you for the music' directed by Stephen Marrazzi.
Then he started doing jingles and voice over professionally and Joined Roshan Abbas. His first jingle for Harpic was...
37. Lekh Tandon
Lekh Tandon is primarily an Indian director but has played a few roles in films as well. He was born on 13 February 1929 in Lahore (British India). He completed his schooling from Khalsa High School, Lyalpur. His father’s friendship with Prithviraj Kapoor proved to be a fortunate thing for Lekh’s career. On a holiday to Bombay, he stayed with Kapoor and toured the studios. This experience with Kapoor inspired him to make his career in the industry. He started as a cameraman under V.N. Reddy and later became an assistant director to Kidar Sharma. The turning point in Lekh’s career came when F.C. Mehra gave him the chance to direct ‘Professor,’ a family comedy starring Shammi Kapoor, which was released in 1962. After giving a super hit debut film as a director, he made back-to-ba...
38. Manmeet Singh
Manmeet Singh, born 1969, 29 July, is an Indian television and movie actor and model known for his appearance in several television series and movies.
He was born in Nainitall to Ajit Singh Sawhney. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Communication from G.N. Khalsa College Bombay in 1991.
Manmeet started his career as an actor from Ram Gopal Verma's Jungle. Since then, he has acted in several movies like Kalpvrish (2012), Hear land (2011), Chhevan Dariya (2010, Naanu Nanna Kanasu (2010), Band Baaja Baaraat (2010), Accident on Hill Road (2009), Abhium Naanum (2008), Sat Sri Akal (2008), Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors (2008), Khusboo (2008), Black and White (2008), Swami (2007), Apne (2007), Rang De Basanti (2006), Barsaat (2005), Zameen (2003) and Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003)....
39. Mohan Agashe
Mohan Agashe is a theater based actor who predominantly takes an interest in stage and plays. He was introduced to films by Shyam Benegal, who made the only art-house film. The actor got a chance to play roles in movies like Bhumika, Manthan, Nishant and went to act in Govind Nihalini’s’ Aakrosh’ and Goutam Ghose’s film ‘Paar’ and Satyajit Ray’s film ‘Sadgati’ too. He acted in many films that were produced by National Film Development Corporation. In 1982 epic biographical film ‘Gandhi’ directed by Richard Attenborough, Mohan Agashe got a chance to play Tyeb Mohammed’s (Alok Nath) friend. After a series of art-house films, he chose commercial cinema too. His first commercial cinema was Yash Chopra’s ‘Mashal’ and then h...
40. Om Puri
Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior actors in the Indian film industry and he was born on 18th October 1950 in Patiala, Punjab. He is one of the few Bollywood actors to act in mainstream commercial English movies. The alumnus of National School of Drama was also a classmate of renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah of the 1973 class.
He started his movie career in 1976 with the Marathi film ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’ directed by K.Hariharan. The movie was based on a play with the same name and it got success both commercially and critically. His career graph saw the coming of critically acclaimed art films such as ‘Bhavni Bhavai’, ‘Sadga...
41. R Madhavan
42. Steven Mackintosh
Born on April 30, 1967 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire in England, Steven Mackintosh is a notable Hollywood actor. He was born to Malcolm Mackintosh and Dorothy Parris. His father was a builder, and his mother used to work in the office. Steven did his schooling from Icknield Primary School, Sawston, England and the Sawston Village College, England. He also has a sister- Lynda.
Steven never wanted to become an actor, but he had a passion for music during his childhood days. Steven started acting at the Bush Theatre in London when he was twelve years old and played the role of Dopey in the play, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when he was in school. In 1980, he attended The Sylvia Young Theatre School and performed in the play, The Number of the Beast. Steven then bagged the main role in Brighton Beach Memoirs...
46. Manish Sharma